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All Is Bright
by Katherine Spencer
A box of old photos renews memories of the Reverend Ben Lewis' challenging first Christmas in Cape Light, while his daughter, Rachel, contemplates a future without her beloved husband before considering a new relationship.
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Citizens Creek
by Lalita Tademy
Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian Wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
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Far As the Eye Can See
by Robert Bausch
A Civil War veteran journeys into the Plains Wars-stricken American West, discovering a sense of purpose through his encounters with Native Americans and settlers who scrabble for peace and survival. Not to be missed by historical fiction fans.
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The Heart Has Its Reasons : A Novel
by María Dueñas
When her longtime marriage abruptly ends in the wake of her husband's infidelity, Madrid college professor Blanca Perea struggles to rebuild her own life by researching that of an enigmatic Spanish writer who died decades earlier.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
by Nuruddin Farah
Among Africa's most distinguished novelists, Farah's new novel features Bella, a coolly inscrutable photographer of international renown unsettled when political extremists kill her Mogadishu-based half-brother, with whom she shares a Somali mother. Leaving Rome for Nairobi, where her teenage niece and nephew are in boarding school, she's trying to decide whether she can and should take over their care when the mother who had essentially abandoned them reappears.
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Let Me Be Frank With You
by Richard Ford
Four richly-detailed narratives set in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy trace the reinvention of much-discussed character Frank Bascome, who attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world in chaos.
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Limbo
by Melania G. Mazzucco
In this story of love and loss, 27-year-old Afghan War veteran Manuela returns to her hometown near Rome where she grapples with her new life and comes to terms with her past role role as a leader of fighting men and a peacemaker in a country that didn't seem to want her help.
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The May Bride
by Suzannah Dunn
Immediately bonding with her sister-in-law, Katherine Filliol, Jane Seymour is caught up in the scandal of Katherine's infidelity and sent to reestablish the family's name by becoming Queen Catharine's maid of honor.
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Mermaids in Paradise
by Lydia Millet
Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack Deb and Chip's tropical vacation in this genre-bending, satirical sendup of the American honeymoon.
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Missing Reels
by Farran Smith Nehme
Immersing herself in fantasies inspired by silent-era films after fleeing her small hometown, vintage store salesgirl Ceinwen Reilly teams up with a rationally-minded math professor to search for a lost film that she hopes will make her famous.
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The Mistletoe Promise
by Richard Paul Evans
The best-selling author of The Christmas Box presents a new inspirational holiday tale about loss and healing.
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The Paris Winter
by Imogen Robertson
British painter Maud Heighton, seduced by the elegance and luxury of Paris, is unknowingly caught in a web of deception and revenge at the height of La Belle Epoque.
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Shark
by Will Self
In 1975, five years after being tricked into going on an ill-advised LSD trip, maverick psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner realizes the true nature of the events that transpired on that dread-soaked day.
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Sleep in Peace Tonight : A Novel
by James MacManus
Harry Hopkins, a trusted advisor of President Roosevelt, arrives in Blitz-torn London to negotiate with Winston Churchill and becomes romantically involved with a young woman who works as a British spy. By the author of Ocean Devil.
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Bad Country
by C. B. McKenzie
The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style.
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Bed of Nails
by Antonin Varenne
Hard-boiled Paris police lieutenant Richard Guerin thought he knew the depths of human tragedy and perversion during his years investigating suicide cases, but when a slew of cases that are way too bizarre to be straightforward suicides end up on his desk, Guerin realizes that he is up against a nihilistic evil beyond anything he's encountered before.
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Betrayed
by Lisa Scottoline
A follow-up to Accused finds Judy Carrier struggling with torn feelings about her friend Mary DiNunzio's happiness, as well as racing to the side of her cancer-stricken aunt, whose close friend, an undocumented worker at a local farm, has died under suspicious circumstances.
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Blue Labyrinth
by Douglas J. Preston
Investigating the murder of a long-time enemy, Pendergast journeys to an abandoned California mine only to uncover a dark secret from his family's past and a plot by a vengeful killer.
