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New Books at the Library

For week of June 1, 2018
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Adult bestseller:

The Only Story by Julian Barnes: Winner of the Man Booker Prize. In the early 1960s, in a quiet suburb fifteen miles south of London, Paul, who is home from university on holiday, is urged to join the local tennis club. He is partnered with Susan who is infatuated with him but is totally unsuitable and quite frankly, unavailable.

Shattered Mirror by Iris Johansen: An Eve Duncan novel. A thriller. Eve, a forensic sculptor, receives a package containing a skull and a two-sided mirror. Deciding to reconstruct the person’s face using the skull and to decode the mystery of the person’s identity, she sees the face of a beautiful woman emerge. She becomes involved in a search that spans continents and turns quite lethal.

Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin: Allie’s family has lost their beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida’s Gulf Coast. She’s waiting for her second husband to arrive home, completing his run. It’s to be a special party for him but he never arrives, even though he was pushing himself to get there. Joseph, an old friend of Allie, has returned from serving in the war and is looking for peace and healing. He decides to live alone in a remote cabin in the Carolina mountains when he finds a young mother and her two small children who are lost in the forest. He decides to help them return to their home in Florida, then travel to his own hometown. Offering to help Allie rebuild the restaurant, he isn’t prepared for a 45-year-old secret from their past.

Full Disclosure by Beverley McLachlin: Jilly likes winning a case, especially against her former mentor prosecutor Cy Kenge. She’s developing her own criminal defense firm and agrees to defend Vincent Trussardi even though she’s warned that would not be wise. As she investigates, she discovers a startling revelation that will change the case as well as her own life.

Adult audio book:

The Fallen by David Baldacci

Adult non-fiction:

A Higher Loyalty: truth, lies, and leadership by James Comey

Young adult:

My Name is Victoria by Lucy Worsley

Junior fiction:

Thea Stilton: The Journey to Atlantisby Geronimo Stilton

                                                           

 

 

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