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The Abbot's Tale
by Conn Iggulden
At the side of Alfred the Great in 973, priest Dunstan of Glastonbury helps guide England into a unified country.
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Beach House Reunion
by Mary Alice Monroe
Continuing the saga of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina.
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By Invitation Only
by Dorothea Benton Frank
A young, sophisticated Chicago woman falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina, and trades the bustle of cosmopolitan city life for the vagaries of a small Southern community.
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The Forgotten Road
by Richard Paul Evans
A follow-up to The Broken Road follows the inspirational pilgrimage of a man believed dead in a fiery plane crash who survives due to a remarkable twist of fate before embarking on a journey across Route 66 to pursue a second chance at life and opportunities to correct past mistakes.
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For Honor
by Jeff Rovin
In this chilling new thriller in Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, simmering tensions threaten to ignite when a silo of Cold War missiles surfaces in the Middle East.
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The High Season
by Judy Blundell
Forced to rent out their beautiful seaside Long Island home every summer just so that they can afford to keep it, Ruthie goes to extreme lengths to protect the life she loves in the wake of a suddenly estranged marriage, greedy co-workers who are threatening her job, the return of an old flame and her teen daughter's destructive relationship.
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The High Tide Club
by Mary Kay Andrews
Unexpectedly hired by an eccentric millionaire from a vast barrier island home, a young attorney learns the story of the new client's now-deceased circle of friends, her determination to protect the land from developers, disturbing clues about a long-unsolved murder and her ambitious plans for heirs and descendants.
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How to Walk Away
by Katherine Center
When an accident on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life lands her in the hospital with a very uncertain future, Margaret struggles to come to terms with family secrets, heartbreak and starting over before discovering love in an unexpected place.
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Limelight
by Amy Poeppel
Optimistically moving her family from suburban Dallas to Manhattan, Allison Brinkley finds New York unexpectedly bewildering, until an encounter with a famous pop star who has been cast in a Broadway musical provides her with a surprising opportunity.
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Love and Ruin
by Paula McLain
After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
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The Map of Salt and Stars
by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Living 800 years apart, two girls, a modern day Syrian refugee and a medieval apprentice to a legendary mapmaker, experience the pain of exile and triumph of courage.
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The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner
A woman beginning two life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in 2003 California's Central Valley, reflects on the San Francisco of her youth and her relationship with her young son while navigating the harsh realities of a bare-essentials life of casual violence at the hands of the guards and her fellow inmates.
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The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go
by Amy E. Reichert
After her mother, Lorraine, has a stroke, food-truck owner, obsessive list-maker, eternal optimist and recent widow Gina Zoberski, while dealing with her rebellious daughter, stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine’s kept hidden for years—one that helps her learn to let go as she seeks the truth.
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The Other Lady Vanishes
by Amanda Quick
Escaping from a private sanitarium and taking a job at an herbal tea shop in a 1930s California seaside resort town, Adelaide bonds with a man hiding as a widower before a local con artist's murder draws them both into a shadowy underground of duplicity and misdirection.
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Pretend I'm Dead
by Jen Beagin
In this hilarious and wonderfully strange novel, Mona is a cleaning lady on a quest for self-acceptance and to find her place in this working-class American world after her relationship with a loveable junkie goes awry.
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Regrets Only
by Erin Duffy
| After catching her husband cheating, a suburban mom throws herself into a business enterprise with two friends and finds herself heading down a road to self-discovery and possibly a new relationship. |
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Send Down the Rain
by Charles Martin
After her husband dies in a tragic truck accident, Allie is comforted by her childhood sweetheart, Joseph, who is still dealing with the scars he suffered in Vietnam.
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Shadow Child
by Rahna R. Rizzuto
A haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast.
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Shelter in Place
by Nora Roberts
A group of survivors navigate trauma and recovery challenges in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a movie theater, an event that inspires a career in law enforcement, triggers devastating PTSD and gives way to an escaped killer's plot to orchestrate an event with an even higher death toll.
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The Storm
by Arif Anwar
A sweeping tour de force that seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history, including the tales of a privileged couple who leave everything in Calcutta, a Japanese pilot and a British doctor stationed in Burma during World War II.
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The Summer I met Jack
by Michelle Gable
A tale inspired by the affair between JFK and Alicia Corning Clark describes how a young Polish maid is forced to end her relationship with a rising political star before her Hollywood successes, her eventual move to Rome and a chance encounter a decade later leads to revelations about how they actually feel about each other and the baby they secretly shared.
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Tin Man
by Sarah Winman
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, a heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other.
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Trouble the Water
by Jacqueline Friedland
When a young woman travels from a British factory town to South Carolina in the 1840s, she becomes involved with a vigilante abolitionist and the Underground Railroad while trying to navigate the complexities of Charleston high society and falling in love.
