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New Fiction: September 2016
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Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonTorn between the fantasies of her youth and the realities of a life marked by violence and abandonment, August reunites with a beloved old friend who challenges her to reconcile past inconsistencies and come to terms with the difficulties that forced her to grow up too quickly.
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Any Minute Now by Eric LustbaderBetrayed and abandoned during a top-priority mission to capture a mysterious Saudi terrorist, two black ops team survivors join forces with a brilliant arms expert in an effort to unravel a conspiracy involving the NSA, a cabal of wealthy mystics and an enigmatic warmonger.
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Damaged: a Rosato & DiNunzio novel by Lisa ScottolineNamed the guardian ad litem of a middle-school boy with emotional issues on whose behalf she is suing the Philadelphia school district, Mary DiNunzio is confronted by elite lawyer Nick Machiavelli and risks her engagement in her obsessive investment in the case.
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The Dollhouse by Fiona DavisArriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist.
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First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsDiscovered by the former Chicago quarterback she was hired to tail, ambitious detective Piper Dove pretends to be the athlete's stalker and is subsequently hired as his bodyguard, an arrangement that is threatened by their growing chemistry and a portfolio of eccentric clients.
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Heroes of the Frontier by Dave EggersStruggling through a painful separation, the loss of her dental practice and the senseless death of a young man, Josie embarks on an RV road trip to Alaska with her kids that is marked by both national wonders and the shadows of past regrets.
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How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart HemmingsA quirky single mom in San Francisco navigates the minefields of the "mommy wars" while attending the nuptials of her toddler's father to another woman, competing in a cookbook writing contest and pursuing friendship and love.
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Insidious by Catherine CoulterInvestigating the attempted murder of an octogenarian society icon, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock consider a number of family suspects while Special Agent Cam Wittier teams up with detective Daniel Montoya in Los Angeles to capture a serial killer who is targeting young actresses.
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The Jealous Kind by James Lee BurkeIntervening when he sees a beautiful, gifted girl fighting with her boyfriend, a young man inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community and must summon the courage of his soldier father in order to stand up for his beliefs.
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Leave Me by Gayle FormanA harried working mom who is so busy that she fails to recognize the signs of a heart attack leaves the family that resents helping her recover and gradually confronts the painful secrets she has been ignoring.
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The One Man by Andrew GrossWhen a World War II physics professor with information vital to Allied forces is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, intelligence officer Nathan Blum is sent undercover to infiltrate Auschwitz and bring the professor to safety.
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Sting by Sandra BrownChanging his mind about his crime partner's abduction of wealthy party planner Jordie Bennet, seductive bad boy Shaw Kinnard flees with his elegant captive from the FBI and her brother's corrupt boss while trying to ignore the chemistry that challenges their escape.
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Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa GregoryBrought to the Tudor court as a young bride, Katherine of Aragon forges a unique sisterhood with the king's sisters, Margaret and Mary, that is shaped by rivalries, wars, betrayal, widowhood, motherhood, passion and secrets.
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You Will Know Me by Megan AbbottWhen a violent death rocks her close-knit gymnastics community weeks before an important competition, the mother of an Olympics hopeful works frantically to hold her family together in spite of being irresistibly drawn to the crime.
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