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Next in line
by Jeffrey Archer
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, William Warwick and Ross Hogan
return in an explosive adventure that will take them to the very
heart of power.
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Shrines of gaiety : a novel
by Kate Atkinson
In London after the Great War, Nellie Carter, the notorious and
ruthless queen of a dazzling, seductive and corrupt new world in
the clubs of Soho, finds her success breeding enemies as she faces threats from without and within, revealing the dark underbelly
beneath Soho's gaiety.
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Elizabeth Finch : a novel
by Julian Barnes
After taking a class, Culture and Civilization, with the commanding, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch, Neil develops an obsessive, intellectual crush on her in this novel of platonic, unrequited love
by the Booker award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.
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The Deceptions
by Jill Bialosky
Seeking answers to the paradoxes of love, desire and parenthood
among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, a narrator, as secret betrayals and deceptions come to light
and rage threatens to overwhelm her, is forced to choose between
reality and myth to free herself.
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I Walk Between the Raindrops : Stories
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The best-selling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In presents a collection of new short stories filled with biting satire, resonant wit and boundless, irrepressible imagination.
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The house in the orchard
by Elizabeth Brooks
In 1945, war widow Peggy, inheriting Orchard House from her
husband's Aunt Maude, arrives to find a rambling property shrouded
by dark mysteries, and finding Maude's teenage diary, searches for answers in these pages that reveal corrupted innocence and a
violent tragedy bringing the past to the present.
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The house party : a novel
by Rita Cameron
When the good kids trash her newly built home just weeks before
she moves in, Maja Jensen finds her marriage put to the ultimate
test as the repercussions from what should've been the party of the
year divides the town over questions of privilege and responsibility.
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How not to drown in a glass of water
by Angie Cruz
Forced back into the job market after losing her factory gig during
the Great Recession, 50-something Cara Romero narrates the story
of her life to her career counselor and confronts her darkest secrets
and regrets.
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Lizzie Blake's best mistake : a novel
by Mazey Eddings
Lizzie's two-night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy,
which leads her through a series of mishaps. Through both a
totally platonic single bed sharing and an underground erotic
baking scheme, Lizzie realizes even the biggest mistakes can
have the most beautiful consequences.
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Daisy Darker
by Alice Feeney
A family gathering for their matriarch's 80th birthday in her
crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappear to one
by one, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling
author of Rock Paper Scissors.
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The housekeeper : a novel
by Joy Fielding
Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father
and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinsons, successful real estate
agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something
widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audrey's
condition rapidly worsens.
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The means
by Amy Fusselman
Wealthy stay-at-home mom, Shelly Means, determined to have a summer home in the Hamptons, has a vision board, an architect
and a plan, but when things go awry, she goes into beast mode
to realize the house of her dreams.
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The hundred waters : a novel
by Lauren Acampora
When Gabriel, a young artist-environmentalist arrives in the
affluent town of Nearwater, Connecticut, former model and
photographer Louisa Rader, who is trying to vitalize the provincial
local art center, and her preteen daughter are pulled under his spell,
with consequences that disrupt the Rader's world forever.
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Overkill
by Sandra Brown
Eban, scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support gets an early release from prison. Brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterback and Rebecca's ex-husband to make an impossible decision for justice.
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Big Red : a novel starring Rita Hayworth
and Orson Welles
by Jerome Charyn
Rusty Redburn, a feisty but B-level gossip columnist from Kalamazoo
is hired by a Columbia Pictures movie mogul to spy on the stars, in a novel of old Hollywood glamour that reimagines the careers of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles.
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The lies I tell : a novel
by Julie Clark
Determined to expose con artist Meg Williams, the woman who
upended her life 10 years earlier, for who she really is, Kat Roberts begins to question her long-held assumptions as the two women
grow close, leading her to wonder who Megs real target is.
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Welcome to the school by the sea
by Jenny Colgan
At Downey House, a charming English boarding school on the sea,
new teacher Maggie is determined to make her mark, which
jeopardizes her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend,
while new student Simone tries to fit in and fellow student Fliss
tries to get out.
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Rules at the school by the sea
by Jenny Colgan
Engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Maggie Adair, a teacher at
Downey House the sea in Cornwall, must stop thinking about her colleague at the boys school down the road, while her boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, must confront a scandalous secret
she thought shed buried forever.
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The book eaters
by Sunyi Dean
"Part of The Family" is a secret line of people for whom books are
food. Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesn't always come
with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable
hunger for human minds.
