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Outlander : A Novel
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Diana Gabaldon
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself in the midst of an world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution, and haunted by her feelings for a young soldier.
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The Late Show
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Michael Connelly
Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. As the investigations entwine, Ballard is forced to face her own demons and confront a danger she could never have imagined.
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Bridget Jones's Diary : A Novel
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Helen Fielding
A hilarious journal chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirty-something woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life.
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Mr. Churchill's Secretary : A Maggie Hope Novel
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Susan Elia Macneal
After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope, trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary, uses the unfettered access her position demands to try to unravel a plot to assassinate Churchill himself.
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Cover Her Face : An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
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P. D. James
James produced her elegantly written literary mysteries since the 1950s. Her protagonist is the Scotland Yard investigator and distinguished poet Commander Adam Dalgliesh.
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Still Life
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Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is featured in this wonderful series which takes place in Quebec and a nearby small town full of interesting characters.
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Knots and Crosses
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Ian Rankin
Featuring the cantankerous alcoholic Scottish detective John Rebus, Rankin's series belongs to what's know as the "Tartan Noir" genre.
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Brave New Earl
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Jane Ashford
When a beautiful relative of his late wife storms into his grief-stricken household to restore order and take away his son, widower Benjamin Romilly, Earl of Furness, finally comes to his senses and fights for what is his—and for a new beginning. Original.
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A Discovery of Witches
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Deborah E. Harkness
Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's library, scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of daemons, witches and vampires.
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The Pillars of the Earth
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Ken Follett
A prior, a master builder, and their community try to build a cathedral to protect themselves while Stephen and the Empress Maud fight for the crown of England.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith is best know for his amusing, upbeat No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, which is set in Botswana. His other series take place in Scotland and England.
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The Cairo trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
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Najīb Mahfūòz
The three acclaimed novels in the Nobel Prize-winning author's epic trilogy--Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street--chronicle the lives of three generations in the family of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, his sons and daughters, and five grandchildren, in Cairo during the Egyptian colonial era.
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At Home in Mitford
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Jan Karon
A heartwarming portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life in a small town introduces the charming North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants.
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Mr. Mercedes : A Novel
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Stephen King
Months after a crazed hit-and-run driver kills several attendees at a Midwestern job fair, a depressed retired cop and two unlikely allies join forces to find and stop the killer, who has sent a letter threatening another attack
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Winter in Paradise : A Novel
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Elin Hilderbrand
A suburban wife confronts the loss of everything at the same time when her husband is found dead on the beaches of St. John, where he harbored a secret second family.
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A Game of Thrones
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George R. R Martin
The kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.
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The Cuckoo's Calling
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Robert Galbraith
Working as a private investigator, veteran Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits.
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The Bat
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Jo Nesbø
Jo (pronounced "yoo") Nesbo is hardly an author to get cozy with, and his tortured, explosive Norwegian detective Harry Hole is no Hercule Poirot.
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Maisie Dobbs : A Novel
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Jacqueline Winspear
Winspear's historical detective novels feature the spunky Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator. Full of descriptive detail, the series follows Maisie from 1913 through the 1940s in Britain.
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In the Bleak Midwinter
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Julia Spencer-Fleming
Clare Fergusson, the first female priest of an Episcopal church in Millers Kill, New York, finds herself immersed in murder when a newbown baby is abandoned and a young mother is brutally slain, forcing her to dig deeply into the town's secrets.
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