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Always Happy Hour: Stories
by Mary Miller
Combining hard-edged prose and savage Southern charm, the author showcases a collection of lusty, lazy, hard-drinking characters in a series of stories.
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Ava's Place
by Emily Beck Cogburn
A sweet, down-to-earth story about pursuing a second chance at love and dreams in the Big Easy.
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The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
A debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
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Class
by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Working full-time for a non-profit organization and sending her daughter to an integrated school, Karen is forced to rethink her liberal ideals in the face of her do-gooder husband's questionable priorities and her daughter's struggles with bullying.
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Clownfish Blues
by Tim Dorsey
Hitting the byways of the Sunshine State to shoot their own episodes of a favorite classic television show, proud Floridian Serge A. Storms and his perpetually toked sidekick, Coleman, find themselves confronting a large-scale underworld operation to rig the state lottery.
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The Crossing
by Andrew Miller
Trapped in an unfulfilling marriage and on the heels of a terrible tragedy, Maud embarks on a trans-Atlantic journey to regain herself and her sense of independence.
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Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, 17-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.
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The Fifth Petal
by Brunonia Barry
The best-selling author of The Lace Reader returns to otherworldly Salem as chief of police John Rafferty, now married to lace reader Towner Whitney, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide involving three descendants of Salem Witch Trial victims.
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The Fire by Night
by Teresa Messineo
A first novel commemorating the unsung heroines of World War II traces the experiences of two military nurses who fight for survival and care for others in a makeshift medical unit and a POW camp, enduring dangerous existences while waiting for the war to end.
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For the Most Beautiful
by Emily Hauser
The hidden tale of the Trojan War: a novel full of passion and revenge, bravery and sacrifice, now is the time for the women of Troy to tell their story.
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The Futures
by Anna Pitoniak
Falling in love as Yale students and moving to New York City in 2008, hedge fund employee Evan is embroiled in a deal that risks everything he has worked for, while nonprofit employee Julia reconnects with someone from her past who represents a different kind of life.
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The Guests on South Battery
by Karen White
Reluctant to return to work after the birth of her twins, Melanie takes on a client eager to sell a historic Charleston home only to find herself approached by ghost informants who have been long silent.
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Home Sweet Home
by April Smith
The Kusek family journeys from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial and a brutal murder.
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Huck Out West
by Robert Coover
In the author's interpretation of what happened after Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Huck joins the Pony Express, scouts for both sides in the Civil War, joins a bandit gang, finds an ill-fated pal in a Lakota tribe and finds himself in the Black Hills just ahead of the 1876 Gold Rush.
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Idaho
by Emily Ruskovich
A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for murder.
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I Liked My Life
by Abby Fabiaschi
A husband and teen daughter are challenged to redefine their understandings of family when a devoted wife and mother commits suicide and begins meddling from beyond the grave.
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In the Light of the Garden
by Heather Burch
Burch's gentle intergenerational novel about family secrets, the enchantment of past loves, and the power of forgiveness will appeal to readers who relish charming characters and a dash of magic realism.
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
by Kathleen Rooney
Embarking on a walk across the unsafe landscape of Manhattan on New Year's Eve in 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish recalls her long and eventful life, which included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America, whose career was cut short by marriage and loss.
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Lucky Boy
by Shanthi Sekaran
A wrenching emotional battle ensues between an undocumented Mexican single mother and an Indian-American chef who cannot have children when the latter is placed in the care of the former's son during an immigration detention.
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Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan
by Ruth Gilligan
Gilligan makes a stellar U.S. debut with this wistful and lyrical multigenerational tale linking the struggles of two immigrant Jewish families in Dublin with an Irish Catholic woman’s complicated relationship with her Jewish lover.
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The Patriots
by Sana Krasikov
Three generations of a Jewish-American family endure the difficult challenges of the Depression and the Cold War while pursuing dreams of better lives and reflecting on painful experiences from their earlier lives in Moscow.
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Perfect Little World
by Kevin Wilson
Joining a psychologist's utopian experiment involving children collectively raised apart from their biological families, a pregnant teen struggles with the group's growing hostilities and funding challenges while fighting her feelings for the doctor.
