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His third wife
by Grace Octavia
Atlanta Mayor Jamison Jackson is feeling the heat, as past and current lovers, and political enemies, come gunning after him. Original.
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When Kingdom Comes
by Ashea S. Goldson
After spending six years on death row in southern Louisiana, Trinity Crawford is finally declared innocent. She returns home to a mother who never wanted her. Immediately hit with a devastating medical diagnosis for her son, Trinity sets out in search of estranged family members.
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The choir director 2 : runaway bride
by Carl Weber
With his revitalized choir at his mentor's ministry receiving national attention and a potential recording contract, Aaron Mackie proposes to the church secretary, who jilts him at the altar, in the sequel to The Choir Director. 25,000 first printing.
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Gathering shadows
by Nancy Mehl
Wynter Evans came to the town of Sanctuary looking for answers, and wonders whether handsome mayor Reuben King can help her discover the truth about her brother's disappearance. Original.
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The last kings of Sark
by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Accepting a tutoring position on a tiny European island where feudalist values are still upheld, Jude struggles with her dominating employers until a shared summer of wine and scallop-smuggling bonds her to her awkward student and the family's mercurial cook. 25,000 first printing.
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Owen's daughter : a novel
by Jo-Ann Mapson
After Skye serves a stint in rehab and loses custody of her child, she vows to stay clean and be a good mother, but must find her daughter, Gracie, first, in this new novel from the author of Solomon's Oak. 30,000 first printing.
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Little mercies
by Heather Gudenkauf
When her life unexpectedly collides with 10-year-old Jenny Briard, a homeless girl struggling to survive on her own, veteran social worker and mother Ellen Moore discovers that one small mistake can have life-altering consequences, in this powerful novel of motherhood and justice. Original.
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Stars go blue : a novel
by Laura Pritchett
Living apart on their sprawling ranch in the face of an estrangement from Renny and his progressing Alzheimer's disease, Ben Cross finds his hopes for a dignified end of life challenged by his abusive son-in-law's early release from prison. By the award-winning author of Colorado. 15,000 first printing.
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Coldsleep lullaby : a mystery
by Andrew Brown
A U.S. release of a prize-winning series from South Africa follows Detective Eberard Februarie's investigation of the murder of a young woman in the underworld of an old university town that is fraught with prejudice and sexual hedonism. 20,000 first printing.
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The geometry of love
by Jessica Levine
Restless in her stable relationship with a restrained professor, aspiring poet Julia Field is thrown off-balance by a chance meeting with an old, charismatic flame, forcing her to grapple with questions of infidelity and artistic inspiration
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The undead pool
by Kim Harrison
When strange magic attacks Cincinnati and the Hollows, shattering the truce between the Inderlanders and humans, witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan must stop this dark necromancy before an all-out supernatural war breaks out. 250,000 first printing.
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Cyador's heirs
by L. E. Modesitt
Destined to command his future ruler brother's defense army, Lerial, the second son of Duke Kiedron, discovers during his training that he has a rare power to harness both Order and Chaos. By the best-selling author of Heritage of Cyador. 50,000 first printing
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Words of radiance
by Brandon Sanderson
A sequel to The Way of Kings finds Dalinar leading the human armies into an escalating war with the Parshendi, while Shalland and Jasnah search for a mythical city to secure humanity's survival and Kaladin struggles to master his Windrunner powers. 250,000 first printing.
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The fortune hunter : a novel
by Daisy Goodwin
A beautiful empress trapped in a loveless marriage, a dashing but impoverished horseman and a clever heiress form a passionate love triangle in 19th-century England against a backdrop of the legendary Grand National competition. By the best-selling author of The American Heiress. 150,000 first printing.
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Love or duty
by Rosie Harris
When Penny knocks over a six-year-old girl with her father's new motor car, she feels obligated to take the child in while she recovers, and this decision to look after a child from the slums will change Penny's life forever
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The true and splendid history of the Harristown sisters : a novel
by Michelle Lovric
Pursued for their beautiful long hair during the famine-stricken, pre-Raphaelite era of rural Ireland, seven sisters form a singing and dancing group that rises them from poverty to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice, were they find love and loss among obsessive suitors and admirers. By the award-winning author of The Floating Book.
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Coldbrook
by Tim Lebbon
The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.
