Top Ten Holds

 

The following is a list of the top ten books placed on hold by KPL cardholders as of the current month.

 

 

MAY 2013

 

 

FICTION | NON-FICTION

 

 


 

FICTION

 


 

 

 

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Inferno

by Dan Brown

 

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon must race to find answers and decide whom to trust ... before the world is irrevocably altered.

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12th of Never

by James Patterson

 

After only a week at home with her new daughter, detective Lindsay Boxer is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A star football player is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced it is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in and itfits the professor's description to the last detail. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.

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Best Kept Secret

by Jeffrey Archer

 

Jeffrey Archer continues his beloved Clifton Chronicle series as Harry and Emma finally begin building a happy life - but a dangerous family enemy is about to resurface. Harry, now a bestselling novelist, has made a new life for himself, Emma and their family, but all is not as happy and secure as it could be. Emma's brother, Giles, is engaged to a woman who may be more interested in Barrington's fortune and title than in a long and happy marriage. And Sebastian, though he is bright, isn't quite the hard worker that his father was at school, and finds a hard time resisting the temptations that his somewhat unsavory friends provide. It all comes to a head when a new villain is uncovered, a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Giles.

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The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult

 

Sage is a baker. She works through the night, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef, an elderly man in her support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. But everything changes when Josef confesses a long-buried secret, and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces moral and potentially legal repercussions. With her own identity suddenly challenged, and the integrity of the closest friend she's ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions she's made about her life and her family. When does a moral choice become a moral imperative? And where does one draw the line between punishment and justice, forgiveness and mercy?

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Whiskey Beach

by Nora Roberts

 

Boston lawyer Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of - but never arrested for - the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at centuries-old Bluff House, which overlooks Whiskey Beach, guarding its shores - and secrets. Abra Walsh, Whiskey Beach's resident housekeeper, yoga instructor, jewelry maker, and massage therapist, is a woman of many talents - including helping Eli take control of his life and clear his name. But as they become entangled in each other, they find themselves caught in a net that stretches back for centuries.

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Daddy's Gone a Hunting

by Mary Higgins Clark

 

A dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City explodes into flames in the middle of the night, levelling the buildings to the ground - including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate - a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer - doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? And what if someone isn't who they claim to be?

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Entwined with You

A Crossfire novel

by Sylvia Day

 

"From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside, so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat. No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I'd been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become. Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession."

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Taking Eve

by Iris Johansen

 

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan's mission is to bring closure to the families whose loved ones have vanished.She knows their anguish-her own beloved daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her when she was just seven years old. It is only recently that Eve could begin her journey to peace. Now, Jim Doane wants the same kind of answers that Eve always longed for. But he cannot go to the police without risking his own secrets and hidden agendas. Instead he chooses a bold step to find the truth - a truth that takes Eve down a twisted path of madness and evil. Doane needs Eve Duncan's skill, and he'll do anything to get it - even if it means taking Eve.

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Touch & Go

by Lisa Gardner

 

Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life that looks good in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's elite Back Bay. A great marriage, admired by friends and family. A perfect life. But when investigator Tessa Leoni arrives at the crime scene in the Denbes' home, the family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their most personal possessions remaining behind. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just an entire family, vanished without a trace. Tessa knows better than anyone that even the most perfect façades can hide the darkest secrets. But who would want to kidnap a family? And how far would such a person be willing to go?

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419

by Will Ferguson

 

From the internationally bestselling travel writer Will Ferguson, author of Happiness and Spanish Fly, comes a novel both epic in its sweep and intimate in its portrayal of human suffering. It is a story of love in a time of darkness, of one woman's search for redemption, and of a young boy who will triumph above it all.

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Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the food giants hooked us

by Michael Moss

 

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry - and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients over the past five decades to dominate the North American diet. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, the author shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own (never aired publicly) misgivings.

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Wheat Belly Cookbook

by William Davis

 

This cookbook companion to the bestselling Wheat Belly serves up 150 great tasting wheat-free recipes to help readers lose weight and beat disease.

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Money Rules: Rule your money or your money will rule you

by Gail Vaz-Oxlade

 

Gail likes to say that money isn't rocket science, it's discipline. But even she acknowledges that there are tricks to her trade and that making money decisions often feels more complicated than it should. Covering every topic under the financial sun - from TFSAs to taxes, borrowing to breaking bad habits, relationships to RRSPs - all of the rules are delivered in digestible pieces that each give the reader a clear sense of what works and what doesn't.

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My Way

by Paul Anka with David Dalton

 

A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer / songwriter / heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to fame with a slew of hits that earned him a place touring with the major stars of his era. He wrote Buddy Holly's last hit, and just missed joining the rocker on his final, fatal plane flight. Anka also stepped in front of the camera in the teen beach-party movie era, scoring the movies and romancing their starlets. When the British invasion made his fans swoon for a new style of music - and musician - Anka made sure he wasn't conquered, taking his career into his own hands and cementing his status as an icon. Covering six decades of his life in show business, My Way is bursting with rich, rollicking stories of the business, and the people, in Anka's life.

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Beyond Belief: My secret life inside Scientology and my harrowing escape

by Jenna Miscavige Hill

 

Jenna Miscavige Hill was raised to obey. As the niece of the Church of Scientologys leader David Miscavige, she grew up at the center of this highly controversial and powerful organization. But at 21, Jenna made a daring break, risking everything she had ever known and loved to leave Scientology once and for all. Now she speaks out about her life, the Church, and her dramatic escape, going deep inside a religion that has been the subject of fierce debate and speculation worldwide. At once captivating and disturbing, Beyond Belief is an eye-opening exploration of the limits of religion and the lengths to which one woman went to break free.

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Wave

by Sonali Deraniyagala

 

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief - beginning in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in a tsunami she miraculously survived.

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The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and in business

by Charles Duhigg

 

The key to exercising regularly, becoming more productive, raising exceptional children, tapping into our reserves of creativity, building revolutionary companies and social movements, conquering our most stubborn vices, and capturing success is to understand how habits work. By harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

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100 Best Bedrooms

by Wim Pauwels

 

This new series showcases a compilation of the most beautiful and inspirational reports of the Beta-Plus architecture and interior design series. This volume presents a myriad of style that can be applied to the bedroom.

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4 Ingredients: One Pot, One Bowl

by Kim McCosker

 

Rediscover the wonders of simple, home-cooked meals with this ingenious collection of sweet and savory dishes full of fresh, easy-to-find ingredients that require only one pot and one bowl.

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Brain on Fire: My month of madness

by Susannah Cahalan

 

New York Post reporter Susanna Cahalan chronicles her sudden bout with bizarre symptoms and behavior initially diagnosed as due to a gamut of psychiatric and physical illnesses. She reports on how a newly identified rare autoimmune disease (anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis) was ultimately determined to be the cause, her doctors' search for the cause, her slow recovery, and her attempt to understand this "lost" period in her life.

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