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The Adventurist
by J. Bradford Hipps
A middle-aged employee at a software company is haunted by the death of his mother and seeks solace in the arms of a colleague, complicating life with his corporate rival, his family and his existing lover.
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The Alaskan Laundry
by Brendan Jones
A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who finds her way to a remote Alaskan island, and finds herself through the hard work of fishing on an old tugboat.
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Alice & Oliver
by Charles Bock
An intelligent and dynamic woman who attracts attention wherever she goes and enjoys life with her husband and newborn daughter is astounded by her cancer diagnosis, which pits her family against a difficult healthcare system, well-meant intentions and other stressors that threaten her health and marriage.
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The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
by Sarit Yishai-levi
A sweeping novel—set against the Golden Age of Hollywood, the dark days of World War II and the swingin' 70s—follows generations of unforgettable women in Jerusalem as they forge their own paths through times of dramatic change.
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Before the Wind
by Jim Lynch
Growing up on the Puget Sound, the Johannssen family has sailing in their blood, but the oldest brother, Josh, is left puzzling over what caused his siblings to flee, one to Africa, the other to points unknown as a fugitive and pirate.
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Before We Visit the Goddess
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Three generations of Indian mothers and daughters discover their greatest source of strength in one another—from a baker's daughter who dreams of an impossible education, to the daughter who confronts her culture and independence in America, to the granddaughter who learns indelible lessons about freedom and heartbreak.
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The Blackbirds
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Four best friends are closer than sisters, yet even their deep bond can't heal all wounds from their individual pasts. As the women try to overcome-- or give into--their impulses, the one thing they always considered unbreakable, their friendship, is tested.
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Chasing the North Star
by Robert Morgan
Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, 18-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
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City of Secrets
by Stewart O'Nan
A moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after World War II follows the experiences of a hunted refugee, who, after losing everything, assumes a different identity and commits himself to the evolution while accepting increasingly dangerous missions.
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The Dark Lady's Mask
by Mary Sharratt
Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring 16th-century writer Aemilia falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.
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The Decent Proposal
by Kemper Donovan
The lives of two very different strangers become intertwined when they receive an unusual proposition from an anonymous benefactor to spend two hours together every week for a year, talking, in exchange for a million dollars.
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The Dig
by John Preston
A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II.
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The Dinner Party
by Brenda Janowitz
This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes, there will be a quick service and then a festive meal afterwards, but this night is different from all other nights. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City.
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Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions, and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
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Emperor of the Eight Islands
by Lian Hearn
An action-packed epic tale of destiny and compelling drama played out against a background of wild forests, elegant castles, hidden temples, and savage battlefields in a richly-imagined medieval Japan.
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The Excellent Lombards
by Jane Hamilton
Desiring nothing more than to tend her family's apple orchard and enjoy time with her loved ones, young Frankie finds her peace threatened by urbanization, disinheritance and college and must choose between clinging to the past and letting go.
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Fast and Loose
by Fern Michaels
The best-selling author presents a second entry in the "Men of the Sisterhood" series that began with Double Down.
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Girls Who Travel
by Nicole Trilivas
After traveling the globe, Kika Shores lands a job in London as a nanny to two girls where she tries to rekindle her long distance love affair, but her arrogant new neighbor, Aston Hyde Betterncourt, keeps interfering in her life.
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Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom
A re-release of the best-seller by the author of The Kitchen House continues the experiences of Jamie, who in 1830 after escaping slavery passes himself off as a wealthy white silversmith, only to risk everything to save a beloved servant who has been captured and sold in the South.
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The Houseguest
by Kim Brooks
It is the summer of 1941 and Abe Auer, a Russian immigrant and small-town junkyard owner, agrees to take in a European refugee - unaware that the woman coming to live with him is a volatile and alluring actress.
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The House on Primrose Pond
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Moving to her family's home in New Hampshire with her two children in the aftermath of a traumatic loss, historic novelist Susannah Gilmore discovers an unsigned love note to her late mother and uncovers astonishing family secrets while researching an 18th-century crime.
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Iris and Ruby
by Rosie Thomas
An octogenarian bonds with her teenage granddaughter, who has run away from a difficult relationship with her mother in England to seek refuge in Cairo.
