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The A to Z of You and Me
by James Hannah
Enduring his final days in a hospital room pining for a lost love, Ivo receives encouragement from a kind nurse while writing down an A-to-Z list that corresponds parts of his body with memories from his past, from terrible teen choices to estranged friendships.
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The After Party
by Anton DiSclafani
When her popular best friend, Joan, spirals out of control in their socially driven 1950s Houston community, Cece, a young wife and mother, struggles to intervene before making a painful choice.
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And After the Fire
by Lauren Belfer
A tale inspired by historical events traces the experiences of two women, one European and one American, whose lives are transformed by a mysterious Johann Sebastian Bach choral masterpiece.
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Amp'd
by Ken Pisani
Losing his arm in a terrible accident, Aaron returns to his boyhood home to recuperate and manage the dramas of his dysfunctional parents and sister before falling in love with the voice of a radio commentator and concluding that an act of violent sacrifice may be required to save a nearby river.
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The Apartment
by Danielle Steel
Four friends sharing a beautiful loft apartment in New York City's Hell's Kitchen reveal in the glamour of city life before new relationships, job opportunities and surprising circumstances test the strength of their bond.
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Britt-Marie Was Here
by Fredrik Backman
Walking away from her loveless marriage and taking a job in a derelict, financially devastated town, 63-year-old Britt-Marie uses her fierce organizational skills to become a local soccer coach to a group of lost children, becoming a vital community member along the way.
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The Children
by Ann Leary
A wealthy but unconventional New England family of four stepsiblings struggles to come to terms with their legacy and the myths they have built their lives upon during a lavish family wedding that exposes long-standing resentments and unfortunate truths.
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A Country Road, a Tree
by Jo Baker
Journeying from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris when war breaks out in 1939, an unknown Samuel Beckett forges a deep bond with James Joyce and other luminaries while secretly working for the French Resistance and outmaneuvering the Gestapo.
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick
Finding a mysterious bracelet among his late wife's possessions, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper breaks from his routine life for the first time since her death and embarks on a quest to learn about his wife's life before their marriage, a journey that leads to unexpected self-discoveries.
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A Drop in the Ocean
by Jenni Ogden
When middle-aged Anna Fergusson's research lab is abruptly closed, she flees Boston to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef where, amongst the seabirds, nesting turtles, and eccentric islanders, she finds a family and learns some bittersweet lessons about love.
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Easy Pickings
by Richard S. Wheeler
After her husband dies, her son is killed and her house is burned to the ground, mine owner March McPhee, targeted by the wealthy and powerful, fights back with the help of a saloon man, an assayer and a slippery lawyer, but wonders if wealth of any sort should be defended at such a price.
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Everybody's Fool
by Richard Russo
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns readers to the setting of Nobody's Fool and finds Sully confronting a daunting health prognosis, which he hides from his loved ones, including his longtime mistress, an increasingly distant best friend and an obsessive chief of police.
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Everyone Brave is Forgiven
by Chris Cleave
Shocking her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling realities of the war.
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The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
by Joy Callaway
Four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society are swept up by the eldest sister's heartbroken efforts to achieve literary success against a backdrop of two suitors from very different walks of life.
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A Fine Imitation
by Amber Brock
Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
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Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
by Agnès Martin-Lugand
After suffering a deeply tragic personal loss, the owner of a cozy book cafe in Paris moves to a small Irish coastal town where she finds herself at odds with the abrasive and unwelcoming, but handsome, photographer next door.
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Heat and Light
by Jennifer Haigh
A latest tale set in the Pennsylvania town depicted in Baker Towers finds an agreement to lease mineral rights to frackers causing unexpected complications in the life of farmer Rich Devilin, his family members and his neighbors throughout Bakerton.
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The House of Dreams
by Kate Lord Brown
A tale inspired by the true story of Varian Fry and the real events behind Casablanca follows the experiences of a celebrated painter whose secret connection to the rescue of thousands of World War II-era artists is uncovered by a young journalist.
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The Honeymoon: A Novel About George Eliot
by Dinitia Smith
A fictional account of the life of the famed author of Middlemarch describes her honeymoon in Venice in 1880 after marrying a much younger man while still mourning the loss of her companion of 26 years, George Henry Lewes.
