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The Award
by Danielle Steel
Nearing 100 when she learns she will receive the Legion of Honor Medal, Gadlle de Barbet experiences painful memories and healing when she relives her past as a World War II activist who risked her life to bring Jewish children to safety and to salvage France's great works of art.
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Because It's Christmas
by Katherine Spencer
Agreeing to spend one last Christmas in her home after her family tells her she can no longer safely live alone, Sophie receives help from her grandson in organizing a wonderful Christmas holiday at Cape Light and oversees his budding romance with the town's determined former mayor.
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Conclave
by Robert Harris
After the demise of the Pope, 118 cardinals converge on the Sistine Chapel to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election, where ambition and rivalry play out over the course of 72 hours.
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Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
Overwhelmed by guilt when she walks away from an accident that destroys her best friend's future, Shelby connects with a circle of lost and found souls, including a guardian angel, to fight her way back to her own future.
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The Flame Bearer
by Bernard Cornwell
Aspiring to reclaim the home stolen by his traitorous uncle after a truce is forged between the Vikings and Saxons, the warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg draws on skills gleaned from a lifetime of war to confront new enemy Constantin of Scotland, who resolves to claim or annihilate coveted lands.
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I'll Take You There
by Wally Lamb
Film scholar Felix Funicello from Wishin' and Hopin' is confronted by the ghost of a Hollywood silent film director who invites him to revisit scenes from his past and gain insights into the lives of three women who indelibly shaped his life.
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The Mayakovsky Tapes
by Robert Littell
A tale inspired by the life of 20th-century Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky is told from the perspectives of four women who loved him and share with each other memories of pivotal moments in his life, from his early years as a Futurist leader, to his work as a Revolution propagandist, to the censorship battles that turned him against the State.
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The Mistletoe Secret
by Richard Paul Evans
Mourning her husband's abandonment and the loss of her stillborn child, Kelly begins an anonymous blog about her losses and catches the attention of fellow lonely heart Tyler, who unknowingly asks for her help finding the blog's writer.
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Moonglow
by Michael Chabon
A tale inspired by long-buried family history imparts the deathbed revelation of an ancestor's involvement in a mail-order novelty company famed for ads in mid-20th-century periodicals and the family's experiences around World War II and the space program in culturally divided regions of America.
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A Portrait of Emily Price
by Katherine Reay
When art restorer and aspiring artist Emily Price meets and marries Chef Benito Hillam, who spirits her off to Italy, she, trying to change Italy instead of letting it change her, and alienating herself from his tight-knit family in the process, wonders if she will ever really fit into Ben's world, especially after long-hidden family secrets come to light.
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The Spy
by Paulo Coelho
A tale inspired by the life and death of Mata Hari is presented as a series of letters written from prison on the eve of her death and includes her reflections on her childhood in a small Dutch town, her unhappy years as the wife of an alcoholic diplomat, her rise to celebrity in Europe and the choices that led to her execution for espionage.
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Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Two dark-skinned dancers with very different talents share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in early adulthood in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
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This Was a Man
by Jeffrey Archer
A conclusion to the best-selling saga finds Giles discovering the truth about his wife's identity, Emma receiving a job offer from Margaret Thatcher and Lady Virginia pursuing an opportunity to solve her financial problems before a shocking diagnosis throws all of their lives into turmoil.
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep
by Beatrice Colin
A tale set against a backdrop of the late-19th-century construction of the Eiffel Tower follows the romantic relationship between a widow whose precarious financial situation forces her to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges and a bourgeois family businessman who must marry a suitable wife.
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Valiant Gentlemen
by Sabina Murray
A reimagining of the lives of Irish patriot-turned-humanitarian Roger Casement, his friend Herbert Ward and Ward's Argentinean-American heiress wife, Sarita Sanford, from their misadventurous youth in the Congo through the political differences that tested their bond during World War I.
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Victoria
by Daisy Goodwin
Drawing on Victoria’s diaries, Daisy Goodwin, author of the bestselling novel The American Heiress and creator and screenwriter of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel.
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The Whole Town's Talking
by Fannie Flagg
The late citizens of a small Missouri community wake up underground after death and reconnect with loved ones over the course of 150 years before some of them begin to actually disappear, prompting a town-wide investigation.
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The Bone Collection: Four Novellas
by Kathy Reichs
A collection of four short stories starring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan including First Bones, which reveals how she got her start in the lab, and Bones on Ice, which follows her to Mount Everest where she must identify a corpse found buried deep within the ice.
