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The house of wolves
by James Patterson
Jenny Wolf's murdered father has left her in charge of a multi-
billion-dollar empire - a newspaper, a football team, a holding
company, and a dysfunctional family that knows no bounds.
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Murder book
by Thomas Perry
An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Harry Duncan is
called in to investigate a sudden crime wave in several small
midwestern towns. This pits him against a violent syndicate as
he compiles a "murder book" to build his case, making him a target.
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The cabinet of Dr. Leng
by Douglas J. Preston
Constance finds her way back to New York City in the late 1800s to prevent the death of her siblings and stop serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng. FBI Special Agent Pendergast desperately tries to find a way to reunite with her before it's too late. 375,000 first printing.
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The house in the pines : a novel
by Ana Reyes
Seven years after the mysterious death of her best friend, Aubrey,
Maya comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman dies in front of the same man Aubrey did. This leads Maya back to
a New England cabin to finally uncover a truth that could save her.
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The bandit queens : a novel
by Parini Shroff
Geeta is considered a self-made widow after the disappearance
of her husband. When other women in the village ask her for help
in getting rid of their own no-good husbands, Geeta must decide
how far she is willing to go to protect her fearsome reputation and
the life shes built.
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Without a trace : a novel
by Danielle Steel
After surviving a car accident off the Normandy coast, Charles
Vincent, trapped in a loveless marriage, meets Aude Saint-Martin
with whom he forms an instant connection as she nurses him back to health and decides, in a split second, to fight for a chance at happiness at whatever the cost.
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Tread of angels
by Rebecca Roanhorse
In the 1883 mining town of Goetia ruled by the Virtues, the winners of an ancient war against the Fallen, descendants of demonkind living among them, Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of devils advocate to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue.
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The rewind
by Allison Winn Scotch
Reunited for the wedding of mutual friends, former college
sweethearts, Frankie and Ezra wake up in bed next to each other
the following morning, married, and with zero memory of how they
got there. They must put aside old grievances in order to figure out
what happened and what didn't happen.
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One day in December : a novel
by Josie Silver
Taking place over 10 consecutive Christmases, this novel tells
the story of Jack and Laurie, who meet at a bus stop and continue
to circle each other's lives seemingly fated to be together, except
not actually managing it, for a decade.
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A Dangerous Business
by Jane Smiley
A 1851 Monterey widow working at a brothel investigates when
the dead bodies of young women start appearing on the outskirts of town in the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.
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Must read well : a novel
by Ellen Pall
After her boyfriend ditches her, Ph.D. candidate Liz is reduced to
couch-surfing at best friend Petra's tiny Manhattan studio apartment. Trying to find an affordable living space, she stumbles across a
Craigslist posting that will change her life: a room with a view in a
pre-war Greenwich Village apartment where she must be willing to
read aloud daily to the apartment's sight-impaired landlady. Liz
quickly figures out that the sight-impaired landlady the very
woman whose refusal to cooperate for the past four years has
held up Liz's dissertation on the feminist works of mid-century
women novelists.
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The prisoner
by B. A. Paris
When Amelie, a billionaires wife, is kidnapped, she wonders why she has been taken, who her mysterious captors are, and why she feels safer imprisoned, than she does with her husband.
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The perfect assassin
by James Patterson
Forced into a top-secret training program, Dr. Brandt Savage,
on sabbatical from the University of Chicago, is mentally and
physically transformed into the perfect assassin and must prevent
a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world.
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Triple Cross
by James Patterson
On the trail of a serial killer who targets entire families and leaves no physical evidence, Detectives Alex Cross and Sampson team up with the worlds best-selling true crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. This time, however, the Family Man flips the script and begins hunting down Cross and his family.
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Even though i knew the end
by C. L. Polk
Offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell, a magical detective in Chicago is given three days to track down the
White City Vampire and the chance to live out the rest of her life.
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We are the light
by Matthew Quick
After the death of his wife, Lucas Goodgame insists she visits him every night in the form of an angel. When a young man, begins camping out in his backyard, bringing with him hope and the power to heal, the two form an unlikely alliance
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The choice
by Nora Roberts
The enemy's witches, traitorous and power-mad, appear to
Breen in a dream, practicing black magick and sacrificing the
innocent. United with Keegan and all of Talamh, Breen must save
those in need of rescue and, with every weapon she has.
She must confront the darkness once and for all.
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Poster girl
by Veronica Roth
After the collapse of the Delegation, an oppressive dystopian
regime, Sonya, a poster girl imprisoned for her involvement, is
offered a chance at freedom if she finds a missing girl stolen from
her parents by the old regime, forcing her to confront a past rife
with lies and dark secrets.
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Before I let go
by Kennedy Ryan
After a devastating tragedy, a married couple, Yasmen and
Wade, discover that love isnt enough to save their marriage,
but it eventually might be enough to bring them back together
for a second time around.
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The lost metal : a Mistborn novel
by Brandon Sanderson
When frontier lawman turned big-city senator Wax Ladian
discovers the Set has a new type of explosive that could unleash unprecedented destruction, he must choose whether to set aside
his rocky relationship with God and once again become the
Sword of Harmoney to become the hero Scadrial needs.
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The Whittiers : a novel
by Danielle Steel
When a devastating tragedy takes their parents from them, the
eldest four adult Whittier children must put aside their personal
issues and grief to keep the family together, and to support each
other and their two youngest siblings.
