September 2018 list by Donalee Jacobs
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The Ancient Nine
by Ian Smith
Going from urban Chicago to the ivy-clad campus of Harvard University, Spencer Collins is surprised to be invited to apply to one of the school's elite final clubs, until he finds out that the club hides a shadowy group of powerful men.
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Button Man
by Andrew Gross
A disadvantaged but once happy immigrant family is brought together and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Dark Tide.
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The Cost of Betrayal
by Dee Henderson
Three romantic suspense novellas. In Dee Henderson's novella "Betrayal," Janelle Roberts is freed after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she did not commit. But a murderer is still at large. In Dani Pettrey's "Deadly Isle," Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated island of her childhood by a storm surge, and she is shocked when the typically idyllic community turns into the hunting grounds of a murderer. In Lynette Eason's "Code of Ethics," trauma surgeon Ruthie St. John saves the life of Detective Isaac Martinez. After a betrayal leads to him getting shot and then attacked while in recovery, Isaac is now a key witness determined to testify. But someone is intent on silencing him--and those around him--forever.
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Dark Tide Rising
by Anne Perry
A ransom exchange gone violently wrong forces Commander William Monk to investigate the unthinkable possibility that one of his own men has betrayed him.
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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
by Sarah Bird
In 1864 Missouri, newly freed slave Cathy Williams makes the difficult decision to fight in the Army, disguised as a man, with the Buffalo Soldiers. Based on a true story.
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Depth of Winter
by Craig Johnson
When an international drug lord kidnaps his daughter and prepares to auction her off to his worst enemies, Walt Longmire embarks on a rescue mission in the brutal Mexican desert. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Western Star.
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The Dinner List
by Rebecca Serle
In a novel imbued with magical realism, when Sabrina Nielsen arrives at her 30th birthday dinner in New York City, she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also her favorite professor from college; her father; her ex-fiance, Tobias and Audrey Hepburn.
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Echoes of Evil
by Heather Graham
Discovering a recent corpse on a historic shipwreck, diver Brodie McFadden, a potential Krewe of Hunters member, teams up with museum curator Kody McCoy when the case is linked to the death of a local musician.
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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.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
This debut novel r is set against the violence of 1990s Columbia and follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.
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The Incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon
A dark tale of violence, faith and loss follows the experiences of a young Korean-American woman at an elite university who is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult with ties to North Korea.
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In His Father's Footsteps
by Danielle Steel
Two courageous World War II concentration-camp survivors build a life together before their son resolves to be his own person as a first-generation American.
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John Woman
by Walter Mosley
A young man reinvents himself as a professor to share his late father's wisdom at an unorthodox university, only to encounter fellow intellectuals who have insights into his father's hidden past. By the award-winning author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries.
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Juror #3
by James Patterson
Tapped by a relentless prosecutor who would exploit her inexperience to secure a swift conviction, a recent law graduate finds herself navigating two tricky cases, class divides and an increasingly suspicious jury.
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Katerina
by James Frey
Twenty-five years after a passionate affair with a model, a successful writer is on the brink of suicide, until he receives an anonymous message that draws him back to the life, and possibly the love, he abandoned years prior. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of A Million Little Pieces.
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Lake Success
by Gary Shteyngart
A self-made Wall Street millionaire, baffled by the implosion of his seemingly perfect life, takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and the ideals of his youth.
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Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
by Brandon Sanderson
A savant with a genius compartmentalized brain is hired to recover a stolen camera capable of photographing the past and discovers information with the potential to upend the world's three major religions.
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Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
by Amy Stewart
In 1916, New Jersey’s first female deputy, Constance Kopp, while trying to investigate two cases involving the same asylum, finds her controversial career on the line. By the New York Times best-selling author of Girl Waits With Gun.
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The Mystery of Three Quarters
by Sophie Hannah
Accused by strangers of trying to set them up for murder, Hercule Poirot teams up with Scotland Yard policeman Edward Catchpool to investigate the drowning death of an elderly man.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
A novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
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The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples
by Roberto Saviano
Nicholas, a member of one of Naples' mafia-run child gangs, aspires to be more than just a lacky, but he soon finds his ambition getting him into trouble. By the best-selling author of Gomorrah.
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Promises and Primroses
by Josi S Kilpack
Lord Elliott Mayfield offers a generous inheritance to his nieces and nephews if they agree to choose worthy spouses and avoid the scandals his siblings have wrought.
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Time's Convert
by Deborah E. Harkness
A Revolutionary War-era doctor seizes a chance to become a vampire, only to find the ancient traditions governing his new life clashing with the deeply held beliefs of his former one.
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Walking Shadows
by Faye Kellerman
Decker and Lazarus risk their lives to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than 20 years earlier. By the New York Times best-selling author of Bone Box.
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