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Keep Me Posted
by Lisa Beazley
Convincing her sister, a flighty Manhattan wife and mother, to reconnect through old-fashioned letters instead of social media, Sid, a big-hearted ex-pat living in Singapore, is horrified when their private correspondence finds its way onto the Internet and goes viral.
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Lazaretto
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
In the aftermath of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination, the black live-in staff at the Lazaretto quarantine hospital (the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia) find the wedding preparations for one of their own marred by a shooting and its aftermath.
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Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
A debut novel inspired by the life of unlikely World War II heroine Caroline Ferriday follows the experiences of a Manhattan debutante, who resolves to help upon learning of the atrocities at the Ravensbruck concentration camp; and a Catholic teen, who is swept up in the Polish resistance movement.
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Miller's Valley
by Anna Quindlen
Coming of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods.
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Mount Pleasant: a novel
by Alain Patrice Nganang
A sweeping tale of modern Cameroon exploring issues of colonialism, racial passing, and the power of the stories that we tell.
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My Struggle. Book Five
by Karl Ove Knausgård
After moving to Bergen to focus on his writing, Karl Ove is stricken with debilitating writer’s block and must watch helplessly as each of his friends publish their debuts, in the fifth volume of the series.
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No Safe Secret
by Fern Michaels
Living a seemingly idyllic life of luxury with a husband who is privately oppressive and demanding, Molly reflects on her early life with her twin brother and neglectful mother in a run-down Florida trailer park, where an act of vengeance compelled her to flee and reinvent her identity.
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Now and Again
by Charlotte Rogan
While a munitions plant secretary risks the ire of her community by gathering evidence of a high-level cover-up, an Iraq veteran collaborates with three fellow survivors to reveal harsh truths about the war, with scandalous results.
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The Obsession
by Nora Roberts
Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
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Three-Martini Lunch
by Suzanne Rindell
In 1958 Greenwich Village, three ambitious young people—Cliff, the son of a successful book editor; Eden, who dreams of being an editor; and Miles, a talented black writer from Harlem—will do anything to succeed in the competitive world of book publishing and learn that they must live with the consequences of their choices.
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Titans
by Leila Meacham
A privileged heiress to a sprawling Fort Worth cattle ranch and a sweet-natured farm boy from north Texas are drawn together by an unexpected connection during the sweeping oil boom changes of the early 20th century.
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The Translation of Love
by Lynne Kutsukake
Deported back to Japan after losing her mother in a Canadian internment camp, 13-year-old Aya Shimamura struggles with her father's demoralizing work schedule and school bullies before helping a classmate write a letter to Douglas MacArthur and venturing into Tokyo's dangerous red-light district.
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The Year We Turned Forty
by Liz Fenton
If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hilarious novel features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty - the year that altered all of their lives, in ways big and small - and also get the opportunity to change their future.
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The 14th Colony
by Steve Berry
Shot down over Siberia during what was supposed to be a straightforward mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone barely escapes the clutches of a zealous anti-U.S. former KGB officer and learns that a sleeper is plotting a deadly attack during the American presidential inauguration.
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As Time Goes By
by Mary Higgins Clark
A news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband.
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Blood Orange
by Susan Wittig Albert
When a nurse who is renting her guest cottage discovers disturbing evidence that a patient has been murdered before a suspicious accident places her in a coma, China Bayles races against time to identify the culprit and prevent another death.
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The Body in the Wardrobe
by Katherine Hall Page
Sophie teams up with Faith to investigate a dead body that nobody else believes she saw, a case that is complicated by bullies, Tom's major life decision and a suspicious ex.
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Calamity in Kent
by John Rowland
In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, the operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening. When he returns to work the next morning, a dead body is locked inside, launching an investigation into a baffling locked-room mystery. | | | |
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Close Your Eyes
by Michael Robotham
When a former student bungles the investigation of a mother-daughter double murder, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin discovers a link between the case and a series of escalating attacks.
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Come Dark
by Steven F. Havill
New jobs and a promising infrastructure offered by a nearby theme park and a competitive girls' volleyball team are threatened by the murder of the team's coach, a politically-driven graffiti artist and the disappearance of a local athlete.
