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A Dog's Way Home
by W. Bruce Cameron
A follow-up to A Dog's Purpose traces the story of an adorable dog who falls instantly in love with a VA worker only to be separated from him by rules that disallow pit bulls in their Denver community, a situation that compels the puppy to travel 400 miles back to the person she loves.
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After the Fall
by Julie Cohen
When an accident forces 80-year-old Honor back into the lives of her widowed daughter-in-law, Jo, and her only granddaughter, Lydia, she cannot wait to be well enough to get back to her own home. However, the longer she stays with Jo and Lydia, the more they start to feel like a real family. But each of the three women is keeping secrets from the others that will be forced out in the open in a single dramatic moment.
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Against All Odds
by Danielle Steel
A SoHo widow struggles with her grown children's plans to gamble their futures in their determination to pursue their hearts, from her attorney daughter's illicit romance with a client to her struggling writer's son's decision to have children before he can afford to support them.
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Anne Boleyn, a King's Obsession
by Alison Weir
A follow-up to Katherine of Aragon finds Henry VIII risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy.
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The Awkward Age
by Francesca Segal
Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love with James--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's 17-year-old son, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty in this wry, tender novel.
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The Baker's Secret
by Stephen P. Kiernan
A baker's apprentice in Normandy endures shame and anger as her kind mentor is targeted and arrested for his Jewish heritage, a violation that compels the young woman to engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
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The Best of Adam Sharp
by Graeme C Simsion
The author of The Rosie Project presents the story of a 50-year-old man who reflects on his safe life choices and his long-ago, blazing affair with a strong-willed actress who contacts him unexpectedly and entices him to pursue a riskier life
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The Broken Road
by Richard Paul Evans
A first entry in a new trilogy that explores the possibilities of second chances follows the experiences of Chicago celebrity Charles James, who struggles with nightmares about his painful childhood in spite of adult successes until a twist of fate causes him to be declared dead and reeling with wonderment about what to do next.
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Come Sundown
by Nora Roberts
Running the Montana ranch that has been home to four generations of her family, Bo and the man she is starting to love, encounter her badly injured aunt, who ran off decades earlier, before a local murder reveals sinister activities in the mountains that surround their home.
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Do Not Become Alarmed
by Maile Meloy
A tropical vacation cruise turns nightmarish for two families whose children go missing during a stop in Central America, a crisis that triggers blame, animosity and new priorities as the once-happy parents scramble to recover their children and their lives.
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The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War
by Jeff Shaara
A clash between a North Korean invading army in 1950 South Korea and a U.S. defense force is challenged by overwhelmingly brutal weather conditions in a high-action account of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir told from the viewpoints of soldiers and leaders on both sides of the conflict.
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The Garden of Small Beginnings
by Abbi Waxman
Rendered a single mom after her husband's fatal car accident, textbook illustrator Lillian recruits her young daughters and supportive sister to help her do research for a boutique vegetable guide at the Los Angeles Botanical Garden, where a patient instructor and quirky gardeners help her grieve and find healing.
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Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
Despite being placed in the ideal foster home, autistic 14-year-old girl Ginny Moon is intent on running back to her abusive, drug-addict birth mother.
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A Good Country
by Laleh Khadivi
Laguna Beach, CA, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a 14-year-old straight-A student takes his first hit of pot and goes from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner, and then transforms from a carefree American teen to a radicalized Muslim. Timely and nuanced, a gorgeous meditation on modern life and a young man caught among vastly different worlds.
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Goodnight from London
by Jennifer Robson
An ambitious American journalist determined to start a new life an ocean away from her past relocates to London in 1940 to report on World War II, only to lose everything and find herself dependent on strangers during the horrors of the Blitz.
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The Heirs
by Susan Rieger
Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving behind a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him, leaving the upper-crust Falkeses clan confronting instability, broken loyalties and secrets.
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House of Names
by Colm Tóibín
A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children in the legendary Greek city of Mycenae, describes how at the side of her lover she plots to murder her long-absent husband for his betrayals and infidelities.
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In the Shadow of Alabama
by Judy Reene Singer
Reluctantly attending the funeral of her estranged father, a dedicated horse rancher receives an odd gift and apology from a stranger that leads her to discover the story of her father's difficult experiences as a Jewish sergeant in charge of a platoon of black soldiers in World War II Alabama.
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
An award-winning debut novel follows the experiences of a Chinese youth who, when his undocumented worker mother fails to return home, is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.
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The Light We Lost
by Jill Santopolo
A New York career woman faces a life-altering choice a year after agreeing with a fellow Columbia graduate that they will pursue meaningful lives through each other before he is assigned to do photojournalism in the Middle East, launching a 13-year journey of dreams, betrayals and love.
