July-October 2019 list by Ileana Oprea
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The Antiquities Hunter
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
To flush out the person stalking her best friend Rose, PI Gina “Tinkerbell” Miyoko takes her place and is plunged into a world of murder and illegal antiquities trafficking.
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The Book of Essie
by Meghan MacLean Weir
The 17-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family’s hit reality show, has a secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.
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The Coincidence Makers
by Yoav Blum
Working for a secret group to orchestrate seemingly coincidental life-changing occurrences, Guy receives an assignment of the highest level to teach the true nature of fate, free will and love.
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Dopesick
by Beth Macy
The book includes deeply human portraits of the families and first responders affected by America's more than 20-year struggle with opioid addiction.
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Dracul
by Dacre Stoker
A prequel to Dracula, based on the original author's notes and co-written by a family descendant, reveals the iconic vampire's origin story, Bram Stoker and the tale of the woman who connected them.
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Exit Strategy
by Charlton Pettus
The brilliant founder of a financially ruined tech startup hires the services of a secretive organization that allows the wealthy and famous to fake their deaths and start over with a new identity.
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Fly Girls
by Keith O'Brien
Traces the lesser-known stories of five women, including Amelia Earhart, who successfully fought to compete against men in the highstakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s.
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The Husband Hour
by Jamie Brenner
A surprise visitor interrupts a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town, forcing her to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband and the past she has tried to leave behind.
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Jar of Hearts
by Jennifer Hillier
A rising executive hides what she knows about her high-school boyfriend's role in the death of her best friend 14 years earlier, when new deaths occur in the wake of a prison escape.
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A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
by Dianne Freeman
Enjoying unusual freedoms as a widow, the American-born Countess of Harleigh emerges from mourning to host her sister's first London season while navigating an investigation into her husband's death.
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The Last Time I Lied
by Riley Sager
An artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl returns to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor to discover what really happened to her friends.
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The Line That Held Us
by David Joy
A deer hunter and his friend cover up the accidental shooting death of a man from a notoriously violent family that retaliates in nightmarish ways.
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Lying in Wait
by Liz Nugent
The wife of a respected judge and mother to a beloved son finds their home in Dublin thrown into devastating turmoil by her son's discovery of dark family secrets.
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Medusa Uploaded
by Emily Devenport
The executives control Oichi's life, up until the day they try to kill her with the order to shoot Oichi out of an airlock. A sentient AI, a Medusa unit, rescues Oichi and teaches her the truth about the executives.
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One in a Million
by Lindsey Kelk
Follows a young woman who makes a promise to the boy next door but wonders what will happen to that promise when he never comes back.
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The Real Michael Swann
by Bryan Reardon
A woman frantically searching for her husband in the chaos of a Penn Station terrorist bombing combs through her memories as new developments raise troubling questions about her husband's true nature.
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The Ruin
by Dervla McTiernan
After her boyfriend's death is ruled a suicide, a surgical resident teams up with the detective who investigated the boyfriend's mother's accidental overdose 20 years prior.
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The Sisters Mederos
by Patrice Sarath
House Mederos, once the wealthiest merchant family in Port Saint Frey is disgraced and impoverished. Daughters Yvienne and Tesara Mederos are determined to uncover their family's downfall and get revenge.
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Something in the Water
by Catherine Steadman
A successful banker and a rising filmmaker embark on a blissful paradise honeymoon in Bora Bora, where they discover a mysterious bag of riches that will change their marriage and lives.
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Trail of Lightning
by Rebecca Roanhorse
When a small town needs her help in finding a missing girl, Maggie Hoskie, a Dinétah monster hunter, reluctantly enlists the help of an unconventional medicine man.
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