October 2020 list by Nanette Alderman
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All the Devils Are Here
by Louise Penny
Horrified when his billionaire godfather is targeted in a near-fatal accident, Chief Inspector Gamache follows clues deep within the Paris Archives to uncover gruesome, decades-old secrets.
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Beauty Tempts the Beast
by Lorraine Heath
Determined to gain power over men and return to Society on her terms, Althea Stanwick makes an outrageous proposal to Benedict Trewlove, aka Beast, that leads to more than she can handle.
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The Book of Two Ways
by Jodi Picoult
Experiencing memories of a man other than her husband while surviving a plane crash, an end-of-life doula on the brink of a fateful decision envisions two disparate paths that find her staying with her family or reconnecting with the past.
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The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
by Annie Lyons
Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, a world-weary octogenarian forges an unexpected bond with an exuberant 10-year-old who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees and other social excursions.
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The Coast-to-Coast Murders
by James Patterson
A baffling string of murders throughout the country leads Detective Garrett Dobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble to the family of two Ivy League intellectuals who raised their adopted children in a traumatizing experimental environment.
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The Constant Rabbit
by Jasper Fforde
In an England populated with anthropomorphic rabbits and humans, one hare family moves into a cozy little village that does not want them there and are defended by two human neighbors who take a stand against prejudice.
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A Dance with Fate
by Juliet Marillier
The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elitefighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final display bout. Blamed by Dau's family for the accident, she agrees to go to Dau's home as a bond servant for the span of one year.
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Divergence
by C. J. Cherryh
As stability returns to the atevi world, Bren Camerson, at the head of state’s request, must accompany and protect his grandmother on her journey to snowy Hasjuran — a move most concerning.
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The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett
A prequel to the best-selling The Pillars of the Earth follows the experiences of a young boatbuilder, a scholarly monk and a Norman noblewoman against a backdrop of the Viking attacks at the end of the 10th century in England.
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Funeral for a Friend
by Brian Freeman
Jonathan Stride investigates after his best friend confesses on his death bed to covering up a murder that leads to the discovery of a body buried in his yard.
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The Lake Wobegon Virus
by Garrison Keillor
Returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Next to Last Stand
by Craig Johnson
Walt Longmire visits the 7th Calvalry Headquarters of 1946 Fort Bliss, Texas to investigate links between a fatal heart attack, a fire that has destroyed a high-profile work of American art and a shoebox containing a million dollars.
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The Nicotine Chronicles
by Lee Child
In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addictive collection. Stories by Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, and more.
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The Return
by Nicholas Sparks
Moving into a family beekeeper cabin to recuperate from war injuries, an Afghanistan veteran falls in love with a guarded sheriff while working with a sullen local teen to investigate the mystery of a grandparent’s death.
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One by One
by Ruth Ware
When an offsite company retreat is upended by an avalanche that strands them in a remote mountain chalet, eight coworkers are forced to set aside their corporate rankings and mutual distrust in order to survive.
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A Private Cathedral
by James Lee Burke
Swept up in a criminal underworld rivalry involving a pair of star-crossed teen lovers, Detective Dave Robicheaux is targeted by a time-traveling superhuman assassin who forces him to confront the demons of his own past.
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.
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Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Written pseudonymously by the acclaimed author of the Harry Potter novels, a latest entry in the best-selling series that began with The Cuckoo’s Calling continues the high-stakes adventures of Cormoran Strike and his partner, Robin Ellacott.
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When No One Is Watching
by Alyssa Cole
Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.
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