October 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Autumn Skies
by Denise Hunter
A conclusion to the series that began with Lake Season and Carolina Breeze finds a Bluebell Inn outfitter working as a mountain guide for a recuperating secret service agent who would come to terms with a life-changing loss.
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Battle Ground
by Jim Butcher
When the Last Titan, a being more dangerous than anything humanity has faced in a millennium, declares war on the city of Chicago, professional wizard Harry Dresden embarks on a defense that permanently transforms the mortal world.
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Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
A trilogy debut by the Nebula Award-winning author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn is inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse.
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Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
This haunting collection by one of the most important contemporary American writers contains four psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful stories about women facing threats past and present.
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Christmas at Holiday House
by RaeAnne Thayne
A young widow endeavoring to give her little boy a wonderful Christmas relocates to Silver Bells, Colorado, where she works beside a single-minded businessman to restore his historic family mansion in time for the holidays.
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Christmas at the Island Hotel
by Jenny Colgan
Sent by his privileged family to learn how the less fortunate earn their living, a duke’s son takes a job at a new Murian hotel while falling unexpectedly in love with a hardworking young waitress.
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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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Dreaming Death
by Heather Graham
Sparring with a new partner who considers her underqualified, a rookie Krewe of Hunters agent uses her supernatural prophetic dreams to outmaneuver a killer who has been targeting vulnerable young women in Washington, D.C.
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Forever by Your Side
by Tracie Peterson
Returning to the Oregon Native American reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents, Constance, aided by her best friend, uncovers disturbing information about her loved ones while reconnecting with an old crush.
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Happily This Christmas
by Susan Mallery
An independent businesswoman and single mother offers support to her neighbor and secret crush during a holiday season shaped by a prickly daughter’s pregnancy, a painful secret, difficult past mistakes and an unexpected second chance at love.
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Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
Suspended from work amid allegations of sexual misconduct, a virgin geography teacher is targeted by a sinister predator upon joining an online support group for the involuntarily celibate, before a therapist neighbor’s distraught patient goes missing.
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An Irish Country Welcome
by Patrick Taylor
In Ballybucklebo, Ireland, young doctor Barry, eagerly awaiting the arrival of his first child, and his fellow physicians, including a fledgling doctor, deals with a range of medical issues while still finding time to share the comforting joys and pleasures of this very special place.
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Jack
by Marilynne Robinson
A conclusion to the story that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead traces the story of prodigal son John Ames Boughton, who pursues a star-crossed, interracial romance with a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher.
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Jingle All the Way
by Debbie Macomber
Urged by her mother to take a cruise for the holidays, workaholic Everly tours the Amazon under the guidance of a charming naturalist who helps her discover that her relationships are more important than her career.
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Just Like You
by Nick Hornby
Miserably married to a man with whom she once shared everything in common, Lucy forges an unexpected bond with her 22-year-old babysitter, a man from an entirely different class, culture and generation. By the best-selling author of About a Boy.
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The Kingdom
by Jo Nesbø
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
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The Last Druid
by Terry Brooks
A conclusion to the Shannara saga is set in the war-torn Four Lands, where a group of heroes organizes to defend the region while one carries world-changing technology to the Skaar homeland and another becomes trapped in a deadly realm.
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Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the movie-inspiring novel unveils the origin story of Maria Owens, who after being discovered as an abandoned baby in rural 17th-century Salem is taught in the “Unnamed Arts” before cursing her own family in love.
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The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Told entirely through fictional eyewitness accounts of living creatures both past and present, this brilliant novel is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
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The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
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Return to Virgin River
by Robyn Carr
A latest entry in the best-selling, faith-oriented series interweaves modern themes into traditional storylines in an original romance set in the fan-favorite rural community of Virgin River.
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The Searcher
by Tana French
Looking to start a new life in a small Irish village, former Chicago police officer Cal Hooper comes out of retirement to help find a missing kid and uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat.
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A Song for the Dark Times
by Ian Rankin
A thrilling new Rebus novel, from a master of mystery, is about crime, punishment and redemption.
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A Time for Mercy
by John Grisham
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career and the safety of his family on the line to defend a 16-year-old murder suspect who is facing the death penalty.
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A Wild Winter Swan
by Gregory Maguire
The best-selling author of Wicked reimagines Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans” in the story of an Italian-American rebel who encounters a handsome swan boy during the Christmas season in 1960s New York.
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