July 2019 list by Nanette Alderman
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Alpha's Promise
by Rebecca Zanetti
Though he has vampire, demon, and Viking blood rushing through his veins, Ivar Kjeidsen's soul-crushing trip to hell broke him in ways he can barely fathom. One vow keeps the deadly immortal standing: To rescue the vampire brother who had sacrificed freedom for him. To do that, Ivar needs the help of a physicist with wary brown eyes, fierce brilliance, and skin that's too soft.
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Ayesha at Last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice finds a reluctant teacher who would avoid an arranged marriage setting aside her literary ambitions before falling in love with her perpetually single cousin's infuriatingly conservative fiancé.
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Backlash
by Brad Thor
Far from home and surrounded by enemies in the wake of an unforgivable betrayal, Scot Harvath tests the limits of his training in an effort to escape and exact revenge. By the award-winning author of Spymaster.
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The Burning Chambers
by Kate Mosse
A bookshop owner's daughter who has received an anonymous warning and a young Huguenot convert who needs her help to survive navigate escalating religious divides and the abandonment of friends in 16th-century Toulouse.
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Chai Another Day
by Leslie Budewitz
Seattle Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece, while investigating a murder at her friend’s store, discovers a connection to the victim that could implicate both her friend—and herself—in the crime.
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The Collaborators
by Reginald Hill
Gunter Mai is a compassionate lieutenant with German intelligence, tasked with combing the city for collaborators. Janine Simonian is the wife of a Jewish member of the Resistance. When the Gestapo's reign of terror escalates and Janine's children are carted off to a pogrom with Auschwitz only a heartbeat away, Janine strikes a bargain with Mai-one that will have irreversible consequences for them all.
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Enemy Contact
by Mike Maden
A dangerous mission in Poland catapults Jack Ryan, Jr. into a race to stop an international criminal conspiracy at the same time a friend's dying request reveals the identity of a CIA mole.
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Evvie Drake Starts Over
by Linda Holmes
The host of NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour" podcast presents a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young widow and a major league pitcher who has lost his game.
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Just One Bite
by Jack Heath
Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing professor, Blake recognizes him as the dead man. As they hunt the killer together, FBI agent Reese Thistle starts to warm to Blake—but she also gets closer and closer to discovering his terrible secret.
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Lost and Found
by Danielle Steel
Spurred by old memories and a life-changing accident, Madison embarks on a cross-country adventure to reconnect with three very different men to reevaluate her past choices.
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Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th-century America.
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Murder in Bel-Air
by Cara Black
Preparing to deliver a keynote address at a tech conference, private investigator Aimée Leduc is entangled in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics and neighborhood secrets in Paris's 12th arrondissement.
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Paranoid
by Lisa Jackson
Struggling with traumatic memories of the shooting accident that ended her half-brother's life 20 years earlier, guilt-ridden Rachael Gaston prepares for her high-school reunion in Edgewater, Oregon, and begins to doubt her sanity when things in her home start moving by themselves.
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The Postmistress
by Alison Stuart
Adelaide Greaves and her young son have found sanctuary in the Australian town of Maiden's Creek, where she works as a postmistress. Adelaide carves out a role for herself in the rough Victorian goldmining settlement. But her past is coming to find her, and the embittered and scarred Confederate soldier Caleb Hunt might be the only one who can help.
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Recursion
by Blake Crouch
Assigned to the case of a suicide victim who claimed her son's existence had been erased, investigator Barry Sutton follows leads to the outbreak of a memory-altering disease and the technological innovations of a controversial neuroscientist.
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Riding Shotgun
by William W Johnstone
Riding shotgun on a stage bound from Fort Concho, Texas, to Fort Bliss, Red Ryan must protect its passengers, including an army major’s beautiful but stubborn wife, from bloodthirsty Apaches who are on the warpath.
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The Summer Country
by Lauren Willig
Inheriting the ruins of a Barbados sugar plantation, a young woman from Victorian Bristol is seduced by the region's dark tropical beauty at the same time her new neighbors take steps to acquire the property for themselves.
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Their Little Secret
by Mark Billingham
Suspecting foul play while investigating a metro station suicide, Tom Thorne enlists Nicola Tanner to help investigate the activities of a murderous con man before linking the case to a bludgeoning death.
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A Touch of Forever
by Jo Goodman
Proposing a marriage of convenience to reserved widow Lily Salt to protect the new life he has built, Roen Shepard discovers that she has secrets of her own and the closer he gets to uncovering them, the more he wants to be with her—forever.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks
by Kerry Winfrey
Annie Cassidy, a rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script, in a delightfully charming and funny novel.
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