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Best Books for Dad 2020

Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the men in our lives who have raised and loved us. Why not show him your appreciation by inspiring him with a great book? We have six titles that are perfect gift-giving suggestions for Dad, keeping him busy through the rest of the year.

Congratulations to the five winners of our 15th Annual Father’s Day Contest! Each winner received a prize package that includes all of the titles in this year’s feature.

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Scott Turow, author of The Last Trial

At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will be the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend's dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, he will question everything he thought he knew about his friend.

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Week of January 25, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of January 25th include THE LAST TRIAL, the 11th book in Scott Turow's series set in fictional Kindle County, Illinois, about celebrated criminal defense lawyer Sandy Stern and the prosecution of his lifelong friend --- a doctor accused of murder; THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones, which follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives; THE WIFE STALKER, a twisty psychological thriller from Liv Constantine about a woman fighting to hold onto the only family she’s ever loved --- and how far she’ll go to preserve it; Sandra Dallas' WESTERING WOMEN, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail; and THE BODY, Bill Bryson's head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body --- how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately) the ways it can fail.

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