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The Affairs of the Falcóns
by Melissa Rivero
Fleeing the economic and political strife of 1990s Peru, undocumented factory worker Ana struggles to support her family while fending off the challenges of discrimination, sexual harassment and a loan shark's criminal enforcers.
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Beyond the Point
by Claire Gibson
Three West Point cadets—including a nationally-ranked point guard, an Army general's faith-driven granddaughter and a rebellious homecoming queen—embark on bond-forging military careers on the eve of the September 11 attacks.
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The Binding
by Bridget Collins
In a magical world where books are repositories of individual lives, a reviled Bookbinder's apprentice crafts elegant memory volumes to help troubled customers before discovering that others in his profession use their skills for dark ends.
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The Book of Dreams
by Nina George
Rendered comatose after an act of heroism, a man revisits memories of his British youth, while his ex forges an unexpected, profound friendship with the teenage son he has never known.
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Boy Swallows Universe
by Trent Dalton
Exiled in a drug-oppressed refugee suburb in 1980s Australia, a 12-year-old boy dreams of a career in journalism while fending off the local criminal element to protect his imprisoned mother.
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The City of Flickering Light
by Juliette Fay
Three friends jump off a moving train to run away and attempt to make it big in 1920s Hollywood, but face unexpected challenges as they navigate a new and glittering world full of ambitions, prejudice and temptation.
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City of Jasmine
by Olga Grjasnowa
Three young adults in war-torn Syria unexpectedly become refugees in this searing - yet still human and hopeful - portrait of what it means to do anything to stay alive.
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
by Louis Bayard
Reimagines the early adulthood of a future 16th President from the alternating views of the two people who knew and loved him best, including spirited debutante Mary Todd and Lincoln's intimate confidante, Joshua Speed.
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The Editor
by Steven Rowley
A struggling writer in 1990s New York City gets his big break from none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "A winning dissection of family, forgiveness, and fame."
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Feast Your Eyes
by Myla Goldberg
The life of a controversial mid-20th-century photographer is chronicled through her daughter's memories, interviews with her intimates and excerpts from journals and letters documenting her quest for artistic legitimacy in the face of public notoriety.
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The Girl He Used to Know
by Tracey Garvis Graves
A tumultuous but tender love affair between a socially awkward chess club member and a courageous, quirky girl is shattered by an unforeseen tragedy that forces them to confront respective anxieties when they reunite a decade later.
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The Golden Bride
by Kimberley Woodhouse
Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother’s restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold, but just when she thinks she could love again, a fire threatens to steal all hope.
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Henry, Himself
by Stewart O'Nan
A 75-year-old retired engineer looks out on 1998 and sees a world he suspects has passed him by, and weighs his life's dreams against his regrets, in this prequel to Emily, Alone.
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Lost and Wanted
by Nell Freudenberger
Receiving an unsettling phone call from her late college roommate, a rationally minded MIT professor reflects on their once-close friendship, her friend's tragic death and her own rediscovered feelings for a fellow scientist.
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The Lost History of Dreams
by Kris Waldherr
Before he can bury his famous poet cousin, an historian turned post-mortem photographer agrees to record the details of the writer's ill-fated marriage as described by his niece and begins seeing things from beyond the grave in this gothic mystery about life and loss.
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Lost Roses
by Martha Hall Kelly
Based on true events, a tale set a generation before Lilac Girls traces the stories of three women, including Caroline Ferriday's mother, a Romanov cousin and a fortune teller's daughter, against a backdrop of the Russian revolution and World War I.
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Miracle at St. Andrews
by James Patterson
A latest entry in the series that includes Miracle on the 17th Green finds a former professional golfer seeking personal inspiration during a pilgrimage to the mythical greens at St. Andrews.
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened.
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The Mother-in-Law
by Sally Hepworth
A woman's obsessive fears about how much she disappoints her successful, pillar-of-the-community mother-in-law lead to a controversial disinheritance and a suspicious suicide.
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Naamah
by Sarah Blake
Imagines the life of Noah's wife, Naamah, a woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures and silently mourning the lover she left behind.
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive.
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Old Baggage
by Lissa Evans
A former militant from the Women's Suffrage Campaign looks at her middle age life in 1928 and commits herself to a new cause: helping girls exercise their bodies and minds and fight fascism. A comic, charming, and surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragist.
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One Summer in Paris
by Sarah Morgan
Embarking on a solo Paris vacation after being dumped by her husband of 25 years, cautious Grace unexpectedly bonds with a rebellious London teen who helps her forge new understandings of family, love and self-confidence.
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Outside Looking In
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
A novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife.
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The Parisian, or, Al-Barisi
by Isabella Hammad
Studying medicine and falling in love in 1914 France, the son of a wealthy Palestinian textile merchant finds his loyalties tested by conflicts between the British government and the independence-minded nationalists of his community.
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The Peacock Emporium
by Jojo Moyes
Struggling to find refuge from her mother's shameful legacy, Suzanna Peacock finds friendship and escape at her coffee bar and shop, the Peacock Emporium. By the author of Me Before You.
