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New Fiction - September 2019
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Akin
by Emma Donoghue
A retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering his own mother’s wartime secrets.
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The Braid
by Laetitia Colombani
An Indian “untouchable” who would give her daughter an education, a Sicilian wigmaker who would save her father’s business and a Canadian lawyer and single mother with cancer find their lives intertwined by a fateful object.
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Call upon the Water
by Stella Tillyard
Separated from the woman he loves in the wake of an act of sabotage, a talented engineer from the Netherlands is challenged to fight for what he lost when his ex pursues her freedom in 17th-century America.
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Cantoras
by Carolina De Robertis
Enduring the rampant violence against women and the LGBTQ community in the decades of the Uruguayan dictatorship, five women heartbreakingly unite as lovers, friends and family.
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate.
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The Glass Woman
by Caroline Lea
A young bride in gothic 17th-century Iceland navigates ancient superstitions, disturbing secrets and her husband’s enigmatic nature amid rumors about his first wife’s mysterious death.
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The Grammarians
by Cathleen Schine
A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language by the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport follows the experiences of identical twins whose respective literary careers are upended by their battle to claim an heirloom dictionary.
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Invisible As Air
by Zoe Fishman
After repressing her grief over her stillborn daughter, a hard-working wife and mother discovers the miraculous release of her husband’s discarded Oxycontin and falls into the downward spiral of addiction.
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The Last Train to London
by Meg Waite Clayton
A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of World War II finds a Jewish teen’s life shattered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a member of the Dutch resistance in a life-risking effort to escape Germany. 200,000 first printing.
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The Liar
by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Desperate to escape a near-invisible life, an ice cream shop worker tells a terrible lie that renders her the center of public and media attention, before she is blackmailed by a neighbor who knows the truth.
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Night Boat to Tangier
by Kevin Barry
Two Irish drug-smuggling partners reevaluate a career marked by violence, betrayal and exile during a nocturnal vigil in a sketchy Spanish ferry terminal where one of them would reconnect with an estranged daughter.
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
by Petina Gappah
A sharp-tongued cook and a rigidly pious freed slave confront complicated race dynamics to join the followers of the late Dr. Livingstone on a 19th-century voyage from Africa to the doctor’s home in England.
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The Paris Orphan
by Natasha Lester
An American soldier and an enterprising photographer brave occupied France during World War II to help a young orphan find a family.
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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
As Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents’ house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody’s own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place, in this novel about different social classes.
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Ruby and Roland
by Faith Sullivan
Penniless and alone after her parents’ accidental deaths, a teen from early 20th-century Illinois finds work at welcoming Schoonover farm, where her first steps into adulthood are complicated by period restrictions and her love for a married man.
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The Second Chance Supper Club
by Nicole Meier
They had a forever bond, until a sudden tragedy thrust them apart. Now, each at a crossroad in her own life, two sisters’ paths are about to intersect in this heartwarming story of two headstrong women who relearn how to listen to one another.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
A tale of spycraft, love and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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The Shadow King
by Maaza Mengiste
Tending the wounded when her nation is invaded by Mussolini, an orphaned servant in 1935 Ethiopia helps disguise a gentle peasant as their exiled emperor to rally her fellow women in the fight against fascism.
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A Single Thread
by Tracy Chevalier
Facing limited prospects after the loss of her loved ones, a woman joins a circle of embroiderers continuing a centuries-long tradition at the Winchester Cathedral.
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The Sisters of Summit Avenue
by Lynn Cullen
Raising four daughters and running her family’s Depression-era Indiana farm for eight years after her husband is infected by a devastating sleeping sickness, a woman reconnects with her estranged, childless sister amid dark family secrets.
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The Sweetest Fruits
by Monique T. D. Truong
The author of The Book of Salt presents a reimagining of Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn’s migratory life through the voices of the women who knew him best, and who testify to their own remarkable journeys.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker's sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
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This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger
Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a summer marked by struggling farmers, faith healers and lost souls.
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Today We Go Home
by Kelli Estes
Struggling to heal from a devastating loss while serving in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennett finds the diary of a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union during the Civil War and begins to heal.
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The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery.
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Where the Light Enters
by Sara Donati
A black obstetrician returns to Manhattan in 1884 to move in with her best friend and fellow physician after the tragic loss of her family.
