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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction June 2018
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Us Against You
by Fredrik Backman
Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that their team might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring town of Hed, take in that fact. As the tension mounts between the two adversaries, a newcomer arrives who gives Beartown hockey a surprising new coach and a chance at a comeback.
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The Lost Family
by Jenna Blum
In 1960s Manhattan, restaurant owner Peter Rashkin suffers from the terrible guilt of surviving Auschwitz while his wife and two young daughters perished. Peter has resigned himself to a solitary life until he falls passionately in love with beautiful young model June Bouquet, and hopes to finally let go of the past. But over the next twenty years, the indelible sadness of his memories overshadow Peter, June, and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking, and unexpected ways.
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The Perfect Couple
by Elin Hilderbrand
During Nantucket wedding season, tragedy strikes: A body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before a ceremony, and everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect. As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash interviews the bride, the groom, the groom's famous mystery-novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, he discovers that every wedding is a minefield, and no couple is perfect.
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Number one Chinese restaurant : a novel
by Lillian Li
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.
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The Secrets Between Us
by Thrity Umrigar
In this sequel to The Space Between Us, Bhima must find a way to support her granddaughter following her dismissal from the Dubash household, where she'd worked for more than two decades.
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The woman in the woods : A Thriller
by John Connolly
When the body of a woman who apparently died in childbirth is discovered in the Maine woods, Charlie Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child. But Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child.
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The Word Is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz
Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control.
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Don't Believe It
by Charlie Donlea
The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history, a true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and tries to answer the question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in an attempt to prove her innocence.
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The Pharaoh Key
by Douglas Preston
The high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions is working on the translation of a centuries-old stone tablet of a previously undiscovered civilization: the Phaistos Disc. Gideon Crew is contacted by a former coworker, Manuel Garza, who now works at EES. Their former employer has vanished without a trace, shutting down the project. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew joins Garza in a last ditch effort to decode the Disc. What they discover will either save Gideon's life-- or bring it to a sudden, shocking close.
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A taste for vengeance : a Bruno, chief of police novel
by Martin Walker
When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in the usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on police chief Bruno for help. After Bruno discovers that Monica was traveling with a mysterious Irishman, the two turn up dead. The Irishman's background in intelligence and his connection to Monica's husband only raise more questions for Bruno. Was she running away? How much does her husband really know? What's the real story behind a scandal buried in the threesome's military past?
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Brief Cases
by Jim Butcher
The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue and creatures of all supernatural stripes. Harry delves into the dark side of truth, justice, and the American way in this short story collection.
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The Memory of Fire
by Callie Bates
The riveting trilogy that began with The Waking Land returns featuring a new narrator: a young man with secret magical powers who's ready to continue a revolution. The land has awoken, and news of magic's rebirth has traveled across the sea. Jahan, a daring noble who has been concealing his powers, is finally ready to stop hiding. Now he returns to the imperial capital, where the use of magic carries a death sentence. There, he must face his dark past, learn to embrace his gifts, and prevent an all-out war across the kingdoms.
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