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New Fiction - October 2018
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Alaskan Holiday
by Debbie Macomber
Taking a job in a remote Alaskan town, a talented young chef bonds with a crotchety baker and a master swordsmith who complicate her career ambitions on the mainland.
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis
by Patti Callahan
The love story of C. S. Lewis and his wife, Helen Joy Davidman Gresham, was improbable---and seemingly impossible. Their story led to some of Lewis’s greatest works, yet Joy is most commonly known for how she died. See how this brilliant and passionate woman lived---and why she stole Jack’s heart.
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
by Kate Morton
More than 150 years after an artist's retreat on the banks of the Upper Thames ends in murder, theft and ruin, a London archivist is drawn by a striking photograph and a sketchbook to discover a manor's secrets.
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The Dream Daughter
by Diane Chamberlain
Learning that her unborn child has a heart defect, a 1970s family woman is urged by her physicist brother-in-law to pursue a solution that pushes the boundaries of science and faith.
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Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners
by Gretchen Anthony
Formidable matriarch Violet Baumgartner learns the hard way that no family is perfect when her daughter reveals a shocking secret in front of Violet's husband's whole retirement party.
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Every Breath
by Nicholas Sparks
A chance encounter becomes a transcendent turning point for two very different people, including the conflicted surgeon daughter of an ALS patient and a Sunset Beach newcomer from Zimbabwe who aims to meet his birth father.
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Family Trust
by Kathy Wang
Struggling to fulfill a terminally ill father's final bequest, a privileged Chinese-American family in Silicon Valley is forced to contend with the realities of their ambitions and actual desires.
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The Golden Child
by James Wendy
In this intense and chilling book, Beth Mahony is a stay-at-home mother of two daughters, Lucy and Charlotte. She’s also a blogger, whose alter ego, Lizzie, paints a picture of a busy, happy life. Then Charlotte's behavior prompts serious accusations, including severe bullying, and Beth reaches some heart-breaking conclusions.
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Gone So Long
by Andre Dubus III
A man living a solitary existence in seaside New England travels to a quaint Florida community in search of his traumatized, estranged daughter.
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House of Gold
by Natasha Solomons
The outbreak of World War I forces a headstrong Austrian heiress to choose between the family she built and the family she left behind.
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An Irish Country Cottage
by Patrick Taylor
When the Donnallys lose everything to a home fire, doctors O'Reilly and Laverty rally the citizens of Ballybucklebo to help the family rebuild while navigating a young couple's high-risk efforts to build a family.
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The Lake on Fire
by Rosellen Brown
This epic narrative begins among immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Chaya and her strange, brilliant, little brother Asher depart for Chicago only to discover that the Gilded Age is as empty a façade as the beautiful Columbian Exposition. An examination of family, love, and revolution that resonates eerily with today’s current events.
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Legacy of Mercy
by Lynn N. Austin
In 1890s Chicago, socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marriage. When she learns new information about her past, she hires Pinkerton detectives. But when unflattering stories threaten her reputation and engagement, she discovers that God's purpose for her life isn't as simple as she had hoped.
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Little
by Edward Carey
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
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The Little Shop of Found Things
by Paula Brackston
A woman who takes over an antique shop with her mother finds herself transported back to the 17th century while examining a beautiful silver chatelaine.
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Love is Blind
by William Boyd
Accompanying a famed pianist on a tour from Paris to Saint Petersburg, a brilliant but haunted piano tuner risks everything to pursue a Russian soprano with ties to his employer.
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Marilla of Green Gables
by Sarah McCoy
A bold and heartfelt reimagining of the life of farm girl Marilla Cuthbert (from L. M. Montgomery's classic series) and describes how premature responsibilities end her dreams and inspire her secret work as an abolitionist.
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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
A sequel to the best-selling The Five People You Meet in Heaven continues the story of grizzled war veteran-turned-amusement park mechanic Eddie, who has a spiritual reunion with the girl he died rescuing.
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November Road
by Lou Berney
A street lieutenant for a New Orleans mob boss flees when his knowledge about JFK's assassination makes him a target, a situation that is dangerously complicated by his relationship with a fugitive housewife.
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The Rain Watcher
by Tatiana de Rosnay
A patriarch's birthday gathering in Paris is violently disrupted by a natural disaster, revealing to a charismatic young photographer hidden fears and secrets that test the limits of family bonds.
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The Royal Runaway
by Lindsay Emory
| Jilted at the altar on her wedding day, Princess Theodora, tired of her royal duties, reluctantly teams up with her former fiancé’s brother, a British spy who is not above blackmail, to find out what happened the day her fiancé disappeared. |
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A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult
When a deranged gunman forces his way into the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, and takes hostages, the police hostage negotiator discovers his daughter is inside the clinic.
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The Stranger Game
by Peter Gadol
After her boyfriend goes missing while playing a viral game in which players follow others in real life as they do online, Rebecca tries the game herself and discovers a disturbing and sinister subculture.
