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New FictionSeptember 2018
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Give Me Your Hand
by Megan Abbott
"Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet: taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them.
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The completionist
by Siobhan Adcock
"A young man's search for his missing sister leads him into a disturbing and desperate underworld, where bitter freedoms are bought at a terrible price. Darlingly inventive, The Completionist brings us a hauntingly familiar future world in which plummeting birth rates have ominous political and personal implications for women. "Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I'm afraid of what might've happened to her. You be afraid too." A young Marine, Carter Quinn, comes home from war to his fractured family, in a near-future America in which water is artificially engineered and technology is startlingly embedded in people's everyday lives. At the same time, a fertility crisis has terrifying implications for women, including Carter's two beloved sisters, Fred and Gardner. Fred, accomplished but impetuous, the eldest sibling, is naturally pregnant--a rare and miraculous event that puts her independence in jeopardy. And Gardner, the idealistic younger sister who lived for her job as a Nurse Completionist, has mysteriously vanished, after months of disturbing behavior. Carter's efforts to find Gard (and stay on Fred's good side) keep leading him back home to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth that could save or condemn them all. In the spirit of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Completionist is a deeply human mystery set in a future that holds our own world in a black mirror"
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The Washington decree : a novel
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Doggie, a dedicated advisor who has spent more than half her life supporting a remarkable Democratic candidate's path to the White House, is shattered when the President-elect's wife is assassinated on election night by Doggie's Republican father.
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The Banker's Wife
by Cristina Alger
On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthew's death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies. Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. Now that she's engaged to Grant Ellis, she will stop writing about powerful families and finally be a part of one. Her entry into the upper echelons of New York's social scene is more appealing than any article could ever be, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story. While looking into Swiss United, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story could also be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--if Marina chooses to publish it.
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The kiss of the spindle
by Nancy Campbell Allen
"Dr. Isla Cooper must travel to Port Lucy in Jamaica to locate the witch that placed a spell on her--one that puts her into a death-like sleep every night--before the spell becomes permanent"--Provided by publisher
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Toucan keep a secret
by Donna Andrews
Discovering the body of an elderly parishioner who had threatened to reclaim his wife's ashes from the church crypt, Meg uncovers local secrets with the help of The Reverend Smith's foster toucan. By the New York Times best-selling author of Gone Gull
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Magic triumphs
by Ilona Andrews
Mercenary Kate Daniels receives a mysterious box that represents a threat of war from the ancient enemy who nearly destroyed her family, a challenge that convinces her to combine forces with an unlikely ally. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Magic Binds
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Echoes in the walls
by V. C. Andrews
Fern and Ryder navigate brutal family disapproval, class divisions and shattering revelations from the past in their growing love for each other, in a second entry in the gothic saga that began with House of Secrets
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How to Love a Jamaican : Stories
by Alexia Arthurs
Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life.
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Little Sister
by Isabel Ashdown
After 16 years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long, Jess has moved into Emily's comfortable island home. Life couldn't be better. But when baby Daisy disappears while in Jess's care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart. Was Emily right to trust her sister after everything that happened before?
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Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom
by Nancy Atherton
On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, on the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, a powerful storm drives her off course and leaves her stranded in an ancient, rambling inn called The King's Ransom. When Lori is spooked by ghostly noises in the night, Aunt Dimity reminds her rather tartly that not all ghosts intend to harm the living. But the longer Lori is stuck at the inn, the stranger things seem...
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The Sinners
by Ace Atkins
The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem. Years ago, Colson's late uncle had put the clan's patriarch in prison, but now he's getting out, with revenge, power, and family business on his mind. To make matters worse, a shady trucking firm with possible ties to the Gulf Coast syndicate has moved into Tibbehah, and they have their own methods of intimidation. With his longtime deputy Lillie Virgil now working up in Memphis, Quinn Colson finds himself having to fall back on some brand-new deputies to help him out, but with Old West-style violence breaking out, and his own wedding on the horizon, this is without a doubt Colson's most trying time as sheriff. Cracks are opening up all over the county, and shadowy figures are crawling out through them--and they're all heading directly for him.
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The night visitor
by Lucy Atkins
"The stunning new noir thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Missing One and The Other Child...Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, threechildren, and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiraled into deceit, and if the truth comes out, she'll lose everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done. Vivian Tester is the socially awkward sixty-year-old housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary on which Olivia's book is based. Now Olivia's unofficial research assistant, Vivian has secrets of her own. As events move between London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, the relationship between these two women grows more entangled and complex. Then a bizarre act of violence changes everything. The Night Visitor is a compelling exploration of ambition, morality, and deception that asks the question: how far would you go to save your reputation?"
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Bad man : a novel
by Dathan Kahn Auerbach
Haunted by the disappearance of his younger brother five years earlier, Ben takes a job at the store where his brother went missing, where he encounters eerie co-workers and unsettling phenomena. By the author of Penpal
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Everyday people : the color of life--a short story anthology
by Jennifer Baker
A selection of short stories from a variety of award-winning authors—including Mia Alvar, Carleigh Baker, Glendaliz Camacho and Yiyun Li—highlights the moments that linger in life from doubts to epiphanies and loss to discovery.
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The Fallen
by David Baldacci
Visiting a friend's family home in an economically troubled western Pennsylvania community, Amos Decker, a detective with an uncanny eidetic memory, spots suspicious lights and discovers two dead bodies with no clear indication of how either victim died before corrupt local authorities and other mysterious roadblocks challenge his investigation.
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Shot Through the Heart
by Ms. Bam
Mourning a series of messy breakups, Nicole begins to think she will be alone forever, until she meets Jeremiah, who is fresh off a relationship with a rising R&B star and is hurting almost as much as Nicole.
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After Nightfall
by A. J. Banner
Seeking a reconciliation after a massive betrayal, Marissa's best friend attends her engagement party, ruins the evening and then turns up dead at the bottom of a beachside cliff, triggering an investigation into whether it was murder or suicide. By the best-selling author of The Twilight Wife
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A noise downstairs : a novel
by Linwood Barclay
"The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there is no rational explanation"
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The fifth to die
by J. D. Barker
"In the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, while Detective Porter delves deeper into the dark past of the Four Monkey Killer. Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling? She's found wearing the clothes of another girl, missing less than two days. While the detectives of Chicago Metro try to make sense of the quickly developing case, Porter secretly continues his pursuit of 4MK, knowing the best way to find Bishop is to track down his mother. When the captain finds out about Porter's activities, he's suspended, leaving his partners Clair and Nash to continue the search for the new killer alone. Obsessed with catching Bishop, Porter follows a single grainy photograph from Chicago to the streets of New Orleans and stumbles into a world darker than he could have possibly imagined, where he quickly realizes that the only place more frightening than the mind of a serial killer is the mind of the mother from which he came."
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Poisoned Pages
by Lorna Barrett
After hosting a dinner party, a mystery-bookstore owner and amateur sleuth tries to determine whether her cooking or foul play killed one of the guests.
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Snap
by Belinda Bauer
Waking up to discover a knife and sinister note in her bed, a young woman is connected to a string of burglaries and the recent brutal murder of a mother of three.
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Somebody's Daughter
by David Bell
Michael Frazier is searching for the missing daughter he never knew he had. A multi-layered plot with so many compelling, complex characters, this book grabbed me from the first sentences. -- Evelyn Cunningham for LibraryReads.
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Three Days Missing
by Kimberly Belle
Kat Kinkaid's only son goes missing on a class field trip, while Stefanie Huntington's son is being threatened. But is the culprit an anonymous stranger or someone the women trust?
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Read me
by Leo Benedictus
A serial stalker targets various women across London until he finally selects Frances, a young professional whose career is flourishing and proceeds to unravel her life from the inside out. 20,000 first printing.
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Foundryside
by Robert Jackson Bennett
A thief in a city controlled by industrialized magic joins forces with a rare honest police officer to stop an ancient evil ritual that endangers thousands of lives. By the author of City of Stairs
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On the mountain of the Lord : a novel
by Ray Bentley
Losing his faith in the wake of a tragic loss, a skeptical man begins experiencing vibrant dreams, visions and remarkable encounters of prophecy fulfillment in the Holy Land and diverse world regions.
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Ruff Justice
by Laurien Berenson
While preparing for the spring dog show, Melanie must investigate a murder after a talented canine portrait artist turns up dead behind her concession booth and her Aunt Peg's longtime dogsitter also disappears on the same day.
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A Double Life
by Flynn Berry
A gripping, intense, stunningly written novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Under the Harrow Claire is a hardworking doctor living a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it. Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her infant brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family's townhouse. Her father's car was found abandoned near the English Channel the next morning, with bloodstains on the front seat. Her mother insisted she'd seen him in the house that night, but his powerful, privileged friends maintained his innocence. The first lord accused of murder in more than a century, he has been missing ever since.
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The book in room 316
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
"#1 national bestselling and award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers another moving, evocative, and timely novel about how a small seed of hope can change the course of one's life. Savannah Graham thought she had the perfect marriage
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Murder on the Left Bank
by Cara Black
"The eighteenth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series! A dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of eric Besson, a lawyer in Paris's 13th arrondissement. The old man, an accountant, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession--he's waited 50 years to make it, and now it can't wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc, Paris's chief prosecuting attorney, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc, Besson's courier--his assistant and nephew--is murdered, and the notebook disappears. Grief-stricken eric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aimee Leduc to find the notebook, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She's not sure which she's more afraid of, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father's name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. Ultimately that's the reason she must take the case, which leads her across the Left Bank, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries"
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Suffer the children
by Lisa Black
Cleveland forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and her partner, Jack Renner, investigate after two young people turn up dead at a secure facility for juvenile offenders. By the New York Times best-selling author of Unpunished
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No place to call home : a novel
by JJ Bola
Follows a young Congolese boy as he struggles to fit in at a new school and make new friends after his family escaped the political violence of their homeland by fleeing to England.
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Four funerals and maybe a wedding
by Rhys Bowen
Lady Georgiana Rannoch's establishment as mistress of a grand estate is stymied by the property's disarray, the curious incompetence of the staff and a suspicious gas leak. By the award-winning author of the Molly Murphy series. By a New York Times best-selling author
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Breathless
by Celeste Bradley
"Bestselling authors Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan will sweep you away--across continents and centuries, combining the best of all worlds in one unforgettable romantic saga. She was "the Swan." London's premiere courtesan. Men want to be with her. Women loathe her success and yet admire her beauty, her riches, her independence. But when the jealous wife of her lover moves to have the Swan banished from her home on the high seas, she winds up crashed against Spain's rocky coast with no shoes, no clothes--and no name. Taken in by a tortured, sensuous man known as The Artist, the Swan comes to know the woman she wants to be--her artist's siren. When Art Professor Brenna Anderson is in danger of losing her post at Harvard, the rule-following, prim professor is at a loss of how to salvage the shreds of her life. But when a new painting in the mysterious Siren collection is discovered in a dusty old house in France, Brenna does the unthinkable--hops on a plane to uncover the identity of the beautiful, enigmatic woman who is the subject of the paintings. There's just one hitch--the frustrating, irritating, bold and beautiful art hunter Fitch Wilder is also looking for the Siren. He's been a thorn in Brenna's professional side for years, but when their individual quests lead them to team up despite being enemies, a whole new sumptuous world of art and culture opens up for the two of them. And with it, they enter a realm of passion and love... "
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One on one
by Michael Brandman
Reluctantly returning home when his father's ALS reaches debilitating levels, LAPD detective Buddy Steel is shocked by the brutal murder of the privileged coastal community's prominent sports coach. By a New York Times best-selling author
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The spy of Venice
by Benet Brandreth
Seeking his fortune in 16th-century London, a talented wordsmith joins a band of players before he is dispatched to Venice on an assignment that renders him the target of Catholic assassins and a shadowy killer. A first novel.
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Abandoned
by Allison Brennan
Max Revere investigates the disappearance of her own mother several years earlier, tracing her activities in a small Chesapeake Bay community where witnesses are keeping dark secrets. By a New York Times best-selling author
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Lady Be Good
by Amber Brock
In a novel set in the 1950s, a mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate explores the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami and Havana.
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The Locksmith's Daughter
by Karen Brooks
Locksmith's daughter Mallory Bright, who is just as good at cracking locks as her father, is drawn into the dangerous world of Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster and begins to have second thoughts when she sees the brutal side of espionage.
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Tailspin
by Sandra Brown
Hired to deliver a mysterious box to a fogbound Georgia town, daredevil pilot Rye Mallett is targeted by saboteurs and law enforcement officials before teaming up with an attractive but suspicious doctor to determine the box's significance. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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Mira's Last Dance
by Lois McMaster Bujold
In this sequel to the novella Penric's Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas. In the town of Sosie the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore with her own special expertise.
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Fogland Point
by Doug Burgess
Returning home to Narragansett Bay, a town where everyone has a secret, to care for his grandmother during her struggle with dementia, David Hazard discovers that her fragile memories could hold the key to an old mystery—and a sudden murder next door.
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The Lost for Words Bookshop
by Stephanie Butland
A secretly heartbroken woman who prefers books to people finds her world upended by the arrivals of a poet, a lover and three suspicious deliveries that reveal that someone has found out about her mysterious past.
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Mine : A Novel of Obsession
by J. L. Butler
A divorce lawyer risks her career, her sanity and her life when she falls into an illicit, all-consuming affair with her client—who becomes the primary suspect in his estranged wife’s sudden disappearance.
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She Was the Quiet One
by Michele Campbell
Enrolling in a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, rival twins Rose and Bel navigate the dark activities of their privileged, uninhibited classmates, while the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious teacher wonders about her husband's true nature.
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Our house
by Louise Candlish
Arriving home to find strangers moving into the prized family home she agreed to share with her ex, Fiona endures a domino effect of horrors as she discovers that her children have gone missing amid terrible revelations.
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Three things about Elsie : a novel
by Joanna Cannon
The internationally best-selling author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep presents the story of an injured woman who meditates on her complicated relationship with a best friend when a man they believed was dead joins her retirement community
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This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
by Edgar Cantero
Someone is murdering the sons of ruthless drug cartel boss "the Lyon" in San Carnal, California, and it is up to A.Z. Kimrean—male-female twins who occupy the same androgynous body—to investigate.
