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New Fiction - August 2019
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All the Flowers in Paris
by Sarah Jio
A tale told from alternating viewpoints follows the experiences of a Parisian woman who awakens with no memory of her past before discovering a mysterious cache of letters by a young woman of Jewish ancestry during the Nazi occupation.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home in Aleppo, Syria and they set off on a dangerous journey through Turkey and Greece, towards an uncertain future in England.
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Carnegie Hill
by Jonathan Vatner
Urged by her overprotective parents to call off her wedding at the same time she discovers suspicious texts, an aimless woman in her early 30s turns for advice to her neighbors, who reveal their own marital crises.
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The Dark Side
by Danielle Steel
Haunted by the childhood death of her sister, Zoe devotes herself to a nonprofit career helping disadvantaged kids before scars from the past challenge her as a mother.
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The Dearly Beloved
by Cara Wall
In a novel that spans decades, two young couples' lives become intertwined when the husbands are appointed co-ministers of a venerable New York City church in the 1960s.
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The Doll Factory
by Elizabeth Macneal
In 1850s London, beautiful young aspiring artist Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, whose dark obsession may destroy her world forever.
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A Door in the Earth
by Amy Waldman
An Afghan-American college student in California travels to a remote village in Afghanistan to work for a professor's charitable foundation and after surviving a horrific bombing must side with either the villagers or the American soldiers.
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Ellie and the Harpmaker
by Hazel Prior
On the anniversary of her beloved father’s death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods on the English moors and comes across the barn of Dan Hollis, who carves beautiful Celtic harps.
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Everything Inside: Stories
by Edwidge Danticat
A single-volume collection of short stories by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author is set in such locales as Miami, Port-au-Prince and the Caribbean and poignantly explores the forces that unite and divide.
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Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories
by Philip Caputo
A collection of short stories set in the same Michigan Upper Peninsula town, including tales of old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, once-a-year lovers and a middle-age man and his grief-stricken father, combine together to form a novel.
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Inland
by Téa Obreht
An unflinching frontierswoman riding out the Arizona Territory drought of 1893 finds her life intertwined with that of a former outlaw whose ability to see ghosts has inspired a momentous expedition.
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Life and Other Inconveniences
by Kristan Higgins
From the bestselling author comes a new novel about a blue-blood grandmother and her black-sheep granddaughter who discover they are truly two sides of the same coin.
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The Lost Daughter
by Gill Paul
Heartbreaking and gripping novel of a Russian princess and a journey to solve a mystery that might change everything we know about the tragic Romanov family.
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Machine
by Susan Steinberg
This hypnotic story revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned.
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A Nice Cup of Tea
by Celia Imrie
In this witty third novel in the Nice series, the retired expats in the South of France must rally to save their failing restaurant, and protect Theresa from an unsavory stalker.
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The Oysterville Sewing Circle
by Susan Wiggs
Forced by scandal to return to her Pacific coast childhood home, a Manhattan fashionista assumes guardianship over two orphans and bonds with a circle of fellow seamstresses before an unexpected challenge tests her courage and heart.
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A Pure Heart
by Rajia Hassib
Follows the divergent fates of two Egyptian sisters--Rose, married to an American journalist and living in New York City, and Gameela, a devout Muslim who remained in Cairo--when Rose returns to Egypt after Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing.
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The Reckless Oath We Made
by Bryn Greenwood
The best-selling author offers a provocative love story between a tough Kansas woman on a crooked path to redemption and the unlikeliest of champions.
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A Song of Joy
by Lauraine Snelling
New to America, Nilda Carlson’s work for a wealthy philanthropist allows her to help those in the local immigrant community while she tries to decide between the handsome schoolteacher and the rich dandy both vying for her hand.
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The Swallows
by Lisa Lutz
When a creative writing assignment leads to unsettling allegations about her school's indifference to sexual assault, a new teacher organizes a group of marginalized girls in an escalating gender war.
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Things You Save in a Fire
by Katherine Center
When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter.
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Tidelands
by Philippa Gregory
In a tale set during England's mid-17th-century civil war, an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community.
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The Ventriloquists
by E. R. Ramzipoor
A tale based on true events finds a misfit journalist, a forger and a street urchin joining a band of resistance fighters who risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Nazis.
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We Are All Good People Here
by Susan Rebecca White
Two roommates at Belmont College in 1962 become close friends until their growing awareness of the South's caste system causes them to question everything and one of them veers towards radicalism.
