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The Air You Breathe
by Frances De Pontes Peebles
Traveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, an orphaned kitchen maid and the reckless daughter of a sugar baron embark on a volatile friendship marked by their ambitions to escape, their changing fortunes and unexpected fame.
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Becoming Belle
by Nuala O'Connor
The charming eldest daughter of a 19th-century middle-class military family reinvents herself to gain entry into London's cultural and social circles before falling in love with a young aristocrat whose brutal father disapproves of the match.
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Beautiful Exiles
by Meg Waite Clayton
A literary friendship between headstrong journalist Martha Gellhorn and the iconic, married Ernest Hemingway flourishes into romance throughout their coverage of the Spanish Civil War, a period that establishes Martha's career and inspires Hemingway's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece.
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Bellewether
by Susanna Kearsley
As war is raging, young French Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, becoming an unwilling and unwelcome guest that soon has feelings for the daughter of the house, Lydia Wilde.
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The Cast
by Amy Blumenfeld
Twenty-five years after a group of ninth graders produces a Saturday Night Live–style videotape to cheer up their cancer-stricken friend, they reunite to celebrate her good health—but the happy holiday card facades quickly crumble and give way to an unforgettable three days filled with moral dilemmas and life-altering choices.
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The Court Dancer
by Kyung-Sook Shin
The New York Times best-selling author of Please Look After Mom presents the story of an enigmatic orphan-turned-dancer who is caught up in the dizzying sweep of court life in the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire.
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The Distance Home
by Paula Saunders
Two siblings enduring a hardscrabble existence in 1960s rural South Dakota pursue separate but equally extreme measures to find creative outlets and escape the dark, secretive elements of their community.
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Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
A meditative collection from Poland explores themes of travel, movement and existentialism in stories that feature protagonists who question their shifting perspectives in time and space as they tackle extreme agendas. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
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French Exit
by Patrick deWitt
A brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. A one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners', a riotous send-up of high society, and a moving mother/son caper.
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The Last Hours
by Minette Walters
Assuming control of her despised late husband's people in the wake of the Black Death, a 14th-century noblewoman struggles to protect formerly oppressed people who have been rendered superstitious and fanatical by the plague.
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The Line That Held Us
by David Joy
A deer hunter and his friend cover up the accidental shooting death of a man from a notoriously violent family that retaliates in nightmarish ways.
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The Masterpiece
by Fiona Davis
A recently-divorced information-booth worker stumbles on an abandoned art school within a crumbling Grand Central Terminal before learning the story of a talented woman artist who went missing 50 years earlier.
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Meet Me at the Museum
by Anne Youngson
A disenchanted farmer's wife and a widowed museum curator begin a correspondence over their mutual fascination with poet Seamus Heaney's "The Tollund Man" and gradually share details from their lives, forging an unexpected bond along the way.
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Mr. & Mrs. American Pie
by Juliet McDaniel
This whip-smart romantic comedy is as incisive as it is funny: after getting dumped by her husband, a woman sets out to prove her worth by entering a 'best housewife' pageant in 1970 Palm Springs.
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Our Homesick Songs
by Emma Hooper
A lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive. By the author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James.
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Safe and Sound
by Fern Michaels
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The Sea Queen
by Linnea Hartsuyker
The Viking saga continues as Ragnvald navigates increasingly treacherous political and military uprisings on behalf of King Harald, while his adventure-craving sister, Svanhild, longs for a more stable home for her son. Sequel to The Half-Drowned King.
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The Secret Ingredient for a Happy Marriage
by Shirley Jump
No matter what crisis hits, dependable Nora knows how to fix it. But faced with losing her husband, her home, and the life she's worked so hard to build, Nora begins to see that failure is nothing to fear. When her husband asks Nora to give their family a second chance, she must decide if their relationship can be saved-or if it's time to throw out the old recipe and start from scratch.
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Severance
by Ling Ma
A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader.
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So Much Life Left Over
by Louis De Bernieres
A closely-knit group of British men and women struggle to cope with the world, and their own traumas, in the aftermath of World War I.
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Summer on the River
by Marcia Willett
A threatening secret, an unhappy marriage, and an unexpected love affair threaten Evie and Charlie's family during what they fear may be their last shared summer at a beloved riverside home.
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Thief of Corinth
by Tessa Afshar
Afshar again shows her amazing talent for packing action and intrigue into the biblical setting for modern readers, this time focusing on the city of Corinth—center of first-century CE commerce and culture—and the family of fictional Galenos.
