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The Almost Sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
Swept off her feet by a costumed man at a convention, a graphic novelist discovers that she is pregnant with a biracial child and avoids telling her conventional Southern family while assisting her elderly grandmother, who has been hiding a dangerous secret linked to the Civil War.
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Beloved Hope
by Tracie Peterson
Losing the man she loved in the Whitman Mission massacre, Hope slowly recovers in the Oregon City home of her sisters before a difficult lawsuit and a chance for a relationship with an Army lieutenant force her to come to terms with the past.
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Between Lost and Found
by Shelly Stratton
Forced to return home to Mammoth Falls, South Dakota, when Little Bill, the grandfather who raised her, goes missing, Janelle Marshall is drawn in by the unique little town and its residents who also care about Little Bill as they struggle with their own vulnerabilities and secrets as deep as the mistakes they try to set right.
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The Bookshop at Water's End
by Patti Callahan Henry
Reuniting with her best friend and a local bookshop owner at the river house where they spent their childhood summers together, Bonny is challenged to confront painful memories and secrets, including the truth about her friend's mother's mysterious disappearance.
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Brave Deeds
by David Abrams
Spanning eight hours, the novel follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-torn Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their leader, Staff Sergeant Rafe Morgan.
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The Captain's Daughter
by Meg Mitchell Moore
The daughter of a widowed lobsterman returns to her hometown in coastal Maine when her father is seriously injured, a visit that reunites her with a former love and forces her to consider the life she might have led.
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Chasing Down a Dream
by Beverly Jenkins
Jack and Rocky try to plan their wedding while Tamar drops everything for her dying cousin and Gemma tries to foster a pair of orphaned siblings in the latest novel of the series following Stepping to a New Day.
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The Diplomat's Daughter
by Karin Tanabe
A Japanese-American woman and a German-American man in a World War II internment camp fall in love before one is extradited and the other enlists in the U.S. Army in the hopes that a Pacific assignment will enable their reunion, a situation that is complicated by her first love and the realities of war.
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Fitness Junkie
by Lucy Sykes
Given an ultimatum by her best friend and business partner, the CEO of a couture wedding dress company embarks on a haphazard effort to lose weight in accordance with a series of fads ranging from naked yoga to militant boot camp, bonding with eccentric partners before questioning if her goals are wise.
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Gather the Daughters
by Jennie Melamed
Starving herself to fend off adulthood in a radical post-apocalypse community where a few chosen men scavenge for detritus and women are little more than breeders, a teen leader investigates a shocking mystery and then risks her life to organize a girl uprising.
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Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Struggling with disillusionment in the aftermath of a broken engagement, Ruth moves back home with her parents to discover that her professor father's erratic memory loss and her mother's eccentricity are manifesting in near-comical ways that help Ruth transform her grief.
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Hum If You Don't Know the Words
by Bianca Marais
Growing up parallel but very different lives built on apartheid in 1970s Johannesburg, a white girl from a secure family and a Xhosa widow in a rural village meet by chance in the wake of The Soweto Uprising, during which the girl's parents are killed and the widow's daughter goes missing.
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Like a Fading Shadow
by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Based on recently declassified FBI files, this novel imagines James Earl Ray’s last days of freedom in Lisbon, where he fled after assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. A hypnotic blur of fiction, memoir and biography.
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Live from Cairo
by Ian Bassingthwaighte
An Iraqi refugee finds herself trapped in 2011 Cairo after being denied permission to join her husband in America and must rely on her foolhardy attorney, who has feelings for her and a not quite legal plan to get her out.
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The Nearness of You
by Dorothy Garlock
A sheltered librarian in a mid-20th century small-town community finds her secret wish for adventure granted in unexpected ways by a reckless but alluring photographer who changes her life by taking her picture at the height of a local fall festival.
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The Reason You're Alive
by Matthew Quick
Surviving a brain tumor linked to a wartime chemical exposure, David resolves to return a stolen object to a former Native American soldier from his past as part of an effort to find closure and recover from his wife's untimely death.
