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Bestseller Preview June 2019
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Big Sky
by Kate Atkinson
Investigating a new client's suspicions about an unfaithful spouse, iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie is catapulted by a chance encounter into a sinister network of secrets and lies. By the award-winning author of Case Histories.
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Those People
by Louise Candlish
An idyllic suburban neighborhood is thrown into chaos by the arrival of new neighbors who disrupt the community with rude behavior, loud music and unsightly renovations, until a shattering murder exposes a network of secrets.
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The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis in the face of cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton
by Sara Collins
A servant and former slave enduring a sensational trial for her employers' murders reflects on her Jamaican childhood and her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist whose questionable ethics set the stage for a forbidden affair.
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Recursion
by Blake Crouch
Assigned to the case of a suicide victim who claimed her son's existence had been erased, investigator Barry Sutton follows leads to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and the technological innovations of a controversial neuroscientist.
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The Friends We Keep
by Jane Green
Reconnecting 13 years after college, a supermodel whose career was derailed by an affair, the heartbroken wife of an alcoholic and an actor hiding a painful past find their bond tested by a dark secret.
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The Porpoise
by Mark Haddon
The award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time presents a fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present.
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets.
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The Sentence Is Death
by Anthony Horowitz
Detective Daniel Hawthorne and his literary sidekick risk their lives to expose dangerous secrets while investigating the murder of a celebrity divorce lawyer and teetotaler who was bludgeoned to death with an expensive bottle of wine.
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Rebel
by Beverly Jenkins
After the Civil War, Captain Drake LeVeq, an architect from an old New Orleans family, is drawn into an irresistible intrigue when he encounters a rebellious young woman who is on a mission to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish.
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
by Jean Kwok
The best-selling author of Girl in Translation draws on a personal family tragedy in the story of three women from a Chinese immigrant family who navigate complicated secrets when an elder daughter goes missing.
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The Summer of Sunshine and Margot
by Susan Mallery
Descended from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love, twin sisters Margot and Sunshine transform their controversial relationships with a client's son and an employer into unexpected sources of happiness.
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Unsolved
by James Patterson
Baffled by an outbreak of suspicious fatal accidents, FBI agent Emmy Dockery finds her investigation complicated by her vindictive ex and a plotting stranger. By the authors of The Murder House.
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The Lemon Sisters
by Jill Shalvis
Free-spirited Brooke and her high-achieving sister, Mindy, reconnect in the face of devastating personal setbacks before deciding to trade places to confront long-kept secrets. By the best-selling author of Rainy Day Friends.
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The Electric Hotel
by Dominic Smith
A French pioneer of silent films who has lived for half a century in a Hollywood hotel is forced to reckon with the reappearance of the lost movie masterpiece that left him bankrupt. By the author of The Beautiful Miscellaneous.
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Lost and Found
by Danielle Steel
Spurred by old memories and a life-changing accident, Madison embarks on a cross-country adventure to reconnect with three very different men to reevaluate her past choices. By the best-selling author of The Dark Side.
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
by Neal Stephenson
When a routine procedure gone wrong renders a gaming billionaire brain dead, his stunned family and friends cryopreserve and digitally transfer his consciousness into an immortal tech-driven existence.
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Backlash
by Brad Thor
Far from home and surrounded by enemies in the wake of an unforgivable betrayal, Scot Harvath tests the limits of his training in an effort to escape and exact revenge. By the award-winning author of Spymaster.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam War on their family.
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Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th-century America. By the best-selling author of In Her Shoes.
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