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Silver wings, Santiago blue Silver wings, Santiago blue Janet Dailey The exhilarating story of the first WASPS, the Woman Airforce Service Pilots, who risked their lives, their ambitions and their dreams to help the war effort during World War II. Determined to win th… OL14862504W
The Sleeping Doll The Sleeping Doll Jeffery Deaver When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as… OL14927374W
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate The evolution of Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously c… OL15021579W
The Raising The Raising Laura Kasischke Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car acci… OL15537800W
Palo Alto Palo Alto James Franco A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut… OL15572017W
The Story of Beautiful Girl The Story of Beautiful Girl Rachel Simon A novel about a woman who can't speak, a man who is deaf, and a widow who finds herself suddenly caring for a newborn baby. Pennsylvania, 1968. Lynnie, and her sweetheart Homan, have escaped from Th… OL15719724W
Renegade Poetics Renegade Poetics Evie Shockley Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s <em>Renegade Poetics</em> separates what we think … OL15916935W
A turn in the road A turn in the road Debbie Macomber In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th hig… OL15917224W
Bonnie Bonnie Iris Johansen "When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Eve's entire life came into focus (delete reference to forensics--that happened later, right?--) and nothing was … OL15980837W
Detroit Detroit Lisa D'Amour "In a "first ring" suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who've moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon … OL15980841W
Lamb Lamb Bonnie Nadzam She was coming toward him in a crooked purple tube top and baggy shorts and brassy sandals studded with rhinestones. She carried a huge pink patent leather purse and was possibly the worst thing he'd… OL16086745W
I've Got Your Number I've Got Your Number Sophie Kinsella I’ve lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve … OL16117201W
In the shadow of the banyan In the shadow of the banyan Vaddey Ratner Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this novel is based on the author's personal story. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end o… OL16134691W
Mitko Mitko Garth Greenwell "A haunting novel of erotic obsession by a major new talent On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex… OL16141836W
We all fall down We all fall down Michael T. Harvey Chicago cop turned private investigators, Michael Kelly is on a hunt for the people who poisoned his city by unleashing a pathogen in a subway tunnel. OL16151643W
The devil's elixir The devil's elixir Raymond Khoury "Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico-and possibly beyon… OL16152254W
The starboard sea The starboard sea Amber Dermont Devastated by the suicide of his prep-school roommate and disdaining the trappings of his affluent Manhattan life, Jason transfers to another school and bonds with a troubled classmate whose subseque… OL16215444W
This bright river This bright river Patrick Somerville "Lauren Sheehan's career in medicine came to a halt after a sequence of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows--St. Helens, Wisconsin--cut off from career, friendship, an… OL16342558W
Absolution Absolution Patrick Flanery In modern-day South Africa, Clare Walde tells the story of her sister's death and the disappearance of her daughter during apartheid twenty years earlier. OL16415810W
The Wind Through the Keyhole The Wind Through the Keyhole Stephen King Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to th… OL16451416W
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