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  This Book Is Overdue!

  How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

  by Marilyn Johnson

  Marilyn Johnson has been a staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire, Redbook, and Outside. She has written obituaries for Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis, Katharine Hepburn, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Marlon Brando. She lives in New York.
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  Twenties Girl

  by Sophie Kinsella

  Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, "Twenties Girl" is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.
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  Best Friends Forever

  by Jennifer Weiner

  Some bonds can never be broken... Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame... (more)
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  Dune Road

  by Jane Green

  Also published as "Girl Friday"From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafés of London to the sandy beaches of Nantucket, Green draws from her own life to craft each delicious story and the resulting tales resonate with women everywhere. Dune Road is another fun and fearless adventure that will take Green’s many fans from laughter to tears and back again. The novel is set in the beach... (more)
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  Spoiled: Stories

  by Caitlin Macy

  Caitlin Macy’s debut novel The Fundamentals of Play was heralded as a Gatsbyesque examination of love and class in Manhattan. Now, in her sophisticated and provocative story collection Spoiled , Macy turns her unsparing eye on affluent and educated women who nevertheless struggle to keep their footing in their relationships and life. In “Annabel’s Mother,” a young woman does a good deed for her nanny, only to... (more)
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  Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks

  Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making

  by John Curran

  A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible - more than one book every year... (more)
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  The Accidental Billionaires

  The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

  by Ben Mezrich

  The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends — outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 20

  Sad Cypress

  by Agatha Christie

  Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows...
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 5

  A Murder Is Announced

  by Agatha Christie

  The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When... (more)
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  Bossypants

  by Tina Fey

  Tina Fey, one of the most influential and beloved women in entertainment, brings sharp wit and uncanny observational skill to everything she does, from television to major motion pictures. She's managed to be known as both the thinking man's sex symbol and every woman's alter-ego/imaginary best friend. Now, for the first time, Fey takes her writing talent off-screen and into the pages of a book. From her lifetime... (more)
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  The Beauty and the Sorrow

  An Intimate History of the First World War

  by Peter Englund

  A highly original and revelatory narrative history of World War I that brings into focus its least examined, most stirring component: the experience of the average man or woman. To create this intimate picture of what war was really like, Peter Englund draws from the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals. They hail from Belgium and Denmark, Austria and Hungary, Italy, Australia, New... (more)
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  Know the Past, Find the Future

  The New York Public Library at 100

  by The New York Public Library

  From Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jones—more than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite public library.Marking the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, now called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Know the Past, Find the Future harnesses the thoughts of an... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 4

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  by Agatha Christie

  Considered to be one of Agatha Christie’s most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widow’s suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover of the deceased named Roger Ackroyd, who was later found stabbed to death in his study.The reason for his murder was found to be any of the following : maybe roger knew something about the... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 13

  Cards on the Table

  by Agatha Christie

  It was the match-up of the century. Four sleuths -- Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service, and the incomparable Hercule Poirot -- invited to play bridge with four specifically invited rivals, each of whom had once gotten away with murder. For the host it was irresistible entertainment -- until his own murder became part of the game. Now... (more)
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  Crooked House

  by Agatha Christie

  In a sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinley Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 16

  Dumb Witness

  by Agatha Christie

  Also published as "Poirot Loses a Client" and as "Silent Witness"Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid--and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery--or add to it.
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 12

  The A.B.C. Murders

  by Agatha Christie

  Also published as The Alphabet Murders.Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 28

  After the Funeral

  by Agatha Christie

  Alternate title: Funerals Are FatalThe Queen of Crime at her murderously clever best. After the reading of a will, one female relative is banished from the family tree-with eight blows of a hatchet. Poirot believes she won't be the last to go.
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 21

  One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

  aka The Patriotic Murders/aka An Overdose of Death

  by Agatha Christie

  Hercule Poirot doesn't believe it when a dentist allegedly commits suicide--especially after drilling the doctor's patients, partners, and friends.
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 6

  They Do It with Mirrors

  aka Murder with Mirrors

  by Agatha Christie

  Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Though he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the... (more)