The Potato King

 by Christoph Niemann

“Hear, hear!” announces King Fritz to his people, “I give you the potato.”  but how can the king of Prussia convince them to try the strange new vegetable from South America?  A brief history of the potato. 

 

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Eden West

 by Pete Hautman

While dutifully patrolling inside his isolated religious community’s fence, Jacob meets Lynna, who lives on the other side- a very different world from Nodd.

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“Bound to Read” Book Club: July Selection

Bound To Read is a non-fiction book club that will meet in the lower level of the library on Wednesday, July 1 at 4:00 P.M.  Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon  is the selection.   Please stop at the library to pick up your selection. New members are always welcome!

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Second Life

By S.J. Watson

Julia discovers her sister’s troubling, online double life and fears it lead to her vicious murder.  when Julia becomes enthralled with that same secret world, she finds herself in danger of meeting the same fate.

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The Sunken Cathedral

By Kate Walbert

Longtime Friends Marie and Simone have known much hardship, leaving World War II Europe behind and hoping for a new life.  the widows, their smitten painting instructor, an art historian, and an upstairs tenant who is losing her grasp on her place in this world seek a way to weather the storms of 21st Manhattan Life.

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Purl Up and Die

By Maggie Sefton

Could a knitting teacher’s son, in the middle of his residency as a young doctor, be responsible for a young woman’s assault?  One loose stitch could ruin Kelly Flynn’s idyllic Colorado summer when, in the midst of making romantic memories with her boyfriend, Kelly learns that Barb’s son has been accused of assault…and the accuser just turned up dead.

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Manhattan Mayhem

Edited By Mary Higgins Clark

New riddles, crimes, and mysteries take readers to Manhattan’s most well-known neighborhoods as Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, S.J. Rozan, and other mystery writers send their characters to Greenwich Village, the Flatiron district, Chinatown, and other Manhattan Locales.

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In The Unlikely Event

By Judy Blume

Three months of chaos forever change three generations of strangers, families, and friends after a three-month stretch of unexplained passenger airplane crashes leave New Jersey in a state of confusion in 1951 and 1952.

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The Fateful Lightning

By Jeff Shaara

Ulysses S. Grant makes the most of his recent promotion by leading the Union army during the final eight months of the Civil War.  William T. Sherman, who now commands the Federal forces gathered in Tennessee, leads a surge that sweeps through Atlanta and northern Georgia.  As Christmas comes, Sherman faces the Confederacy’s last real chance of winning the war: General Joseph E. Johnston.

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