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Absalom's Daughters
by Suzanne Feldman
Two half-sisters—one self-educated and black, the other illiterate and white—learn of their wayward father's inheritance and embark on a risky road trip together through the 1950s Jim Crow South in the hopes of claiming what is rightfully theirs.
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All the Time in the World
by Caroline Angell
When a devastating accident befalls the family she nannies for, Charlotte, a gifted and superbly-trained young musician, faces a choice between her promising career and the well-being of the two little boys she has come to love as her own.
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Bloodline
by Conn Iggulden
A latest entry in the series that began with Stormbird and Margaret of Anjou follows the 1461 murder of the Duke of York and the proclamation of Edward of March as England's rightful king, events that trigger shifting alliances and a deadly sibling war for the crown.
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Chance Developments
by Alexander McCall Smith
A collection of thematically linked short stories on the subjects of love and art, each inspired by an evocative old photo, includes the stories of a nun who leaves the sisterhood to discover big-city life and a romance between a circus ventriloquist and animal handler.
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Eden Hill
by Bill Higgs
Nothing seems to change in Eden Hill, Kentucky, and that's just fine with Virgil T. Osgood. He's been content to raise his family and run the only service station in town. But when a new station is set to open right across the road from Virgil's pumps, he suddenly faces obstacles in his career, his marriage, and his self-worth that he's never even dreamed of.
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Falling
by Jane Green
Seeking independence and happiness away from her upper-crust British life, Emma moves first to Manhattan and then to Connecticut, where she renovates a cottage at the side of a handyman single father with whom she plans a future before a twist of fate redefines her beliefs about home.
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Here Comes the Sun
by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
Working as a prostitute near the pristine beaches and turquoise seas of Jamaica to pay for a younger sister's education, Margot hopes that a new hotel that is reshaping her home will grant her financial independence and allow her to pursue a forbidden affair with another woman.
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Heroes of the Frontier
by Dave Eggers
Struggling through a painful separation, the loss of her dental practice and the senseless death of a young man, Josie embarks on an RV road trip to Alaska with her kids that is marked by both national wonders and the shadows of past regrets.
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The Hidden Letters of Velta B.
by Gina Ochsner
The story of a boy with extraordinary ears who -- with the help of a cache of his great-grandmother's letters -- brings healing to a town burdened by the sins of its past.
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The House at the Edge of Night
by Catherine Banner
Four generations of women on a Mediterranean island fight to safeguard their family against the forces of history and bitterness that divide them from World War I through the 2008 recession.
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How to Set a Fire and Why
by Jesse Ball
Joining her new school's secret arson club after losing both of her parents and finding herself sequestered in her aunt's garage bedroom, Lucia, a girl who lives by her wits, embarks on a spree of destruction and misguided friendship in this riveting story of family and loss.
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I Am No One
by Patrick Flanery
After returning to New York, a professor of German history begins receiving strange packages and feels like he is being followed and must confront some difficult questions about his life.
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Just Can't Let Go
by Mary B. Morrison
Satisfied with both her engagement to James Wilcox and also her secret girlfriend, Alexis Crystal devotes herself to helping her siblings plot their revenge on the lovers that wronged them.
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Leaving Lucy Pear
by Anna Solomon
Inadvertently reunited with the daughter she secretly abandoned and the girl's Irish-Catholic adoptive mother during the height of America's xenophobic Prohibition era, the adult daughter of a Jewish industrialist finds her life turned upside down by her daughter's bold and unconventional personality.
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Luck, Love & Lemon Pie
by Amy E. Reichert
Realizing that her husband has been spending increasing amounts of time at a casino and that she doesn't really mind, MJ indulges in her own gambling hobbies away from her family before a string of wins leads her to Vegas, where she attracts the attentions of a charismatic poker star.
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Miss Jane
by Brad Watson
A tale inspired by the story of the author's great-aunt explores the life of a woman in early 20th-century rural Mississippi whose genital birth defect prevents her marriageability as she endures the hardships of farm life, observes the erotic qualities of nature and shares a relationship with a boy who loves but is forced to leave her.
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Monterey Bay
by Lindsay Hatton
A debut novel set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the last days of Steinbeck's Cannery Row follows the 1940 arrival of 15-year-old artist Margot, who is seduced by the world of biologist Ed Ricketts while her father embarks on a controversial project.
