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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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Twice : a novel
by Mitch Albom
Young Alfie Logan can rewind any moment for a do-over -- but
must accept the results of his second try. Having navigated through adolescence and finding seemingly lasting love with Gianna, he
must confront an impossible choice when his power unravels
during a casino arrest.
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Legends & lattes : a novel of high
fantasy and low stakes
by Travis Baldree
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the
orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score.
A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount
of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open
the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams
of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly
a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly may just
upset her plans. To finally build something that will last, Viv will
need some new partners, and a different kind of resolve.
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Venetian vespers
by John Banville
Struggling writer Evelyn Dolman faces eerie disappearances and
sinister events at a decaying palazzo in 1899 Venice, as his marriage
to disinherited heiress Laura and the treachery of Count Barbarigo plunge him into a nightmarish web of mystery and doubt.
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A murder in paris : a novel
by Matthew Blake
Memory expert Olivia Finn races to Paris when her grandmother
claims to have committed a 1945 murder at Hotel Lutetia, but as present-day deaths mount, Olivia must uncover the truth before
the past kills again.
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Girl Dinner
by Olivie Blake
After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina
Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House
is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once
she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of
failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her
own as easy prey.
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The book club for troublesome
women : a novel
by Marie Bostwick
In suburban Virginia of the 1960s, Margaret Ryan forms an
impromptu book club with three neighbors. She discovers
shared dissatisfaction with societal expectations, as the group
bonds over personal struggles, feminist ideas and the
transformative power of friendship during a life-changing year.
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Audition for the fox
by Martin Cahill
"Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the
Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her,
if she cannot earn a divine chaperone, she will never be allowed
to leave her temple home. But with ninety-six failed auditions and
few options left, Nesi makes a risky prayer to T'sidaan, the
Fox of Tricks."
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Cry Havoc
by Jack Carr
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece
navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond,
uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power
in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.
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The lost story of Eva Fuentes
by Chanel Cleeton
As American book hunter Margo Reynolds races to recover a
rare volume in 2024 London, her search uncovers the intertwined
lives of Pilar, a defiant librarian in 1960s Havana, and Eva, a Cuban teacher in 1900 Boston, each woman risking everything to protect a powerful literary legacy.
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Tom's crossing : a western
by Mark Z. Danielewski
In the fall of 1982, the Utah town of Orvop witnessed not just
shocking crimes but an astonishing adventure beyond its borders,
where the dead rose, a mountain fell, and a staggering act of
courage forever marked the Katanogos massif and Pillars
Meadow in legend.
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The tin men : a novel
by Nelson DeMille
Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are
sent to the isolated Camp Hayden to investigate a major's death
amid secret war games pitting Rangers against autonomous
weapons, where the truth is obscured amidst desert isolation,
internal rivalries and hidden agendas.
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Photograph
by Brian Freeman
Shannon Wells must investigate the death of an amnesiac former
client. The only clue to who she was and why she was murdered
is an old photograph of a little girl in the rain outside a Midwestern motel.
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End Game
by Jeffrey Archer
As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Commander William
Warwick races against time to dismantle a shadowy international conspiracy planning a devastating attack, in the eighth novel of the series following An Eye for an Eye.
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The Primal of Blood and Bone : A Blood
and Ash Novel
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
In a realm teetering on the edge of ruin, a Maiden and her
heartmate must confront destiny, make perilous choices, and
draw on the power of the Deminyen as their love and loyalty
are pushed to the limit.
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We Love You, Bunny
by Mona Awad
After publishing a novel that enrages her former MFA classmates, Samantha Heather Mackey is kidnapped by the eerie, cult-like
Bunnies, who force her to hear their surreal origin story. This is
an unsettling tale of monstrous creativity, deadly friendship and
the violent magic at the heart of dark academia.
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Pitcher perfect
by Tessa Bailey
An enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating sports romance focuses on
playboy hockey rookie Robbie Corrigan and Skylar Paige, the
disciplined softball pitcher completely immune to his charms.
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The Elements
by John Boyne
An acclaimed Irish novelist has created an epic saga that
weaves together four interconnected narratives, each
representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler,
the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim.
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The Secret of Secrets
by Dan Brown
When Katherine Solomon vanishes and her manuscript
disappears following a murder in Prague, symbologist Robert
Langdon races across three cities to uncover a hidden truth
about consciousness, pursued by ancient myths, secret societies,
and a revelation that could upend humanity's understanding
of the mind.
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One of us : a novel
by Dan Chaon
Orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle find refuge
in a bizarre travelling carnival.
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The Book of Guilt
by Catherine Chidgey
In an alternate 1979 England shaped by a World War II that
ended without a victor, orphaned triplets and a sheltered girl
named Nancy uncover the grim truth behind their origins and
must escape a regime built on deception, control and biological manipulation.
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Tom Clancy terminal velocity
by M. P. Woodward
After a series of brutal murders linked to a revived terror group,
ex-commando Bartosz Jankowski leads a kill mission in the
Himalayas, while Jack Ryan Jr. races to prevent catastrophe
amid international power struggles and deadly pursuit in the mountainous borderlands.
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The killing stones
by Ann Cleeves
After his friend Archie is found murdered beside a stolen artifact on Westray, Detective Jimmy Perez returns to Orkney, where personal ties, dark secrets and local rumors complicate his search for the truth behind the killing.
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Atomic hearts : a novel
by Megan Cummins
After an accident sends her to live with her newly sober father,
16-year-old Gertie grapples with fractured friendships, reckless
choices, and family relapse, ultimately finding solace in the
fantasy novel she writes to survive a summer that changes
everything.
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The iron storm
by Clive Cussler
Detective Isaac Bell faces the horrors of the Great War while
battling a mysterious anarchist group intent on bringing brutality
to the shores of America.
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The Grave Artist
by Jeffery Deaver
After a newlywed's death at a Hollywood Hills wedding, agent
Carmen Sanchez and security expert Jake Heron uncover a
serial killer's twisted plot targeting survivors' grief, racing to
stop the Honeymoon Killer before they become his next victims.
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Gabriela and His Grace
by Liana De la Rosa
Rebellious Gabriela Luna Valdes seeks freedom from suitors
aboard a ship to Mexico, where she clashes with the estate-
seeking Duke of Whitfield, in the third novel of the series
following Isabel and the Rogue.
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Dungeon crawler Carl
by Matt Dinniman
Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess
Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to
the next level—in a video game-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon.
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The wilderness : a novel
by Angela Flournoy
Five young Black women, Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique,
and Nakia navigate strained family ties, motherhood, ambition,
and identity as they support. They challenge each other while
forging their adulthoods in New York and Los Angeles across
two turbulent decades.
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Denied Access
by Vince Flynn
As the CIA faces political scrutiny and a devastating Moscow
intel failure, newly minted assassin Mitch Rapp is pulled into a
deadly clash with Russian operatives, in the 24th novel of the
series following Capture or Kill.
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Circle of days : a novel
by Ken Follett
As drought and tension grip the Great Plain, a gifted flint miner
and a visionary priestess unite to build a monumental stone circle,
but escalating tribal conflicts and brutal violence threaten their civilization and their shared ambition.
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