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Haven : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for
an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to
sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands
of birds.
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Stories from the tenants downstairs
by Sidik Fofana
This collection of short stories follows each tenant in the
Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where
gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and
out of each others lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts
and forge new paths forward.
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The many daughters of Afong Moy:
a novel
by Jamie Ford
The New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner
of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the
love that binds one family across the generations.
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Honey and spice
by Bolu Babalola
A young black, British woman with a popular student radio show
that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation
on the line after she publicly makes out with a man she publicly denounced.
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The 6:20 man
by David Baldacci
After a cryptic murder, a former soldier-turned-entry-level analyst,
who boards the 6:20 commuter train like clockwork, is forced into
a clandestine investigation into his firm that takes him to the
darkest corners of the country's economic halls of power, rife
with corruption, where a killer awaits.
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Remember love : a Ravenswood novel
by Mary Balogh
Exiled as a traitor from his family, Devlin Ware is called home
six years later when his father dies and, trying to fix his fractured
family, realizes he still has feelings for Gwyneth Ross, whom he
loved and lost after his family banished him.
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Jackie & me
by Louis Bayard
In 1951, debutante Jacqueline Bouvier, after catching the eye of
young politician Jack Kennedy, is groomed to be the perfect political
wife by Jacks best friend and fixer, Lem Billings, leading up to a complicated marriage. By the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln and
The Pale Blue Eye.
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Delilah Green doesn't care
by Ashley Herring Blake
Pressured into photographing her estranged step-sister’s
wedding, Delilah Green reluctantly returns home to Bright Falls
where she finds herself falling for one of the stuck-up bridesmaids
after the pair are forced together during party preparations.
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The Peacekeeper
by B. L. Blanchard
Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a
broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting
journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and
finding himself.
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Any other family
by Eleanor Brown
Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four
biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling
author of The Weird Sisters.
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The bodyguard
by Katherine Center
Hired as superstar actor Jack Stapleton's bodyguard, Hannah
Brooks must pose as his girlfriend while visiting his family's
ranch in Texas where she finds it easy to protect him, but
hard to protect her own, long-neglected heart.
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Joan : a novel
by Katherine J. Chen
In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc
is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,
steel-willed, and brilliant. This stunningly-researched novel is a
sweeping narrative of her life, from a childhood steeped in both
joy and violence, to her meteoric rise to fame at the head of the
French army.
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Switchboard soldiers : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
In 1917, Grace Banker from N.J., Marie Moissec from France, and
Valerie DeSmedt, originally from Belgium, are recruited as a
telephone operators, aka switchboard solders, to help American
forces communicate between troops as bombs fell around them.
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Chrysalis : a thriller
by Lincoln Child
Famed enigmalogist Jeremy Logan is summoned by a multibillion
dollar tech company to investigate a disturbing anomaly in their
new product rollout and discovers something very wrong. The
sixth novel of the series following Full Wolf Moon.
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Cult classic
by Sloane Crosley
As her wedding day approaches, Lola is surprised and suspicious
when she begins running into all of her exes in the new novel by
the New York Times best-selling author of I Was Told There'd
Be Cake.
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Upgrade : a novel
by Blake Crouch
When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering
breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan
Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around
him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind.
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Box 88
by Charles Cumming
At the funeral of his best friend, a member of a top-secret
transatlantic black ops team falls into a trap. and finds himself
helpless. His pregnant wife is abducted and held as collateral for information he is sworn to protect.
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Fellowship point : a novel
by Alice Elliott Dark
A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries
to get the beautiful Maine coast, where her novels are set donated
to a trust, but must first convince the shareholders, one of which
is her best friend.
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In her boots
by K. J. Dell'Antonia
Rhett Smith, an author whose inspirational book written
under a pseudonym becomes a wild success, must grudgingly
step into the limelight to save her inheritance of the family farm
and prove to her controlling mother that she is worthy.
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Point last seen
by Christina Dodd
After Adam Ramsdell saves her life, Elle has no memory of who
she is. She finds refuge in his home, but she faces a terrible truth.
Buried in her mind lurks a dark secret that could get her killed by
the one person she trusts.
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Winter work
by Dan Fesperman
When a fellow Stasi officer is murdered, Emil Grimm must finish
his mission alone, and when it intersects with CIA agent Claire
Saylor, he finds himself on common ground with this woman as
they both fight for their lives against a powerful enemy hiding in
the shadows.