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Ninety-nine Stories of God
by Joy Williams
A collection from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist author of features stories about humans' daily, random interactions with the divine in the most unlikely of places.
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One Less Problem Without You
by Beth Harbison
Three women at crossroads in their lives all wind up at Cosmos, a metaphysical shop that sells potions, crystals, and candles, where they rely on hope, strength, and a bit of magic to find their way.
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Pond
by Claire-Louise Bennett
Living a mostly solitary, fragmented existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village, a young woman reflects on an evocative, almost synesthetic daily routine and her memorable encounters as they shape her in painful, whimsical and wistful ways.
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The Secret Language of Stones
by M. J. Rose
Designing trench watches and mourning jewelry in World War I Paris, ambitious young jewelry maker Opaline, the daughter of a dark sorceress, communicates with spirits using her rare lithomancy gifts before forging a powerful love with the ghost of a fallen soldier.
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This Must Be the Place
by Maggie O'Farrell
Recovering from an ugly divorce and custody battle by marrying a sexual icon who would escape her life of fame, Daniel is threatened by a secret from his past in a story told through his voice and the perspectives of those who have influenced his life.
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We Are All Made of Stars
by Rowan Coleman
From the author of The Day We Met comes a beautiful, life-affirming novel that sparkles with love and wonder. We Are All Made of Stars is an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words and the resilience of the heart.
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Whitefern
by V. C. Andrews
A sequel to My Sweet Audrina finds Arden turning violent in his protestations against Audrina's bequeathed control over the family brokerage, an inheritance that causes her to wonder what her father knew about Arden's true nature.
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Absence of Light: A Charlie Fox Novella
by Zoë Sharp
Set at the scene of an earthquake where Charlie is helping to dig out the living and ID the dead (and determine whether all the dead died of the earthquake rather than less natural causes), this un-numbered entry in the Charlie Fox series fills us in on Charlie's personal life and her relationship with Sean, following up on the end of Third Strike.
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The Accidental Agent
by Andrew Rosenheim
World War II Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim attempts to return to law school while secretly assisting the Manhattan Project and confronting the most deadly threat of his career.
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Among the Wicked
by Linda Castillo
Going undercover to infiltrate a reclusive Amish community and investigate the death of a young girl, chief of police Kate Burkholder unearths a dangerous world of secrets and shocking crimes that are complicated by her limited ability to contact the outside world.
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The Asset
by Shane Kuhn
A former private airport security contractor is kidnapped and recruited to work on a counterterrorism CIA ghost operation.
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The Black Widow
by Daniel Silva
A latest entry in the series starring the inimitable art restorer, assassin and spy Gabriel Allon is set in the aftermath of a shocking event in Paris.
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Breaking Cover
by Stella Rimington
While working for the MI5's counter-espionage division, Liz Carlyle must hunt down a Russian spy whose unknown intentions are likely a threat to national security, in the latest installment of this excellent series.
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Classic at Bay
by Amy Myers
The once-notorious cabaret singer Adora Ferne has twelve classic Jaguar cars but is desperate for the thirteenth. Jack Colby is commissioned to buy it from the Earl of Storrington. But when a murder follows the earl's rejection of an offer, Jack finds himself rushing headlong into danger.
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Court Trouble
by Mike Befeler
Befeler launches a new series introducing an unlikely amateur sleuth, platform tennis buff (and cancer survivor) Mark Yeager.
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Dark Road Home
by Anna Carlisle
When the body of her sister is found almost 20 years after she went missing, medical examiner Gin Sullivan returns home where she, while confronting her past and Jake, the prime suspect in Lily's case, uncovers a shocking truth that could change everything—and get her killed—as she examines her sister's remains.
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Dead Joker
by Anne Holt
When Chief Public Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is decapitated in their living room, suspicion immediately falls on Sigurd, and Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called in to investigate.
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Deadly Fate
by Heather Graham
A psychic entertainer working on an Alaskan cruise ship becomes an unexpected partner to a paranormal FBI agent who is investigating a grisly series of murders he believes have been committed by a killer he once put behind bars.
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Death at the Day Lily Cafe
by Wendy Sand Eckel
Shortly after opening her brand new Day Lily Café, Rosalie Hart is asked to help Doris Bird, a dear and trusted friend, clear her little sister of a first-degree-murder charge—an investigation that turns personal when Rosalie's daughter, Annie, gets caught in the crossfire.
