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August 2018
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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.
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Unraveling Oliver
by Liz Nugent
A best-selling debut from Ireland follows a shocking act of violence committed by a successful and charismatic writer of children's books on his wife and literary partner, an attack that leaves her in a coma and causes their baffled friends and family to investigate what happened.
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Adjustment Day
by Chuck Palahniuk
A timely satire by the best-selling author of Fight Club lampoons the absurdities in society with a depiction of a world where politician warmongering, erupting economic divides and melodramatic doomsday predictions culminate in the rise of a mysterious book that issues directives for the approaching Adjustment Day.
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The Word Is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz
"One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper--the wealthy mother of a famous actor--enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghostwriter to document his life--a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying, but even so, his latest case proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. But it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own."
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How Hard Can It Be?
by Allison Pearson
The heroine from the best-selling I Don't Know How She Does It is forced by her husband's flaky unemployment to reinvent herself as a younger, hip professional to secure a job with the hedge fund she founded.
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Torn
by Rowenna Miller
"In a time of revolution, everyone -- even a humble seamstress plying her magic to support her family -- must take a side. Sophie is a young dressmaker who, with hard work, talent, and a rare proficiency sewing spells into cloth, has managed to open her own shop and lift herself and her brother, Kristos, out of the poverty that plagues their immigrant community. Her reputation for beautiful ballgowns and discreetly-embroidered charms for luck, love, and protection secures her a commission from the royal family itself -- and the commission earns her the attentions of a dashing but entirely unattainable duke. Meanwhile, her brother, a day laborer with a keen mind and a thirst for justice, rises to prominence in the growing anti-monarchist movement. Their worlds collide when the revolution's shadow leader takes Kristos hostage and demands that Sophie place a curse on the queen's new Midwinter costume -- or Kristos will die at their hand. As the proletariat uprising comes to a violent climax, Sophie must choose: between her brother and the community of her birth, and her lover and the life she's striven to build."
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Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in this reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
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Among Others
by Jo Walton
Seeking refuge in fantasy novel worlds throughout a youth under the shadow of a dubiously sane half-brother who dabbled in magic, Mori Phelps is forced to confront her mother in a tragic battle and gains unwanted attention when she attempts to perform spells herself.
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The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns, who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
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Secret Sisters
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Reuniting at the hotel where one of them was brutally attacked as a child decades earlier, Madeline and Daphne are forced to confront painful memories and truths in order to solve the mysterious death of Madeline's father.
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Daughter of York
by Anne Easter Smith
Rendered a political pawn when her brother ascends to the throne in 1461, Princess Margaret of York is promised in marriage to the Duke of Burgundy's son in spite of her passionate love for a married man, a situation that shapes her subsequent role as an influential woman.
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Unexpected
by Lori Foster
Ray Vereker, a sexy female mercenary armed with quick reflexes and sharp instincts, finds her life forever changed when she is hired by Eli Conner to rescue his reckless brother, a dangerous mission that results in undeniable passion, true love, and a severe case of morning sickness.
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The Queen's Vow : A Novel of Isabella of Castile
by C. W. Gortner
A tale inspired by the life of the Spanish warrior-queen traces her rise from a defiant daughter of an exiled widow to a powerful monarch who risks her life to marry her true love before advocating for education and the arts, financing Columbus's voyage to America and healing her fractured kingdom.
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Dark Wolf : A Carpathian Novel
by Christine Feehan
Already tasked with shielding half of his soul, Skyler must save Carpathian Dimitri after he is marked for extermination by the Lycans, in the second novel of the Carpathian trilogy following Dark Lycan.
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The Forest : A Novel
by Edward Rutherfurd
An epic novel of England focuses on a family living on the southern coast and spans the period from the Norman conquest to the nineteenth century
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