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Sweetness #9 : a novel
by Stephan Eirik Clark
A father who worked as an apprentice flavor chemist chose to ignore the disturbing side effects he noticed in tests on Sweetness #9, which became America's most popular sweetener, and wonders if the problems afflicting his family years later are due to his silence. 25,000 first printing.
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Mrs. Hemingway
by Naomi Wood
Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the dashing, adventurous novelist and member of the “Lost Generation.” Original.
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Last night at the blue angel
by Rebecca Rotert
In early 1960s Chicago, Naomi Hill, a fiercely ambitious, yet extremely self-destructive jazz singer at the Blue Angel club, embarks on a desperate journey to stardom, while her 10-year-old daughter Sophie becomes even more anxious as she struggles for her mother's love. 100,000 first printing.
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.
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Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky
by David Connerley Nahm
In a novel of love, loss, ghost stories and small-town life in rural Kentucky, Leah, the director of a non-profit, is forced to revisit her childhood when a grown man arrives on her doorstep claiming to be the little brother who disappeared when she was young. Original.
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Monday, Monday
by Elizabeth Crook
Traces the lives of three survivors of a mass shooting at the University of Texas in 1966, including a young woman who narrowly escapes and two cousins with whom she shares a decades-long secret. 20,000 first printing.
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No river too wide
by Emilie Richards
Finally escaping her abusive husband and before she disappears forever, Janine Stoddard visits her estranged daughter Harmony and her granddaughter Lottie in Asheville, North Carolina, where she meets a woman who is dedicated to helping women in need get a fresh start. Original.
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Wynne's war
by Aaron Gwyn
Assigned to an elite Special Forces unit after demonstrating exemplary horsemanship skills, Army Ranger Elijah Russell trains a Green Beret unit for a mission in a forbidding Afghan war zone only to confront a terrible choice between his beliefs and a zealous commander. 35,000 first printing.
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Dirty work : a novel
by Gabriel Weston
Follows an obstetrician-gynecologist through four intense weeks of a medical tribunal after she botches a surgery and accidentally puts an abortion patient in a coma. 20,000 first printing.
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Lucky us : a novel
by Amy Bloom
Forging a life together after being abandoned by their parents, half sisters Eva and Iris share decades in and out of the spotlight in golden-era Hollywood and mid-20th-century Long Island. By the author of the National Book Award finalist, Come to Me. 125,000 first printing.
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Fatal conceit : a novel
by Robert Tanenbaum
The murder of the CIA director on the eve of his scheduled testimony about a cover-up involving the death of Bin Laden in Chechnya pits Butch Karp against formidable adversaries in the U.S. government. By the best-selling author of Tragic.
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The 6th extinction
by James Rollins
When a remote military research station in Antarctica is completely decimated, Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force must solve a mystery from the land's distant past using an ancient map that leads them to a new form of death, buried under miles of ice, which could very well lead to the extinction of mankind. 250,000 first printing.
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Ark storm
by Linda Davies
When a catastrophic weather event threatens California with massive floods, meteorologist Gwen Boudain pursues a technological solution to prevent natural damage, an unethical corporate scheme and a jihadist plot. By the award-winning author of Nest of Vipers.
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Designated daughters
by Margaret Maron
After her Aunt Rachel is found smothered with a pillow while receiving hospice care, Judge Deborah Knott investigates who would've hastened her end—and why—in the latest addition to the mystery series following The Buzzard Table. 40,000 first printing.
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Mean streak
by Sandra Brown
After being abducted from a mountain road in North Carolina, a pediatrician and avid runner, Dr. Emory Charbonneau, finds herself held captive by a violent man with a dark past who may ultimately end up being her savior, in the new thriller from the author of Deadline. 400,000 first printing.
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Back channel : a novel
by Stephen L. Carter
While the Kennedy administration furiously debates about a response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 19-year-old black Cornell sophomore Margo Jensen becomes an unwitting pawn in escalating tensions between American and Soviet government forces. By the best-selling author of The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln.
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One Kick : a novel
by Chelsea Cain
A debut installment in a new series by the author of the Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell best-sellers introduces Kick Lannigan, a famous kidnapping survivor who as an adult uses her martial-arts mastery and affiliation with a wealthy patron to find and rescue missing children.
