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26 Beauties: A Women's Murder Club Thriller
by James Patterson
From the world's #1 bestselling author, the Women's Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties--young women missing in San Francisco. SFPD's Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women's Murder Club's party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas's help in locating his missing daughter. And she's not the only one. Lindsay's been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park. What if all these cases are connected? The answers lie with the 26 Beauties on the run and in the wind.
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Seek the Traitor's Son
by Veronica Roth
Elegy Ahn did not ask for destiny to find her. She is happy with her life
as a soldier, defending her small country from the Talusar, a powerful nation who worships a deadly Fever - a fever that blesses half of its victims with mysterious gifts. But then she's summoned to hear a prophecy - her, and the most ruthless of Talusar generals, Rava Vidar. Brought face to face, they learn that one of them will lead their people
to victory over the other...but they don't know which. And at the center of both of their fates: a man. A man that, Elegy is told, she will fall in love with. In just one day, Elegy's old life - her job, her purpose, and
her future - is over. She and Rava are destined to collide, with the fate
of their nations hanging in the balance. And when they do, only one will be left standing. Elegy intends to make sure it's her.
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Odessa
by Gabrielle Sher
Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother's anxiety, her father's rules, and the path that's been laid out for her, she craves freedom, the edges of which she doesn't know. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending attack. When violence comes
to their door, Yetta is killed. Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned--but although she looks the same, she
is not the girl she once was. Yetta senses there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the creature lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl - something that may be of her father's making, and a being that has plans of its own.
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John of John
by Douglas Stuart
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the
sudden departure of his mother. Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son's long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads
holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before. John of John is a singular
novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth.
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The Mother-Daughter Book Club
by Susan Patterson
Between their busy lives and their far-flung residences, the Mother-Daughter Book Club--four longtime college friends and their five daughters--more often discuss the books on their nightstands via
2 a.m. texts than in-person meetings. And maybe it's just as well, after what happened at their last get-together. So it's an emotional reunion when they finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy's Lake Como. Sightseeing excursions, reminiscing fueled by Como-politans, and a hint of vacation romance all build toward the book
club's trademark Night of Secrets. These friends, and sometime rivals, are close readers--of novels, memoirs, and of each other. But as the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations.
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Ghost Town
by Tom Perrotta
Jimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, Jimmy finds himself lost in a fog of grief that alienates him from friends and family, drifting instead into troubling friendships with two older teenagers: one a notorious local burnout with a fast car, an
endless supply of weed, and a shaky grasp of reality; the other a
smart, eccentric girl, whom Jimmy finds himself drawn to as they become entranced by her Ouija board, which may just offer the only salve to their grief. As a fateful public drama unfolds, Jimmy is torn between the occult beyond and the cold realities of the place he has called home. Narrated by a much older Jimmy, a literary-turned-commercial novelist, Ghost Town reveals how the past haunts the present--the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think we've left them behind.
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Paradox
by Douglas Preston
When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, whom we met in the New York Times bestseller, Extinction, team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money
transfers, and a fanatical secret society. And all the while, the resurrected Neanderthals, who vanished into the Colorado mountains, seem to be biding their time for something...spectacular.
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The Mountains We Call Home: The Book Woman's Legacy
by Kim Michele Richardson
In this standalone and companion novel to the The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series, our heroine for the ages, legendary book woman, Cussy Lovett, returns home. A powerful testament of strength, survival, and the magic of the printed word, The Mountains We Call Home is wrapped into a vivid portrait of Kentucky life: examining incarceration and criminalization, exploring the effects on the poor and powerless, and tracing the societal consequences of fractured family bonds, along with nostalgic glimpses of a bustling, multifaceted Louisville, and heartwarming portraits of reading efforts in every facet
of life. Meticulously researched and richly detailed with a new cast of absorbing and complex characters, this beautifully rendered, authentic Kentucky tale is gritty and heartbreaking and infused with hope, spirit, and courage known only to those with no way out.
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Cherry Baby
by Rainbow Rowell
Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making
a movie. Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home.
Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic
that's become an international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never
wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--
let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in . . . and wondering who she's supposed
to be without him. One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems
at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album and someone recognizes her from across the room. Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom. Russ knows Cherry.
He likes Cherry. And best of all, he's never heard of Thursday.
