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New Fiction - November 2018
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All the Lives We Never Lived
by Anuradha Roy
The Man Booker-longlisted author delivers a novel set from World War II India through the present day and follows a son's quest to uncover the story of his freedom-craving, rebellious artist mother.
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Beauchamp Hall
by Danielle Steel
Seeking solace from her unfulfilled dreams in a beloved British television series, Winnie impulsively departs for England in the aftermath of two losses and rediscovers herself amid the dramas and personalities of the show's production set.
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Come With Me
by Helen Schulman
A part-time employee of a tech company owned by her friend's 19-year-old son acts as his guinea pig to test an algorithm that allows people to access their "multiverses" and see their alternative life choices and paths.
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Extinctions
by Josephine Wilson
A miserable, retired Australian engineering professor's life is completely reinvented in this moving portrait of one family’s secrets, missed opportunities, and hopes for another chance at life.
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Heads You Win
by Jeffrey Archer
A stand-alone epic by the best-selling author of Kane and Abel follows a 1968 Russian teen who escapes an oppressive life in Leningrad and is forced to choose between parallel lives in London and New York.
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Insurrecto
by Gina Apostol
While on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, both collaborate and clash in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American war.
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The Kinship of Secrets
by Eugenia Kim
The story of two sisters separated by the Korean War follows Miran, who grows up living with her parents in a prosperous American suburb, and her sister Inja who struggles with life in war-torn Korea and ties to a family she doesn't remember.
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The Kortelisy Escape
by Leonard J. Rosen
This moving, unlikely love story is also a masterfully told coming-of-age story enriched by mounting tension and large questions concerning magic, loyalty and wonder.
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A Ladder to the Sky
by John Boyne
An aspiring writer meets a celebrated novelist in a hotel in 1988 and uses the man's long-held secret in this compelling character study about the hunger for fame.
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Master of His Fate
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A charismatic and ambitious businessman in Victorian England faces the tragic ruin of everything he has worked to achieve before a royal summons gives him a chance to prove his talents.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.
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Night of Miracles
by Elizabeth Berg
A baking class instructor, her haunted assistant and a youth reeling from a family tragedy discover the power of community while navigating complicated choices and uncertain futures.
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The Noel Stranger
by Richard Paul Evans
A follow-up to The Noel Diary finds a humiliated and depressed woman, reeling from a scandal that ended her marriage, finding renewal in a relationship with a man who hides a dark past.
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No Traveller Returns
by Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas.
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The Splendor before the Dark
by Margaret George
When a fire engulfs ancient Rome, Nero Augustus is targeted with suspicion about his complicity, forcing him to navigate a web of false friends and spies to save the empire.
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Tony's Wife
by Adriana Trigiani
Falling in love during a mid-20th-century Jersey Shore summer, two aspiring singers find their marriage tested when they must decide which of them will pursue career opportunities while the other stays at home to raise a family.
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Ways to Hide in Winter
by Sarah St. Vincent
A young widow living in the Pennsylvania mountains and flipping burgers for hunters and hikers befriends a stranger visiting from Uzbekistan and becomes embroiled in a manhunt after he confesses to committing a terrible crime in his home country.
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We Can Save Us All
by Adam Nemett
An epic, ribald novel about a group of alienated Princeton students who respond to escalating climate change by forming an end times cult inspired by superheroes
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Wolves of Eden
by Kevin McCarthy
While a post-Civil War military lieutenant and his long-suffering orderly navigate violence in their search for a band of killers, two war-weary Irish immigrants are swept into a coalition of Native American tribes fighting American expansion. A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West.
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The Best Bad Things
by Katrina Marie Carrasco
Dismissed from the Pinkerton Detective Agency for her penchant for going undercover as a man, 19th-century espionage agent Alma Rosales navigates multiple complex identities while tracking stolen opium for an alluring mastermind smuggler.
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Body & Soul
by John Harvey
In the fourth (and final) novel in the series, Frank Elder struggles to protect his estranged daughter and prove her innocence after her breakup with a controversial artist ends in murder.
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A Christmas Revelation
by Anne Perry
In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance.
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City of secrets
by Victoria Thompson
A follow-up to City of Lies finds woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles championing the cause of a widowed suffragist whose second husband has died amid scandalous rumors and the inexplicable disappearance of the family wealth.
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The Colors of All the Cattle
by Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the newest addition to the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
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Death of a Rainmaker
by Laurie Loewenstein
A small-town sheriff in 1930s Oklahoma, already dealing with the effects of the Depression and a drought, must solve the murder of a rainmaker who failed to make it rain.
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The Feral Detective
by Jonathan Lethem
Convincing an enigmatic loner to help her search for a friend's missing daughter, Phoebe traverses the outskirts of California's stunning Inland Empire, where she discovers her companion's complicated relationship with warring tribes of outcasts.
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Forever and a Day
by Anthony Horowitz
An explosive prequel to Casino Royale follows the mysterious demise of Agent 007 in the French Riviera underworld and the emergence of a new agent, James Bond.
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Harvest of Secrets
by Ellen Crosby
When the untimely death of a fellow winemaker is blamed on an innocent migrant worker whose community threatens to boycott her harvest unless she clears his name, Lucie Montgomery is blindsided by a decades-old family secret.
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In Peppermint Peril
by Joy Avon
Spending the holidays at her great aunt's vintage tearoom, Callie Aspen helps organize a party for the community's unpopular but wealthy eldest resident before a controversial engagement, a missing heirloom and a murder upend the festivities.
