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New Fiction Titles - October 2017
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After the Fire
by Henning Mankell
A final novel by the late award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries traces the experiences of an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside-down when his house catches fire.
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Dunbar
by Edward St. Aubyn
A modern reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear follows the experiences of a man who, in the wake of an orchestrated public mental breakdown, is sent to a Switzerland sanatorium by the daughters who would seize his fortune, a plot he resolves to foil with the assistance of a colorful sidekick.
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Fairytale
by Danielle Steel
When her idyllic life on her family's Napa Valley vineyard is shattered by her mother's sudden death, a young Stanford graduate finds herself at the mercy of a cold-hearted stepfamily at the same time she bonds with her stepmother's kind mother and a loving friend from her childhood.
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Fresh Complaint: Stories
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A first collection of short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author features some of his most acclaimed pieces including the title story, in which a high school student, desperate to escape the strictures of her immigrant family, makes a drastic decision that upends the life of a British physicist.
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I, Eliza Hamilton
by Susan Holloway Scott
| Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza, supports and assists her brilliant husband through the American Revolution and afterwards, when he becomes one of the new country’s most important figures and even after his untimely death, ultimately forging her own extraordinary path. |
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If We Make It Home: A Novel of Faith and Survival in the Oregon Wilderness
by Christina Suzann Nelson
Four college friends haven't spoken in 25 years. But against all odds, three of them have found themselves back at their alma mater. When they discover their fourth friend, Hope, has died, Jenna, Ireland, and Vicky decide to embark on a wilderness adventure to honor her memory--and for secret reasons of their own.
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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
Set between 1739 and 1744, this is the riveting based-on-a-true-story account of Eliza Lucas, a young woman who defied convention to become one of the country’s first women entrepreneurs by producing indigo dye.
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In the Midst of Winter
by Isabel Allende
A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's world.
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An Irish Country Practice
by Patrick Taylor
Expanding his practice to include a new trainee and a spirited Labrador pup, Irish country doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly investigates a new series of professional challenges, including a mysterious cough, a housewife's frequent accidents and a colleague's susceptibility to an old vice.
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The It Girls
by Karen Harper
Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences.
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The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
Inspired by actual events, a tale set in the Appalachian foothills of 1929 North Carolina follows the struggles of an ordinary woman to reclaim her dignity and rights in a labor mill, where she earns a paltry salary before risking her family and future to join a union.
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Last Christmas in Paris
by Hazel Gaynor
After seeing her brother and his best friend off to the front in August 1914, a privileged young lady, Evie Elliott, tries to become more involved in the conflict and begins working at her father’s newspaper business.
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance.
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Merry and Bright
by Debbie Macomber
Enduring a challenging year of constant work and family care, Merry struggles to take a break from her everyday responsibilities by creating an online dating profile and striking up an online friendship with a charming stranger who turns out to be someone she recognizes.
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Never Coming Back
by Alison McGhee
Called back home to care for her mother, who is slowly slipping into early-onset Alzheimer’s, successful writer Clara Winter is determined to know the woman who sent her away all those years ago, while trying to figure out what the future has in store for her since she also carries the gene for the disease.
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Paris in the Present Tense
by Mark Helprin
When faced with a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood and home, Jules—a 74-year-old maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widow, veteran of the war in Algeria and child of the Holocaust—must confront his complex past and find a way forward.
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Reservoir 13
by Jon McGregor
A new novel from celebrated British novelist Jon McGregor—twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize— tells the "profound and nuanced" story of a whole English village haunted by one family's loss.
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The Rules of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
A prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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Stolen Marriage
by Diane Chamberlain
Impulsively ending her engagement to another man to marry a mysterious stranger from a small North Carolina community in 1944, Tess rapidly discovers that she is trapped in a loveless relationship and is treated with suspicion by secretive neighbors before discovering her talents as nurse during a devastating polio outbreak.
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Tell Tale: Short Stories
by Jeffrey Archer
A highly anticipated next collection of short tales features a series of protagonists reflecting the author's experiences with the people he has met and the cultures he has visited throughout the past decade
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories
by Tom Hanks
The two-time Oscar winner presents a first collection of short fiction that includes the stories of a bowling champion who fears his celebrity has ruined his love of the game and an eccentric billionaire and faithful assistant who, while searching for acquisitions, discover romance and real life in a down-and-out motel.
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The Vineyard
by María Dueñas
Moving to Spain in the aftermath of a shattering misfortune, a hardworking Mexican falls in love with the wife of a London wine merchant and resolves to restore her family's vineyard before finding himself immersed in the rich culture of the 19th-century sherry trade.
