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A Few of the Girls
by Maeve Binchy
A U.S. release of short stories by the best-selling author of Tara Road includes pieces spanning her career and features characters whose relationships with each other endure in the face of changing times, lost hopes and new loves.
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As Close to Us As Breathing
by Elizabeth Poliner
A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer is an exquisitely written investigation of grief and atonement, and an elegy for a Jewish family bound together by tradition and tribe.
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The Atonement
by Beverly Lewis
An Amish woman who has given up hope of marriage seeks to redeem the guilt from her past by volunteering her time in Lancaster County, and a young Englisher interested in the self-sufficiency of the Amish seeks mentorship from her father.
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At the Edge of the Orchard
by Tracy Chevalier
Settling in the swamps of early 19th-century northwest Ohio, the Goodenough family works relentlessly to establish an apple orchard that reflects respective dreams before their youngest child heads to Gold Rush California to collect seeds for a naturalist.
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A Blessing & a Curse
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush started off as archrivals. More alike than they care to admit, the First Ladies have battled since they met, but now a shocking secret will change their lives forever
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Bottomland
by Michelle Hoover
A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of Anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night.
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The Charm Bracelet
by Viola Shipman
Through an heirloom charm bracelet, three women will rediscover the importance of family, love, faith, friends, fun and a passion for living as the magic of each charm changes their lives.
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Chicago
by Brian Doyle
On the last day of summer, a young college grad moved to Chicago and rented a small apartment on the north side of the city by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lived there, a wry account of a young man's coming-of-age during the one summer in White Sox history when they had the best outfield in baseball.
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Dear Thing
by Julie Cohen
After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily has offered to give them the one thing that they want most. Now there are three friends, two mothers and only one baby, and an impossible decision to make...
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The Guardians : A Tale of Scottish Independence
by Jack Whyte
In 1297, Wallace the Braveheart and Robert Bruce's combined anger at the injustices of the invading English is about to unleash a storm in Scotland that will last for 16 years—and destroy England's military power for decades—before giving rise to a new nation of free men.
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Half a Lifelong Romance
by Ailing Zhang
Separated from each other by family expectations about marrying for wealth, a young couple in 1930s Shanghai find their lives shaped by plots, missed connections, tragic misunderstandings and societal norms that thwart their prospects for happiness.
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High Dive
by Jonathan Lee
A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager and the manager's teenage daughter.
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I Met Someone
by Bruce Wagner
When her wife suffers a wrenching miscarriage, Oscar-winning actress Dusty embarks on a psychologically suspenseful search for the daughter she lost in her teens and uncovers the answer to a question that has haunted her for decades.
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Innocents and Others
by Dana Spiotta
From the strikingly original National Book Award nominee, a riveting novel set in Los Angeles and New York that focuses on three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love.
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Margaret the First
by Danielle Dutton
Dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess whose husband encouraged her writing and desire for a career, which earned her fame and infamy in England.
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Missile Paradise
by Ron Tanner
A chain of islands in the middle of the Pacific provides the backdrop for Tanner's comic exploration of expatriate life and its consequences...A literary beach read that will keep you thinking after the vacation's over.
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Mrs. Houdini
by Victoria Kelly
After Harry dies, Beth Houdini starts noticing everywhere the code he promised he'd send her from the great beyond and retraces their remarkable romance, from Coney Island, to Budapest, to Hollywood, in an effort to decipher the urgent message from her husband.
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant widower agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
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Paris Is Always a Good Idea
by Nicolas Barreau
Rosalie Laurent is an eternal romantic and owner of a little post-card shop producing specialty "wishing cards" - even though her own wishes never seem to come true. Then two different men visit the store and her life is turned upside down.
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Peacekeeping
by Mischa Berlinski
In a story of love, politics and death, Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis and takes a job working for the United Nations, helping to train the Haitian police.
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Property of a Noble Woman
by Danielle Steel
The discovery of a cache of letters, photos and jewels in an abandoned safe deposit box brings together several unlikely people who investigate the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful young countess 75 years earlier.
