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Northbrook Public Library's Most Wanted List: Aug. 14

Check out one of these great reads from the library.

Looking for a great new read? Here's a list of the top most wanted books at the  last week, courtesy of the Readers Services desk:

Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson
An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor. Thriller.

Full Black, by Brad Thor
Covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath has a plan to stop a terrorist group that wants to take down the United States. Thriller.

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
Examines the role of Fannie Mae, government agencies, private mortgage companies, and Wall Street firms in the 2008-2009 financial crisis and describes how greed and fear led each institution to ignore warnings about the coming economic collapse. Nonfiction.

Ghost Story, by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, a wizard detective in Chicago, has been murdered, but that doesn't stop him when his friends are in trouble. Science Fiction.

Cold Vengeance, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Seeking revenge after his wife Helen is murdered, Special Agent Pendergast chases the killers from Scotland to New York City and into the bayous of Louisiana and discovers that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own death. Thriller.


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