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Trinity
by Louisa Hall
Detailed recollections from seven fictional characters from different times, including a secret service agent, a colleague's young lover, and a woman fleeing McCarthyism combine to paint a vivid portrait of Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb.
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Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver
The award-winning author traces the experiences of a woman whose efforts to protect her family from sudden unemployment are shaped by the story of an ostracized 19th-century science teacher.
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War of the Wolf
by Bernard Cornwell
Traces the warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg's struggles with duty, devotion and treachery as he returns to the frontlines to battle for the destiny of England.
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A Well-Behaved Woman
by Therese Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a formerly impoverished Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking.
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When the Men Were Gone
by Marjorie Herrera Lewis
In 1944, while most of the Brownwood, Texas men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting, assistant principal Tylene Wilson fights to become a football coach and, knowing the game more than most, leads the team—and the town—on a season they will never forget.
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Winter in Paradise
by Elin Hilderbrand
A suburban wife confronts the loss of everything at the same time her husband is found dead on the beaches of St. John, where he harbored a secret second family.
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99 Ways to Die
by Ed Lin
The kidnapping of a notoriously anti-immigration billionaire triggers a media frenzy and a dangerous search for a high-tech memory chip that the kidnappers are demanding as ransom. The third funny, food-forward mystery by Ed Lin set in and around Taipei's bustling night market
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Ambush
by James Patterson
When a series of attacks targeting Michael Bennett injures one of his children and causes several deaths, the New York police officer leads an investigation throughout the five boroughs that exposes corruption and a dangerous vendetta.
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The Angel in the Glass
by Alys Clare
1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the moor, it's the verdict of physician Gabriel Taverner that the man died of natural causes. But who was he, and why had he come to this small village to die cold, sick and alone? Attempting to find the answers, Taverner unearths a series of shocking secrets stretching back fourteen years.
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The Antiquities Hunter
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
To flush out the person stalking her best friend Rose, an undercover agent about to testify in an upcoming case, PI Gina “Tinkerbell” Miyoko takes her place and is plunged into a world of murder and illegal antiquities trafficking and must fight to make it out alive.
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The Chinese Orange Mystery
by Ellery Queen
Reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, The Chinese Orange Mystery is revered to this day for its challenging conceit and inventive solution. The book is a “fair-play” mystery in which readers have all the clues needed to solve the crime.
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The Craftsman
by S. J. Bolton
When eerily familiar child abductions and murders start recurring in a small Lancashire village, a local cop struggles to figure out if she sent the wrong person to jail decades earlier or if a copycat killer is responsible.
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Dark Sacred Night
by Michael Connelly
Teaming up with Harry Bosch to reopen a cold case, LAPD detective Renée Ballard navigates interpersonal differences to pursue justice for a murdered runaway in Hollywood.
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Dark Winter
by A. J. Tata
After series of military-targeted cyber-attacks throw the world into chaos, Jake Mahegan must divide his team of highly trained operatives in order to infiltrate the three main nerve centers of the hackers in Russia, Iran and North Korea.
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The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle
by Susan Wittig Albert
The Christmas season in 1934 Darling, Alabama, finds the Dahlias lending their talents to a new bakery, the biggest puzzle of Charlie's career, an exploited young performer and Sheriff Norris' investigation at a nearby prison farm.
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The Dead Ringer
by M. C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin investigates the murder of an identical twin and co-manager of Thirk Magna's bell-ringer team, a demise that questions the innocence of bullied co-workers and a fed-up lawyer.
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Death from a Top Hat
by Clayton Rawson
Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York’s Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD, who call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician’s mind.
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Deck the Hounds
by David Rosenfelt
Helping a hospitalized homeless man whose dog has been quarantined for protecting him during an assault, lawyer Andy Carpenter discovers that his new friend is a wrongful suspect in a two-year-old murder case.
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Desperate Measures
by Stuart Woods
New York City cop-turned-Manhattan law firm rainmaker Stone Barrington tackles a challenge with the potential of costing him everything.
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Elevation
by Stephen King
A timely tale about the power of finding common ground traces the story of Scott Carey, whose mysterious affliction unites the small community of Castle Rock, Maine.
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The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
When America's intelligence agencies are breached by a teen hacker, a British MI6 leader endeavors to use the boy's talents to safeguard both nations from unseen enemies.
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Go to My Grave
by Catriona McPherson
When cousins reunite at a bed and breakfast, they realize it was the site of an ill-fated birthday party decades before that they vowed never to talk about, but soon strange things begin to occur which seem to be tied to what happened that night.
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The Hollow of Fear
by Sherry Thomas
Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, puts her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use, aided by the capable Mrs. Watson. When the estranged wife of Lord Ingram is found murdered, Charlotte Holmes disguises herself to prove her friend's innocence only to uncover malevolent truths.