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Three Things About Elsie
by Joanna Cannon
A novel set in England about 84-year-old Florence, a resident in a nursing home, who has fallen in her apartment, leading her to think about her childhood friend and the secrets of their past that are about to come to light.
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Whiskey When We're Dry
by John Larison
Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, a 17-year-old sharpshooter cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
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The Butterfly Conspiracy
by Vivian Conroy
In this enchanting series debut, a budding zoologist in Victorian England must defend her uncle, who is being accused of murder, after one of their exotic butterflies kills a person who came in contact with it.
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The Breakers
by Marcia Muller
The disappearance of a young recovering addict in southwest San Francisco leads private investigator Sharon McCone to the site of a Prohibition-era nightclub, where she discovers a ghastly chamber of horrors.
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City of Ink
by Elsa Hart
Forced to return home to unravel the mystery surrounding his mentor's execution, Li Du confronts painful memories while investigating a double murder, the secrets of several Beijing residents and threats against his safety.
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A Conspiracy of Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returns with a host of unexpected upheavals. Her boyfriend has proposed marriage, her boss has died, and the resentful new woman on top is keeping Temperance out of the lab. She won't even let her examine the faceless, handless, organless body recently discovered, but does that stop Temperance?
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Dead Man Running
by Steve Hamilton
When the FBI catch Martin T. Livermore, the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, in Scottsdale, Arizona, he insists he will only speak to retired police officer Alex McKnight.
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Desolation Mountain
by William Kent Krueger
Cork and his son, Stephen, investigate a plane crash that has killed a senator, a case that is further complicated by the baffling disappearances of several first responders.
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Feared
by Lisa Scottoline
When nemesis Nick Machiavelli targets her family with frivolous legal claims and slander that escalate to an unthinkable tragedy, Mary DiNunzio discovers her own unsettling capacity for dark retaliation.
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Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding
by Rhys Bowen
Lady Georgiana Rannoch's establishment as mistress of a grand estate is stymied by the property's disarray, the curious incompetence of the staff and a suspicious gas leak.
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Her Kind of Case
by Jeanne Winer
A seasoned criminal defense attorney must draw on her experience to save a teenage client who doesn't want to be saved in this legal drama that centers on Lee Isaacs, a female defense attorney on the cusp of turning 60, who takes the case out of curiosity and desire for a big professional challenge.
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The Iceman
by Peter T. Deutermann
A decorated submarine commander haunted by a violent youth unsettles his crew with the incrementally risky measures he takes to sink Japanese ships in the western Pacific during World War II.
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Last Looks
by Howard Michael Gould
Now committed to a minimalist life in solitude, a former LAPD superstar is drawn into the case of a once-famous, heavily drinking actor whose wife has been found dead. Gould's experience as a film and TV writer is evident in this well-written first novel that manages to focus on environmental concerns while spoofing Hollywood clichés with a nod toward classic American detective fiction.
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Little Comfort
by Edwin Hill
Harvard librarian Hester Thursby must track down charismatic—and deadly—con man Sam Blaine before he bilks another widow out of her life savings in this chilling psychological thriller with an unusual heroine and a page-turning storyline.
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The Mark
by Janet Evanovich
Fox and O'Hare's efforts to assemble a team to defend against a murderous adversary are complicated by a betrayal that has put Kate's father on the most-wanted list.
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The Middleman
by Olen Steinhauer
This sweeping espionage novel traces the rise and fall of a terrorist group from the perspectives of an FBI agent, an undercover agent, a convert, and a writer.
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The Money Shot
by Stuart Woods
Disguising himself as a stuntman to investigate blackmail threats against an actress starring in a new production, Teddy Fay discovers that the perpetrators are looking for something other than money.
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Murder in the Oval Library
by C. M. Gleason
As the Frontier Guard assembles at the White House to steel themselves for a Secessionist invasion, one of the patriots turns out to be a murderer.
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The Mystery of Three Quarters
by Sophie Hannah
Accused by strangers of trying to set them up for murder, Hercule Poirot teams up with Scotland Yard policeman Edward Catchpool to investigate the drowning death of an elderly man.
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Our House
by Louise Candlish
Arriving home to find strangers moving into the prized family home she agreed to share with her ex, Fiona endures a domino effect of horrors as she discovers that her children have gone missing amid terrible revelations. A disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense.
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Pieces of Her
by Karin Slaughter
The daughter of a woman who has wanted nothing more than a quiet life in her small beachside home embarks on a desperate search for answers when she discovers the explosive truth about her mother's true identity.
