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Christmas Days: Twelve Stories
by Jeanette Winterson
A collection of stories written annually at Christmas by the best-selling author include tales of trees with magical powers, a tinsel baby that talks, flying dogs, philosophical fairies and a haunted house.
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Everything Love Is
by Claire King
Having devoted his life to the happiness of others, houseboat resident Baptiste Molino wonders about his mysterious origins before an enamored waitress and an enigmatic new client bring him closer to the outside world and the answers he seeks.
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The Gardens of Consolation
by Parisa Reza
In the 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. They move to the suburbs of Tehran and have a son, Bahram, a boy whose brilliance and intellectual promise are apparent from a very young age. Their powerful story of hope and heartbreak is told against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Iran.
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Good Time Coming
by C. S. Harris
As the Civil War comes ever closer to her vulnerable village of St. Francisville in Louisiana, young Amrie St. Pierre is forced to grow up quickly when she encounters a Union captain named Gabriel who threatens to destroy all she holds dear.
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Island of Glass
by Nora Roberts
Continuing the hunt for the Star of Ice in Ireland, the immortal Doyle confronts his tragic past while the archaeologist Riley immerses herself in local history and finds herself targeted by a dark goddess.
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The Mistress
by Danielle Steel
The innocent mistress of a Russian oligarch gradually finds independence through her own efforts and a friendship with the artist son of a world-renowned painter in a tale set in the South of France, London and Paris.
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The Moravian Night: A Story
by Peter Handke
Summoned to a houseboat on the Morava river, a group of friends, associates and collaborators of a former writer gather to hear him tell the story of his odyssey across Europe, where he visited places representing regional history and had haunting encounters with a compelling stranger.
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My Heart Belongs in Fort Bliss, Texas
by Erica Vetsch
When a high-steppin’ eastern fashion artist, Priscilla Hutchens, swoops down on Fort Bliss to gain custody of her twin niece and nephew she is met with resistance by their uncle, post surgeon Major Elliot Ryder, who thinks he knows what is best for them. Who will when the battle? Or will a truce be called for the sake of love and family?
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Nice Work: If You Can Get It
by Celia Imrie
This charming, leisurely story follows the exploits of retired expats in the South of France who wonder about a mysterious intruder and the secrets of a local property that they invest in to open a restaurant.
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The Old Bentley Schoolhouse
by Vicki Margo Stuve Hughes
A debut novel depicts the intertwined narratives of folks brought together by the lure of living in a beautiful old schoolhouse in a tiny Iowa town. "A heartwarming slice-of-life tale for readers who enjoy romance and optimistic stories."
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Queen of the Cookbooks
by Ashton Lee
In the quirky Southern town of Cherico, Mississippi, a new library means an exciting new chapter for librarian Maura Beth McShayùand for the friends and book lovers known as the Cherry Cola Book Club.
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The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to the Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
Published for the first time in English in more than a century, a new translation of Dumas' forgotten sequel continues the rip-roaring historical adventure of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies.
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Say Goodbye for Now
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The bestselling author of Pay it Forward tells a heartwarming story about patience, trust and the determination to stay true to the ideals of friendship and love against the backdrop of a highly segregated Texas town in 1959.
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A Want of Kindness
by Joanne Limburg
Navigating the disease, deceit and treachery of the glittering Restoration court, 10-year-old Anne, the niece of King Charles, becomes a political pawn in a troubled Stuart dynasty as she embarks on an unlikely journey to becoming queen.
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Above the Paw
by Diane Kelly
When students fall serious ill after ingesting a "club drug" also known as ecstasy, Officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner Brigit go undercover to track down the dealers and distributor, only to be led in an unexpected and dangerous direction that could get them killed.
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Beyond the Truth
by Anne Holt
Investigating the Christmas-season murders of four people in the luxurious home of one of Oslo's wealthiest families, Norwegian Police Chief Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen risks everything to identify a mysterious victim and his reason for being among the others.
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Brazen
by Loren D. Estleman
When his former actress friend is murdered at a crime scene staged to look the way Marilyn Monroe was found, sometime film detective Valentino is targeted with suspicion by police detective Ray Padilla, who asks for Valentino's help when another former actress is killed.
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Buried in the Country
by Carola Dunn
Summoned to assist in a secret conference outside the historical village of Tintagel, a retired charity worker teams up with her detective niece to track down a missing solicitor and protect a pair of African students who are being followed by sinister adversaries with mysterious allegiances.
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The Cat Sitter and the Canary
by Blaize Clement
Caring for a kitty, Dixie discovers a dead body in the parlor of her client's home before being trapped in a maze of intrigue and danger that implicates her in a series of deaths.
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Cover Me in Darkness
by Eileen Rendahl
Amanda Sinclair's institutionalized mother mysteriously kills herself, digging up Amanda's past ties with a dangerous cult leader who may soon be released on parole.