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old
by Hendrik Groen
The riotous journal of an octogenarian who is far from reaching the end of his life traces a year in his care home in Amsterdam, revealing the ups and downs of his misadventures with the anarchic "Old-But-Not-Dead Club" and a longtime crush whom he courted to devastating effect.
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Secrets of the Tulip Sisters
by Susan Mallery
Estranged by their mother's abandonment and their own secrets, sisters Kelly and Olivia harbor longtime crushes for popular brothers Griffith and Ryan, whose return a decade after high school leads to embarrassing memories, unexpected disillusionment and romantic closure.
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When the English Fall
by David Williams
A tale told through the diary of an Amish farmer recounts his struggles to protect his family and way of life when a catastrophic solar storm decimates modern civilization, causing "English" outsiders to violently target the Amish for their resources.
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Where the Light Falls: A Novel of the French Revolution
by Allison Pataki
An idealistic young lawyer, a nobleman's son eager to shed his life of privilege and an independence-seeking widow become inextricably linked in post-Revolution Paris, where violence and instability threaten to undo the uprising's progress.
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The Wildling Sisters
by Eve Chase
Anticipating a quiet English country summer upon arriving at Applecote Manor in 1959, 15-year-old Margot and her three sisters find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their cousin five years earlier until Margot is inexplicably drawn into the life her cousin left behind.
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Blame
by Jeff Abbott
Two years after a car crash killed her friend and left her with amnesia, Jane Norton receives an online message from someone claiming to know what really happened that night, but her search for the truth puts many lives in danger.
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The Breakdown
by B. A. Paris
Unable to forget a murder she witnessed when she was where she was not supposed to be, Cass struggles with an increasingly compromised memory before she begins receiving silent, sinister phone calls.
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Collared
by David Rosenfelt
Astonished when an anonymously surrendered dog is linked to the kidnapping of a baby more than two years earlier, canine rescuer and lawyer Andy Carpenter reopens the case to search for the stolen child and determine if the right person was sent to jail.
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Dark Saturday
by Nicci French
Reluctantly agreeing to assess a woman who was incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital a decade earlier for murder, psychotherapist Frieda Klein begins to suspect that the girl is innocent, only to find herself targeted by someone who would keep the truth hidden.
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Deadfall
by Linda A. Fairstein
Investigating the drive-by murder of a high-profile city employee, assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper teams up with NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to search for answers in secret societies, a big-game hunting operation, the illegal animal trade and covert government deals.
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A Distant View of Everything
by Alexander McCall Smith
The arrival of a second child for amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is complicated by her 4-year-old's lack of enthusiasm and a matchmaker's request for help with a couple whose prospects have been overshadowed by sinister revelations.
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Down a Dark Road
by Linda Castillo
When an Amish man convicted for murdering his wife eight years earlier escapes and abducts his five children, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder races to the scene, only to be ambushed by the man, who implores her to prove his innocence.
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Every Day Above Ground
by Glen Erik Hamilton
Searching for a fortune in hidden gold revealed to him by a terminally ill ex-con, Van Shaw is compelled to rescue the man's innocent daughter from a mysterious predator with ties to an illegal bare-knuckle fighting ring and darker underworld operations.
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The Fallen
by Ace Atkins
Investigating a series of bank robberies that have been orchestrated with skill and precision worthy of a military raid, Mississippi sheriff and former Army Ranger Quinn Colson calls on old allies and new enemies in his effort to outmaneuver a sophisticated band of elite criminals.
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Fierce Kingdom
by Gin Phillips
Trapped in a closed zoo after witnessing a life-shattering event, a woman and her 4-year-old son navigate the zoo's hidden pathways and under-renovation exhibits to stay ahead of a dangerous adversary who tests their survival and the limits of the mother-child bond.
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A Game of Ghosts
by John Connolly
Tapped by the FBI to search for a missing private detective who had been tracking a series of murders linked to reports of hauntings, Charlie Parker infiltrates a paranormal criminal empire that makes pawns out of both innocent and guilty people.