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Kingdom of the Blind
by Louise Penny
Still coping with the events that led to his suspension, Armand Gamache is curious when he discovers that an elderly woman who was a complete stranger to him has named him as one of the executors of her will.
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Long Road to Mercy
by David Baldacci
Devoting her life to bringing criminals to justice after her twin is murdered in childhood, FBI agent Atlee Pine investigates a missing-persons case in the Grand Canyon that may be tied to a string of disappearances. First in a new series.
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Look Alive Twenty-Five
by Janet Evanovich
When three consecutive managers from a famous deli go missing, leaving no clues behind but a single shoe each, latest manager Stephanie Plum navigates Lula's theories about alien abductions to avoid becoming the next victim.
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Manuscript for Murder
by Jessica Fletcher
When an FBI investigation into possible financial malfeasance leads to the apparent suicide of her longtime publisher, Jessica Fletcher begins an investigation that centers on a mysterious missing manuscript.
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Miss Blaine's Perfect and the Golden Samovar
by Olga Wojtas
Present-day Edinburgh librarian Shona McMonagle responds to the call when Miss Blaine, founder of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, recruits her to time travel to czarist Russia to complete a mission. A quirky, marvellous first novel.
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Money in the Morgue
by Ngaio Marsh
Duffy does an excellent job building a taut atmospheric whodunit based on the opening chapters and a few notes that Marsh (1895–1982) left behind for her 33rd mystery featuring Scotland Yard’s Chief Det. Insp. Roderick Alleyn.
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Newcomer
by Keigo Higashino
Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects
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Nine Perfect Strangers
by Liane Moriarty
Gathering at a remote health resort for a 10-day fitness program, nine strangers and their enigmatic host become subjects of interest to a brokenhearted novelist who develops uncomfortable doubts about the resort's real agenda.
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Past Tense
by Lee Child
Taking a detour on his hitchhiking tour to his father's childhood hometown, Jack uncovers disturbing family revelations, while at the same time becoming entangled in the problems of two stranded Canadians involved in a dangerous high-ticket sale.
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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud
by Mike Lupica
When her ex-husband is nearly killed by an unknown shooter, Sunny becomes the unlikely protector of the Burke family against a deranged mastermind with a very personal vendetta.
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A Scandal in Scarlet
by Vicki Delany
Gemma and Jayne donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned-out museum—but a killer wants a piece of the auction.
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Sea of Greed
by Clive Cussler
The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting and the NUMA team must solve a baffling historical mystery in order to save the future.
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The Shadows We Hide
by Allen Eskens
A young reporter investigating the murder of a man with the same name as him discovers the deceased to be a loathsome lowlife who may be his father in this sequel to The Life We Bury.
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Storm Rising
by Sara Driscoll
Deployed to Virginia Beach in the wake of a devastating hurricane, FBI special agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue K-9 companion discover a teen hiding in the swamp from a sex-trafficking ring that has used the storm to disappear.
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Target
by James Patterson
When the U.S. President is assassinated by an unknown sniper, Alex Cross takes a personal role with the FBI to lead an unprecedented investigation that is complicated by Constitutional crises.
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Tom Clancy: Oath of Office
by Marc Cameron
When a change of regimes in Iran presents new opportunities for a balance of power in the region, President Jack Ryan becomes a lone Western voice in urging caution in the wake of an international arms dealer's rise to power.
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The Western Wind
by Samantha Harvey
In 1491, when the wealthiest resident of the small village of Oakham is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, the local priest, John Reve, attempts to discover the cause of the suspicious death, revealing some of the villager's darkest secrets.
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You Don't Own Me
by Mary Higgins Clark
Television producer Laurie Moran sets aside her wedding plans to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor, placing herself in the path of a mysterious stalker.
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A Duke Changes Everything
by Christy Carlyle
When the new heir to the Tremayne dukedom arrives, determined to take away her home and position as steward of the Enderley estate, Mina Thorne must find a way to make him change his mind.
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First Earl I See Tonight
by Anna Bennett
To stop a blackmailer from revealing a secret that could ruin her family, Miss Fiona Hartley, in desperate need of a husband to access her huge dowry, proposes marriage to the infuriating Earl of Somerdale who gives her a run for her money.
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Lies, Love, and Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Julie Wright
Romantically reconnecting with her former partner while working on her big break, a rising Hollywood film editor considers a difficult choice when a lawsuit threatens her job.
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My One and Only Duke
by Grace Burrowes
| Using his new position as Duke to expose those who wronged him and help the widowed, pregnant daughter of a meddlesome prison preacher, Quinn Wentworth embarks on a marriage of convenience that leads to the unexpected. |
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Empire of Sand
by Tasha Suri
The illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and exiled Amrithi, a race of outcast nomads descended from desert spirits, must fight against the Emperor and his terrifying mystics to resist their cruel plans.
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Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
The first volume of a definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros is set centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones and answers key questions about the dynasty's origins, conflicts and relationships with dragons.
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Lies Sleeping
by Ben Aaronovitch
Detective and apprentice wizard Peter Grand teams up with an adversarial Lesley May to track down and capture the murdering Faceless Man, who would execute the final stages of a brutal long-term plot.
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The Sky-Blue Wolves
by S. M. Stirling
The stunning and epic conclusion to the bestselling Change series finds Crown Princess Órlaith and her fire-forged ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, taking up arms to protect their homelands from the forces of the Yellow Raja and the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe.
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Vita Nostra
by Sergiy Dyachenko
A young girl falls under the spell of a strange, sinister man who asks her to perform odd tasks before convincing her to enroll in a strange and magical school called The Institute of Special Technologies.
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