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The President's shadow
by Brad Meltzer
Investigating human remains found in the White House's Rose Garden, Beecher White discovers that the crime was committed as a warning to the president and to reveal dark truths about Beecher's father's death. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Fifth Assassin.
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Let me die in his footsteps
by Lori Roy
When a 15-year-old girl from a small mid-20th-century Kentucky town sneaks onto a rival family's property and discovers a dead body, she is forced to confront dangerous events from the past in order to protect the town. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Bent Road.
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The knockoff : a novel
by Lucy Sykes
Discovering that her young former assistant is plotting to steal her job and transform their fashion magazine into an app, editor-in-chief Imogen Tate is challenged to find her inner geek to save her career and the magazine.
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Tiny little thing
by Beatriz Williams
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph. By the author of The Secret life of Violet Grant.
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Invasion of privacy : a novel
by Christopher Reich
Refusing to believe the official story behind her FBI agent husband's death, Mary Grant is pitted against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most deadly conspiracy in America. By the New York Times best-selling author of Rules of Deception.
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Girl at war : a novel
by Sara Nović
When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, 10-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. A first novel.
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Palace of treason : a novel
by Jason Matthews
Navigating brutal enemies in her espionage work for the CIA, a Russian Intelligence agent pursues a life-threatening affair with her CIA handler before she is discovered by a mole. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Red Sparrow.
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The festival of insignificance : a novel
by Milan Kundera
An ode to friendship set in present-day Paris follows the long-running discourse among four companions on sex, desire, history, art and the meaning of human existence. By the Nobel Prize-nominated author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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The empire of the senses
by Alexis Landau
Told from various viewpoints, a debut novel of duty to family and country, passion and blood ties during the politically charged climate of Berlin between World War I and II follows the Pearlmutter family as they feel and dream to the fullest while coexisting with cultural loss and ethnic hatred.
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The dig
by Cynan Jones
Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts.
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All involved
by Ryan Gattis
A tale set against the backdrop of the 1992 race riots triggered by the Rodney King trial acquittal details a series of murders committed outside of the active rioting zones by gang members who would use the chaos to settle old scores.
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Eight hundred grapes : a novel
by Laura Dave
When her wedding is cancelled after her fiancé reveals a shocking secret, Georgia Ford returns to her family's Sonoma vineyard where she, expecting the comfort of her long-married parents, her brothers and everything familiar, discovers that her fiancé wasn't the only one keeping secrets. Reading-group guide available.
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China rich girlfriend : a novel
by Kevin Kwan
Feeling incomplete because her unknown birth father cannot walk her down the aisle, a girl on the brink of marrying one of Asia's richest bachelors is brought into the elite circles of Shanghai by a shocking revelation. By the best-selling author of Crazy Rich Asians.
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The distant marvels
by Chantel Acevedo
A professional storyteller imparts the incredible tale of her youth during the Third War of Independence to eight women who need hope to survive Hurricane Flora in 1963 Cuba. By the award-winning author of Love and Ghost Letters.
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Church of Marvels
by Leslie Parry
Discovering an abandoned newborn while working behind the tenement houses of late-19th-century New York, Sylvan finds his life intertwined with that of a sideshow performer's daughter and a woman wrongly trapped in a lunatic asylum. A first novel.
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