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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

The new bestsellers continue to hit the shelves @ your library

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan, Amy Landon, et al.

“A deep dive into the twisted life of Israel Keyes, ‘a new kind of monster’ . . . Serial killers often commit their crimes close to home, inside a comfort zone, but as the author documents throughout this compelling narrative, little about Keyes fit the conventional serial-killer mold . . . [Callahan] offers fascinating context about law enforcement investigative techniques and revelations about how a murderer can strike again and again without being detected for more than a decade.”



Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

“She explains as well as it is likely ever to be explained why Lee went silent after To Kill a Mockingbird. (The clue’s in Cep’s title.) And it’s here, in her descriptions of another writer’s failure to write, that her book makes a magical little leap, and it goes from being a superbly written true-crime story to the sort of story that even Lee would have been proud to write.”


Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

"Gladwell has again delivered a compelling, conversation-starting read...At a time when the world feels intractably polarized, a book examining the varying ways we misinterpret or fail to communicate with one another could not feel more necessary...With a mix of reporting, research and a deft narrative hand, Gladwell illuminates these examples with the page-turning urgency of a paperback thriller."





Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston

"An exhaustive and terrifying story of viral mayhem that will rivet readers."


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