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The Award
by Danielle Steel
Nearing 100 when she learns she will receive the Legion of Honor Medal, Gaëlle de Barbet experiences painful memories and healing when she relives her past as a World War II activist who risked her life to bring Jewish children to safety and to salvage France's great works of art.
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The Sleeping Beauty Killer
by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Still living under suspicion after serving time for the murder of her fiancé, Casey Carter attracts the attention of Laurie Moran, who vows to exonerate her despite the machinations of an attention-stealing former prosecutor.
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The Seventh Plague
by James Rollins
When a British archaeologist who had been missing for two years reappears and dies amid findings that his body was being mummified while he was still alive, Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague with ties to some of history's most innovative minds.
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Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Two dark-skinned dancers with very different talents share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in early adulthood in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
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True Faith and Allegiance
by Mark Greaney
Investigating a massive data breach that threatens the security of every U.S. intelligence operative in the world, President Jack Ryan confronts an impossible choice when the data is obtained and exploited by the Chinese government.
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The Case Against Sugar
by Gary Taubes
Outlines compelling arguments about the health dangers of sugar, identifying the powerful lobbies behind its overuse while citing its role in a range of challenges from obesity to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Racing the Devil
by Charles Todd
A year after a band of World War I veterans agrees to hide the details of a reckless driving incident, a fatal crash is investigated by Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge, who combs through dangerous secrets to identify a killer.
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No Man's Land
by David Baldacci
A follow-up to the best-selling The Escape and The Forgotten continues the high-suspense story of military investigator John Puller.
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The Kingdom of Speech
by Tom Wolfe
Presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
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