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The Truth About the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm, except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison. One night, TJ's older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with evidence of embezzlement. TJ and John hurry to the scene, but they find that the accountant has vanished and so has his car. TJ starts investigating, but the next night, police find the accountant dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, in a different car and at a different location. Soon a mysterious sedan starts following TJ and John, and the Devlins realize they are in the crosshairs of a conspiracy. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first.
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Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her.
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The Princess of Las Vegas
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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This Other Eden
by Paul Harding
In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher turned missionary, disrupts the community's fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children.
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The Measure
by Nikki Erlick
When every person on every continent receives a small wooden box containing the exact number of years they'll live, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from?
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Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
by Nicci French
When Alec Salter's wife vanishes, the police think she and their neighbor Duncan Ackerley were having an affair. Decades later, Duncan's children interview Alec for a podcast, stirring up unresolved feelings in the town. Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor will stop at nothing to uncover the truth as a new and terrifying picture of what really happened to Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley emerge.
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Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
by Charles Duhigg
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, studying supercommunicators—people capable of connecting with anyone, reveals how, everyone time we speak to some, we're actually engaging in one of three conversations, showing us how to recognize which kind of conversation we're having—and teaching us the essential skills for navigating it successfully.
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