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Revenge Prey
by John Sandford
Leonard Summers--not his real name--is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service, Leonard, his wife Martha, and son Bernard have spent the
past year holed up in a CIA facility near Washington. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service's Witness Protection
Program (WPP), Leonard's family is transported to Minneapolis. The
plan is to hide them in a wooded Minneapolis suburb that resembles their former home and dacha near Moscow. The Summers are received at their destination by Lucas Davenport and fellow marshal Shelly
White. Unbeknownst to them, the WPP group has been tracked by a Russian hit team. And while nobody in the WPP has ever been
attacked, Leonard might be the first victim. As shots are fired and enemies dodged, Lucas must move quickly to uncover where the leak
is coming from, before the hit team can strike again.
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Livonia Chow Mein
by Abigail Savitch-Lew
In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced
the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history. First is Koon Lai, an immigrant who runs a Chinese restaurant
on Livonia Avenue; second, his son Richard, a man desperate for his
own chance at the American Dream; and third, Jason, a poet who
seeks his escape in the bohemian counterculture of the 1970s, but finds himself an unwitting participant in Brooklyn's gentrification. In the 21st century, Jason's daughter Sadie returns to Brownsville as a journalist, determined to unravel the mystery of what happened decades earlier
on the night the buildings blazed. Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was
also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville's residents and organizing a
Livonia Avenue community land trust.
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Star Shipped
by Cat Sebastian
Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can't stand
one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. Now that Simon's contract is finally done, he can move to
New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie. Simon's only problem is that people might assume he's been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. Simon
would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. The more he gets to know Charlie, the
more Simon suspects he's underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move
three thousand miles away, so whatever's starting between him and Charlie can't really amount to anything... right?
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Go Gentle
by Maria Semple
Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City's Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she's applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for
the twin boys of an old-money family. She's even assembled a coven--like-minded women who live on the same floor in the legendary
Ansonia--and is making active efforts to grow its membership. Adora's carefully curated life is humming along brilliantly until a chance
meeting with a handsome stranger. Soon, her ordered world is upended by black-market art deals, secret rendezvous, and international intrigue. And her past--which she has worked so hard to bury--lands like a bomb in her present. Inflamed by unquenchable desire, Adora finds herself a woman wanting more; and she'll risk everything to get it.
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The Book Witch
by Meg Shaffer
Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes like a modern-day magical
Nancy Drew. Book Witches live by a strict code: Real people belong in the real world; fictional characters belong in works of fiction. Do not
eat, drink, or sleep inside a fictional world, lest you become part of the story. Falling in love with a fictional character? Don't even think about it. Which is why Rainy has been forbidden from seeing the Duke of
Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favorite mystery series. If she's ever caught with him again, she'll be expelled from her book coven--and forced to give up the magical gifts that are as much a part of her as her own name. But when her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there's only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke. Their quest takes them through the worlds of Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur, and other classics that will reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.
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Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel
by Jane Smiley
Christmas, 1857. America's future is precarious; civil war looms on the horizon. After her abolitionist husband is murdered in the lawless
Kansas Territory, Lidie Newton returns, in mourning, to her hometown
of Quincy, Illinois. But her sisters have little comfort to offer, and Lidie
is haunted by the memories of her failures--until she takes an interest
in her niece, Annie. Beautiful, self-assured, and mischievous, Annie
sticks out in Quincy. She becomes an actress at the local theater, and when she is offered the opportunity to perform abroad, she decides to run away. But travel is dangerous for a young unmarried woman, so Lidie, armed with her pistol and her wit, goes with her. The two women embark on a perilous journey across the Atlantic, rushing toward an unknown future in England. Once they arrive in Liverpool, they vanish into new roles in the household of Annie's benefactor, Mr. Mallory Cunningham. Annie takes a stage name and finds her way to a career, while Lidie becomes her lady's maid. But will either of them be content with her new lot in life?
