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Any Dream Will Do
by Debbie Macomber
Taking a bank job after her abusive father passes away, Shay risks everything to save her brother from a dangerous drug lord and winds up sentenced to two years in prison before finding love and healing at the side of a widowed pastor.
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The Bedlam Stacks
by Natasha Pulley
A tale of magical landscapes and impossible quests in 19th-century Peru follows the experiences of a disabled former East India Company smuggler who reluctantly accepts a treacherous mission to fetch quinine from a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon.
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The Burning Girl
by Claire Messud
Two lifelong friends find their relationship tested as their paths diverge during adolescence as one of the pair embarks on a dangerous journey.
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Class Mom
by Laurie Gelman
Frowned upon by conservative fellow PTA members for her past as a single parent, Jen reluctantly agrees to become class mom during her youngest child's kindergarten year, a role that is challenged by parent drama, hypersensitive allergies and a former flame.
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The Daughters of Ireland
by Santa Montefiore
Renovations of a family estate that was decimated by the Irish revolt are complicated by childhood memories, lost love, a wrenching decision to give up a child and a lingering desire for revenge years after a devastating betrayal.
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Freedom's Ring
by Heidi Chiavaroli
An antique ring reunites a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her. Together, they unearth the 200-year-old history of a woman who suffered tremendous loss in the Boston Massacre, and both women must decide whether to face their future through dependence on God's strength, or their own.
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The Half-Drowned King
by Linnea Hartsuyker
Betrayed by his stepfather during his return trip to his ancestral lands, a young warrior resolves to exact revenge and claim the woman he loves at the side of a strong Norse fighter rumored to be a prophesied king.
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How to Behave in a Crowd
by Camille Bordas
A misfit youngest child in a large French family of overachievers makes quiet observations about his world and becomes the only family member brave enough to help the others through their grief in the wake of a devastating tragedy.
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If the Creek Don't Rise
by Leah Weiss
One of innumerable women in a North Carolina mountain town facing a bleak future with a dangerous alcoholic husband, Sadie considers a different life when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for the entire community.
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Impossible Views of the World
by Lucy Ives
Navigating a sticky personal life and a colleague's disappearance, museum curator Stella's life is changed when she comes into possession of a mysterious map depicting a 19th-century utopian settlement.
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Judgment at Appomattox
by Ralph Peters
As the Civil War nears its end, General Robert E. Lee makes a desperate, dramatic gamble that results in the fall of Richmond, Virginia.
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The Last Tudor
by Philippa Gregory
Gregory reimagines the lives of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, who respectively endure imprisonment, a secret marriage and marginalization under the suspicious eyes of Tudor queens Mary and Elizabeth.
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The Locals
by Jonathan Dee
A rural, working-class town in New England elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire who slowly transforms the community in his image, triggering unexpected changes in the life of a financially strapped contractor and his extended family.
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Map of the Heart
by Susan Wiggs
Accompanying her aging father on a trip to his native France, a widowed photographer is led by his memories of World War II to unexpected revelations about their family's history at the same time she bonds with a handsome American historian.
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Midwinter Break
by Bernard MacLaverty
A retired couple struggling with his dogmatic forgetfulness and her religious faith attempt to repair their marriage during a vacation in Amsterdam, where they confront painful memories of a troubled time in their native Ireland.
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The Misfortune of Marion Palm
by Emily Culliton
Embezzling a small fortune from her daughters' private school to finance personal luxuries, Marion goes on the lam when her activities are exposed by a school audit, in a story also told from the points of view of her baffled husband and heartsick daughters.
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A Mother Like Mine
by Kate Hewitt
Welcome to England's beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother in this third entry in an appealing family saga.
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Mrs. Fletcher
by Tom Perrotta
Struggling to adjust to her empty nest when her only child departs for college, a middle-aged divorcee receives an erotic message from a secret admirer and becomes obsessed with a fantasy site for women; miles away at college, her son encounters challenges to his outmoded ideas of sex.
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My Absolute Darling
by Gabriel Tallent
Enduring an isolated existence after the death of her mother, 14-year-old Turtle roams the rocky shores and tide pools of the California coast and refutes every outside attempt to engage her before an unexpected friendship with a newcomer helps her realize the vulnerabilities of her life with her charismatic father.
