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New Fiction - February 2019
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The Age of Light
by Whitney Scharer
A debut novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial Surrealist, Man Ray.
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American Duchess
by Karen Harper
The best-selling author of Dark Angel reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
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American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
A Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African Communist president she secretly admires and comes to love, in a story inspired by true events.
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Bangkok Wakes to Rain
by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
A house in flooded Bangkok reflects a confluence of lives shaped by upheaval, from a homesick missionary doctor to a haunted jazz pianist in the age of rock, to a woman who would escape her political past.
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Bowlaway
by Elizabeth McCracken
An unconventional New England family faces scandal, inheritance battles and questions of paternities as viewed through their three generations of owning and operating a candlepin bowling alley in the town of Salford, Massachusetts.
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California Girls
by Susan Mallery
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo.
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Daughter of Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
A highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Moloka'i follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II
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Dear George, Dear Mary
by Mary Calvi
A debut novel based on hundreds of historical accounts, letters and personal journals reimagines the unrequited love affair between a young George Washington and controversial New York heiress Mary Philipse as a catalyst for the American Revolution.
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Death Is Hard Work
by Khaled Khalifa
The award-winning author of In Praise of Hatred draws on first-person experiences in the story of three siblings who set aside their differences and risk their lives during the Syrian civil war to honor their late father's final wishes.
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The Falcon of Sparta
by Conn Iggulden
The best-selling author of the Emperor series places his latest epic in an ancient Persian empire torn by civil war, where a young soldier leads his decimated Spartan army in a confrontation against an absolute monarch's legendary warriors.
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Finding Dorothy
by Elizabeth Letts
Reimagines the story behind the creation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband's masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.
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The Forgiving Jar
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
When Sara Murray first meets her Amish grandparents in Lancaster County, she learns that someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara.
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Forget You Know Me
by Jessica Strawser
Hoping to end an estrangement with her best friend, Liza panics when their video call is interrupted by a masked invader before her friend calls back later, pretending nothing has happened.
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The Forgotten Hours
by Katrin Schumann
Forced to confront her past when her father, who was accused of sexually molesting her best friend almost a decade earlier, is released from prison, 24-year-old Katie Gregory questions everything she believes about family, friends and herself when the truth is finally revealed.
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The Glovemaker
by Ann Weisgarber
During the winter of 1887–1888, a Mormon woman struggles to hold her faith in the face of religious persecution and her fear of the law.
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Good Riddance
by Elinor Lipman
Discarding her late mother's cherished and heavily annotated high school yearbook, Daphne is entangled in a series of absurdities when the yearbook is discovered by a busybody documentary filmmaker.
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The Heavens
by Sandra Newman
A New Yorker named Kate often dreams she is transported to the past—where she lives a second life as Emilia, the mistress of a nobleman in Elizabethan England—but soon, the dream becomes increasingly real and compelling until it threatens to overwhelm her life.
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The Huntress
by Kate Quinn
Stranded behind enemy lines, brave bomber pilot Nina Markova becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and joins forces with a Nazi hunter and British war correspondent to find her before she finds them.
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I Owe You One
by Sophie Kinsella
Struggling to hold her late father's business together in spite of her less-motivated siblings, Fixie Farr cashes in an IOU from a handsome stranger to find employment for her childhood crush.
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The Lily of the West
by Kathleen Morris
A different look at the story of the OK Corral and Mary Katherine Haroney, an orphaned Hungarian immigrant who forged her way across the American frontier and became the belle of the Dodge City music halls. In the American West of the 1800s, women had few choices, but Kate made her own way.
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The Lost Girls of Paris
by Pam Jenoff
After discovering an abandoned, photograph-filled suitcase in Grand Central Station in 1946 a young widow sets out to discover who they are.
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More Than Words
by Jill Santopolo
A woman mourning the death of her hotel owner father and reeling from an astounding secret finds herself caught between the world of her longtime boyfriend and her passionate boss.
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The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy who would protect his late master's soul.
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Otherwise Engaged
by Lindsey J. Palmer
After her fiancé authors a sensational and best-selling novel loosely based on his torrid love affair with his ex-girlfriend, Molly's paranoia that she will come back and try to rekindle their romance sends her into a downward spiral.
