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State of Wonder by
Ann Patchett - Wednesday,
February 22 at 1 p.m.
Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota
pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor,
Dr. Annick Swenson who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon
while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug,
the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing
about Marina's assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr.
Swenson is, but the last person who was sent to find her, Marina's research
partner Anders Eckman, died before he could complete his mission. Plagued
by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle
in hopes of finding her former mentor as well as answers to several troubling
questions about her friend's death, the state of her company's future,
and her own past.
The Surrogate Thief by
Archer Mayor - Monday, February
27 at 12:30 p.m.
In present-day Vermont, a woman kills her ex-husband with an old, second-hand gun that turns out to have a history with Det. Joe Gunther. Thirty-two years earlier, as Joe and his then wife Ellen struggled with her terminal bout of cancer, local store owner Klaus Oberfeldt was robbed and beaten to death by a local thief using that same gun. Overwhelmed by Ellen’s illness, however, Joe’s personal grief hampered his investigation, and the suspect, Pete Shea, vanished before they could catch him. As Gunther and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation delve into this now suddenly renewed case, they discover that the political opponent of Joe’s longtime girlfriend, Gail Zigman (who is running for state senate) has close financial ties with one of the suspects in the old Oberfeldt investigation. – From the Archer Mayor website
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