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Two Steps Forward
by Graeme Simsion
Two people—one still grieving from her husband's death, the other recovering from a messy divorce—set out to walk the Camino de Santiago, a centuries-old pilgrim route in Spain.
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An Unsuitable Match
by Joanna Trollope
A second marriage between two people who are head over heels in love with each other is tested by the challenges of their blended family, from a daughter who resolves to protect her mother from harm and young twins who need constant attention to two grown children who need extra love and support through difficult times.
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Warlight
by Michael Ondaatje
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
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Alter Ego
by Brian Freeman
When a freak auto accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride investigates the victim's baffling false identity and possession of a gun that had recently been fired, a situation that may be tied to the disappearance of a college student.
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Arctic Gambit
by Larry Bond
After an American submarine is sunk in the waters outside Russia, Commodore Jerry Mitchell must find a way to destroy a new stealthy Russian weapon and avoid a nuclear catastrophe.
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Better Off Read
by Nora Page
Bookmobile-driving, septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins fights an upstart new mayor to prevent the closure of the town's storm-damaged library, an effort that is complicated by an eccentric benefactor's untimely murder and clues that point to Cleo's best friend.
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Broken Places
by Tracy Clark
Former Chicago cop-turned-private investigator Cass Raines tackles a spate of vandalism at a local church where she discovers the dead bodies of a priest and a gang member and resolves to bring their killer to justice.
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The Council of Twelve
by Oliver Pötzsch
The enthralling seventh installment in the “Hangman’s Daughter” series finds Jakob Kuisl and his family traveling to Munich for a meeting of the Council of Twelve, the leaders of the hangmen’s guild. However, as with all things involving Jakob and his daughter Magdalena, it’s not that simple.
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The Dark Angel
by Elly Griffiths
Asked by archaeologist Angelo Morelli for help in identifying bones found in the town of Fontana Liri, Italy, Ruth Galloway discovers a link between the bones and a modern-day murder.
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A Date with Murder
by Jessica Fletcher
When her good friend Babs’ husband dies of an apparent heart attack, Jessica Fletcher, who suspects foul play due to a sinister dating site he had used while he and Babs were having marital issues, teams up with a young computer hacker to set the perfect trap to catch a killer.
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased’s funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong.
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Dressed for Death in Burgundy
by Susan C Shea
In a sequel to Love & Death in Burgundy, Katherine Goff, after stumbling upon a body in the local museum during a tour, is once again caught up in a whirlwind of gossip and speculation as she sets out to prove the innocence of her friend Pippa in the crime—an investigation that could cost her everything, including her life.
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The Favorite Sister
by Jessica Knoll
Set in the world of a reality television show, this thriller tells the story of five hyper-successful women, including two sisters, who agree to appear on a series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, but the producers never expect the season will end in murder…
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Flowers and Foul Play
by Amanda Flower
Flying to Scotland when she inherits her godfather's cottage in the wake of multiple losses, Fiona Knox discovers a body in the property's once-resplendent walled garden and must catch a killer to clear her loyal caretaker's name.
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The Gray Ghost
by Clive Cussler
The grandson of a man who was wrongly accused of stealing a recovered Rolls Royce prototype a century earlier hires husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo to solve the mystery and clear his grandfather's name, a case that is complicated by dangerous enemies and the rare vehicle's repeat disappearance.
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He
by John Connolly
A literary Golden Age Hollywood portrait based on the remarkable life of Stan Laurel traces the rise of a Chaplin-inspired comedian whose genius and talent blossoms through his creative and personal relationship with partner Oliver Hardy, at whose side he endures fame, betrayal and heartache.
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How It Happened
by Michael Koryta
After a troubled teen, no stranger to the law, admits to her involvement in a brutal murder, Rob Barrett, an FBI investigator and interrogator stakes his reputation on her confession only to have the information she provided prove false.
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A Howl of Wolves
by Judith Flanders
Amateur sleuth Samantha Clair sets out to find a murderer when she attends a play and the curtain opens on the second act to reveal the director dead and hanging from the rafters in the fourth installment of the Sam Clair series.
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It Begins in Betrayal
by Iona Whishaw
The budding affection between Inspector Darling and Lane Winslow is cut short when a British government official compels Darling to return to England for questioning about the death of a rear gunner under his command in 1943. Meanwhile, back in Canada, Constable Ames oversees the investigation into the suspicious death of a local elderly woman.
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The Long Silence
by Gerard O'Donovan
Introducing Irish-born cop turned private investigator Tom Collins in a new historical mystery series: 1922. When a leading Hollywood film director is found shot dead, Collins is called in by studio boss Mack Sennett, whose troubled star, Mabel Normand, is rumored to be involved. But Normand has gone missing, and Collins' search will lead him to a secret so explosive it must be kept silent at any cost.
