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by James Patterson
San Francisco police sergeant Lindsay Boxer receives a tip about a
last-chance shipment of drugs and weapons across the Mexican
border ahead of new restrictive gun laws in the latest addition to
the long-running series.
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When she dreams
by Amanda Quick
Return to 1930s Burning Cove, California, the glamorous
seaside playground for Hollywood stars, mobsters, spies, and
a host of others who find more than they bargain for in this
mysterious town. Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers,
hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help
track down the person who is blackmailing her employer.
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Companion piece
by Ali Smith
The award-winning author continues exploring the subjective
experience of time and questioning the nature of it while focusing
a keen eye on #MeToo, Brexit, the refugee crisis, and a global
pandemic, in the follow up to Seasonal Quartet.
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Death of the Black Widow
by James Patterson
A case from his very first night on the job, where a woman
bludgeoned her kidnapper and then vanished, still haunts a
Detroit detective years later and he discovers he is not alone in
his search.
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Insomnia : a novel
by Sarah Pinborough
Emma Averell's 40th birthday is approaching. Her mother
went insane at 40. She is unable to sleep, and loses time during
the day, symptoms her mother showed, leading her to wonder
if the madness is in her blood. Is she slowly beginning to lose
her mind?
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The Book Woman's Daughter
by Kim Michele Richardson
In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey
Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life
harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned Troublesome
Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding
from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are
imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk
being sent away for good.
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Cover story : a novel
by Susan Rigetti
During a summer internship at a magazine, aspiring writer, Lara
strikes up a friendship with the contributing editor, Cat, who is
also the enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat convinces
her to drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter.
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The Wise women: a novel
by Gina Sorell
A popular advice columnist for 40 years, Wendy Wise decides to
meddle in her own troubled daughters' lives even though they are holding on some resentments from childhood, while her daughters discover that Wendy has been hiding more than a few problems of
her own.
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Beautiful
by Danielle Steel
A famous, young model has her appearance forever altered, loses
the people she loves most in a terrorist attack and changes
the course and purpose of her life after reading a revealing letter
that accompanied her mother's will.
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Memphis
by Tara M. Stringfellow
Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel
traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one
daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the
power of her paint brush, she can change her family’s legacy.
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Funny you should ask
by Elissa Sussman
Hired to write a profile on the movie star who is her number one celebrity crush, a writer has a whirlwind weekend with the actor
and is still questioned about it ten years later despite her own
successful career.
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Run, Rose, run
by Dolly Parton
On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it’s also where the darkness
she’s fled might find her—and destroy her.
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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
Known as Lady Death—a lethal hunter of Nazis—Mila Pavlichenko,
sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship
with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent
fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past
returns with a vengeance.
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The Great Passion
by James Runcie
Told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew’s Passion,
this meditation on grief and music follows 13-year-old Stefan
Silbermann who is taken under the tutelage of Bach and drawn
into Bach’s family life, escaping the cruelty of his classmates.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
by John Scalzi
When an old acquaintance desperately needs her help, Jamie Gray
is transported to an alternate dimension where she must save large creatures called Kaiju from others who have found their way to the
world—and who threaten humankind back on Earth with their carelessness.
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A house between Earth and the moon:
a novel
by Rebecca Scherm
The story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over
him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect
the people and planet they love.
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What happened to the Bennetts
by Lisa Scottoline
Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in
the crosshairs of a drug-trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and
his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the
seams until Jason takes matters into his own hands after a
shocking truth is revealed.
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One Italian summer : a novel
by Rebecca Serle
Still reeling from her mother’s death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone, where she encounters her
mother in the flesh at 30 years old and must reconcile the mother
who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet
have a clue.
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The Cartographers
by Peng Shepherd
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly
worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable—and that a mysterious
collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets
in the way.
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The Unsinkable Greta James
by Jennifer E. Smith
After the death of her beloved mother, failed indie singer-songwriter Greta James joins her father on a week-long Alaskan cruise, which becomes a journey of discovery for them both as they work to heal
old wounds, giving her confidence she needs to move forward.
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Truth and Other Lies
by Maggie Smith
Desperate to reboot her life, Megan Barnes gets her chance when
she meets Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Jocelyn Jones. Before
long, Megan is pulled into the heady world of fame her new mentor represents, until an anonymous tweet brings it all crashing down.
Megan must locate the online troll and expose the lies, but when
the trail leads to blackmail, she realizes what should have been
the scoop of her career could unravel into a tabloid nightmare.
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
by Irene Sola
Struck and killed by lightening in a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec is surrounded by the ghosts of 17th-century witches,
and so begins this spellbinding novel about the human dramas
that unfold against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
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In a New York minute
by Kate Spencer
Becoming media sensations after a meet-cute moment in lower Manhattan, Franny Doyle and Hayes Montgomery III are the
most disastrous match until repeated chance meetings lead to unexpected love.
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High stakes : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Five women work together at a boutique literary and talent agency
while the challenges of their individual lives causes chaos both inside
and outside the office in a new novel by one of the world’s
best-selling authors.
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My Volcano
by John Elizabeth Stintzi
My Volcano is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a menagerie of characters,
as they each undergo personal eruptions, while the Earth itself is constantly shifting. Parable, myth, science-fiction, eco-horror, My Volcano is a radical work of literary art, emerging as a subversive, intoxicating artistic statement by John Elizabeth Stintzi.
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The Book of Cold Cases
by Simone St. James
When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website, the Book of
Cold Cases, gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, an infamous
woman acquitted of two cold case slayings, she senses something
isn’t right and wonders if she is in the presence of a manipulative murderer.
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Mecca
by Susan Straight
When a past action 20 years ago sparks a slow-burning chain of
events in the present, California Highway Patrol officer Johnny Frias
is united with a colorful and complicated cast of characters he never
saw coming.
