Category Archives: New Adult Books

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Vegetables to the front:  We’ve flipped the traditional ratio on its head by keeping our protein portions small while making vegetables superabundant.  Embrace the fresher side of Instant Pot cooking with satisfying meals and exciting flavors to invigorate weeknight dinner. 

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Better Off Dead

by Lee Child & Andrew Child

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants.  That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun–until he comes upon a curious scene.  A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around.  A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? Nothing is what it seems….

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The Unheard

by Nicci French

A single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime – but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everythng. 

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The Darling Dahlias and the Voodoo Lily

by Susan Wittig Albert

Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR.  But there are problems brewing at the newspaper when the Dahlias discover the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth’s Magnolia Manor is found dead.  

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Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

Fron the Pulitzer Prize -winning author of All The Light We Cannot See, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. 

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Peril

by Bob Woodward & Robert Costa

This book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency.  A solid work of investigation that, while treading well-covered ground, offers plenty of surprises. 

 

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The Brides of Maracoor

by Gregory Maguire

Ten years after the wicked years waved good bye with Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire sends us back.  Here Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washes up on a foreign island and is taken in by a community of single women with secret religious practices of their own.  Did her arrival lead to a subsequesnt assault by a mysterious navy?  What kind of magic is at work? 

 

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The Unforgiven

by Heather Graham

Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace.  She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live.  But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never escape its terrifying grip.

 

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The Butler

by Danielle Steel

Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin.  When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world.  Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England.  His brother never reappears…Two different worlds and two very different lives collide in Paris. 

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