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Fiction A to Z September 2019
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Whisper network
by Chandler Baker
An adult debut by the author of the High School Horror series follows four women who speak out when their ill-reputed boss is slated to become CEO, a decision that triggers catastrophic shifts throughout every department of their company.
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife
by Karen Brooks
An illegitimate nobleman’s daughter is rescued from abuse and drudgery by a chocolate proprietor in 17th-century London, where her high-society popularity is unknowingly threatened by her employer’s secret past. By the author of The Locksmith’s Daughter. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Things you save in a fire
by Katherine Center
When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter. By the New York Times best-selling author of How to Walk Away.
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Tidelands
by Philippa Gregory
In a tale set during England’s mid-17th-century civil war, an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community.
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Someone we know
by Shari Lapeña
In a quiet suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers--and causing a stir by learning and sharing the residents' secrets, until a murder causes the tension to reach a breaking point
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Time for School! Time to Read! |
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Conviction
by Denise Mina
An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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The bitterroots
by C. J Box
Former police officer-turned-private investigator Cassie Dewell reluctantly accepts a sexual assault defense case before her search for answers among twisted family loyalties reignites the ghosts of her own past. By the Edgar Award-winning author of the Joe Pickett series.
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Contraband
by Stuart Woods
The Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs establishes a highly anticipated publishing milestone in the latest entry of his best-selling series starring elite Manhattan rainmaker, Stone Barrington.
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The Oysterville Sewing Circle : a novel
by Susan Wiggs
Forced by scandal to return to her Pacific coast childhood home, a Manhattan fashionista assumes guardianship over two orphans and bonds with a circle of fellow seamstresses before an unexpected challenge tests her courage and heart. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Map of the Heart.
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| Dear Committee Members by Julie SchumacherWhat it is: a sly and satirical novel told entirely through the acidic letters of one overwhelmed college professor, who claims that the demands of academia require more letters of recommendation than published work.
Any other complaints? Budget cuts, staff eliminations, favoritism, and other small indignities find their way into the professor's endless stream of comical, frank, and sometimes passive-aggressive letters.
For fans of: Aaron Thiel's similarly biting, college-set Ghost Apple. |
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