Want to stretch your imagination, and decrease stress? If you answered yes, then, pick up a book at KDL today! These are the 10 most checked-out books in Adult Fiction at KDL this week!
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women—black and white, mothers and daughters—view one another. Catalog Link |
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner. Catalog Link |
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Smokin' Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich A latest entry in the best-selling series that includes Sizzlin’ Sixteen and Finger Lickin’ Fifteen finds bounty hunter Stephanie Plum leaning on her network of friends and supporters, including Grandma Mazur and mentor Ranger, when an assignment brings more trouble than anticipated. Catalog Link |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate. Catalog Link |
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Learning (Bailey Flanigan Series) by Karen Kingsbury Learning, book two in The Bailey Flanigan series, picks up where Leaving ended. Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman are not only separated by physical distance, they are also faced with great emotional distance. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Find out in this poignant love story, featuring members from Karen Kingsbury’s popular Baxter family. Catalog Link |
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Mercy, The (The Rose Trilogy) by Beverly Lewis Rose Kauffman struggles with her feelings for Nick Franco, the bishop’s foster son, who left the Amish community under suspicious circumstances, while her sister, Hen, tries to mend her marriage to her estranged “English” husband. Catalog Link |
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Buried Prey by John Sandford Investigating the discovery of two bodies in a house demolition, Lucas Davenport identifies the victims as two girls who disappeared in 1985, a cold case that overshadowed the early years of his career. By the best-selling author of Storm Prey. Catalog Link |
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The Sixth Man by David Baldacci After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy’s lawyer—an old friend of Sean King—to look into the case. But en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. Catalog Link |
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Prey: A Novel by Linda Howard Forced to relocate her successful camping and tour guide company when she is trounced by a new competitor, Angie Powell struggles with her attraction to her rival while finishing a last trip that turns unexpectedly treacherous. By the award-winning author of Veil of Night. Catalog Link |
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Dark Predator (Carpathian) by Christine Feehan Hunter of the undead and master executioner Zacarias De La Cruz returns to Peru where he finds betrayal, vengeance and the consequences of his family’s bloody legacy in this new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dark Peril. Catalog Link |