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Pretty Little World
by Elizabeth Laban
On a cozy street in Philadelphia, three neighboring families have become the best of friends. They can’t imagine life without one another—until one family outgrows their tiny row house. In a bid to stay together, a crazy idea is born: What if they tear down the walls between their homes?
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The Road to Enchantment
by Kaya McLaren
When her mother dies, her boyfriend dumps her and she discovers she is pregnant, Willow returns to the Apache reservation she left behind where she must redefine what home means for her and decide if she can make a go of the legacy her mother left behind.
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday
by Susan Rivers
A compulsively readable novel from an award-winning playwright is inspired by a true story: the efforts of a Civil War veteran to discern the truth about his teen bride and what happened during the two years he was at war.
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The Signal Flame
by Andrew Krivak
The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak—a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War.
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Silver City: A Novel of the American West
by Jeff Guinn
A follow-up to Buffalo Trail finds reluctant hero Cash McLendon traveling to Arizona Territory to reclaim the woman he loves, who is kidnapped by an enforcer for Cash's corrupt former father-in-law.
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Solo
by Jill Mansell
When Tessa Duvall, a struggling artist, reluctantly agreed to accompany her best friend Holly to a party, she had every intention of sneaking off early – until she encountered Ross Monahan. In this romantic comedy the question has to be asked: are there times when it's best to go solo?
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This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
A family reshapes their ideas about family, love and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.
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Behind Her Eyes
by Sarah Pinborough
The secretary of a successful psychiatrist is drawn into the seemingly picture-perfect life of her boss and his wife before discovering a complex web of controlling behaviors and secrets that gradually reveal profound and dangerous flaws in the couple's relationship.
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Below the Belt
by Stuart Woods
New York City cop-turned-Manhattan law firm rainmaker Stone Barrington and his gang of cronies find themselves back in the line of fire in this breakneck thriller.
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Burning Bright
by Nicholas Petrie
When his restful vacation among the northern California redwoods is hampered by claustrophobia and a grizzly that forces him to retreat up a tree, war veteran Peter Ash discovers a hanging platform where a journalist who has escaped a kidnapping is hiding from gun-toting captors.
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Containment
by Hank Parker
After a tick-borne illness outbreak appears linked to a global bioterrorist organization, an epidemiologist and a CIA agent must race against time to trace the virus to its source, through the jungles of the Philippines and the coral reefs off Malaysian Borneo.
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The Dangerous Ladies Affair
by Marcia Muller
Hired by a wealthy banker to undermine an extortionist who has threatened to reveal personal secrets unless he receives multiple grand sums, John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter find the case turning deadly when a courier is found dead in a locked room.
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Death Notes
by Sarah Rayne
Meet professional researcher Phineas Fox who has mixed feelings when he’s asked to research the infamous 19th-century violinist Roman Volf for a TV documentary. Hanged for his part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, Volf was a notorious criminal and womanizer. However, on uncovering evidence which suggests that Volf could not have been involved in the Tsar’s murder, Phin’s investigations lead him to the west coast of Ireland – and a series of intriguing, interlocking mysteries.
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Drowning Tides
by Karen Harper
After forensic psychologist Claire Britten starts working with lawyer Nick Markwood on his South Shores project, the billionaire criminal who staged Nick's father's "suicide" kidnaps Claire's daughter, and Claire and Nick must band together to stop this dangerous man.
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The Dry
by Jane Harper
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
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Falling into the Mob
by Steve Zousmer
A chance meeting on a commuter train gives a freelance speechwriter a chance to become a mob boss in this comic thriller.
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False Friend
by Andrew Grant
When an arsonist begins setting fires at local schools, exposing a terrible mystery about long-buried bones on one of the sites, police detective Cooper Deveraux struggles to solve the mystery in the face of a blackmailer who would expose Cooper's darkest secrets.
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Fatal
by John T. Lescroart
A fleeting crush becomes a dangerous obsession for a family woman who shares an intense encounter with a man she meets at a dinner party before a chilling act of violence marks the first of a series of horrifying events.
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Fever in the Dark
by Ellen Hart
When a video of their engagement goes viral on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage, Fiona and Annie turn for help to private investigator Jane Lawless to safeguard a secret from Annie's past.