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We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories
by C. Robert Cargill
These tales and four more are assembled here as testament to Cargill’s mastery of the phantasmagoric, making We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories a collection of unnerving horror and fantasy will keep you up all night and haunt your waking dreams.
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Red, white, blue : a novel
by Lea Carpenter
Mourning the charismatic father who died suspiciously the day before her wedding, Anna becomes estranged from her new husband before meeting an enigmatic stranger who alludes to her father's secret past. By the screenwriter of Mile 22
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A Brush With Death : A Susie Mahl Mystery
by Ali Carter
In the village of Spire, murder is afoot. Rich landowner Alexander, 9th Earl of Greengrass, is caught with his trousers down in the village graveyard before meeting a gruesome end. Luckily Susie Mahl happens to be on hand. With her artist's eye for detail and her curious nature she is soon on the scent of the murderer.
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A Gathering of Secrets
by Linda Castillo
A deadly fire resulting in the death of an Amish teen exposes the dark side of the community to which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder once belonged.
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The cloven : a novel
by B. Catling
In the stunning conclusion to this endlessly imaginative saga, the young Afrikaner socialite Cyrena Lohr is mourning the death of her lover, the cyclops Ishmael, when she rekindles a relationship with famed naturalist Eugène Marais. Before departing down his own dark path, Marais presents her with a gift: an object of great power that grants her visions of a new world. Meanwhile, the threat of Germany's Blitz looms over London, and only Nicholas the Erstwhile senses the danger to come
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The Summer Nanny
by Holly Chamberlin
Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to squirrel away enough money so that her mom can finally leave her abusive husband.... But the passing weeks bring complications and revelations, altering friendships, testing the bond between mothers and daughters, and proving that the ripples from a single season can last forever.
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Record of a Spaceborn Few
by Becky Chambers
A young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, an archivist and others wrestle with profound questions after their evacuation ship, carrying the last humans on Earth, finally reaches its destination.
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Brother
by David John Chariandy
Coming of age during a sweltering summer in their Toronto housing complex, two boys, the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, dare to imagine better lives in the face of a violent shooting and the pulsing beats of 1990s hip-hop culture.
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Mary B
by Katherine J. Chen
The awkward middle child of five, Mary Bennet, who loses herself in the secret pleasures of reading and writing in nineteenth-century England, soon discovers that her fictional creations are no match for the very real scandal, tragedy, and romance that come into her life.
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Interior : a novel
by Thomas Clerc
The author's description of the apartment in which he has lived for the past ten years and its furnishings
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The House at Saltwater Point
by Colleen Coble
When Ellie's sister Mackenzie disappears, she is driven to find answers, while Coast Guard officer Grayson's suspicion that Mackenzie faked her own death for nefarious ends threatens to drive a wedge between him and Ellie.
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Bloody Sunday
by Ben Coes
CIA top special forces operative Dewey Andreas goes undercover in Macau, where he must foil Iran and North Korea's plot to acquire nuclear and long-range attack capabilities.
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Hangman
by Daniel Cole
Still recovering from the Ragdoll case, Detective Emily Baxter delves into yet another gruesome case when a copycat killer emerges in New York City and must shake off the grief and fear that have paralyzed her to stop the murders.
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Murder at the mansion : A Victorian Village Mystery
by Sheila Connolly
"The first in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her high school best friend asks her to come talk with the town leaders of Asheford, but she won't say why. Kate can't cut her last link to her past, so she agrees to make the short trip across the state to Asheford. Once Kate arrives, the town council members reveal that their town is on the verge of going bankrupt, and they've decided that Kate's skills and knowledge make her the perfect person to cure all their ills. The town has used its last available funds to buy the huge Victorian mansion just outside of town, hoping to use it to attract some of the tourists who travel to visit the nearby Civil War battle sites. Kate has less-than-fond memories of the mansion, for personal reasons, but to make matters worse, the only person who has presented a possible alternate plan is Cordelia Walker--Kate's high school nemesis, who had a hand in driving Kate away from Ashefordso many years. But a few days later Kate receives a call from the police--Cordelia has been found dead on the mansion property, and Kate is all-but certain that her name is high on the suspect list. She finds herself juggling the murder investigation andher growing fascination with the magnificent old house that turns out to be full of long-hidden mysteries itself. Kate knows she must clear her name and save her town--before she ends up behind bars"
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Caged
by Ellison Cooper
FBI profiler Sayer Altair hunts a brilliant serial killer with a dangerous obsession in Caged , a gripping thriller from debut author Ellison Cooper. In a residential Washington, D.C. neighborhood, a young woman's body is found in the basement of an abandoned house--starved to death in a cage, along with the video footage of a dark and deadly ritual.
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The Last of the Mohicans : The Illustrated Novel
by James Fenimore Cooper
The classic tale of a disillusioned man who exiles himself from a society whose values he abhors. Despite this exile, he agrees to take two sisters through hostile Indian country with the help of a Mohican scout.
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The Phantom Tree
by Nicola Cornick
After discovering an old portrait of Mary Seymour, the daughter of the last wife of Henry VIII who disappeared from all historical records, an antiquer tries to unlock the mystery of her disappearance. By a USA Today best-selling author.
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Don't eat me
by Colin Cotterill
Dr. Siri Paiboun, the ex-national coroner of Laos, must figure out how to use a high-tech movie camera so he can film a Lao adaptation of War and Peace while helping his friend Inspector Phosy with a murder investigation involving gnawed human remains
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Paradox
by Catherine Coulter
The next chilling thriller in the New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series.
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Cat flap
by Alan Cowell
"When she awoke as a cat, Dolores Tremayne saw no immediate advantage in having four paws instead of two arms and two legs..." A brilliant, funny novel of love, marriage and modern life. When the cat's away, the mice will play - but who will oversee the cat? Reminiscent of Nine Lives, the recent Kevin Spacey film in which a boorish business man is turned into a feline, Cat Flap is by turn poignant and hilarious. When Dolores Tremayne, a successful business executive, travels overseas, part of her remainsmysteriously behind in X, the family's indoor cat. Through feline eyes, Dolores witnesses the shocking behavior of her errant husband, the stalled novelist Gerald Tremayne. Far away in Germany, the human Dolores is conducting high-powered negotiations with a prestigious auto-maker, but back at home, her husband's liaisons force him into ever more drastic exploits. Meanwhile, Dolores begins to wonder about the strange words and images that have begun to pop into her head, as if from nowhere. Funny and memorable, Cat Flap will appeal to all fans of clever satire"
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The Melody
by Jim Crace
Alfred Busi, famed and loved for his music and songs, now in his sixties, mourns the death of his wife and quietly lives out his days alone in the large villa he calls home. One evening Busi is attacked by a creature he comes upon accidentally. Busi is convinced that the thing was no animal, but a child.
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The myth of perpetual summer
by Susan Crandall
"A girl uncovers her family's history of mental illness against the background of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War in this moving coming-of-age tale that harkens to both The Glass Castle and Forrest Gump. Tallulah James comes from a long line of intelligent college professors with strong Southern roots...and long-buried family secrets. Tallulah's childhood is a tumultuous one. Her mother is often absent as she puts her goals to save the world over her family. Her father's ignored bipolar disorder results in bouts of depression and manic behavior that often leave Tallulah afraid and confused. But with her older brother Grif to watch out for her and her grandmother to make sure she grows up into a proper Southern lady--whatever that means--her life is stable enough: that is, until a terrible tragedy rocks her entire community. Forced to move away from everyone she knows and loves at the age of sixteen, Tallulah lives on her own for seven years before returning back to the Mississippi town where it all began. As she begins to uncover her family history and to forgive them for the past, she finally learns the truth that has been hidden from her for so long. In this heartwrenching, raw, and ultimately satisfying novel set against the background of the 1960s, the award-winning author of Whistling Past the Graveyard explores what the word family really means: in all of its ugliness, beauty, and messy complications"
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Texas free
by Janet Dailey
A woman seeking refuge on her inherited ranch and a Special Ranger posing as a rugged cowhand navigate doubts about each other while investigating an outbreak of cattle rustling. By a New York Times best-selling author
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Vox
by Christina Dalcher
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
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This Mournable Body
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The protagonist of Nervous Conditions struggles to make a life for herself in Harare, Zimbabwe, eventually taking an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead, leading to an unforgivable betrayal.
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Rancher's dream
by B. J Daniels
Follows the Cahill siblings as they search for love in Big Sky Country.
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The masterpiece : a novel
by Fiona Davis
A recently divorced information-booth worker stumbles on an abandoned art school within a crumbling Grand Central Terminal before learning the story of a talented woman artist who went missing 50 years earlier. By the national best-selling author of The Dollhouse and The Address
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Pandora's Boy
by Lindsey Davis
When her new husband's hostile ex challenges her to investigate the poisoning of a naive young girl, Albia uncovers both the victim's questionable associates and the activities of a local woman before a friend's murder exposes dangerous local corruption.
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Kill the Farm Boy
by Kevin Hearne
While on a mission to stop LOCHER and figure out the conundrum of The Chosen One, Gustave the Talking Goat, Fia the Unusually Tall, Argabella the Ensorcelled Bird and Grinda the Sand Witch are joined by two others who have their own evil agendas.
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So much life left over
by Louis De Bernières
A closely knit group of British men and women struggle to cope with the world, and their own traumas, in the aftermath of World War I. By the author of Corelli's Mandolin
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The Cutting Edge
by Jeffery Deaver
Returning to New York City from their honeymoon to learn that a serial killer has been targeting couples in the process of buying engagement rings, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs discover that their target has a larger agenda than originally realized and that there is something unusual about the ring that Rhyme gave Sachs.
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Before and Again
by Barbara Delinsky
Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road for just a moment but the resulting collision was enough to rob her not only of her beloved daughter but ultimately of her marriage, family, and friends--and thanks to the nonstop media coverage, even her privacy. Now she lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid, in a small house with her cats and dog. She's thankful for the new friends she's made--though she can't risk telling them too much. And she takes satisfaction in working as a makeup artist at the luxurious local spa, helping clients hide the visible outward signs of their weariness, illnesses, and injuries. Covering up scars is a skill she has mastered."-- Amazon.com.
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Hunting Party
by Agnes Desarthe
A man, who accidentally wounds a rabbit on a hunting trip in the French countryside, saves the injured animal and hides it in his bag, after which he finds himself deeply connected to it and begins hearing it speak.
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Pretty things
by Virginie Despentes
"A woman convinces her sister, who has a beautiful voice, to pretend they are the same person so she can become famous. After she suddenly commits suicide, the remaining sister continues to use, and learn about, her dead sister's identity."
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The Iceman
by Peter T. Deutermann
A decorated submarine commander haunted by a violent youth unsettles his crew with the incrementally risky measures he takes to sink Japanese ships in the western Pacific during World War II. By the W. Y. Boyd Award-winning author of Pacific Glory
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French exit
by Patrick deWitt
Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband's tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where her deadbeat son and she navigate near-comic self-destructive choices. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Sisters Brothers.
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Heartbreaker : a novel
by Claudia Dey
A daughter living in a cult community where everyone thinks it is perpetually 1985 frantically searches for her mother, who was the first non-resident to join the town and who may have become the first person to leave.
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Gods of Wood and Stone
by Mark Di Ionno
In Cooperstown, two men—a first-ballot baseball Hall of Famer who lives in the spotlight, and a blacksmith, who longs for simpler times as he struggles to bring his baseball prodigy son to his side—search for what constitutes a meaningful life.
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No loyalty
by De'nesha Diamond
Collects new urban-fiction tales from a pair of the genre's hottest authors, including "Dangerous Liasons" by national best-seller De'nesha Diamond, in which Klaudya Ramsey is out for revenge on her own mother, who stole Klaudya's husband, freedom and life.
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One of us
by Craig DiLouie
"They call him Dog. Enoch is a teenage boy growing up in a rundown orphanage in Georgia during the 1980s. Abandoned from the moment they were born, Enoch and his friends are different. People in the nearby town whisper that the children from the orphanage are monsters. The orphanage is not a happy home. Brutal teachers, farm labor, and communal living in a crumbling plantation house are Enoch's standard day to day. But he dreams of growing up to live among the normals as a respected man. He believes ina world less cruel, one where he can be loved. One night, Enoch and his friends share a campfire with a group of normal kids. As mutual fears subside, friendships form, and living together doesn't seem so out of reach. But then a body is found, and it may be the spark that ignites revolution"
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The Book of Hidden Things
by Francesco Dimitri
Three friends go searching for Art when he misses their yearly reunion in their Southern Italy hometown, hearing fantastical stories along the way about Art's recent life and discovering a curious manuscript in his home authored by Art, called The book of hidden things.
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The Dependents
by Katharine Dion
Feeling adrift after his wife of nearly 50 years passes away, Gene seeks to repair his relationship with his daughter and reflects on the loyalties, betrayals and secrets that shaped the family's ties to another couple.
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The point
by John Dixon
Recruited into a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities, a daredevil misfit is trained in telekinetic combat and dreamscape recon only to discover that her energy powers are spiraling out of control.
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The summer list : a novel
by Amy Mason Doan
Returning home after being away for 17 years, Laura is reunited with her former best friend, Casey, and as they embark on one last scavenger hunt, a devastating secret threatens to tear them apart once again.
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Last Seen Alive
by Claire Douglas
When a house swap with a rich couple goes horribly wrong, Libby Hall finds her paranoia getting the better of her as she desperately tries to discover who knows her secrets and what they want from her.
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A steep price
by Robert Dugoni
Investigating the brutal murder of a young woman who had resisted an arranged marriage in favor of an education, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite navigates work dynamics that are placing her career and her life on the line.
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The Corpse at the Crystal Palace : A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
by Carola Dunn
Accompanying family members to the Crystal Palace in the spring of 1928, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher discovers the murdered body of a nanny at the same time her cousins' caregiver nearly dies chasing down a mysterious third nanny.
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In the Valley of the Devil
by Hank Early
Private investigator Earl Marcus thought he'd conquered his demons after vanquishing the malevolent spirit of his fundamentalist preacher father, but faces a new terror when he investigates rumors of a place in the woods where a killer collects human skulls.
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Tear Me Apart
by J. T. Ellison
When a life-threatening illness reveals that she is not related to her parents, a competitive skier uncovers the sinister impact of lies and desperation on two families.
