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FICTION
- A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano
Years after poor health forces her to return to her family home, author Flannery O’Connor reluctantly attends the wedding of her cousin and inadvertently draws the attention of the groom, a wealthyManhattanresident who fears life is passing him by.
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.
- Hotwire by Alex Kava
Special Agent Maggie O’Dell investigates the death of three teenagers, only to find herself in the middle of a government conspiracy.
- Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas
Paid companion Catherine Marks is attracted to her employers’ older brother, Leo Hathaway, despite their constant bickering, so she agrees to a marriage of convenience with him, but the secret she is hiding threatens them both.
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
- Second Nature: A Love Story by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Losing her father in a school fire that disfigures her face,Sicilyis raised by a dynamic aunt who urges her to pursue a normal life, an effort that is influenced by her fiancé, a terrible drunken revelation, and an opportunity for a risky full-face transplant.
- Son of Stone by Stuart Woods
Returning toNew Yorkafter an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his well-to-do ex Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington hopes to cash in on his partnership and settle down only find his plans upended when Arrington introduces him to the child he fathered many years earlier.
- Summer at Seaside Cove by Jacquie D’Alessandro
Jamie Newman, arriving in the tiny barrierislandofSeaside Cove,North Carolina, to heal her broken heart, finds her plans of rest and relaxation thwarted by stray cats, colorful neighbors, her drama-prone mother, her teenage niece, her traitorous half-sister Laurel and a sexy repairman.
- Wife-in-Law by Haywood Smith
Sharing a decades-long friendship in spite of disparate personalities, prim conservative Betsy and irreverent hippie Kat struggle to retain their bond when Kat marries Betsy’s ex-husband, whose philandering becomes a shared grievance for both women.
NONFICTION
- Growing Up Amish by Ira Wagler
Describes the author’s Amish childhood, his departure from his community at age sixteen, his struggles to return to the Amish way of life, and his final acceptance of his own identity and his past.
- The Secrets of the FBI by Ronald Kessler
The award-winning journalist and author of In the President’s Secret Service draws on agent interviews about famous FBI cases to reveal the Bureau’s inner workings and some of its most deeply held secrets.
Published on October 20, 2011.
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