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne sacrifice
by Brian Freeman
Jason Bourne is fast on the trail of Lennon, a dangerous and cruelly inventive assassin. Bourne believes that Lennon's employer is the Pyramid, a corrupt conglomerate. He draws his ex-lover, reporter
Abbey Laurent, into his investigation and must keep her safe
when Lennon sets his sights on her.
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle
by Samantha Allen
Vying for a somewhat sleazy bachelors heart, the final four women
on a reality TV show arrive on a mysterious island where they
instead find themselves competing for their lives after meeting,
Patricia, a temperamental and woe-fully misunderstood local
desperate for connection.
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The war of two queens
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Casteel DaNeer knows all too well that very few are as cunning
or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him,
could have prepared for the staggering revelations.
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A kingdom of flesh and fire
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Poppy is trying to find her purpose now that she is no longer the
maiden, but Casteel has plans that could bind their lives together
in unexpected ways that neither kingdom is prepared for.
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From blood and ash
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never
been her own. The entire kingdom's future rests on Poppy's
shoulders, something she's not even quite sure she wants for
herself. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard enters her life,
destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need.
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The crown of gilded bones
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she's found with
Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they
must free his brother and find hers. It's a dangerous mission and
one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because
Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She
carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right, the crown
and the kingdom are hers.
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Local gone missing
by Fiona Barton
Detective Elise King, in a seaside town where tensions are
growing between the locals and weekenders, investigates the disappearance of a man during a music festival. By the
New York Times best-selling author of The Widow.
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Mother ocean father nation : a novel
by Nishant Batsha
Two siblings on a small Pacific island, after hearing about a hate
crime against an Indian grocer, must make some difficult decisions
as they go off in different directions, one to California, and one
staying behind despite the islands escalating volatility,
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The mutual friend : a novel
by Carter Bays
The co-creator of How I Met Your Mother presents this hilarious
and thought-provoking debut novel set in NYC that follows Alice
Quick who finds her plans of going to med school interrupted by
the drama going on around her involving her tech millionaire
brother, her adventurous new roommate and love.
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The Omega Factor
by Steve Berry
While in Belgium, UNESCO investigator Nicholas Lee, whose job it
is to protect the worlds cultural objects, stumbles upon a priceless artifact that plunges him into a bitter conflict, forcing him to confront
a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity's past.
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The beach trap
by Ali Brady
Left a joint inheritance, the family beach house in Destine, Florida,
two estranged half-sisters, immediately at odds, reluctantly join
forces to renovate the dilapidated house. Which turns out to be an endeavor that brings about new romance for each of them and
teaches them how to be sisters.
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Gilt : a novel
by Jamie Brenner
Three sisters who grew up in their family's jewelry empire
become estranged after a falling out over a publicity stunt
involving a diamond engagement ring called the Electric Rose
in the new novel by the author of Blush.
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Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian
become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race
horse. One is studying its remains, the other is uncovering the
history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
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The gatekeeper
by James Byrne
After foiling an attack at the hotel where he's staying, Dez,
a retired mercenary, musician and gatekeeper, is back in action
and drawn into a dangerous conspiracy involving media
manipulation, militias, an armed coup, and an attempt to
fracture the very country in which we live.
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A proposal they can't refuse: a novel
by Natalie Caña
Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef and Liam, an Irish American
whiskey distiller are blackmailed by their grandfathers, best
friends since boyhood, into getting married or risk losing the
building that houses both their businesses.
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Counterfeit : a novel
by Kirstin Chen
Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer and her former
college roommate from Mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.
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Tom Clancy zero hour: Zero Hour
by Don Bentley
When the severely injured leader of North Korea activates an
army of sleeper agents in South Korea, Jack Ryan, Jr., finds his
benign trip in Seoul taking a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital.
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Half-blown rose : a novel
by Leesa Cross-Smith
The story of a woman remaking her life after her husband's
betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris,
from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
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These impossible things
by Salma El-Wardany
As their lives begin to take different paths, three Muslim best
friends, Malak, Kees and Jenna must find a way back to each
other as they reconcile faith, family and tradition.
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Woman of light : a novel
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
In 1930s Denver, Luz Little Light Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, begins having visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory where she must save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. Maps.
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Red on the river
by Christine Feehan
Sunrise Lake, a popular getaway destination, harbors dangers
both natural and man-made where no one is safe, in this second
thrilling novel set in the remote backcountry of California.
