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New Fiction - January 2019
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99 Nights in Logar
by Jamil Jan Kochai
A coming-of-age story about one boy's journey across contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring home the family dog is also an expertly told adventure and a vibrant exploration of the power of stories.
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Annelies
by David R. Gillham
An empowering reimagining of Anne Frank as a Holocaust survivor traces her endurance of terrible losses, her struggles to forgive and her development into a highly-skilled writer.
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Bear No Malice
by Clarissa Harwood
When Tom Cross is beaten and left for dead, siblings Miranda and Simon rescue the clergyman and nurse him back to health, and the secrets of their lives become intertwined in this story of secrets and second chances, set in Edwardian England.
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The Dreamers
by Karen Thompson Walker
The best-selling author of The Age of Miracles presents the story of a student in an isolated Southern California college town who witnesses a strange sleeping illness that subjects patients to life-altering, heightened dreams.
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The Eulogist
by Terry Gamble
In pre-Civil War Ohio, Irish immigrants James, Olivia and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves after they lose their mother to childbirth and their father boards a riverboat to New Orleans.
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The Far Field
by Madhuri Vijay
After the death of her mother, Shalini, a privileged young woman from Bangalore, arrives in Kashmir to confront a man from her mother’s past but instead is brought face to face with the city’s violent politics forcing her to make a series of difficult choices.
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House of Stone
by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
After their son, Bukhosi, disappears in the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo receive help from their enigmatic lodger, Zamani.
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Late in the Day
by Tessa Hadley
When their close friend, Lydia, who is inconsolable after the death of her husband, Zach, moves in with them, Christine and Alex find love and sorrow giving way to anger and bitterness, warping their relationships as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past.
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An Orchestra of Minorities
by Chigozie Obioma
In a contemporary twist of Homer's The Odyssey, a guardian spirit recounts the tragic story of a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything for the wealthy woman he loves.
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The Orphan of Salt Winds
by Elizabeth Brooks
England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents: practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. A bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.
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The Paragon Hotel
by Lyndsay Faye
Fleeing to 1921 Oregon, Alice takes refuge in the city's only black hotel and helps new friends search for a missing child, hide from KKK violence and navigate painful secrets.
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Sugar Run
by Mesha Maren
Released after serving 18 years for manslaughter, Jodi McCarty finds her efforts to track down a friend and move on with the woman she loves challenged by the insular values of their rural West Virginia community.
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Talk to Me
by John Kenney
Losing his job and reputation in the wake of an ill-timed live tirade, a disgraced television anchor finds himself reconnecting with his family and the man he used to be.
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That Churchill Woman
by Stephanie Barron
A tale inspired by the life of Winston Churchill's scandal-marked American mother follows the experiences of a wealthy and fiercely independent New Yorker whose whirlwind romance with a duke's son sweeps her disruptively into British royalty and politics.
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Turning Point
by Danielle Steel
Chosen for their elite records to work with Parisian counterparts in a mass-casualty training program, four trauma doctors from a busy San Francisco hospital confront unexpected and exciting new challenges that force them to make life-shaping choices.
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Unmarriageable
by Soniah Kamal
A retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in modern-day Pakistan, finds a practical-minded teacher from a family of sisters evaluating her resolve never to marry after encountering a brusque but compelling man during a series of lavish wedding parties.
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Unquiet
by Linn Ullmann
Presents a genre-bending novel about time, memory and the author’s extraordinary childhood as the daughter of a genius filmmaker and his muse.
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The Wartime Sisters
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Reunited after an estrangement at the beginning of World War II, two Brooklyn sisters, one an officer's wife, the other a widow and factory laborer, are shattered by the revelations of a mysterious figure from the past.
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We Hope for Better Things
by Erin Bartels
In this richly-textured debut novel, a disgraced journalist moves into her great aunt's secret-laden farmhouse and discovers that the women in her family were testaments to true love and courage in the face of war, persecution, and racism.
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The Weight of a Piano
by Chris Cander
An immigrant from the Soviet Union and an orphaned mechanic find their lives fatefully linked across half a century of history by a German Blüthner piano.
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The Wolf in the Whale
by Jordanna Max Brodsky
A young Inuit shaman embarks on a dangerous journey to save her starving people before meeting a Viking warrior and setting in motion a conflict with the potential to both save and shatter her world.