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House of Spies
by Daniel Silva
A latest entry in the best-selling series continues the adventures of Israeli assassin and art restorer-turned-spy Gabriel Allon.
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The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo
by Ian Stansel
A justice-fueled race across the wilds of Northern California reveals the hardscrabble youth and fateful experiences of a preeminent horse trainer who has been murdered by his jealous brother.
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The Last Hack
by Christopher Brookmyre
A teen forced to set aside her college ambitions to care for a younger sibling while their mother is in prison is blackmailed by an online predator and must turn for help to reporter Jack Parlabane, whose debt to a person on the wrong side of the law could cost him everything.
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The Late Show
by Michael Connelly
Relegated to the night shift after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor, a once up-and-coming LAPD detective disobeys orders by refusing to walk away from two cases, including an assault on a prostitute and the death of a young woman in a nightclub shooting.
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Let the Dead Speak
by Jane Casey
Investigating the suspected murder of a West London woman whose home was found covered in blood, detective Maeve Kerrigan and her homicide team struggle to piece together the testimonies of suspicious neighbors, including an ultra-religious family that is hiding something and a local ne'er-do-well who was once accused of stabbing a classmate.
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The Lies We Tell
by Theresa Schwegel
Hiding her multiple sclerosis from her department because of her need to support a young family member, a Chicago police officer struggles with the truth when she attempts to track down a suspect who knows her secret.
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Look Behind You
by Iris Johansen
Cooperating with the FBI when a serial killer begins leaving mysterious relics at his crime scenes, Kendra Michaels discovers that the objects are souvenirs from other unsolved murders and that the new killings have been orchestrated to taunt her personally.
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The Lost Ones
by Sheena Kamal
Contacted by the desperate adoptive parents of the child she gave up 15 years earlier, Nora teams up with her mutt companion and embarks on a search through the streets of Vancouver, only become enmeshed in a puzzling conspiracy.
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The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
In the wake of a woman's horrifying discovery of human remains along a scenic tidal estuary, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a second-rate boarding school near the English Channel reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher. By the best-selling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood.
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The Marriage Pact
by Michelle Richmond
Picture-perfect newlyweds are unexpectedly initiated into a mysterious organization designed to keep marriages happy and intact by enforcing seemingly thoughtful rules that become increasingly exacting and subject to brutal enforcement.
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Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery
by D. M. Quincy
After rescuing a woman, Lilliana, who was being auctioned off by her husband in a small country village in 1810 England, Atlas Catesby must work to help her to clear her name after the husband is found murdered.
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The Painted Queen
by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
When a stranger bursts into her elegant Cairo hotel suite and dies from injuries sustained during an interrupted assassination attempt on her life, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts while navigating the murderous activities of master-of-disguise, Sethos.
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Paradise Valley
by C. J. Box
Setting a trap for a serial killer she has hunted for three years, investigator Cassie Dewell is disgraced when the operation goes horribly wrong, a situation that is further complicated by the loss of her job, the disappearance of a troubled youth and her determination to catch the killer at any cost.
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Penhale Wood
by Julia Thomas
On a cold December night in Cornwall, nanny Karen Peterson disappeared with three-year-old Sophie Flynn. The next day, the child’s body was found on a riverbank in Penhale Wood. A year later, Sophie’s mother, Iris, appears on the doorstep of investigating officer Rob McIntyre, determined to make him reopen her daughter’s case.
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Persons Unknown
by Susie Steiner
Enduring cold-case work as the price she must pay for a transfer back to Cambridgeshire and a better work-life balance, pregnant detective Manon Bradshaw becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder of her former brother-in-law when the case threatens her family and pits her against close colleagues.
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The Secrets She Keeps
by Michael Robotham
A seemingly chance friendship between a successful parenting blogger and an unmarried grocery store clerk, both of whom are expecting babies the same month, is shattered by obsession, terrible secrets and a shocking kidnapping plot.