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We Must Be Brave
by Frances Liardet
Caring for a lost child during the chaotic 1940 evacuation of her once-quiet Southampton village, a woman who never believed she wanted children finds herself unexpectedly at a loss when the child is taken away.
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When You Read This
by Mary Adkins
After his friend, Iris, dies from a terminal illness at age 33, PR genius Smith Simonyi teams up with Iris’ sister, Jade, to make Iris’ final request—to get her blog posts published as a book—a reality.
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The White Book
by Han Kang
A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister.
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The Black Ascot
by Charles Todd
An unexpected tip lands Inspector Ian Rutledge on the trail of a suspect behind a royal horse-race murder, only to find his own sanity brought into question by shocking events.
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The Book Artist
by Mark Pryor
When a celebrated artist is murdered during a Montmartre exhibition, Hugo Marston risks his life to prevent a wrongful arrest at the same time an assassin returns to settle an old score.
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The Border
by Don Winslow
Promoted by the DEA after a crucial victory, Art Keller is targeted by the power-hungry traffickers behind an American heroin epidemic.
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A Case of Bier
by Mary Daheim
Innkeeper and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn’s plans for a relaxing vacation go awry when she realizes her fellow guests have a different kind of getaway planned.
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The Chef
by James Patterson
Accused of committing murder in the line of duty, detective Caleb Rooney of the New Orleans PD uses the contacts from his moonlighting job as a celebrity food-truck chef to counter a terrorist plot.
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Chocolate Cream Pie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
The filming of a television special at brokenhearted Hannah Swensen's bakery is complicated by her shifty ex, an intrusive gang of bodyguards and an untimely murder that compels her alliance with an old flame.
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Connections in Death
by J. D. Robb
Helping to build a new school and youth shelter, homicide cop Eve Dallas and her husband enlist the aid of a child psychologist whose rehabilitated brother is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
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The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery
by B. Akunin
After rescuing the daughter of a Russian Grand Duke in an attempted kidnapping, Erast Fandorin and his Japanese sidekick, Masa, discover the Grand Duke's four-year-old son has been taken instead.
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Dead Men's Trousers
by Irvine Welsh
The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act ... until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme -- a scheme one of them won't survive. It's an action-packed, hilarious and rollicking trip, as well as a moving elegy to the crew
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A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder
by Victoria Hamilton
In this series launch, when Sir Henry Claybourne is murdered, young spinster Miss Emmeline St. Germaine--who has a secret hobby of rescuing young girls from predatory nobility at knife point--fears that she will be suspected of the murder and resolves to solve it.
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The Girl in the Glass Box
by James Grippando
Miami attorney Jack Swytech lands in the heart of a contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who has fled to America to safeguard family lives.
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Headlong
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
When a literary agent is found dead under strange circumstances, DCI Slider is pressured to declare it as accidental; with many people holding grudges against the agent, Slider is skeptical. As his team delve deeper, scandalous secrets emerge leading to even more questions and an elusive woman. But who is she and is she connected to the death?
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The Hiding Place
by C. J. Tudor
A teacher with a hidden agenda returns to a school he once attended to settle old scores only to uncover a secret with dark, unimaginable consequences.
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House Arrest
by Michael Lawson
A fixer for a congressman is framed for the murder of the House Majority Whip and must rely on his friend, an ex-DIA agent, to find the real killer in the latest addition to the series following House Witness.
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I Invited Her in
by Adele Parks
When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend, Abi, who is looking for a place to stay for a few days, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever.
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The Killer Collective
by Barry Eisler
When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation into an international child pornography ring gets too close to powerful enemies, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that is offered to a retired John Rain.
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Killer Instinct
by James Patterson
The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart out of his ivory tower and onto the streets of New York, where he reunited with his old partner, Detective Elizabeth Needham.
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The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
Meeting at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches on an isolated belt of the Australian outback, two brothers navigate the haunting realities of the isolation that ended their third brother's life.
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The Lost Night
by Andrea Bartz
A chance discovery of a 10-year-old video shares disturbing insights into the suicide of a college classmate who may have been murdered on a hazy drunken night, a revelation that compels one woman to determine her own role.
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The Moroccan Girl
by Charles Cumming
A simple assignment for MI6 during a literary festival lands a successful novelist on the trail of a revolutionary leader who is being targeted by the world's competing intelligence services.