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In the Presence of Evil
by Tania Bayard
Paris, 1393. Scribe Christine de Pizan dreads going to the palace to work, where people believe the mad king can be cured with magic. But a certain spell book leaves murdered bodies in its wake. Then Hugues de Precy is murdered and his wife, Alix, is blamed. Can Christine prove Alix's innocence and save her from being burned at the stake?
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The Prisoner in the Castle
by Susan Elia MacNeal
While being held prisoner on a remote Scottish island, Maggie Hope, a spy and codebreaker, must find the person responsible for killing the other spies before she becomes the next victim.
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Red, White, Blue
by Lea Carpenter
Mourning the charismatic father who died suspiciously the day before her wedding, Anna becomes estranged from her new husband before meeting an enigmatic stranger who alludes to her father's secret past.
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Sweet Little Lies
by Caz Frear
In this gripping debut procedural, a London policewoman from a troubled family is forced to investigate dark secrets in her estranged father's past to solve the murder of a young housewife and the disappearance of a teen girl years earlier.
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Swift Vengeance
by T. Jefferson Parker
Tracking a mysterious killer who has been targeting drone operators, PI Roland Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with an FBI agent who is haunted by Bureau failures.
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Tailspin
by Sandra Brown
Hired to deliver a mysterious box to a fogbound Georgia town, daredevil pilot Rye Mallett is targeted by saboteurs and law enforcement before teaming up with an attractive but suspicious doctor to determine the box's significance.
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Texas Ranger
by James Patterson
Dedicated Texas Ranger Rory Yates is wrongly implicated in the murder of his ex-wife and finds his skills pushed to the limit in his effort to find the real killer and prove his own innocence.
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Toucan Keep a Secret
by Donna Andrews
Locking up after an event at the Trinity Episcopal church, Meg Langslow discovers the body of an elderly parishioner, who had threatened to reclaim his wife's ashes from the church crypt, and uncovers local secrets with the help of The Reverend Smith's foster toucan.
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Trust Me
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
An unlikely alliance between an accused killer who swears she is innocent and a grieving journalist who would rebuild her shattered life leads to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. Can you spot the liar?
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Under a Dark Sky
by Lori Rader-Day
A grieving widow tackles her phobias during a week-long stay at a dark-sky park, where a college reunion is marred by murder. A terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last page.
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Walking Shadows
by Faye Kellerman
Decker and Lazarus risk their lives to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than 20 years earlier.
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The Washington Decree
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, a dedicated advisor who has spent more than half her life supporting a remarkable Democratic candidate's path to the White House, is shattered when the president-elect's wife is assassinated on election night and the prime suspect is Doggie's father.
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Born to be Wilde
by Eloisa James
Desperate LaVinia Gray gets some unexpected help from Parth Sterling, the richest bachelor in England, with finding a husband; and, as they work closely together, she vows to convince him that he is the only man for her.
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The Heiress He's Been Waiting for
by Kaitlin O'Riley
When he meets shipping heiress Sara Fleming during the London Season, the Earl of Bridgeton, in desperate need of a wealthy wife to save his family’s estate, sets out to win her heart—one kiss at a time—until he falls head over heels.
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It Takes Two
by Jenny Holiday
Trapped with the man who broke her heart—aka the bride’s brother—Wendy Liu, the maid of honor in her best friend’s wedding, proposes a challenge to Noah Denning: who can throw the best bachelor or bachelorette party in Sin City? Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.
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To Have and to Harley
by Regina Cole
Pretending to be a wedding planner to impress his long-lost mother, rough and tumble Motorcycle Club member Trey Harding is hired to plan his sister’s wedding and asks gorgeous maid of honor Bethany Jennigan to help him pull off the charade.
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Foundryside
by Robert Jackson Bennett
A thief in a city controlled by industrialized magic joins forces with a rare honest police officer to stop an ancient evil ritual that endangers thousands of lives in this first in a stunning new fantasy series.
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Relic
by Alan Dean Foster
A lone surviving human of a destructive engineered virus becomes a research subject by his alien rescuers, who outmaneuver his reluctance by offering to help him find the mythical planet Earth.
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Stars Uncharted
by S. K. Dunstall
In this rip-roaring space opera, a ragtag band of explorers are out to make the biggest score in the galaxy. Readers of Asimov, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga, or Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series will enjoy this story.
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Vox
by Christina Dalcher
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than one hundred spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
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