November 2017 list by Nanette Alderman
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Act of Betrayal
by Matthew Dunn
A former intelligence operative investigates the poisoning of a CIA agent who uncovered a mysterious situation involving the assassination of a terrorist financier.
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The Book of Swords
by Gardner Dozois
An anthology of original fantasy tales by some of today's leading genre masters includes contributions by such names as George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch and Elizabeth Bear.
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Children of the Fleet
by Orson Scott Card
A solo Ender novel finds Fleet School hopeful Dabeet Ochoa discovering his mysterious connection to the Fleet when he is approached for recruitment by Colonel Graff.
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Christmas in Icicle Falls
by Sheila Roberts
At her annual Christmas party, author Muriel Sterling inspires her friends Sienna Marks, who has had it with her grouchy next door neighbor, and Olivia Claussen, who would love to send her obnoxious new daughter-in-law packing, to see the good in everyone and the beauty in even the roughest characters.
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Colonial Horrors
by Graeme Davis
A collection of supernatural horror and suspense stories focuses on tales from the colonial era and features the work of Cotton Mather, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Crazy Like a Fox
by Rita Mae Brown
Trying to stop the activities of a wily fox that has been poaching farms throughout Virginia hunt country, Master of the Hunt "Sister" Jane Arnold, her gentleman friend Gray Lorillard, the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club and their loyal hounds find themselves confronted by an all-too-human adversary.
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Desert Remains
by Steven Cooper
Someone is filling the desert caves around Phoenix with bodies--a madman who, in a taunting ritual, is leaving behind a record of his crimes etched into the stone. With no leads and no suspects, Detective Alex Mills sees a case spinning out of control.
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Duke of Desire
by Elizabeth Hoyt
After rescuing Lady Iris Jordan from the Lords of Chaos, the Duke of Dyemore, in order to keep her safe, makes her his wife, but when she involves herself in his life—and bed—he finds himself falling in love with the spirited beauty until his dangerous past resurfaces.
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The Four Horsemen
by Gregory Dowling
Tour guide Alvise Marangon thinks he knows Venice better than ever, but now finds himself ensnared by mysteries as obscure as the city and in many cases just as old.Certain that he is finally about to have his guide’s license revoked after a tavern brawl, Alvise is instead dragooned into the service of Missier Grande, who has linked the death of one of his agents to a secret society known as the Four Horsemen.
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Hiddensee
by Gregory Maguire
An imaginative tale rooted in early 19th-century German Romanticism that explores parallels between the origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him.
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The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
A young mother desperately tries to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression as she struggles for dignity and her rights in a textile mill.
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Odd Child Out
by Gilly Macmillan
Amid rising social tensions, Detective Jim Clemo must investigate an unfortunate accident between two best friends, one British and one a Somali refugee.
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A Plain Leaving
by Leslie Gould
Three years after Jessica Bachmann left her Amish home because of a clash with the new bishop and her brother about her role, she returns home for her father's funeral.
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Pulse
by Felix Francis
When a smartly dressed man dies in the hospital after being found unconscious at a local racetrack, doctor Chris Reynolds, a specialist struggling with mental health challenges, searches for the victim's identity and clues about what happened only to be targeted by a ruthless killer.
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The Rooster Bar
by John Grisham
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped.
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The Rules of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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The Stolen Marriage
by Diane Chamberlain
Impulsively ending her engagement to another man to marry a mysterious stranger from a small North Carolina community in 1944, Tess rapidly discovers that she is trapped in a loveless relationship and is treated with suspicion by secretive neighbors before discovering her talents as a nurse during a devastating polio outbreak.
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The Stone in the Skull
by Elizabeth Bear
A first volume in a trilogy set in the fantasy world of The Eternal Sky follows the experiences of a brass automaton mercenary who at the side of an embittered bodyguard carries an important message into the Lotus Kingdom only to become embroiled in a dynastic war.
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Two Kinds of Truth
by Michael Connelly
An investigation into the murder of a young pharmacist leads Harry Bosch and San Fernando's detective squad into the big-business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse at the same time an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD returns to haunt him.
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Vengeance
by Newt Gingrich
When a terrorist crashes a truck loaded with explosives into her Washington, D.C. wedding, killing the president, Major Brooke Grant resolves to track down the master terrorist responsible and joins a clandestine CIA team under the leadership of an unorthodox new commander-in-chief.
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