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Afterlife
by Julia Alvarez
Reeling from her beloved husband’s sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen.
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The Big Finish
by Brooke Fossey
A curmudgeonly senior who would avoid a nursing home forges an unexpected bond with his estranged granddaughter, an abused child who is rapidly succumbing to the alcoholism that once painfully overshadowed his own life.
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The Book of Longings
by Sue Monk Kidd
A first-century intellectual fights the limitations imposed on women before an encounter with an 18-year-old Jesus leads to their marriage, his dangerous public ministry and her flight to safety in Alexandria.
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The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives.
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Conjure Women
by Afia Atakora
A midwife and conjurer of curses reflects on her life before and after the Civil War, her relationships with the families she serves and the secrets she has learned about a plantation owner’s daughter.
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The Coyotes of Carthage
by Steven Wright
In a small South Carolina town, a political operative runs a dark-money campaign for his corporate clients.
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Expectation
by Anna Hope
Cate, Hannah and Lissa have been in one another's lives for years. From the bliss of their carefree, post-college years to the job insecurity, domestic doldrums, and infertility of their late thirties, they've counted on one another. But as they confront new realities, the bedrock of their relationship may not be as strong as they once believed.
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Feels Like Falling
by Kristy Woodson Harvey
After losing her job, breaking up with her boyfriend and moving out with nowhere to go, Diana Harrington’s luck changes when she is offered an empty guest house by the woman who inadvertently got her fired.
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Here We Are
by Graham Swift
In a book set in the waning days the Brighton Palace Pier’s popularity, an acclaimed author offers a story of delicate illusions where what one chooses to believe can unearth the most revealing connections.
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C. Pam Zhang
Two orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals.
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A Hundred Suns
by Karin Tanabe
In the 1930s an American journeys to Indochine in the name of family fortune, the glamorous world she finds herself in—and the truth she may be running from.
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The Immortals of Tehran
by Ali Araghi
Learning the story of a centuries-old family curse upon his father’s death, young Ahmad struggles to protect his loved ones through decades of famine, loss and political turmoil before unexpected life changes converge at the height of the Iranian Revolution.
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
by Nam-ju Cho
A U.S. release of a feminist best-seller from Korea follows the experiences of a millennial from Seoul who suddenly manifests the bizarre symptom of being able to flawlessly impersonate and then become any woman, alive or dead.
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The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
by Beth Morrey
Reevaluating her past upon finding herself alone at age 79, Missy forges unexpected ties with two strangers and their spirited dog, discovering the power of friendship, family and self-forgiveness along the way.
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Master Class
by Christina Dalcher
Transferring from an elite post to the state boarding school where her daughter has been placed, a teacher is horrified to discover that the students are secretly being put to work as child laborers and subjected to involuntary lab experiments.
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The Moment of Tenderness
by Madeleine L'Engle
A collection of short stories by the late author of the Newbery Award-winning A Wrinkle in Time draws on L’Engle’s early life, career and faith to convey uplifting messages about the power of hope.
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Northernmost
by Peter Geye
In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. More than a century later, Greta Nansen has finally begun to admit to herself that her marriage is over. From these two remarkable stories comes a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love
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The Other Bennet Sister
by Janice Hadlow
A reimagining of Pride and Prejudice in which spinster Mary Bennet transcends the limited cultural expectations to embrace her intellectual identity and make her own choices about her future.
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Our Riches
by Kaouther Adimi
Adimi’s illuminating English-language debut unearths a legendary Algerian lending library and bookstore in parallel narratives: 1935, as French-Algerian Edmond Charlot slowly builds a small publishing empire, and 2017, when a 20-year-old French university student lands the job of clearing out the shuttered bookshop.
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
by Anne Tyler
A tech expert and building superintendent finds his circumscribed routines upended by his significant other’s eviction and the appearance of teen at his doorstep who claims to be his son.
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Sea Wife
by Amity Gaige
From the acclaimed author of Schroder comes a novel about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives.
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Simon the Fiddler
by Paulette Jiles
Conscripted into the Confederate Army after nearly escaping the American Civil War, an itinerant fiddle player joins a ragtag regimental band playing for both sides of the conflict before falling in love with an indentured Irish governess.
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Sin Eater
by Megan Campisi
Sentenced to become a Sin Eater for the crime of stealing bread, a 14-year-old orphan in 16th-century England becomes ensnared in a deadly royal plot that helps her discover the power of her subjugated position.
