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Lake House: Kate Morton
Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in
Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright,
inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old
who loves to write stories. One midsummer's eve, after a
beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate
has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest
child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a
trace. He is never found, and the family is torn apart,
the house abandoned. Decades later, Alice is living in
London, having enjoyed a long successful career as a
novelist. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective
in the London police force, is staying at her
grandfather's house in Cornwall. While out walking one
day, she stumbles upon the old Edevane estate - now
crumbling and covered with vines. Her curiosity is
sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring
her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about
a past long gone - yet more present than ever.
ORDER # G616-1 $23-95 ISBN 9781451649352
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All
The Good That Remains: B. Mitchell Cator
Deke is a loner, a reluctant drifter, but he has a good
heart. He is searching for a place to belong, to fit in,
for a home. He meets, and falls in with, Cole. When Cole
drags Deke into a string of crimes, including murder,
the only way Deke can escape is to move on, drift again,
to keep searching. Their story zooms in on, and
escalates in, Logan, an economically depressed farming
town in West Texas. The inhabitants, mostly ranchers and
farmers, uneasily co-exist with the land and climate.
Without knowing the connection among the town's
characters and how their lives intertwine, Logan seems
to be exactly what Deke is looking for as he attempts to
not only escape Cole, but also find the comfort he
desires. His peace, however, is short-lived. With a wake
of violence trailing him, Cole is on the move, vowing to
catch up with Deke.
ORDER # G616-2 $23-95 ISBN 9780997079913
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Close: Emma McLaughlin
Amanda Beth Luker has spent her whole life desperately
looking for someone who can show her the way out of her
trailer park Florida town. And then, finally, help
arrives - in the form of Tom Davis, a successful lawyer
with political aspirations who grew up just a few towns
over from Amanda. But it's his wife, Lindsay, who really
captures Amanda's imagination. Strong, smart, and
determined, she gives Amanda something she's never had -
a role model. Meanwhile Amanda is introduced to the
wealthy, charismatic, and deeply troubled Pax
Westerbrook. He clearly desires Amanda, but if she gives
in will that move her closer to the life she's always
dreamed of - or make it impossible?
ORDER # G616-3 $23-95 ISBN 9781940716763
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The
Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to
attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long
gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road,
where, when he was seven, he encountered a most
remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and
grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and
yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed
was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where
she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding
back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too
dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small
boy.
ORDER # G616-4 $11-95 ISBN 9780062459367
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