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Deep Roots
by Ruthanna Emrys
After surviving Deep One internment camps and making peace with the government that destroyed her home, Aphra Marsh attempts to track down long-lost family members, only discover that many people have simply gone missing.
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Horse
by Talley English
Falling in love with a magnificent but dangerously headstrong horse in the wake of her father's abandonment, a preteen farm girl reevaluates her beliefs about family, loss and forgiveness while carefully training her new equine friend.
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Bad
by Chloé Esposito
After stealing her twin Beth's identity, Alvina Knightly flees Sicily to evade the police and pursue her new boyfriend, who has vanished with Beth's stolen riches.
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The ghost script : a graphic novel
by Jules Feiffer
In the final volume of the "Kill My Mother" trilogy Annie Hannigan proposes the idea of a ghost script to reveal the inside story of the Hollywood Blacklist, Detective Sam Hannigan haunts his wife, and two HUAC agents get Lola Burns to turn
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Girls' Night Out
by Liz Fenton
For estranged friends Ashley, Natalie, and Lauren, it's time to heal the old wounds between them. Where better to repair those severed ties than on a getaway to the beautiful paradise of Tulum, Mexico? But even after they're reunited, no one is being completely honest about the past or the secrets they're hiding. When Ashley disappears on their girls' night out, Natalie and Lauren have to try to piece together their hazy memories to figure out what could have happened to her, while also reconciling their feelings of guilt over their last moments together.
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Safe houses : a novel
by Dan Fesperman
"In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along withher husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of the most ruthless and powerful man at the agency. Her attempts to expose the dark truths about what she has witnessed will bring about repercussions that reach across decades and continents into the present day, when, in a farm town in Maryland, a young man is arrested for the double murder of his parents, and his sister takes it upon herself to find out why he did it"
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The Darkest Time of Night
by Jeremy Finley
A debut novel by an award-winning Nashville investigative reporter presents the suspenseful tale of a politician's wife whose efforts to protect her family and rescue her missing grandson ensnare her in a conspiracy involving UFO research and her own past.
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Minding the Light
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Six long years ago, Captain Reynolds Macy sailed away from his bride, looking forward to the day when he would return to Nantucket Island with a ship's hold full of whale oil. But when that momentous day finally arrives, Ren soon discovers that everything has changed in his absence. Everything. "Is nothing on this island as it appears to be?" he whispers in despair.
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Silent Hearts
by Gwen Florio
An American aid worker and her local interpreter forge an unexpected friendship in spite of disparate life experiences and the increasing violence that surrounds them in 2001 Kabul. By the author of the Lola Wicks series.
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Chariot on the Mountain
by Jack Ford
Based on little-known true events, a fictional account from an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist recreates a female slave's treacherous journey toward freedom during the days before the Civil War, a time when the traditions of the Old South still existed.
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Ahab's return : or, The last voyage
by Jeffrey Ford
Reimagines the end of Herman Melville's Moby Dick and has Captain Ahab return to the mainland to search for his wife and child who have moved from Nantucket to New York after Ishmael erroneously reported his demise.
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Relic
by Alan Dean Foster
A lone surviving human of a destructive engineered virus is rendered a research subject by his alien rescuers, who outmaneuver his reluctance by offering to help him find the mythical planet Earth. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Strange Music
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Cooper's charm
by Lori Foster
Themes of community and second chances lend depth and heart to a sizzling contemporary romance from a New York Times best-selling author.
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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
A widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family.
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A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
by Dianne Freeman
Wealthy young widow Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, moves from the English countryside to Victorian London, where accusations that implicate her in her late husband's death cause her to begin her own investigation
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Inappropriation : a novel
by Lexi Freiman
"A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics. Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual fantasies, and a biological essentialist mother, Ziggy sets off on a journey of self-discovery that moves from the Sydney drag scene to the extremist underbelly of the Internet. As PC culture collides with her friends' morphing ideology and her parents' kinky sex life, Ziggy's understanding of gender, race, and class begins to warp. Ostracized at school, she seeks refugein Donna Haraway's seminal feminist text, A Cyborg Manifesto, and discovers an indisputable alternative identity. Or so she thinks. A controversial Indian guru, a transgender drag queen, and her own Holocaust-surviving grandmother propel Ziggy through a series of misidentifications, culminating in a date-rape revenge plot so confused, it just might work. Uproariously funny, but written with extraordinary acuity about the intersections of gender, sexual politics, race, and technology, Inappropriation is literary satire at its best. With a deft finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lexi Freiman debuts on the scene as a brilliant and fearless new talent"
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The Grey Bastards
by Jonathan French
Jackal, a proud member of a group of half-orcs tasked with protecting human civilization from their full-blooded brethren, discovers a dark secret that threatens to dissolve the tenuous peace between species.
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The day of the dead : a novel
by Nicci French
"LOUISE PENNY says the Frieda Klein novels are"fabulous."JOSEPH FINDER says they're "in the rich vein of Kate Atkinson."And TAMI HOAG calls them "truly unique." Now the final book in this extraordinary series is here. And it's an ending you'll never forget... A decade ago, psychologist Frieda Klein was sucked into the orbit of Dean Reeve -- a killer able to impersonate almost anyone, a man who can disappear without a trace, a psychopath obsessed with Frieda herself. In the years since, Frieda has worked with -- and sometimes against -- the London police in solving their most baffling cases. But now she's in hiding, driven to isolation by Reeve. When a series of murders announces his return, Frieda must emerge from the shadows to confront her nemesis. Andit's a showdown she might not survive. Criminology student Lola Hayes has tracked Frieda down with a single-minded pursuit: she wants to delve inside the mind of a woman besieged by darkness. But in following every move Frieda makes, Lola is exposing herself to the same terrors--and the same twisted fixation of a diabolical psychopath. This gripping cat-and-mouse thriller pits one of the most fascinating characters in contemporary fiction against an enemy like none other. Smart, sophisticated, and spellbinding, it's a novel to leave you breathless"
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The Intermission
by Elyssa Friedland
A novel told from the alternating perspectives of a husband and wife who both have something to hide pulls back the curtain on a seemingly-happy marriage, posing the question: how much do we really know—and how much should we want to know—about the people we love the most?
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Mysterium
by Susan Froderberg
A young woman who lost her mother in a climbing accident resolves to summit the tallest peak of the Indian Himalayas, Mount Sarasvati, as a member of an uneasy team consisting of scholars, exes and grieving survivors.
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Words from the heart
by Kathleen Fuller
Her fingertips brushed against something else in the box of doilies. She lifted a bundle of letters, neatly tied with a thin red ribbon. Ivy Yoder hasn't heard from John King in over a year. She knows it's time to let go of the idea that they will one day marry, but she's humiliated to be one of the oldest single women in her Amish community of Birch Creek. When quirky Cevilla Schlabach asks her to help clean out an attic, Ivy is grateful for the distraction. Noah Schlabach isn't from Birch Creek, or even Ohio. His job as an auctioneer takes him around the country and away from a typical Amish life, but he still remains devoted to his family. So when his aging aunt asks him to help clean out her attic, he agrees. Plus, who knows what curious items he might find up there? As Noah and Ivy work side by side, they come across a different kind of treasure: a packet of letters written during the Korean War. Soon they are swept up in the story of two young people falling in love--even as they remain determined not to fall in love themselves. Words from the Heart is a moving story of lost love letters, fragile fears, and the beauty of taking another step forward"
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River to Redemption
by Ann H. Gabhart
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, twelve years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did for her. She's determined to find a way to buy Louis's freedom. But in 1840s Kentucky, she'll face an uphill battle.
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No One Ever Asked : A Novel
by Katie Ganshert
The absorbtion of an impoverished school district by the affluent community of Crystal Ridge brings three women together as tensions rise, leading to an unforeseen event that impacts them all.
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Maze master
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
The protégé of a discredited geneticist teams up with a religious studies scholar in a race to find her mentor and help him find a cure for a catastrophic retrovirus.
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Rome West
by Justin Giampaoli
"An alt-history account of the founding of America, as a lost fleet of Roman soldiers arrives a thousand years before Columbus. In AD 323, a fleet of Roman ships is lost in a storm, and they find themselves on the shores of the New World, one thousand years before Columbus. Unable to return home, they establish a new colony, Roma Occidens, radically altering the timeline of America and subsequent world events as seen through the eyes of one family. An exploration in alternative history from Brian Wood,Justin Giampaoli, and Andrea Mutti"
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All we ever wanted : a novel
by Emily Giffin
When her golden-boy son posts a controversial photograph of a scholarship student online, triggering a local scandal, a wife and mother finds herself sympathizing more with the girl's family than her own. By the best-selling author of First Comes Love
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Shelved under murder
by Victoria Gilbert
In Taylorsford, Virginia, during the height of October's leaf-peeping season, Library director Amy Webber, and her assistant, Sunny, prepare for the library's yard-sale fundraiser—until a dead body stops them in their tracks. By the author of A Murder for the Books
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Red Waters Rising
by Laura Anne Gilman
Isobel, the Devil’s Left Hand, and Gabriel arrive in the free city of Red Stick, where, in a place rife with danger and duplicity, they must root out evil by the way of mad magicians, ghosts and twisted animal spirits.
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The Butcher's Daughter
by Victoria Glendinning
An atmospheric novel set during the Tudor Era follows a young woman’s struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a period of great upheaval.
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Every Body Has a Story
by Beverly Gologorsky
As the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis hit, four close friends who barely made it out of poverty in New York City’s South Bronx, suddenly find themselves caught up in the economic maelstrom. Lena, Zack, Dory, and Stu must reconcile their troubled past with an uncertain future in Beverly Gologorsky’s stunning new novel, a tapestry of working-class life in a world on the brink.
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The bouncer : a novel
by David Gordon
A strip-club bouncer who was expelled from Harvard crosses paths with a beleaguered FBI agent over a terrorist plot that sends them to a high-stakes perfume heist. By the author of Mystery Girl
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The Romanov Empress : A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
by C. W. Gortner
Marrying the Romanov heir, nineteen-year-old Danish princess Minnie becomes empress of Russia and treads a perilous path of compromise in a beloved but resistance-torn country where her son becomes the last tsar.
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European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
by Theodora Goss
Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature's mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society's nefarious plans once and for all. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. It's time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create their own destinies.
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Connect : a novel
by Julian Gough
Struggling to balance her research with the needs of her technologically gifted but socially disabled son, a biologist has a major breakthrough in her lab that her son secretly releases on the internet, garnering attention from high-profile and dangerous individuals.
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Last looks : a novel
by Howard Michael Gould
Pathologically committed to a minimalist life in solitude, a former LAPD superstar is drawn by his ex into the case of a once-famous, heavily drinking actor whose wife has been found dead. A first novel.
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Pale As Death
by Heather Graham
While investigating the gruesome murder of a young actress, who was drained of blood and cut in two, LAPD Detective Sophie Manning turns to a consultant for the FBI's paranormal team when the high-profile case takes a paranormal turn.
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Sight : a novel
by Jessie Greengrass
A first novel by an award-winning writer draws on the history of psychoanalysis and the origins of modern surgery to explore the complexities and poignant birth-and-death cycles of being a child, choosing to become a parent and letting go.
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Bimini twist : A Jane Bunker Mystery
by Linda Greenlaw
"Jane Bunker returns in another thrilling, small-town mystery set in Down East Maine It seems like everyone in Green Haven knows that Jane Bunker has scored an invite to the ultra-exclusive Summer Solstice Soiree--and they all assume she'll be in attendance, as one of the few eligible single women in town. Of course, that's the last place Jane would like to be; hobnobbing and making small talk with the upper crust isn't exactly her idea of a good time. She prefers to put in her hours working as an insurance investigator, and part-time as the deputy sheriff. When she gets to work one morning, the sheriff asks her to take a break on her personal war on drugs--it seems that she's been so successful catching dealers and interrupting the flow of drugs in the area that she's called too much attention to just how bad it's gotten, and the community is worried that all the attention on the drug trade will deter the summer tourists that Green Haven so badly needs to keep the economy going. Instead, Jane takes on amissing person case--a young woman working at the Bar Harbor Inn has disappeared. The Inn employs foreign exchange students from all over the world during the busy summer season, and the missing Bianca Chiriac is one of them. When it becomes clear that Bianca isn't just sleeping off a late-night party, Jane is plunged into the underbelly of the resort town, and must find the missing woman before the worst happens"
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Rust & stardust
by T. Greenwood
The award-winning author of Bodies of Water traces the story of the 11-year-old kidnapping victim whose 1948 abduction inspired Nabokov's Lolita, recreating in chilling detail Sally Horner's exploitation and assault by predatory former inmate Frank LaSalle
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Desperate girls
by Laura Griffin
When a vicious murderer she once helped prosecute resurfaces and launches a killing spree to avenge himself against those who put him behind bars, a successful defense attorney is forced to investigate a disturbing case from her past
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In the distance with you
by Carla Guelfenbein
"Inspired by the life of ground-breaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, this Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three characters whose lives are intertwined with that of an enigmatic author"
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The Story of a Marriage
by Geir Gulliksen
A deeply vulnerable and heartbroken husband who is losing his wife to another man tries to make sense of his failed marriage by attempting to understand it, and the infidelity, from the excruciating perspectives of his wife and her lover.
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Burning Meredith
by Elizabeth Gunn
After the charred remains of a body is found once the Meredith Mountain fire is contained, newspaper editor Alice Adams and her nephew take it upon themselves to investigate and, once the smoke clears, are faced with some disturbing revelations—and murder.
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Serpentine
by Laurell K Hamilton
U.S. marshal and paranormal hunter Anita Blake faces new and deadlier enemies as she and those she loves confront major changes in their lives. By the author of Crimson Death
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Dead man running
by Steve Hamilton
In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, Alex McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. By a New York Times best-selling author
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The Night Ferry
by Lotte Hammer
Sixteen children and four adults are killed in a devastating boat crash in Copenhagen. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is called in, only to discover that this was no accident and that one of the passengers has a very personal connection to the homicide team. Reeling from this revelation and not knowing who to trust, Simonsen follows a trail that eventually leads him to Bosnia and a legacy of criminal misconduct. All evidence points towards one shady figure: a high-ranking army specialist with a suspicious past. But the more Simonsen digs, the further the truth slips from his grasp.