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Keep your friends close
by Paula Daly
Returning home from a family emergency overseas, Natty Wainwright discovers her husband in love with her best friend, Eve, who was helping out in her absence, and receives a mysterious note indicating that her former friend is a lethal serial mistress. 25,000 first printing.
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Top secret : a clandestine operations novel
by W.E.B Griffin
Recruited into a precursor of the CIA at the dawn of the Cold War, second lieutenant James D. Cronley Jr. is given one week to extract a vital piece of information from a Soviet agent, in spite of costly blunders that have put him at odds with his superiors. By the best-selling authors of the Badge of Honor series. 300,000 first printing.
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The Lost Island : a Gideon Crew novel
by Douglas J. Preston
After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment, in the third novel of the series following Gideon's Corpse. 150,000 first printing.
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Haunted
by Randy Wayne White
Hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that a historic, reputedly haunted house is too valuable to be razed for a condominium complex, Hannah Smith hopes the case will reveal interesting facts about her Civil War ancestors—but it soon leads to her being targeted by an obsessed killer. By the author of the Doc Ford series.
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Etta Mae's worst bad-luck day : a Miss Julia novel
by Ann B. Ross
A latest adventure set in Abbotsville is written from the perspective of heart-of-gold Etta Mae Wiggins, whose ambition to marry a wealthy elderly man is challenged by the man's scheming children, her ex's underworld enemies and her former flame Bobby Lee. By the best-selling author of Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover.
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Private down under
by James Patterson
The employees of the Sydney, Australia office of the investigation company Private are celebrating their branch's incorporation when a bloody young man staggers into the office and the agency's caseload suddenly fills up, in the latest novel of the series following Private Berlin.
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Clam wake : a bed-and-breakfast mystery
by Mary Daheim
While house-sitting at her aunt and uncle's retirement home on Whoopee Island with her cousin Renie, Innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn must dig for answers, as well as clams, when an older gentleman is murdered and everyone thinks they did it. 40,000 first printing.
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Half in love with artful death : A Dan Rhodes Mystery
by Bill Crider
An investigation into the murder of a troublemaker during a local artist workshop is complicated by a meth gang, a nude woman in a roadside park and a herd of runaway donkeys. By the Anthony Award-winning author of Murder in the Air.
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The devil's workshop
by Alex Grecian
Hunting down four escaped convicts in late-19th-century London, Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith and their colleagues from Scotland Yard's Murder Squad race against time to prevent attacks on their families, an effort that turns more violent when Jack the Ripper joins the gang.
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The furies : a thriller
by Mark Alpert
When a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Ariel plunges him into the middle of a secret war among the Furies, humans with a rare genetic mutation, John Rogers must stop a conflict in which the grand prize is a chance to remake the human race. 30,000 first printing.
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Dear daughter : a novel
by Elizabeth Little
After being released from prison on a technicality, Janie Jenkins tracks down the one lead she has on her mother's real killer and is startled by what she uncovers about her mother's past in a small South Dakota town.
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A colder war
by Charles Cumming
Disgraced MI6 agent Thomas Kell is assigned to investigate the murders of an Iranian defector, an investigative journalist and an Iranian nuclear scientist who had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, a case that is further complicated by a senior agent's suspicious death. By the best-selling author of A Foreign Country.
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A little night murder : a Blackbird sisters mystery
by Nancy Martin
While Nora deals with her pregnancy and her troublemaking sisters, she also investigates when the daughter of a legendary composer is found dead of unnatural causes, in the latest novel in the series following Little Black Book of Murder.
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I am Pilgrim : a thriller
by Terry Hayes
The film writer for Bangkok Hilton presents a debut thriller that traces a collision between two geniuses, including a tortured hero and a determined terrorist, in the aftermath of a murder that a world-class secret agent discovers has been conducted according to his own forensic techniques to hide the victim's identity.
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FaceOff
by David Baldacci
An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
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Hot lead, cold iron : a Mick Oberon job
by Ari Marmell
Working as a private detective, Fae Mick Oberon is hired to find a gangster's daughter sixteen years after she had been replaced by a changeling, and Mick encounters Fae politics and mob power struggles as he investigates
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Support and defend
by Mark Greaney
Shattered by a terrorist attack that kills a friend and his family, FBI agent Dominic Caruso, the nephew of President Jack Ryan, pursues a fugitive National Security Council staffer who would leak critical American intelligence to Russia and various terrorist organizations.
