November 2019 list by Donalee Jacobs
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The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
by Nicholas Meyer
Investigating the murder of a Secret Service agent, Sherlock and Watson, accompanied by an enigmatic woman, uncover a plot by a covert group intent on taking over the world.
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All Fired Up
by Lori Foster
Longing to find a man who is responsible and settled, Charlotte Parrish instead finds Mitch Crews, who is everything she knows she should avoid but everything she can’t seem to resist.
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All This Could Be Yours
by Jami Attenberg
From the critically acclaimed best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a novel of family secrets revealed in the heat of a New Orleans summer.
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The Andromeda Evolution
by Daniel H. Wilson
This 50th-anniversary sequel to The Andromeda Strain finds a Brazilian drone detecting a bizarre anomaly in the middle of the jungle with the same chemical signature of the microparticle that nearly ended all life on Earth.
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Blue Moon
by Lee Child
The highly anticipated latest installment in the best-selling series finds Jack Reacher offering aid to an elderly couple only to be confronted by the most dangerous opponents of his career.
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Cherokee America
by Margaret Verble
In the Spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation, Check, a wealthy farmer and mother of five boys, must protect her mixed-race family and tight-knit community at all costs when violence erupts.
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Disaster's Children
by Emma Sloley
Plotting her escape from the privileged community of wealthy survivalists on an Oregon ranch, Marlo plots her foray into the outside world, called “the Disaster,” until a charismatic new resident gives her a reason to stay.
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A Dog's Promise
by W. Bruce Cameron
This latest entry in the series that includes, A Dog’s Journey, continues the story of Bailey, who is joined by another special dog, Lola, in an effort to fulfill a promise over the course of several lives.
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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
The award-winning author of Soledad draws on her mother’s story in a tale set in a turbulent 1960s Dominican Republic, where a young teen agrees to marry a man twice her age to help her family’s immigration to America.
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Final Option
by Clive Cussler
Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his team of government-sponsored operatives hide their state-of-the-art weaponry and cutting-edge scientific technologies while navigating a dangerous mission aboard the Oregon.
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Find Me
by André Aciman
The author of the worldwide best-seller Call Me by Your Name revisits that novel’s complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.
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Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
by Mary Higgins Clark
A #MeToo investigative journalist discovers that the man who once sexually assaulted her has become a successful industrialist on the brink of a billion-dollar deal.
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Let it Snow
by Nancy Thayer
Scrambling through the last-minute holiday rush at her Nantucket toy shop, Christina bonds with the family of her miserly landlord, forging unexpected ties along the way.
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A Minute to Midnight
by David Baldacci
A high-action sequel to Long Road to Mercy continues the story of FBI agent Atlee Pine in the remote wilds surrounding the Grand Canyon in Shattered Rock, Arizona.
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Noel Street
by Richard Paul Evans
A single mother finds unexpected revelations and healing in her relationship with a recently returned Vietnam POW whose personal demons have created a stir in their small Utah community.
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Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
Agreeing to help her former college roommate care for two stepchildren who possess the ability to spontaneously combust when agitated, Lillian endeavors to keep her young charges cool in the face of an astonishing revelation.
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
by Olivia Hawker
After Cora’s husband is jailed for killing her lover, who happens to be the husband of their only neighbor, Nettie Mae, the two women must face the duties of working the land and raising their children on the Wyoming prairie in 1876.
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The Other Windsor Girl
by Georgie Blalock
A historical novel inspired by the life of Mary II’s sister depicts a glamorous Princess Margaret who sparkles among the aristocrats of post-World War II society before her notorious lifestyle clashes with her sister’s royal duties.
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Seven Letters
by Joseph Monninger
A Dartmouth Ph.D. student falls for a troubled Irish-American fisherman while researching the history of the Blasket Islands on the rocky Irish coast, once the home to famous Irish writers, but now abandoned.
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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction.
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Tom Clancy Code of Honor
by Marc Cameron
When an old college friend-turned-humanitarian is arrested in Indonesia amid false accusations, President Ryan assigns the Campus team to find answers at the same time he receives an ominous warning.
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To the Land of Long Lost Friends
by Alexander McCall Smith
Mma Ramotswe’s efforts to help an old friend’s daughter are complicated by family drama, Charlie’s girlfriend’s apparent preference for Fanwell and the schemes of nemesis Violet Sephotho.
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Twisted Twenty-Six
by Janet Evanovich
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is challenged to protect one of her own when her suddenly widowed grandmother is targeted by ruthless gangsters.
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