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Here is a selection of items coming soon or newly arrived at the Arapahoe Library District. To see all of our newest titles, please browse our recently ordered books.
I've got your number : a novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kinsella, Sophie |
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Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kinsella, Sophie |
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Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
The Dressmaker
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Alcott, Kate |
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Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the "Titanic" comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young seamstress who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Alcott, Kate |
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Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the "Titanic" comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young seamstress who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
Use Your Brain to Change Your Age : Secrets to ...
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Amen, Daniel G |
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Presents a companion to a PBS special that outlines an anti-aging program for retaining youthful mental clarity, improving energy, and strengthening the immune system.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Amen, Daniel G |
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Presents a companion to a PBS special that outlines an anti-aging program for retaining youthful mental clarity, improving energy, and strengthening the immune system.
Heart of a killer
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rosenfelt, David |
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"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband who she claims abused her and her daughter Karen. T ... more
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rosenfelt, David |
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"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband who she claims abused her and her daughter Karen. T ... more
Immortal Bird : A Family Memoir
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Weber, Doron |
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The father of the young actor best known for his performances in "Deadwood" describes his son's congenital heart defect, the young man's theatrical achievements, and the family's effort to find life-saving medical answers.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Weber, Doron |
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The father of the young actor best known for his performances in "Deadwood" describes his son's congenital heart defect, the young man's theatrical achievements, and the family's effort to find life-saving medical answers.
And then it's spring
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Fogliano, Julie | Stead, Erin E |
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Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Fogliano, Julie | Stead, Erin E |
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Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.
Faery Tales & Nightmares
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Marr, Melissa |
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Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Marr, Melissa |
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Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr.
Catch Me
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Gardner, Lisa |
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A lone woman outside Detective D. D. Warren’s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days. And she wants D. D. to handle the death investigation.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Gardner, Lisa |
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A lone woman outside Detective D. D. Warren’s latest crime scene shocks her with a remarkable proposition: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days. And she wants D. D. to handle the death investigation.
Da Vinci's ghost : genius, obsession, and how ...
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lester, Toby | Leonardo | Leonardo |
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Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lester, Toby | Leonardo | Leonardo |
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Recounts the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and how the drawing represents the momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.
No one is here except all of us
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ausubel, Ramona |
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When an isolated Jewish village in Romania is threatened by war in 1939, the suggestions of a young child and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank compel the community to reinvent itself while completely detaching from the known world.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ausubel, Ramona |
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When an isolated Jewish village in Romania is threatened by war in 1939, the suggestions of a young child and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank compel the community to reinvent itself while completely detaching from the known world.
The Wolf Gift
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rice, Anne |
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A whole new world-modern, sleek, high-tech-and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rice, Anne |
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A whole new world-modern, sleek, high-tech-and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create.
Thinking the twentieth century
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Judt, Tony | Snyder, Timothy |
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Offers a narrative of the United States' history during the past 100 years, not by discussing the events, but by discussing ideas, and highlighting the thoughts and thinkers that helped shape the century.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Judt, Tony | Snyder, Timothy |
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Offers a narrative of the United States' history during the past 100 years, not by discussing the events, but by discussing ideas, and highlighting the thoughts and thinkers that helped shape the century.
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mason, Richard |
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A tale set at the height of Europe's belle epoque era follows the experiences of a young tutor in the household of one of Amsterdam's most prominent families who transforms his employers' lives through his charm and sensuality.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mason, Richard |
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A tale set at the height of Europe's belle epoque era follows the experiences of a young tutor in the household of one of Amsterdam's most prominent families who transforms his employers' lives through his charm and sensuality.
A Good American
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: George, Alex |
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The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: George, Alex |
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The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Left for dead : a mystery
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jance, Judith A |
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Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead --- Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali’s classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, and an unidentified young woman presumed to be an illegal border crosser.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jance, Judith A |
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Ali Reynolds investigates two shocking cases of victims brutally left for dead --- Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali’s classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, and an unidentified young woman presumed to be an illegal border crosser.
The snow child : a novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ivey, Eowyn |
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Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ivey, Eowyn |
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Paper Promises : Debt, Money, and the New ...
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Coggan, Philip |
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For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn place in our economic history. As with crises in the thirties and seventies, governments will fall, currencies will lose their value, and new systems will emerge. Just as Britain set the terms of the international system in the nineteenth century, and America in the twentieth century, a new system will be set by today’s creditors in China and the Middle East. In ... more
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Coggan, Philip |
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For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn place in our economic history. As with crises in the thirties and seventies, governments will fall, currencies will lose their value, and new systems will emerge. Just as Britain set the terms of the international system in the nineteenth century, and America in the twentieth century, a new system will be set by today’s creditors in China and the Middle East. In ... more
The house I loved
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rosnay, Tatiana de |
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Paris, France: 1860s. Whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will alter the face of Paris, molding it into a 'modern city.' The reforms will erase generations of history - but in the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet refuses to leave, taking refuge in her basement, where she passes the time by writing letters to her late husband.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rosnay, Tatiana de |
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Paris, France: 1860s. Whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will alter the face of Paris, molding it into a 'modern city.' The reforms will erase generations of history - but in the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet refuses to leave, taking refuge in her basement, where she passes the time by writing letters to her late husband.
Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, ...
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Boo, Katherine |
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A first book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother of a prospective female college student and a young scrap metal thief, in an account that illuminates how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by regional religious, caste and economic tensions.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Boo, Katherine |
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A first book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother of a prospective female college student and a young scrap metal thief, in an account that illuminates how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by regional religious, caste and economic tensions.
Home front
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Hannah, Kristin |
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the ... more
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Hannah, Kristin |
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the ... more
Lunatics
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Barry, Dave | Zweibel, Alan |
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Philip Horkman is a happy man - the owner of a pet store called the Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with jerks and morons, and he's having a really bad day. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Barry, Dave | Zweibel, Alan |
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Philip Horkman is a happy man - the owner of a pet store called the Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for kids' soccer. Jeffrey Peckerman is the sole sane person in a world filled with jerks and morons, and he's having a really bad day. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, terrorists, subversives, bears, and a man dressed as Chuck E. Cheese.
Helpless
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Palmer, Daniel |
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Returning home to Shilo, New Hampshire to raise his teenage daughter after his ex-wife is murdered, former Navy SEAL Tom Hawkins becomes the target of vicious rumors and implicated in a series of disturbing crimes by someone who is determined to destroy everything he loves.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Palmer, Daniel |
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Returning home to Shilo, New Hampshire to raise his teenage daughter after his ex-wife is murdered, former Navy SEAL Tom Hawkins becomes the target of vicious rumors and implicated in a series of disturbing crimes by someone who is determined to destroy everything he loves.
Good in a crisis : a memoir
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Overton, Margaret |
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An anesthesiologist relates her post-divorce discovery of a brain aneurysm and her descent into self-destructive behavior, a period marked by dysfunctional dates, cruel losses and challenging accidents before she resolved to take control of her life and ultimately fell in love.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Overton, Margaret |
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An anesthesiologist relates her post-divorce discovery of a brain aneurysm and her descent into self-destructive behavior, a period marked by dysfunctional dates, cruel losses and challenging accidents before she resolved to take control of her life and ultimately fell in love.
Contents May Have Shifted
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Houston, Pam |
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A woman seeking a reprieve from a going-nowhere relationship finds solace in flying to exotic places around the world from Alaska to Bhutan in this new novel from the author of the best-selling Cowboys Are My Weakness.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Houston, Pam |
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A woman seeking a reprieve from a going-nowhere relationship finds solace in flying to exotic places around the world from Alaska to Bhutan in this new novel from the author of the best-selling Cowboys Are My Weakness.
Diabolical
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Smith, Cynthia Leitich |
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Ensconced in a mysterious New England boarding school with a motley assortment of secretive, selectively chosen students, disgraced angel Zachary and his werewolf friend, Kieren, find their efforts to escape challenged by demon dogs, hallucinatory wall decor, a sadistic instructor and a legendary fire-breathing monster.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Smith, Cynthia Leitich |
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Ensconced in a mysterious New England boarding school with a motley assortment of secretive, selectively chosen students, disgraced angel Zachary and his werewolf friend, Kieren, find their efforts to escape challenged by demon dogs, hallucinatory wall decor, a sadistic instructor and a legendary fire-breathing monster.
The Flight of Gemma Hardy
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Livesey, Margot |
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Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Livesey, Margot |
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Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
Taft 2012
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Heller, Jason |
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He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There’s just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . .
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Heller, Jason |
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He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican résumé. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There’s just one problem. He is William Howard Taft . . .
Sister queens : the noble, tragic lives of ...
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Fox, Julia |
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Presents a dual portrait of Henry VIII's first queen and her sister, the wife of Philip of Burgundy, evaluating their roles as dynastic pawns while considering how their legendary lives reflect the turbulent age in which they lived.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Fox, Julia |
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Presents a dual portrait of Henry VIII's first queen and her sister, the wife of Philip of Burgundy, evaluating their roles as dynastic pawns while considering how their legendary lives reflect the turbulent age in which they lived.
Inside Apple : how America's most admired-and ...
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lashinsky, Adam |
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An analysis of the systems, tactics and leadership strategies that have contributed to Apple's successes profiles such practices as the direct accountability of employees and the company's annual retreat for up-and-coming executives, sharing insider perspectives on Apple's plans after the loss of Steve Jobs.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lashinsky, Adam |
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An analysis of the systems, tactics and leadership strategies that have contributed to Apple's successes profiles such practices as the direct accountability of employees and the company's annual retreat for up-and-coming executives, sharing insider perspectives on Apple's plans after the loss of Steve Jobs.
The house at sea's end
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Griffiths, Elly |
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"Forensic archeologist, Dr. Ruth Galloway is back--this time investigating a gruesome WWII war crime"--Provided by publisher.
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Griffiths, Elly |
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"Forensic archeologist, Dr. Ruth Galloway is back--this time investigating a gruesome WWII war crime"--Provided by publisher.