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The Red Daughter
by John Burnham Schwartz
Defecting to America at the height of the Cold War, the daughter of Joseph Stalin finds her quiet existence upended by controversial associates, CIA suspicion and her relationship with a young lawyer.
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A Silken Thread
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
A young loom worker who dreams of a family is courted by an unscrupulous playboy who would marry to secure his inheritance, compelling a lovelorn but humble security guard to try to make her a better offer.
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The Spectators
by Jennifer DuBois
A controversial talk-show host who has made his living by exposing bizarre societal secrets on live television finds his own past brought into question when the young perpetrators of a mass shooting declare themselves his devoted fans.
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Stay Up with Hugo Best
by Erin Somers
A young writers' assistant on a late-night comedy show finds her life and perspectives transformed when she accepts an invitation from the program's enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his Connecticut mansion.
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Swimming for Sunlight
by Allie Larkin
When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie's grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother's troupe of underwater performers--finding hope and renewal in unexpected places.
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The Summer Cottage
by Viola Shipman
Memories of better times motivate a woman at a crossroads in her life to renovate a lakeside family cottage where she was most happy and where she discovers a cache of letters from the late-19th century.
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There's a Word for That
by Sloane Tanen
A wildly-flawed family comes together—in rehab, of all places—even as each member is on the verge of falling apart.
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Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Making an obligatory pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out their mother's final rites, three estranged British-Punjabi sisters make unexpected discoveries about why their mother was forced to leave India.
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
After learning the men in the community have been drugging and attacking more than a hundred women, eight Mennonite women meet in secret to decide whether they should escape to a place outside the colony or stay in the only world they've ever known
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck
by Ann Beattie
A man who attended a prestigious New England boarding school has his life turned upside down by the reappearance in his life of an enigmatic and brilliant but difficult former teacher that makes him question everything he knows.
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The 13-Minute Murder
by James Patterson
An elite assassin takes a last job before retirement, only to find himself in a cat-and-mouse game opposite the person responsible for his wife's disappearance, a vigilante who would avenge the murder of her son.
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The 18th Abduction
by James Patterson
Detective Lindsay Boxer teams up with intrepid journalist Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of three schoolteachers amid rumors of a notorious Eastern European war criminal spotted on the streets of San Francisco.
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The A List
by Judith A. Jance
Settling into a quieter life a decade after a career scandal, a once-high-profile newscaster is approached by someone from her past who compels her to make a difficult choice.
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Alice's Island
by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
A recently widowed mother of two becomes obsessed with the mystery surrounding her husband's death, who died in a car accident near Nantucket, far, far away from where he should have been.
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Before She Was Found
by Heather Gudenkauf
The Edgar Award-nominated author of The Weight of Silence presents a high-suspense thriller involving three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa community.
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The Better Sister
by Alafair Burke
When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the victim's widow, the other his ex—navigate long-standing resentments to uncover devastating family secrets.
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Bitter Brew
by G. A. McKevett
P.I. Savanna Reid and the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency launch a discreet investigation into the apparent assisted suicide of Dr. Jennifer Liu’s friend, Brianna, until a second body is discovered with the same unique mixture, forcing them to expose a poisonous killer.
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Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R. Dow
When an Austin billionaire is murdered, her husband, Rafael Zhettah, the son of poor Mexican immigrants, is sent to death row, only to have DNA evidence vindicate him six years later, spurring him to take revenge on the people that ruined his life.
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Death of a New American
by Mariah Fredericks
A follow-up to A Death of No Importance finds ladies' maid Jane Prescott accompanying her employers to a family wedding in Long Island that is threatened by a nanny's murder, mafia threats against their host and dark secrets
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Delta-V
by Daniel Suarez
A billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first mining operation in space—with the aim of kick-starting an entire off-world economy—but the team soon discovers the extreme risks they’ll be facing.
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes
by Alexander McCall Smith
Tasked with their Swedish Police Department's most unusual cases, lead detective Ulf Varg and his colorful associates investigate a bizarre stabbing, a lost imaginary boyfriend and a haunted spa.
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
by David Downing
Stumbling across the hidden diary of a boarder who had been a father figure to him half a century earlier, Walter discovers the man's life-risking undercover work as an anti-Nazi Moscow spy. By the author of the Jack McColl series.
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The Eighth Sister
by Robert Dugoni
Desperate for money, former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins takes on a risky new assignment in Russia involving a spy cell called the seven sisters and soon discovers that his mission is not what it seems as he is forced to fight for his survival against his own country.
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A Good Enough Mother
by Bev Thomas
When a new patient, Dan—unstable and traumatized— looks exactly like her missing son, psychotherapist Ruth Hartland is determined to help him, but soon, her own complicated feelings cloud her professional judgement, and she begins to cross some dangerous boundaries.
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The Invited
by Jennifer McMahon
When an inspired effort to build her dream home is overshadowed by discoveries about her rural property's violent past, a former history teacher becomes obsessed with the stories of three generations of local women who died under suspicious circumstances.
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Lights! Camera! Puzzles!
by Parnell Hall
When her ex's sensational tell-all about their lives is optioned for a movie, Puzzle Lady Cora Felton reluctantly accepts a producer role's in the much-despised production before a body is found on set, staged with a crossword puzzle clue.