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The man who couldn't miss : a Stewart Hoag mystery
by David Handler
"In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has chronicled the rise, fall, and triumphant return of many a celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own, very welcome second act. After hitting a creative slump following the success of his debut novel, Hoagy has found inspiration again. Ensconced with his faithful but cowardly basset hound, Lulu, on a Connecticut farm belonging to his ex-wife, Oscar-winning actress Merilee Nash, he's busy working on a new novel. He's even holding out hope that he and Merilee might get together again. Life is simple and fulfilling--which of course means it's time for complications to set in"
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Every Time You Go Away
by Beth Harbison
Returning to the beach house where her husband died suddenly years earlier, Willa is overwhelmed by memories and reaches out to her son and friends to reconnect and heal.
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Her pretty face
by Robyn Harding
"The author of the bestselling novel The Party--lauded as "tense and riveting" by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda--returns with a chilling new domestic drama about two women whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets. Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day she started living her life. Overweight, insecure, and lonely, she is desperate to fit into Forrester's world. But after a disturbing incident at the school leads the other children and their families to ostracize the Metcalfes, she feels more alone than ever before. Until she meets Kate Randolph. Kate iseverything Frances is not: beautiful, wealthy, powerful, and confident. And for some reason, she's not interested in being friends with any of the other Forrester moms--only Frances. As the two bond over their disdain of the Forrester snobs and the fierce love they have for their sons, a startling secret threatens to tear them apart
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City of ink : A Mystery
by Elsa Hart
Forced to return home to unravel the mystery surrounding his mentor's execution, Li Du confronts painful memories while investigating a double murder, the secrets of several Beijing residents and threats against his safety. By the author of White Mirror
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The sea queen
by Linnea Hartsuyker
Ragnvald navigates increasingly treacherous political and military uprisings on behalf of King Harald, while his adventure-craving sister, Svanhild, longs for a more stable home for her son. By the author of The Half-drowned King. 25,000 first printing
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City of Lies : A Poison War Novel
by Sam Hawke
A master poisoner works beside his sister to defend their city-state when the chancellor he worked undercover to protect is assassinated with an unknown poison at the same time an army lay siege to the city.
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Make them sorry : a Camaro Espinoza novel
by Sam Hawken
An ex-army medic who is enjoying a relaxing life in Miami agrees to help out an accountant who has a stalker problem and a homicide detective who is over-eager to insert himself into her life. 35,000 first printing.
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The mere wife
by Maria Dahvana Headley
A modern retelling of Beowulf recasts classic themes from the perspectives of the attackers and finds a suburban housewife and a battle-hardened veteran navigating dark realities to protect the sons they love.
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Whistle in the Dark
by Emma Healey
After her missing daughter, Lana, is found injured and with no memory of what happened to her, Jen Maddox retraces Lana's steps--a journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of the daughter she thought she knew.
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Suicide club : a novel
by Rachel Heng
"In this debut set in near future NYC--where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming--Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a "Lifer," which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever--if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange--where instead of stocks, human organs are now bought and sold--she has a beautiful apartment,and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTechTM, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die. But Lea's perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society's pursuit of immortality, and instead chose to live--and die--on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it's also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known, but who is the only family she hasleft in the world."
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The Mermaid
by Christina Henry
Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life.
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London rules
by Mick Herron
"London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack fromall directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; from the PM's favorite Muslim, who's about to be elected mayor of the West Midlands, despite the dark secret he's hiding; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks. Over at Slough House, the MI5 satellite office for outcast and demoted spies, the agents are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. Plus someone is trying to kill Roddy Ho. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - that of making a bad situation much, much worse"
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The second coming : a thriller
by John Heubusch
Dr. Jon Bondurant and devout Domenika Josef must protect a powerful child borne of DNA believed to be that of Jesus Christ, who could save the world from a deadly pandemic. By the author of The Shroud Conspiracy.
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The perfect couple : a novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
Featuring popular characters from such novels as A Summer Affair, a tale set during a Nantucket wedding season finds Chief of Police Ed Kapenash searching for a bride's killer among her own wedding party.
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Little comfort
by Edwin Hill
Harvard librarian Hester Thursby must track down charismatic—and deadly—con man Sam Blaine before he bilks another widow out of her life savings. A first novel.
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The View from Here
by Lynne Hinton
After Katie Sinclair decides to stay up in a pine tree, she creates a media sensation and is visited by a variety of characters trying to discover her motive, but Katie is changed as she learns about nature, grief, and love during her time spent in the tree.
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Poppy Harmon investigates
by Lee Hollis
Poppy Harmon and her friends find that life after retirement can be much busier—and deadlier—than any of them ever anticipated.
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How are you going to save yourself
by J. M Holmes
Four friends come of age in a Rhode Island postindustrial enclave and struggle to liberate themselves from the limitations imposed on African Americans while navigating the dynamics of sex, drugs, class and family. A first novel.
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Dig deep my grave
by Cheryl Honigford
In 1930s Chicago, while introducing detective Charlie Haverman, her long-time love interest, to her family for the first time, radio star Vivian Mitchell must clear his name in the murder of her old flame. By the author of The Darkness Knows.
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Our homesick songs : a novel
by Emma Hooper
The members of a family in a once-idyllic fishing community decimated by mysteriously dwindling fish populations pursue respective goals in work and love in their determination to survive. By the author of Etta and Oto and Russell and James
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All Your Perfects
by Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, delivers her highly anticipated new novel All Your Perfects, a tour de force about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.
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The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom
by A. E. Hotchner
Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewelery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father, a traveling watch salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Despite seeing the real killer flee the scene, Aaron can't do much to help in the moment--no one will take a kid's word for it. Undaunted, Aaron enlists an unlikely band of friends and helpful adults to clear his father's name.
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Like to Die : A Mckenzie Novel
by David Housewright
Investigating acts of harassment targeting a St. Paul factory, McKenzie uncovers deadly complications and is baffled when the company's owner, a businesswoman with ties to a poker buddy, appears to be manipulating the case.
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Her sister's lie
by Debbie Howells
After she discovers that her missing sister, Nina, has been murdered, Hannah is forced to confront the ghosts of their unhappy childhood and the reasons she and Nina finally drifted apart. By an internationally best-selling author.
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A river of stars : a novel
by Vanessa Hua
Betrayed by the boss who is also the father of her unborn child, an undocumented Chinese factory worker is forced to flee and reinvent herself in San Francisco's Chinatown in the desperate hopes of securing American citizenship for her baby.
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Orchid and the Wasp
by Caoilinn Hughes
An iron-willed young woman comes of age while traveling through London, Dublin and New York to secure her dysfunctional family's future after the departure of her career-oriented father.
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Without Fear
by David Hunt
A team of CIA contractors chase down a tactical nuclear weapon discovered by the Taliban in Kandahar while Russian Spetsnaz and Israeli Mossad agents trigger chaos and confusion, in the second installment of the series following Without Mercy
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The Seas
by Samantha Hunt
Clinging to a fantasy that she is actually a mermaid, an unnamed misfit endures cruel gossip and waits for the father who left years earlier before falling impossibly in love with an Iraq War veteran.
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The devoted : a novel
by Blair Hurley
Seeking solace in Buddhism to the chagrin of her Irish Catholic family, an enlightenment-seeking store clerk becomes dangerously entangled with her Zen Master and reinvents herself in New York City before the past catches up in disturbing ways.
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Heaven Adjacent
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Heading upstate when her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, a Manhattan attorney reconsiders her future at a ramshackle Adirondacks farm, where she bonds with a homeless mother and daughter, reconnects with her estranged son and collects junkyard throwaways to build zoo animal sculptures.
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Liar, Liar
by Lisa Jackson
A "woman searches for the mother she hasn't seen in twenty years, and uncovers a nightmare of greed and deception.
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Boardwalk Summer
by Meredith Jaeger
Two young women two generations apart discover the joy and heartbreak of following their dreams. Aspiring Hollywood actress Violet makes a shocking choice in 1940, and seventy years later, Mari sets out to discover what happened on that long ago summer.
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Born to be Wilde
by Eloisa James
Desperate LaVinia Gray gets some unexpected help from Parth Sterling, the richest bachelor in England, with finding a husband; and, as they work closely together, she vows to convince him that he is the only man for her.
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The sapphire widow : a novel
by Dinah Jefferies
Enjoying her life in 1935 Ceylon in spite of heartbreaking miscarriages, the daughter of a successful British gem trader is forced by her husband's sudden death to unravel a mystery involving a local cinnamon plantation and an outdoorsman's checkered past. By the best-selling author of The Tea Planter's Wife
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Second time sweeter : a blessings novel
by Beverly Jenkins
A redemption-seeking recovering alcoholic and foster-child mentor seeks forgiveness from the woman he betrayed, while a store owner and his high-school sweetheart consider a second chance at love. Hardcover Library Edition. By a USA Today best-selling author.
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Double Blind
by Iris Johansen
Hired gun Kendra Michaels joins forces with private investigator Jessie Mercado and agent-for-hire Adam Lynch to investigate the murder of a man with connections to a mysterious wedding video and the conviction of a serial killer years earlier.
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River of secrets : a Wallace Hartman mystery
by Roger Johns
A Baton Rouge police detective investigates after a congressman is murdered and his brother's childhood best friend is the prime suspect. By the author of Dark River Rising
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Springfield 1880
by William W. Johnstone
Lieutenant Holden must stop the thieving, traitorous Captain Foster from crossing into Mexico and selling to the highest bidder four wagons of munitions and supplies bound for the Arizona Territory.
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The other woman
by Sandie Jones
A blissful romance between Adam and Emily is challenged by Adam's manipulative mother, who resorts to dire measures to keep all other women out of her son's life. A first novel.
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The line that held us
by David Joy
A deer hunter and his friend cover up the accidental shooting death of a man from a notoriously violent family that retaliates in nightmarish ways. By the author of Where All Light Tends to Go
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It All Falls Down
by Sheena Kamal
To find the truth about her father’s life and violent death, Nora Watts, focused on the mysterious events of her father’s past and the clues they provide to her own fractured identity, is led to a private investigator whose latest is case is somehow connected to her.
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After the Monsoon : An Ernst Grip Novel
by Robert Karjel
In the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip can count on only his own shrewdness to survive when he must investigate the suspicious death of a Swedish army lieutenant.
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The Gunners : a novel
by Rebecca Kauffman
Reconnecting with a group of childhood friends after one of them committed suicide, Mikey needs to confront dark secrets from his past involving his father to assess how much of this is impacting his current emotional stupor.
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Bellewether
by Susanna Kearsley
As war is raging, young French Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, becoming an unwilling and unwelcome guest that soon has feelings for the daughter of the house, Lydia Wilde. By a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author.
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The Swing of Things
by Linda Keir
A novel told from the dual perspective of a husband and wife follows an attorney and her stay-at-home husband as they, after meeting another couple, explore a more modern definition of marriage and way to spice things up that could cost them everything.
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Bone on bone
by Julia Keller
An investigation involving the suspicious deaths of a drug addict's parents is complicated by former deputy Jake Oakes' struggles to adjust to his physical challenges and Bell's grief over the loss of her sister. By the author of Bitter River
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A Measure of Darkness
by Jonathan Kellerman
In the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip can count on only his own shrewdness to survive when he must investigate the suspicious death of a Swedish army lieutenant.
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Presidio
by Randy Kennedy
Two brothers in the 1970s Texas panhandle steal a car to search for one's wife who ran off with their tiny amount of money and accidentally kidnap a Mennonite girl who was asleep in the backseat.
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Stygian : A Dark-hunter Novel
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Traces the story of an Urian, who questions his predatory role and travels to the depths of Hades to save the woman he loves at the risk of multiple worlds. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Styxx
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Providence : a novel
by Caroline Kepnes
"A journey of two best friends that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller, from the acclaimed author of YOU, whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original." Growing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other and their intense connection. But just when Jon is ready to confess the depth of his feelings, he's kidnapped by his substitute teacher, a discredited scientist who is obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft and has a plot to save humanity. After four years in captivity, Jon finally escapes, only to discover that he now has an uncontrollable power that endangers anyone he has intense feelings for. He runs away to Providence to protectChloe while he searches for answers. Across town from Jon, Detective Charles "Eggs" DeBenedictus is fascinated by a series of strange deaths--young, healthy people whose hearts just. stop. Convinced these deaths are a series of connected, vigilante killings, he jeopardizes his job and already strained marriage to uncover the truth. With heart, insight, and a keen eye on human frailty, Kepnes whisks us on a journey through New England and crashes these characters' lives together in the most unexpected ways, exploring the complex relationship between the powerful and the powerless, love and identity, self-preservation and self-destruction, and how the lines are often blurred between the two"
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Ok, Mr. Field
by Katharine Kilalea
Retiring to a Cape Town beachhouse inspired by Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, an injured concert pianist begins to experience the psychological consequences of the house's unusual design.
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If you leave me : a novel
by Crystal Hana Kim
Forced into the life of a refugee when the North Korean army invades her home, 16-year-old Haemi must choose between love and security in ways that resonate throughout generations of her family. A first novel.
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3 story : the secret history of the giant man
by Matt Kindt
"From New York Times bestselling and Harvey award-winning Mind MGMT graphic novelist Matt Kindt comes a decades-spanning tale of love, secrets, aging, espionage, and family. Craig Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig's strange gigantism brings a variety of problems as he becomes more isolated and unknowable. Told during three eras by three different women with unique relationships with nearly three story tall Craig, 3 Story follows his sad life from his birth to the present"
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In the Vines
by Shannon Kirk
After wealthy heir Mary Olivia Pentacost, following her mother's death, moves into a New England seaside estate with her cloistered Aunty Liv, she learns deep family secrets, and, with each revelation, comes a new, foreboding threat.
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All These Beautiful Strangers
by Elizabeth Klehfoth
While attending Knollwood, 17-year-old Charlie, to become a member of an elite, secret society, must play The Game, a semester-long, diabolical high-stakes scavenger hunt that will jeopardize everything and reveal the terrible truth about her family, her school and her own life.