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48 Hours
by William R. Forstchen
A catastrophic solar explosion leaves the human race with 48 hours to prepare for the near-extinction of all life on the planet.
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An Anonymous Girl
by Greer Hendricks
Participating in a psychological study under the mysterious Dr. Shields, Jessica endures intense, invasive sessions and oppressive behavioral restrictions before she begins to lose her grasp on reality.
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The Burglar
by Thomas Perry
An elite young burglar stumbles on a grisly triple homicide while stealing from a wealthy art dealer and must solve the crime to prevent becoming a next victim.
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Crucible
by James Rollins
A Christmas Eve attack on his home and the abduction of his pregnant girlfriend prompts Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force to confronting deep spiritual mysteries tracing back to the Spanish Inquisition.
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The Current
by Tim Johnston
Surviving the accident that killed her friend, a young woman delves into the case of another victim from a decade earlier to identify a killer among her neighbors.
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Daughter of War
by Brad Taylor
Pike Logan and the Taskforce uncover a Syrian plot to create a weapon of mass destruction against American and Kurdish forces, a situation that is complicated by a violent North Korean retaliation against western sanctions.
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Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake
by Sarah Graves
Preparing a wedding order for Eastport, Maine's favorite couple, Jake and Ellie investigate when the betrotheds wind up behind bars after the poisoning of an ex and a baffling confession.
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Freefall
by Jessica Barry
After surviving the crash of a private jet that killed her husband, Allison struggles across the Colorado Rockies to make it home while, in Maine, her estranged mother tries to find her.
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The Golden Tresses of the Dead
by C. Alan Bradley
Setting up shop to solve crimes, 12-year-old Flavia de Luce, aided by trusty gardener Dogger, investigates a grisly discovery in her older sister's wedding cake.
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Grand Slam Murders
by R. J. Lee
When the four wealthy widows who make up the venerable Rosalie Bridge Club never get up from their card table, this quiet Mississippi town has its first quadruple homicide. Who put cyanide in their sugar bowl? Newspaper reporter Wendy Winchester sets out to catch a killer who's not playing with a full deck...
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The House Next Door
by James Patterson
From a #1 best-selling author comes a collection of three pulse-pounding thrillers in one book, including the title story, "The Killer's Wife" and "We. Art. Not. Alone."
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Invisible
by Andrew Grant
An army veteran and intelligence agent goes undercover as a janitor at a federal courthouse to pursue his own brand of justice when the trial of his father's killer becomes subject to jury tampering.
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Judgment
by Joseph Finder
Sharing a one-night stand with a gentle stranger during a moment of weakness, a state superior court judge reencounters the man during a high-profile case and discovers that a conspiracy is threatening her family and federal court prospects.
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Liar Liar
by James Patterson
When a vicious man kills the only person in the world who matters to her, detective Harriet Blue goes rogue and commits acts that render her a dangerous fugitive in her resolve to exact revenge.
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Lives Laid Away
by Stephen Mack Jones
A follow-up to the prize-winning August Snow finds the Detroit ex-cop turning vigilante when his beloved Mexicantown neighborhood is caught in the crosshairs of ICE corruption and a human-trafficking scheme
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The Lost Traveller
by Sheila Connolly
Discovering a badly beaten body on the property of her thriving Irish pub, Maura Donovan is astonished when the victim's identity is released and nobody admits to knowing him, a mystery that exposes dark community secrets.
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Murder at the Queen's Old Castle
by Cora Harrison
On her first visit for 50 years to Cork’s main department store, the Queen’s Old Castle, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed. But when the store’s owner staggers from his office and topples over the railings to his death, Mother Aquinas is once again drawn into a baffling murder investigation.
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A Murderous Marriage
by Alyssa Maxwell
When her sister Julia’s new—and much older—husband is found dead the morning after their hasty marriage, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid must race against time to catch a killer before the Renshaws' social standing is irreparably damaged by a murder charge.
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The New Iberia Blues
by James Lee Burke
The shocking death of a young woman leads detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia and the Louisiana backwoods.
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The Night Agent
by Matthew Quirk
An idealistic young FBI agent is forced to question everything and trust no one in order to stop a Russian mole in the White House.