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Loch of the Dead
by Oscar De Muriel
Edinburgh’s most famed detective duo, while protecting the illegitimate scion of the Koloman family who life is being threatened due to a recent inheritance, investigate a murder and increasingly bizarre happenings around the miraculous waters in the remote Loch Maree.
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Metropolis
by Philip Kerr
A Bernie Gunther origin story is set during his first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad and finds a twentysomething Bernie investigating a particularly violent wave of murders targeting the city's vulnerable prostitutes and homeless veterans.
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Miss Julia Takes the Wheel
by Ann B Ross
Miss Julia's efforts to understand mysteries surrounding an unscrupulous new doctor and his painfully shy wife are complicated by Lloyd's first car and a newly divorced LuAnne's makeover in accordance with a new funeral home job.
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Murder Knocks Twice
by Susanna Calkins
The first mystery in Susanna Calkins' captivating new series takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920s Chicago speakeasy.
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Murder on Trinity Place
by Victoria Thompson
Horrified when a neighbor they spotted behaving in uncharacteristic ways is found murdered during the 1900 New Year celebrations at Trinity Church, Frank and Sarah Malloy are prompted by scandal-fearing relatives to search for answers in the victim's past.
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Neon Prey
by John Sandford
When a seemingly minor investigation leads to the discovery of trophies from a score of murders, Lucas Davenport lands on the trail of an enigmatic killer who has been able to operate for years below the radar.
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The Poison Bed
by Elizabeth Fremantle
The Jacobean court of 1615 is scandalously upended by a murder, the imprisonment of a celebrated wealthy couple and secrets that influence the king's ability to act on his own suspicions.
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Redemption
by David Baldacci
Confronted by the first murder suspect of his early career while visiting his hometown, FBI detective Amos Decker reexamines startling connections to another crime that make him question if he arrested the wrong man years earlier.
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A Snapshot of Murder
by Frances Brody
Yorkshire, 1928. Indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton is taking a well-deserved break from her detective work and indulging in her other passion: photography. But when seven keen amateur photographers gather for the most popular openings of the decade, only six will return.
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Someone Knows
by Lisa Scottoline
Haunted by her role in a covered-up prank gone wrong decades earlier, Allie returns to her childhood home and resolves to uncover the truth, before making a shattering discovery.
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Stone Mothers
by Erin Kelly
Decades after fleeing her home and the body she helped bury, Marianne resolves to do anything to protect the life she has built against an ex's threats about coming forward.
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Sweeney on the Rocks
by Allen Morris Jones
Ted Sweeney has been living a peaceful life in Rockjaw, Mont., having given up his former identity of New York City gangster Cosimo Aniello when he entered the Witness Protection Program. But when he finds a dead mobster in his house, he knows that someone is on to him, and when another body turns up in the tiny town, along with his very-much-alive ex-girlfriend, he knows he’ll have to go back to New York to finish his business.
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Triple Jeopardy
by Anne Perry
The lawyer son of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt is forced to defend a disreputable British diplomat in the wake of an embezzlement scandal and rumors of his link to a murder cover-up.
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The Doctor's Secret
by Heidi Cullinan
Taiwanese-American surgeon Hong-Wei Wu has left his family in Texas to practice at the small medical center in remote Wisconsin. His plans, however, didn't include his outgoing, kind, and attractive surgical nurse, Simon Lane. Cullinan’s deeply satisfying romance deals with racism and Asian culture, family pressures, and the value of friends, home, and love.
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Meet Cute
by Helena Hunting
After meeting the former actor she had a crush on as a teenager and fangirling all over him, Kailyn Flowers strikes up a friendship with Daxton Hughes who needs help acting as guardian to his thirteen-year-old-sister.
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The Pursuits of Lord Kit Cavanaugh
by Stephanie Laurens
Kit Cavanugh and Sylvia Buckleberry fight to secure her school and to expose the blackguard trying to sabotage his yacht business; yet an even more dastardly villain lurks, one who threatens the future both discover they now hold dear.
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The View from Alameda Island
by Robyn Carr
Deciding on her 24th wedding anniversary that she will no longer uphold pretenses about her idyllic family life, Lauren taps the power of her inner strength to separate from her controlling husband and pursue a happier relationship.
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Finder
by Suzanne Palmer
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names (thief, con artist) but he prefers the term finder. His latest job is to find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from an ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss, but an army of mercenaries and a dangerous alien species make things difficult in this sci-fi caper.
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No Country for Old Gnomes
by Kevin Hearne
The best-selling authors of Kill the Farm Boy present a latest madcap adventure in the irreverent fantasy universe of Pell, where a goth gnome distinguishes himself from his cardigan-wearing brethren by fighting back against the warmongering, alpaca-riding halflings.
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Waste Tide
by Qiufan Chen
An exploited lowest-caste factory worker, her ruthless employer, an American corporate representative and his heritage-seeking translator intersect when a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on a major Chinese technological site, triggering a war between the poor and wealthy classes.
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