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A Woman's Place
by Danielle Steel
In April 1912, twenty-three-year-old Lady Victoria Oldbrooke is traveling with her beloved father from England on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. But when the ship strikes an iceberg and lifeboats are lowered with women and children first, Lord Alfred gives his place to another,
and they are separated. Before he goes down with the ship, he asks his friend Bert Banning, a mill owner from Manchester, to promise he'll marry his daughter and care for her. Devastated by the loss of Lord Alfred, Victoria and Bert take comfort in their growing friendship. Bert accepts his role as her guardian but, as friendship turns to deeper feelings, hesitates to propose. Not only is he forty years her senior, but her marrying an industrialist will cause Victoria to be ostracized by the aristocratic world she comes from. But she marries Bert and--cruelly shunned by everyone she knows, even family friends--moves to his home in Manchester. Isolated from her familiar universe and peers, she becomes fascinated by Bert's business and learns all she can about it. When he meets a tragic end, she steps into his shoes and applies everything she has learned, in spite of opposition from all sides.
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American Fantasy
by Emma Straub
When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous, nineties-era boy
band and three thousand screaming women who have worshipped
them since childhood. Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, here on a lark to appease her sister. Yet when the lights come
up and the idols of her youth begin to sing, something is unlocked. Call
it memory. Call it nostalgia. Call it the chemical reaction of hormones, hope, and sexual reawakening. Between the slushy alcoholic drinks, the familiar music, and the throngs of middle-aged women acting like lovesick teenagers, Annie finally reconnects to a long-submerged part
of herself. By the time she meets one of the band members--not just a celebrity but someone in need of a friend--she has accessed a new
sense of possibility. In a smart and incisive book packed with laugh-out-loud reflections on fame, aging, and marriage, Emma Straub delivers a richly textured story that shows us real passion is never truly lost, that what we love makes us who we are, and that deep meaning can sometimes be found in a sea of screaming fans.
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This Book Made Me Think of You
by Libby Page
When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there's a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn't come as more of a shock. Partly because she can't remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago! When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift--twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him. At first Tilly can't imagine sinking into a fictional world, but Joe's tender words convince her to try, and something remarkable happens--Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life.
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It Girl
by Allison Pataki
At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York's streets teem with change: electricity, automobiles, the brash young President Teddy Roosevelt--and the It Girls. As artists' muses and working models,
these independent young women soar to stardom not because of their pedigrees or inherited wealth, but because of their talent, charisma,
and irresistible beauty. Pop culture is born, and in a world alight with
Mr. Edison's new bulbs, no one shines brighter than America's sweetheart, Evelyn Talbot. But fame and fortune are cruel teachers,
and Evelyn learns that the only person she can rely on is herself. When Evelyn finds herself at the center of a murder of passion declared the Crime of the Century, she is blamed for the acts of the men in her life. Allison Pataki has crafted yet another unforgettable leading lady, a heroine who must find the power to change not only the world around her but her own destiny.
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Judge Stone
by James Patterson
All rise... for Judge Stone. The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It's there she draws the most controversial case in the
history of the South. Criminally, it's open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it's a choice between life and death. No
judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she
loves.
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Just Friends
by Haley Pham
Blair and Declan were inseparable growing up--best friends who knew each other better than anyone else. But when an impulsive kiss took them from friends to something more, everything changed. Just as quickly as their romance started, one moment shattered it all, leaving them with nothing but heartbreak and silence. Now, four years later, Blair is back in their coastal hometown of Seabrook to support her
mom and care for her great-aunt Lottie as her health declines. To
make ends meet, Blair applies to work at a coffee shop--only to
discover it's managed by none other than Declan.
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And the Crowd Went Wild: A Chicago Stars Novel
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
After a mortifying--and very public--humiliation, Dancy Flynn is
desperate to find sanctuary far from the crowd. But where can a washed-up sex symbol hide? How about making an unannounced appearance at the secluded lake house of the sweet, sensitive high school boyfriend she hasn't seen in almost twenty years? But Chicago Stars quarterback Clint Garrett is no longer the kid Dancy remembers. Now he's a gridiron superhero, still holding a massive grudge against
her for breaking his teenage heart. With no room in his life for either complexity or distractions, he banishes Dancy to a refurbished old railroad caboose tucked away in the woods...and out of his sight.
Except Dancy's not good at staying invisible. Her efforts to rebuild her career clash with Clint's desperation to regain his focus, all made more challenging by a rescue dog, a local woman in trouble, a meddling mother, an ex with an agenda...and the sizzle of rekindled emotions.