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Curtain of Death
by W. E. B. Griffin
When two WACs are accosted by Soviet NKGB agents from an officers' club in 1946 Munich and kill three of their attackers to escape, the incident triggers shock waves that have major repercussions throughout a fledgling CIA.
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Dark Fissures: A Rick Cahill Novel
by Matt Coyle
Coyle’s gripping third Rick Cahill novel finds the vulnerable, well-meaning PI in fear of losing his house to a bank foreclosure. Even worse, the town’s police chief, Tony Moretti, is preparing to arrest Rick for murder in a case involving a missing person as soon as he gets enough evidence.
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Denny's Law
by Elizabeth Gunn
Sarah Burke and her crew of detectives must solve the murder of a man seen fighting in a house during a Fourth of July street parade.
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The Divided City
by Luke McCallin
Rehired onto Berlin's police force a year after World War II, former German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt investigates the murder of a tenement dweller, only to be embroiled in a plot involving the Western Allies and the Soviets.
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Egg Drop Dead
by Laura Childs
A latest entry in the recipe-complemented mystery series finds Suzanne stumbling on the murdered body of a local dairy farmer before Petra, Toni and she are targeted by a frenzied killer.
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Escape to Havana
by Nick Wilkshire
Charlie Hillier believes a posting in Havana, far away from the indiscretions of his ex-wife and the monotony of a desk job, is just what he needs to start a new life. But when drugs, a kidnapping, and murder complicate things, he wonders if he’ll make it out of Cuba alive.
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Expecting to Die
by Lisa Jackson
Some places earn their bad reputation through tall tales or chance. Grizzly Falls is different. Here, killers aren’t just the stuff of legends and campfire lore. Someone is in the nighttime shadows, watching the local teens play around in the moonlit woods. Waiting for the right moment, the right victim. Waiting to take away a life.
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The Gentleman from Japan
by James Church
When a Barcelona factory begins secretly producing a machine that is used for making nuclear weapons, Inspector O is recruited by an older friend to participate in an operation to disrupt the plans for shipping the machine to North Korea.
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The Hollow Men
by Rob McCarthy
Immersing himself in his work as a surgeon for the London Metropolitan Police to ward off memories of his time as an army medic, Dr. Harry Kent is sent to treat a mentally ill teen who has taken hostages in a fast-food restaurant and who is being murderously targeted for his knowledge of a dangerous secret.
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The Ice Beneath Her
by Camilla Grebe
Investigating a grisly murder in a business tycoon's Stockholm residence, detective Peter Lindgren and psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schon navigate complications in their own relationship while tracking down the businessman, who may have been having an affair with the victim.
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The Killing Fee
by Fiona Veitch Smith
A Faberge Egg is stolen and a trail of dead bodies follow. Poppy Denby, arts and entertainment editor for the Daily Globe, must unearth the secrets that it contains in this inspirational whodunit set in post-WWI London.
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The Marriage Lie
by Kimberly Belle
Iris and Will's marriage seems perfect, but on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris's happy world comes to an abrupt halt as she learns he is listed as a passenger on a Seattle-bound plane that has crashed, killing everyone on board.
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The Midnight Bell
by Jack Higgins
When the assistant to the head of a secret White House department is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the event is tied to a warning to the U.S. president by a London branch of al-Qaida that is determined to prove its resilience.
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The Old Man
by Thomas Perry
The toppling of a Middle Eastern government renders a decades-old case urgent for covert army intelligence retiree Dan Chase, who must fight for his life to escape a past he had hoped to leave behind.
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Onslaught: The War with China--the Opening Battle
by David Poyer
Embarking on a mission to secure Taiwan, Korea and Japan against the first phase of China's war for dominance of the Pacific, Navy captain Dan Lenson finds his efforts complicated by attacks from the sea and sky as well as a saboteur on his ship.
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Out of Bounds
by Val McDermid
When a teen joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to a twisted unsolved murder from more than two decades earlier.
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Plaid and Plagiarism
by Molly MacRae
When the murder of a surprisingly hated local disrupts preparations for the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, the owner of a new bookshop and an ambitious investigative reporter comb through the victim's hate mail for clues about who was the killer.
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The Reek of Red Herrings
by Catriona McPherson
When grisly discoveries in barrels of fish lead to the discovery of a murder, Dandy Gilver and her trusty cohort, Alex Osborne, are challenged to solve the mystery at the height of the Banffshire coast's wedding season.
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The Seventh Plague
by James Rollins
When a British archaeologist who had been missing for two years reappears and dies amid findings that his body was being mummified while he was still alive, Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague with ties to some of history's most innovative minds.
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Stick or Twist
by Diane Janes
After narrowly escaping death at the hands of a ruthless kidnapper, Jude Thackeray seemed unlikely to trust any man again. Then she met Mark Medlicott and now romance is back on the agenda. But is Mark who - and what - he seems? The answers are far from clear in this twisting tale of suspense.