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Lilli de Jong
by Janet Benton
Banished from her Quaker home and teaching job after being abandoned by her lover, a pregnant woman gives birth at an institution for unwed mothers in 1883 Philadelphia and refuses to give the child up, braving moral condemnation and poverty in her resolve to support her baby.
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Mother Land
by Paul Theroux
An intricately detailed, darkly humorous portrait of a family both held together and torn apart by a narcissist matriarch describes how her husband and seven children navigate the woman's false outward appearances and her petty tyrannies as she ages well past 100 years old.
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New Boy
by Tracy Chevalier
An imaginative retelling of Shakespeare's Othello that places events in 1970s America and follows the experiences of two diverse children who navigate themes of love, betrayal, racism and revenge on the playground of their all-white school.
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The Reminders
by Val Emmich
Moving away from the West Coast when someone records and uploads his bonfire of personal objects after a devastating loss, Gavin starts over in New Jersey and struggles to forget painful memories at the side of a friend's 10-year-old daughter, a girl with an eidetic memory.
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Saints for All Occasions
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Moving from Ireland to America upon coming of age, a shy and responsible older sister and a gregarious young sister who thrives in their new Boston home endure the long-term repercussions of a fateful decision when the younger sister becomes pregnant.
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Same Beach, Next Year
by Dorothea Benton Frank
Reconnecting on one of Charleston's most beautiful barrier islands, a pair of former sweethearts rediscover their feelings for one another while their jealous spouses pursue an unexpected attraction of their own over more than 20 years also marked by financial catastrophes, family tragedies and devastating heartbreaks.
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The Scribe of Siena
by Melodie Winawer
Taking an unexpected trip to a Tuscan city to settle her brother's estate, a grieving neurosurgeon discovers the journals and paintings of a 14th-century artist before finding herself transported through time to the artist's world just prior to the outbreak of a devastating plague.
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Secrets in Summer
by Nancy Thayer
Spending her days at the library and her nights stargazing and contemplating a new relationship, Darcy is unexpectedly drawn into the summertime dramas of three families including those of her recently married ex, a situation that compels her to consider what she truly wants.
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Some Rise By Sin
by Philip Caputo
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents the tale of an American missionary priest who arrives in a Mexican village under the thumb of a brutal drug cartel, where he bonds with locals beside a physical fellow expatriate before an overstep forces him to reevaluate his priorities.
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Standard Deviation
by Katherine Heiny
Follows the marriage between a man and his spontaneous but exhausting second wife, a relationship further shaped by their Asperger's patient child and an effort to be friends with the man's very different first wife.
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There Your Heart Lies
by Mary Gordon
Sharing her Rhode Island cottage with a granddaughter who has not yet discovered her life's purpose, ailing nonagenarian Marian reflects on how as a young woman she cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.
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Too Lucky to Live
by Annie Hogsett
Never did Allie Harper think doing a simple kindness would get her into so much trouble, but that's what happens when she stops to help a blind pedestrian struggling to get through a busy Cleveland intersection.
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Trajectory: Stories
by Richard Russo
A new collection of short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author includes the stories of a professor who confronts a plagiarist during a Thanksgiving holiday, and a realtor who faces an ominous medical prognosis that places him in his father's shadow.
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16th Seduction
by James Patterson
Reeling from her husband's betrayal at the same time an unnatural wave of heart attacks claim seemingly unrelated victims throughout San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer is challenged to assist the prosecution of a bomber in the face of a hostile defense team.
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Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse
by Nancy Atherton
Staying happily at home with Bess while her husband and sons go camping during spring break, Lori joins a local widow's quilting bee and learns a startling secret about the woman's first husband's death.
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The Chalk Pit
by Elly Griffiths
Summoned to investigate a set of human remains discovered in one of Norwich's chalk-mining tunnels, Ruth Galloway teams up with DCI Nelson to search for a missing homeless person whose demise may be tied to Ruth's case and a string of murders.
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Dragon Teeth
by Michael Crichton
A recently discovered novel by the ER creator and best-selling author of Jurassic Park is set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting and follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
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Dying Breath
by Heather Graham
| Historian Vickie Preston, who saw a ghost for the first time as a teenage survivor of an attack by a serial killer, is recruited to aid the authorities in tracking down another killer with the assistance of the spirit of one of the victims. |
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The Ends of the Earth: A James Maxted Thriller
by Robert Goddard
Hoping to uncover the whole truth behind his British diplomat father’s suspicious death, a World War I flying ace turned secret service operative travels to Tokyo to take down the German spymaster he believes to be responsible.