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Celestial Lights
by Cecile Pin
January 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out
of the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines is born. Celestial Lights is his story. Ollie spends his childhood in an English village where his bedroom is covered in glow-in-the-dark wallpaper bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one of
the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire taps him to lead a landmark mission to the distant moon Europa, Ollie makes a choice that will send his whole world spinning.
As the mission advances deeper into unchartered territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his university days in London and
years in the navy, relationships found and lost, becoming a husband
and father. But will the world he remembers still be waiting for him
ten years later when he returns?
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Innamorata
by Ava Reid
Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror's blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living members: beautiful
Marozia, the heiress to the House, and her cousin, the uncanny Lady Agnes. Though she has not spoken a word in seven years, Agnes is
the true carrier of the House's legacy. And she has her orders. She
must recapture the secrets of death magic and avenge her family's
fallen honor. She must arrange the betrothal of her beloved cousin Marozia to Liuprand, heir to the conqueror's throne, for access to the forbidden library in his grotesquely grand castle. Revenge burns in Agnes's heart but so do stranger passions--and it is Liuprand, the
golden prince, who speaks to her soul. This passion is as treasonous
as it is powerful, poisoning the kingdom's roots and threatening to tear the already shattered realm in two. For Agnes's final order is the
gravest: She must not fall in love.
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Autobiography of Cotton
by Cristina Rivera Garza
Through years of archival research and personal storytelling, Rivera Garza traces how cotton transformed the borderlands and her family's destiny. Blending genres, she gives voice to the land itself, revealing migration as an enduring pattern of hope and resilience shaped by economics, climate, and brittle earth.
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The Moonlight Runner
by Karen Robards
Ireland, 1918. In a world brutalized by the Great War and devastated
by the Spanish flu, twenty-two-year-old Rynn Carmichael is suddenly pulled into the war of independence when Donal O'Reilly, the boy she has loved for most of her life, takes up gunrunning in support of the rebellion. Raised in a small Irish village on the shores of Donegal Bay, Rynn is working as a nurse in a convalescent home for soldiers
wounded in the Great War when she overhears a British officer
gloating over the trap that has been set for Irish gunrunners bringing
a boat full of smuggled arms ashore. Knowing that Donal must be involved, she rushes out at midnight to warn the incoming boat, only
to find herself caught up in a terrifying and tragic series of events that take her from the glittering ballrooms of London to the narrow back alleys of Dublin as she and those she loves fight for their lives and
their country.
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Night Night Fawn
by Jordy Rosenberg
In a cluttered rent-controlled apartment in the middle of Manhattan, Barbara Rosenberg - old world yenta, committed homophobe, accomplished jazzercizer - is terminally ill, high on opioids, and writing the story of her life. Forget about her late husband, her career as the receptionist for an Upper East Side plastic surgeon, and her failed aspirations to be an actress. What she really wants to talk about are
her unhinged thoughts on gender, Karl Marx, Jewish diaspora, and her two great disappointing loves: an estranged trans son and a long lost best friend whose betrayal haunts Barbara still. As she descends
further into delirium and illness, Barbara's theories get wilder, and her
circumstances put her on a crash course with these intimates once again.
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Good People
by Patmeena Sabit
The Sharaf family is the picture of success: prosperous, rich,
happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard
work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye. When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust
into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade?
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Mistakes Were Made
by Lucy Score
Zoey Moody doesn't like small town life, but here she is: exiled from Manhattan's publishing scene and trapped in a tiny Pennsylvania town with her BFF and only remaining client, Hazel. The problem? She's
totally broke. All she needs is for Hazel's next romance novel to become a gigantic hit, and Zoey will be back in New York. Nothing will stand in her way. Nothing except her six-foot-two-inch landlord, Gage Bishop. He's smart, serious, and sexy. Worst of all, he's ready to settle down. Zoey might be the most beautiful woman Gage has ever met, but it's clear they're all wrong for each other.
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Once and Again
by Rebecca Serle
The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time. Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren's father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won't be able
to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models--and waiting for her own
catastrophe to strike. Then one summer, Lauren's husband takes a job
in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. What she doesn't expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren's first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before. As Lauren falls into
familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have
brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.