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The Burning Room
by Michael Connelly
Detective Bosch and new rookie partner Lucia Soto chase elusive leads in a case involving a victim who succumbs to complications from a bullet wound sustained nine years earlier.
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The Chocolate Clown Corpse : A Chocoholic Mystery
by JoAnna Carl
Discovering that the widow of a murdered novelty shop owner has been attacked, chocolatier Lee concludes that the wrong person has been arrested for the crime and confronts possible suspects during a macabre clown-themed festival. Includes a bonus section of chocolate trivia and lore.
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The Cinderella Murder
by Mary Higgins Clark
A first collaboration between the MWA Grand Master and the best-selling author of the Ellie Hatcher series follows the launch of a reality television series for unsolved crimes and a case involving a murdered UCLA student.
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A Deadly Measure of Brimstone : A Dandy Gilver Mystery
by Catriona McPherson
This critically-acclaimed mystery series set in 1920s Scotland and featuring plucky and laugh-out-loud-funny heroine Dandy Gilver is perfect for fans of PG Wodehouse, Dorothy L Sayers, and Agatha Christie.
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Deadly Ruse : A Mac McClellan Mystery
by E. Michael Helms
After a 24-year stint in the Marines, combat veteran Mac McClellan settles in the Florida Panhandle to relax and enjoy being a civilian while he figures out what to do with the rest of his life. But startling revelations about his lady friend and threats of murder lead Mac into the investigation business in this sequel to Deadly Catch.
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Death in Elysium
by Judith Cutler
This sparkling first in a new traditional series from Cutler stars Jodie Welsh, a rich business whiz, who moves to rural Kent to marry a widowed minister. A tight plot complements the diverse and entertaining cast of characters.
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Desert Rage : A Lena Jones Mystery
by Betty Webb
In Scottsdale, Arizona, Lena Jones is hired by a rising politician to investigate the credence to her secret biological daughter's confession that she killed her adoptive parents and brother.
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Down on Cyprus Avenue
by Paul Charles
Irish author Charles launches his new Brendy McCusker series with this twist-filled tale of betrayal and revenge. McCusker, a retired detective inspector and contract employee of the Belfast police, assists Det. Insp. Lily O'Carroll with the kidnapping case of two Internet entrepreneurs.
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The Escape
by David Baldacci
The latest entry in the popular series that began with Zero Day and The Forgotten continues the adventures of military investigator, John Puller.
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The Final Silence
by Stuart Neville
In Belfast, Jack Lennon investigates a possible connection between him being the lead suspect in a murder investigation and the recently discovered twisted legacy of a new client's uncle.
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The Forgers
by Bradford Morrow
The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover--Will, a convicted literary forger--under the guise of letters from long-dead authors, and soon Will realizes that this killer threatens everything he holds dear. An atmospheric literary thriller.
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Forty Days without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller
by Olivier Truc
In French journalist Truc’s gripping debut, which has been shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger award, two Norwegian police officers who cover reindeer-related crime, investigate a killing.
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And Grant You Peace : a Joe Burgess Mystery
by Kate Flora
Portland police detective Joe Burgess is summoned to a fire at a nearby mosque where he finds a screaming woman and her baby locked in a closet. Only the very young mother survives, but suffers from traumatic muteness. As Burgess tries to identify his victims and learn who set the fire, he encounters cultural and language barriers as well as threats to his family, but he is determined to get justice.
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Hope to Die
by James Patterson
Detective Alex Cross embarks on the most wrenching case of his career to secure their lives of family members who have been abducted by a psychotic genius.
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Into a Raging Blaze
by Andreas Norman
In a debut novel, a former diplomat in Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses his insider knowledge to create a mesmerizing espionage thriller that reverberates with authenticity
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The Job
by Janet Evanovich
A latest entry in the series by the author of the Stephanie Plum novels and the author of the Monk series finds Agent O'Hare reluctantly partnering with con-man Nicolas Fox to take down a big-league criminal.