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The Rope
by Kanan Makiya
A Shi'ite militiaman who has never received answers about the father who disappeared in Saddam Hussein's gulag years earlier participates in the dictator's execution in ways that profoundly change his life and reflect the politics and violence of America's war in Iraq.
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Scarpia
by Piers Paul Read
A tale inspired by one of the central figures in Puccini's classic opera follows the experiences of a disgraced 18th-century Sicilian nobleman who must seek his fortunes in Italy against a backdrop of a French Revolution that is placing the rule of the Pope in question.
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The Storm Sister : Ally's Story
by Lucinda Riley
An Olympic yachting hopeful traces her heritage to Norway, following an intriguing clue left by her deceased father, which leads her to uncover the story of a woman linked 100 years ago to the composer of “Peer Gynt,” Edvard Grieg.
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The Summer Before the War
by Helen Simonson
Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew.
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The Throwback Special
by Chris Bachelder
Follows the lives of a group of men who gather annually to recreate the November 1985 football play in which Joe Theismann suffered a horrible, career-ending broken leg.
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A Treasure Concealed
by Tracie Peterson
In 1890s Montana, a daughter who has moved from one mining camp to the next desires stability and love, not the blue stones her father brings home; when a handsome geologist arrives, he offers her new insight and hope.
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Two If By Sea
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Joining the volunteer rescue effort in Brisbane when his family is swept away by the Christmas Eve tsunami, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy is transformed by his rescue of a telepathic little boy, who he illegally takes back with him to America and struggles to protect against ominous adversaries.
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All Things Cease to Appear
by Elizabeth Brundage
Arriving home to find his wife murdered and their toddler left alone, art history professor George Clare is targeted with suspicion by a relentless police officer as dark community secrets are revealed over a span of decades.
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Clawback : An Ali Reynolds Novel
by Judith A. Jance
When her father is implicated in the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, Ali Reynolds and her husband struggle to clear her father's name while seeking justice for the victims.
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Cold Barrel Zero
by Matthew Quirk
Returning from exile to win back his family and take revenge on his accusers, a disgraced Black Ops soldier plots escalating attacks on U.S. soil and is targeted by doctor and former comrade-in-arms Thomas Byrne, who struggles with his loyalties during an explosive confrontation.
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Crazy Blood
by T. Jefferson Parker
Two half brothers from a powerful skiing dynasty, whose births were marked by violence and betrayal, play out their fierce rivalry on one of the world's most perilous ski slopes while the women in their lives scheme to destroy and protect them.
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Darkness
by Karen Robards
A brilliant ornithologist is trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life—and that of a handsome stranger—before they’re swallowed up in darkness forever in this latest tale of romantic suspense.
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Deep Blue
by Randy Wayne White
When the local dolphin population and tourism are threatened by a brutal ocean predator, Doc Ford realizes that the threat may be a human who is staging increasingly violent attacks.
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Devonshire Scream: A Tea Shop Mystery
by Laura Childs
Theodosia Browning caters a trunk show that is crashed by masked thieves who leave a dead body in their wake, prompting Theo to investigate suspicions contrary to those of the FBI.
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Dressed for Death
by Julianna Deering
While attending a Regency costume party, Drew and Madeline Farthering are immersed in a new case when the fiancé of a friend dies mysteriously and Drew's friend insists she was murdered.
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The Eloquence of the Dead
by Conor Brady
When a pawnbroker is found murdered in Victorian Dublin, and the lead suspect goes missing, Sergeant Joe Swallow is handed the poisoned chalice of the investigation. This taut, fast-paced crime thriller is perfect for fans of Charles Finch and Charles Todd.
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Far From True : A Promise Falls Novel
by Linwood Barclay
Investigating a break-in at the home of an accident victim, private investigator Cal Weaver finds evidence of the thief's interest in the victim's salacious private life; while Detective Barry Duckworth checks out two possibly related murders before making a horrific discovery tied to Cal's case.