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Nonesuch
by Francis Spufford
It's the summer of 1939, and the air in London is thick with the tension of impending war. Iris Hawkins, a fiery young financial secretary, has a chance encounter with Geoff, a genius engineer from the new technology of television. What was supposed to be one night of
abandon draws her instead into a nightmare of otherworldly pursuit--
into a reality where time bends, spirits can be summoned, and history hangs by a thread. Soon there are Nazi planes droning overhead. In a time when death falls randomly from above each night, when the
streets are darker than the wildest forest and all the men are away in uniform, the defense of the city is in the hands of its women. But Iris
has more to contend with than just the terrors of the Blitz. Over the rooftops of burning London, in the twisted passages between past and present, through the vast night sky and across the tiny screens of early television, a fascist fanatic is travelling with a gun in her hand, and
only Iris can stop her from altering the course of history forever.
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A Far-Flung Life
by M. L. Stedman
Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres, an ocean of arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered. And then, tragedy revisits when a twist of consequences claims the life of
one sibling, and leads another to give up everything for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral
and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide. The secrets at the heart of this gutting and beautiful story force him to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.
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Felicia's Favorites
by Danielle Steel
After the unexpected death of their mother, Felicia Morgan Weston, her five daughters are summoned to a historic Connecticut farmhouse for
the reading of her will. Still reeling from shock, they hear revelations
that will potentially change their lives--and they realize there was much more to their mother than they ever knew. Each sister is about to
receive a gift beyond her wildest dreams from their very private but loving mother, who considered all her girls her favorites. Danielle Steel's new novel is a moving testament to the power of a mother's love and the importance of fully embracing life.
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Beneath
by Ariel Sullivan
Hundreds of years before the Illum ruled supreme, humanity risked everything to rebuild after a devastating war in this explosive dystopian romance and prequel to Conform. Twenty-three-year-old Sasha Cadell knows time is running out in the underground city, filled with survivors
of the nuclear fallout six years ago. She works in the Expansion Sector, trying to escape the memories of those she lost. Her bleak existence is upended when Tristian Hayes, a stunningly handsome, frustratingly determined commander of the Force, recruits her to join him and his elite team of soldiers as they embark on a secret mission to the
surface. Sasha is thrust into brutal training with stakes far beyond
mere survival. The fate of the remaining humankind depends on their success--or failure.
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Conform
by Ariel Sullivan
A lifelong outcast, twenty-seven-year-old Emeline spends her days
alone, sorting ancient art for destruction. Centuries after a catastrophic war nearly decimated humanity, society is now ruled by an elusive and technologically advanced group called the Illum, who constantly
monitor the population's health and mandate procreation contracts.
But Emeline's bleak existence is shattered when, for the first time in decades, an Illum named Collin takes a Mate: Emeline. Baffled as to
why she was chosen, Emeline is swept into the dangerous game of the Courting, where one wrong move can mean elimination. Soon, she discovers a rebellion rising in secret, and that her Mate may be keeping secrets of his own. Collin is confusing, both cold and protective, and worse, she finds herself drawn to the very last person she should be falling for: Hal, one of the resistance leaders. As she draws closer to
both Collin and Hal, the Illum exercise their power in increasingly
brutal ways, forcing Emeline to question everything--most of all
whether she'll have to give up her heart and even her life to stop them.
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Lake Effect
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
It's 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible--but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara's world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood. Years later, Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down.
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When I Kill You
by B. A. Paris
Who is watching Nell Masters? Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are silent calls to her office, and a huge bouquet
of flowers arrives without a card. And Nell has a reason to be looking over her shoulder because she has a secret that she's hiding from everyone in her life, including her new partner, Alex. But Alex also has secrets of his own. Fourteen years earlier, when Nell went by the name Elle Nugent, she witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger's car. When Bryony was found murdered, Elle became
obsessed with finding the person responsible. She was convinced she knew who it was and her fixation with Brett Parker, the man she accused, led her down a dangerous path. Now, has the stalker become the stalked? Or is there something even more deadly at play?