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Drinking Gourd
by Barbara Hambly
Following the murder of a chief "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the entire Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime, and it's up to Benjamin January to step in and find the true killer—before their covers are blown.
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Endgame
by Jeffrey Round
Harvey Keill, ex-manager of the Ladykillers, arranges a reunion for his notorious punk band on a remote island. But a dark secret emerges from their past to haunt them as, one by one, the guests begin to fall prey to a mysterious fate. A brilliantly executed modern retelling of a classic Agatha Christie tale of suspense and murder.
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Fall from Grace
by Tim Weaver
A missing persons investigator looking into the disappearance of a retired London homicide detective, who went out to collect firewood for their countryside farmhouse and never returned, in the latest installment of the series.
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Fallout
by Harry Turtledove
A second entry in an alternate-world 1950s finds General MacArthur igniting a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet, placing once-untouched survivors in the middle of an escalating showdown between Russia and the U.S.
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Ghost Sniper: A Sniper Elite Novel
by Scott McEwen
An American politician is assassinated in Mexico City by an ex-military gunman employed as a hitman by a large drug cartel.
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The Graveyard of the Hesperides
by Lindsey Davis
The daughter of Marcus Didius Falco is torn between investigating human remains found buried in the backyard of a local tavern and hiding from her relatives, who are terrorizing her with wedding plans.
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The Great Revolt
by Paul Doherty
Investigating the murder of a fellow priest against a backdrop of a rebel plot to overthrow the 14th-century crown, Brother Athelstan uncovers links to a royal murder that took place more than half a century earlier.
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Guilty Minds
by Joseph Finder
Summoned to investigate potentially explosive charges of corruption levied by a gossip website against the chief justice of the Supreme Court, private intelligence operative Nick Heller is given 48 hours to prove that the story is baseless.
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House Revenge
by Mike Lawson
Dispatched to his boss' hometown in Boston, Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco risks his life to expose the illegal activities of a ruthless developer who has attacked an elderly woman in his resolve to tear down her home for a lucrative construction.
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The Innocents
by Ace Atkins
When a high-school dropout's brutal burning death shatters the tough Mississippi community of Tibbehah, Sheriff Quinn Colson and his deputy, Lillie Virgil, follow leads to uncover a disturbing pattern of killings.
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Killer Look
by Linda A. Fairstein
The shady underside of glamour challenges Alex Cooper, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, who embark on a murder investigation at the height of New York City's Fashion Week to expose dark undercurrents in the garment district and the machinations of a resolved killer.
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Little Girl Gone
by Gerry Schmitt
Minneapolis P.D. family liaison officer Afton Tangler investigates the abduction of a baby from an affluent suburb on a frozen night that disturbingly reveals how the case is related to those of other stolen children.
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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Fed up when the new management of their retirement home begins cutting corners, a group of seniors begin a life of white collar crime and plot to carry out a complex, untraceable heist at the National Museum.
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The Long Drop
by Denise Mina
Centered around the “trial of the century” in Glasgow in 1950, the innocence and guilt of those involved is explored, starting with Peter Manuel who has been found guilty of a string of murders, starting with the Watt family, and is waiting to die by hanging.
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Manhattan Lockdown
by Paul Batista
An apparent terrorist attack at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art is followed by attacks on other NYC icons so the mayor locks down the city. In the chaos that ensues, law enforcement groups converge but only NYC Police Commissioner Gina Carbone is closing in on the terrorists. Will her extremely aggressive actions succeed or plunge the city into further catastrophe?
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A Murder of Crows
by Terrence McCauley
Believing that the mastermind behind a bio-terror plot that has nearly wiped out New York may be hiding in enemy territory, operative James Hicks outmaneuvers the agendas of rival agencies to track down both the terrorist and his boss before making a world-shaking discovery.
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Night and Day
by Iris Johansen
Targeted by the enemies who would murder Cara Delaney, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risks everything close to her heart in a high-suspense conclusion to the story-arc trilogy.
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Outfoxed
by David Rosenfelt
Working with a county prison program where rescue dogs are trained to be more adoptable, defense lawyer Andy Carpenter is horrified when a prisoner uses an adorable fox terrier to make an ingenious escape before the man who helped convict the prisoner is found murdered.
