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Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Adult Titles Jan 2025
Updated February 4, 2025
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1
Tom Clancy Defense Protocol
Clancy, Tom.
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Funny story
Henry, Emily.
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & GLOBAL TIK TOK SENSATION, EMILY HENRY 'One of my favourite authors' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us 'Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones...
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Bellevue
Cook, Robin.
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A young doctor must come to terms with the dark truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in history made at Bellevue in this the gripping suspense-horror from New York Times bestselling author Robin CookTwenty-four-year-old Michael "Mitt" Fuller starts his surgical residency at the iconic...
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Hidden libraries : the world's most unusual book depositories
Helmuth, D. C.
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"a wonderful testament to the power and endurance of the written word" - The Age "Bibliophiles will be enthralled" - Publisher's Weekly "a perfectly on-point present for any reader" - BookPage Discover 50 of the world's most...
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Knitted socks from finland
Laitinen, Niina
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20 beautifully designed sock patterns for experienced knitters themed on the four seasons. Niina Laitinen is one of the most popular knitting designers in Finland. Already with several books under her belt, her latest features stunning sock designs inspired by the four seasons....
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Now or never thirty-one on the run
Evanovich, Janet
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She's not sorry
Kubica, Mary
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" An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance...
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Skipping Christmas
Grisham, John.
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Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a...
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Small things like these
Keegan, Claire
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**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** **NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A New York Times Bestseller * Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize * Winner of the Orwell Prize for...
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Sonny Boy
Pacino, Al.
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From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by...
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Counting miracles
Sparks, Nicholas.
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'Find where you belong and make that place your own...'Tanner has spent his whole life moving from place to place, belonging nowhere. So when his dying grandmother reveals the name and location of the father he never knew, he plans to visit Asheboro to lay the past to rest, then...
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The Christmas spirit a novel
Macomber, Debbie
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Two lifelong friends decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Armstrong...
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The drowned a novel
Banville, John
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Elements of marie curie: how the glow of radium lit a path f
Sobel, Dava
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Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. 'A fresh and feminist study of the pioneering Nobel laureate...
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The keeper of happy endings
Davis, Barbara
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'Twas the bite before Christmas
Rosenfelt, David
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Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
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**A Sunday Times Bestseller** **An Economist Best Book of the Year** The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state...
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Before we were us
Hunter, Denise
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She can't remember. He can't forget. When Lauren Wentworth wakes up in the hospital after falling from a ladder, she has more questions than answers. Way more. She knows where she is -- the wilds of New Hampshire. But she's apparently lost the last four months of her life. Is she really...
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Before we were yours : a novel
Wingate, Lisa
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THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT - A #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story. For readers of Where the Crawdads...
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Christmas in Bethel
Evans, Richard Paul
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From Richard Paul Evans, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Promise and The Christmas Box--"the most popular holiday tale since Tiny Tim" (Newsweek)--a new novel celebrating the life-changing power of the holiday spirit. Leigh Beth...
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Darling girls
Hepworth, Sally
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It's not just secrets buried at Wild Meadows. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate, they were given an elusive second chance of a happy family...
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Death at the sign of the rook
Atkinson, Kate
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DISCOVER THE NEW JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SHRINES OF GAIETY 'How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon...
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Desolation code a novel
Brown, Graham
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Estrogen matters : why taking hormones in menopause can improve women's well-being and lengthen their lives--without raising the risk of breast cancer
Bluming, Avrum
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REVISED and UPDATED Edition, 2024:Â A compelling, "fascinating" (Robert Cialdini) defense of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the faulty science behind its fall from prominence and giving women the evidence they need to make informed decisions about their health. ...
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Fatal intrusion
Deaver, Jeffery
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Happily This Christmas
Mallery, Susan
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Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fool's Gold romances, proves there's no place like Happily Inc for the holidays... There's no place like Happily Inc for the holidays... Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a...
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Henry V : the astonishing rise of England's greatest warrior king
Jones, Dan
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'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' - Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was...
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Here one moment
Moriarty, Liane.
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If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane. But almost all of them will be changed forever.Because on this ordinary...
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How to be both
Smith, Ali
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Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre...
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I'll be waiting : a novel
Armstrong, Kelley
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From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatural horror involving a haunted-house, seances, lost loved ones, and a sinister spirit out for blood...Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child....
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Kairos
Erpenbeck, Jenny
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WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck...
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Love you a latke
Elliot, Amanda
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Snow is falling, holiday lights are twinkling, and Abby Cohen is pissed. For one thing, her most annoying customer, Seth, has been coming into her cafe every morning with his sunshiny attitude, determined to break down her carefully constructed emotional walls. And, as the only Jew on the tourism...
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Never never
Hoover, Colleen
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Never stop...Never forget...Just remember. Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with Tarryn Fisher, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives. Together, they have created...
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Nexus: ; a brief history of information networks from the stone age to ai
Harari, yuval Noah.
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The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies. The internet...
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Our wives under the sea
Armfield, Julia
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Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the...
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Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023
Atwood, Margaret.
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*A Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times Book of the Year 2024* An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood - a writer who has fundamentally...
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Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
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Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the...
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Public library and other stories
Smith, Ali
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Why are books, in all their forms, so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are...
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Raised by wolves
Patterson, James.
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Two children dressed in rags are discovered ransacking a grocery store on the edge of town. They bare their teeth. They growl. They claim to have been raised by wolves. Where did these children come from? Who are their parents? And can they learn to...
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Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN 'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a...
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Reminders of him : a novel
Hoover, Colleen
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A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping...
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Safe enough
Child, Lee
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Safe haven
Sparks, Nicholas
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In a small North Carolina town, a mysterious and beautiful woman running from her past slowly falls for a kind-hearted store owner . . . until dark secrets begin to threaten her new life. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North...
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The Banned Books Club
Novak, Brenda
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The Christmas Crush : A Novel
Douglas, Noelle
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Career-focused Elena is climbing the corporate ladder all the way to the top, so when Sparkle Cookie, the cookie manufacturer she works for, opens a new branch, she jumps at the opportunity to impress her bosses. But the townsfolk in New Hope, Pennsylvania, aren't exactly thrilled about a large...
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The demon of unrest : a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War
Larson, Erik
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). ...
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