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The Jills
by Karen Parkman
Virginia is a Jill--a professional Buffalo Bills cheerleader--living the life she's always dreamed of. She spends her weekdays practicing, her weekends cheering, and her nights hopping between events and bars and clubs with her close-knit band of teammates, especially her best friend, Jeanine. Their dynamic friendship has given Virginia confidence
in spades and allowed her to put aside her troubled past with her sister, Laura. But one Sunday, Jeanine fails to show up for a game, and all her calls and texts go unanswered. Aided by a worried network of Jills, ex-boyfriends, and seedy fixtures of Buffalo's criminal underground, Virginia embarks on an investigation into Jeanine's disappearance. But as her search grows increasingly dangerous and spirals into obsession, disturbing questions about who Jeanine really is begin to emerge.
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Cross and Sampson: An Alex Cross and John Sampson Thriller
by James Patterson
Detective partners Alex Cross and John Sampson are called to
separate locations to investigate a pair of serious crimes. In
Washington, DC, Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater
in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. In Chapel Hill, NC, Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student--his own son Damon. It will take more than distance to
weaken the partnership of Sampson & Cross.
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Pendergast: The Beginning
by Douglas Preston
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story--a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast's strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent--a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries
to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended.
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More Than Enough
by Anna Quindlen
High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they've become her closest friends and, along with the support of her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her private school students, her fraught relationship with her mother, her struggles with IVF-Polly's book club friends have heard it all. But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. Despite it seeming clear that this match is a mistake, Polly cannot help combing through her own family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.
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The Astral Library
by Kate Quinn
Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures. Alix Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes
nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-
off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where
the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books. The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before
she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped
protect.
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The Method: A Thriller
by Matthew Quirk
From the author of The Night Agent comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a young actress who must go undercover in a deadly world of espionage to save her best friend...and herself. Actress Anna Vaughn is fearless--on screen, at least. She tends to play doomed brunettes with
a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro. When her best friend, Natalie, disappears after a night out with a mysterious new man, the signs point to foul play. Anna must use all the tricks she's learned for
her roles to hunt for her missing friend. Her only chance for survival is
to become as lethal as the characters she once played. No camera, no script - just instinct.
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Trust No One: A Thriller
by James Rollins
The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled
in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism. All evidence points to Sharyn Karr--an American student. Prior to the professor's death, he had thrust a centuries-old book upon her. It appears to be the handwritten and encrypted diary of an eighteenth-century mystic and occultist, the Comte de Saint-
Germain. The professor begged her to keep the text safe, ending with
a warning: Trust no one. Such a responsibility forces her into
cooperation with Duncan Maxwell, a fellow postgrad and the sixteenth
in line to the British Crown. Already, Duncan has proven himself a
savant with encryptions. Unfortunately, the pair clash at every level, but they both need one another. Especially when they discover the book's opening words: Herein lies the secret to my immortality. Come find me,
if you dare.
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Isles of the Emberdark: A Cosmere Novel
by Brandon Sanderson
All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar--
the supernatural birds his people bond with--on the deadly island of Patji. Then one fateful night he propels his people into a race to modernize before they can be conquered by the Ones Above, invaders from the stars who want to exploit the Aviar. But it's a race they're losing, and Dusk fears his people will lose themselves in the effort.
When a chance comes to sail into the expanse of the emberdark
beyond a mystical portal, Dusk sets off to find his people's salvation. Elsewhere in the emberdark is a young dragon chained in human form: Starling of the starship Dynamic. She and her ragtag crew of exiles are deep in debt and on the brink of losing their freedom. These unlikely allies might just be the solution to each other's crises. Sanderson expands his thrilling novella Sixth of the Dusk into a mythic novel of legends, lore, and warring galactic superpowers.
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Vigil
by George Saunders
Taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight
hours of his life, Jill Doll Blaine finds herself hurtling towards her
newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife.
With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we've come
to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time -
the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the
environmental perils of progress - and, in the process, spins a tale
that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny
question of absolution.
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A Better Life
by Lionel Shriver
Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in
a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a
boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his hovercraft repose. As
the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico's sisters, while finding her way into Gloria's heart and even, briefly, Nico's. But as Martine's disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother's altruism and the migrant crisis in general--and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.
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Read Between the Lies
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Fern's dream of becoming a published author is finally coming true.