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Land of Careful Shadows
by Suzanne Chazin
In this engrossing series opener, Latino homicide detective Jimmy Vega must investigate the ethnically-charged murder of a Hispanic woman found 50 miles north of New York City, as well as locate the baby pictured in a photograph found on the dead woman.
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The Laughing Monsters : A Novel
by Denis Johnson
A literary spy thriller set in Africa, where a businessman, a skeptical soldier of fortune and the soldier's girlfriend embark on a family visit to the Uganda-Congo borderland, overshadowed by shifting loyalties and respective secrets.
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
by Rita Mae Brown
Discovering human remains in an equine graveyard, "Sister" Jane Arnold and her trusty hounds investigate a case that is complicated by family rivalries, a meddling nemesis and a determined killer.
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Liberators : A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse
by James Wesley Rawles
Hiding out on a cattle ranch in a remote part of Western Canada after the collapse, Afghanistan War veteran Ray McGregor and his friend, Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence case officer Phil Adams, are forced to lead a resistance movement against a tyrannical army of occupation. [Patriots series, #5]
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A Map of Betrayal : A Novel
by Ha Jin
From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor.
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My Sister's Grave
by Robert Dugoni
Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister's disappearance and the murder trial that followed. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.
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A New York Christmasby Anne PerryVisiting New York during the Christmas of 1904 to attend her friend's wedding, Jemima, the grown daughter of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, is enlisted in an effort to track down the groom's estranged mother with the help of a handsome police officer.
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Petite Mort
by Beatrice Hitchman
Scandal, intoxication and lies flourish in the silent film studios of Paris.
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Private India
by James Patterson
Struggling with personal demons while heading the Mumbai branch of the world's leading PI agency, Santosh Wagh investigates the escalating acts of a serial killer who has been leaving mysterious objects at murder scenes. Co-written by a #1 best-selling author.
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The Promise : An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
by Robert Crais
A crossover novel finds Cole and Pike joined by Suspect heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, in a case involving a missing defense contractor employee who was being blackmailed to supply explosives to a shadowy group.
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The Siege: A Novel
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
A tale set during the Napoleonic siege of Cádiz finds unwavering police commissioner Rogelio Tizón investigating a series of murders committed by one of several possible suspects trapped within the bomb-stricken city.
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Sins of Our Fathers
by Shawn Lawrence Otto
From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream.
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Sister Eve, Private Eye
by J. Lynne Hinton
When Sister Evangeline Divine's father, private detective Jackson Divine, asks her to come home and help with his recovery after surgery, she ends up taking on one of his cases involving a missing Hollywood director. Hinton will delight her longtime fans with the inaugural "Divine Private Detection Agency" mystery.
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A Song to Die For
by Mike Blakely
Eagerly taking work as a new guitarist for a former country music legend, Vietnam veteran Creed Mason partners with Texas Ranger Hooley Johnson, who believes that the band has ties to a string of mob hits. A winning crime novel set in 1975.
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Sons of Anarchy: Bratva
by Christopher Golden
In a novel set in the world of the hit TV show The Sons of Anarchy, Jax and the sons go to find his missing half-sister, Trinity, who is mixed up with the Russian mafia.
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Wink of an Eye : A Mystery
by Lynn Chandler Willis
The real-life town of Wink, Tex., provides the setting for Willis's promising debut, winner of the Minotaur/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition. PI Gypsy Moran, on the run from some trouble in Las Vegas, returns home to Wink, where 12-year-old Tatum McCallen asks him to look into the supposed suicide of his father.
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By Winter's Light
by Stephanie Laurens
As the six Cynster families gather together for the holidays at snowbound Casphairn Manor in Scotland, Claire Meadows, widow and governess to Gabriel Cynster's daughter, despite her misgivings, starts a relationship with tutor Daniel Crosbie until disaster strikes.
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The Christmas Wedding Ring
by Susan Mallery
After being dumped by her fiancé just before Christmas, Molly Anderson walks back into the life of bad boy Dylan Black, hoping for some no-strings-attached fun, but when their affair turns into something more, she must reveal a secret that could drive him away.