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The Right Time
by Danielle Steel
Becoming a mystery writer in the style of the stories she grew up reading after her mother's abandonment, Alex comes of age in a convent orphanage before finding publishing success under a male pseudonym and becoming subject to the consequences of fame and her double life.
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Stay with Me
by Ayobami Adebayo
Secure in the love of her husband in spite of cultural pressures for him to have a polygamous marriage, Yejide is overwhelmed by shock and pain when her initial inability to become pregnant compels her husband to take a second wife, a situation that leads to her own desperate and fateful quest to conceive a child.
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This Must Be the Place
by Susan Jackson Rodgers
It's the summer of 1983, and Thea Knox, fresh out of college, is driving solo from California to New York when she takes a detour to visit her Aunt Wendy in Merdale, a college town nestled in the Kansas prairie. A warm and meaningful novel that explores the search for identity, love, friendship, and home.
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Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
Cruelly branded for her affair with her congressman boss, an intern and blogger changes her name and moves to a remote town in Maine with her young daughter before local prompting to run for public office forces her to reckon with the past. By the author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.
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The Amber Shadows
by Lucy Ribchester
While doing her part for the British war effort during World War II, a transcriber of decrypted German messages begins receiving strange packages postmarked from Russia and realizes someone is trying to tell her something and resolves to unravel the mystery.
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Among the Dead
by J. R. Backlund
| Former North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation agent Rachel Carver must hunt a group of killers on her own before time runs out in this gripping debut (perfect for fans of Tami Hoag). |
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Barely Legal
by Stuart Woods
Under the tutelage of Stone Barrington, Herbie Fisher has transformed from a bumbling sad sack into a capable man about town and the youngest partner at the white shoe law firm Woodman & Weld. Now all of his training will be put to the test as he finds himself embroiled in his most daring adventure to date.
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Charlatans
by Robin Cook
Promoted to his elite Boston teaching hospital's Chief Resident, Dr. Noah Rothauser investigates a series of anesthesia errors that are killing patients and raising serious concerns about a resident who has created multiple personalities of herself on the internet.
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The Circus Train Conspiracy
by Edward Marston
The Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Newcastle for their next show when a collision on the track causes pandemonium: passengers thrown about and animals escaping into the night. When the body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck believes the two incidents might be connected.
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The Color of Fear
by Marcia Muller
When her famed Shoshone artist father is left in a coma by a racially driven beating during San Francisco's holiday season, private investigator Sharon McCone resolves to bring the attackers to justice, only to find herself targeted by hate-filled, racist threats.
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Crime Scene
by Jonathan Kellerman
Athletic star-turned-coroner's investigator Clay Edison is drawn into a complex case involving a retired psychology professor's death and an old scandal involving the horrific murder of one of the professor's students.
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Dead on Arrival
by Matt Richtel
The bizarre deaths of everyone in a remote Colorado ski town thrusts a world-class virologist into a mystery involving a deadly syndrome that causes him to wonder if the world might be better left unsaved.
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A Deadly Betrothal
by Fiona Buckley
1579. Ursula is summoned to court to assist in negotiations for Queen Elizabeth’s engagement to the Duke of Alençon. The proposed marriage causes unrest throughout the kingdom – but would someone kill to prevent it? Tensions increase when a prominent nobleman is accused of murder. Ursula is convinced the man is innocent – but can she prove it?
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Dead Man's Bridge
by Robert J. Mrazek
Settling for a security job at an upstate New York college, former army officer Jake Cantrell finds himself on the trail of a murderer on campus, as a hurricane races up the Eastern seaboard. First in a compelling new series.
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Deep Black
by Sean McFate
A follow-up to Shadow War finds disillusioned military contractor Tom Locke working undercover with surviving team members deep inside ISIS territory to track down a missing Saudi prince.
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The Driver
by Hart Hanson
A debut thriller by the award-winning creator of Bones traces the experiences of an Army special forces sergeant turned limo driver who, after hearing a ghost's warning of imminent danger, finds himself implicated in a murder, a situation that is further complicated by his crush on the case's lead detective.
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The Dying Game
by Asa Avdic
A locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state follows the experiences of seven people who are brought to a remote island to compete in a 48-hour test and solve a staged murder to win a top-secret intelligence position.
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Emma in the Night
by Wendy Walker
When one of two teen sisters who disappeared three years earlier returns with an astonishing tale about how they were held on a mysterious island, skeptical forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter investigates the young woman's family and uncovers disturbing evidence of violated boundaries, betrayals and narcissistic parenting.