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Eden
by Andrea Kleine
"A bold, page-turning novel that follows how a childhood abduction sets two sisters on very different courses ... Every other weekend, Hope and Eden--backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand--wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It's the divorce shuffle; they're used to it. Only this weekend, he's screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile. More than twenty years later, Hope is that classic New York failure: a playwright with only one play produced long ago, newly evicted from an illegal sublet, working a humiliating temp job. Eden has long distanced herself from her family, and no one seems to know where she is. Whenthe man who abducted them is up for parole, the girls might be able to offer testimony to keep him jailed. Hope sets out to find her sister--and to find herself--and it becomes the journey of a lifetime, taking her from hippie communes to cities across the country. Suspenseful and moving, Eden asks: how much do our pasts define us, and what price do we pay if we break free?"
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The crooked staircase : a Jane Hawk novel
by Dean R. Koontz
"Jane Hawk--who dazzled readers in The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room--faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime in this electrifying new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz. "I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse than dead." Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom--and free will--of millions. Battling the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane's husband, and is escalating across the country, has made the rogue FBI agent a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind the plot. Deploying every resource their malign nexus of power and technology commands, Jane's enemies are determined to see her dead. or make her wish she was. Jane's ruthless pursuers can't stop her from drawing a bead on her prey: a cunning man with connections inhigh places, a twisted soul of unspeakable depths with an army of professional killers on call. Propelled by her righteous fury and implacable insistence on justice, Jane will make her way from southern California to the snow-swept slopes of Lake Tahoe to confront head-on the lethal forces arrayed against her. But nothing can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born.
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The Blurry Years
by Eleanor Kriseman
Callie navigates her teenage years while living with her mother in late 1970s and early 1980s Florida.
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Desolation mountain : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Cork and his son, Stephen, investigate a plane crash that has killed a senator, a case that is further complicated by the baffling disappearances of several first responders. By the New York Times best-selling author of Ordinary Grace
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Rip the Angels from Heaven
by David Krugler
Intelligence officer Ellis Voigt fights to prevent the Soviets from infiltrating the Manhattan Project while running from enemies on both sides, in the thrilling sequel to The Dead Don’t Bleed.
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Immigrant, Montana : a novel
by Amitava Kumar
"The author of the widely praised Lunch with a Bigot now gives us a remarkable novel--reminiscent of Teju Cole, W.G. Sebald, John Berger--about a young new immigrant to the U.S. in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women he comes to love.The young man is Kailash, from India. His new American friends call him Kalashnikov, AK-47, AK. He takes it all in his stride: he wants to fit in--and more than that, to shine. In the narrative of his years at a university in New York, AK describes the joys and disappointments of his immigrant experience; the unfamiliar political and social textures of campus life; the indelible influence of a charismatic professor--also an immigrant, his personal history as dramatic as AK's is decidedly not; the very different natures of the women he loved, and of himself in and out of love with each of them. Telling his own story, AK is both meditative and the embodiment of the enthusiasm of youth in all its idealism and chaotic desires. His wry, vivid perception of the world he's making his own, and the brilliant melding of story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, picture and text, give us a singularly engaging, insightful, and moving novel--one that explores the varieties and vagaries of cultural misunderstanding, but is, as well, an impassioned investigation of love"
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The Incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon
A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive search for her.
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Certain American states : stories
by Catherine Lacey
The author of The Answers presents a first collection of short stories in which subtly complex characters search for love, struggle with grief and explore the minutiae of the human condition
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Avalanche
by Mercedes Lackey
John Murdock and The Seraphym navigate their pasts and the suspicion of former allies in their efforts to stop the Thulians, who have destroyed the Metis homeworld. Co-written by the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series
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The Hawkman : A Fairy Tale of the Great War
by Jane Rosenberg Laforge
This lyrical adaptation of a beloved classic follows an American schoolteacher and an Irish musician, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as they are brought together by a great war, a great love and the mythology that unites them.
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An unwanted guest
by Shari Lapeña
Weathering a storm that has cut them off from the outside world, the guests at a Catskills skiing lodge panic as an unknown assailant starts killing them off one by one. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Couple Next Door
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Half Moon Bay
by Alice Laplante
Moving to a tiny seaside community after her teen daughter's senseless death, Jane is moved by the shattering disappearances of local children only to find herself targeted with suspicion.
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Whiskey when we're dry
by John Larison
Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, a 17-year-old sharpshooter cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
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Comemadre
by Roque Larraquy
The world of Comemadre is full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing, here the monstrous is not alien, but the consquence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress.
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Assassin's Run
by Ward Larsen
An assassin works to clear his name after he is wrongly accused of murdering a Russian oligarch on a yacht off the island of Capri. By the author of Assassin's Code
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Smoking Kills
by Antoine Laurain
When his work issues a smoking ban, headhunter Fabrice Valentine, after numerous failed attempts to quit, discovers something terrible after accidentally causing a man’s death and wonders if he now needs to kill someone every time he wants to properly appreciate his next cigarette.
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Arabella the Traitor of Mars
by David D. Levine
Arabella has finally returned home to Mars to settle in to life with her husband, the mysterious Captain Singh, but when the Regent of the United Kingdom sets his eyes on solidifying his rule in the colonies and dispatches a fleet to better cement his control over Mars, Arabella and Singh must decide whether their ultimate loyalties lie with the Empire or with their home.
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Brooklyn blood
by Paul Levitz
"In Brooklyn, a serial killer is on the loose--and when strange clues lead down a paranormal path, a detective confronts his inner demons to solve the case. After returning from a tour in Afghanistan, detective Billy O'Connor returns home to a Brooklyn he doesn't recognize. As he tries to return to his normal routines, his PTSD is easily triggered and he suffers severe hallucinations. Once he begins to work a gruesome homicide case, however, O'Connor has difficulty sorting out what's real--and after he uncovers some strange clues, he'll have to face the unthinkable to bring the killer to justice. From New York Times Bestselling authors Paul Levitz (75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth-Making) and Tim Hamilton (Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation)"
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Number one Chinese restaurant : a novel
by Lillian Li
A working family that has built a busy life running a beloved Maryland Chinese restaurant is forced by youthful recklessness and a tragedy to confront interpersonal conflicts and the limits of what parents are willing to sacrifice for their children.
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An ocean of minutes
by Thea Lim
"In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan--time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer,the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years. But when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found.Alone in a changed and divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must navigate a new life and find a way to locate Frank, to discover if he is alive, and if their love has endured. An Ocean of Minutes is a gorgeous and heartbreaking story about the endurance and complexity of human relationships and the cost of holding onto the past--and the price of letting it go"
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Ball lightning
by Cixin Liu
After witnessing his parents' bizarre death by ball lightning, Chin uncovers a new frontier in particle physics that pits him against a weapons-obsessed army major and an unscrupulous physicist. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Three-body Problem
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Drop by Drop
by Morgan Llywelyn
Global catastrophe looms as all plastic mysteriously liquefies. All the small components making many technologies possible--navigation systems, communications, medical equipment--fail. In Sycamore River, life is disrupted. Everything people depended on melts around them, with sometimes fatal results. All they can rely upon is themselves. And this is only the beginning..
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Open me : a novel
by Lisa Locascio
Redirected to Copenhagen by a logistical mix-up, a college student studying abroad falls for her guide and embarks on an erotically charged transformative journey of self-discovery that is overshadowed by her lover's dark temperament. A first novel.
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Noumenon Infinity
by Marina J. Lostetter
The convoy sent to a distant star named LQ Pyx returns to work on what everyone believes is a Dyson Sphere but might actually be something much more sinister. By the author of Noumenon.
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History of violence
by Édouard Louis
Shattered by an act of violence, a gay Parisian novelist returns to the village and family he swore to leave behind in what becomes an indictment of cultural racism and homophobia.
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Remind me again what happened
by Joanna Luloff
"Claire wakes in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there or why. She tries to piece together her past by looking at a box of photos saved by her husband and her best friend, but she senses a mystery at the center of these fragments. Is Charlie still her husband? Is Rachel still her friend?"
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April in Paris, 1921
by Tessa Lunney
Helping Picasso search for a stolen portrait in Jazz Age Paris, Kiki Button is ordered by her spymaster to identify a double agent or face imprisonment, a dual mission that challenges her knowledge of the city.
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Four Dominions
by Eric Lustbader
Emma and Bravo Shaw rescue the Testament of Lucifer from nefarious hands as the Fallen awake and exert their corrupt influence on the highest ranks of power.
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Severance
by Ling Ma
A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader.
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The prisoner in the castle : a Maggie Hope mystery
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Exiled on a remote Scottish island with other SOE agents, World War II codebreaker Maggie Hope searches for a killer among her fellow spies when they begin to drop off one by one. By the New York Times best-selling author of Mr. Churchill's Secretary
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Cottage by the Sea
by Debbie Macomber
Retreating to a Pacific Northwest haven after a tragedy, Annie bonds with a kindhearted local artist, her reclusive landlord and a troubled teen before an unexpected opportunity challenges her ambitions.
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The lost vintage : a novel
by Ann Mah
"Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turner about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy to study for her Master of Wine test, and uncovers a lost diary, a forgotten relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since WWII"
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Women of the dunes : a novel
by Sarah Maine
"From the author of the acclaimed novels The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River, a rich, atmospheric tale set on the sea-lashed coast of west Scotland, in which the lives of a ninth-century Norsewoman, a nineteenth-century woman, and a twenty-first-century archeologist weave together after a body is discovered in the dunes. Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullanessm a lush Scottish island enshrouded in myth and deeply important to her family. Her great-great-grandmother Ellen was obsessed with the strange legend of Ulla, a Viking maiden who washed up on shore with the nearly lifeless body of her husband--and who inspired countless epic poems and the island's name. Central to the mystery is an ornate chalice and Libby, an archaeologist,finally has permission to excavate the site where Ulla is believed to have lived. But what Libby finds in the ancient dunes is a body from the Victorian era, clearly murdered
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Bindi : a novel
by Paul Matthew Maisano
An orphan from India is impulsively adopted by a Los Angeles interior decorator whose initial struggles with motherhood are complicated by the discovery that the boy is loved by a distant surviving relative. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
A novel set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris follows the director of a Chicago art gallery and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in Paris who both struggle to come to terms with the ways AIDS has affected their lives.
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The Everything Girl
by L. E. Maleki
Paris Tehrani, starting over in Manhattan, deals with her maniacal new boss—a hedge fund CEO, who is determined to ruin her life—until she finds incriminating information that could take him down.
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When we found home
by Susan Mallery
Three very different people navigate the complicated discovery that they share the same late father and a wealthy grandfather who would surround himself with his blended family. By the best-selling author of Secrets of the Tulip Sisters. 250,000 first printing
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Notes from the fog : stories
by Ben Marcus
A collection of 13 stories about modern alienation includes tales of a worker who is disfigured testing his employer's nutritional supplement and two architects in a failing marriage who must work together on a terrorist-attack memorial.
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Ohio
by Stephen Markley
Four former classmates converge on their recession- and opioid-ravaged hometown on a fateful summer night that finds them pursuing respective goals based on haunting memories from their shared past. A first novel.
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Early work
by Andrew Martin
An aimless writer immerses himself in his notion of Yeats' "foul rag and bone shop of the heart" while pursuing an intimate affair with a sexually adventurous woman who evinces the talent and nerve he craves.
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Constance Verity saves the world
by A. Lee Martinez
"In her Last Adventure, Connie successfully became an ordinary person. People warned her it would be boring, and they were right. That's exactly why Connie loves it. But there's an Adventurer-shaped hole in the cosmos now, and a lot of interested partieseager to fill it. Not all of those candidates are fit for the role, and if The Adventurer falls into the wrong hands, it can lead to chaos and destruction. Constance still has all the skills of her old life, but she's no longer the chosen one. Yet when the fate of the world is at stake, she sets off, reluctantly, to keep the forces of evil from stealing the destiny she abandoned"
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Metamorphica
by Zachary Mason
Presents a reimagining of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" that artfully reconstructs and astrologically connects the stories of such classic figures as Narcissus, Pygmalion, and Midas.
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The girl from Blind River : a novel
by Gale Massey
After becoming indebted to her uncle Loyal, nineteen year-old Jamie is forced to work at his beck-and-call, but when Loyal frames her younger brother Toby for murder, she must choose to either embrace her inner criminal or deny it
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A short film about disappointment
by Joshua Mattson
A jaded film critic peppers his reviews with disclosures from his own life, from his dream of making a film without mainstream commercialism to his feud with a vending-machine tycoon. A first novel.
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The Garden Party
by Grace Dane Mazur
The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden.
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The robots of Gotham
by Todd McAulty
"A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines. After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an envoy of implacable machines. Canadian businessman BarrySimcoe arrives in occupied Chicago days before his hotel is attacked by a rogue war machine. In the aftermath, he meets a dedicated Russian medic with the occupying army, and 19 Black Winter, a badly damaged robot. Together they stumble on a machine conspiracy to unleash a horrific plague--and learn that the fabled American resistance is not as extinct as everyone believes. Simcoe races against time to prevent the extermination of all life on the continent... and uncover a secret that America's machine conquerors are desperate to keep hidden"
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Round midnight
by Laura McBride
Four women from diverse backgrounds find their lives intersecting at a Las Vegas casino nightclub where they each experience a life-changing moment
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The Quiet Side of Passion
by Alexander McCall Smith
Isabel navigates a complex family situation when she learns that a single mom has been associating with a con artist and making questionable claims about her son's paternity.
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The adventure zone : here there be gerblins
by Clint McElroy
A graphic novel adapted from the popular role-playing game podcast follows the exploits of Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior
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Caught in Time
by Julie McElwain
Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret. As a special agent for the FBI, Kendra thought she'd encountered every kind of evil. But when another, even more vicious murder rocks East Dingleford, Kendra realizes that they're dealing with a stone-cold killer -- one who has a shocking secret that he will do anything to protect.
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Praise song for the butterflies
by Bernice L McFadden
Sacrificed into ritual servitude at a brutal religious shrine where she endures unspeakable acts, a once-privileged daughter is rescued after 15 years and navigates trauma and scrutiny in order to heal. By the award-winning author of The Book of Harlan
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The reservoir tapes
by Jon McGregor
Returns readers to the territory of the award-winning author's Reservoir 13, tracing the efforts of an interviewer who collects stories throughout a secretive English village to piece together the fate of a missing girl
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Safe and sound
by Fern Michaels
Learning that a deceased former client's young prodigy son is being increasingly subjected to danger by greedy caregivers, Isabelle summons the Sisterhood to protect the boy and search for one of their own who has gone missing. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author
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Love's Grip
by Nika Michelle
Two lonely hearts will find each other even in the darkest circumstances. . . .
