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False War
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez
An ambitious, panoptic novel about exile as both condition and
state of being by a major young Cuban writer.
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Something Wicked
by Falon Ballard
To save a world in turmoil, a would-be prince teams up with a
magically gifted courtesan--but the most dangerous game may be trusting each other in this spicy, swoony fantasy romance from the
USA Today bestselling author of Change of Heart.
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Remember That Day
by Mary Balogh
A soldier and a pacifist make the unlikeliest of pairs, but when
attraction sparks, there's nothing that can prevent their love from igniting. Winifred Cunningham, the adopted daughter of a portrait painter, hopes that her new close friend, Owen Ware, will soon ask
for her hand in marriage. But when Owen introduces Winifred to his elder brother Nicholas, the late Earl of Stratton's second son, the
slow burn of attraction between them begins.
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Huguette
by Cara Black
August 1945: Seventeen-year-old Huguette Faure is a survivor.
The war has taken everything from her-both her parents and her
sense of safety. Now, pregnant and on the lam, she cannot return
to her childhood home in Paris. Forced to reinvent herself, she
must outrun her father's enemies, who want her dead.
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Spasm
by Robin Cook
Unable to resist a good mystery and a vacation in one, Laurie and
Jack agree to help and head upstate. Essex Falls is beautiful enough
and their accommodations are even better than they imagined. But
they soon learn the town has suffered a major economic and social setback, which has shaken its residents to their cores. When the
body of the pest control worker disappears without a trace just
prior to an autopsy, Jack's penchant for solving forensic
conundrums launches him into a full-scale investigation that
uncovers the most frightening modus operandi of his career so far.
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Sharpe's Storm: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of Southern France, 1813
by Bernard Cornwell
The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter shows no
mercy. Amid brutal conditions, Major Richard Sharpe finds
himself saddled with an unexpected burden: Rear-Admiral Sir
Joel Chase, dispatched by the Admiralty with sealed orders,
unshakable confidence, and a frankly terrifying enthusiasm for
combat. Sharpe's mission from Wellington is clear, yet anything
but simple: keep Sir Joel alive. Sir Joel could hold the key to
defeating Napoleon once and for all.
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And Then There Was You
by Sophie Cousens
Desperate to make a splash-and to save face in front of the man
who might be the one that got away Chloe turns to a mysterious
dating service. Enter Rob, her handsome, successful, and charming match, who quickly makes Chloe feel like she's finally finding her
way. But as Chloe digs deeper into her past and reconnects with
old friends, she begins to question if Rob is really all that he seems.
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The First Time I Saw Him
by Laura Dave
Five years after her husband Owen disappeared, Hannah Hall and
her stepdaughter Bailey have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they've forged a relationship with Bailey's grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But
when Owen shows up at Hannah's new exhibition, she knows
that she and Bailey are in danger again.
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Cape Fever
by Nadia Davids
Mrs. Hattingh, whose beautiful, decaying home is not far from
The Muslim Quarter where Soraya lives with her parents. As Soraya settles into her new role, she discovers that the house is alive with spirits. While Mrs. Hattingh eagerly awaits her son's visit from London, she offers to help Soraya stay in touch with her fiancé Nour by writing him letters on her behalf. So begins a strange weekly meeting where Soraya dictates and Mrs. Hattingh writes--a ritual that binds the two women to one another and eventually threatens the sanity of both.
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Order of Royals
by Jude Deveraux
Princess Aradella is trapped in the iron grip of her evil and
powerful aunt, Queen Olina. Navigating the treacherous waters
of political machinations and familial duties, Aradella discovers
allies in unexpected places, including Tanek, a swansman with
his own mysterious connections. Set in a world where royalty,
magic, and mythical beings coexist, Aradella's path is intertwined
with that of Kaley Arens, an Earthling who becomes deeply
entangled in the planet's intricate social hierarchy, as she is
faced with a choice between her homeland and newfound love.
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Daughter of Genoa
by Kat Devereaux
The author of Escape to Florence returns with a thrilling adventure
set in the war-torn 1940s and inspired by true events, about a young woman who risks everything to help Jewish Italians flee the fascists,
and falls in love with the brave aviator behind a daring secret rescue operation.
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The Butcher's Masquerade
by Matt Dinniman
Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose.
Run, Run, Run. A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious,
end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed The Butcher's Masquerade. The sixth floor.
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Carl's Doomsday Scenario
by Matt Dinniman
The aliens have come, and they’ve transformed Earth into a
multilevel, video game–like dungeon. It’s the newest season
of the galaxy’s most watched game show, Dungeon Crawler
World.