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Exposed
by Lisa Scottoline
An epic battle of wills and legal strategy ensues when DiNunzio and Rosato represent opposing sides in a wrongful termination lawsuit, triggering conflict-of-interest complications that estrange the partners and force their friends and colleagues to take sides.
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Glass Houses
by Louise Penny
A suspicious figure that appears on the village green on a cold November day leaves a dead body in its wake, compelling Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec to pursue an investigation with difficult consequences.
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Gone Gull
by Donna Andrews
Spending the summer helping her grandfather run his craft center, Meg investigates vandalism crimes that may be tied to a rival artist, ruthless developers or her grandfather's obsessive search for a rare seagull.
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Gone to Dust
by Matt Goldman
Investigating a murder complicated by the killer's strategic approaches to confounding all possible DNA evidence, private detective Nils Shapiro is forced by FBI interference to secretly uncover the potentially shattering identity of a mysterious woman.
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The Good Daughter
by Karin Slaughter
Decades after a shattering confrontation that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her Atlanta hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting.
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Holding
by Graham Norton
From the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime.
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Hollywood Homicide
by Kellye Garrett
All semi-famous, mega-broke actress Dayna Anderson wants is to help her parents keep their house. So after witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, she pursues the fifteen grand reward. But Dayna soon finds herself doing a full-on investigation, wanting more than just money—she wants justice for the victim. A smart, sassy debut with appealing characters!
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Hunting Hour
by Margaret Mizushima
When Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo, get called to track a missing junior high student, they find the girl dead and must head to the home of Cole Walker to break the bad news; soon enough, another girl goes missing—and this time, it's one of Cole's daughters.
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I Know a Secret
by Tess Gerritsen
Investigating the death of a horror film producer whose murder scene has been gruesomely staged, detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are baffled by an apparent lack of a cause of death, a case that is further complicated by a second, equally bizarre murder.
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Kill the Heroes
by David Thurlo
Iraq vet and pawnshop owner Charlie Henry attends a park memorial dedication that is thrown into chaos by a shooter who dangerously injures three veterans, an act that compels Charlie to bring the would-be killer to justice.
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Little Boy Lost
by J. D. Trafford
Attorney Justin Glass’s practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn’t doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn’t have the heart to turn her away in this tense, powerful thriller.
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Need to Know
by Fern Michaels
Dragged into a lawsuit by a once-trusted attorney who exploited her trust to amass a secret fortune for himself, famed singer Garland Lee is supported by her Sisterhood friends in defending herself from corrupt judges and seeking their special brand of justice.
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A Nest of Vipers
by Andrea Camilleri
Investigating the murder of a rich widower, Inspector Montalbano uncovers a history of corruption and greed that implicates the victim's adult children, a scandalous string of mistresses and many other suspects.
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On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service
by Rhys Bowen
Agreeing to help her cousin the queen thwart an elopement between the Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson, royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch offers assistance while clashing with an old rival.
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The Other Girl
by Erica Spindler
The ritualistic murder of a beloved college professor forces a small-town Louisiana police officer to confront a traumatic night from her long-buried past.
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The Paris Spy
by Susan Elia MacNeal
When one of England's most daring spies is kidnapped by the Nazis in 1942 Paris, the discovery of a mole's activity deep in the British SOE prompts codebreaker Maggie Hope's mission to unmask the traitor before the site of a planned Allied invasion is revealed.
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Red Swan
by Peter T. Deutermann
When the death of a behind-the-scenes CIA operative reveals that the CIA has been compromised by a Chinese infiltrator, retired CIA officer Preston Allender makes a shocking discovery that upends the entire American intelligence network.
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The Room of White Fire
by T. Jefferson Parker
A marine-turned-private investigator struggling from the recent death of his wife races against time to track down a shattered young soldier who has escaped from a mental institution and possesses a dangerous secret.
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The Saboteur
by Andrew Gross
Putting aside his personal needs to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb, in a thriller inspired by a true story.
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Safe
by Ryan Gattis
A former teen gang member and drug addict becomes a DEA safecracker and resolves to live an honest and sober life to uphold the memory of a woman who once rescued him, until an opportunity to repay a past debt compels him to commit one last heist.
