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New Fiction - February 2018
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control.
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As Bright As Heaven
by Susan Meissner
A tale set in 1918 Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic traces the experiences of a family reeling from the losses of loved ones and changes in their adopted city, a situation that is further shaped by their decision to take in an orphaned infant.
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The Atomic City Girls
by Janet Beard
A novel inspired by the stories of everyday women who contributed to the Manhattan Project during World War II follows the experiences of 18-year-old June, who, in 1944, travels to a city that does not officially exist to work alongside hundreds of other young women operating massive secret machines in support of the war effort.
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Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition
by David Mamet
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross presents a novel set against a backdrop of the 1920s Chicago mob scene and follows the experiences of a World War I veteran who seeks vigilante justice against the man responsible for killing the woman he loved.
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Daphne
by Will Boast
Born with a rare condition that causes her to suffer degrees of paralysis when experiencing intense emotion, Daphne endures a virtually solitary existence before meeting a shy, charming man who compels her to choose between safe isolation and true intimacy.
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Don't Skip Out on Me
by Willy Vlautin
Determined to prove his worth as a son abandoned by his biological parents, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand leaves his aging caregivers to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico and Las Vegas lead to his realization that he cannot change his identity or outrun his destiny.
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Dreaming in Chocolate
by Susan Bishop Crispell
With an endless supply of magical gifts and recipes from the hot chocolate café Penelope Dalton runs alongside her mother, she is able to give her daughter almost everything she wants. The one sticking point is Ella’s latest request: get a dad. And not just any dad. Ella has her sights set on Noah Gregory, her biological father who’s back in town for a few months – and as charming as ever.
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
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Hotel Silence
by Auður A. Ólafsdóttir
After a lonely divorced man with a compulsion to fix things books a room in the rundown Hotel Silence in a war-torn town, he finds new meaning to his life when he becomes close to the hotel owner and her young son and helps the locals mend their homes.
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Hour Glass
by Michelle Rene
In the lawless town of Deadwood, South Dakota, infamous frontier woman Calamity Jane stumbles into the role of surrogate mother for two youngsters orphaned by smallpox. An authentic and touching story of family and community told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Jimmy Glass.
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How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
A man with a secret rare condition that has enabled him to survive for centuries moves to London to become a high-school history teacher and considers defying his protective guardians' rule against falling in love when he becomes entranced by a captivating colleague.
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A Long Way from Home
by Peter Carey
The award-winning author gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race: a speed-loving woman, her car salesman husband and a thrill-seeking quiz-show champion.
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My Name Is Venus Black
by Heather Lloyd
A stirring debut novel about a young woman searching for her kidnapped brother after she commits a terrible crime in this redemptive novel that forces us to question our definitions of right and wrong, the difficulties in starting over, and whether or not it's possible to forgive the family we're born with--and live with the family we choose to be our own.
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Next Year in Havana
by Chanel Cleeton
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution.
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Only Killers and Thieves
by Paul Howarth
Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia.
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A Refuge Assured
by Jocelyn Green
Vivienne Rivard fled revolutionary France and seeks a new life for herself and a boy in her care, who some say is the Dauphin. But America is far from safe, as militiaman Liam Delaney knows. He proudly served in the American Revolution but is less sure of his role in the Whiskey Rebellion. Drawn together, will Liam and Vivienne find the peace they long for?
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Robert B. Parker's Buckskin
by Robert Knott
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times bestselling historical series.
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The Saturday Night Supper Club
by Carla Laureano
Chef Rachel Bishop runs a successful fine-dining restaurant in Denver until a scandalous smear campaign causes her to be pushed out of the business by her partners. Alex Kanin, the inadvertent initiator of the debacle, had no idea that his article would create such a disastrous outcome and vows to do whatever it takes to repair the damage done to Rachel’s career.
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The Sea Before Us
by Sarah Sundin
| As D-Day approaches, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton is teamed up with Dorothy Fairfax, a British officer. Once they piece together family and reconnaissance photos to map Normandy, will Wyatt's bombardment plans destroy what Dorothy loves most? |
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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
by Sue Halpern
A head librarian who would leave behind the painful realities of her suburbia past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
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Surprise Me
by Sophie Kinsella
When the fragile contentment in their marriage is shattered by someone's casual remark about how many more years they will be together, Sylvie and Dan agree to arrange surprises for each other to revitalize their relationship, only to encounter a comical series of mishaps.