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Emma Blooms At Last
by Naomi King
Romance is in the air during the fall wedding season in the Amish community of Cedar Creek. But while one loving couple prepares to tie the knot, Amanda and Wyman Brubaker's large family faces a threat from outside their happy circle...and must learn to pull together.
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Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover : The Fourth Rule of Scoundrels
by Sarah MacLean
By day, she is Lady Georgiana, ruined before her first season in the worst kind of scandal. But the truth is far more shocking. RITA® Award-winning author MacLean reveals the identity of The Fallen Angel's final scoundrel in the spectacular conclusion to her bestselling series.
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The Remedy for Love : A Novel
by Bill Roorbach
When the "Storm of the Century" forces Eric to find refuge in a cabin where Danielle, a homeless woman he took pity on, is squatting, the two of them are forced into close quarters and begin to reveal their deepest secrets to one another.
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Unleashed
by Rachel Lacey
Unable to deny her attraction to Matt Dumont, a gorgeous PI—and her neighbor—foster-dog rescuer Cara Medlen breaks her number one rule by getting attached to this man who is constantly on the move.
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1636 : The Viennese Waltz
by Eric Flint
Establishing a free state for themselves after being transported back in time to the middle of the Thirty Years' War, the citizens of modern Grantville, West Virginia, confront a strong-headed cabal of former Barbie Doll enthusiasts who form a successful investment consortium. Book #18 in the best-selling Ring of Fire series.
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The Boy Who Killed Demons
by Dave Zeltserman
A 13-year-old boy begins seeing demons, detecting their presence through their assumed human forms, and must resort to ancient texts to help him hunt them down, all while balancing homework, grades and romantic crushes.
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Coming Home
by Jack McDevitt
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
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Dreamer's Pool : A Blackthorn & Grim Novel
by Juliet Marillier
After escaping her wrongful imprisonment, magical healer Blackthorn, living on the fringe of a mysterious forest with a former prison mate named Grim, is duty bound to assist anyone who asks for her help and must call upon her courage, ingenuity and magic when Prince Oran calls upon her.
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Hawk
by Steven Brust
Former professional assassin Vlad Taltos returns to the imperial capital where his family and friends are, despite the ever-growing danger from the Jhereg.
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Heritage of Cyador
by L. E. Modesitt
A follow-up to Cyador's Heir finds Cigoerne's Mirror Lances commander Lerial leading three troops on a mission to protect Afrit and Cigerne from a Heldya invasion.
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Lowball : A Wild Cards Novel
by George R. R. Martin
When residents of Jokertown begin going missing, a rookie lieutenant hoping to prove himself teams up with a motley group of unlikely Jokers to identify and stop the culprits.
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Proxima
by Stephen Baxter
Sometimes exploration isn't voluntary: Yuri is forced to become a colonial settler on Proxima Centauri, a habitable planet circling a red dwarf star, in this satisfying, big-scale science fiction novel.
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Revival : a novel
by Stephen King
Years after a charismatic minister is banished in the wake of a faith-shattering tragedy, a heroin-addicted rock-and-roll guitarist from the same hometown reconnects with the man and forges a terrible pact. This is a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Symbiont
by Mira Grant
The second book in the terrifying Parasitology Series continues the story of Sal and her companions, who work to stop disease-fighting tapeworms that have been taking over their human hosts.
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Tarkin
by James Luceno
Tells the complete tale of Grand Moff Tarkin - the man who controlled the Death Star and ordered the destruction of Alderaan in the film Star Wars: A New Hope and whom even the dreaded Darth Vader obeyed.
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The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project's signal is received by an alien civilization on the brink of destruction, which plans to invade Earth; meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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The Turning Season
by Sharon Shinn
In the latest Shifting Circle novel, Karadel, a rural veterinarian and shape-shifter with a close-knit network of shifter and human friends, attempts to develop a drug that would help shifters control their changes--until her life is threatened by two events that change everything.
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