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Portage Lake District Library Most Popular Adult Titles November 2024
Updated December 3, 2024
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1
The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Haidt, Jonathan
Paper Book
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world. In The...
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Skipping Christmas
Grisham, John.
Paper Book
Imagine a year without the chaos and frenzy that has become part of our holiday tradition - this is just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they plan to skip Christmas and embark on a Caribbean cruise instead. But as this weary couple is about to discover - it's not as easy as that.
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The restaurant of lost recipes
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and follows on from The Kamogawa Food Detectives. Tucked...
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Things in jars : a novel
Kidd, Jess
Paper Book
The gripping new novel, set in crime-fuelled Victorian London, from Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author Jess Kidd.
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The blue hour : a novel
Hawkins, Paula
Paper Book
Get ready to be gripped by the dark, atmospheric and tense new thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
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6
North woods : a novel
Mason, Daniel
Paper Book
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The grey wolf
Penny, Louise
Paper Book
'SUPERB' WILL DEAN 'Highly entertaining' THE TIMES 'Subtle, compelling storytelling at its elegant best' DAILY MAIL Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in the small village of Three Pines in Quebec....
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All the colors of the dark : a novel
Whitaker, Chris
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that "hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel" (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as...
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Everyone this Christmas has a secret : a festive mystery
Stevenson, Benjamin
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10
In too deep
Child, Lee
Paper Book
His memory might be gone. But his sense of justice is not. THE BRAND NEW REACHER NOVEL AND NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And...
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Counting miracles : a novel
Sparks, Nicholas
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12
Cher : the memoir, part one
Cher
Paper Book
The Collector's Edition: The first hardback print run will feature an exclusive foiled board design. Order now to avoid missing out! 'A rock 'n' roll memoir like no other' Daily Mail 'A gutsy account of tenacity and perseverance...Cher's voice reverberates with the grit and depth...
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Framed : astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions
Grisham, John
Paper Book
TEN STORIES MORE SHOCKING THAN FICTION. For fans of John Grisham's page-turning legal thrillers, Framed is told with all the conviction of an edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama. John Grisham's first work of non-fiction since The Innocent Man,...
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14
Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
Harari, Yuval N.
Paper Book
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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Here one moment : a novel
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
**DISCOVER THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE WORLDWIDE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR** 'Liane Moriarty is a genuine GENIUS. Here One Moment is off the scale brilliant' Marian Keyes 'A master story teller . . . brilliant and...
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16
Now or never
Evanovich, Janet
Paper Book
Stephanie Plum's life is ready to explode in the pulse-pounding new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich! She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no plan. But the way things are going, she...
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Revenge of the tipping point : overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering
Gladwell, Malcolm
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Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light 'Addictive... fascinating and provocative' Guardian...
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The covenant of water : a novel
Verghese, Abraham
Paper Book
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.
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The guest
Paris, B. A.
Paper Book
THE TENSION-FILLED NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NUMBER ONE DIGITAL BESTSELLER THE PRISONER . 'Expertly plotted and compellingly told - a cautionary tale that will put you off ever having anyone to stay with you again. I raced through it!' HARRIET TYCE 'A mesmeric,...
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The third realm
Knausgård, Karl Ove
Paper Book
'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't get enough' The Times If no one ever died, what would happen then? For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is...
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21
A Christmas visitor
Perry, Anne.
Paper Book
Henry Rathbone arrives to spend Christmas at the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. He is greeted by the news that the master of the house, Judah Dreghorn has slipped while crossing a stream in the grounds of the estate in the middle of the night, and drowned. Not only this, but Ashton...
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22
A wanted man : a Reacher novel
Child, Lee.
Ebook
'A fascinating, swaggeringly confident performance' Sunday Times When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride in Nebraska. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a...
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23
Bad liar : a novel
Hoag, Tami
Paper Book
Masterful #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag is back with a riveting, emotionally powerful new thriller! Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past? A murder victim dumped at...
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24
Before I do
Cousens, Sophie
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet and This Time Next Year 'Romantic, wise and LOVELY' Marian Keyes What would you do if the one that...
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25
Big little lies
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
*Published as BIG LITTLE LIES in Australia and the United States*Liane Moriarty, million copy selling author of The Husband's Secret brings us another addictive story of secrets and scandal.Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in...
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Catherine, the Princess of Wales : a biography of the future queen
Jobson, Robert
Paper Book
A biography of Catherine Middleton, the commoner turned Duchess who will be Queen
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27
Creation lake : a novel
Kushner, Rachel
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES 'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill<...
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28
Evil things
Ivar, Katja.
Paper Book
Northern Finland, 1952, at the height of the Cold War with its neighbour the Soviet Union. A misunderstood, flawed, whip-smart Finnish woman police detective, while fighting against prejudice and political interference, investigates a murder on the Finno-Russian border. But that is just the...
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From here to the great unknown : a memoir
Presley, Lisa Marie
Paper Book
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long...
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30
Hiroshima : the last witnesses
Sheftall, M. G.
Paper Book
'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of...
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31
Hitler's peace : a novel of the Second World War
Kerr, Philip.
Paper Book
A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels. Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to...
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Grann, David
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE...
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Lazarus man
Price, Richard
'An engrossing read' Mail on Sunday In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem. In Lazarus Man, Richard Price, one of the...
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Lies he told me
Patterson, James
Paper Book
An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband has a secret life - and it might cost them all their lives. Everyone in the small town of Hemingway Grove knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practises...
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Magpie murders
Horowitz, Anthony
Paper Book
The first Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland mystery from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, and inspiration for the major hit BBC series MAGPIE MURDERS. Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years. Readers love his detective, Atticus Pünd,...
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36
Model home
Solomon, Rivers
Paper Book
'Intense, original, and wonderfully unpredictable . . . Model Home is a story of a haunted house and haunted people; profound family secrets lie at the heart of this book as well as, surprisingly, blessedly, meaningful touches of love and hope. Rivers Solomon is an astonishingly...
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Murder town : a novel
Burr, Shelley
Paper Book
'Chilling and atmospheric thriller that plunges readers into the dark heart of a small Australian town with a haunting past' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny town's ins and...
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My three dogs
Cameron, W. Bruce
Paper Book
My Three Dogs is a charming and heartfelt new novel from the number one bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, about humankind's most loyal companion, and a wonderful adventure of love, family and finding home.Life has never been sweeter since the day Labradoodle puppy Archie came bounding into the...
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No fixed line
Stabenow, Dana
Paper Book
'Fans will hope this series goes on forever' Publishers Weekly. ... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed. It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that...
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