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The bloody city : a mediaeval mystery
by C. B. Hanley
1217: Lincoln is not a safe place to be. A French army has captured the city, and the terrified citizens huddle in the rubble of their homes as the castle, the last remaining loyal stronghold in the region, is besieged. Edwin Weaver finds himself riding into grave danger after his lord volunteers him for a perilous mission: he must infiltrate the city, identify the traitors who are helping the enemy, and return to pass on the intelligence. The last man who attempted such a thing was captured by the French, his head hacked off and catapulted over the castle wall as a warning. The city is awash with violence and blood, and Edwin is pushed to the limit as he has to decide what he is prepared to do to protect others. He might be willing to lay down his own life, but would he, could he, kill?
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Not for nothing
by Stephen Graham Jones
The town is Stanton, Texas, population three thousand; the private investigator is disgraced Midland homicide detective Nicholas Bruiseman, who's so down on his luck that he's forced to take a job as a live-in security guard for the town's lone storage facility. This is his new life; starting over with nothing in the town he grew up in.n
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Bury this : a novel
by Andrea Portes
A young woman's mysterious murder in a small town becomes a thing of legend when, twenty-five years later, the case is reignited when a group of film students starts making a documentary on her fateful life
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No stone unturned : an Ellie Stone mystery
by James W. Ziskin
Standing at a crossroads in her life, 24-year-old reporter Ellie Stone decides to return to New York as a failure until she hears a dispatch over the police scanner about the murder of a 21-year-old society girl that provides a rare opportunity to rescue her drowning career. Original.
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The water rat of Wanchai
by Ian Hamilton
Ava Lee has to track down a missing five million dollars for mysterious businessman Uncle, and her journey takes her from Seattle to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Guyana, and the British Virgin Islands
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For the love of Parvati
by Susan Oleksiw
Anita Ray and Auntie Meena are embroiled in a case involving a man who is tied to an old bridge and fatally exposed to the wildlife and monsoon rains in the foothills of South India. By the author of the Mellingham series.
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All things murder
by Jeanne Quigley
Returning to her Adirondack hometown after her soap opera's cancellation, actress Veronica Walsh discovers the body of her controversial neighbor and finds herself playing the role of amateur sleuth in the style of her former television character.
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Sidney Chambers and the problem of evil
by James Runcie
While wrestling with the problem of evil and contemplating the nature of love, clerical detective Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to solve four different mysteries, which involve a serial killer, the disappearance of a famous painting, an "accidental" drowning and the kidnapping of a newborn baby. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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Wolverine Bros. freight & storage : a Conway Sax mystery
by Steve Ulfelder
Traveling to Los Angeles to rescue a washed-up television actor who has been kidnapped by gangsters, Conway Sax finds himself torn between the actor's mother and brother, who deeply resent one another. 25,000 first printing.
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The silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
While investigating the brutal murder of a novelist who had just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knew, which would ruin many lives, P.I. Cormoran Strike must race against time to catch a killer unlike any he has ever encountered before. 600,000 first printing.
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Doing harm
by Kelly Parsons
Botching a major surgery when his ambition for a prestigious job gets the better of him, Steve Mitchell learns that a patient who died under mysterious circumstances was targeted by a sociopath who holds information capable of destroying Steve's family and career. (suspense).
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Plain pursuit
by Alison Stone
Looking for answers about her brother's death, Anna Quinn is an unwelcome outsider in the small Amish town, joined by FBI agent Eli Miller, who has ties to the area, the pair quickly find connections between a cold case and Anna's loss.
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The transcriptionist : a novel
by Amy Rowland
A transcriptionist for a Manhattan newspaper searches for the truth when she learns that a woman she met on the bus a few days prior supposedly committed suicide by jumping into a lion's den at the zoo.
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Texas true
by Janet Dailey
When Beau Tyler, the cowboy who had once claimed her heart, returns from a tour of duty, Natalie Haskell, suddenly widowed, finds comfort in his arms even though rumors swirl around them that he was somehow involved in her late husband's death.
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Invincible
by Diana Palmer
When she sees something that could implicate a popular politician in a murder investigation, Carlie Blair, gifted with a photographic memory, discovers that the only person who can protect her is a man she despises—a cold-hearted mercenary named Carson.
