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All true not a lie in it : a novel
by Alix Hawley
Determined to create a new "clean" world, Daniel Boone, who was born and raised among Quakers on the colonial American frontier, leads an expansion west across the Appalachians - first as a hunter pursuing abundant wildlife, then as a father looking for a home for his beloved wife and children - which is plagued by brutality, violence and death.
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News of the world : a novel
by Paulette Jiles
A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women.
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The wonder : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child's life. By the best-selling author of Room.
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The red car : a novel
by Marcy Dermansky
When Leah's former boss and mentor, Judy, dies in an accident and leaves Leah her red sports car, Leah takes off to San Francisco to claim the car, revisiting past lives and loves in a self she abandoned years ago.
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The chosen ones
by Steve Sem-Sandberg
A tale inspired by a devastating, forgotten incident from annexed Vienna follows the experiences of a young inmate at a reform school for chronically ill children who become subject to the Nazi regime's euthanasia program on the eve of World War II. By the award-winning author of The Emperor of Lies.
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This was a man
by Jeffrey Archer
A conclusion to the best-selling saga finds Giles discovering the truth about his wife's identity, Emma receiving a job offer from Margaret Thatcher and Lady Virginia pursuing an opportunity to solve her financial problems before a shocking diagnosis throws all of their lives into turmoil. By the author of Kane and Abel.
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The Explosion chronicles
by Lianke Yan
A satirical cultural critique by the award-winning author of Dream of Ding Village traces the stories of three rival Chinese families who compete to convert their small village between the Yi River and the Balou Mountains into an urban superpower.
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The blind astronomer's daughter : a novel
by John Pipkin
Grief-stricken by her astronomer father's suicide, Caroline Ainsworth, a girl from late-18th-century Ireland, reluctantly takes up his search for a mythological planet near Mercury and reconnects with the man she loves before her home is plunged into a violent rebellion. By the author of Woodsburner.
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Judas
by Amos Oz
A biblical scholar finds himself falling for the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader after accepting a job as a caregiver for an irritable old man in 1959 Jerusalem. By the author of the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness.
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Ruler of the night
by David Morrell
A conclusion to the popular Victorian mystery trilogy finds brilliant Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey and his irrepressible daughter, Emily, confronting their most ruthless adversary with the assistance of period royals and Scotland Yard detectives Ryan and Becker.
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The graveyard apartment
by Mariko Koike
After moving to a new apartment complex next to a cemetery, a young Japanese family experiences strange and terrifying occurrences that send the other residents fleeing their homes, ultimately leaving them alone with a dark, evil something, or someone, residing in the basement.
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The long room
by Francesca Kay
Assigned to a new case - the ultra-secret PHOENIX, a suspected internal leak - Stephen Donaldson finds the monotony of his routine broken as he becomes dangerously obsessed with the target's beautiful wife, Helen, inadvertently setting himself up for a fall that will forever change his life.
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Conclave
by Robert Harris
After the demise of the Pope, 118 cardinals converge on the Sistine Chapel to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election, where ambition and rivalry play out over the course of 72 hours. By the best-selling author of Fatherland.
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The shores of Tripoli
by James L Haley
Follows a young sailor who finds himself in a desperate battle with a pirate ship off the Berber States of North Africa on his way to the Mediterranean in 1801, in the first novel of a new series by an award-winning historian.
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Valiant gentlemen
by Sabina Murray
A reimagining of the lives of Irish humanitarian Roger Casement, his friend Herbert Ward and Ward's Argentinean-American heiress wife, Sarita Sanford, traces Ward and Casement's misadventurous youth in the Congo through the political differences that tested their bond during World War I.
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The spy : a novel
by Paulo Coelho
A tale inspired by the life and death of Mata Hari is presented as a series of letters written from prison on the eve of her death and includes her reflections on her childhood in a small Dutch town, her unhappy years as the wife of an alcoholic diplomat, her rise to celebrity in Europe and the choices that led to her execution for espionage.
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The couple next door
by Shari Lapeña
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years. A debut suspense novel by the award-winning author of Things Go Flying.
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The terranauts
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Sealed inside a glass enclosure designed as a prototype for a possible off-earth colony, eight Terranauts in the 1990s Arizona desert test their skills in five biome environments that they must protect from skeptics who would sabotage the mission. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Harder They Come.
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