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Producer Janie Vaughn's co-worker helps her get a career-making gig profiling a Coast Guard rescue swimmer (who just happens to be his brother), by claiming, falsely, that Janie is his girlfriend. As Janie spends time in Key West with the swimmer, Tom "Hutch" Hutcheson (along with his colorful Aunt Rue and his rescue Great Dane), she gets trapped by that lie, falling madly for Hutch, even as he thinks she's the one woman on earth he can't date. Swim lessons, helicopter flights, conga lines, drinking contests, hurricanes, and stolen kisses ensue, along with chances to tell the truth, to face old fears, and to be truly brave at last.
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FIC Cen
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How women made music : a revolutionary history from NPR Music
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This anthology expands on NPR Music's multi-platform series Turning the Tables, examining the crucial and historically understated role women have and continue to play in popular music. Before Turning the Tables launched in 2017, best album lists in magazines or online included few works by women, and female artists would claim only a few places of honor in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But Turning the Tables helped change that.
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780.82 How
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The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.
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FIC Ste
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Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, is convinced that Crissy Mellin's disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth enlists Detective Bowie to help her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon, in four days' time.
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FIC Bro
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The legendary Moscow investigator seeks to solve the murder of a diplomat as Russia's invasion of Ukraine wears on and the effects of Renko's Parkinson's Disease worsen. Helped by his lover, journalist Tatiana Petrovna, Renko traces the murder to a Russian paramilitary group aided by a government official who also used to be a romantic partner of Renko. Before long, those responsible for the killing look to similarly dispatch Arkady and Tatiana, all of it leading to a thrilling and action-packed climax.
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In vivid detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny recounts his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.
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947.0864 Nav
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Strongmen : Mussolini to the present
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In this book, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.
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321.9 Ben
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The mission : the CIA in the 21st century
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The end of the Cold War robbed the Central Intelligence Agency of its mission. The War on Terror gave it a new and different one. This is a history of today's CIA, with exclusive on-the-record interviews with former CIA directors, station chiefs, and scores of top spies who served undercover for decades and have now spoken to a journalist for the first time.
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327.1273 Wei
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Tess Strebel can't recognize her own face. She can't recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can't remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he's her husband. Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: she was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember most of the last decade. Including her own wedding. Tess has no choice but to accept her new life and hope her memory will return. After all, why should she doubt the letter she wrote to herself? Or the kind man from the wedding photos on her dresser who seems to genuinely care about her well-being? And then Tess receives a text message on her phone. One that changes everything: "Don't trust the man who calls himself your husband."
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FIC McF
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Two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win. The other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. As their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure.
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FIC Mot
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No one recognized the flashes of bright light that filled the sky. The blast wave that followed seemed to strike with no sound at all. In that silence came the dawn of atomic death for two hundred thousand souls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with interviews of more than two hundred survivors and their families, this is a immediate account of ordinary human beings thrust into extraordinary events, during which our modern civilization entered a nuclear adolescence.
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940.54252 Pel
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Fannie Flagg once said that what the world needs now is a good laugh. And that is what she gives listeners in warmhearted, always surprising stories about people who are finding clever ways to deal with the curveballs life sometimes throws at them.
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FIC Fla