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Winter Solstice
by Elin Hilderbrand
Preparing for a particularly joyful holiday season after Bart's safe return from Afghanistan, the Quinn family members count their blessings, from Kevin's marriage to Patrick's rehabilitation, only to encounter unexpected challenges.
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Without Merit
by Colleen Hoover
A young woman reveals the dark secrets of her outwardly happy family before she leaves them behind, only to be confronted by the consequences of her decision when her escape plan fails.
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You Were There Before My Eyes
by Maria Riva
A woman from a small, Italian village immigrates to America with her husband during the early part of the 20th century and must navigate a new language and country while dealing with the economic and social upheaval of an impending war.
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The Appraisal
by Anna Porter
This entertaining literary thriller features Helena Marsh, an art authenticator hot on the trail of an extorted painting in Budapest. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds and as she unravels the truth of the painting’s ownership Helena must call on all her skills to stay alive and out of jail.
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Cast Iron
by Peter May
Forensic expert Enzo Macleod investigates after a murder victim’s remains are exposed in a lake during a summer heat wave and inadvertently discovers a mistake that could endanger his family. The final novel of the series.
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Crazy Like a Fox
by Rita Mae Brown
Trying to stop the activities of a wily fox that has been poaching farms throughout Virginia hunt country, Master of the Hunt "Sister" Jane Arnold; her gentleman friend, Gray Lorillard; the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club; and their loyal hounds find themselves confronted by an all-too-human adversary.
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Dark Signal : A Kate Fox Novel
by Shannon Baker
Just sworn in as Sheriff of Grand County, Nebraska, Kate Fox investigates the murder of engineer and president of the railroad workers' union Chad Mills, a crime that puts her up against a state patrol officer who, she believes, has the wrong suspect in mind.
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Death in St. Petersburg
by Tasha Alexander
When the body of a prima ballerina is discovered in the snow, Lady Emily races through Saint Petersburg to investigate a case that is complicated by a distraught lover, the politics of Tsarist Russia and sightings of a ghostly dancer.
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Death on Tap
by Ellie Alexander
After catching her husband cheating on her, craft-brew expert Sloan Krause leaves the family business to work for a hip, new nano-brewery, only to discover a competitor dead in the fermenting tub, clutching a secret recipe.
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Deep Freeze
by John Sandford
When a woman from a community where he exposed school-board corruption years earlier is found dead, Virgil Flowers identifies clues linking the case to a 20-year high school reunion and its related traumas, dramas and rivalries.
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Dying To Live
by Michael Stanley
When the body of a Bushman with puzzling physiology is stolen from the morgue, pathologist Ian MacGregor calls in Assistant Superintendent David “Kubu” Bengu to investigate in the sixth crime novel featuring the endearing Detective Kubu and the beautiful backdrop of Botswana.
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Even If It Kills Her
by Kate White
Regretting that she has not kept more in touch with a college roommate whose family was brutally murdered years earlier, journalist-turned-sleuth Bailey Weggins helps investigate when the man convicted of the crime is exonerated and secrets from her roommate's past begin to surface.
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Friends and Traitors
by John Lawton
Newly promoted after his service during Khrushchev's visit to 1958 Britain, Chief Superintendant Fredrick Troy of Scotland Yard reluctantly accompanies his older brother on a birthday tour of Europe, only to be approached by an old friend, a Soviet spy who is desperate to come back home.
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Gone Astray
by Michelle Davies
In this series launch, Det. Constable Maggie Neville, a family liaison officer, joins the team hunting for 15-year-old Rosie Kinnock, who disappeared from her family’s home after her parents won £15 million in the EuroMillions lottery and moved from their modest town to an exclusive gated estate.
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Her Last Day
by T. R. Ragan
Ten years ago, P.I. Jessie Cole and reporter Ben Morrison each suffered a tragedy that changed their lives—and now these two strangers are about to share a nightmare. An exciting, intricately plotted series launch.
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Killing Season
by Faye Kellerman
A young man's investigation into the death of his sister draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer, in a psychological thriller by the best-selling author.
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
by Liv Constantine
A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.
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Mind game
by Iris Johansen
Searching for a long-missing treasure in Scotland, Jane MacGuire experiences vivid dreams of a girl in danger at the same time that she reconnects with a volatile ex and is confronted by stunning changes in the lives of those closest to her.
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Murder in an English Village
by Jessica Ellicott
The boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn’t be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina, but as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they’re the perfect match to catch a killer.