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Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance
by Mark Greaney
Investigating a massive data breach that threatens the security of every U.S. intelligence operative in the world, President Jack Ryan confronts an impossible choice when the data is obtained and exploited by the Chinese government.
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Who Watcheth
by Helene Tursten
When a woman is found murdered days after receiving a mysterious package, Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues on the Göteborg police force embark on a race against time in the face of additional killings and a threatening package addressed to Irene.
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Lord of the Privateers
by Stephanie Laurens
Preparing to execute the final stage of the rescue mission his brothers have started, Royd Frobisher unexpectedly finds himself setting sail with his childhood sweetheart, Isobel Carmichael, who has a mission of her own--to find and bring home her young cousin.
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The Trouble with Dukes
by Grace Burrowes
Hamish McHugh, the new Duke of Murdoch, to make his sisters happy, fights his hardest battle yet -the London Season- and decides to take on any challenge, including learning to waltz and Miss Megan Windham, the only woman who sees him as he truly is.
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The Viscount and the Vixen
by Lorraine Heath
The Hellions of Havisham series continues with a marriage of convenience ... and the secret that will change everything.
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Wild Wicked Scot
by Julia London
Forced to return to her husband, whom she fled three years earlier, English beauty Margot Armstrong must outmaneuver Arran McKenzie in games of espionage and seduction as their respective countries' fragile unity threatens to unravel.
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Wyoming Brave
by Diana Palmer
Agreeing to let Meredith Grayling, who is hiding from a dangerous stalker, stay on his ranch, Ren Colter, who has lived as a recluse since his fiancé left him years ago, finds his protective instincts kicking and his heart opening up to this blonde beauty who has gotten under his skin.
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Babylon's Ashes
by James S. A. Corey
Summoned by the remnants of old political powers for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are challenged by alliance vulnerabilities, an alien mystery and a band of desperate vigilantes.
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Blood Vow
by J. R. Ward
Isolated from his fellow Black Dagger Brotherhood recruits by a personal tragedy, talented fighter Axe is assigned to protect an alluring aristocratic woman, Elise, who would uncover the truth about a cousin's murder.
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Judgment at Verdant Court
by M. C. Planck
Christopher Sinclair must save a friend turned by the Druids through magic into a murderer and also fend off an entire nation of wolf-men in the latest addition to the series following Gold Throne in the Shadow.
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Take Back the Sky
by Greg Bear
Marooned on Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face adversaries who would eliminate them for their growing awareness of what the alien Gurus are really planning for the solar system.
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Christmas Joy
by Nancy Naigle
Joy Holbrook might be all work and no play, but that changes when her Aunt Ruby takes a fall that lands her in a rehabilitation center before the holidays.
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The Christmas Town
by Donna VanLiere
Overwhelmed by the need to belong after a youth spent in foster homes, 20-year-old Lauren Gabriel witnesses an accident that draws her into the town of Grandon, where she becomes a volunteer for an annual fundraiser.
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Christmas at Promise Lodge
by Charlotte Hubbard
After an accident threatens to change the course of his life forever, Preacher Amos Troyer, wondering if the Lord has sent him a message, must call upon faith, hope and charity to find the right path and prays for a Christmas blessing to convince widowed Mattie Schwartz to walk it with him.
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Christmas in Paris
by Anita Hughes
After calling off her wedding, Isabel Lawson, a financial analyst, decides to spend Christmas in Paris to clear her mind, but her encounter with a fortune teller leads her to question her priorities and her feelings for Alec, a French illustrator.
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A Colorado Christmas
by William W. Johnstone
At Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jenson prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays—unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble.
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Holiday Temptation
by Donna Hill
Three holiday romances reveal who has been naughty and who has been nice, including Essence best-selling author's Donna Hill's A Gift of Love, in which drama professor Traci Long has an affair with a sexy barista, but past betrayals make her wary.
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The Holidays
by Mike MacDonald
Christmas is full of fun surprises for kids, but for adults, it’s just an endless series of forced smiles, mounting credit card bills, and pretending to like the people you’re forced to spend it with in this "choose-your-own-adventure" novel by two former contributors to The Onion.
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A Lowcountry Christmas
by Mary Alice Monroe
Young Miller McClellan struggles with his older brother's return from the war with PTSD and his family's financial difficulties, a situation that escalates over the holiday season when Miller becomes lost in the woods at the side of his brother's service dog.
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The Season of Us
by Holly Chamberlin
Against the backdrop of Christmas in New England a family reunites and navigates new beginnings.
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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas
by David Rosenfelt
Defending a friend who has been reported by a cranky neighbor for fostering homeless puppies during the holiday season, Andy Carpenter encounters more trouble than anticipated when the neighbor is found murdered.
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We Wish You a Murderous Christmas
by Vicki Delany
When the son of Jack Olsen, who owns the Yuletide Inn, decides to no longer celebrate Christmas at the Inn, sending the local shopkeepers into a tizzy, Merry Wilkinson is faced with a holiday homicide when he is found stabbed to death.
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