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Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to HarvardLiz Murray2010, 352 pagesNonfictionLiz Murray's childhood in the Bronx reflects the harrowing journey of a child born into a family of poverty, mental illness, and parental drug addiction. In 1980, the author was born with drugs in her system (yet healthy) to a drug-addicted mother and a then incarcerated father. Her parents' mainlining...
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For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Chasing LilacsCarla Stewart2010, 291 pagesFictionThe summer after sixth grade was the start of a tumultuous time for Sammie Tucker, a 12-year-old girl who lives in a small Texas petroleum community. Her mother has had nerve problems ever since Sammie's baby sister, Sylvia, died seven years ago, is sent away to a hospital for therapy after...
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concord public libraryFor more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Fatal UndertakingMark De Castrique2010, 232 pagesFictionFormer Charlotte cop Barry Clayton (nicknamed Buryin' Barry in grade school) has returned to his hometown in the North Carolina mountains to help run the family funeral parlor and serve as a part-time sheriff's deputy. The body in Barry's casket at the...
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Concord public libraryFor more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.Once A Spy Keith Thomson 2010, 325 pagesFictionGenre novels rarely deviate from the standard formula, but in this new spy thriller, Keith Thomson has definitely taken the genre in a new direction. Charlie Clark has always believed his father has toiled away as a boring washing machine salesman and that his mother passed away...
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For more information about the Concord Public Library, visit concordpubliclibrary.net.To Fetch A ThiefSpencer Quinn2010, 307 pagesFictionChet is partners with Bernie Little at the Little Detective Agency. That Chet is a large, muscular dog does not detract from his detecting abilities at all. In fact, some of his skills are much stronger than Bernie's – for instance, when it comes to smelling and tracking people and...