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Imagine Me Gone
by Adam Haslett
Electing to marry the fiancé who is hospitalized for depression, a woman commits to decades of love and faith involving their brilliant musical eldest son, their responsible daughter and a tightly controlled younger son who helps her care for her increasingly troubled husband.
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The Island House
by Nancy Thayer
Having spent every summer of her adult life in Nantucket, Kansas City university professor Jenny finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two men before settling into the glamorous life she associates with the seaside and questioning her choice in the face of an unexpected turn.
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Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen
by Alison Weir
A first entry in a series centering on the six wives of Henry VIII begins with young Katherine of Aragon, who after being widowed from the future King of England marries his brother and shares a happy marriage that is overshadowed by her failure to bear a healthy son and the king's growing obsession with another woman.
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Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
by Ann Choi
A bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the 1980s about the life of a young Korean Canadian girl who will not give up on her dreams or her family.
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LaRose
by Louise Erdrich
Horrified when he accidentally kills his best friend's five-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary.
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The Last Ranch
by Michael McGarrity
A conclusion to the series (that began with Hard Country and Backlands) finds Matt Kerney returning from World War II to the San Andres Mountains, where in the face of territory disputes he struggles to recover from the physical and psychological challenges of a war injury.
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Modern Lovers
by Emma Straub
Three friends and former college bandmates struggle with the poignant midlife difficulties of managing the sexuality, independence and secrets of their young-adult children against painful memories of a friend who soared and fell without them.
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Never Too Real
by Carmen Rita
Four friends who have supported each other through formidable challenges and helped each other earn the best of everything in life are forced to decide what they can afford to sacrifice in the face of respective vulnerabilities.
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The Noise of Time
by Julian Barnes
Dedicated to Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, a first novel since the author's Man Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending reimagines the young musician's difficult creative compromises in the aftermath of his denouncement by Joseph Stalin.
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A Robot in the Garden
by Deborah Install
A man failing miserably at his job and his marriage discovers Tang, a battered robot, hiding in his garden in need of an essential bit of machinery and sets out to repair him, ultimately repairing himself as well.
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The Rules of Love & Grammar
by Mary Simses
Returning to her Connecticut hometown after leaving a grueling city job, Grace endeavors to correct past mistakes and reconcile herself to her sister's death while reconnecting with a high-school sweetheart.
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Sweetbitter
by Stephanie Danler
A year in the life of a beguiling young woman in the wild world of a famous downtown New York restaurant follows her burning effort to become someone of importance through a back waiter job that enables her indulgences in culinary and intellectual interests.
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The Turning Point
by Freya North
Forging an intense bond after a chance meeting, Canadian musician Scott and British writer Frankie pursue a relationship that is challenged by the distance between their homes, their respective family obligations and a tragic event.
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The Versions of Us
by Laura Barnett
Follows the disparate paths shared by a couple who, after meeting by chance on a Cambridge street, fell in love or went separate ways, married or split up, and grew disillusioned with their shared lives or found solace together after years of separation.
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The Weekenders
by Mary Kay Andrews
Served with papers that her much-loved island home on idyllic Belle Isle is being foreclosed and that her husband has abandoned her, Riley turns to her friends for help, who she discovers are harboring their own secrets.
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When We Were Sisters
by Emilie Richards
Superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when a former close friend from foster care, Robin, is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her.
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15th Affair
by James Patterson
When an alluring blonde with links to the CIA disappears from the scene of a brutal murder at a luxury hotel, detective Lindsay Boxer is forced to uncover difficult truths about her husband's secret life.
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The Art of Murder: A Dead-End Job Mystery
by Elaine Viets
Touring a gorgeous mansion-turned-museum in Fort Lauderdale, Helen and her friend, Margery, are hired for an undercover assignment investigating the murder of an up-and-coming artist with a bohemian past and numerous enemies.
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Assassin's Silence
by Ward Larsen
Surprised by a mysterious assault team that nearly captures him, former Mossad agent David Slaton is sought by a desperate CIA that has connected the disappearance of a derelict airliner to a practiced killer who has left a trail of bodies across Europe.
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Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure
by Nancy Atherton
Discovering a beautiful garnet bracelet belonging to Aunt Dimity, Lori learns the story of a doomed love affair from Dimity's youth and is asked to return the bracelet to a long-ago suitor, an endeavor that is complicated by the arrival of a family of metal detectors who link the bracelet to a lost national treasure.