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Exit Strategy
by Steve Hamilton
A follow-up to The Second Life of Nick Mason finds the remarkable hero assigned by his kingpin master to complete the near-impossible task of infiltrating WITSEC to locate and assassinate three men who put his boss behind bars.
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The Fallen
by Eric Lustbader
When the Testament of Lucifer is discovered in a Lebanese mountain cave, Gnostic Observatine sect leader Bravo Shaw, his sister Emma and Fra Leoni become the world's defenders against the devil's advance guard and an End of Days plot to enslave the human race.
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The Four Legendary Kingdoms
by Matthew Reilly
Awakening in a kidnapper's underground cell, Jack West, Jr. discovers that he has been chosen along with a dozen other elite soldiers to compete in a series of deadly challenges to fulfil an ancient ritual to save the Earth.
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Full Wolf Moon
by Lincoln Child
Traveling to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks, Jeremy Logan, an investigator who specializes in unexplained phenomena, discovers a dead hiker whose wounds suggest an unnatural attack before encountering numerous suspects and a woman scientist struggling with the death of her father.
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G-Man: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel
by Stephen Hunter
A conclusion to the best-selling Swagger family saga finds the grandson of talented gunfighter Charles Swagger discovering a cache of his mysterious grandfather's FBI memorabilia and resolving to discover his progenitor's fate before realizing that he is being stalked.
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The Graves
by Pamela Wechsler
When a serial killer begins targeting young college students, Boston homicide unit chief Abby Endicott risks her life and career to find a missing girl and investigate the son of a prominent senator.
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Gwendy's Button Box
by Stephen King
A novel co-written by Stephen King returns to the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, to take on a terrifying man in a trim, black suit, and a girl named Gwendy who was brave enough to talk to him.
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Heat Storm
by Richard Castle
Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding and presumed dead for 17 years, a cold case that is challenged by a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen.
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A Hiss Before Dying
by Rita Mae Brown
The popular Mrs. Murphy characters from Tail Gait and Tall Tail return in a contemporary mystery that explores the dangers of a wild animal poaching ring with historical ties to America's post-revolutionary past.
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Hong Kong Black
by Alex Ryan
When American CIA operative Peter Yu goes missing in China, former Navy SEAL Nick Foley, after finding Yu’s mutilated body, becomes embroiled in another bio-terrorism investigation being conducted by China’s elite Snow Leopard counter-terrorism unit, this time involving illegally harvested organs.
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Into the Water
by Paula Hawkins
When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict.
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Less Than a Treason
by Dana Stabenow
Native Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak finds her and her trusty half-wolf, half-husky dog Mutt in trouble in the Alaskan wilds when they both wind up shot.
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Marathon
by Brian Freeman
When a bombing at the Duluth Marathon kills and injures numerous victims, detective Jonathan Stride teams up with Serena Dial, Maggie Bei and their FBI contacts to track down a suspicious man with a backpack in the wake of media misinformation.
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Murder in the Bowery
by Victoria Thompson
| Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt investigate the death of a newsboy named Freddie after his brother Will Bert spins a tale of deceit involving a recently deceased young society woman. |
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Murder is for Keeps
by Elizabeth J. Duncan
Painting her way through a summer spent at a neglected country house outside her Welsh community, artist Penny Brannigan is delighted by plans to restore the property, only to be embroiled in an investigation to prove the innocence of a friend who is implicated in a volunteer's demise.
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Nighthawk
by Clive Cussler
When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly race to recover the fallen technology, which carries a secret payload of exotic matter capable of triggering an Armageddon-level catastrophe.
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Not a Sound
by Heather Gudenkauf
When she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, Amelia Winn, who lost her hearing in an accident two years earlier, is plunged into a disturbing mystery that could shatter the carefully reconstructed pieces of her life all over again.
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A Perfect Manhattan Murder
by Tracy Kiely
A charming modern-day Nick and Nora Charles (with their bullmastiff, Skippy) take their skills in sleuthing and repartee to the New York theater district.
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Price of Duty
by Dale Brown
When Russia constructs the most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb and launches carefully plotted attacks on unsuspecting U.S. and European targets, Brad McLanahan and his team arm themselves with the most advanced technological weaponry to prevent a full-scale cyber war.
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Proving Ground
by Peter Blauner
A traumatized Iraqi war veteran who is unable to get anyone to care that his controversial criminal defense attorney father has been murdered finds unexpected help from a disgraced New York police detective who would prove herself in the aftermath of a career setback.
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The Red Line
by Walt Gragg
Set in the near future, WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller pitting a revived Soviet Union against NATO.