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It all comes down to this
by Therese Fowler
Three sisters, Beck, a freelance journalist; Claire, a pediatric
cardiologist; and Sophie, an Instagram influencer come together
to sell the family's summer cottage in Maine. This endeavor
becomes complicated by an enigmatic ex-con with his own
hidden past. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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How to Be Eaten
by Maria Adelmann
In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement
support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the
fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby,
once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions
her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee,
the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really
got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all.
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Chef's kiss : a novel
by T. J. Alexander
A high-strung pastry chef's professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition and the introduction of her wildly attractive nonbinary kitchen manager.
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Bitter Orange Tree
by Jokha Alharthi
From Man Booker International Prize–winning author Jokha Alharthi, Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social
status, wealth, desire, and female agency. It presents a mosaic
portrait of one young woman’s attempt to understand the roots
she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her
own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to
bear fruit and flourish.
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The homewreckers : a novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
Hattie gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a
male lead who may be a love interest, or may be the ultimate antagonist. It's a question of who will flip, and who will flop, and
will Hattie ever get her happily-ever-after.
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Six Crystal Princesses
by Piers Anthony
Young Vinia is enjoying her life with her boyfriend, Prince Ion.
They complement each other perfectly: her telekinesis helps him
walk, and his ambiance abolishes all allergens, allowing her to
breathe freely. But Ion and his twin, Hilda, are bored with their
easy royal lives and are restless for an adventure.
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A rip through time
by Kelley Armstrong
A modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian
Scotland-in an unfamiliar body-with a killer on the loose.
May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to
be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening,
Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where
she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Thomson had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she'd been strangled and
left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory
was strangled in the same spot.
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Deep Water
by Emma Bamford
The dark side of paradise is exposed when a terrified couple reveals
their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuers—only
to realize they’re still in the grips of the island’s secrets—in this
intense and startling debut in the tradition of Into the Jungle and
The Ruins.
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When women were dragons : a novel
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this
version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event:
The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of
ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons,
left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies.
Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind?
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Either/or
by Elif Batuman
From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the
continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge,
as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born
in America and got to go to Harvard.
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Book of night
by Holly Black
In a world where shadows have feelings and memories and
can be altered, a low-level con artist/bartender is pitted against doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves and her
own sister while trying to keep out of trouble.
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The Lioness
by Christopher A. Bohjalian
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet
and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the
New York Times best-selling author of The Flight Attendant.
"The best possible combination of Hemingway and Agatha Christie
in a gorgeously written story about the landscape and risks of
Africa, whose edge-of-your-seat plot makes it impossible to put
down.” (Jodi Picoult, number one New York Times best-selling
author of Wish You Were Here).
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Countdown to Midnight
by Dale Brown
Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer,
a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very
beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost
becomes his last. While meeting with a high-ranking Iranian
dissident in the Austrian Alps, Flynn is ambushed and nearly killed,
just after learning that Iran and Russia are working together on a mysterious project—one they have codenamed MIDNIGHT.
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I'll be you : a novel
by Janelle Brown
An identical twin and former child TV star reassesses the
complicated bond with her estranged sister after their panicked
father says she stopped answering her phone and has checked
into a mysterious spa in Ojai that might be a cult.
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The Hacienda
by Isabel Canas
In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the
execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solórzano's
proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country
estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his
first wife's death.
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In the Blood
by Jack Carr
A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso
having just completed a targeted assassination for the state of
Israel. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky. Over
6,000 miles away, former Navy SEAL James Reece watches the
names and pictures of the victims on cable news. One face triggers
a distant memory of a Mossad operative attached to the CIA years
earlier in Iraq—a woman with ties to the intelligence services of
two nations…a woman Reece thought he would never see again.
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Sleepwalk : a novel
by Dan Chaon
A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future
America with a bighearted mercenary.
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Tom Clancy's op-center : call of duty
by Jeff Rovin
In this race-to-the-finish thriller in the bestselling Tom Clancy's
Op-Center series, an attempt to exfiltrate a Chinese scientist
threatens to incite a full-fledged war between China and the
United States. When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic
missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs
someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage?
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Clive Cussler's Dark Vector
by Graham Brown
A freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost
treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen,
Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for
the missing vessel.
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz
An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction
delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century
New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street
tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats.
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So much blue : a novel
by Percival Everett
Unable move on from an affair he had with a young watercolorist
10 years ago, Kevin Pace, who is working on a painting he won’t
let anyone see, finds events of his past intersecting with the present
as he struggles to justify the sacrifices he made for his art and the secrets he kept from his wife. By the author of Erasure and
I Am Not Sidney Poitier.
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