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Before the Fall
by Noah Hawley
The stories of 10 wealthy victims of a boat sinking intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors. By the award-winning writer of Fargo.
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Better Dead
by Max Allan Collins
Working reluctantly for a zealous Joe McCarthy at the height of 1950s anti-Communist activities, Chicago detective Nate Heller is forced to choose between loyalties when he takes the case of a group of literary leftists who are supporting alleged spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Beyond the Ice Limit
by Douglas J. Preston
A latest thriller by the best-selling authors of the Agent Pendergast series continues the high-suspense adventures of Gideon Crew, in a tale that features visits from familiar characters from The Ice Limit.
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Blood Defense
by Marcia Clark
Landing a high-profile double-murder case that she hopes will elevate her fledgling law practice, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman privately questions the innocence of her client, a decorated LAPD veteran, and goes to considerable lengths to obtain information, only to uncover a secret that shatters her personal world.
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Blood Flag
by Steve Martini
Defending a client accused of mercy-killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy involving the victim's former unit from World War II and a feared Nazi relic.
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Bloodroot: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
by Cynthia Riggs
After a patient dies at the dentist's and the hysterical receptionist who was given a ride home by one of the dental assistants also turns up dead, 92-year-old poet and sleuth, Victoria Trumbull, investigates.
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Boar Island
by Nevada Barr
When her friend's adopted daughter attempts suicide in the face of cyber-bullying and stalking, National Park Service Ranger Anna Pigeon investigates the person behind the increasingly violent harassment, who follows the troubled teen when Anna tries to move her to a safe haven.
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Cape Hell: A Page Murdock Novel
by Loren D. Estleman
Ordered by a federal judge to investigate suspicions that a former Confederate captain is raising an army to take over Mexico City and rekindle the American Civil War, U.S. Deputy Page Murdock embarks on a perilous mission in the desert with two secretive companions.
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City of the Lost
by Kelley Armstrong
Escaping to an off-the-grid domestic violence shelter community with her best friend, whose ex-husband has targeted them both with violence, homicide detective Casey Duncan investigates a first murder in the community and realizes that she may be in greater danger than before.
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Diana's Altar
by Barbara Cleverly
When a man known to Scotland Yard dies under suspicious circumstances, Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands finds himself in a deadly ring of cloak-and-dagger politics and high-society hedonism surrounding a powerful and elite society of aristocrats and intelligentsia.
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Don't You Cry
by Mary Kubica
In Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears, leaving only a haunting letter as a clue for her roommate, Quinn Collins; meanwhile, in a small Michigan harbor town, 18-year-old dishwasher Alex Gallo is drawn to a charming mystery woman, whose allure spirals into something far more sinister.
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The Drowned Detective
by Neil Jordan
A European private eye takes on the case of an elderly couple still searching for their daughter, who has been missing for 20 years.
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The Emperor's Revenge
by Clive Cussler
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon join forces with a former CIA colleague to track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer who are behind a violent bank heist that occurred during the Monaco Grand Prix.
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The Fall of Man in Wilmslow
by David Lagercrantz
Suspecting that foul play may be behind the suicide of mathematical genius Alan Turing, 1950s detective Leonard Corell defies his superiors to investigate the Bletchley Park operation while making astonishing discoveries about his own life.
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Fatal Thunder
by Larry Bond
Receiving intelligence from a former enemy that nuclear relics from the fallen Soviet Empire are being sold to hostile adversaries, U.S. skipper Jerry Mitchell teams up with dubious allies in an effort to stop Indian nationalist from triggering an Asian nuclear war.
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The Fireman
by Joe Hill
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out throughout the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others.
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Forgive Me
by Daniel Palmer
After her mother's sudden death, Angie DeRose, who has dedicated her life to finding and rescuing endangered runaways, discovers a photograph of a little girl with a code and hand-written message on the back and, determined to learn the fate of the girl, goes up against a faceless enemy who will kill to keep a secret hidden forever.
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A Front Page Affair
by Radha Vatsal
New York City, 1915. Capability "Kitty" Weeks would love to report on the news, but she's stuck writing about fashion and society gossip - until a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat. Determined to prove her worth as a journalist, Kitty finds herself plunged into the midst of a wartime conspiracy.