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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth
by Michael Mignola
"The plague of frogs has ended, but earth will never be the same, and the fractured B.P.R.D. struggles to battle dangerous monsters and humans alike, from a trailer-park cult to a Russian town ravaged by a zombie-like virus. Guy Davis's final B.P.R.D. story sets the stage for Tyler Crook's (Harrow County) backwoods-horror debut, as Liz Sherman hides from a world that she helped push toward armageddon, and Abe Sapien is shot down by a girl who's seen the world to come. This is the first hardcover editionof the B.P.R.D Hell on Earth series, and collects the first three trade paperback volumes of the B.P.R.D Hell on Earth series (New World, Gods and Monsters, and Russia) plus an expanded sketch book section."
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Jenny Finn
by Mike Mignola
"London's dockside is threatened by the twin terrors of a plague leaving bodies covered in tentacles and a slasher killing women in the night. Desperate for answers after the wrong man is executed for the murders, a group of Londoners holds a seance to contract the supposed killer, and his story of a girl born of the sea who has brought a terrible curse only brings them more questions."
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The lady of Tarpon Springs
by Judith Miller
A lawyer who takes over her friend's sponging business to avoid her parents' matchmaking schemes and a professional sponge diver who doubts his new boss's capabilities overcome their differences to solve a diver's murder amid rumors of sunken treasure. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
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The Late Bloomers' Club
by Louise Miller
The author of The City Baker's Guide to Country Living presents a novel about two headstrong sisters, a small town's efforts to do right by the community and the power of a lost dog to conjure up true love.
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Outcasts of Order
by L. E. Modesitt
Beltur, an Order mage, discovers he possesses frightening powers not seen for hundreds of years. With his new abilities, he survives the war in Elparta and saves the lives of all. However, victory comes with a price. His fellow mages now see him as a threat to be destroyed, and the local merchants want to exploit his power. There's only one way he can remain free and survive--he's going to have to run.
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Me, Myself and Them
by Dan Mooney
Struggling to cope with a tragic loss, Denis Murphy has learned to live a bit differently. When his enigmatic ex-girlfriend comes back into his life, she threatens to shatter the finely crafted world around him. As Denis begins to re-emerge from his sheltered existence and rediscover the person he used to be,and he is forced to confront the demons that share not only his house, but also his head.
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How to Be Famous
by Caitlin Moran
Moran followed her award-winning, New York Times best-selling feminist memoir, How To Be a Woman, with the widely and hand-clappingly reviewed debut novel, How To Build a Girl. In this sequel, 18-year-old Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) lives in London and writes for an of-the-moment music magazine. She's jealous of friend John's big BritPop music success-until she has the idea of writing a column about the ups and down of getting and being famous.
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The Throwaway
by Michael Moreci
Mark Strain had it all--beautiful wife, a baby on the way, and a skyrocketing career as a D.C. lobbyist. But when Mark is violently abducted from his home by masked men, everything he knows is turned upside down. They say Mark committed treason. They say he's a traitor to the United States. They say he's a spy.
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How to Keep a Secret
by Sarah Morgan
Lauren, Jenna, their mother, Nancy, and Lauren's daughter, Mack, are not so close. But when they are thrown together for a summer on Martha's Vineyard, these very different women must relearn how to be a family. And while unraveling their secrets might be their biggest challenge, the rewards could be infinite.
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Those Other Women
by Nicola Moriarty
When a private Facebook group that airs workplace secrets falls victim to a series of vindictive leaks, carefully concealed secrets and lies are exposed with devastating consequences|forcing a few of the women to face painful truths about their lives and the things they do to survive.
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The Beatles Yellow Submarine
by Bill Morrison
SUPERANNO Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine comes this fully authorized graphic novel adaptation. The Beatles are recruited by the Captain of the Yellow Submarine to help him free Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the world of Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies
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Head games
by Mary B Morrison
Four competitive friends wager on which of them can "date-and-dump" the most women and post the proof on social media, a situation that culminates in dangerous consequences. By the best-selling author of Soulmates Dissipate
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
After losing her parents, a young college graduate in New York City spends a year alienating the world under the influence of a crazy combination of drugs.
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The breakers
by Marcia Muller
The disappearance of a young recovering addict in southwest San Francisco leads private investigator Sharon McCone to the site of a Prohibition-era nightclub, where she discovers a ghastly chamber of horrors. By a New York Times best-selling author. 25,000 first printing
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Dog symphony
by Sam Munson
An American professor travels to Buenos Aires to present at a conference and look up a colleague with benefits but winds up locked out of his hotel at dusk in a city full of vaguely sinister stray dogs.
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Convenience store woman
by Sayaka Murata
A Japanese woman who has been working at a convenience store for 18 years, much to the disappointment of her family, finds friendship with an alienated, cynical and bitter young man who becomes her coworker.
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Awakened
by James S. Murray
After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready. Many dignitaries, including the American President, are in attendance for the inaugural run. When the train pulls into the station, they see that all the train cars are empty and the cars' interiors are drenched in blood. As chaos descends, all those in the pavilion scramble to get out. But the horror is only beginning. There's something living beneath New York City, and it's not happy we've woken it up.
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Envy
by Victoria Christopher Murray
Gabrielle Wilson has the perfect life: a Beverly Hills mansion, a loving family, and a massively successful PR firm. When her father admits that an affair he had years before resulted in a daughter, Gabrielle is shocked, but is actually happy. Could this be the sister she has been praying for all her life?
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The Paris Wedding
by Charlotte Nash
Reluctantly agreeing to attend her ex's wedding in beautiful Paris, a talented couture designer finds her head turned by a handsome photojournalist before confronting a choice that threatens someone else's happiness.
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The impostor's lure
by Carla Neggers
The murder of a federal prosecutor found in possession of an art forgery places Sharpe and Donovan on a high-stakes manhunt that tests the limits of their skills. By a New York Times best-selling author. 50,000 first printing
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Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
A wonderful reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story. A tale of love, family, magic, and destiny, told from the perspective of three strong female characters. -- Melanie Liechty for LibraryReads.
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Becoming Belle
by Nuala O'Connor
The charming eldest daughter of a 19th-century middle-class military family reinvents herself to gain entry into London's cultural and social circles before falling in love with a young aristocrat whose brutal father disapproves of the match. By the author of Miss Emily
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Playing With Matches
by Hannah Orenstein
Sasha Goldberg, a recent college graduate, lands a job with a New York City dating service for the city's elite, and with her own relationship on the rocks, becomes involved with a charming Southern writer.
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Only to Sleep
by Lawrence Osborne
In 1988, 72-year-old Philip Marlowe must come out of retirement to investigate the death of Donald Zinn--supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife.
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Other people's love affairs : stories
by D. Wystan Owen
Set in a picturesque village on the rugged English coast, 10 interconnected stories follow the people of Glass who are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets, and held captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present.
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Where the crawdads sing
by Delia Owens
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a tragedy, a beautiful hermit who has survived for years in a marsh becomes targeted by unthinkable forces. A first novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Cry of the Kalahari
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As Wide As the Sky
by Jessica Pack
After her son, Robbie, is executed on death row, Amanda Mallorie's discovery of someone's class ring among Robbie's possessions leads her to embark on a quest to find its owner.
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The lido
by Libby Page
"A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject--and the unlikely and life-changing friendship that develops between them. Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettably small stories. When she's assigned to write about the closing of the local lido (an outdoor pool and recreation center), she meets Rosemary, an eighty-six-year-old widow who has swum at the lido daily since it opened its doors when she was a child. It was here Rosemary fell in love with her husband, George; here that she's found communion during her marriage and since George's death. The lido has been a cornerstone in nearly every part of Rosemary's life. But when a local developer attempts to buy the lido for a posh new apartment complex, Rosemary's fond memories and sense of community are under threat. As Kate dives deeper into the lido's history--with the help of a charming photographer--she pieces together a portrait of the pool, and a portrait of a singular woman, Rosemary. What begins as a simple local interest story for Kate soon blossoms into a beautiful friendship that provides sustenance to both women as they galvanize the community to fight the lido's closure. Meanwhile, Rosemary slowly, finally, begins to open up to Kate, transforming them both in ways they never knew possible. In the tradition of Frederick Backman, The Lido is a charming, feel-good novel that captures the heart and spirit of acommunity across generations--an irresistible tale of love, loss, aging, and friendship"
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Unbridled
by Diana Palmer
Widowed Texas Ranger and single dad John Ruiz hardened his heart years ago. Day after day, he tracks the roughest criminals in the Lone Star State, leaving little room for love. So when John butts heads with the beautiful nurse who's helping his young son, he's floored by how quickly the sparks fly. Ever since her mother's and brother's brutal murders, Sunny Marlowe has devoted her life to helping save others. Adorable Tonio Ruiz is just another youngster she's trying to help--or so she tells herself. Little does she know he's John's son. When her life comes under fire, can one mysterious rancher rescue her?
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Cries of the Fire Prince : Cries of the Fire Prince
by Kevin Panetta
"After defeating a former Zodiac Starforce member and her mean-girl minions the girls thought they would get a break, but a new big-bad has come out to play and demons are overrunning the town!"
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Bring Me Back
by B. A. Paris
Twelve years after Finn’s girlfriend Layla disappeared, a discovery raises new questions.
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The Shortest Way Home
by Miriam Parker
Despite having a fast track to a successful professional and romantic life in Manhattan, Hannah leaves it all to take a job helping to save a failing Sonoma winery.
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Swift vengeance
by T. Jefferson Parker
Tracking a mysterious killer who has been targeting drone operators, PI Roland Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with an FBI agent who is haunted by Bureau failures. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Room of White Fire
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If You See Me, Don't Say Hi : Stories
by Neel Patel
A debut story collection by a first-generation Indian American gives voice to, and undermines, deeply held stereotypes through the subversive choices of protagonists who confront racism, discontinue hypocritical social mores and navigate impossible secrets.
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Murder in Paradise : Library Edition
by James Patterson
A collection of three novellas includes "The Lawyer Lifeguard," in which, after surviving a car bomb that killed his fiancée, defense lawyer Brian Lord takes a lifeguard job at the beach.
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Red alert : an NYPD Red mystery
by James Patterson
When a fundraiser involving New York's wealthy elite is targeted by a fatal blast, detectives Zack Jordan and Kylie MacDonald discover a link between the bombing and the murder of a high-profile woman filmmaker before realizing that the bombers may be among the A-list guests they were hired to protect.
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Texas Ranger
by James Patterson
Dedicated Texas Ranger Rory Yates is wrongly implicated in the murder of his ex-wife and finds his skills pushed to the limit in his effort to find the real killer and prove his own innocence. Co-written by a #1 best-selling author.
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Rush : a novel
by Lisa Patton
A wealthy southern mom's ambition to secure her daughter's sorority membership compromises the prospects of a maternal housekeeper and a sweet, unpedigreed pledge harboring a dark secret. By the best-selling author of Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter
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Dear Mrs. Bird
by A. J. Pearce
In 1940s London, Emmy takes a job as a typist that evolves into answering rejected letters sent to an advice columnist. -- Judy Hartman for LibraryReads.
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Night soil
by Dale Peck
The teenage son of an art-world darling, pathologically shy Judas Stammers retreats into a world of anonymous sexual encounters at a roadside rest area until he decides to dig into his family history, unearthing secrets that cause him to question everything.
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The air you breathe : a novel
by Frances de Pontes Peebles
An orphaned kitchen maid and the reckless daughter of a sugar baron embark on a volatile friendship marked by their ambitions to escape, their changing fortunes and unexpected fame. By the award-winning author of The Seamstress
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The Story of H
by Marina Perezagua
Years after World War II, a soldier searches for the young Japanese girl he was supposed to be taking care of after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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When Katie met Cassidy
by Camille Perri
"From the acclaimed author of THE ASSISTANTS comes another gutsy book about the importance of women taking the reins--except this time, when it comes to finding sexuality, pleasure and love sometimes where you least expect it. Katie Daniels is a perfection-seeking 28-year-old lawyer living the New York dream. She's engaged to charming art curator Paul Michael, has successfully made her way up the ladder at a multinational law firm, and has a hold on apartments in Soho and the West Village. Suffice it tosay, she has come a long way from her Kentucky upbringing. But the rug is swept from under Katie when she is suddenly dumped by her fiance, Paul Michael, leaving her devastated and completely lost. On a whim, she agrees to have a drink with Cassidy Price-a self-assured, sexually promiscuous woman she meets at work. The two form a newfound friendship, which soon brings into question everything Katie thought she knew about sex--and love. WHEN KATIE MET CASSIDY is a romantic comedy that explores how, as a culture, while we may have come a long way in terms of gender equality, a woman's capacity for and entitlement to sexual pleasure still remain entirely taboo. This novel tackles the question: Why, when it comes to female sexuality, are so few women figuring out what they want and then going out and doing it?"
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The sword of justice
by Leif G. W. Persson
Murder isn't often good news. But when DS Evert Bӓckström is told that Thomas Eriksson—a mafia lawyer and renowned defender of the guilty—has been killed, he can't help but celebrate, perhaps with a little vodka. Bäckström's good mood is spoiled, however, when he's assigned to the frustrating case, as narrowing down the list of people who wanted Eriksson dead is almost impossible.
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In Dreams Forgotten
by Tracie Peterson
1906. Judith Gladstone came to San Francisco after her parents died to find her last living relative, an aunt she has never met. Instead she has fallen head over heels in love with Caleb Coulter, her friend's brother. Caleb has promised to help Judith find her aunt, but she can tell he thinks of her only as a friend, and she struggles to hide her feelings. When Caleb traces Judith's aunt to the wealthy Whitley family, Judith is reunited with her long-lost relatives. The truths she learns about her past and her parents are shocking and overwhelming, however, and the more she gets to know her new family, the more danger she uncovers. Someone does not want Judith in the picture, and they will do whatever it takes to get rid of her.
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Sister of mine
by Laurie Petrou
After killing Penny's brutal husband in a fire, orphaned sisters Penny and Hattie think have gotten away with murder, until, more than year later, they both fall for the same charming young newcomer.