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The Nowhere Child
by Christian White
A young woman's life is turned upside down when she discovers that she may have been abducted in early childhood by her recently deceased mother, in a U.S. release of an award-winning debut from Australia.
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Out of the Dark: The return of Orphan X
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Evan Smoak, a.k.a., the Nowhere Man, is pitted against one of his own for the future of the country when a murderous President Bennett activates the Orphan program's first recruit.
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The Plotters
by Un-su Kim
In an alternate-reality Seoul, South Korea, where assassination guilds compete for dominance, the assassin Reseng uncovers a scheme set into motion by a trio of young women, forcing him to decide if he will remain a pawn of the plotters who control the city's criminals.
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The Rule of Law
by John T. Lescroart
Attorney Dismas Hardy finds himself in the unlikely position of having to defend his faithful longtime assistant, Phyllis, from being charged as an accessory to murder at the same time her brother is released from prison.
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She Lies in Wait
by Gytha Lodge
The discovery of the body of a teen who went missing in the woods 30 years earlier reopens a cold case for a local police officer, who makes contact with six people from his past to uncover what happened.
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Tear It Down
by Nicholas Petrie
Peter Ash tackles two difficult cases in Memphis involving an attack on a war photographer, a homeless street musician, a stolen cache of watches, vengeful gangsters and a valuable Civil War heirloom.
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The Widows
by Jess Montgomery
Vowing revenge against her sheriff husband's killers in 1924 Ohio, Lily offers help to a fellow widow and uncovers dangerous evidence revealing her husband's corrupt secret life and the complexities that triggered his death.
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Duchess by Deception
by Marie Force
Fleeing from an arranged marriage, Catherine McCabe is waylaid at a Duke’s home by his estate manager, Derek Eagan, and as they fall passionately in love, she must make a tough decision when she discovers Derek’s real identity.
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The Magnolia Inn
by Carolyn Brown
This contemporary Texas romance tugs hard at the heartstrings as two wounded hearts, a grieving widower and a vulnerable bartender, have a chance at twice-in-a-lifetime true love.
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The Matchmaker's List
by Sonya Lalli
Raina Anand navigates a series of disastrous blind dates in her efforts to balance her tight-knit Indian-immigrant community's traditional expectations with her own ideas of what modern romance is.
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The One You Fight For
by Roni Loren
In another stunning and moving addition to her series about survivors of a school shooting, Loren realistically and vividly depicts guilt and loneliness while also showcasing the power and importance of love and friendship.
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Three Little Words
by Jenny Holiday
To make the wedding in time, bridesmaid Gia Gallo, stranded in NY with her best friend’s wedding dress, shares a car with best man Bennet Buchanan for a long road trip to Florida during which things get hotter with every state line they cross.
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Untouchable
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Engaging in deep meditation therapy to navigate the darkness of his work as a cold-case arson investigator, FBI consultant Jack Lancaster is targeted by a returned Quinton Zane, who has resolved to eliminate Anson Salinas's foster sons.
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Arkad's World
by James L. Cambias
In this far-flung adventure, a young man who has grown up as the only human on a planet populated by myriad alien species discovers he’s not alone after all.
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Alliance Rising
by C. J. Cherryh
Rumors about a mysterious incoming ship influence a mega-station's struggles to rival the progress of the Farther Stars and a space captain's efforts to expose the truth. Perfect for new and returning fans of the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe sci-fi saga.
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The Kingdom of Copper
by S. A. Chakraborty
A follow-up to The City of Brass finds a trapped Nahri reluctantly embracing her power to safeguard her tribe, while an exiled Ali accepts help from water spirits who unearth a family secret.
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Nightchaser
by Amanda Bouchet
A space rebel with a price on her head discovers she may have the power to alter the balance of power in a galactic struggle—just as she's falling for a sexy trader with dangerous secrets of his own.
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The Storm
by David Drake
The universe has shattered into chaos and monsters. Jon, the Leader of the Commonwealth helps his friend and Champion, Lord Pal of Buene, search for his mentor, Guntram, who has gone missing, in the second novel of the series following The Spark.
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Vigilance
by Robert Jackson Bennett
The United States. 2030. John McDean executive produces "Vigilance," a reality game show designed to make sure American citizens stay alert to foreign and domestic threats. The TV audience is not the only one that's watching though, and McDean soon finds out what it's like to be on the other side of the camera.
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