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Nine Lessons
by Nicola Upson
In early-20th-century Cambridge, mystery writer Josephine Tey and Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose investigate the murder of church organist and whether or not it has any connection to a rash of attacks on women in the city.
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Odd Child Out
by Gilly Macmillan
Investigating the death of a man who may have been a casualty of a prank gone wrong, detective Jim Clemo is rapidly embroiled in an escalating public debate surrounding the victim, a British youth; and his best friend, a Somali refugee who is unwilling or unable to reveal what happened.
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Old Scores : a Barker & Llewelyn novel
by Will Thomas
After Cyrus Barker is questioned in the suspicious death of a Japanese diplomat in 1890 London, he and his sidekick Llewelyn must race the clock to find the real killer, in the latest fine addition to the series.
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Origin
by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon navigates a dangerous intersection of humanity's two most enduring questions, interweaving codes, science, religion and other disciplines before making a paradigm-shifting discovery.
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Parting Shot
by Linwood Barclay
After a drunk man steals a Porsche and hits and kills a girl in Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused’s family.
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Quick & Dirty
by Stuart Woods
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds New York City cop turned Manhattan law firm rainmaker Stone Barrington tackling an explosive case that tests his signature composure.
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The Rooster Bar
by John Grisham
Grisham's latest high-octane legal thriller features three third-year law students who take matters into their own hands when they realize they've been scammed by their school - one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans.
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society
by Ellery Adams
| When a visiting businessman reaches out to Nora of Miracle Books for advice on the perfect novel to read, she knows exactly which ones will help, but before he can keep their appointment, he’s found dead on the train tracks. |
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Two Kinds of Truth
by Michael Connelly
An investigation into the murder of a young pharmacist leads Harry Bosch and San Fernando's detective squad into the big-business world of pill mills and prescription-drug abuse at the same time that an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD returns to haunt him.
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Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder
by Bonnie MacBird
Fresh from debunking a “ghostly” hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta as he and Dr. Watson tangle with murder, vinicultural sabotage, and reputed ghosts in a Scottish whisky baron's estate.
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The Witches' Tree
by M. C. Beaton
Investigating the cruel murder of an elderly spinster whose body was discovered hanged from tree at the edge of their small village, Agatha Raisin tackles an escalating mystery that risks both her reputation and her life.
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Lilac Lane
by Sherryl Woods
A proud woman, reeling from the loss of the first man she was able to love decades after the abandonment of her husband, is urged to return to her Virginia home to help run an Irish pub, where she clashes with an equally strong-minded chef who shares many of her heartaches.
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One Summer Night
by Caridad Pineiro
To save her family’s business, Jersey girl Maggie Sinclair is forced to ask Jax Pierce for help—despite the fact that the Sinclairs and Pierces have been feuding for nearly 30 years—a decision that causes them to both risk everything.
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On Starlit Seas
by Sara Sheridan
Charged with a mission by the Empress of Brazil, Maria Graham sets off for England with the Brazilian civil war at its height. Newly widowed and a woman travelling alone, the stakes are high and when she accepts roguish smuggler Captain James Henderson's offer of passage on his ship, she gets more than she bargains for.
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The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck
by Bethany Turner
In this inspirational romance, steamy romance writer Sarah Hollenbeck's career is at its peak, but reconciling her writing with her newfound faith proves more difficult than she imagined--and falling for her pastor doesn't make things any easier.
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The Best of Richard Matheson
by Richard Matheson
The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author, Victor LaValle.
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Children of the Fleet
by Orson Scott Card
A highly-anticipated latest solo Ender novel finds Fleet School hopeful Dabeet Ochoa discovering his mysterious connection to the Fleet when he is approached for recruitment by Colonel Graff.
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The Genius Plague by David Walton
| When his brother Paul, a mycologist, recovers from a strange fungal infection with abilities he didn’t have before, along with a host of others, and believes this is the next step in human evolution, NSA code breaker Neil Johns, determined to learn the truth, uncovers a secret that could place all of humanity at the mercy of alien intelligence |
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The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
| A first volume in a new trilogy set in the fantasy world of The Eternal Sky follows the experiences of a brass automaton mercenary who, at the side of an embittered bodyguard, carries an important message into the Lotus Kingdom only to become embroiled in a dynastic war. |
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Strange Weather: Four Short Novels
by Joe Hill
A collection of four novellas by the award-winning author of The Fireman includes the tales Snapshot, Aloft, Rain and Loaded.
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