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Dodgers
by Bill Beverly
Sent by his uncle along with his hotheaded brother and other teens to kill a major witness, a young thug for a Los Angeles drug gang finds his perspectives changed by his encounters outside of the city.
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Dying for a Taste
by Leslie Karst
After quitting her job as a lawyer to help her father run his Italian restaurant, Sally Solari finds herself scrambling to clear the name of their sous chef, who is the prime suspect in the murder of her Aunt Letta.
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Exposure
by Helen Dunmore
A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon's wife, Lily, resolves to protect their family only to be devastatingly exposed.
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Extreme Prey
by John Sandford
Invited to join his governor friend's campaign staff for the presidency, Lucas Davenport discovers that the governor is being stalked by a would-be assassin who proves lethal to anyone in the way of his target.
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Family Jewels
by Stuart Woods
Assisting a client who would fend off the unwanted attentions of a tenacious man, Stone Barrington is forced to probe into his client's life to clear her name of two brutal crimes, only to discover links to a famous missing historical artifact.
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The Father
by Anton Svensson
A tale inspired by a true story from Sweden traces the downfall of three innocent young brothers who became the notorious figures behind an audacious two-year bank-robbing spree.
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Hard Light : A Cass Neary Crime Novel
by Elizabeth Hand
Reunited with long-lost paramour Quinn in London, Cass learns that Quinn is wanted by both Interpol and the Russian mob and fears she will be next when he goes missing, a situation that forces her to go on the run.
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Here Comes the Bribe
by Mary Daheim
Shocked by the arrival of a guest who claims to be her son, Judith McMonigle Flynn accepts the young man's help investigating a murder on the premises only to discover that he has designs on the inn.
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Hide Away
by Iris Johansen
Protecting a young girl who has murderous enemies, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes her charge to the remote Scottish Highlands, where, with the assistance of Jane MacGuire, they search for a hidden treasure and navigate threats that change Eve's relationship with Joe Quinn.
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An Honorable Man
by Paul Vidich
Discovering that the deaths of undercover agents and the foiling of anti-Communist missions are linked to a double agent in the CIA, agent George Mueller is tasked with identifying the mole at the height of the McCarthy era.
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In the Cold Dark Ground
by Stuart MacBride
Investigating a murdered body that may be tied to a missing-persons case, Sergeant Logan McRae finds his job challenged by Aberdeen gang activity, his responsibility-eschewing former boss and a new superintendent determined to make his life miserable.
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It Takes One
by Kate Kessler
Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years. She'll have to face the whispers that have haunted her family since she left, because when Audrey was thirteen, she and her best friend Maggie killed Maggie's abusive father. First in a brand new thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.
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The Last Mile
by David Baldacci
A sequel to Memory Man continues the story of Amos Decker, a football player-turned-detective with an eidetic memory.
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The Letter Writer
by Dan Fesperman
Taking a job with the NYPD four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a former small-town cop investigates the discovery of a body in the Hudson with the assistance of a mysterious, well-educated man who has uncanny knowledge of the city and its denizens.
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Maestra
by L. S. Hilton
A confidence woman and femme fatale uses her talents for self-invention to assume various identities and penetrate the invisible clubs of the debonair and wealthy, in a debut entry in a psychological thriller trilogy.
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Miss Julia Inherits a Mess
by Ann B. Ross
Rendered an unexpected executrix of an elderly neighbor's humble estate, Miss Julia scrambles through the woman's cluttered possessions to find something of value for her beneficiaries only to be confronted by a young man who would write a family history.
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Most Wanted
by Lisa Scottoline
Using a sperm donor to conceive when she learns that her husband is infertile, a happily pregnant woman is shattered to learn that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is the biological father of her baby.
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The Murder of Mary Russell
by Laurie R. King
Sherlock Holmes is on the case when Mary Russell goes missing and the shabby carpet of 221B Baker Street is found drenched in blood.
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Noble Chase
by Michael Rudolph
When her professional reputation and safety are put on the line in the wake of a client's disappearance with $70 million of settlement money, legal associate Beth taps the assistance of friends and her powerful stepfather to embark on a private investigation that tests her survival skills.
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Onslaught
by Nick Oldham
When he is accused of murdering his boss, sport fishing captain Steve Flynn finds that his idyllic life in the Canary Islands has lost its charm. Then his ex-girlfriend is kidnapped. To save her, Flynn must re-hone his old policing and military skills, and put himself in the firing line against a gang for whom violent death is a way of life.