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Things to Do When It's Raining
by Marissa Stapley
Summoned back to their hometown when the elderly people who raised them begin to decline, Mae and Gabe navigate the difficult reasons behind why they chose lives apart from one another at the same time their bond is further strained by emerging secrets.
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The Throne of Caesar
by Steven Saylor
A latest entry in the internationally best-selling series is set on the eve of the Ides of March and finds a newly retired Gordianus the Finder directed by newly appointed dictator Julius Caesar to investigate possible conspiracies as the Roman Senate prepares to fight the Parthian Empire.
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White Houses
by Amy Bloom
From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan’s Washington Square, Amy Bloom’s new novel is inspired by the life of Lorena Hickok, and by her love affair and enduring friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Winter Sisters
by Robin Oliveira
From the bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter comes a rich historical novel about the disappearance of two young girls after a cataclysmic blizzard, and what happens when their fate is discovered. A compelling story that blends mystery, historical detail, and courtroom drama.
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Agent in Place
by Mark Greaney
Taking a contract to abduct the mistress of a Syrian dictator to obtain any information she may possess, Court Gentry learns that the woman has given birth to the dictator's only son and that in order to secure her cooperation, he must retrieve the child safely out of Syria.
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Claws for Concern
by Miranda James
Befriending a man who reveals that he is performing genealogical research on the life of one of Charlie's own family members, proud grandfather Charlie Harris is alarmed when a true-crime writer informs him that the man is suspected in a homicide that occurred years earlier.
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A Death in Live Oak
by James Grippando
When the president of a black fraternity is murdered, defense attorney Jack Swyteck navigates a maelstrom of racial uprisings as he investigates the chief suspect, an effort that is further challenged by the case's eerie similarities to a Jim Crow-era lynching.
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Death of an Honest Man
by M. C Beaton
When an insensitive newcomer to the village of Cnothan is found dead, flame-haired sergeant Hamish Macbeth confronts a bewildering array of suspects at the same time his clumsy police sidekick, Charlie, resigns in protest of his treatment by Chief Inspector Blair.
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The Deceivers
by Alex Berenson
In the wake of a fatal incident in Dallas that may have been staged to look like a terrorist attack, former CIA agent John Wells is dispatched to Colombia to collect information from an old asset, a mission involving an audacious Russian plot that proves to be the most deadly of his career.
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Down the River Unto the Sea
by Walter Mosley
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops.
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Fifty Fifty
by James Patterson
Violating protocol in her efforts to defend her brother against murder charges, Detective Harriet Blue is forced to relocate to a virtual ghost town in the outback, where a diary found on the roadside reveals shocking plans to massacre the community's few remaining residents.
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Free from All Danger: An 18th Century Police Procedural
by Chris Nickson
Leeds, 1736. Lured out of retirement to serve as Constable once again, Richard Nottingham discovers that he's dealing with a new kind of criminal: someone who believes he's beyond the law; someone willing to brutally destroy anyone who opposes him. To stop him, Nottingham must seek help from some very unlikely sources.
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The Gate Keeper
by Charles Todd
An encounter with a frightened woman standing over a body launches an inquiry that leads Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge into a dangerous confrontation with a stealthy killer and his own painful memories.
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The Glass Forest
by Cynthia Swanson
In the autumn of 1960, the idyllic marriage of a young mother is shattered by a family murder-suicide and the enigmatic nature of a teenage niece placed in her care.
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The Greek Wall
by Nicolas Verdan
A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding the wall's construction.
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The Hush
by John Hart
Ten years after the disappearance of his twin sister (The Last Child), an event that transformed his life and hometown, Johnny Merrimon struggles to avoid notoriety by moving into the wilderness, a decision that his longtime friend, Jack, fears is subjecting Johnny to malevolent forces.
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The Kremlin's Candidate
by Jason Matthews
Overhearing a Kremlin plot to install a spy in a high intelligence position so that the Russians can identify CIA assets in Moscow, Dominika launches a desperate mole hunt, only to be exposed and arrested before recklessly immersing herself in Kremlin palace intrigues in the hopes of stealing as much information as possible before her time runs out. The thrilling final installment to the trilogy.