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Flawless
by Heather Graham
Inheriting the New York City pub that has been in her family for generations, criminal psychologist and vigilante Kieran Finnegan clashes with FBI agent Craig Frasier during a jewelry store heist when she secretly returns a gem stolen by her brother.
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Fool Me Once
by Harlan Coben
Horrified when she spots the husband who was reported dead weeks earlier playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth.
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The Gangster
by Clive Cussler
Organizing a group of fellow law enforcers to dismantle an Italian gangster mob that has spread throughout 1906 New York City, Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency begins to suspect that copycat criminals are using the gang's name to gain personal power.
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Gone Again
by James Grippando
Learning that a man on death row who is days away from being executed may be innocent, Jack Swyteck races against time to discover the truth about the victim, the accused and the victim's parents.
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Goodbye to the Dead
by Brian Freeman
When fellow detective Serena witnesses a brutal murder with ties to a case from the last year of his wife's life, detective Stride investigates human-trafficking activity in the Duluth port and struggles with the possibility that he may have sent an innocent woman to prison.
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Journey to Munich
by Jacqueline Winspear
Hired by the British Secret Service to go undercover in Hitler's Germany to secure the release of a British prisoner, Maisie Dobbs is challenged by interference by the man she holds responsible for her husband's death.
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Killer Reunion
by G. A. McKevett
Triumphantly attending her 25th high school reunion with her handsome husband, Savannah confronts a nasty former queen bee and is forced to clear her name when the woman is found murdered amid rumors about another suspicious death.
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The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
by Antonia Hodgson
London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder, but while he may not be much of a gentleman, he is innocent. Now Tom must scramble to save his life and protect those he loves before his time runs out.
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London Rain
by Nicola Upson
Intrepid writer and amateur sleuth Josephine Tey must unravel an intricate web of betrayal, jealousy and long-held secrets when a new murder throws her friend, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose, for a loop, while being caught in a love triangle of her own making.
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No One Knows
by J. T. Ellison
Five years after her husband's disappearance, Aubrey still desperately wonders what happened to him and tries to figure out the identity of a mysterious, but familiar, stranger.
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Off the Grid
by C. J. Box
When a small team of elite professional special operators recruit him to help defeat a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert in exchange for expunging his criminal record, Nate Romanowski, assisted by Joe Pickett, discovers a sinister agenda behind the operation.
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The Other Side of Silence
by Philip Kerr
Approached by famous writer W. Somerset Maugham to help defend against a blackmailer who knows dangerous secrets, Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther follows leads back to Hitler's Third Reich and the development of the bomb in Russia.
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The Passenger
by Lisa Lutz
Changing her name and appearance to flee town after leaving her husband dead, a fugitive woman forges an uneasy alliance off the grid at the side of a female bartender with whom she races from city to city to escape her past.
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Predator
by Wilbur A. Smith
Ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross is forced to take the law into his own hands to stop old and new enemies intent on global domination.
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The Searcher
by Christopher Morgan Jones
When his friend, Webster, mysteriously vanishes after attending the funeral of a journalist who inexplicably committed suicide after publishing the exposé of a lifetime, Hammer arrives in the war-torn country of Georgia where he is threatened by enemies he cannot name and “friends” he cannot trust to discover the true fate of his friend.
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Speakers of the Dead
by J. Aaron Sanders
In 1843 New York City, reporter Walt Whitman, after his friend Lena Stowe is hanged for a murder she did not commit, vows to exonerate her with the help of her estranged boyfriend, Henry Saunders, and they descend into a dangerous underworld where resurrection men steal the bodies of recently deceased and sell them to medical colleges.
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The Steel Kiss
by Jeffery Deaver
Forced to let a murderer escape so that she can save the life of an accident victim, Amelia Sachs, assisted by forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme, discovers that the accident was the first in a series of attacks by a killer who turns everyday utilities into weapons.
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The Stopped Heart
by Julie Myerson
Moving into a beautiful old cottage on the edge of a small village to escape the horror of the past, Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, soon realize that there is something evil lurking in the shadows that, they soon discover, is linked to an event 150 years earlier involving a red-haired man.