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The Other Widow
by Susan Crawford
A woman whose lover died moments after ending their affair, the man's grief-stricken wife and a suspicious insurance investigator collide in the face of deceptions that threaten all of their lives.
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Poisonous
by Allison Brennan
Reluctantly taking the cold case of a teen Internet bully's murder, mourned by none save her mentally challenged stepbrother, investigative reporter Max Revere, accompanied by assistant David Kane, travels to California and works with helpful police officers before realizing that the killer may be hiding in plain sight.
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Quiet Neighbors
by Catriona McPherson
A desperate woman flees London for refuge in a quiet Scottish village in this outstanding standalone from Edgar-finalist McPherson.
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Sharp Ends
by Joe Abercrombie
A collection of short stories set in the world of the author's best-selling First Law series includes the tales of a Union army colonel who becomes a lone defender against Gurkish forces and a self-styled thief who forges a dubious partnership with a formidable rival.
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The Taxidermist's Daughter
by Kate Mosse
Joining her fellow English villagers in a misty churchyard on St. Mark's Eve, a taxidermist's daughter reflects on the mysterious downfall of her father's once-famous museum before discovering the body of a stranger whose death unlocks dark memories.
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That Darkness
by Lisa Black
A Cleveland Police Department forensic investigator and a vigilante willing to kill to make the world a safer place investigate the murder of an unidentified teen whose demise is linked to a monster who watches their every move.
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War Hawk
by James Rollins
Two best-selling authors present a follow-up to The Kill Switch, starring Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his Belgian Malinois canine companion.
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The White House: A Flynn Carroll Thriller
by Whitley Strieber
The only hope for the survival of the human race, Flynn Carroll, must stop aliens who have found a way to eliminate humanity by controlling the mind of the president of the United States.
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Best of My Love
by Susan Mallery
A heartbroken baker and a charming but womanizing tour guide embark on an experiment to prove their respective gender's quality and trustworthiness while regaining self-respect, only to become the subject of gossip in their small hometown.
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A Buccaneer at Heart
by Stephanie Laurens
Wanting to settle down after a decade of captaining diplomatic and covert missions for the crown, Robert takes a final assignment in West Africa gathering information against a slaver camp, where he falls for a woman who would find and rescue her missing brother.
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Once a Soldier
by Mary Jo Putney
After shirking his title and great wealth, Will Masterson is hoping to wrap up his military years, spent fighting the French, until he meets fiercely loyal Athena Markham in the tiny mountain stronghold of San Gabriel.
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Temptations of a Wallflower
by Eva Leigh
| Shy and quiet on the outside, Lady Sarah Frampton, author of erotic fiction, discovers that her new husband has been tasked with unmasking London's most scandalous author by his powerful family. |
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'Til Death Do Us Part
by Amanda Quick
Operating an exclusive matchmaking service for nobles in Victorian London, Calista is stalked by a dangerously obsessed individual and turns for help to a reclusive author who is fighting mysterious demons from his past.
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What We Find
by Robyn Carr
Abandoned by her boyfriend in the aftermath of wrongful malpractice suit, a Denver neurosurgeon relocates to a small rural town named after her ancestor, where she slowly recovers and reconnects with her estranged father while bonding with a mysterious loner.
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Dominion
by John Connolly
The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure mixes classic sci-fi with rich, character-driven plot, as Paul and Syl fight to save Earth from an enemy who is closer than ever.
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The Everything Box
by Richard Kadrey
An angel, poised at destroying the last remnants of humanity in 2200 BC, discovers that he’s lost the device to end it all, until it turns up in the hands of a thief of magical objects in 2015.
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Silence
by Mercedes Lackey
Ousted from her father's home by a new stepmother, teen Staci endures a life of virtually nonexistent technology in her alcoholic mother's home, where she befriends a diner waitress and a menagerie of controversy-embroiled gamers at the local bookstore.
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Visitor
by C. J. Cherryh
Working with the aiji-dowager a year after returning from an interstellar mission to discover that their government had been overthrown, Bren Cameron finds his efforts to reinstate peace throughout the atevi world challenged by an unexpected new threat.
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