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The Fifth Letter
by Nicola Moriarty
A lifelong friendship shared among four women is shattered when a wine-filled vacation game involving the confessions of dark secrets gives way to an anonymous rant about deeply held resentments.
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The Final Day
by William R. Forstchen
A latest entry in the series continues the story of America's efforts to rebuild in the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation and violence.
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The Girl Before
by J. P. Delaney
Seizing a unique opportunity to rent a one-of-a-kind house, a damaged young woman falls in love with the enigmatic architect who designed the residence, unaware that she is following in the footsteps of a doomed former tenant.
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A Harvest of Thorns
by Corban Addison
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose
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Her Every Fear
by Peter Swanson
The author of the popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.
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History of Wolves
by Emily Fridlund
Living with her parents in a nearly abandoned counterculture commune, 14-year-old Linda finds her perspectives and desires changed by the scandal-marked arrest of a teacher and the secrets of a new neighbor family as she wrestles with the consequences of actions and failures in the name of love.
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Kill the Father
by Sandrone Dazieri
In a first U.S. publication by a best-selling international author, two top analytical minds from Italy, both haunted by respective traumas, are recruited by the chief of Rome's major crimes unit to investigate the case of a woman's death and her young son's disappearance.
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Little Deaths
by Emma Flint
A gripping suspense tale set in 1960s New York and inspired by true events follows the investigation of a cocktail waitress whose two young children have been brutally murdered and a rookie tabloid reporter who would uncover the truth.
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The Murder Book
by Jane A. Adams
Lincolnshire, England. June, 1928. When three freshly-buried bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a rented cottage, Detective Chief Inspector Johnstone is summoned from London to investigate. The first of a brand-new historical mystery series.
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My Husband's Wife
by Jane Corry
Resolving to leave her secrets behind when she gets married, a young lawyer is strangely drawn to a convicted killer during her first murder case in ways that shape her psychologically charged relationship with a young neighbor years later.
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Never Never
by James Patterson
This first novel-length collaboration between Patterson and the award-winning author Candice Fox, embroils detective Harriet Blue in a baffling missing-persons case.
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The Nowhere Man
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
A sequel to Orphan X finds Evan Smoak murderously pursued by the new head of the Orphan program and turning the tables on captors who find themselves trapped with Smoak in a virtual cage
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Paris Spring
by James Naughtie
A bizarre murder of a glamorous journalist—and possible double agent—reveals a web of secrets, and Scottish-American spy Will Fleming’s loyalty to family and friends is tested as never before.
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The Prisoner
by Alex Berenson
Forced to resume an old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi to unmask a CIA mole, John Wells gets close to an ISIS prisoner in a secret Bulgarian prison, where he confronts the profoundly cruel and ambitious plans of increasingly formidable terrorist organizations.
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The Prometheus Man
by Scott Reardon
A young CIA agent's identity is stolen by a gifted college drop-out who would use agency resources to solve the cold case of his brother's murder, a situation that is complicated by a secret government program to engineer a perfect soldier.
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A Puzzle to be Named Later
by Parnell Hall
Delighted when a Yankee rookie decides to rehabilitate from an injury in her town, diehard fan Cora happily accepts his invitation to a pool party only to be embroiled in a mystery when some of the guests are killed.
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Rather Be the Devil
by Ian Rankin
Maverick investigator John Rebus gains dangerous enemies upon reopening a cold case from the 1970s involving the murder of a wealthy socialite.
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Right Behind You
by Lisa Gardner
After a double murder begins a shooting spree through the wilds of Oregon, Quincy and Rainie's main suspect is the older brother of 13-year-old orphan they plan to adopt.
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Ring of Fire
by Brad Taylor
Learning of an imminent terrorist attack on the U.S., Pike Logan, Jennifer Cahill and the Taskforce race against time to stop catastrophic events in multiple locations.
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The Ripper's Shadow: A Victorian Mystery
by Laura Joh Rowland
Supplementing her meager income by shooting illicit "boudoir photographs" of the local ladies of the night, photographer Miss Sara Bain and her motley crew of friends are embroiled in the crime of the century when two of her clients are murdered by Jack the Ripper.