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Madagascar
by Stephen Holgate
An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. "Le Carré fans won’t want to miss this one" - PW Reviews
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A Million Drops
by Víctor del Árbol
A lawyer with a monotonous existence discovers that his estranged sister killed herself under dramatic circumstances and begins investigating the shocking events that led her down such a dark path, including having murdered a Russian gangster who had kidnapped her son.
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Murder on Union Square
by Victoria Thompson
When a murder hits close to home, Frank finds himself in an unusual position--the prime suspect.
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The Outsider
by Stephen King
In the aftermath of a boy's brutal murder in Flint City, a local detective is forced to arrest a popular Little League coach who, in spite of an alibi, presents with open-and-shut evidence that is called into question when the suspect's true nature and the realities of the crime come to light.
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Overkill
by Ted Bell
When his young son is dramatically abducted from a burning ski tram in the Swiss Alps at the same time Russian leader Vladimir Putin escapes an attack on his presidential jet and goes missing, Alex Hawke recruits a group of elite soldiers and hostage experts for a rescue mission that is complicated by Putin's plans for a triumphant return to Moscow.
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Princess
by James Patterson
Investigator Jack Morgan is invited to meet Princess Caroline and soon discovers that he is to locate a close friend of the princess before the media catches wind of the scandal.
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Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic
by Ace Atkins
When paint chips from a valuable stolen painting arrive at the desk of a Boston journalist, Spenser is hired by a hopeful museum to delve into the black market art scene and investigate a cold-case art heist involving hidden secrets, jailhouse confessions and decades-old murders.
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A Shimmer of Hummingbirds
by Steve Burrows
In Burrows’s riveting fourth mystery, Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune travels from Norfolk, England, to Bogata, Colombia, ostensibly for a birding tour, but his real purpose is to gather information to exonerate his brother, a fugitive sought by the Colombian authorities for criminal responsibility in the deaths of four people.
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So Pretty a Problem
by Francis Duncan
Why might a woman falsely confess to shooting her husband? That’s the conundrum that Duncan’s affable amateur sleuth, Mordecai Tremaine, must crack in this welcome reissue, first published in the U.K. in 1947.
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What You Want to See
by Kristen Lepionka
The thrilling follow-up to The Last Place You Look finds private investigator Roxane Weary investigating a new client's suspicion that his fiancée is having an affair, only to uncover disturbing truths about the woman's past in the wake of her suspicious death at the hands of unknown con artists, who target Roxane when she gets too close to the truth.
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Wicked River
by Jenny Milchman
As they attempt to get away from it all on a backcountry honeymoon in the isolated Adirondack forest, a man stalks them from the shadows. He wants something from them more terrifying than death, and once they are near his domain, he will do everything in his power to make sure they never walk out again.
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Honeysuckle Dreams
by Denise Hunter
When Brady's ex-wife dies, he learns that his nine-month-old son is not his biological child, and the boy's maternal grandparents want custody, so he enlists the aid of his friend Hope Daniels to pose as his loving fiancée in order to help his case for guardianship.
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The Prince
by Katharine Ashe
Determined to become a member of Edinburgh’s all-male Royal College of Surgeons, Libby Shaw, disguising herself as a man, fools everyone with the exception of a famed portraitist who never forgets a face—and who will only keep her secret if she agrees to a daring scheme.
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Someone to Care
by Mary Balogh
Defying convention and running off together, Viola Kingsley, once the Countess of Riverdale, and the Marquess of Dorchester embark on a grand adventure, but soon discover that severing the ties of respectability is no easy task and that pleasure can ensnare you when you least expect it.
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Too Wilde to Wed
by Eloisa James
Returning home from war only to discover that the town has labeled him “too wild to wed,” Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde is determined to prove them wrong as he sets out to win the heart of Miss Diana Belgrave, the woman who jilted him two years earlier.
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Until There Was Us
by Samantha Chase
Accepting a job at her cousin’s company, Megan Montgomery does her best to avoid Alex Rebat, a man with whom she once had a hot hook-up, but Alex has other ideas as he makes it his personal goal to shake up her carefully crafted world.
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An Argumentation of Historians
by Jodi Taylor
Another in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time."
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Nightflyers
by George R. R. Martin
Featuring fifteen original full-color illustrations, this is the definitive edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills of Alien, the psychological horror of The Shining, and, of course, the inimitable vision of George R. R. Martin.
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Song of Blood and Stone
by L. Penelope
| Enduring life as an outcast from a homeland where her Earthsong talents are feared, orphan Jasminda helps care for an injured spy, Jack, who enlists her help in protecting the protective mantle around two nations that are preparing for war. |
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Wrath of Empire
by Brian McClellan
Struggling to protect half a million refugees who have become targets in a country in turmoil, Michel Bravis considers allying with the very occupiers he is trying to undermine; while Ben Styke builds an army to search for an ancient artifact that may hold the power to turn the tides of war.
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