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A Rising Man
by Abir Mukherjee
In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official—in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else.
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Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
by Ace Atkins
Boston private eye Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, follow a con man's schemes on cable news shows and within police precincts in the wake of an elaborate double cross that has victimized a smitten woman as well as a cache of investors, cops and paramilitary contractors.
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Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love
by James Runcie
Discovering the body of a man in the Cambridgeshire woods, priest and detective Sidney Chambers immerses himself in the 1970s counterculture of psychedelic plants; while his longtime friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, investigates the disappearance of a historic religious text.
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Since We Fell
by Dennis Lehane
Retreating from the world in the aftermath of a traumatizing reporting assignment, Rachel finds happiness with a raffish businessman before witnessing activities surrounding a conspiracy that tests the limits of her fragile psyche.
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Sticks and Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Clashing with an arrogant writer whose best-selling memoir is being turned into a documentary, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by the film crew to discern the truth about the writer's story only to find herself targeted by someone who would kill to protect a long-held secret.
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Testimony
by Scott Turow
Assigned to investigate the unsolved disappearance of an entire Gypsy refugee camp during the Bosnian War, a disillusioned American prosecutor navigates a host of suspects while uncovering disturbing alliances and betrayals.
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The Thirst
by Jo Nesbo
Harry Hole is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force by a serial murderer who has been targeting Tinder daters using methods reminiscent of a nemesis from Harry's past.
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Walking On My Grave
by Carolyn G. Hart
When a wealthy shop owner who has written several cash-strapped locals into her will suffers a suspicious accident, Annie and her husband, Max, race to identify a calculating killer from among several suspects.
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You Will Pay
by Lisa Jackson
Investigating remains found at a summer camp where a prank gone wrong led to the disappearances of two teens decades earlier, senior detective Lucas Dalton struggles with his father's ties to the case while meeting with five former counselors to piece together what happened.
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The Bad Luck Bride
by Janna Macgregor
To get revenge on the man who destroyed his family, the Marquess of Pembrooke sets out to convince the man’s fiancée, the lovely Lady Claire Cavensham, to marry him instead, but when an awkward situation forces them into an actual marriage of convenience, they are drawn to each other—until the truth of their union is revealed.
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Bombshell
by C. D. Reiss
Hollywood bad boy Brad Sinclair always gets his way, but when a bombshell gets dropped in his lap in the form of a dimpled five-year-old from a forgotten relationship, he knows his life is about to change forever.
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
by Amanda Quick
Discovering the body of a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool at an exclusive California hotel, rookie reporter Irene Glasson investigates the victim's secret about an up-and-coming man and becomes drawn to a once-famous master magician whose career was mysteriously cut short.
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The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband
by Julia Quinn
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt decides to travel to America to nurse him back to health, but instead she finds injured officer Edward Rokesby, who believes her to be his wife.
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Never Trust a Pirate
by Valerie Bowman
With too many identities to count, Mr. Cade Cavendish, a spy for the English government, meets his match in Miss Danielle LaCrosse who, posing as a lady’s maid, tries to uncover the identity of the elusive Black Fox and foil a plot to bring back the exiled Napoleon before he does.
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Once a Rebel
by Mary Jo Putney
As Washington burns, Callista Brooke is trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted homeland, and—when she is on the verge of losing everything, including her life—a handsome Englishman cuts through the violent crowd to claim that she is his.
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The Boy on the Bridge
by M. R. Carey
A standalone novel set in the same world as the best-selling book (and movie) The Girl with All the Gifts finds a clever boy declared the savior of his land and dispatched outside the gates to the region of monsters.
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City of Miracles
by Robert Jackson Bennett
After the assassination of the Prime Minister, his former friend and ally, fugitive Sigrud je Harvaldsson, sets out on a mission of revenge in the third book in this acclaimed series.
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Cold Reign
by Faith Hunter
Shape-shifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock, the woman who rogue vampires fear most, must protect the reign of Leo Pellisier, Master of the City of New Orleans, by keeping a delegation of European fangheads in check when they arrive stateside and raise a revenant vampire to kill humans.
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Pawn
by Timothy Zahn
Facing a dead-end life at the side of a criminal, 19-year-old Nicole is manipulated into helping kidnap a doctor before all three are whisked away by mysterious beings to a ship where they are compelled to join the crew in fighting a war against power-seeking enemies.
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White Hot
by Ilona Andrews
Gifted with the ability to tell if people are lying, Nevada Baylor, while trying to keep her family's detective agency afloat, is pitted against the shadowy forces that almost destroyed her city and is brought back into contact with billionaire Connor "Mad" Rogan, who is the highest rank of magic user.
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