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Author: William, Anthony, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 613.2
Format: Books
Summary: Introduces celery juice's ability to create improvements on every level of our health. Includes instructions on how to make the juice, how much to drink, and when to drink it, and what to expect as your body begins to detox, plus answers to FAQs.

Moneyland : the inside story of the crooks and kleptocrats who rule the world

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Author: Bullough, Oliver, 1977- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: 364.1323
Format: Books
Summary: From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, attacking the foundations of many of the world's most stable countries. Meet the kleptocrats. Meet their awful children. And find out how heroic activists around the world are fighting back.

The poison bed

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Author: Fremantle, Elizabeth, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F FREMANTL
Format: Books
Summary: Autumn, 1615. Scandal rocks the Jacobean court when Robert and Frances Carr are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances-- young, captivating, and from a notorious family-- was rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a new life for herself. Robert-- one of the richest and most famous men in the kingdom-- has risen from nothing to become one of the country' most powerful men, and has made enemies along the way. The king suspects them both, though it is his secret at stake. Now a man is dead. And someone must pay with their life. -- adapted from jacket

America was hard to find : a novel

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Author: Alcott, Kathleen, author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F ALCOTT
Format: Books
Summary: "A family fractures along the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a sequence of events ricocheting from anti-Vietnam activism to the Apollo program, in this sprawling multigenerational novel"--

The rationing : a novel

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Author: Wheelan, Charles J., author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F WHEELAN
Format: Books
Summary: America is in trouble--at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn't lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there's just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis--and control the narrative --

The summer of Ellen

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Author: Friis, Agnete, author. Køngerskov, Sinéad Quirke, translator.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F FRIIS
Format: Books
Summary: "Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton, who is in his nineties and still lives with his brother Anders on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978. Anton asks Jacob to answer the question that has haunted them both for decades: What happened to Ellen? To find out, Jacob must revisit the farm and confront what took place that summer--one defined by his teenage obsession with Ellen, a beautiful young hippie from the local commune who came to stay with Anton and Anders, and the unsolved disappearance of Jacob's classmate's sister. In revisiting old friends and rivals, Jacob discovers that the tragedies that have haunted him for over forty years were not what they seemed"--

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