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Summer at the Garden Cafe by Felicity Hayes-McCoyThe second in Felicity Hayes-McCoy's Finfarran Peninsula series, and the sequel to The Library at the Edge of the World - a heartwarming story about secrets between four generations of Irish women, and the healing powers of books, love, and friendship. The Garden Cafe next to Lissbeg library, is a place where plans are formed and secrets shared, and where, even in high tourist season, people are never too busy to stop for a sandwich and a cup of tea.
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Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, when her estranged father, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence and offers her a job. The offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance - her grandparents' beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach. When a suspicious death at an exclusive beach resort nearby exposes possible corruption at her father's law firm, she goes from unwilling cubicle rat to unwitting investigator, and is drawn into a case that may - or may not - involve her father.
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The Summer We Lost Her by Tish CohenEverything for the Sorenson family is about to change, will their love survive a parent’s worst nightmare? Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Gracie are preparing to sell the lakefront cabin that’s been in Matt’s family for generations. Matt, a lawyer, has just been offered a partnership, and Elise’s ambitions as a competitive dressage rider may finally vault her into the Olympics. As they navigate the memories the cabin holds - Gracie disappears without a trace. Faced with the possibility that they’ll never see their daughter again, Elise and Matt struggle to come to terms with what their future may bring.
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Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda HolmesIn a seaside town in Maine, widowed Evvie Drake rarely leaves her large empty house, nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them. In New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what athletes living their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur JaswalThe British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters--Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirnia--were never close and barely got along growing up. On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites. Arriving in India, the sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives--and learn the real story behind a momentous journey that resulted in Mum never being able to return to India again.
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An American Marriageby Tayari JonesNewlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Devastated, Celestial finds herself struggling to hold on to the love that has been, taking comfort in Andre, their closest friend. When Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, he returns home ready to resume their life together.
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As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next, the country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. When the scandal of her decision breaks... the repercussions for electoral college rebel Charlotte Holmes could be deadly.
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First Cut by Judy MelinekFor San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Her superiors urge her to close the case, as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers and Bitcoin brokers. Autopsy means "see for yourself," and she won't stop until she has seen it all--even if it means that the next body on the table could be her own.
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Playing with Matchesby Hannah OrensteinSasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: but when her dream career falls through, she uses her family's darkest secret to land a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss. Despite her inexperience, Sasha throws herself into her new career, trolling for catches on Tinder, coaching her clients through rejection, and dishing out dating advice to people twice her age. Sasha hopes to find her clients The One, like she did. But when she is betrayed by her boyfriend, all bets are off.
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When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear. But nowhere is safe from Claire's devastated father. He has a brutal plan all worked out - and if Ted doesn't find the real abductor, he'll be its first casualty. Meanwhile, in a dark roadside hovel Detective Inspector Sweeney's first homicide investigation is being complicated by the arrival of private detective Amanda Pharrell to 'assist' on the case. For Ted and Amanda, the hunt for the truth will draw them into a violent dance with evil. Book two in the Crimson Lake series.
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