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Nights of plague : a novel
by Orhan Pamuk
In 1900, when a plague arrives on Mingheria, brought either by
Muslim pilgrims returning from Mecca or by merchant vessels
coming from Alexandria, the Sultan, bowing to international
pressure, allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the
island, forcing its people to defeat the plague on their own.
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Mad honey : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Olivia MacAfee's life is upended when her husband reveals a
darker side, and her teenage son Asher moves back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning. Then Asher is implicated
in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes he's hidden more
than he's shared with her.
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The Whalebone Theatre
by Joanna Quinn
In 1928, 12-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave and the rest
of the household build a theatre from a whales skeletal rib cage.
In this theatre, imagination comes to life. Cristabel's knowledge of
acting comes into play years later as she becomes a British secret
agent on a dangerous mission in Nazi-occupied France.
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Liberation day : stories
by George Saunders
This brilliant collection of stories, written with the author's
trademark prose, are wickedly funny, unsentimental and
perfectly tuned. They encompass joy and despair, oppression
and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
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Seven empty houses
by Samanta Schweblin
Published for the first time in English, an author at the forefront of a new generation of Latin American writers presents seven stories in which seven houses are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories, but something always creeps back in.
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Signal fires
by Dani Shapiro
When the Shenkmans arrive on Division Street, their brilliant,
lonely son Waldo, who has a native ability to find connections in everything, befriends Dr. Wilf. But the doctor is harboring a dark
secret, which sets in motion a chain of events that cause the past
to come back with a vengeance.
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The high notes
by Danielle Steel
After years of enduring the hardship of the road, exploitation and
abuse, Iris Cooper, a young woman with an unforgettable voice,
fights for her freedom to follow her dreams and to let the whole
world hear her undeniable talent.
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The holiday trap
by Roan Parrish
When Greta, a lesbian living in Maine trying to figure out who she
is, and Truman, recovering from a breakup with his boyfriend in
New Orleans, swap houses over Christmas, they each must decide whether the love they each found so far from home is worth
fighting for.
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The messy lives of book people
by Phaedra Patrick
Landing her personal hero and mega-best-selling author Essie
Starling as a client, housecleaner Liv Green forms an unlikely
friendship with this infamous recluse. However, when Essie suddenly
dies, leaving her an astonishing last wish, Liv discovers a connection between them that changes Liv's own life story forever.
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Blowback
by James Patterson
Two CIA agents find their loyalties divided between chain of
command and the Constitution when their former Director, now
the president of the United States, asks them to carry out a
clandestine power grab with deadly consequences.
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Killers of a certain age
by Deanna Raybourn
Sent on an all-expense paid vacation to mark their retirement,
four assassins discover they've been marked for death, forcing
them to turn against their own organization and teach them what
it really means to be a woman and a killer of a certain age.
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We spread
by Iain Reid
Placed in a unique long-term care residence after one too
many incidents, Penny, an artist whose memory is slipping,
finds the days blurring together and, with a growing sense of
unrest and distrust, starts to lose her grip on the passage of time
and on her place in the world.
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The girl from Guernica: An Epic
Historical Novel
by Karen Robards
During WWII, Sibil, living in Germany with her father, a scientist
working on jet propulsion engines for the Nazi party, joins the underground resistance movement with him. They become
deeply embedded in a web of secrets, lies and deceit that
threatens to destroy their already fragile family.
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Carrie Soto is back : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37
after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record
at the 1994 US Open in the new novel from the New York Time
best-selling author of Malibu Rising.
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The lost ticket
by Freya Sampson
Arriving in London, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly
Frank who has been riding the bus for 60 years, hoping to find a
girl he met in 1962. Libby decides to help him search, finding her
tightly controlled world expanding as she opens her heart to new friendships and romance.
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On the rooftop : a novel
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The talk of the Jazz-Era Fillmore, The Salvations, sisters Ruth,
Esther and Chloe find their personal ambitions on a collision course
with those of their mother, whose dreams of musical stardom for
them forces her to confront the parts of her life that threaten
to splinter.
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Dreamland : a novel
by Nicholas Sparks
After his own musical career was tragically roadblocked, Colby
Mills meets and falls for a graduate of a prestigious college music program looking to become a star in Nashville, in the new novel
from the best-selling author of The Wish.
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Sometimes people die : a novel
by Simon Stephenson
Taking the only job he can find after a suspension for stealing
opioids, a young British doctor works feverishly at a struggling east London hospital where he suspects there is a murderer lurking
among them when too many patients start dying.
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The ninth month
by James Patterson
Successful marketing executive Emily Atkinson lands in the
hospital where it s revealed she is pregnant. As women in her
wealthy social circles go missing, she finds her pregnancy becoming decidedly high-risk as a faceless enemy follows her every move.
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The half life of Valery K : a novel
by Natasha Pulley
Sent to a mysterious unnamed city in Soviet Russia, former
nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov must serve out his prison
sentence studying the effect of radiation on local animals. He
struggles to find answers about what is being hidden from the
thousands who live in the town.
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Things We Never Got over
by Lucy Score
Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.
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The challenge : a novel
by Danielle Steel
When their children go missing, a group of parents, desperate
to hear word that they've been found. A media frenzy ensures, heightening tensions and testing some already fragile relationships, forcing them all to reconsider what they once held dear.
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Iona Iverson's rules for commuting
by Clare Pooley
An eclectic group of train commuters traveling from Hampton Court
to Waterloo Station discover that talking to strangers can help them learn more about themselves in the new novel from the
New York Times best-selling author of The Authenticity Project.
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