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
by Matt Dinniman
Welcome to the Gun Show! The top ten list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The
first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut
now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly-complicated subway
system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot.
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
by Matt Dinniman
A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk
show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way.
A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the
head of a friend.
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The Gate of the Feral Gods
by Matt Dinniman
A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of
sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines.
A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be
easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one,
and the stairwell is unlocked.
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The Gallagher Place
by Julie Doar
As police descend on the sprawling Fisher property, Marlowe is
pulled into an investigation that threatens to unravel the town's
fragile loyalties and expose the shadowed legacy of a weekend
home steeped in secrets. Marlowe must confront the fallibility of
her own memory and the feeling that everyone--including her
brothers--is hiding something if she's to uncover the shocking
truth about her lost friend
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This Inevitable Ruin
by Matt Dinniman
Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across the
galaxy. The winning team must capture and hold the castle at the
very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles,
betrayal . . . It all makes for great fun and even greater television.
But thanks to Carl, Donut, and Katia, this season is different.
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Her One Regret
by Donna Freitas
When successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza
vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store parking lot,
the news quickly makes national headlines. Lucy's best friend
Michelle is devastated, and terrified that Lucy's life is at stake.
But she knows something that could complicate the police
investigation. Lucy had confessed something unspeakable: she
regretted becoming a mother, so much that she'd fantasized about
faking her own kidnapping.
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The Heir Apparent
by Rebecca Armitage
It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has
carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best
friends Finn and Jack--and she's about to finally become more-than-friendly with Jack--when a helicopter abruptly lands. Out steps her grandmother's right-hand-man, with the tragic news that her father
and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident.
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Tom Clancy Executive Power
by Brian Andrews
An international incident may fracture the Ryan family in the
latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. Even
in a family of strong individualists like the Ryans, Kyle has stood
out as a lone wolf. For years he's gone his own way, joining the
DIA rather than the CIA, and disagreeing with his father's politics.
Now he's missing in an African country on the brink of a coup.
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Birdlane Island
by V. C. Andrews
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers
in the Attic and Landry series--now popular Lifetime movies--an evocative and tender tale of star-crossed lovers on an isolated island.
Off the coast of Maine, on an island shaped like a seagull in flight, shrouded by mists off the bay, lives a novelist Jason Lorraine and
his teenage daughter Lisa.
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Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a
global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in
this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David
Baldacci. Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He
has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at
Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity
have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career.
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Brigands & Breadknives
by Travis Baldree
Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller's life
for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants
herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a
long-absent friend's coffee shop. What could be a better pairing?
Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!
If only things were so simple.
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Cursed Daughters
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely
held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry,
and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the
Serial Killer
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Twice Around a Marriage
by Robert Olen Butler
Twice Around a Marriage tells the story of Amanda Duval and
Howard Blevins, an early-septuagenarian husband and wife who
were once married for twenty-two years, then divorced for ten,
and now are in the tenth year of a second-try marriage. They have
come to Paris to see if they should attempt to remain together or
call it quits.
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Exit Strategy: A Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
First--a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door.
Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption
from two of the customers, but nothing he can't deal with swiftly.
As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and
passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing.
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The Secret Christmas Library
by Jenny Colgan
A new holiday story set in the Scottish Highlands to warm
booklovers' hearts by Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling
author of Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop. Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding
a priceless antique book in her great aunt's attic. Now, as Christmas approaches, she's been hired by Jamie McKinnon, the surprisingly
young and handsome laird of a Highland clan whose ancestral
holdings include a vast crumbling castle.
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Clive Cussler: Quantum Tempest
by Mike Maden
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face a ghost ship,
deadly assassins and a threat from Cabrillo's own past in their
race to stop the launch of the world's deadliest machine in this electrifying new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. There's a tempest brewing in Central America. A government
crackdown on cartels leaves most of the drug lords locked up
in an impregnable prison.
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two
young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives;
country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link
one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich
novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work
yet by one of our greatest novelists.
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The Christmas Stranger
by Richard Paul Evans
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Christmas
classic The Christmas Box and the #1 Netflix movie The Noel Diary comes a powerful and thought-provoking holiday story about love,
loss, and the mysterious workings of heaven. Sometimes the
universe sends us exactly who we need...
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Revenge of Odessa
by Frederick Forsyth
At last, the long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling
thriller classic, The Odessa File. Fifty years after revealing the
secrets of Odessa, an underground organization of former Nazis
angling to regain power, Peter Miller is a retired legend in the
journalism community. All are symptoms of a man-made, hidden
danger, fuel for a planned inferno that must be stopped at all costs.
All while, elsewhere, the children of Odessa play for the highest
power of all--a seat in the West Wing.
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