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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
by Abbi Waxman
A confirmed introvert finds her simple life upended when the father she never knew passes away, revealing an enormous extended family that overwhelms her budding relationship with a fellow trivia buff.
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Chances Are...
by Richard Russo
One beautiful September day, three 66-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college, and must puzzle out a lingering mystery from the summer of 1971.
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The Chelsea Girls
by Fiona Davis
A 20-year friendship between a playwright and an actress with Broadway ambitions is tested by the impact of McCarthy-era witch hunts among the creative residents of New York City's Chelsea Hotel.
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Costalegre
by Courtney Maum
A historical novel inspired by the relationship between Peggy and Pegeen Guggenheim finds an American heiress offering safe passage to Nazi-threatened artists, while her emotionally unstable daughter chronicles their wartime experiences.
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Family of Origin
by C. J. Hauser
When a controversial scientist drowns while investigating his theories about evolution moving in reverse, his estranged adult children reunite to settle their late father's affairs while trying to understand the research he abandoned them to pursue.
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A Girl Returned
by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A 13-year-old girl is sent away from the only family she's ever known to begin a new life of struggle, tension and conflict in Abruzzo in central Italy in the English-language debut of the award-winning Italian novelist.
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In the Full Light of the Sun
by Clare Clark
The award-winning author traces the fortunes of three disparate Berliners who against a backdrop of rising Nazi power are caught up in an art scandal involving newly discovered van Goghs.
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The Gifted School
by Bruce W. Holsinger
The students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives.
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The Golden Hour
by Beatriz Williams
Traveling to World War II Nassau to interview the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an investigator for a New York society magazine uncovers a treasonous plot that is complicated by her romance with an unscrupulous scientist.
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Good Girl, Bad Girl
by Michael Robotham
A dangerous young woman with a unique ability to detect lies sues for her emancipation from a secure children's home, while the psychologist on her case finds herself in a battle of wits for survival.
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Gravity Is the Thing
by Jaclyn Moriarty
An adult debut follows a single mother's heartfelt search for more meaningful truths about the universe, her family and herself.
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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls
by Julie Kibler
Inspired by historical events, follows the deep friendship between two women at an early 20th-century rehabilitation home for cast-out single mothers, and the reclusive librarian who discovers their story a century later.
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King of the Mississippi
by Mike Freedman
A cutthroat power war at a prestigious Houston consulting firm is spearheaded by an old-money jock who uses downsizing to control his clients and a dishonorable veteran who would exploit the respect of others.
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
by J. Ryan Stradal
A talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub.
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The Last Book Party
by Karen Dukess
Attending an early summer gathering at a famed journalist's Cape Cod home, an aspiring writer stuck in a low-level job discovers uncomfortable truths about the literary world she has been so desperate to join.
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
by Andrea Bobotis
Interweaving the present with chilling flashbacks from one fateful evening in 1929, a spinster sister must unravel the complicated secrets of her family to reveal their true legacy on their small South Carolina cotton town.
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Marilou Is Everywhere
by Sarah Smith
Enduring impossible hardships stemming from her mother's frequent disappearances, 14-year-old Cindy runs away and assumes the identity of a glamorous missing teen from an affluent community, where she struggles with her first encounters with maternal love.
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The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets
by Molly Fader
Forced to set aside a long estrangement when their mother's health begins to decline, two sisters and a rebellious teen struggle to reconnect before a shocking revelation forces them to confront their difficult past.
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The Me I Used to Be
by Jennifer Ryan
Inheriting her late father's ranch after serving time in prison, Evangeline navigates family hostilities and attempts to clear her name with the help of her arresting officer, who now believes in her innocence.
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The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
by Alexander McCall Smith
A follow-up to the best-selling My Italian Bulldozer finds Paul Stuart navigating romantic complications while writing his latest cookbook before finding his fortunes tangled up with those of an infamous restaurant in the French countryside.
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Stay and Fight
by Madeline ffitch
Abandoned on her boyfriend's Appalachian living-off-the-land farm initiative, Helen builds a cooperative family with a young couple before educational needs and a boundary dispute challenge their independence.
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Supper Club
by Lara Williams
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?"
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Surfside Sisters
by Nancy Thayer
Returning to her Nantucket childhood home in the wake of personal and professional setbacks, a novelist is forced to settle old scores with her former best friend and unfaithful ex.
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Turbulence
by David Szalay
From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author comes a novel about 12 people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.
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Under Currents
by Nora Roberts
Discovering unexpected allies when his successful father's rages spiral out of control, Zane draws strength and insights from the darkness of the past to create a healthier family in adulthood.