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A Game for All the Family
by Sophie Hannah
When a woman's daughter begins to withdraw after the expulsion of a mysterious friend the school insists never existed, she finds herself in a game of cat-and-mouse that threatens both her daughter's and her own life.
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Haunted Destiny
by Heather Graham
Assigned to investigate a mysterious serial killer who leaves his victims in churches with saint medallions on their necks, paranormal investigator Jackson Crow and New Orleans agent Jude McCoy team up with piano player Alexi on a haunted cruise ship when the ghost of a victim appears to them.
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A Hero of France
by Alan Furst
A tale set in World War II occupied Paris follows the experiences of French Resistance network members from diverse walks of life who engage in clandestine actions to regain the country's freedom.
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The Highwayman
by Craig Johnson
In this novella, Longmire and Henry Standing Bear assist newly-transferred officer Rosey Wayman, who has been receiving assistance calls from a legendary Arapaho patrolman who died in a fiery canyon accident more nearly half a century earlier.
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I Let You Go
by Clare Mackintosh
Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
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Just Life
by Neil Abramson
A NYC veterinarian operating a no-kill rescue shelter must keep her wits about her after a deadly, sweeping virus is believed to be carried and spread by dogs.
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Keep you Close
by Lucie Whitehouse
Convinced a longtime friend's falling death was not accidental, Rowan is forced to confront difficult realities in order to uncover the truth in her friend's professional art circles, where she meets three grieving men and reunites with her friend's family.
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The Loney
by Andrew Michael Hurley
When a child's body is discovered along the wintry Lancashire coastline, a man is forced to confront a mystery from his youth involving his disabled older brother and his religious mother's Easter pilgrimage in search of a miracle cure.
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Mercy
by Daniel Palmer
An outspoken doctor and advocate for the right to die reconsiders her convictions when her fiancé is rendered a quadriplegic by a motorcycle accident and begs to be allowed to end his life before dying from a rare form of heart failure that places the doctor under suspicion.
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The Mirror Thief
by Martin Seay
In three interconnected stories--part thrill, part supernatural mystery, part historical adventure--that are in the same vein of Cloud Atlas, one of the old world's most wondrous inventions, the mirror, becomes the object of glittering yet fearful fascination and subject to industrial espionage throughout time.
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Murder in Morningside Heights
by Victoria Thompson
Adjusting to married life in New York high society, Frank and Sarah Malloy investigate the suspicious death of a recent graduate from a prestigious women's college whose effort to live a life of independence and civic duty had been built on dangerous secrets.
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Prayers the Devil Answers
by Sharyn McCrumb
Appointed to serve out her late husband's term as sheriff of their Depression-era Tennessee mountain town, Ellie struggles to reconcile her responsibilities with societal expectations for women and forges unexpected ties with a condemned killer she is scheduled to execute.
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Redemption Road
by John Hart
In a town on the brink and on a road with no mercy, a boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother, a detective finally confronts her troubled past, a good cop walks free after serving 13 years in prison and the unthinkable happens on the altar of an abandoned church.
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Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn
by Ace Atkins
When a firefighter is ostracized for claiming that a deadly three-alarm blaze was set by an arsonist, Spenser discovers that the fire may be linked to a string of new arsons plaguing one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods.
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Rock-a-Bye Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Coping with a broken heart and the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club, Sarah Booth Delaney discovers a baby in a basket on her porch and bloody footsteps leading to her driveway, a situation that places her in the same danger as a troubled mother running for her life.
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Seal Team Six: Hunt the Dragon
by Don Mann
After conducting a training exercise outside Las Vegas, Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker must investigate when a brilliant scientist goes missing during a city-wide blackout in the latest addition to the series.
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The Second Life of Nick Mason
by Steve Hamilton
Accepting a dubious offer to gain release from prison 20 years early and enjoy a life of luxury in exchange for following a criminal mastermind's orders without question, Nick Mason is forced to commit increasingly dangerous crimes while desperately fighting to go straight, reclaim his family and elude a relentless detective.
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Sweet Lamb of Heaven
by Lydia Millet
Fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, who has just launched his first campaign for political office, Lydia, accompanied by her six-year-old daughter, races from Alaska to Maine and hides in a dingy motel as her husband's pursuit escalates from threatening to criminal.
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Tall Tail: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
When the governor of Virginia passes away from a telling disease, Harry and her furry detective cohorts look for answers in the 18th century, where they discover a secret ancestry that originated in brutality and silence.
