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Today Will Be Different
by Maria Semple
Initiating small changes that she hopes will reverse negative patterns in her life, Eleanor Flood is derailed by her family members' unethical practices before an encounter with a former colleague triggers dramas that reveal a buried secret.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
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Golden Prey
by John Sandford
A series of audacious robberies compels newly appointed U.S. marshal Lucas Davenport to investigate the possible return of a gang leader who once killed two FBI agents.
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Revenge in a Cold River
by Anne Perry
Unable to remember anything before the carriage accident he suffered years earlier, Commander William Monk is framed for murder by a man from his past and must rely on the help of his wife and a close friend to prove his innocence.
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Night School
by Lee Child
The iconic Jack Reacher embarks on an unprecedented adventure after a pivotal day marked by a medal, his return to school and his work with teammates Marian Sinclair and Frances Neagley.
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You Will Know Me
by Megan Abbott
How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community. As rumors swirl, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. What she uncovers--about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and herself--forces Katie to consider whether there's any price she isn't willing to pay for Devon's dream.
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Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A reimagining of the life of Lincoln's assassin by the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker describes Booth's tumultuous childhood on a Maryland farm and rise to the ballrooms of D.C. at the sides of four women before he became obsessed with avenging the Confederacy.
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When All the Girls Have Gone
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Teaming up with struggling private investigator Max Cutler to track down her missing stepsister, Charlotte Sawyer falls in love with Max and survives a near-fatal attack before making a chilling discovery about her stepsister's past.
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, in decades—not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help.
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