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The Legacy
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Required to both question and protect a traumatized seven-year-old girl who is the only witness to a murder, rookie detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja navigate elusive clues left behind by an unusually slippery killer. First in a stunning new series.
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Look for Me
by Lisa Gardner
Detective D. D. Warren teams up with Flora Dane from Find Her in an investigation involving the sinister disappearance of a 16-year-old girl whose family has been brutally murdered.
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A Loyal Spy
by Simon Conway
After contacting Nor ed-Din for a multi-agency assassination attempt on Bin Laden that goes horribly wrong, Jonah can no longer be sure which side his childhood friend is on.
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Night Moves
by Jonathan Kellerman
When an affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner to discover the murdered body of a complete stranger in their house, psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis navigate unexpected consequences in a case that tests their intellectual and emotional limits.
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The Plea
by Steve Cavanagh
| Pressured by the FBI to secure a murder suspect's testimony against a corrupt law firm, con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn begins to believe the suspect is innocent in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary in a case that tests the limits of his skills on both sides of the law. |
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The Price of Freedom: A Mystery Set in Roman Britain
by Rosemary Rowe
When a tax collector commits suicide, having gambled everything away, Libertus is dispatched to make enquiries. At the same time, he must attend a wedding in place of his patron. But as the assignment begins to take grisly and unexpected turns, Libertus realizes that freedom can come at a high price, sometimes paid in blood.
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Raspberry Danish Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Throwing herself into the holiday season in the aftermath of her husband Ross' disappearance, Hannah Swensen investigates the murder of her husband's television-station assistant, who had been driving Ross' car and working from his office at the time of his death.
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Seven Dead
by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.
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Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
A pair of travelers, one of whom may be playing a dangerous psychological game with the other, embark on a steamy summertime affair that is thrown into chaos by dark secrets and a suspicious death, in a story inspired by the classics of James M. Cain.
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The Tuscan Child
by Rhys Bowen
| Joanna Langley embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to learn about her British-bomber-pilot father's hidden past. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Royal Spyness and the Molly Murphy Mysteries. |
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The Woman in the Water
by Charles Finch
An early case that set the stage for Charles Lenox's distinguished career is set in 1850 London and finds a young Lenox rejected by Scotland Yard before resolving to prove himself by capturing an anonymous killer who claims to have committed the perfect crime.
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Hello Stranger
by Lisa Kleypas
A woman who is historical England's only female physician and a former Scotland Yard detective with mysterious loyalties share a one-night stand before becoming embroiled in a dangerous mission that is complicated by a government plot and their growing feelings for one another.
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Lady Be Reckless
by Megan Frampton
Determined to marry the lord rejected by her sister, Lady Olivia, to win his admiration, transforms his illegitimate best friend, the rakish Edward Wolcott, into a gentleman to find a suitable bride—and soon realizes she wants the position herself.
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The Marquis and I
by Ella Quinn
Targeted by kidnappers after her brother-in-law puts an infamous brothel owner out of business, Lady Charlotte Carpenter is rescued by the Marquis of Kenilworth, which results in a betrothal to save her reputation as well as her life, since her abductors aren’t quite finished with her yet.
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This Love Story Will Self-Destruct
by Leslie Cohen
| A pair of acquaintances who did not initially hit it off romantically, Eve and Ben, keep running into each other over and over again while they navigate their new adulthoods of first jobs, dates, breakups, reunions, betrayals and eventually love. |
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The Armored Saint
by Myke Cole
Opposing the Order at great risk to herself, her family and her village, Heloise tries to expose the true risk that wizards pose to the world in the first book of a new trilogy.
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Child of a Mad God
by R. A. Salvatore
Aoleyn, a witch's young daughter who was born under a fateful Blood Moon, finds herself alone in a tribe of vicious barbarians and dreams of escaping by learning to use the mysterious power known as the Song of Usgar.
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The Rending and the Nest
by Kaethe Schwehn
Surviving in a cobbled-together community called Zion after 95% of the earth’s population has disappeared, Mira is shocked when an outsider arrives and lures her best friend away with tales about the wonders of the world beyond. A chilling yet redemptive post-apocalyptic debut.
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The Tree
by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun
The sequel to The Root, a compelling urban fantasy series set between modern-day San Francisco and an alternate dimension filled with gods and worlds of dark magic.
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