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15 Most Borrowed Adult Books by Jewel Nelson
January 2012

The Litigators
by John Grisham
Published 2011 by Doubleday Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385535137

Jacket Notes:
Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks. The partners at Finley & Figg--all two of them--often refer to themselves as "a boutique law firm.... More...

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V Is for Vengeance
by Sue Grafton
Published 2011 by Marian Wood Book

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780399157868

Jacket Notes:
A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of "V is for Vengeance," Sue Grafton's daring new Kinsey Millhone novel. A woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system.... More...

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Explosive Eighteen
by Janet Evanovich
Published 2011 by Bantam

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780345527714

Jacket Notes:
With the arrival of "Explosive Eighteen," readers won't have to wait very long to find out what happens next in Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum adventure series. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.... More...

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The Best of Me
by Nicholas Sparks
Published 2011 by Grand Central Publishing

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780446547659

Jacket Notes:
Sparks' latest is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined--and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world.... More...

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Zero Day
by David Baldacci
Published 2011 by Grand Central Publishing

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780446573016

Jacket Notes:
From David Baldacci-the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.

And "Zero Day" is where it all begins....

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.... More...

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Kill Alex Cross
by James Patterson
Published 2011 by Little Brown and Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316198738

Jacket Notes:
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.

A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced.... More...

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Lost December
by Richard Paul Evans
Published 2011 by Simon & Schuster

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781451628005

Jacket Notes:
As heir to the Crisp Copy Center fortune, Luke has it made--until he burns through his entire inheritance in just one year of partying. Ashamed to ask his famous father for help, he finds employment--and romance--as an entry-level clerk. Can his new love get him back on track? From one of America's most beloved storytellers comes his most spiritual book since "The Christmas Box.... More...

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The Next Always
(First book in the Inn Boonsboro Trilogy series)

by Nora Roberts
Published 2011 by Berkley Publishing Group

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780425243213

Jacket Notes:
"America's favorite writer" ("The New Yorker") begins an all-new trilogy-inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves. The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother.... More...

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The Affair
by Lee Child
Published 2011 by Delacorte Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385344326

Jacket Notes:
With Reacher, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Lee Child has created "a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers" ("The Washington Post").

Everything starts somewhere. . . .

For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.... More...

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Micro
by Michael Crichton
Published 2011 by Harper

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780060873028

Jacket Notes:
A group of graduate students accept work with a mysterious biotech company in Hawaii only to be abandoned in a treacherous wilderness when they discover their employer's dark agenda. "In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore.... More...

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Bonnie
by Iris Johansen
Published 2011 by St. Martin's Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312651220

Jacket Notes:
"The truth has eluded her for years. . . . Now is she ready to face it?" When Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life---until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air.... More...

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The Drop
by Michael Connelly
Published 2011 by Little Brown and Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316069410

Jacket Notes:
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.... More...

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Red Mist
by Patricia D Cornwell
Published 2011 by Putnam Adult

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780399158025

Jacket Notes:
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings.... More...

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The Snow Angel
by Glenn Beck
Published 2011 by Threshold Editions

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781439187203

Jacket Notes:
"The woman in the picture was so young she looked like a child. Her hair was loose, eyes wide, blue T-shirt stark against the pale lines of arching collarbones. I felt the air leave me in a quiet rush. Not because of the way the photo captured her fleeting youth, but because of the way it highlighted the bruise.... More...

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The Sixth Man
by David Baldacci
Published 2011 by Grand Central Publishing

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780446573108

Jacket Notes:
After the #1 New York Times" bestsellers Split Second," Hour Game," "Simple Genius," and "First Family," Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.... More...

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