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Dead Drift
by Dani Pettrey
Seven years ago, operative Luke Gallagher vanished to become part of an elite team set on capturing a deadly terrorist. When Luke returns to face those he left behind, their help becomes his only hope of stopping his target's latest threat of an attack that would shake America to its core. Private Investigator Kate Maxwell never stopped loving Luke Gallagher after he disappeared. Now he's back, and together they must unravel a twisting thread of secrets, lies, and betrayal while on the brink of a biological disaster.
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Charlotte Walsh likes to win : a novel
by Jo Piazza
"From Jo Piazza, the bestselling author of The Knock Off, How to Be Married, and Fitness Junkies, comes an exciting, insightful novel about what happens when a woman wants it all--political power, marriage, and happiness--but isn't sure just how much she's willing to sacrifice to get it. Charlotte Walsh is running for Senate in the most important race in the country during a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. Still reeling from a presidential election that shocked and divided the country and inspired by the chance to make a difference, she's left behind her high-powered job in Silicon Valley and returned, with her husband Max and their three young daughters, to her downtrodden Pennsylvania hometown to run in the Rust Belt state. Once the campaign gets underway, Charlotte is blindsided by just how dirty her opponent is willing to fight, how harshly she is judged by the press and her peers, and how exhausting it becomes to navigate a marriage with an increasingly ambivalent and often resentful husband. When the opposition uncovers a secret that could threaten not just her campaign but everything Charlotte holds dear, she has to decide just how badly she wants to win and at what cost. A searing, suspenseful story of political ambition, marriage, class, sexual politics, and infidelity, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win is a glorious portrait of what it takes for a woman to run for national office in America today. Set amidst a disturbing political landscape unlike any other in history--with operatives who strive to win at any costs, an electorate that prefers disposable news, and unprecedented incivility from just about everyone--Jo Piazza has created an engrossing and timely novel for readers on both sides of the aisle"
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Witchmark
by C. L. Polk
After going to war to escape his destiny, Miles Singer is unable to leave his past behind when he, after faking his own death, reinvents himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veteran’s hospital where he can no longer hide what he truly is.
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We all love the beautiful girls
by Joanne Proulx
Three suburban families' lives spiral dangerously out of control after a man and woman are cheated out of their life savings by their best friend, and a teenage boy passes out in the snow at a party.
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Once a Scoundrel
by Mary Jo Putney
The disgraced son of a proud naval dynasty embarks on a dangerous mission in hostile waters to rescue an earl's kidnapped daughter from life as a harem slave.
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Under a dark sky : a novel
by Lori Rader-Day
A widow discovers her husband's reservation at a dark-sky park and decides to go, only to become a suspect in a murder. By the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Little Pretty Things.
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Summerland
by Hannu Rajaniemi
In a world where death is exploited, the British Empire extends its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased, where an SIS agent will have to go rogue to stop the Soviets from building their own god.
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A Tale of Two Murders
by Heather Redmond
With the help of his boss' attractive, vivacious daughter, young journalist Charles Dickens investigates the death of a young woman that bears unsettling similarities to a murder that occurred a year ago to the day.
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We Begin Our Ascent
by Joe Mungo Reed
Chronicles the journey of a married couple, one of them a world-class cyclist, and the other a successful geneticist, as they grapple with the challenges of new parenthood while descending into a dark world of illegal drug smuggling.
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Hits and Misses : Stories
by Simon Rich
A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars.
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Eagle & Crane
by Suzanne Rindell
Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II.
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Find You in the Dark
by Nathan Ripley
Martin Reese has a hobby, he digs up murder victims. He buys stolen police files on serial killers, and uses them to find and dig up missing bodies. Calls in the results anonymously, taunting the police for their failure to do their job. Detective Sandra Whittal takes that a little personally. She's suspicious of the mysterious caller, who she names the Finder. Maybe he's the one leaving the bodies behind. If not, who's to say he won't start soon? As Whittal begins to zero in on the Finder, Martin makes a shocking discovery. It seems someone, someone lethal is very unhappy about the bodies he's been digging up. Hunted by a cop, hunted by a killer. To escape and keep his family safe, Martin may have to go deeper into the world of murder than he ever imagined.
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Trail of Lightning
by Rebecca Roanhorse
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinetah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinetah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than anything she could imagine.
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Better late than never
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
The horrific childhood of Curtis Black is revealed when his estranged sister falls dangerously ill at the same time his 12-year-old daughter spirals into wild and rebellious behavior, in a conclusion to the best-selling series.
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Fruit of the drunken tree : a novel
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Set against the violence of 1990s Colombia, a young girl and a maid form an unlikely and dangerous relationship. Equal parts heartwrenching and beautiful. -- Alejandra Rodriguez for LibraryReads.
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Plum rains
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
"2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at a critical low and the elderly are living increasingly long lives. This population crisis has precipitated a mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia--as well as the development of refined artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short. In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been working in Japan for the last five years, is the caretaker for Sayoko Itou, an intensely private womanabout to turn 100 years old. Angelica is a dedicated nurse, working night and day to keep her paperwork in order, obey the strict labor laws for foreign nationals, study for her ongoing proficiency exams, and most of all keep her demanding client happy. But one day Sayoko receives a present from her son: a cutting-edge robot caretaker that will educate itself to anticipate Sayoko's every need. Angelica wonders if she is about to be forced out of her much-needed job by an inanimate object--one with a preternatural ability to uncover the most deeply buried secrets of the humans around it. While Angelica is fighting back against the AI with all of her resources, Sayoko is becoming more and more attached to the machine. The old woman is hiding many secrets of her own--and maybe now she's too old to want to keep them anymore. In a tour de force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction. Plum Rains elegantly broaches such important contemporary conversations as immigration, the intersection of labor and technology, the ecological fate of our planet and the future of its children"
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Tiffany blues : a novel
by M. J. Rose
A candidate at Tiffany's Jazz Age artist colony navigates her attraction to her host's grandson and competes for a gallery spot before an unknown rival exposes her traumatic past. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Library of Light and Shadow
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Confessions of the fox : a novel
by Jordy Rosenberg
"Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voththrows himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's true story--his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox. Dated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. Sold into servitude at twelve, P struggles for years with her desire to live as "Jack." When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London's newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. At last, P becomes Jack Sheppard, one of the most notorious--and most wanted--thieves in history. An imaginative retelling of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Confessions of the Fox blends high-spirited adventure, subversive history, and provocative wit to animate forgotten histories and the extraordinary characters hidden within. "Confessions of the Fox is a riotous and transporting novel. It's rich in the sound of another time, while thrillingly germane to our own. Jordy Rosenberg is a total original--part scamp, part genius--who has written a rollicking page-turner of a first novel. Hang on for the ride."--Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts "Hot damn! Jordy Rosenberg is one of the finest new talents I've seen in many years, and Confessions of the Fox is a startlingly good debut novel. The book is rich with fact and well-invented fiction, bubbling with ideas that surprise and satisfy."--Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling"
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Rescued
by David Rosenfelt
When a transport carrying dozens of dogs to the northeast turns up with a murdered driver, defense lawyer and dog rescuer Andy Carpenter navigates a tricky moral line to represent the chief suspect, his wife's Marine ex.
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The Disappearing
by Lori Roy
After leaving her cheating husband in New York City and returning to her family's historic Florida plantation, Lane Fielding's oldest daughter disappears, reigniting her memories and fears of a serial killer who traumatized the area in the 1970s
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Empire of Silence
by Christopher Ruocchio
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.
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The anomaly
by Michael Rutger
"If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at least a passing resemblance to Nolan Moore -- a rogue archaeologist hosting a web series derisively dismissed by the "real" experts, but beloved of conspiracy theorists. Nolan sets out to retrace the steps of an explorer from 1909 who claimed to have discovered a mysterious cavern high up in the ancient rock of the Grand Canyon. And, for once, he may have actually found what he seeks. Then the trip takes a nasty turn, and the cave begins turning against them in mysterious ways. Nolan's story becomes one of survival against seemingly impossible odds. The only way out is to answer a series of intriguing questions: What is this strange cave? How has it remained hidden for so long? And what secret does it conceal that made its last visitors attempt to seal it forever?"
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Trust me
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
An unlikely alliance between an accused killer who swears she is innocent and a grieving journalist who would rebuild her shattered life leads to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. By the award-winning author of Say No More
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You Were Made for This
by Michelle Sacks
Visiting her childhood best friend's home in Sweden, where she is warmly welcomed and begins to appreciate the community's simple routines, Frank begins to notice treacherous undercurrents beneath her friend's social appearance of domestic tranquility.
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The Last Time I Lied
by Riley Sager
An artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl accepts an opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor and tries to discover what really happened to her friends.
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In shadows
by Sharon Sala
When his cover is blown, FBI agent Jack McCann, to protect his wife, fakes his own death to keep her safe from a weapons smuggler who has promised to destroy everyone he loves.
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Mafioso
by Nisa Santiago
With both Scott and Layla West behind bars, it’s now up to Bugsy and Lucky to run the family businesses.
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The distance home : a novel
by Paula Saunders
Two siblings enduring a hardscrabble existence in 1960s rural South Dakota pursue separate but equally extreme measures to find creative outlets and escape the dark, secretive elements of their community. A first novel.
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Hustle Hard
by Saundra
Three friends who escaped the streets are now they’re cashing in on a brilliant hustle and living their million-dollar dreams, but it just may cost them their friendship-—and their lives.
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Coldfall wood
by Steve Savile
After six girls fall into a vegetative state and an old woman has an ominous message, Joshua Raines must figure out the truth in a legend, in a novel set in the same world as Glass Town. By the internationally best-selling author of The Ogmios Directive
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Game of the Gods
by Jay Schiffman
When the world descends into a cataclysmic global war, former military commander Max Cone must bring together a ragtag band of warriors to save his wife and daughter from kidnappers.
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The Subway Girls
by Susie Orman Schnall
To save her job, outspoken ad exec Olivia, pitted against her arch rival, is desperate to win the NYC Subway account, which leads her to the historic Miss Subways campaign, which could save her job and her future.
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The Moons of Barsk
by Lawrence M. Schoen
Now a teenager, Pizlo, the outcast and physically challenged Fant, still believes he hears messages from his planet's moons and goes on a dangerous voyage to learn the truth, in the sequel to Barsk: The Elephant's Graveyard
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The Shakespeare requirement : a novel
by Julie Schumacher
A sequel to the prize-winning Dear Committee Members finds newly appointed English department chair Jason Fitger navigating his wife's affair with his boss, budget cuts, a formidable department secretary and a Shakespeare scholar who refuses to retire
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The Possible World
by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
A novel set in Rhode Island over the course of a century about a young boy, an ER doctor, and an elderly woman, and how their lives converge in the aftermath of a brutal murder
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Feared
by Lisa Scottoline
When nemesis Nick Machiavelli targets her family with frivolous legal claims and slander that escalate to an unthinkable tragedy, Mary DiNunzio discovers her own unsettling capacity for dark retaliation. By the New York Times best-selling author of Corrupted
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Dyeing Up Loose Ends
by Maggie Sefton
When a well-liked waitress with no known enemies is found murdered, Kelly enlists the Lambspun knitters to catch a heartless killer, in a conclusion to the best-selling series by the author of Only Skein Deep.
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Rainy Day Friends
by Jill Shalvis
Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn't the only one grieving. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife.
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Dreadful Company
by Vivian Shaw
While presenting at a medical conference in Paris, Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, discovers the city invested with uncivilized vampires in the second novel of the series following Strange Practice.
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The court dancer
by Kyng-suk Sin
The New York Times best-selling author of Please Look After Mom presents the story of an enigmatic orphan-turned-dancer who is caught up in the dizzying sweep of court life in the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire
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The Other Woman
by Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again.
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A song in the daylight
by Paullina Simons
Despite her seemingly perfect life in a New Jersey suburb, Larissa Stark feels increasingly isolated and empty until a chance encounter with an intriguing stranger exposes her idyllic existence for the sham it is and leads her to question everything she once firmly believed.
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Ozy and Millie
by Dana Simpson
From the creator of the enormously popular Phoebe and Her Unicorn series comes "Ozy and Millie," a playful comic exploring the friendship between two foxes.
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Pieces of her
by Karin Slaughter
The daughter of a woman who has wanted nothing more than a quiet life in her small beachside home embarks on a desperate search for answers when she discovers the explosive truth about her mother's true identity.
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Blown : a novel
by Mark Haskell Smith
"Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by acolytes of the free market, the true believers, the U.S. Marines of capitalism--"the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves"--Bryan soon realizes that being honest at a dishonest job is not the path to success. He decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money--and sailing classes--to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder. On his trail is an irresponsible team of investigators sent by his Wall Street firm, hellbent on reclaiming the millions before their clients notice its missing: his boss, Seo-yun Kim, who's committed to not only clearing her name but escaping her suffocating fiancé and their pending nuptials; the investment bank's collections agent, Neal Nathanson, depressed over a recent break-up with his boyfriend; and an ex-cop from Curaçao, Piet Room, who has traded in his badge for spouse spying as a private investigator. Their efforts are complicated by an Australian sailor begrudgingly circumnavigating the globe to fundraise for breast cancer awareness. Wickedly funny, ribald, and sharp-eyed, BLOWN starts as a simple case of embezzlement and explodes into a fatal high-stakes gamble for money and the pursuit of happiness"
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Dark nights : metal
by Scott Snyder
The Dark Knight has uncovered one of the great, lost mysteries and now a team of twisted, evil versions of Batman are hellbent on destroying the DC Universe, in a deluxe hardcover edition that features an embossed foil cover. Collects Dark Nights: Metal, #1-6
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Dark nights : metal. Dark Knights rising
by Joshua Williamson
Seven versions of Batman, each from dying alternate realities, are recruited by Barbatos to spead terror amongst the World's greatest heroes and threaten lives across the Multiverse
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Dark nights : metal. The resistance
by Benjamin Percy
Scattered around the world, the Justice League searches for the artifacts that can be used to fight back the Dark Multiverse, but standing in their way are the Seven Dark Knights
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Baby teeth : a novel
by Zoje Stage
A fragile woman struggles against her mute daughter’s schemes for her father’s undivided attention. Dark, creepy, and downright scary. -- Kathryn Neal for LibraryReads.