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Young Mungo : a novel
by Douglas Stuart
In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due
to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere
they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all
those around him to protect them both from the danger their relationship brings.
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The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post :
a novel
by Allison Pataki
The epic reimagining of the extraordinary life of Marjorie
Merriweather Post, the American heiress who lived and loved
on a grand scale, reveals the heartbreak she endured as a wife
four times over in vastly different, dramatic marriages.
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Steal
by James Patterson
When the son of the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund is
thought to have committed suicide, but a body hasn’t been found,
his father, believing that he is still alive, turns to Dylan Reinhart for
help, drawing him into a world of multi-million-dollar secrets and
danger.
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The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referral-only online-dating
detective agency, Claudia, when a client disappears, breaks
protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal
and corporate deceit.
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Our American Friend
by Anna Pitoniak
When mysterious First Lady Lara Caine asks her to write her
official biography, former White House correspondent Sofie Morse
is wary when Lara starts sharing sensitive information, which draws
her into a game of cat-and-mouse with explosive consequences.
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Diablo Mesa
by Douglas J. Preston
Responding to the promise of a hefty donation from a wealthy,
eccentric billionaire with space travel ambitions, the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute excavates the site of the 1947 Roswell
incident and immediately uncovers two unknown murder victims.
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The employees : a workplace novel of
the 22nd century
by Olga Ravn
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
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One night on the island : a novel
by Josie Silver
From the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December...When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace-seekers together, it feels like a cruel
twist of fate. But what if it's fate of a different kind?
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A thousand steps
by T. Jefferson Parker
A teenager with a stoner mom and a deadbeat dad searches for
his missing sister who police have written off as just another
runaway hippie chick during the summer of 1968 in Laguna Beach, California.
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The horsewoman
by James Patterson
Sharing the dream of being the best horsewoman in the world,
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter champion riders, break their vow of never going up against each other when
they both participate in the competitions leading up to the Olympics.
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When you are mine : a novel
by Michael Robotham
A young, ambitious police officer with the elite Metropolitan
Police in London, Philomena McCarthy, after a domestic violence
call gone wrong, is trapped in a web of secrets, corruption and
murder, and finds her impending marriage, career and very
survival in jeopardy.
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The starless crown
by James Rollins
Four strangers—a gifted student, a broken soldier, a drunken
prince and an imprisoned thief, hunted by enemies old and new,
must learn to trust each other in order to survive an evolving
world and uncover the ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.
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The city of mist : stories
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Filled with unforgettable characters, unique situations and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet, this posthumous collection offers imaginative and enchanting stories that sum up the career of this amazing writer.
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The ex talk
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A debut adult romance by the author of Today Tonight Tomorrow
finds an experienced public radio producer and a newcomer with a master’s degree clashing over the disparate advice they administer during an unexpectedly popular radio show.
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Weather girl
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
In the aftermath of a disastrous holiday party, TV meteorologist
Ari Abrams and sports reporter Russell Barringer team up to solve
their bosses’ relationship issues, but their well-meaning meddling backfires when real chemistry builds between them.
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Invisible : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Suddenly thrust into the public eye, aspiring actress Antonia Adams,
who has been “invisible” all her life, must decide whether she will
remain center stage or hide again when tragedy strikes, forcing her
to decide how high a price she is willing to pay to pursue her passion.
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Wish you were here : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going
off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in
the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and
her life when she makes a connection with a local family.
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Lucky
by Marissa Stapley
Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity - when things go sideways. She discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, her elation is tempered by one big problem: cashing in the winning ticket means she’ll be arrested for her crimes. She’ll go to prison, with no chance to redeem her fortune.
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The Lighthouse
by Christopher Parker
A chance encounter turns into an unforgettable weekend, and
against the backdrop of the lighthouse-obsessed town, the two of
them forge a deep connection, opening their hearts, baring their
souls, and revealing secrets long kept hidden. But as they grow
closer, and as the lighthouse glows ever brighter, a startling
discovery about Ryan leaves Amy questioning everything she
thought she knew.
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Fear no evil
by James Patterson
Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson are attacked by two rival teams of assassins in the rugged Montana wilderness, in the latest addition to the popular, long-running series following Deadly Cross.
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The Archivist
by Rex Pickett
When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started—to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize–winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel.
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The becoming
by Nora Roberts
Able to walk between the world of man and the world of magick
called Talmh, Breen Siobhan Kelly must take the next step on the
journey to becoming all that she was born to be when one member
of her bloodline, the outcast god Odran, plots to destroy Talamh.
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Flying Angels
by Danielle Steel
After her brother is wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Audrey and her best friend Lizzie enlist in the army as flight nurses, in a new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of over 150 books.
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Latitudes of longing : a novel
by Shubhangi Swarup
In Latitudes of Longing, we follow a scientist who studies trees and
a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile
wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free
her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a
turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the
ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents.
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2 sisters detective agency
by James Patterson
After discovering that her estranged father became a private eye, attorney Rhonda Bird teams up with her half sister to run the agency
in the new novel from the world's best-selling author of the Alex
Cross novels.
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We are not like them : a novel
by Christine Pride
The lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one White,
is severely tested when one woman’s husband, a police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager, while the
other woman, a reporter, covers this career-making story.
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Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth
by Wole Soyinka
Duyole Pitan-Payne realizes that someone is trying to stop him
from assuming a prestigious job in the United Nations after
discovering that a wily entrepreneur is stealing body parts from
a Nigerian hospital for use in rituals.
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Beautiful world, where are you
by Sally Rooney
Four young people pair up, break up, have wild flirtations and
worry about their friendships and the world they live in while
pondering their eroding youth, in the new novel from the
best-selling author of Normal People.
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