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Seeing Red
by Sandra Brown
When her interview with Major Franklin Trapper, who led survivors of a bombing to safety twenty-five years earlier, goes wrong, Kerra Bailey joins forces with his estranged son John to uncover the truth about the event.
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Shattered
by Allison Brennan
A crossover novel by the best-selling author of Poisonous finds investigative reporter Max Revere teaming up with FBI agent Lucy Kincaid to exonerate a woman wrongly accused of murdering her son.
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Snap Judgment
by Marcia Clark
In the third installment of a best-selling series, attorney Samantha Brinkman’s investigation into a family’s deadly secrets is compromised by a threat from her past.
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A Stranger in the House
by Shari Lapeña
Responding to a call she hoped she would never get, a woman braces herself for the worst in a bad part of town and wakes up with no memory of what happened at the same time the police and her husband accuse her of misconduct.
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The Store
by James Patterson
Living in a world where all needs are anticipated and delivered by a powerful convenience retailer known as The Store, New York writers Jacob and Megan go undercover to expose The Store's secrets in ways that risk their lives.
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Thief's Mark: An Unforgettable Mystery
by Carla Neggers
Working with an international art thief to investigate the murders of his parents and his own kidnapping in early childhood, FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan struggle with transformations in their relationship while confronting a killer who would play out dark fantasies.
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Telling Tales
by Ann Cleeves
When evidence mounts in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet that Jeanie Long was wrongly charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel, Vera Stanhope makes new enquiries and villagers are hauled back to a time they hoped to forget, in an entry in the series that inspired the public TV series Vera.
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Unraveling Oliver
by Liz Nugent
A best-selling debut thriller from Ireland follows a shocking act of violence committed by a successful and charismatic writer of children's books on his wife and literary partner, an attack that leaves her in a coma and causes their baffled friends and family to investigate what happened.
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When They Come for You
by James W. Hall
After her journalist husband and infant son are brutally executed in a fire in their home, photographer Harper McDaniel embarks on a global hunt to expose a high-level cover-up inside a powerful chocolate conglomerate. But Harper has a few secrets of her own—starting with her lethal martial arts skills—and she’s not afraid to take on anyone in her way.
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Y Is for Yesterday
by Sue Grafton
A penultimate installment in the best-selling series follows the release of a young rapist who Kinsey Millhone carefully monitors in the wake of a vengeful sociopath's determination to exact revenge.
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Here Comes the Bride
by Hope Ramsay
After being left at the altar, Professor Laurie Wilson, with the help of best man Andrew Lyndon, embarks on a plan of revenge that will have her ex begging for her forgiveness until she realizes that Andrew just might be the Mr. Right she has been searching for.
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My Fair Lover
by Nicole Jordan
Tasked with turning American privateer Brandon Deverill into a proper English lord and finding him a suitable bride, matchmaker Lady Katherine Wilde agrees to his demands only if he protects her from pirates during her search for a buried family treasure.
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Tougher in Texas
by Kari Lynn Dell
Hired by Jacobs Livestock, Shawnee Pickett, a more-than-capable cowgirl, sets out to drive uptight Cole Jacobs crazy, until she sees a side of the rodeo star she’s never seen, but cannot act upon her attraction to him due to a secret from her past that forbids a happily ever after.
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You Say It First
by Susan Mallery
A sculptor from a loveless artist family works as a carpenter between paying commissions while falling in love with a theme wedding planner whose domineering mother would have her give up her career to work in the family business.
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Noumenon
by Marina J. Lostetter
An astrophysicist in 2088 sends a crew of clones on a mission to reach an anomalous star eons away, but each new generation on board the ship changes and evolves during the intervening centuries as they try to stick to their task.
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The Punch Escrow
by Tal M. Klein
When he’s accidentally duplicated while teleporting, Joel Byram must outrun the most powerful corporation on the planet and find a way back to his wife in a world that now has two of him.
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Reincarnation Blues
by Michael Poore
A man who has been reincarnated nearly 10,000 times, living lives in regions from ancient India and Renaissance Italy to outer space and the modern world, searches for the secret to immortality so that he can be with his beloved, the incarnation of Death.
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The Stone Sky
by N. K. Jemisin
A conclusion to the Hugo Award-winning, post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with The Fifth Season reveals how the powers and agendas of two women determine the fate of humankind in the wake of a returning Moon. "Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times
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