After years of rejection, her debut novel has sold, and she's ready to
join the supportive online community of fellow debuts. But when she discovers her high school bully, Haven, has landed a major book deal and will be debuting alongside her, old wounds reopen. As the
pandemic forces everyone online, tensions escalate in their writing community. While Haven seems to succeed effortlessly, Fern watches
her own career crumble. Yet beneath their polished personas lies a darker truth about their shared past--one involving a lost friend, Dani, and secrets neither wants revealed. What begins as online rivalry escalates into dangerous obsession because neither woman is telling
the whole truth about what really happened to Dani...or about who's
the real victim in this story.
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The Time Hop Coffee Shop
by Phaedra Patrick
Greta Perks was once the shining star of the iconic Maple Gold
coffee commercials, the quintessential TV wife and mom. Now
fame has faded, her marriage is on the rocks, her teenage daughter
has become distant, and Greta's once-glittering career feels like a
distant memory. When Greta stumbles upon a mysterious coffee
shop serving a magical brew, she wishes for the perfect life in
those past Maple Gold commercials.
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The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
by James Patterson
Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career
at the FBI. Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau,
she is personally and professionally forgettable--which is exactly
what her former FBI boss needs. He disguises Elinor as a middle-
aged nanny, and casts her as an agent on the inside of his investigation into a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime.
But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower--anonymity--morphs into a fatal flaw. The more the invisible woman integrates into her 'host' family, the more dangerously memorable she becomes.
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Private Rome: A Private Novel
by James Patterson
Jack Morgan, ex-Marine helicopter pilot and CIA agent, is in Italy
to open the latest outpost of his international private investigation
firm. Its wealthy client base demands maximum force and
maximum discretion. But when a priest is murdered at the firm's
opening party, Morgan and Matteo Ricci--a decorated former Rome
police inspector, now Morgan's newly appointed deputy--come
under intense scrutiny. As Morgan and Ricci work the case, they
discover that eight priests have died, all under watch of the Swiss
Guard and the Vatican Police.
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The Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories
by Barry Pearce
An Irish painting contractor in a changing neighborhood struggles
with the complications of befriending a Black worker. The edgy
enclave he fled haunts a South Side exile, upending his life. A boy
who helps his father fake accidents for insurance claims reaches a turning point. A woman from a rough patch of South Shore
remembers her first girlfriend. And a Census taker learns empathy
as she counts people. Their lives weave through colorful, gritty
streets in The Plan of Chicago, Barry Pearce's absorbing debut of heartbreaking division, unexpected intersections, and dim but
possible dreams.
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The Award
by Matthew Pearl
David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around
every corner. He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to
make eye contact with him--until young David wins a prestigious
award for his new book. Suddenly Silas is interested--if intensely
spiteful. But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David
with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of
choices.
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Heated Rivalry
by Rachel Reid
Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander's game.
Now that he's captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won't let
anything jeopardize that--definitely not the sexy rival he loves
to hate. Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane's
not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he's as cocky as he is
talented. No one can beat him--except Shane. Publicly, they're
enemies. Privately, they can't stop touching each other.
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Winter Stories
by Ingvild Rishøi
The internationally acclaimed and nationally bestselling author of
Brightly Shining returns with a trio of tender, powerful stories of
courage and overcoming adversity, Ingvild Rishoi is one of
Scandinavia's most revered literary voices, winner of the
Dobloug Prize.
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Television
by Lauren Rothery
Television concerns itself with phenomenal luck and its various manifestations in contemporary life: disparities in wealth, beauty,
talent, gender, and youth. Slyly humorous, with a profoundly
modern style and nimble dialogue reminiscent of early Joan
Didion, Lauren Rothery's debut novel is a staggering feat of
literary impressionism-and a significant event for American fiction.
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Tailored Realities
by Brandon Sanderson
Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, this collection features stories from beyond the bounds of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere universe [and] includes nine works of short fiction never
before gathered into one volume, many available here in print for
the first time.
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Mona's Eyes
by Thomas Schlesser
Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory all
that is beautiful in the world before Mona loses her sight forever.
While the doctors can find no explanation for Mona's brief episode of
blindness, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot
be ruled out. The girl's grandfather, Henry, may not be able to stop
his granddaughter from losing her sight, but he can fill the
encroaching darkness with beauty. Thomas Schlesser's sensational
debut novel is at once a moving book about the beauty of life and a deeply touching story about the special bond between a girl and her grandfather.