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Holy Ghost
by John Sandford
A mayor's half-baked scheme to revive a floundering Minnesota community by turning it into a religious shrine is thrown into chaos by the discovery of a body.
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The Line
by Martin Limón
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, 1970s: A battered corpse is found a few feet north of the line dividing North and South Korea. When 8th Army CID Agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are ordered by superiors to pull the body to South Korean side, they have no idea of the international conflict the action will spark.
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A Murder by Any Name
by Suzanne M. Wolfe
The court of Elizabeth I is no stranger to plotting and intrigue, but the royal retinue is thrown into chaos when the Queen’s youngest and sweetest lady-in-waiting is murdered. With the sanctity of the court threatened, it’s up to an hot-tempered spy to save the day.
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Mycroft and Sherlock
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a best friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
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Nantucket Counterfeit
by Steven Axelrod
When the much-despised Artistic Director of the Nantucket Theater Lab, who was scamming and blackmailing cast and crew, is murdered, Police Chief Henry Kennis must tread carefully in a pool of suspects to catch a killer in the act.
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The Reckoning
by John Grisham
The best-selling author of The Firm returns to Clanton, Mississippi, to trace the unthinkable mid-20th-century murder of a local reverend by a young war hero who refuses to defend his actions during a bizarre trial
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Rise of the Mystics
by Ted Dekker
Humanity is days from falling into darkness forever and only one girl can bring it back from the brink, but first she must find the Five Seals of Truth, a quest she was born to undertake.
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Shell Game
by Sara Paretsky
Returning to Chicago to prevent an erroneous murder charge, V. I. Warshawski traces a stolen artifact with links to an network of international mobsters, terrorist financiers, scammers and art thieves.
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Under My Skin
by Lisa Unger
Emerging from grief a year after her beloved husband's unsolved murder, a haunted widow has nightmares and blackouts before realizing she is trapped in a surreal game of cat and mouse.
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Vendetta
by Iris Johansen
Charged with protecting the life of his murdered boss' daughter, Jude Brandon teams up with longtime ally Catherine Ling to stop a terrorist who is plotting a nuclear attack.
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The Witch Elm
by Tana French
Left for dead by burglars while partying with friends, a happy-go-lucky charmer takes refuge at his dilapidated ancestral home before a grisly discovery reveals an unsuspected family history.
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Barbarous
by Minerva Spencer
| When the man whom she thought was dead returns, Lady Daphne Davenport, who secretly cheated him of his title, lands and fortune, must find a way to makes things right despite an unknown enemy standing in her way. |
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Beautiful Sinner
by Sophie Jordan
Stuck in a supply closet with Cruz Walsh, who, just released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, could be a career-changing interview, reporter Gabriella gets more than she bargains for when he takes “up close and personal” to a whole new level.
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Duchess by Design
by Maya Rodale
Seeking a wealthy American bride who can save his family’s estate, the Duke of Kingston instead falls for a beautiful seamstress who, longing to be a fashionable dressmaker, wants nothing to do with him until he makes her an offer she cannot refuse
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Not Quite over You
by Susan Mallery
A romantic reconciliation is shaped by comedic events and complicated bonds in the small wedding-tourism community of Happily Inc, California.
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An Easy Death
by Charlaine Harris
Guiding two wizards through the magic-wary country of Texoma, a gunslinger navigating the Great Depression in the wake of FDR's assassination searches for a low-level magician who may be able to save the tsar.
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Blood Communion
by Anne Rice
Navigating his new leadership of the vampire world, Lestat uncovers the story of a mysterious outcast demon who he traces to 18th-century Petersburg and the court of Empress Catherine.
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Burning Sky
by Weston Ochse
| Everything is dangerous in Afghanistan, nothing more so than the mission of an Operational Support Team or O.S.T., men and women who spend seasons in hell to not only try and fix what’s broken in each of them, but also to make enough bank to change their fortunes. An intense brand-new military horror series. |
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Dracul
by Dacre Stoker
A prequel to Dracula, based on original author notes and co-written by a family descendant, reveals the iconic vampire's origin story, the early years of Bram Stoker and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connected them.
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods
by Laird Hunt
A Puritan woman goes missing deep in the woods of colonial New England, and soon must face the supernatural horrors that her people had only imagined up until then.
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In the Night Wood
by Dale Bailey
In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject.
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Melmoth
by Sarah Perry
Helen, an English translator working in Prague, disregards an obscure local monster legend before a friend's disappearance reveals that Helen is being watched.
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Street Freaks
by Terry Brooks
It begins with a dire call to Ashton Collins, right before his father disappears and his skyscraper home's doors explode inward.
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Uncompromising Honor
by David Weber
After the League, committing atrocities such as the galaxy has not known in 1,000 years, kills many of the people she loves, Honor Harrington, a.k.a. the Salamander, is about to show the League members something they could have never imagined.
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