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A few recommendations: 

BOOK CLUB CEP
Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee / Casey Cep
Documents the remarkable story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South’s racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.  (Additional formats are available in Large Print, Audio CD, and  eAudio from Libby/OverDrive.)  
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BOOK CLUB COLLINS
The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Suzanne Collins
In a prequel to “The Hunger Games,” eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares to mentor the female tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, with the fate of his family hanging on the slim chance that he can help her win the Games.  (Additional formats are available in eBook from Libby/Overdrive and eAudio for hoopla.)
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BOOK CLUB HAMID
Exit west : a novel / Mohsin Hamid
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. (Additional formats are available in eBook and eAudio from Libby/OverDrive.)    
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BOOK CLUB HARPER
The lost man / Jane Harper
Nathan and Bub Wright are brothers, but they don’t often see each other. They live on adjoining ranches, along with their other brother, Cam, who resides on the old family homestead. The brothers eke out a living in the bleak Outback of Australia, sharing a troubled childhood and a relationship that struggles against many secrets. Nathan is a divorced father and has long been shunned by the town. Cam is married with two children while Bub struggles to fit in. When Cam’s body turns up miles away from his fully stocked car, his family is full of questions. Nathan can’t let go of the mystery and begins to investigate. The secrets that have kept the brothers apart in life may lead to answers about Cam’s death, but there are those who would rather the secrets stay buried.  (Additional formats are available in eBook and eAudio from Libby/OverDrive.) 
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BOOK CLUB HART
Redemption road / John Hart
Imagine: A boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother. A troubled detective confronts her past in the aftermath of a brutal shooting. After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. This is a town on the brink. This is Redemption Road.  (Additional copies available on Audio CD and eBook and eAudio on Libby/OverDrive.)   
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BOOK CLUB LOCKE
Bluebird, bluebird : a novel / Attica Locke
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders–a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman–have stirred up a hornet’s nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes–and save himself in the process–before Lark’s long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America.
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BH: 12/28/21