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Shallow Grave
by Brian Thiem
After Oakland homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair discovers his former partner murdered and the case closed too quickly, he will stop at nothing to uncover the truth.
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The Third Nero
by Lindsey Davis
When another Nero pretender emerges to challenge the Emperor in 90 A.D., Flavia Alba reluctantly sets aside her wedding plans to investigate high-ranking officials who may or may not be supporting Saturninus.
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Trophy
by Steffen Jacobsen
A private eye investigating a compromising DVD showing a manhunt and a police investigator probing the apparent suicide of a war veteran on his wedding night find their cases intertwining.
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Two Nights
by Kathy Reichs
A stand-alone thriller by the best-selling author of the Temperance Brennan series introduces Sunday Night, a woman whose secret past has left her with scars and a killer instinct that proves helpful to a desperate family in the wake of a bomb explosion and a girl's disappearance.
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Wired
by Julie Garwood
A beautiful computer genius reluctantly partners with a bad-boy FBI agent to hunt down a cybercriminal in exchange for leniency for her troubled brother, an arrangement that is compromised by their growing attraction.
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Beautiful Tempest
by Johanna Lindsey
While the Malory and Anderson families set aside longtime rivalries to hunt down a man who has abducted James and Georgina's beloved daughter from her American debutante party, Jack discovers that her captor is an alluring nobleman who would settle an old score against her father.
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Blame It on the Duke
by Lenora Bell
In order to honor his father’s gambling debt—or lose the family estate—Lord Hatherly is forced to marry Miss Alice Tombs, an independent beauty who longs to explore the world on her own, and makes her an offer she cannot refuse—one summer to prove the legitimacy of their union, then she is free to travel.
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Fly Away With Me
by Susan Fox
Tasked by her ailing mother to find her long-lost aunt, lawyer Eden Blaine flies to a Pacific Northwest island she’s never even heard of where she, recovering from a bad breakup, meets a gorgeous seaplane pilot who makes her wonder if a carefree rebound fling is just what she needs.
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Fuel for Fire
by Julie Ann Walker
When his latest mission throws him together with CIA agent Chelsea Duvall, the woman of his dreams, covert operator Dagan Zoelner finally shares his feelings with this spitfire of a woman who feels the same way about him—but has a secret that could destroy them both.
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Lord of Lies
by Amy Sandas
When her sister is kidnapped by a ruthless moneylender, Portia Chadwick turns to Nightshade, an infamous man from London’s underground, for help and is determined to join him in his work, which becomes dangerous for both her life and her heart.
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Some Kind of Hero
by Suzanne Brockmann
Rendered a single parent by his ex's accidental death, a former Navy SEAL moves to San Diego to start over only to see his daughter associating with a bad crowd before going missing, a situation that leads to a frantic search and a promising romance with a resourceful neighbor.
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Afterlife
by Marcus Sakey
A mind-bending thriller that explores our most haunting and fundamental question: What if death is just the beginning? Soon to be a major movie.
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Besieged : Stories from the Iron Druid Chronicles
by Kevin Hearne
The ancient gods are alive and well in the modern world in this hilarious, action-packed collection of original short stories featuring Atticus O’Sullivan, the two-thousand-year-old Irishman.
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Dark Rites
by Heather Graham
When an unknown assailant begins viciously beating random strangers including her history professor friend, who has gone missing, Vickie Preston teams up with special agent Griffin Pryce in the wake of terrifying visions that suggest that a cult is responsible for the attack.
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Dark Sky
by Mike Brooks
In the sequel to the thrilling Dark Run, Ichabod Drift and his crew sign on for a new smuggling job that soon goes south when they are separated and caught up in a dangerous civil war.
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The Reluctant Queen
by Sarah Beth Durst
When a dying queen dispatches a champion to find a successor capable of protecting their realm from murderous spirits, a wife and mother of two is forced to choose a life of terrible risk in order to protect her loved ones.
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Tomorrow's Kin
by Nancy Kress
A debut entry in a trilogy follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
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