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The Socialite
by J'nell Ciesielski
Assigned to watch over two English debutantes in Nazi-occupied Paris, Barrett Anderson, who secretly trains Resistance fighters, must win the trust of Kat, who is trying to tear her sister away from her Nazi boyfriend and bring her back home.
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Sunrise on Half Moon Bay
by Robyn Carr
A contemporary woman navigates her journey from a devoted parental caregiver to a person capable of embracing her own joy in the face of hardship.
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The Sweeney Sisters
by Lian Dolan
When Maggie, Eliza and Tricia Sweeney find out they have a sister they never knew they had, it throws their father's literary legacy, and their own lives, into upheaval.
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The Wedding Dress
by Danielle Steel
A treasured wedding gown made in 1928 Paris is handed down through four generations of women in a family shaped by the San Francisco social scene, two world wars, the Civil Rights era and the rise of Silicon Valley.
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A Bad Day for Sunshine
by Darynda Jones
Challenged to prove herself when her New Mexico community becomes the center of a nationwide manhunt, police chief Sunshine Vicram is seduced by an alluring FBI agent and a sultry U.S. Marshal who test her feelings for a childhood crush.
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Broken: Six Short Novels
by Don Winslow
Drug dealers, bounty hunters, fugitives, struggling cops and lost souls rob, steal, kill, corrupt and betray their way through five intense novellas in this collection from the internationally best-selling author of The Border.
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Camino Winds
by John Grisham
The best-selling author of Fair Warning presents a follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
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Dead Land
by Sara Paretsky
Dragged by her impetuous goddaughter into a legal battle over a clandestine deal that is threatening community land, V. I. Warshawski uncovers a developer scheme that ends the life of the young man her goddaughter is dating.
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Diver's Paradise
by Davin Goodwin
This series launch introduces retired police detective Roscoe Conklin. After 25 years on the job in Rockford, IL, Conklin trades his badge for a pair of shorts and sandals and moves to Bonaire, a small island in the Caribbean. But the palm trees and sunsets are derailed when his long-time police buddy and friend back home, is murdered.
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Final Judgment
by Marcia Clark
Breaking her personal rule about avoiding relationships when she falls for an ambitious entrepreneur, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman is challenged to prove her lover’s innocence of murder when his alibi and past are thrown into question.
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Have You Seen Me?
by Kate White
Arriving at work to discover that she has suffered a dissociative fugue and lost five years of her memory, a finance journalist examines a traumatic past event before connecting her experience to an unsolved murder.
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Hid from Our Eyes
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Police chief Russ van Alstyne races to solve a baffling murder that eerily resembles two unsolved killings from decades earlier for which he was the prime suspect.
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The King's Beast
by Eliot Pattison
When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path.
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The Last Hunt
by Deon Meyer
When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel’s desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence of the disappearance—and possible murder—of ex-cop Johnson on the world’s most luxurious train line.
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Less Than a Moment
by Steven F. Havill
In less than a moment, unexplained intentions, then murder, upend life in Posadas County, New Mexico in the latest featuring Sherrifs Bobby Torrez and Estelle Reyes-Guzman.
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The Marshal and the Mystical Mountain
by C. M. Wendelboe
Wendelboe’s atmospheric third Depression-era mystery features Wyoming U.S. Marshal Nelson Lane who agrees to help Sally Maddis find her freelance reporter brother, Jesse, who has not been heard from since setting off for the Mystical Mountain Hunting Lodge in search of a story he intends to sell to the New York Daily News.
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Masked Prey
by John Sandford
When a Senator’s daughter discovers that an unknown extremist has been posting politician kid photos online beside vicious but legal ideological rants, Lucas Davenport is summoned by influential Washington leaders to prevent dangerous attacks on their children.
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Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two
by Ann B. Ross
Miss Julia’s efforts to help a friend escape unemployment are complicated by her husband’s mysterious illness and the abrupt appearance of a suspicious grandchild she has never met on her doorstep.
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Murder on Pleasant Avenue
by Victoria Thompson
When Gino Donatelli is wrongly implicated by the police in a brutal murder, Frank and Sarah navigate long-simmering precinct resentments to uncover the truth.
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No Going Back
by Sheena Kamal
Determined to protect her daughter from a powerful triad enforcer, Nora Watts forms an unlikely partnership with an eccentric playboy billionaire and a private investigator to uncover a shadowy criminal cabal in southeast Asia.
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One Fatal Flaw
by Anne Perry
Teaming up with brilliant scientist Miriam Fforde Croft to prove the innocence of a murder suspect, lawyer Daniel Pitt rules the case an accident before his client is found dead in the same manner, bringing Miriam’s test methods into question.