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As Many Souls as Stars
by Natasha Siegel
For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, an inventive and
romantic speculative novel about two women-a witch and an
immortal demon-who make a Faustian bargain and are drawn
into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.
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The Elsewhere Express
by Samantha Sotto Yambao
You can't buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to
those whose lives are adrift, it's a magical train seeming to carry
very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose, peace, and
belonging. Raya is one of those lost souls. She had dreamed of being
a songwriter, but when her brother died, she gave up on her dream
and started living his instead. One day on the subway, as her
thoughts wander, she's swept off to the Elsewhere Express. There
she meets Q, an artist who, like her, has lost his place in the world. Together they find a train full of wonders, from a boarding car that's
also a meadow to a dining car where passengers can picnic
on lily pads to a bar where jellyfish and whales swim through pink clouds.
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The Devil's Daughter
by Danielle Steel
Graduating magna cum laude from MIT is the happiest day of Billie Banks's life, although her family is not part of it. Her mother, who
always supported her, died when Billie was seventeen. Since then,
her father has been slowly drinking himself to death on the family
farm in Iowa, and she and her younger sister, Mickie, have grown
even more estranged. When Mickie invites Billie to move in with
her in Los Angeles, Billie is both wary and hopeful. Taking a leap
of faith, she joins her sister on the West Coast, but then the
siblings' difficult history once again rises to the surface.
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A Box Full of Darkness
by Simone St James
Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning
at the town's roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young
girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For the Esmie
siblings, the final straw was the shocking disappearance of their
little brother. And now after two decades running from their past,
it's time for a homecoming. Because Ben is back, and he's
ready to lead them to the answers they've longed for and
long feared.
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Next Time Will Be Our Turn
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Izzy Chen is dreading her family's annual Chinese New Year
celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up
each other. So when her seventy-three-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her
arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core.
She'd always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed.
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Flesh: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
by David Szalay
Teenaged Istvâan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment
complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to
the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes
isolated, with his neighbor--a married woman close to his mother's
age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands--as his only
companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a
clandestine relationship that Istvâan himself can barely
understand, his life soon spirals out of control, ending in
a violent accident that leaves a man dead.
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe:
A True Crime Thriller
by James Patterson
In life, Marilyn Monroe's superstardom defies classification. In
death, she remains shrouded in mystery. In the hours before her
death, she argues with US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and
his brother-in-law Peter Lawford. 'Here I am, the most beautiful
woman in the world, and I do not have a date for Saturday night.'
On June 1, 2026, the world celebrates Marilyn Monroe's one
hundredth birthday--without her.
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Some Bright Nowhere
by Ann Packer
Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for nearly
four decades. They've raised two children in their sleepy
Connecticut town and have weathered the inevitable ups and
downs of a long life spent together. But eight years after Claire
was diagnosed with cancer, the end is near, and it's time to
gather loved ones and prepare for the inevitable.
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Return of the Spider: An Alex Cross Thriller
by James Patterson
The suspense classic Along Came a Spider introduced an
unsurpassed rivalry: Detective Alex Cross; the human superhero
versus Gary Soneji; the most deliciously wicked character since
Hannibal Lecter. But that wasn't their first meeting. Police discover
that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius,
detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened
serial killer--including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross
may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must
retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face.
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The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
by Salman Rushdie
From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman
Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes
into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories
that span the three countries in which he has made his work--India, England, and America--and feature an unforgettable cast of
characters.
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The Shattering Peace
by John Scalzi
For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some
would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of
former times. For now, more sensible heads have prevailed - and
have even championed unity. But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu, the most
advanced intelligent species humans have ever met.
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59 Minutes
by Holly Seddon
Internationally bestselling author Holly Seddon debuts in the
US for the first time with this unmissable, riveting, and heart-
wrenching 'what would you do' thriller- perfect for fans of
Mary Kubica and Gillian McAllister.
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The Page Turner
by Viola Shipman
Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving
parents, Emma finds inspiration at the family cottage among
the 'fluff' they despise: the juicy summer romances that belonged
to her late grandmother. But a chance discovery unearthed from
her Gigi's belongings reveals a secret that has the power to ruin
her parents' business and destroy their reputation in the industry.
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The Color of Hope
by Danielle Steel
A hopeful new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1
New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of
America's favorite storytellers.
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