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Murder in an Irish Pub
by Carlene O'Connor
When competing card sharps stir up Siobhán O’Sullivan’s quiet Irish village, a poker tournament turns into a game of Hangman.
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Never Tell
by Lisa Gardner
While D. D. Warren investigates a pregnant woman's suspicious role in the murders of her father and husband, Flora draws on her own haunted past to identify an unsettling link to one of the victims.
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The Next to Die
by Sophie Hannah
A stand-up comedian wonders who she can trust when she anonymously receives the same token clue, a small white book, that has been found at each scene of a serial murder case.
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Open Carry
by Marc Cameron
Skilled tracker U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter must leave his comfort zone in the Florida swamplands to investigate the murder of a Tlingit Indian girl in the wilds of southeast Alaska.
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The Reckoning
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
A follow-up to The Legacy finds detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja investigating the disappearance of a schoolgirl who was last seen in the company of a disabled classmate.
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The Secretary
by Renee Knight
Serving 20 years as the personal assistant to the celebrated Mina Appleton, and amassing many, many secrets, Christine Butcher, discovering that years of loyalty and discretion come with a high price, shows everyone why they should never underestimate a steadfast woman.
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The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides
A therapist becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering the truth about what prompted his client, an artist who refuses to speak, to murder violently her husband in a way that triggers mass public speculation.
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A Spy in Exile
by Jonathan De Shalit
Recruited into an elite classified unit answerable only to the Israeli prime minister, a former Mossad agent becomes targeted by the militant Red Army Faction and a radical Islam splinter group.
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The Vanishing Man
by Charles Finch
A second entry in a prequel trilogy to the best-selling series finds the theft of an antique painting sending a young Charles Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind.
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The Victory Garden
by Rhys Bowen
Marrying an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals. By the award-winning author of The Tuscan Child.
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The Wedding Guest
by Jonathan Kellerman
Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis investigate the morbidly staged murder of an unknown young woman at a run-down former strip joint during a raucous Saints and Sinners-themed wedding reception.
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The Winter Sister
by Megan Collins
Haunted by her sister's unsolved death 16 years earlier, Sylvie returns home to care for her ailing mother and navigates complicated feelings of suspicion and guilt when she encounters her late sister's former boyfriend.
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Brunch at Bittersweet Café
by Carla Laureano
In this romantic inspirational story, pastry chef Melody Johansson and charming private pilot Justin Keller have each given up on romance until, against their better judgment, they find themselves drawn together by their unconventional career choices and shared love of adventure.
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Devil's Daughter
by Lisa Kleypas
Falling for a dashing stranger, the daughter of Lord St. Vincent and Evie Jenner is horrified to discover that he is the bully responsible for her late husband's boarding-school misery.
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Gentleman Sinner
by Jodi Ellen Malpas
A steamy and suspenseful romance about a tortured hero and the one woman who may be able to save him -- as long as he can protect her from his dark past.
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The Good Ones
by Jenn McKinlay
Hired by Maisy Kelly to convert her late aunt’s Victorian house into a romance bookstore, architect and single father Ryder Copeland finds his plans of leaving this small town behind thwarted by his attraction to this shy, curly haired professor.
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Low Country Hero
by Lee Tobin McClain
The first novel in the new The Safe Haven series, where love—and a second chance—is just around the corner…
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, Tracker joins a search party that is quickly targeted deadly creatures, in the first novel of a new trilogy.
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The City in the Middle of the Night
by Charlie Anders
A reluctant revolutionary survives exile by forging an unusual, world-changing bond with a family of ice creatures that live outside the human confines of their dying planet.
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Early Riser
by Jasper Fforde
When an outbreak of viral dreams start killing the sleeping masses, Charlie Worthing and the rest of the Winter Consuls must find out who or what is killing the people they have sworn to protect.
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The Raven Tower
by Ann Leckie
The Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ancillary series presents a debut work of fantasy involving gods that speak to mortals, usurped thrones and world-changing stakes.
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The Ruin of Kings
by Jenn Lyons
Raised on storybook tales of royal adventure, Kihrin discovers his identity as the illegitimate son of a treasonous prince and is rendered a pawn in the royal family's power schemes before embracing his anti-hero destiny.
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Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds
by Gwenda Bond
A prequel to the hit Netflix series explores several of the show's mysteries and includes details about Eleven's mother and her time as a test subject in the MKUltra program.
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