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The Rising
by Heather Graham
When a college-bound football star is targeted by the same forces that kill his family and land him in the hospital, he flees at the side of the school valedictorian he loves to investigate the dangerous truth about his real identity.
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She Stopped for Death
by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
When elusive and highly secretive poet, Emily Sutton, reemerges into society, making strange accusations, Jenny Weston and her quirky neighbor, almost famous author Zoe Zola, look further into the poet’s half-truths, which leads them to a horrible murder.
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The Sleepwalker
by Chris Bohjalian
When a sleepwalker who has experienced episodes of near violence while unconscious goes missing, her eldest daughter, Lianna, finds herself drawn to a lead detective who seems to know more than he is revealing.
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Snowblind: A Thriller
by Ragnar Jonasson
A U.S. debut from a best-selling European author follows the first posting of a rookie policeman in a peaceful Northern Iceland fishing village, where a suspicious injury and a murder reveal explosive local secrets.
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The Trapped Girl
by Robert Dugoni
When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity.
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Two Days Gone
by Randall Silvis
When a woman and her children are brutally massacred, Sergeant Ryan DeMarco begins doubting the opinions that cast suspicion on the woman's fugitive professor husband, who may have left important clues in a half-finished manuscript.
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Unpunished
by Lisa Black
A forensic expert continues her uneasy partnership with a homicide detective who has taken the law into his own hands to investigate a murderer who is targeting newspaper employees.
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Walk Away
by Sam Hawken
A former combat medic with a mysterious past struggles to rescue her sister and niece from an abusive boyfriend who is being assisted by his brother, an unhinged ex-Special Forces operative.
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Accidentally on Purpose
by Jill Shalvis
| Unwilling to commit to a career woman who loves him but unable to stand her dating anyone else, a man who has forfeited his job in law enforcement sabotages her dates before realizing that he must prove himself. |
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Crowning Design
by Leila Meacham
A tender, classic love story about letting go of the past and finding the courage to embrace love. | |
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Mulberry Moon
by Catherine Anderson
Swearing off men, Sissy Sue Bentley, the new owner of the local café, struggles with her growing feelings for cowboy Ben Sterling who keeps showing up whenever she needs help, especially when her past comes back with a vengeance.
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On Second Thought
by Kristan Higgins
Two sisters must learn to put their differences aside and open their hearts to the inevitable imperfection of family and the possibility of one day finding love again.
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Seven Minutes in Heaven
by Eloisa James
Highly sought for her premiere governesses, witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who resorts to everything including kidnapping to claim her heart.
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Staying for Good
by Catherine Bybee
Bybee’s skillfully crafted second Most Likely To contemporary romance brings together former sweethearts who have not forgotten each other in the 11 years since high school.
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The Wicked City
by Beatriz Williams
A follow-up to A Certain Age traces a scandalous Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper and a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family.
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Breath of Fire
by Amanda Bouchet
"Cat" Catalia Fisa has been running from her destiny since she could crawl. But now, her newfound loved ones are caught between the shadow of Cat's tortured past and the threat of her world-shattering future. So what's a girl to do when she knows it's her fate to be the harbinger of doom?
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
by Darynda Jones
Struggling to make peace with her goddess powers and her daughter's destiny to save the world, Charley finds herself targeted by forces from hell who would see her banished to another dimension.
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Empire Games
by Charles Stross
A tale set in an alternate world of the immediate future follows the efforts of the head of a paratime espionage agency to prepare for an upcoming drone war at the same time her estranged spy daughter attempts to protect national security during an ominous succession crisis.
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Feversong
by Karen Marie Moning
A latest entry in the popular series, set after the cliffhanger ending of Feverborn, continues the adventures of fan-favorite characters Mac and Barrons, who fight side by side to protect Dublin from deadly and power-hungry factions
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Heartstone
by Elle Katharine White
A debut novel that retells Pride and Prejudice in a world where creatures are dragons, hobgoblins, lamias, and gryphons are commonplace, Heartstone takes Austen's classic tale and turns it into something new, engaging, and imaginative.
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Rogue One
by Alexander Freed
An official novelization of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story coming to theaters December 2016 is set prior to the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and follows a band of rebels on a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans.
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