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Library recieves best sellers, come take a look Many of the titles you've been hearing about have just arrived at Moss Library: "The Diana Chronicles" by Tina Brown "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (author of "The Kite Runner") This is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years. "Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje (author of "The English Patient") This is a multilayered novel about passion, loss and the unshakable past. The main character becomes immersed in the life and world of a writer from an earlier time. "Peony In Love" by Lisa See (author of "Snow Flower and The Secret Fan") Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a goodluck cricket in a bamboo cage. Even though she is betrothed to a man she has never met, she has dreams of her own. "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky is based on the life of a successful Jewish writer living in Paris who's arrested in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz, where she dies one month later. Two years previous she and her family had fled their small village in central France to escape the Nazis. She had begun to write a novel when she was arrested and her daughter was able to save the manuscript. "Double Bind" by Chris Bohjalian (author of "Back Roads") contains the author's blend of black humor and tenderness and is the story of family, friendship, and how secrets can bury us or redeem us. "The Maytrees" by Annie Dillard (author of the nonfiction "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek") This novel depicts natures vastness and nearness and presents bonds of loyalty, friendship and love. "The Tenderness of Wolves" by Stef Penney (winner of the Costa (Whitbread) Book of the Year) This debut novel is set in a tiny isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory in 1867. It weaves adventure, suspense and humor into an historical murder mystery. "Channeling Mark Twain" by Carol Muske-Dukes explores the worlds of poetry and politics in the unforgettable New York City of the 70's. "Blaze" by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) The last of the Backman novels, recently discovered and published for the first time. "The Overlook" by Michael Connelly "Simple Genius" by David Baldacci "Killer Weekend" by Ridley Pearson
"The Good Guy" by Dean Koontz
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