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
by H. G. Parry
A young scholar with a secret uncontrollable magical ability to bring literary characters into the world is overseen by a protective older sibling before an unknown stranger unleashes literary characters throughout their city.
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Very Nice
by Marcy Dermansky
A darkly humorous tale of privilege, race and bad behavior find a wealthy Connecticut divorcée and her college-age daughter becoming unlikely rivals in a romantic triangle involving the latter's creative writing professor.
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Window on the Bay
by Debbie Macomber
When single mom Jenna Boltz becomes an “empty nester,” she spreads her wings to rediscover herself — and her passions.
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You've Been Volunteered
by Laurie Gelman
A follow-up to Class Mom finds Jen Dixon agreeing to school-parent her son's third-grade class only to find herself overwhelmed by her husband's late hours, her daughters' early adulthood and the needs of her aging parents.
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Bad Axe County
by John Galligan
The first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents 20 years ago—all as a winter storm rages.
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Bark of Night
by David Rosenfelt
Rescuing a dog who was abandoned at a veterinarian's office by a stranger, defense lawyer Andy Carpenter searches for answers upon learning that the dog's real owner has been found murdered.
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Beijing Payback
by Daniel Nieh
Shocked to discover that his murdered restaurateur father was actually a member of a vast crime syndicate with ties to communist China, Victor Li is confronted by decades-old grudges, escalating rivalries and an ambitious new plot.
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Betrayal in Time
by Julie McElwain
Modern-world FBI agent Kendra returns to the gritty streets and glittering ballrooms of 1816 London to assist Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly in a grisly murder case involving one of England's most clever spymasters.
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The Bird Boys
by Lisa Sandlin
A sequel to The Do-Right finds Delpha questioned for her attack on the man who nearly killed her; while her boss, neophyte private detective Tom, tries to determine which of two brothers is a murderer.
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The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
A parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own.
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Death in a Desert Land
by Andrew Wilson
It's 1928 and amateur sleuth Agatha Christie is packed off to Mesopotamia, where she narrowly misses meeting her future husband, Max Mallowan, and solves an exceptionally intricate mystery.
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Game of Snipers
by Stephen Hunter
Obsessively tracking a sniper with skills that match his own, Bob Lee Swagger teams up with the Mossad, the FBI and local law enforcement to identify the killer's next target.
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The Gomorrah Gambit
by Tom Chatfield
When the Dark Web executes an ultimate power grab that destroys all privacy, an elite hacker and his secretive Muslim girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that is complicated by a family member's recruitment into a digital terrorist organization.
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Girls Like Us
by Cristina Alger
Investigating a string of grisly murders on Long Island, an FBI agent is horrified to discover that the primary suspect is her own late father, a former homicide detective.
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The Heart Keeper
by Alex Dahl
Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart. Succumbing to despair during a bleak Norwegian winter in the aftermath of her daughter's drowning death, Alison forges a controversial and increasingly obsessive bond with the struggling family of her daughter's heart recipient.
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Labyrinth
by Catherine Coulter
While Sherlock searches for the missing CIA analyst involved in her recent car crash, Griffin is targeted by a sheriff whose son has been implicated the murders of three girls.
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Lady in the Lake
by Laura Lippman
A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl.
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The Leaden Heart
by Chris Nickson
DS Tom Harper helps his colleague Billy Reid after his brother, Charlie, commits suicide. Could crippling rent increases have been the cause? As Harper investigates, a web of intimidation and corruption is linked to a mysterious company in Leeds, which could be bringing misery and violence to the people of the city. But who is behind the company?
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Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
Taking an apartment-sitting job in a Manhattan apartment building housing the rich and famous, a young woman is drawn to a fellow apartment sitter who reveals that the building hides a dark history.
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Marah Chase and the Conqueror's Tomb
by Jay Stringer
Rogue archeologist Marah Chase is approached by MI6 with an impossible mission: to help them recover a dangerous treasure lost after the death of Alexander the Great.
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Never Have I Ever
by Joshilyn Jackson
When her loved ones are put in danger by a blackmailer who threatens to expose dangerous secrets, a devoted family woman struggles to keep the upper hand in an escalating war of betrayal.
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Never Look Back
by Alison Gaylin
More than four decades after a 1976 killing spree by two teens, a young podcaster blames his troubled upbringing on the murders before receiving a terrifying message that one of the killers may still be alive.
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The New Girl
by Daniel Silva
The kidnapping of a mysterious girl from her Swiss boarding school ignites a secret war between Israeli intelligence chief Gabriel Allon and an old enemy who would transform the future of the Middle East.
