September 2017 list by Nanette Alderman
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All That Makes Life Bright
by Josi S Kilpack
Resolving to pursue her literary life and retain her identity after marrying the supportive, deeply religious Calvin Stowe, Harriet Beecher is overwhelmed by a pregnancy while her husband travels in Europe, a situation that makes her question her place in her husband's heart.
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Blood at Dawn
by Jim R. Woolard
Young Ethan Downer may not look old enough to shave, but he was raised by his father to survive a harsh, unsettled land crawling with enemies eager to spill his blood. When Ethan joins General St. Clair's troops on a hard march toward Ohio's Wabash River, his hardwon lessons will be put to the test like never before.
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The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
Two lifelong friends find their relationship tested as their paths diverge during adolescence as one of the pair embarks on a dangerous journey.
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The Chesapeake Bride
by Mariah Stewart
Swearing off good-looking adventurers, newly divorced architect Cassidy Logan arrives on Cannonball Island to design ecologically friendly homes, including one for herself, and meets Owen Parker, who she dismisses as a player, until fate throws them together.
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Dog Dish of Doom
by E. J. Copperman
A talent agent for show-biz animals discovers her knack for solving crimes, in a debut entry of a lighthearted new series that finds her investigating a dispute between a famous stage director and a pushy dog trainer who is found face-down in his canine star's water dish.
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The Duchess Deal
by Tessa Dare
After returning from war, the Duke of Ashbury decides he needs an heir and offers a marriage proposal to a vicar’s daughter turned seamstress who happens to be in his library wearing a wedding gown.
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The Dying Game
by Asa Avdic
A locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state follows the experiences of seven people who are brought to a remote island to compete in a 48-hour test and solve a staged murder to win a top-secret intelligence position.
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Fast Falls the Night
by Julia Keller
Investigating a series of suspicious overdose deaths in her Appalachian hometown, prosecutor Bell Elkins uncovers evidence of a tainted batch of heroin and begins a desperate race against time that is challenged by local opinions.
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The History of Bees
by Maja Lunde
Three generations of beekeepers from the past, present and future pursue respective dreams and endure painful losses while connecting with nature against the backdrop of an urgent global crisis.
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I Know a Secret
by Tess Gerritsen
Investigating the death of a horror film producer whose murder scene has been gruesomely staged, detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are baffled by an apparent lack of a cause of death, a case that is further complicated by a second, equally bizarre murder.
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The Last Tudor
by Philippa Gregory
A latest historical novel by the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl reimagines the lives of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, who respectively endure imprisonment, a secret marriage and marginalization under the suspicious eyes of Tudor queens Mary and Elizabeth.
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On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service
by Rhys Bowen
Agreeing to help her cousin the queen thwart an elopement between the Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson, royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch offers assistance to her pregnant friend while clashing with an old rival from finishing school.
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Portrait of Vengeance
by Carrie Stuart Parks
Gwen Marcey has done a good job keeping the pain of her past boxed up. But as she investigates the case of a missing child in Lapwai, Idaho, details keep surfacing that are eerily similar to her childhood traumas. She doesn’t believe in coincidences.
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Retribution
by Troy Denning
December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War, a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace in human-held space, culminating in the assassination of UNSC fleet admiral Graselyn Tuwa and the abduction of her family.
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The Room of White Fire
by T. Jefferson Parker
A marine-turned-private investigator struggling from the recent death of his wife races against time to track down a shattered young soldier who has escaped from a mental institution and who possesses a dangerous secret.
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The Saboteur
by Andrew Gross
Putting aside his personal needs to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb, in a thriller inspired by a true story.
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The Scandal of It All
by Sophie Jordan
A Dowager Duchess with two grown stepchildren, beautiful young widow Graciela, determined to live a full, satisfying life, decides to take a lover for a single night—her stepson’s best friend, Lord Tucker—which soon turns into an affair of the heart.
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Seeing Red
by Sandra Brown
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. She is willing to use any means necessary to get an exclusive interview with reclusive national icon Major Franklin Trapper—even if she has to wrangle an introduction from his estranged son, former ATF agent John Trapper, and it involves her in an assassination plot.
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A Stranger in the House
by Shari Lapena
Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman braces herself for the worst in a bad part of town and wakes up with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct.
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To Wager Her Heart
by Tamera Alexander
With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society’s expectations must work together to achieve their dreams.
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