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The Women of the Copper Country
by Mary Doria Russell
The award-winning author presents a story inspired by the life of Annie Clements, retelling in historically authentic detail how in 1913 she lead a courageous strike against the world's largest copper-mining company.
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The World Doesn't Require You: Stories
by Rion Amilcar Scott
This collection of short stories, set in fictional Cross River, Maryland, includes the tales of a struggling musician who is God's last son and a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation about a childhood game sparks a riot in a once-segregated town.
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And Then They Were Doomed
by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Zoe Zola is one of ten invitees to an Agatha Christie symposium. Tempers flare…and then there are nine. If Zoe’s to stay alive she’ll have to draw on everything she knows about Agatha Christie’s devilish plots in the fourth tantalizing Little Library mystery.
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A Better Man
by Louise Penny
Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim's distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.
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The Bitterroots
by C. J. Box
Former police officer-turned-private investigator Cassie Dewell reluctantly accepts a sexual assault defense case before her search for answers among twisted family loyalties reignites the ghosts of her own past.
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Careful What You Wish For
by Hallie Ephron
A professional organizer whose husband is a hoarder distracts her growing relationship troubles by focusing on her new clients, one of which takes her tipsy fantasy about life being more pleasant without spouses a little too far.
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City of Windows
by Robert Pobi
When his former partner is murdered by an unusually skilled sniper, a disabled former FBI agent with an exceptional ability for reading difficult crime scenes struggles to outmaneuver a killer during a historical blizzard.
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Contraband
by Stuart Woods
While in Florida, Stone Barrington joins forces with a local detective to investigate the disappearance of cargo from a plane crash, and when, by chance, a Manhattan case sheds light on the case, Stone sets out to connect the dots between the crimes.
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A Dangerous Man
by Robert Crais
Rescuing a bank teller from an abduction attempt, Joe Pike tackles the most perilous case of his career when the would-be kidnappers are found murdered and the bank teller goes missing.
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The Darwin Strain
by Bill Schutt
Sent to a remote Greek island by the Pentagon in the early days of the Cold War, MacCready and Thorne investigate rumors of the healing properties of a volcanic spring connected to an ancient sea monster legend.
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The Girl Who Lived Twice
by David Lagercrantz
Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Blomkvist come to each other's aid, and in the end, it will be Blomkvist--in a moment of unimaginable self-sacrifice--who will make it possible for Lisbeth to face the most important battle of her life, and, finally, to put her past to rest.
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The Inn
by James Patterson
When Gloucester Inn is caught in the crossfire of a drug dealer’s activities, novice innkeeper and former Boston detective Bill Robinson teams up with a fearless band of tenants to organize a risky defense.
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Invitation to Die
by Barbara Cleverly
A follow-up to Fall of Angels is set during the Cambridge summer of 1924 and finds Detective Inspector and former rifleman John Redfyre embroiled in a series of unsolved murders linked to an exclusive dining club
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The Last Good Guy
by T. Jefferson Parker
Reluctantly accepting a case involving a missing teen, private investigator Roland Ford uncovers a dark conspiracy involving an American Nazi compound and a celebrity evangelist.
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The Last Widow
by Karen Slaughter
An electrifying latest entry in the best-selling series finds Will and Sara pitted against a mysterious group that would unleash a deadly epidemic.
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Lost You
by Haylen Beck
After a closing elevator door separates them, a single mother on vacation with her son discovers he has been abducted by another woman who claims she is his mother.
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Love and Death among the Cheetahs
by Rhys Bowen
Georgie and her husband, Darcy, navigate the decadent parties and rampant infidelities of the aristocracy in Kenya's paradise Happy Valley to identify a killer in hiding.
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The Murder List
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
A bright, hard-working law student married to a faithful and devoted husband discovers that everything she believes about her life is false and is caught up in a game of cat-and-mouse for her very survival.
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Old Bones
by Douglas J. Preston
A series debut by the best-selling authors finds young curator Nora Kelly and historian Guy Porter teaming up for an excavation in Sierra Nevada that exposes complex realities about the Donner Party.
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The Perfect Wife
by JP Delaney
A woman miraculously restored to health by the innovations of her tech icon husband struggles with fragmented memories of a past that differs from her husband's accounts.
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Outfox
by Sandra Brown
This psychological thriller about an FBI agent's hunt for a ruthless conman turned serial killer features Sandra Brown's signature combination of steamy romance and high-suspense plot twists.
