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1. Pick the lock

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Author:
King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-
Publisher:
Dutton Books
Pub. Date:
2024
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HL: High-Low 670L
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English
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Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access...

2. The Business of Living: You don't need the key to success if you know how to pick the lock!

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Author:
Freeman, Jack
Publisher:
Caleb Hill Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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The journey taken by The Business of Living has been remarkable. Starting out as a one-person show in Hollywood in the mid-1990's, (directed by Bob Oedenkirk of Better call Saul fame) it was then introduced nationally via the syndicated morning radio show, The Bob and Tom Show, where it quickly got a cult following. The author inexplicably went into seclusion in 2008, emerging this year to release his first book.

3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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Author:
McBride, James, 1957-
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English
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4.3 stars
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...

4. The maid

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Author:
Prose, Nita
Series:
Maid novel volume 1
Molly the Maid
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English
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3.7 stars
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...

5. The midnight lock

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Author:
Deaver, Jeffery
Series:
Lincoln Rhyme novel volume 15
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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4 stars
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A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith," can break through any lock or security system...

6. Only the dead: a thriller

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Author:
Carr, Jack (Joint pseudonym)
Series:
Terminal list volume 6
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English
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In 1980, a freshman congressman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later. Now, with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control. And with the world's most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators believe...

7. Carrie: [a novel of a girl with a frightening power

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Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-
Lexile measure:
850L
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English
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5 stars
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Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror...

8. The Cloisters: a novel

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Author:
Hays, Katy, 1982-
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English
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3.6 stars
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...

9. Goosebumps

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Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine...

10. Book of night

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Author:
Black, Holly
Series:
Book of Night volume 1
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English
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3 stars
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus. One of Publishers Weekly's top ten most anticipated books of 2022! Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians...

11. A peculiar combination: an Electra McDonnell novel

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Author:
Weaver, Ashley
Series:
Electra McDonnell volume 1
Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Language:
English
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4.2 stars
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"The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit. Electra McDonnellhas always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British...

12. The dark horse

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Author:
Johnson, Craig, 1961-
Series:
Walt Longmire mystery volume 5
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920L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Wade Barsad, a man with a dubious past, locked his wife Mary's horses in their barn and then burned it down. In return she shot him in the head six times - or so the story goes. Sheriff Walt Longmire doesn't believe that Mary's confession is the truth, and he's determined to dig deeper. Posing as an insurance claim investigator, Walt goes undercover and soon discovers that the population of an entire town might have wanted Wade dead.

13. The only survivors: a novel

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Author:
Miranda, Megan
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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"A thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident--only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy"-- A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who managed to escape the river...

14. From scratch: a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home

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Author:
Locke, Tembi, 1970-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
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English
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4 stars
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"A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour"--

15. Evvie Drake starts over: a novel

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Author:
Holmes, Linda (Radio talk show host)
Series:
Thorndike Press large print women's fiction
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...

16. Daisy Darker

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Author:
Feeney, Alice
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English
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"After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family...

17. Bread alone

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Author:
Hendricks, Judith Ryan
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When 31-year-old Wynter Morrison finds herself locked out of her L.A. house by her handsome, spoiled, unfaithful husband David, she is devastated. After 7 years of being an "Executive Wife/Hostess" (David's mandate), Wyn finds herself floundering in the traditional job market. She moves to Seattle "temporarily" for a fresh start, and her skills as a breadmaker-- picked up as an exchange student during an internship in Toulouse, land her a job baking...

18. Little secrets

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Author:
Hillier, Jennifer
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Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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"Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense. "Suspenseful and compelling-Hillier is a masterful storyteller." -Chevy Stevens. All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret... Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're...

19. Lockdown

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Author:
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014
Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
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Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.

20. Snow

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Author:
Banville, John
Series:
Strafford and Quirke
St. John Strafford volume 1
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets.
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