January-April 2019 list by Ileana Oprea
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All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
by James Alan Gardner
After a science accident, college student Kim Lam and three friends are transformed into Sparks, champions of science who have super powers, and are drawn into the conflict between Light and Dark, in which they have to battle creatures of myth and magic know as the Darklings.
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Barbed Wire Heart
by Tess Sharpe
Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. She's been working for him since she was sixteen--collecting debts, sweet-talking her way out of trouble, and dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural drug empire he's built. Her time's run out. This is the unforgettable story of a young woman facing the most difficult choice of her life: family or freedom.
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The Broken Girls
by Simone St. James
More than 60 years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
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Crimson Lake
by Candice Fox
Wrongly accused of the brutal abduction of a 13-year-old girl, Sydney detective Ted is forced to hide in the crocodile-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake, where he agrees to help convicted killer Amanda Pharrell in a case involving dangerous secrets.
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Dear Mrs. Bird
by A. J . Pearce
An adventurous young woman takes a typist job to assist the war effort and lands in the employ of a renowned advice columnist before she begins secretly replying to heart-wrenching letters rejected as unsuitable.
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The Dog Walker's Diary
by Kathryn Donahue
When jaded and overworked Los Angeles literary agent Daniel Ashe hires Annie Doherty, an Irish dog walker, he is simply looking for someone to care for his dogs. He certainly doesn't expect to come home each night to find Annie has left him a new and fantastical story about the secret lives of his dogs or that she s cast him, a man who doesn't believe in love, as a romantic hero. When his personal life and professional one collide, Daniel must ask himself how much he really knows about his dog walker and whether he's truly incapable of falling in love after all.
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The Driver
by Hart Hanson
The thriller, by the award-winning creator of Bones, traces the experiences of an Army special forces sergeant turned limo driver who, after hearing a ghost's warning of imminent danger, finds himself implicated in a murder, a situation that is further complicated by his crush on the case's lead detective.
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Gale Force
by Owen Laukkanen
Playing it safe in spite of significantly reduced profits after witnessing her father's death in a freak maritime accident and assuming his rank as captain of an Alaskan salvage boat, McKenna and her crew take a last-chance job helping an imperiled freighter only to discover that it contains valuable cargo that is being targeted by powerful enemies.
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I'm Sorry...Love, Your Husband
by Clint Edwards
A husband and father of three takes a brutally honest and hilarious look at parenting, marriage, sex and everyday family life through essays with titles like "All the Things I Never Should Have Said to My Pregnant Wife."
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The Lost for Words Bookshop
by Stephanie Butland
A secretly heartbroken woman who prefers books to people finds her world upended by the arrivals of a poet, a lover and three suspicious deliveries that reveal that someone has found out about her mysterious past.
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The Lost Letter
by Jillian Cantor
A young apprentice works secretly for the Austrian resistance in World War II and resolves to save the fiery daughter of his Jewish stamp engraver master, a story that is found decades later by a divorced descendant who investigates an unusual stamp on an old love letter.
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Only Killers and Thieves
by Paul Howarth
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power after a tragedy shatters their family on the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia.
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The Philosopher's Flight
by Tom Miller
A historical fantasy epic set in a matriarchal World War I-era America of science and magic follows the efforts of an aspiring male pilot in a female-driven branch of philosophical science who gains entry into Radcliffe College before embarking on a relationship with a radical activist who would end the activities of a fanatical group.
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Regrets Only
by Erin Duffy
After catching her husband cheating, a suburban mom throws herself into a business enterprise with two friends and finds herself heading down a road to self-discovery and possibly a new relationship.
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Rudy's Rules for Travel
by Mary K. Jensen
Rudy’s Rules for Travel takes you across the twentieth-century globe with intrepid, frugal Rudy and his spouse Mary, a catastrophic thinker seeking comfort. Whether stalled in a Spanish car tunnel, stranded atop a runaway elephant, or held at rifle-point at a Soviet border, Rudy has a rule for every occasion―for example, “Relax, some kind stranger will appear.” Mary, meanwhile, has her deep breathing and her own commandment: “Expect the worst.”
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Star of the North
by David John
More than two decades after her twin is kidnapped by North Korean operatives, brilliant CIA employee Jenna obtains information that her sister may still be alive and undertakes a daring mission into the heart of the regime, in a thriller that also traces the parallel stories of a peasant-turned-black-market businesswoman and a high-ranking official who discovers his traitorous heritage.
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Talk to the Paw
by Melinda Metz
After Jamie Snyder tires of the dating scene, her kleptomaniac cat, MacGyver, takes it upon himself to set her up with David, a handsome baker.
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Terminal Alliance
by Jim C. Hines
The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. But they hadn't counted on a mutated plague wiping out half the human population, turning the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroying human civilization.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
In 1921, Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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