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Revenge
by James Patterson
Investigating the suspicious suicide of a young woman whose family once employed him as a bodyguard, former SAS soldier David Shelley makes unsettling discoveries that are complicated by the victim’s father’s thirst for revenge.
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A Shadow Intelligence
by Oliver Harris
A modern but classically styled spy novel in the spirit of John Le Carré, A Shadow Intelligence follows a mercurial MI6 agent, Elliot Kane, as he goes off script to find his lover, who went missing while embroiled in a dangerous scheme in Kazakhstan.
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The Split
by Sharon Bolton
Taking a job on an isolated island to hide from her former inmate ex-husband, Felicity is offered help from a doctor who would understand Felicity and her ex’s complicated past.
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Strike Me Down
by Mindy Mejia
Hired by a feminist athletic empire to track down a fortune in stolen prize money, a forensic accountant with a secret connection to the client is pressured to investigate, only to encounter shocking and deadly truths.
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The Talented Mr. Varg
by Alexander McCall Smith
A sequel to The Department of Sensitive Crimes finds detective Ulf Varg and his team investigating a playboy whose blackmailing case is complicated by Ulf’s brother’s questionable politics.
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Three Hours in Paris
by Cara Black
A suspenseful historical tale based on the mystery of Hitler’s abrupt departure from newly-occupied 1940 Paris follows the mission of a British intelligence markswoman who, while trying to assassinate the Führer, discovers that she has been set up.
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Walk the Wire
by David Baldacci
The best-selling author of The Fix presents a highly-charged thriller in which fan-favorite character Amos Decker embarks on an action-packed investigation that is complicated by Baldacci’s signature twists and turns.
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Who Speaks for the Damned
by C. S. Harris
Drawn into the investigation of a disowned nobleman’s death amid the disappearance of a mysterious young boy, Sebastian St. Cyr pieces together clues about the boy’s identity and the victim’s high-risk decision to return home.
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You Let Me in
by Camilla Bruce
After notorious recluse and eccentric best-selling author Cassandra Tipp disappears, and his assumed dead, she leaves behind her massive fortune and one final manuscript, which plunges the town into her deepest, darkest secrets.
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Beach Haven
by T. I. Lowe
In this inspirational romance, free-spirited Opal Gilbert seems to have everything she needs to keep living a happy life in Sunset Cove as she refurbishes vintage furniture to sell at her funky boutique, until Lincoln Cole, a new-to-town ex-Marine nursing deep wounds and harboring hurts he can’t seem to shake, wanders into her shop.
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First Comes Scandal
by Julia Quinn
In a prequel to the best-selling series, medical student and earl’s son Nicholas Rokesby embarks on an unorthodox courtship to convince his next-door neighbor, financially troubled Georgiana Bridgerton, to accept his proposal to a marriage of convenience.
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Girl Gone Viral
by Alisha Rai
A live-tweet event goes viral for a camera-shy ex-model, shoving her into the spotlight—and into the arms of the bodyguard she’d been pining for.
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The Happy Ever After Playlist
by Abby Jimenez
Adopting a rescue puppy to help her get her life back on track two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan clashes with the mischievous pup’s original owner, Jason, a rising musician who challenges Sloan to make difficult choices.
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To Have and to Hoax
by Martha Waters
After their marriage has become cold and detached, a Lady and Lord in Regency England each fake accidents and illness in an escalating game of manipulation that includes sanitariums, fake affairs and possibly a rekindled flirtation.
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The Book of Koli
by M. R. Carey
The first volume in in an epic new trilogy, set centuries into a future shaped by war and climate change, is an unforgettable story of a young boy struggling to find his place in a world where a genetically-modified nature has turned against humanity.
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Chosen Ones
by Veronica Roth
On the 10th anniversary of the Dark One’s defeat, one of the Chosen Ones—who brought the Dark One down—dies and the remaining four discover the Dark One’s ultimate goal was much bigger than they, the government or even prophecy could have foretold. 250,000 first printing.
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The Last Emperox
by John Scalzi
This thrilling conclusion to the best-selling Interdependency series follows Emperox Grayland II as she fights a desperate final battle for her crown and empire while striving to save her citizens from eternal intergalactic isolation.
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The Wise Friend
by Ramsey Campbell
Patrick Torrington's seemingly ordinary life is upended when his teenage son, Roy, begins to take an interest in arcane paintings left behind by Patrick's aunt in this supernatural thriller.
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