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New Fiction Titles - November 2017
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A Christmas Return
by Anne Perry
Spurred by holiday cheer and a surprise hidden in a Christmas pudding, an elderly aristocrat endeavors to correct a past wrong by solving a decade-old murder.
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The End We Start From
by Megan Hunter
In an alternate-world modern London submerged below floodwaters, a woman who has just given birth to her first child is forced to flee her home with her baby to seek refuge in a variety of locations while the baby thrives against all odds.
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Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows the efforts of a pregnant woman who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
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A Hundred Small Lessons
by Ashley Hay
A new resident of an old home begins to experience the memories and secrets of its former owner, an elderly lady in a nearby nursing home, in ways that cause their families to intersect in sudden and unexpected ways.
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The Last Man in Europe
by Dennis Glover
April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell, 43-years-old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, begins his last and greatest work: 1984.
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The Library at the Edge of the World
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
A debut novel traces the experiences of a librarian on the scenic west coast of Ireland who searches for a way to rebuild her community and her own life in the wake of local estrangements.
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Mrs. Osmond
by John Banville
The prize-winning author presents a continuation of the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, that finds her receiving an unexpected inheritance and married to a cruel man before finding the courage to return to her home in Italy at the side of an unexpected companion.
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The Noel Diary
by Richard Paul Evans
A latest holiday-themed novel by the best-selling author follows the experiences of a man who, in the wake of estrangements and losses, is given a chance to rewrite and rediscover his true past.
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The Revolution of Marina M.
by Janet Fitch
A young woman of privilege coming of age in 1916 St. Petersburg finds her life and ambitions violently upended by historical events that find her joining the cause for workers' rights, falling in love with a radical poet and navigating devastating betrayals.
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Past Perfect
by Danielle Steel
An abrupt job relocation that takes them from their well-ordered Manhattan life to San Francisco triggers a collision between the past and present for a successful married couple who during a small earthquake experience visions of their new home's original inhabitants from a century earlier.
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Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
by Bill McKibben
Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare when they decide that their home state might be better off seceding from the United States.
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Secrets of Cavendon
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A latest entry in the Cavendon Hall saga is set in the summer of 1949, when a new generation of the estate is torn by scandal, intrigue and romantic betrayals that force the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other from unimaginable threats.
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
by Elizabeth Berg
Making daily visits to the grave of his beloved late wife, Arthur forges unexpected relationships with a nosy neighbor and a troubled teen who dubs him "Truluv" before the trio discovers healing and family together.
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Whispering in French
by Sophia Nash
While putting the pieces of her life back together, Kate Hamilton also finds herself tasked with returning her grandfather’s crumbling South France villa to its former glory.
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The Armageddon File
by Stephen Coonts
When a new President-elect's chief of staff discovers evidence of vote tampering, the validity of the election is brought into question at the same time the agendas of dangerous adversaries are revealed.
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Count to Ten: A Private Novel
by James Patterson
Summoned by the head of the world's top investigation agency to join a new office in Delhi, former Private India head Santosh Wagh struggles to set aside his personal demons before tackling a case involving murderously corrupt authorities and human remains found at a government site.
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Deadly Cure
by Lawrence Goldstone
In 1899 Brooklyn, Dr. Noah Whitestone is accused of prescribing a lethal dose of medicine that killed a five-year-old boy, prompting him to joining forces with muckraking journalists to clear his name, find the origins of a deadly experimental drug from overseas and root out the real killer.
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Death in the Stacks
by Jenn McKinlay
Targeted by a new library board president who she is sure is trying to drive her out, library director Lindsey Norris and her new hire, Paula, are declared suspects when the combative president is found dead, a situation that forces them to find the real killer to clear their names.
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End Game
by David Baldacci
Returning home from an overseas mission to discover that his boss has gone missing in remote Colorado, Will Robie and his sometime partner, Jessica Reel, team up in an increasingly violent small town, where their lives are soon in jeopardy.
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Every Breath You Take
by Mary Higgins Clark
Struggling with the departure of co-host Alex Buckley, television crime solver Laurie Moran is teamed with a despised Ryan Nichols, who draws her into the cold case of a wealthy widow pushed to her death from the roof of a famous museum.
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The Ghost of Christmas Past
by Rhys Bowen
Struggling with depression in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and a miscarriage, semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan and her husband, Daniel, accept an invitation to spend the holidays at a Hudson mansion, only to be embroiled in the mystery of their hosts' daughter's disappearance.
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Hardcore Twenty-Four
by Janet Evanovich
Reluctantly agreeing to babysit a professional grave robber's pet boa constrictor, Stephanie Plum is embroiled in a bizarre series of crimes that escalate from the violation of stolen corpses to the murder of a homeless man, a case that is complicated by the return of the hunky but reckless Diesel.
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Heaven's Crooked Finger
by Hank Early
Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ’s church, but when rumors swirl that his father has risen from the dead and taken residence high in the mountains—and a number of teenage girls in the area have disappeared, only to return with strange tattoos—he knows he must go back home to solve the mystery.
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The House of Unexpected Sisters
by Alexander McCall Smith
Investigating a case of wrongful dismissal, Precious Ramotswe discovers information that causes her to rethink her views about the case before meeting a local nurse who shares her unusual surname.