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Swan Point
by Sherryl Woods
Single mom and fashion-boutique manager Adelia Hernandez hopes to make a new life for herself in the Swan Point neighborhood of Serenity, and the restless Gabe Franklin just may be the man to help her, if he can make amends for his past mistakes and finally settle down.
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Love Letters
by Debbie Macomber
Three guests at Rose Harbor Inn find comfort and renewal through letters, including a woman who reconnects with the father she cannot remember, a couple who rekindle their love and an Afghanistan war widow who finds the strength to move on. By the best-selling author of the Cedar Cove series.
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A heart revealed : a novel
by Julie Lessman
Ten years ago, Emma Malloy fled Dublin for Boston as a battered woman, escaping the husband who scarred her beautiful face. The physical and emotional wounds have faded with time, and her life is finally full of purpose and free from the pain of her past. But when she falls for her friend Charity's handsome and charming brother, Sean O'Connor, fear and shame threaten to destroy her. Could Sean and Emma ever have a future together? Or is Emma doomed to live out the rest of her life denying the only true love she's ever known?
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Seagrass pier
by Colleen Coble
Saved by a heart donor whose murder she uncannily begins to remember, transplant recipient Elin Summerall is exposed as a witness and flees for her life to a remote beach cottage where she begs for protection for her family from a skeptical former love.
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The healing quilt
by Wanda E Brunstetter
Retired Amish newlyweds Emma and Lamar Miller start a new quilting class, in which they work with an unlikely group of students to achieve emotional healing and create beautiful traditional quilts
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The girl with all the gifts
by Mike Carey
A little girl who is detained by the military, restrained in a wheelchair and goes to school while heavily guarded doesn't truly understand why she is special until it is up to her to save the world. 25,000 first printing.
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Hellhole : inferno
by Brian Herbert
In a conclusion to the trilogy that includes Awakening, the people of Hellhole and the shadow-Xayans combine forces against the still-living rogue Xayans while defeated dowager Queen Michella is captured by enemy forces who plot to trigger a new Big Bang that would destroy the current universe.
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XOM-B
by Jeremy Robinson
Living in a utopian world where his people were once enslaved by brutal Masters, genius Freeman searches for a cure to a viral infection that compels its victims to spread the virus violently, a plague that Freeman discovers is linked to a Master plot. By the best-selling author of the Jack Sigler Thrillers. 40,000 first printing.
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The time traveler's almanac
by Ann VanderMeer
A definitive collection of time-travel stories from more than a century of literature features pieces by such leading authors as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury and is complemented by a selection of informative nonfiction articles, including Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers."
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Trial by Fire : Volume Two of the Tales of the Terran Republic
by Charles E. Gannon
"When interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with aliens, war erupts. With Earth's fleet shattered by a sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must rely upon both hisfirst contact and weaponry skills to contend with alien enemy but finds all is not as it seems. What if something even worse is on the way? It could be that Earth's attacker's harrowing memories of a long-past war makes them willing to do anything to keep it from starting over again--even if that means exterminating the human race"
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The old neighborhood : a novel
by Bill Hillmann
The Old Neighborhood is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder, his friends and family drag him down into a pit of violence that reaches a bloody impasse when his elder sister begins dating a rival gang member. The Old Neighborhood is both a brutal tale of growing up tough in a mean city, and a beautiful harkening to the heartbreak of youth.
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Shadow river
by Ralph W. Cotton
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is working undercover as an outlaw in a border gang, hoping to bring down the gang's leader, Bell Madison, and ends up assisting the gang in a violent fight against Apaches to maintain his cover.
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The man from boot hill : burying the past
by Marcus Galloway
Nick Graves hope to leave his violent past behind and settle down in Jessup, Nebraska, but after a shootout with one of the deputies of the town's sheriff and a confrontation with his previous partner, Nathan Skinner, he finds it difficult to overcome his former life as an outlaw.
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Raina's choice
by Gilbert Morris
Raina needs a hero to help her escape from her brutal mother-in-law, so when Ty Kincaid rolls into town from Mexico on his way to Indian Territory, Raina pins her hopes for freedom on him, until he winds up in jail
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Butler's wager : the gamblers
by Robert J. Randisi
Taking refuge among the outlaws and gamblers around the gaming tables in the West, Ty Butler works his way to Dodge City, where he is caught in the middle of dangerous grudges that are about to explode
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