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Tea with Jam and Dread
by Tamar Myers
Magdalena welcomes the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass as honored guests of the PennDutch Inn, but things go from bad to worse when one of the difficult guests disappears over the edge of Lover's Leap
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Troublemaker
by Linda Howard
Sent to a remote location when an unknown enemy begins targeting members of his paramilitary group, dedicated operative Morgan Yancy fights his growing feelings for small-town police chief Isabeau Maran, whose life is put in danger by her discovery of Morgan's secret.
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A Useful Woman
by Darcie Wilde
Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society--including who among the ton is capable of murder.
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Wilde Lake
by Laura Lippman
Seeking to establish herself during a first case against a mentally ill drifter accused of murder, newly elected state's attorney Lu Brant struggles through painful memories about a mysterious death that overshadowed her family.
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The Wolf of Sarajevo
by Matthew Palmer
Returning to Sarajevo 20 years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of a friend, Eric struggles to outmaneuver a corrupt Bosnian Serb leader and his puppet-master mafia boss in the face of a political maelstrom and blackmail plot that are threatening the Balkans with another war.
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The Woman in Blue
by Elly Griffiths
When a woman is found dead at the same time an Anglican priest begins receiving threatening letters, Ruth Galloway teams up with Cathbad and DCI Harry Nelson to investigate a string of deaths tied to religious fanaticism in the medieval town of Little Walsingham. A clever cozy with an edge.
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Written in Dead Wax
by Andrew Cartmel
He is a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs so his business card is the "Vinyl Detective." Some people take this more literally than others, like the mysterious woman who wants to pay him a lot of money to find a priceless lost recording. So begins a dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all. |
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Discovering You
by Brenda Novak
Starting a new life in Whiskey Creek with her little girl, young widow India Sommers falls for her neighbor, Rod Amos, the handsome "bad boy" type from which she has sworn to stay away, while dealing with the fact that the man who killed her husband is getting out of jail.
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Every Bride Has Her Day
by Lynnette Austin
Returning home to her small Georgia town, Cricket O'Malley, while restoring an abandoned flower shop to its former glory, gives Sam Montgomery, who inherited a run-down house in the neighborhood, a run for his money as they try to get along.
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The Girl from Summer Hill
by Jude Deveraux
Clashing with a gorgeous Hollywood star who is playing Darcy in a local production of Pride & Prejudice, Casey, a chef who puts her career first and who believes the actor's brother-in-law's damning claims, finds herself becoming attracted to him in spite of herself.
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Marrying Winterborne
by Lisa Kleypas
Achieving wealth and success through his savage ambitions, tycoon Rhys Winterborne resolves to marry shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, who in spite of her gentle upbringing responds to Rhys' seductions with her own unexpected passions.
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Only Beloved
by Mary Balogh
Relinquishing all hope to marry after a family scandal, Dora Debbins, a lonely music teacher, finds her life forever changed by the arrival of the Duke of Stanbrook, who, unable to forget their meeting a year ago, makes her dreams come true.
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Children of Earth and Sky
by Guy Gavriel Kay
A khalif from the Ottoman Empire sends an enormous army to attack the fortress that separates the Western World from the Turkish lands.
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The Chimes
by Anna Smaill
In an alternate London, which is divided after the end of a brutal civil war, a young orphan named Simon, who has the gift of retaining memories, joins a gang of scavengers that patrols the underbelly of the city and becomes engaged in an epic struggle for justice, love and freedom.
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The City of Mirrors
by Justin Cronin
A long-anticipated conclusion to the epic adventure set in an apocalyptic America finds the colony confronting a terrifying threat in the aftermath of the destruction of the Twelve, a situation that forces Amy and her companions to confront their destinies.
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Night Shift
by Charlaine Harris
When weapons obtained from Midnight's local pawn shop are used in a series of dramatic suicides at the main crossroads in town, the vampire Lemuel makes astonishing discoveries about why the community has attracted so many paranormal residents, who must work together to stop the violence.
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The Raft
by Fred Strydom
On Day Zero, the collapse of civilization was as instantaneous as it was inevitable. A mysterious and oppressive movement rose to power in the aftermath, forcing people into isolated communes run like regimes. Kayle Jenner finds himself trapped on a remote beach, and all that remains of his life before is the vague and haunting vision of his son.
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