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Thursday's Children
by Nicci French
Counseling a rape victim to tell the police what happened in spite of the attacker's threats, Frieda Klein is horrified when the young girl turns up dead in a case that exposes dark community secrets and unfinished business in Frieda's own life.
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Time of Fog and Fire
by Rhys Bowen
Learning that her husband has landed in grave danger while deep undercover on a secret assignment, Molly Murphy Sullivan embarks on a dangerous cross-country journey with her young son while contemplating the possibility that corrupt forces may be at work among her husband's colleagues.
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Treachery at Lancaster Gate
by Anne Perry
Investigating an explosion in the heart of London that suspiciously coincided with a secret police raid, Commander Thomas Pitt finds evidence of a targeted murder and follows leads to the drawing rooms of the city's elite.
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The Unfortunate Englishman
by John Lawton
Directed by MI6 to early 1960s Berlin to negotiate a delicate prisoner exchange on either side of the wall, Joe Wilderness covertly plans to use the operation to make a little something extra on the side, with unexpected results.
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The Watcher in the Wall
by Owen Laukkanen
When a student's suicide is tied to a disturbing online suicide club of unhappy teens, Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere discover that an anonymous psychopath is manipulating the teens into self-destructive acts.
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
by Donna Leon
Hired to investigate a suspicious near-drowning that left a girl permanently brain damaged years earlier, Brunetti struggles to determine if a crime was actually committed in a case set against a backdrop of dynamic transitions in contemporary Venice.
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When Falcons Fall
by C. S Harris
Asked to assist an inexperienced magistrate in the investigation of a homicide, St. Cyr discovers that the victim was living under an assumed identity and that she was one in a series of murder targets.
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Because of Miss Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
A first entry in a prequel series finds the tomboyish Billie Bridgerton unexpectedly falling in love with longtime adversary and less-than-ideal match George Rokesby, whose arrogance and wicked sense of humor clash with Billie's proper sensibilities.
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The Infamous Heir
by Elizabeth Michels
Lady Roselyn Grey's debut has finally arrived, and of course, she'll wear the perfect gowns and marry the perfect gentleman...that is, if Ethan Moore, proud founding member of the Spare Heirs Society, doesn't ruin everything first.
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Let It Breathe
by Tawna Fenske
Vineyard manager Reese Clark is determined to bring her family's Oregon winery into the big leagues, and she knows building a new tasting room and event pavilion is her ticket there. Having her ex-husband's best friend (and her secret college crush) turn up to head the construction project, however, definitely is not.
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Once a Rancher
by Linda Lael Miller
Offering a troubled boy a job on the ranch he shares with his younger siblings, Wyoming businessman Slater falls for the youth's beautiful guardian, Grace, a resort manager whose busy life is threatened by dangers from her past.
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The Courier : A San Angeles Novel
by Gerald Brandt
Scraping by as a cycle courier in a far-future world run by corporations, Kris witnesses a murder and finds herself targeted by dangerous adversaries before she is rescued by a member of an underground resistance group. Together, they barely manage to stay one step ahead of the killers, but it's only a matter of time until their resources and their luck run out....
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The Devil You Know
by K. J. Parker
The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life's work. But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is also the greatest liar, trickster and cheat the world has yet known. He's almost certainly up to something; but what?
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Fire Touched
by Patricia Briggs
Fighting the most powerful werewolf in their alternate-world's history, coyote shapeshifter Mercy Thompson and her alpha werewolf mate, Adam, discover a fire-touched human child stolen long ago by the fae whose existence may help prevent a war.
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Quantum Night
by Robert J. Sawyer
Developing a technique for identifying dangerous psychopaths, an experimental psychologist realizes that he has lost his memories from a six-month period during which he committed heinous acts of violence.
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Snakewood
by Adrian Selby
A band of mercenaries, who once, for the right price, decimated their enemies through cunning, alchemical brews and cold steel, find themselves being hunted down and eliminated one-by-one as their genius leader goes into hiding.
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