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The World that We Knew
by Alice Hoffman
Sent away to 1941 Paris when Berlin becomes too dangerous for Jewish families, a young girl bonds with her protective mystical golem; while her friend, a rabbi’s daughter, rises to become a defender of their people.
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Blood in the Water
by Jack Flynn
A harbor chief targeted for his knowledge of the waterfront and a vengeful homeland security agent race to protect a daring teen pawn in a deadly game of cat and mouse against an underworld criminal.
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The Bone Fire
by S. D. Sykes
During a resurgence of the plague in 1361 London, Oswald de Lacy moves his family into his friend’s island-fortress where he must uncover a murderer living among them.
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The Chestnut Man
by Søren Sveistrup
When a serial killer begins leaving handmade dolls at his murder scenes, two detectives struggle to put aside their differences and follow forensic clues linking the case to a politician’s kidnapped daughter.
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Clear My Name
by Paula Daly
A jaded investigator from a UK charity that helps exonerate wrongly convicted people teams up with a naïve trainee to follow leads related to a witness who could clear an innocent woman’s name.
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Cold Storage
by David Koepp
A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park follows the desperate mission of a Pentagon bioterror operative and two unwitting security guards to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.
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Death in Focus
by Anne Perry
In the first in a new series by the best-selling author of the William Monk mysteries, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover’s final, urgent message into the heart of pre-World War II Berlin as Hitler is ascending to power.
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The Empty Birdcage
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A latest collaboration by the NBA All-Star and the co-creator of On the Shoulders of Giants finds the Holmes brothers on the trail of a killer who leaves victims unmarked, a case that is complicated by a loved one's disappearance
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Fatal Ally
by Tim Sebastian
In this gripping spy thriller, a British intelligence asset in Moscow wants to defect to the West with explosive information, but the carefully-planned operation goes catastrophically wrong, due to a betrayal at the highest level of US government.
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Gallows Court
by Martin Edwards
Tabloid journalist Jacob Flint is hoping to make a name for himself by interviewing Rachel Savernake, a judge’s daughter, whose amateur detecting solved a murder that baffled Scotland Yard in this atmospheric historical mystery that reveals 1930s London in all its violence and intrigue.
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The Godmother
by Hannelore Cayre
Meet Patience Portefeux, a widowed, underpaid interpreter for the French Ministry of Justice who specializes in phone tapping. Living hand-to-mouth, Patience makes a life-altering decision when she gains secret knowledge about a massive drug deal, embarking her on a new career path as The Godmother.
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Heaven, My Home
by Attica Locke
In a follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews must battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, to find a missing boy and save himself.
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The Institute
by Stephen King
Published to coincide with the release of It: Chapter Two, a supernatural thriller finds an abducted youth imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where teens with psychic abilities are subjected to torturous manipulation.
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The Killer in the Choir
by Simon Brett
When the daughter of a recently deceased committee member uses the funeral to publicly accuse her stepmother of murder, Carole Seddon and her friend, Jude, must unearth the truth.
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Land of Wolves
by Craig Johnson
Investigating the suspicious suicide of a Wyoming shepherd, Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers disturbing connections to a violent family before the case is further complicated by the appearance of a giant wolf.
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Lethal Agent
by Kyle Mills
A divisive presidential election is complicated by terrorist videos of a kidnapped scientist who is being forced to produce anthrax, catapulting Mitch Rapp into an undercover mission to prevent the weapon from being smuggled into America.
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The Long Call
by Ann Cleeves
When a man with a significant tattoo is found murdered in North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn is forced to return to the strict evangelical community of his childhood to uncover deadly secrets.
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Mrs. Jeffries and the Alms of the Angel
by Emily Brightwell
Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon investigate the murder of the seemingly well-liked, church-going Margaret Starling, who always seemed to be willing to help those in need.
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Nothing Ventured
by Jeffrey Archer
A series debut introduces London Metropolitan Police Force detective William Warwick, who on his first investigation reflects on his complicated childhood while uncovering the schemes of a ruthless art collector.
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Pretty Guilty Women
by Gina LaManna
Detectives must unearth the truth after a man is found dead during a rehearsal dinner at a fancy resort and four different women confess to the crime, each insisting they acted alone, and each with very different stories.
