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Staff Pick

Someone To Watch Over Me by Judith McNaught is an old release, but a great story. When the rich, successful husband of a beautiful New York actress mysteriously disappears, she plunges into a desperate search to find him, and into a menacing web of secrets, deception, and danger.

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The Bleak and the Beautiful

Did you know that Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist and playwright, won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Road?

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The Help: a Unanimous Favorite Read of the Raytown Staff

The New York Times bestseller for 60 weeks, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, was chosen as a “best seller” among Raytown staff as well.  In Jackson, Mississippi, 1962, Eugenia Skeeter Phelan is just home from college, and, anxious to become a writer.

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Book Nook

In the style of Janet Evanovich, Marshal Karp has a series starring LAPD detectives, Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. This suspenseful and hilarious series begins with Rabbit Factory - a man dressed as Rambo the Rabbit is slain in Familyland, a second class Disneyland.

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Some Books You Need to Read More Than Once...

"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchanges for all the treasures of India."- Edward Gibson.

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The Help

Take a trip back in time to the year 1962 and look at life through the eyes of two black maids. How can life  be so complicated and filled with incongruence's in the rules that define their town and their times?

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An extraordinary southern saga was begun by Michael McDowell and was finished after his death by Tabitha King.

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Are You Working On the Next Mega Bestseller?

Do you have the plans for the next pet rock or cabbage patch doll in your workshop?  Is the next bestseller in your personal computer?  The book, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, illustrates a number of factors that will put your great idea on the road to success.

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The Search

Searching for a new book to read?  Check out Nora Roberts's newest book, The Search.  Ms Roberts has done it again.  This latest book is not a trilogy, as some of her others.  She has combined her love of dogs with a little romance, and lots of suspense.

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Nancy Is Just Sooo Fancy

Fancy Nancy by author, Jane O'Connor, is a really cute book about a little girl who does everything with flair. Of course, Nancy just loves to be fancy. For her, the best way to be fancy is to dress up and use big words. She especially likes French words. It's a fun story, which leaves the reader without a definition to each of these fancy words. It's a fun story with a whole lot of vocabulary building.

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