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Chasing Shadows
by Karen Harper
Using skills gleaned from a lifetime fighting a neurological disorder to become a highly intuitive forensic psychologist, Claire Britten is recruited onto a team of elite investigators by a former adversary who would solve a mysterious death connected to his personal life.
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Chaos
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Suspicious of a bizarre death by lightning strike, Cambridge forensics examiner Kay Scarpetta identifies links between the case of a series of poetry emails being sent to her by an anonymous cyber-stalker who has gained access to Kay's personal information.
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The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha
by JoAnna Carl
Hiring a klutzy basket case to help her through a busy Easter season at TenHuis Chocolade, Lee is delighted by her new helper's technical skills until the arrivals of numerous family members bring drama and murder into the store.
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A Christmas Message
by Anne Perry
A latest novel by the best-selling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series follows the Jerusalem Christmas holiday of Victor Narraway and Lady Vespasia, who realize that they have landed in grave danger when an elderly man leaves them a mysterious envelope before being murdered.
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Cross the Line
by James Patterson
When a prominent police official in Washington D.C. is murdered, leaving police scrambling for answers, Alex Cross is swept up in a series of deadly attacks by a vigilante killer who is targeting suspected criminals.
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Desolation Flats
by Andrew E. Hunt
In the summer of 1938, Art Oveson of the Salt Lake City Missing Persons Bureau investigates the disappearance of Clive Underhill, a wealthy English motorist, and the subsequent murder of his younger brother, and must follow a murky trail that leads him to his best friend and former partner.
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Goliath
by Shawn Corridan
In the Bering Sea a Russian oil tanker (the largest ever built) is on a secret mission when a fire erupts and rapidly spreads out of control, igniting a brutal race to claim the burning ship before it sinks or runs aground, contaminating the entire north Pacific Rim—and not only with oil.
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The Hermit
by Thomas Rydahl
In this superb blend of literary and crime fiction, a 60-ish loner living on one of the Canary Islands becomes determined to find justice in a case involving a dead infant.
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Her Nightly Embrace
by Adi Tantimedh
The first in a trilogy of whip-smart novels—soon to be a BBC TV series—about a British-born Indian private investigator, and his brilliant but quirky team of eccentric coworkers, who handles high-profile cases so undercover that they never make the headlines.
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Inherit the Bones
by Emily Littlejohn
While investigating a traveling circus, detective Gemma Monroe discovers that a murdered clown is actually the mayor's missing son and must trace back a chain of events that began nearly 40 years ago.
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The Inheritance
by Charles Finch
Receiving a cryptic plea from a former schoolmate who has subsequently disappeared, Charles Lenox infiltrates East End gangs and Royal Society denizens to discover the identity of a mysterious benefactor from his friend's past who may have had a sinister ulterior motive.
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The Killing Ship: An Antarctica Thriller
by Simon Beaufort
A group of scientists conducting fieldwork on stark Livingston Island are forced to flee for their lives when unknown intruders arrive. They find themselves pursued unrelentingly across treacherous, icy terrain by ruthless killers whose true reasons for being in Antarctica are darker and more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.
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Moral Defense
by Marcia Clark
Samantha Brinkman is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left her father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life, in a case that has Samantha identifying with her young client perhaps a little too much.
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Night School
by Lee Child
The iconic Jack Reacher embarks on an unprecedented adventure after a pivotal day marked by a medal, his return to school and his work with teammates Marian Sinclair and Frances Neagley.
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No Man's Land
by David Baldacci
A follow-up to the best-selling The Escape and The Forgotten continues the high-suspense story of military investigator John Puller.
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Odessa Sea
by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt and his NUMA team race to prevent a global war linked to the 1917 effort to preserve the Romanov Empire, the loss of a Cold War bomber's deadly cargo, mysterious Black Sea deaths and modern-day nuclear-materials smugglers.
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Red Ribbons
by Louise Phillips
Criminal psychologist Kate Pearson investigates the murders of two young girls, both found with red ribbons in their hair and whose murders are somehow connected.
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Ruler of the Night
by David Morrell
A conclusion to the popular Victorian mystery trilogy finds brilliant Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey and his irrepressible daughter, Emily, confronting their most ruthless adversary with the assistance of period royals and Scotland Yard detectives Ryan and Becker.