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The good fight : a novel
by Danielle Steel
The best-selling author of The Mistress traces a young debutante's decision to become a lawyer and fight civil rights injustices at the sides of the unsung heroes who become her inspiration during the tumultuous transitions of the 1960s
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The middleman
by Olen Steinhauer
The rise and fall of a domestic left-wing terrorist group is traced from the perspectives of an FBI agent, an undercover agent, a convert and a writer on the sidelines. By a New York Times best-selling author
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Baby's first felony
by John Straley
"Shamus Award-winner and critical darling John Straley returns to his beloved Cecil Younger series, set in Sitka, Alaska. Criminal defense investigator Cecil Younger spends his days coaching felons on how to avoid incriminating themselves. He and his colleague have even started writing a helpful handbook with tips such as: Don't wear the tennis shoes you stole to court when the guy you stole them from will be there to testify and his name is still written inside of them. But when Cecil follows a lead from a defendant and walks out of a shady apartment complex with a suitcase containing fifty thousand dollars in cash, he suddenly finds himself in violation of one of his own rules: Nothing good comes of walking around with a lot of someone else's money. And the suitcase is only the beginning. Delivered in the form of a statement to a panel of three judges, we find a reluctant, deeply unlucky investigator who, in a single day, manages to find a deep freeze full of drug-stuffed fish, witness a murder at close range, and have his teenage daughter kidnapped and held as collateral"
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The Shimmer
by Carsten Stroud
Craving to bathe in the shimmering afterglow that sometimes emanates when the soul leaves the body, a traveling female serial killer finds a way to slip into the past to right a wrong, changing the lives of two families in two different time periods.
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Heart land : a novel
by Kimberly Stuart
"A story of reconnection, lost love, and the power of faith, Heart Land follows a struggling fashion designer back to her small Iowa hometown as she tries to follow her dreams of success and finding true love. Grace Klaren has finally made her dream of living in the Big Apple and working in the fashion industry a reality. But when she's unexpectedly fired and can't afford the next month's rent, Grace does something she never thought she'd do: she moves back home. Back in Silver Creek, Iowa, Grace is determined to hate it. She rails against the quiet of her small town, where everything closes early, where there's no nightlife, where everyone knows each other. She's saving her pennies and plotting her return to New York when she almost runs over a man who's not paying attention at a crosswalk. It turns out to be Tucker, her high school sweetheart whose heart she broke when she left ten years ago. They reconnect, and Grace remembers why she fell for him in the first place. And her career begins to turn around when she finds a gorgeous but tattered vintage dress at a flea market. She buys it, rips it apart seam by seam, and re-creates it with new fabric, updating the look with some of her own design ideas. She snaps a picture and lists the dress online, and within a day, it sells for nearly $200. Suddenly, Grace has her ticket out of here. But Grace can't fight her growing feelings for Tucker. Sometimes when they're together, Tucker paints a picture of what their future could be like, and it feels so real. And when she finally gains the funding to move her new business back to New York, Grace must decide where home really is--will she chase her long-held New York dream, or find a new dream here in the heartland?"
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Age of war
by Michael J. Sullivan
"The epic battle between humankind and their godlike rulers finally ignites in the masterful follow-up to Age of Myth and Age of Swords. The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile--and about to be tested as never before. Persephone keeps the human clans from turning on one another through her iron will and a compassionate heart. The arrogant Fhrey are barely held in check by their leader, Nyphron, who seeks to advance his own nefarious agenda through a loveless marriage that will result in thebetrayal of the person Persephone loves most: Raithe, the God Killer. As the Fhrey overlords marshal their army and sorcerers to crush the rebellion, old loyalties will be challenged while fresh conspiracies will threaten to undo all that Persephone hasaccomplished. In the darkest hour, when hope is all but lost, new heroes will rise. but at what terrible cost? Praise for Michael J. Sullivan "If you enjoy epic fantasy, and are perhaps hungering for something with timeless appeal, then I highly recommend picking up Age of Myth."--The BiblioSanctum "Heroes will be born in the most unlikely way when women show perseverance, tenacity, resilience and truest of intentions."--Zirev, on Age of Swords "The characters feel alive and I deeply cared for them, the threat is terrible, the enemy is merciless and the fate of the human race is in the balance."--The Audiobook Blog, on Age of Swords "A fast-paced, compelling read. There's betrayal and love, and some electric dialogue. There's battles, and costs, triumphs and consequences."--Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews, on Age of Swords "Fans of David Eddings and Robert Jordan will feel right at home with this series."--sfRevu, on Age of Swords"
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The King Tides
by James Swain
Hired to protect Nicki Pearl, who is being stalked by numerous men, PI and ex-Navy SEAL Jon Lancaster, trawling the darkest depths of southern Florida, discovers that Nicki has something to hide that there is much to this case than meets the eye.
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Any Man
by Amber Tamblyn
As a violent female serial rapist continues her sexual attacks on men, her victims, tired of being hounded by the media and doubted by the police and those around them, band together to tell their stories.
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What We Were Promised
by Lucy Tan
Returning home to Shanghai after years of chasing the American dream, Wei Zhen and his newly wealthy family, including his wife, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, must each confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.
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We that are young : a novel
by Preti Taneja
A modern-day King Lear, set in contemporary India, traces the power struggles of a turbulent family that becomes painfully subject to the anti-corruption riots of 2011 and 2012, a father's advancing dementia and an unwanted arranged marriage
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The world is a narrow bridge
by Aaron Thier
From the author of Mr. Eternity , a darkly comic road novel about a millennial couple facing the ultimate question: how to live and love in an age of catastrophe. Young Miami couple Murphy and Eva have almost decided to have a baby when Yahweh, the Old Testament God, appears to Eva and makes an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet.
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Spymaster
by Brad Thor
When a secret organization begins attacking diplomats throughout Europe at the same time a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath works without his mentor to prevent an all-out war.
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Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
A meditative collection from Poland explores themes of travel, movement and existentialism in stories that feature protagonists who question their shifting perspectives in time and space as they tackle extreme agendas.
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Kismet : a novel
by Luke Tredget
Living in a world where a matchmaking app drives relationships, 29-year-old Anna reconsiders her options when she meets a dashing older journalist with a higher compatibility score than her safe, stable boyfriend. A first novel.
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The cabin at the end of the world : a novel
by Paul Tremblay
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"
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Terrarium : New and Selected Stories
by Valerie Trueblood
A new short-story collection from the acclaimed author of the novel Seven Loves includes new tales as well as those collected from her previous works that explore the dynamics of trying to live simply. By the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Search Party
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The Price You Pay
by Aidan Truhen
An uproariously irreverent, white-collar drug dealer operating a successful cocaine-trafficking operation out of the Amazon seeks revenge when an unknown enemy takes out a contract on him using the world's most feared underground assassination squad.
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The simple wild : a novel
by K. A. Tucker
After her mother took her away from the Alaskan wild as a small child, Calla Fletcher returns as an adult to seek out her estranged father and finds herself falling for a pilot who thinks she's a pampered city girl. By a national best-selling author.
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Clock Dance
by Anne Tyler
Willa Drake gets a second act when she steps in to care for a nine-year-old in a complicated situation. Character driven fiction and a sweeping storyline. -- Mary Anne Quinn for LibraryReads.
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Kingdom of twilight
by Steven Uhly
After killing an SS officer, a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain, flees with her newborn baby creating an intermingled series of destinies that leave those involved dealing with geographical and psychological ramifications for years. Winner of the English PEN Award.
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Giants
by Carlos Valderrama
"In a Dystopian future in which giant monsters rule the Earth's surface and humanity has been driven underground, two friends discover that ambition is the worst monster, and it will grow until it devours you"
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The third hotel
by Laura Van den Berg
Attending a film festival with tickets purchased by her recently deceased husband, a grieving widow is shocked to discover her husband alive and must navigate an increasingly blurred line between reality and fantasy to uncover the truth. By the author of Find Me
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White River burning : a Dave Gurney novel
by John Verdon
When racial tensions in the small community of White River escalate to the shooting of a police officer, Dave Gurney investigates suspiciously inconsistent evidence that is clouded by deceptive additional killings.
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A Question of Trust
by Penny Vincenzi
When the perfect couple's marriage is threatened by the appearance of a sultry fashion model, are there any right choices? In 1950s London, Tom Knelston is charismatic, charming, with a passion for politics and reform. He is a man with ambition--and someone to watch. His wife Alice, a former nurse, shares his ideals. It seems they are the perfect match.
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Dietland
by Sarai Walker
Biding her time alone until she can have weight-loss surgery, Plum joins an underground community of empowered women and agrees to a series of challenges, including work with a group that stages anti-misogyny terrorist acts.
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Ghosted
by Rosie Walsh
Sarah thinks she has met the love her life in Eddie--until he disappears after leaving for a long-booked vacation.
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The last hours
by Minette Walters
Assuming control of her despised late husband's people in the wake of the Black Death, a 14th-century noblewoman struggles to protect formerly oppressed people who have been rendered superstitious and fanatical by the plague. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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The new inheritors
by Kent Wascom
A follow-up to The Blood of Heaven andSecessia continues the story of the Woolsack family as two young lovers build a refuge on their beloved wild Gulf Coast, where they navigate the challenges of World War I and violent weather.
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Goodfellas
by Carl Weber
Headlined by New York Times best-selling author Carl Weber, three authors bring readers tales of power, greed and ambition set in some of the country’s roughest neighborhoods.
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Influence
by Carl Weber
When her son's graduation is upended by a drug charge, lawyer Jacqueline Hudson builds a defense case opposite her ex, a situation that is further complicated by family drama. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Preacher's Son
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Privateer
by Margaret Weis
Rescuing herself and her crew with the help of Prince Tom, Captain Kate is drawn into the high-risk intrigues of doing business with the kingdom. Co-written by a New York Times best-selling author
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Rogue Protocol
by Martha Wells
An antisocial robot with a dark past just wants to be left alone, but gets involved when authorities start asking where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. By the author of Artificial Condition
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Sweet and Low : Stories
by Nick White
At first glance, these stories seem grounded in the everyday: they paint pictures of idyllic Southern landscapes with characters fulfilling their roles as students, boyfriends, sons and wives. But all is not what it seems. Tackling issues of masculinity, sexual identity, and place, Nick White deconstructs the core qualities of Southern fiction, exposing deeply flawed and fascinating characters on wildly compelling quests.
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Between You and Me
by Susan Wiggs
A lonely Philadelphia surgeon treats an injured Amish child and becomes attracted to the boy's uncle, a situation that forces her to consider if such a relationship is possible.
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Summer on the river : a novel
by Marcia Willett
A threatening secret, an unhappy marriage and an unexpected love affair threaten Evie and Charlie's family during what they fear may be their last shared summer at a beloved riverside home. By the best-selling author of A Week in Winter
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The summer wives
by Beatriz Williams
Drawn into and then banished from exclusive Winthrop Island when a complex relationship between her stepsister and a working-class college youth ends in violence, a Shakespearean actress returns after 20 years to pursue justice.
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The stars now unclaimed
by Drew Williams
Recruiting supernaturally gifted kids to help stop a cataclysmic force from decimating countless worlds, agent Jane Kamali teams up with a telekinetic teen to navigate the madcap schemes of a power-hungry fascist cult.
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Into the darkness : a novel
by Kate Williams
Celia searches for her son, Michael, who was taken from her at birth, with the help of an underground flapper army in 1920s New York City, in the final installment of the trilogy following The Edge of the Fall
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Tell the Machine Goodnight
by Katie Williams
A woman whose job it is to help people find happiness finds a challenge in her own son, who seems to get the most joy out of being unhappy.
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Baby, you're gonna be mine : stories
by Kevin Wilson
A new collection from the best-selling author of Perfect Little World and The Family Fang uses his signature quirky language to explore the emotional complexities between parents and children in such stories as "Wildfire Johnny" and "Scroll Through the Weapons."
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The shepherd's hut
by Tim Winton
"A new novel about a man trying to survive in the wilderness"
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The Family Tabor
by Cherise Wolas
Five members of a family confront the lies upon which their lives are built and the price they paid for second chances over the course of a psychologically charged weekend.
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Watch the girls
by Jennifer Wolfe
"I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed. Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense. SOMEONE IS WATCHING Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life, and her sister was never heard from again. But all this time, someone's been waiting patiently to finish what was started... FOUR MISSING GIRLS Now fifteen years later, broke and desperate, Liv is forced to return to the spotlight. She crowdfunds a webseries in which she'll pose as a real-life private detective--a nod to the show she starred on as a teen. When a mysterious donor challenges her to investigate a series of disappearances outside a town made famous by the horror movies filmed there, Liv has no choice but to accept. FOLLOW THE WHITE WOLF Liv is given a cryptic first clue: Follow the white wolf. And now a darker gameis about to begin. Through social media, someone is leaving breadcrumbs to follow. As Liv makes increasingly disturbing discoveries, her show explodes in popularity. A rapt internet audience is eager to watch it all--perhaps even at the cost of Liv's ownlife... Filled with provocative twists and turns as the line between plot and reality blurs in this inventive tour-de-force from breakout writer Jennifer Wolfe"
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The money shot
by Stuart Woods
Disguising himself as a stuntman to investigate blackmail threats against an actress starring in a new production, Teddy Fay discovers that the perpetrators are looking for something other than money, in a novel that also features fan-favorite Stone Barrington. Co-written by a #1 New York Times best-selling author
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Halcyon
by Rio Youers
Withdrawing in the wake of a tragedy to a self-sustaining paradise retreat on a Lake Ontario island, Martin begins to suspect a dark mystery is being concealed beneath the community's utopian veneer.
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Meet me at the museum
by Anne Youngson
A disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way. A first novel.
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Alliances
by Timothy Zahn
Rivals Grand Admiral Thrawn and Lord Vader are sent on an investigation by Emperor Palpatine that will force both men to confront the consequences of their past actions.
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The drama teacher : a novel
by Koren Zailckas
An expert in fake identities is forced by circumstance to reinvent herself repeatedly to safeguard her children, a strategy that leads to a prestigious teaching job before her fears of discovery culminate in increasingly desperate and violent acts. By the New York Times best-selling author of Smashed and Mother, Mother
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The other sister
by Sarah Zettel
Reunited after a 20-year separation triggered by their mother's mysterious death, a reckless woman and her obedient sister secretly plot to kill their cold-hearted, controlling father in order to correct the past.
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Putney : a novel
by Sofka Zinovieff
An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer 20 years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in an explosive tale told from three perspectives.
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