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Let Darkness Bury the Dead
by Maureen Jennings
November 1917. The Great War is grinding on, chewing up young men by the thousands and enthusiasm for war is dimming in the loyal Dominion of Canada. William Murdoch is a widower, a senior detective who, thanks to the new temperance laws, spends his time tracking down bootleggers and tipplers until a young man is found stabbed to death in the impoverished area of Toronto. Two more murders follow in quick succession and Murdoch must solve these crimes before more innocents lose their lives.
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The Man in the Crooked Hat
by Harry Dolan
Having spent two years searching for the man he believes murdered his wife, private investigator Jack Pellum follows a bewildering message to a winding trail of unsolved murders and a philosophical man with a dark and secret past.
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The Midnight Line
by Lee Child
Spotting a hard-won women's West Point class ring in a pawn shop, Jack Reacher fights a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster to discover the truth about the ring and why its owner sold it.
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Murder in the Manuscript Room
by Cornelius Lehane
Unofficially investigating the murder of a young woman staffer at New York City's iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the library's curator of crime fiction, finds his efforts complicated by his growing feelings for Adele, Adele's interest in a darkly handsome Islamic scholar and the determination of the police to shut him out of the case.
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The People vs. Alex Cross
by James Patterson
Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Alex Cross is wrongly portrayed as a trigger-happy corrupt cop while he struggles to prove to a skeptical jury and dwindling supporters that his actions were in self defense.
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The Quantum Spy
by David Ignatius
CIA agent Harris Chang uncovers a mole in a top secret, American research lab racing to develop a quantum computer before China does. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Director.
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The Shadow District
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Investigating the murder of a 90-year-old man, a retired detective discovers unsettling links between the victim, the World War II case of a strangled woman and a pair of attacks that suggest the wrong man may have been arrested decades earlier.
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
by P. D. James
An anthology of six previously uncollected stories by the author of Death Comes to Pemberley explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret.
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The Sorcerer's Appendix
by P. J. Brackston
When Gretel from the popular children's tale—now all grown up and working as a private investigator—takes on the case of a missing sorcerer, she doesn't realize that it will take her into the heart of the deep, dark woods, and face to face with an old enemy.
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Tango Down
by Chris Knopf
The discovery of the body of wealthy Victor Bollings in his new Hamptons home propels Knopf’s exciting eighth outing for former corporate troubleshooter turned carpenter Sam Acquillo.
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Tom Clancy Power and Empire
by Marc Cameron
A newly belligerent Chinese government leaves U.S. President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options to control a series of attacks designed to sabotage peace negotiations.
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Typhoon Fury: A Novel of the Oregon files
by Clive Cussler
Hired to track down a valuable art collection, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon sail into a perfect storm involving a Filipino insurgency, a Japanese-developed super-warrior drug and a South African mercenary.
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The Whispering Room
by Dean R. Koontz
Her husband dead and son in hiding, rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk finds a connection between a schoolteacher's murderous, and ultimately suicidal, rampage; teacher's secret journal; and a cabal of power players bent on controlling America.
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Written in Blood
by Layton Green
After suffering a mental breakdown, an Atlanta homicide detective returns to Creekville, North Carolina and is immediately involved in investigating the murder of a local bookstore owner who died in the same manner as a character from Crime and Punishment.
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The Bride Who Got Lucky
by Janna MacGregor
After her best friend is murdered by her abusive husband, Lady Emma Cavensham, a women’s rights activist, searches for evidence to put him behind bars and ends up in a compromising position that forces her into a marriage of convenience to a wife-averse earl.
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The Dog Walker's Diary
by Kathryn Donahue
Just as Scheherazade told tales each night to a sleepless king with no love in his heart, Annie Doherty leaves stories on the kitchen counter of Daniel Ashe, an insomniac who believes he is incapable of falling in love.
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A Good Day to Marry a Duke
by Betina Krahn
Under a countess’s tutelage, sassy American spitfire Daisy Bumgarten, being groomed to “marry well,” is distracted by notorious ladies’ man Lord Ashton Graham who uncovers a plot to show her up as unworthy of the aristocracy and unexpectedly comes to her rescue.
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Refuge Cove
by Janet Dailey
A bride on the run from her would-be husband becomes stranded in the Alaska wilderness before accepting help from a rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged son.
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Someone to Wed
by Mary Balogh
When heiress Wren Heyden makes him an offer he cannot refuse, the new Earl of Riverdale, whose estate is on the brink of ruin, enters into a marriage of convenience with this beautiful businesswoman who makes him question everything he though he knew about love.
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Artemis
by Andy Weir
Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
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The City of Brass
by S. A. Chakraborty
A young con artist of unsurpassed talent inadvertently summons a mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, revealing the existence of true magic before the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom falls into her hands.
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Oathbringer
by Brandon Sanderson
Taking refuge from the formidable Everstorm in the tower city of Urithiru, Dalinar and the Alethi forces join the newly raised Knights Radiant to explore the legendary city's mysteries and confront long-lost truths that challenge everything they believe.
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Weave a Circle Round
by Kari Maaren
Freddy doesn’t want people to think she’s weird. Her family makes that difficult, though: her deaf stepbrother Roland’s a major geek, and her genius little sister Mel’s training to be the next Sherlock Holmes. Then Cuerva Lachance and Josiah move in next door and Freddy suddenly finds herself stuck thousands of years in the past with her very, very weird neighbors. And that’s only the beginning.
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