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Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill
by Reed Farrel Coleman
When a popular cheerleader succumbs to a suspected opioid overdose, Police Chief Jesse Stone finds himself fighting battling self-interested administrators, reluctant teachers, distrustful students and overprotective parents to undermine violent drug pushers.
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See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
by Bart Paul
The third book in the acclaimed western thriller series featuring Iraqi war sniper and Eastern Sierra packer Tommy Smith who must call on his investigative skills to uncover the connection between a missing girl and a long-dead body--a link that will inevitably lead to an explosive showdown deep in the Sierra wilderness.
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Sins of the Fathers
by Judith A. Jance
Agreeing to help an acquaintance from the past track down a missing child, Beau launches an investigation that forces him to confront his troubled past.
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The Spotted Dog
by Kerry Greenwood
Baker and amateur sleuth Corinna Chapman is drawn into the world of a notorious drug runner as she searches for the beloved dog of a Scottish veteran, in the latest novel of the series.
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Strands of Truth
by Colleen Coble
A marine biologist whose last relative has passed away is surprised to discover that she has a half-sister at the same time her business partner’s stroke leads to an unexpected romance.
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The Stranger Inside
by Lisa Unger
A woman is forced to confront the dark secrets of her past when a serial killer strikes too close to home.
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The Titanic Secret
by Clive Cussler
Investigating a mine tragedy in 1911 Colorado that killed nine people, Isaac Bell discovers a larger puzzle involving an international power scheme aimed at seizing control of a rare element.
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Treacherous Strand
by Andrea Carter
A woman’s body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen Peninsula, partially clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh. Suicide? Accidental drowning due to the treacherous currents? Solicitor Ben (Benedicta) O’Keeffe thinks not as she digs deep into the woman’s past, uncovering a terrifying doomsday cult which will not tolerate her interference.
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The Vanished Bride
by Bella Ellis
In 1845 Yorkshire, a young wife and mother has gone missing from her home, leaving behind two small children and a large pool of blood, and it is up to the Brontë sisters to investigate.
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What Rose Forgot
by Nevada Barr
Waking up in a nursing-home Alzheimer’s Unit with no memory of how she got there, Rose Dennis orchestrates an escape but does not know who to trust.
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When Hell Struck Twelve
by James R. Benn
US Army detective Billy Boyle and Lieutenant Kazimierz travel into the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris on a dangerous mission: ensure a traitor to the French Resistance unwittingly carries out a high-stakes deception campaign.
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Bringing Down the Duke
by Evie Dunmore
Recruiting men of influence to champion the rising women’s suffrage movement of 1879 England, a daring Oxford rebel targets a cold and calculating duke before their unexpected romance threatens to upend the British social order.
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The Deception
by Kat Martin
This romantic suspense sequel to The Conspiracy finds a woman devastated by the death of her runaway addict sister before partnering with a bounty hunter to track down a killer in the dark world of human trafficking.
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Don't You Forget About Me
by Mhairi McFarlane
Fired and dumped on the same night, Georgina takes a new job before realizing that her boss is her first love, and does not recognize her.
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Scandalous
by Minerva Spencer
When straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher makes him an outrageous offer, Captain Martin Bouchard is captivated by this brazen beauty and must confront his scandalous past in order to have a future with the first woman to steal his heart.
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Vendetta in Death
by J. D. Robb
Homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates the sordid past of a wealthy businessman for clues to track down a vigilante killer who disguises herself to seduce her targets.
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The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history-changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel-world America where time travel is possible.
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Gamechanger
by L. X. Beckett
A late-21st-century public defender who helps individuals with anti-social behavior tries to figure out why her client, Luciano Pox, is wanted by world governments and why he is determined to stop the recovery of the planet.
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A Little Hatred
by Joe Abercrombie
The first book in a new fantasy trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die.
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by Becky Chambers
While on an ecological mission to survey four habitable worlds, Ariadne O’Neill and a team of explorers, shifting through space and time, discover that the culture back on Earth has been transformed and must make a difficult decision.
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A Trick of Light: Stan Lee’s Alliances
by Stan Lee
Two heroic teenagers—one born with extraordinary gifts, one unwillingly transformed—together can change the world ... or put it in the destructive hands of a danger beyond imagination.
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