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AUGUST FICTION 2018 *Read 3 Books & Submit titles to the Reference Desk by Aug. 6
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An Unwanted Guest
by Shari Lapena
By the author of The Couple Next Door. It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing weekend getaway. So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity --- and all contact with the outside world --- the guests settle in for the long haul. Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead --- it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic. Within the snowed-in paradise, something --- or someone --- is picking off the guests one by one. And there’s nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm.
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Becoming Belle
by Nuala O'Connor
In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family living in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty and a member of the Irish aristocracy. Becoming Belle is the story of the four years in between, of Belle’s rapid ascent and the people that tried to tear her down. Isabel moves to London alone at age 19, changes her name to Belle and takes the city by storm. She reigns over The Empire Theatre and The Corinthian Club, and it is there she falls passionately in love with William, Viscount Dunlo, a young aristocrat. For Belle, her marriage to William is a dream come true, but his ruthless father makes clear he’ll stop at nothing to keep her in her place.
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Tailspin
by Sandra Brown
Rye Mallett, a fearless pilot with a rock-solid reputation, is asked to fly into a completely fogbound Northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious black box to a Dr. Lambert. Following protocol, he doesn’t ask why. But as he nears the landing strip, he is greeted first by a sabotage attempt that causes him to crash land, and then by the mysterious and attractive Dr. Brynn O’Neal, who claims she was sent for the box in Dr. Lambert’s stead. Soon they're in a 48-hour race to deliver the box before time runs out and protect their valuable cargo from those who would kill for it.
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The Money Shot
by Stuart Woods
Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise --- that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios’ newest film. When the picture’s leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they’ve got. What they need is prestige, the cache of a respected studio to lend authority and legitimacy to their artistic endeavors…and a little bit of vengeance in the bargain.
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Our House
by Louise Candlish
When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down.
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Texas Ranger
by James Patterson
Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforcement skills have carried him far --- from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. He arrives in his home town to find a horrifying crime scene --- and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, Anne, a devoted teacher whose only controversial act ever was deciding to end her marriage to a Ranger.
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Desolation Mountain
by William Kent Krueger
Cork O’Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic plane crash of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences of which go far beyond what father or son could ever have imagined.
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The Drama Teacher
by Koren Zailckas
An expert in fake identities is forced by circumstance to reinvent herself repeatedly to safeguard her children, a strategy that leads to a prestigious teaching job before her fears of discovery culminate in increasingly desperate and violent acts.
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The Middleman
by Olen Steinhauer
The rise and fall of a domestic left-wing terrorist group is traced from the perspectives of an FBI agent, an undercover agent, a convert and a writer on the sidelines.
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The Distance Home
by Paula Saunders
Two siblings enduring a hardscrabble existence in 1960s rural South Dakota pursue separate but equally extreme measures to find creative outlets and escape the dark, secretive elements of their community.
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The Masterpiece
by Fiona Davis
By the author of The Dollhouse, and The Address. A recently divorced information-booth worker stumbles on an abandoned art school within a crumbling Grand Central Terminal before learning the story of a talented woman artist who went missing 50 years earlier.
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Believe Me
by J.P. Delaney
By the author of The Girl Before. Working with a firm of divorce lawyers to entrap straying husbands, Claire, an out-of-work British actress, is enlisted by the police to lure a murder suspect into confessing to killing his wife.
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Maze Master
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
LucentB is a retrovirus that's inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai.
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The Breakers
by Marcia Muller
Private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in in southwest San Francisco. But there's something sinister about the space. Lurking behind a divider screen is a ghastly art gallery: portraits and caricatures of mass murderers, long ago and recent. What was Chelle doing in this chamber of horrors? And where is she now?
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Feared
by Lisa Scottoline
Mary DiNunzio’s ruthless nemesis, lawyer Nick Machiavelli, aggressively attacks Mary’s father and one of their beloved family friends by filing a lawsuit that accuses them of embezzling from the treasury of a local South Philly social club to which they belong. The lawsuit is frivolous, but Machiavelli spreads rumors that support its allegations, muddying the reputation of Mary's father. The claims shake the DiNunzio clan to its foundations, and Mary steps in to fight back. But Machiavelli is a more than worthy adversary. Then the unthinkable happens, and Mary goes to her own dark side, finding a part of herself that makes her more fearsome than ever before.
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