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One Good Deed
by David Baldacci
The best-selling author of The Fallen and The Fix presents a latest thriller introducing straight-talking World War II veteran and recent prison inmate, Aloysius Archer.
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Paper Son
by S. J. Rozan
Informed that an unknown cousin is in jail, Chinese-American private detective Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, travel to the Mississippi Delta, where they confront river-levee disputes, computer scams and questions about her cousin's innocence.
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Red Metal
by Mark Greaney
A high-ranking American Marine joins a team of international military elites to prevent a Russian strike against Europe that threatens to change the balance of power in the West.
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The Russian
by Ben Coes
When criminals from the former Soviet Union establish a vicious underworld in the U.S., former Navy SEAL and CIA agent Rob Tacoma conducts a top-secret mission to neutralize the mob boss behind the murder of a CIA Special Ops leader.
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Second Sight
by Aoife Clifford
When Eliza Carmody returns to her small hometown after a destructive wildfire, and the biggest legal case of her career, she witnesses a crime that draws her back into the mysteries of a childhood she thought she’d left behind for good.
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Shamed
by Linda Castillo
Investigating a brutal murder and kidnapping in a once-peaceful Amish community, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder uncovers an Old Order settlement that hides a tragic secret.
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The Shameless
by Ace Atkins
Approached by two New York reporters to reopen a 20-year-old suicide case, Sheriff Quinn Colson finds the investigation complicated by a local crime syndicate's involvement in a gubernatorial election.
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Smokescreen
by Iris Johansen
Racing to Africa when a village is attacked by guerilla forces, Eve Duncan begins to suspect a deeper plot before finding herself stranded in the jungle of an unstable country.
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The Substitution Order
by Martin Clark
A disbarred attorney takes a job in a run-down sandwich shop before an offer by a gang of con artists challenges the extent of his legal savvy.
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Tell Me Everything
by Cambria Brockman
A college senior on the cusp of graduation uses her extraordinary insights to uncover her friends' closest-held secrets before a devastating chain of events culminates in a murder that tests the limits of her capabilities.
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Theme Music
by T. Marie Vandelly
An only survivor of her family's violent massacre, Dixie impulsively moves into her early childhood home, where she begins to question her sanity and the haunted shadows of the past that threaten her future.
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True Believer
by Jack Carr
A string of horrific terrorist attacks throughout the Western world prompts James Reece's recruitment by the CIA to help turn the perpetrator, a former Iraqi commando, against his masters while unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy.
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Under the Cold Bright Lights
by Garry Disher
A cold case investigator looks into a possible murder that the coroner pegged as a suicide, and a doctor who killed three women and left no evidence in this gripping standalone by Australian crime legend Garry Disher.
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Whisper Network
by Chandler Baker
Follows four women who speak out when their ill-reputed boss is slated to become CEO, a decision that triggers catastrophic shifts throughout every department of their company. Lies will be uncovered. Secrets will be exposed. And not everyone will survive.
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Brazen and the Beast
by Sarah MacLean
The second book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series is about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape — and the women who bring them to their knees.
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Once a Spy
by Mary Jo Putney
Hoping to find new meaning in his life, British intelligence officer Simon Duval resigns his commission and returns to England, where he finds his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron.
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One Fine Duke
by Lenora Bell
When Miss Mina Penny arrives in London determined to marry his degenerate brother, Andrew, the reclusive Duke of Thorndale, vows to save her from scandal and ruin and loses his heart in the process.
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Too Sweet to Be Good
by K. M. Jackson
Aspiring actress Alexandrea Gale, while helping to renovate a once thriving local vintage theater, must convince Kellen Kilborn, the president of his family’s real estate business, to take a risk on both her project—and her. "A true comfort read."
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The Last Astronaut
by David Wellington
Wellington’s terrifying exploration of near-future alien contact layers a shocking “what if” on the bones of current science and space exploration. A tense and thrilling sci-fi adventure.
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The Rage of Dragons
by Evan Winter
Born without talents in a world dominated by rare dragon-summoning women and magical soldier men, young Tau survives murderous attacks on his loved ones before resolving to become society's greatest swordsman.
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Sophia, Princess Among Beasts
by James Patterson
Finding herself the leader of a nightmarish realm populated by the awful beasts of her childhood stories, Princess Sophia unlocks a profound ancient secret to defend her people from violent conquerors.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and soon fall in love.
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Wanderers
by Chuck Wendig
When her little sister is afflicted by a bizarre sleepwalking disorder that begins to affect people all across the country, Shana is embroiled in an apocalyptic epidemic involving a decadent rock star, a religious radio host and a disgraced scientist.
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