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The Perfect Neighbors
by Sarah Pekkanen
A stay-at-home mom-turned-working woman, her self-improvement-oriented neighbor and the wife of a congressional candidate struggle with old skeletons when a family with an explosive secret moves into their proud community.
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Pierced by the Sun
by Laura Esquivel
Esquival's newest is an engaging, suspenseful and haunting novel that uses the structure of a thriller to dramatize love and loss in a woman's life in a corrupt, drug-plagued Mexico.
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Roots of Murder
by R. Jean Reid
In this intriguing debut, Nell McGraw's husband Thom is killed and her life is shattered. Now she's alone in Thom's Mississippi hometown, where she works as the publisher of the Pelican Bay Crier. Then bones are found from victims murdered during Mississippi's drive for voter registration, and Nell learns the stories of the past may be too dangerous to be told.
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Truly Madly Guilty
by Liane Moriarty
A busy couple formerly on the brink of realizing their dreams reflects on a fortuitous gathering with their best friends and another couple, in a tale that explores the role of guilt in relationships and the power of everyday moments in family life.
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The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Assigned to review an exclusive North Sea luxury cruise, travel journalist Lo Blacklock witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and is baffled when all passengers remain unruffled and accounted for, a nightmare that unravels as Lo struggles to convince everyone that what she saw was real.
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White Bone
by Ridley Pearson
When partner Grace Chu's cover is blown while on a dangerous assignment, ex-military contractor John Knox races to assist while struggling to convince her handlers of the threat, trace the theft of a high-value AIDS vaccine and elude violent ivory poachers.
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You Will Know Me
by Megan E. Abbott
When a violent death rocks her close-knit gymnastics community weeks before an important competition, the mother of an Olympic hopeful works frantically to hold her family together in spite of being irresistibly drawn to the crime.
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The Angels' Share
by J. R. Ward
While eldest son Edward immerses himself in alcohol and affairs with two scheming women amid rumors of his role in his father's suicide, estranged family member Maxwell returns to the fold with an agenda that could spell their salvation or ruin.
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Daughters of the Bride
by Susan Mallery
The daughters of a woman soon to be married help with wedding plans while confronting the truths about a hidden affair, a proposal and a failed marriage.
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Fearless
by Kimberly Kincaid
Savannah won't let anyone extinguish her dream of fulfilling her family legacy and becoming a top notch firefighter--and she's happily surprised when strong-willed Cole is willing to give her the chance she deserves. A contemporary romance that's both sexy and sweet.
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If the Earl Only Knew
by Amanda Forester
When her twin brother--and fellow privateer--is kidnapped, Lady Kate Darington is forced to turn to his former school friend, the infuriating Earl of Wynbrook, for help and cannot decide what she enjoys more: the thrill of chasing fearsome pirates, or having Wynbrook chase after her.
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Once Upon a Wine
by Beth Kendrick
After her aunt purchases a vineyard, Cammie Brewer returns to seaside Delaware to help run the business, despite neither of them knowing anything about winemaking. Delightful characters, a madcap plot and an unforgettable story.
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Arabella of Mars
by David D. Levine
Arabella, a human teenager born on Mars, is catapulted into adventure in a tale that cleverly combines some of the most intriguing elements of steampunk and classic science fiction.
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Life Debt Aftermath
by Chuck Wendig
Set between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, a next entry in the best-selling trilogy continues the story of a galactic civil war under the leadership of Wedge Antilles, Admiral Ackbar and other beloved characters after the destruction of the second Death Star.
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Necessity
by Jo Walton
The sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another.
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Supernova
by C. A. Higgins
Higgins's acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. This riveting sequel heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity--and the consequences that await when the two intersect.
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Time Siege
by Wesley Chu
Hiding on Earth, James Grffin-Mars, a fugitive ex-chronman, enlists the help of his allies, scientists he has rescued from previous centuries, to take control of the future by saving their ailing home world from those enemies who will do anything in their power to stop him.
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Underground Airlines
by Ben H. Winters
A tale set in a modern America where the Civil War never happened and the country has forged a dubious agreement with four states that still enforce slavery follows the experiences of a talented black bounty hunter who makes discoveries about his mysterious past while infiltrating an abolitionist group to catch a high-profile runaway.
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