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Relative Fortunes
by Marlowe Benn
Set in 1924, Benn’s stylish debut and series launch introduces bibliophile Julia Kydd, who has returned to New York from London to fight her half brother's control over her inheritance. But before long, she's involved in a mystery—and maybe even a murder.
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The Retreat
by Sherri Smith
Four women. Four secrets. A weekend that will change them forever…if they survive. Each woman has come to the retreat for different reasons and at the end, only one will be left standing.
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Singapore Sapphire
by A. M. Stuart
Relocating to 1910 Singapore to get a fresh start, Harriet Gordon stumbles on the dead body of her first client before a traumatic incident from the past challenges her partnership with a local inspector.
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Terns of Endearment
by Donna Andrews
When her family's cruise vacation is interrupted by a ship breakdown and reports of a passenger's suspicious leap overboard, Meg races against time to uncover the truth.
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Thirteen
by Steve Cavanagh
A defense lawyer and former conman defends his movie-star client in a high profile murder trial and discovers that the actual killer is sitting on the jury.
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The Truth Behind the Lie
by Sara Lövestam
After her young daughter disappears, a desperate mother turns to an undocumented Iranian refugee moonlighting as a private investigator, an expert at living and working off the grid, to help her locate her little girl before it's too late.
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The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware
When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home culminates in her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to untangle what really happened.
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Vanishing in the Haight
by Max Tomlinson
After serving her time for killing her husband, an ex-con private investigator in 1978 San Francisco accepts the case of a retired industrialist whose daughter was brutally murdered in Golden Gate Park 11 years earlier.
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The Victim
by Max Manning
When public relations executive Gem Golding becomes the victim of a carjacking at the hands of a dangerous criminal bent on her destruction, she must make a choice: does she surrender to her attacker, or does she stand her ground and fight for her life?
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The Warehouse
by Rob Hart
A darkly satirical thriller set in a near-future America wracked by violence, unemployment and climate change finds two employees of a world-saving global giant discovering their employers' true agenda.
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The Warning
by James Patterson
Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid.
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The Whisper Man
by Alex North
Mourning the death of his wife, a father and his young son move to Featherbank for a fresh start but find their new town has a dark past involving a serial killer named "The Whisper Man."
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How to Love a Duke in Ten Days
by Kerrigan Byrne
In late Victorian England, a sexual assault survivor and a scarred nobleman nicknamed the Terror of Torcliff marry for practical reasons but become enamored with each other—within 10 days.
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The Lady in the Coppergate Tower
by Nancy Campbell Allen
Hazel Hughes finds romance and danger as she travels to Romania with her employer, Dr. Sam MacInnes, and her uncle, Count Petrescu, in an attempt to save her twin sister, who is slowly going mad inside the Coppergate Tower.
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The Right Swipe
by Alisha Rai
Cynical dating app creator Rhiannon Hunter must decide whether or not to give former pro-football player Samson Lima, who wooed her during one magical night and then disappeared, a second chance despite the fact that his in league with a business rival.
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Say You Still Love Me
by K. A. Tucker
This sizzling yet nostalgic cross-class romance about an ambitious and high-powered executive who reconnects with her first love: the boy who broke her heart, will hook readers from start to finish.
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Unbreak me
by Michelle Hazen
Two trauma survivors find love and acceptance in Hazen’s warm and thoughtful contemporary multicultural romance that ranges from a horse ranch in Montana to post-Hurricane Katrina Louisiana.
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American Magic
by Zach Fehst
Chaos erupts after someone with ties to an elite and ancient society posts incantations on the dark web that allow people to perform real magic. Ben Zolstra, an ex-CIA field operative, leads the team that’s racing to contain the dangerous knowledge—and track down the mysterious figure behind the leak.
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Blood of an Exile
by Brian Naslund
Sentenced to fight monsters until he dies, an undefeated dragon slayer is offered his freedom in exchange for assassinating a rival king before finding himself an unlikely defender of an innocent child and the lives of every creature in Terra.
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The Cruel Stars
by John Birmingham
A band of reluctant heroes becomes civilization's protectors when a genocidal army of cybernetically enhanced beings, believed defeated centuries earlier, returns to annihilate all human life.
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Rule of Capture
by Christopher Brown
Defeated in a devastating war with China and ravaged by climate change, America is on the brink of a bloody civil war. For Donny Kimoe, chaos is good for business. He’s a lawyer who makes his living defending enemies of the state in this near future dystopian America.
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