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Say No More
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Discovering that she has witnessed the collapse of an alibi after reporting a hit and run, Boston reporter Jane Ryland convinces a date rape victim to come forward as part of an expose on college campus sexual assaults, an assignment that is complicated by an ominous threat.
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The Sleeping Beauty Killer
by Mary Higgins Clark
Living under suspicion after wrongly serving time for her fiancé's murder, Casey attracts the attention of newswoman Laurie, who pledges to exonerate her in spite of the machinations of an attention-stealing former prosecutor.
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Storm Cell
by Brendan Dubois
Determined to save a close friend who has been wrongly convicted of murder from being sentenced to death, retired intelligence analyst Lewis Cole receives information that someone is plotting to kill his friend behind bars unless he can be freed in three days.
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Turbo Twenty-Three
by Janet Evanovich
A latest entry in the best-selling series starring intrepid bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds her receiving support from prostitute-turned-bounty hunter Lula, gun-toting Grandma Mazur, on-again-off-again paramour Officer Hottie and mentor Ranger.
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The Twenty-Three
by Linwood Barclay
When hundreds of people are sickened by deliberately contaminated water in a small New York community's water supply, Detective Barry Duckworth scrambles to identify the culprit while investigating the murder of a college student whose crime scene disturbingly resembles those of two other victims.
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Under the Midnight Sun
by Keigo Higashino
Two Japanese teenagers, Ryo and Yukiho, are irrevocably linked together as suspects during the search for the person who killed Ryo's father despite the case going cold 20 years prior in this new mystery from the author of Malice.
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A Voice in the Night
by Andrea Camilleri
Investigating a seemingly open-and-shut case at the supermarket that is astonishingly complicated by the manager's suspicious death, Inspector Montalbano investigates mysterious ties to the case and the brutal murder of a girl in the apartment of a man with powerful relatives in politics and the mafia.
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When All the Girls Have Gone
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Teaming up with struggling private investigator Max to track down her missing stepsister, Charlotte falls in love with Max and survives a near-fatal attack before making a chilling discovery about her sister's past.
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye
by Michael Connelly
The award-winning author of such best sellers as The Crossing and The Burning Room presents a latest thriller starring irrepressible detective Harry Bosch.
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Miracle on 5th Avenue
by Sarah Morgan
It will take a Christmas miracle for two very different souls to find each other in this perfectly festive fairy tale of New York.
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The Scottish Duke
by Karen Ranney
Lorna Gordon, an upstairs maid at Blackhall Castle, finds Alex Russell, the Duke of Kinross, to be the most tempting man she's ever seen (and completely unattainable) until, at a fancy dress ball, Lorna disguises herself as Marie Antoinette and pursues an illicit tryst.
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Someone to Love
by Mary Balogh
Arriving in London to claim an unexpected inheritance from the late Earl of Riverdale, orphan Anna Snow turns to the new earl's guardian, the Duke of Netherby, for help in transforming herself into a lady and navigate the very society that threatens to overwhelm her.
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Wild at Whiskey Creek
by Julie Anne Long
When a betrayal threatens aspiring musician Glory Greenleaf's big break, her former lover - and the man who put her brother in jail - Sheriff Eli Barlow, will risk everything to make it right ... because the best way to love the girl from Whiskey Creek might mean setting her free forever.
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Archangel's Heart
by Nalini Singh
When one of the most vicious archangels in the world goes missing, and her lands fall into chaos, Elena, guild hunter-turned-angel, and her archangelic lover, Raphael, unearth shocking truths that change everything Elena thinks she knows about who she is.
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The Fate of the Tearling
by Erika Johansen
When Queen Kelsea is forced to surrender herself and her magic sapphires to the enemy to protect the Tearling, her regent and most trusted guard, the Mace, rallies his forces to rescue their imprisoned sovereign in a conclusion to the best-selling trilogy.
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Hindsight
by Mindy Tarquini
Eugenia Panisporchi is a 33-year-old Chaucer professor who has the supernatural ability to see backward in time and understand how present-day happenings and people echo those of the past.
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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
by Anne Rice
Via the tale of the lost realms of Atlantis, readers will come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of an ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.
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Shadow of Victory
by David Weber
War is declared in the Manticoran Star Kingdom when the Mesan Alignment successfully orchestrates conflicts throughout the Solarian League, destroys the Royal Manticoran Navy's industrial infrastructure and launches a covert operation to start rebellions to destroy the Star Empire's reputation.
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