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A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie King 1997 Young Mary Russell, friend to Sherlock Holmes, finds intrigue in the slums of 1921 London. Having just enjoyed a night on the town in man's dress after a singularly odd encounter with Holmes, Mary bumps into her friend, Lady Veronica Beaconsfield. Ronnie is living in the poorest part of town, assisting in the good works of a new charismatic church whose leader has a mysterious past. Suggested for ages 14 and up Average rating: 
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A Painted House by John Grisham Grisham leaves the lawyers behind in this tale of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, whose focus shifts from baseball and cotton to secrets and murder in 1952 rural Arkansas. Suggested for ages 19 and up Subjects: Arkansas | Cotton growing Average rating:
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A Thousand Country Roads by Robert Waller 2002 Lonely, unfulfilled, and consumed with memories of his passionate affair with Francesca Johnson in Madison County, Iowa, ten years earlier, photographer Robert Kincaid takes to the road again to return to the bridge where it all began. Suggested for ages 19 and up Average rating: 
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Black Lotus by Laura Joh Rowland 2001 Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, asks the aid of his clever wife to solve the mystery of three unidentified bodies found outside a burning cottage. All clues point to the powerful and mysterious Black Lotus Temple, but the simplest explanation may not be the truth. Suggested for ages 19 and up Subjects: Japan Average rating:
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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 2001 Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next. Suggested for ages 19 and up Average rating: 
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 2002 A sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the time of the Black Plague. Suggested for ages 19 and up Average rating:
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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King 2002 Fourteen macabre tales from the master of horror. Don't read this late at night! Suggested for ages 19 and up Subjects: Horror Average rating: 
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Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 1999 Chevalier narrates the creation of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring. The "Girl" in Chevalier's version is 16-year-old Griet, who goes to live with the Vermeer household as a maid and becomes increasingly intimate with Vermeer as she takes on duties as a private assistant. Suggested for ages 16 and up Average rating:
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