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New Fiction - November 2019
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The Ambassador's Daughter
by Pam Jenoff
A re-release by the best-selling author finds the daughter of a World War I German diplomat forging unlikely friendships that make her question her alliances and ambitions in 1919 Paris.
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The Book of Lost Saints
by Daniel José Older
Visited by an ancestral spirit who would have him unearth family secrets from the Cuban Revolution, a young Cuban-American embarks on an investigation marked by ghostly helpers, a new love, a murderous gangster and changes in his sense of identity.
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The Confession Club
by Elizabeth Berg
Invited to join a supper club where friends in their community support each other throughout private setbacks, two women enduring difficult relationships discover the power of friendship and sharing their secrets.
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Heart's Ease
by Sarah Harrison
Sisters Felicity, Charity and Honor Blyth and their little brother Bruno enjoyed a secure, idyllic childhood at Heart’s Ease, their spacious family home on the Devon coast. Whatever their troubles, the siblings know Heart’s Ease will always be there for them… but will it?
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The Innocents
by Michael Crummey
Two orphans forage for survival on an isolated Newfoundland cove during years marked by storms and ravaging illness, before the mystery of their nature tests the limits of their bond.
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An Irish Country Family
by Patrick Taylor
A latest entry in the internationally best-selling series follows two periods in the life of a young doctor, from his high-tech internship to his days as a family practitioner whose Ballybucklebo neighbors support his family’s struggles with infertility.
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Noel Street
by Richard Paul Evans
A single mother finds unexpected revelations and healing in her relationship with a recently returned Vietnam POW whose personal demons have created a stir in their small Utah community.
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Nothing More Dangerous
by Allen Eskens
A high school boy growing up in the Ozark hills rethinks his understanding of the world, race and class when he befriends a black family that moves in across the street.
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On Swift Horses
by Shannon Pufahl
A lonely newlywed immerses herself in postwar Los Angeles’ horseracing circuit to navigate her mother’s loss, while her Las Vegas casino worker brother searches for a beloved young card cheat who has been run out of town.
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The Poppy Wife
by Caroline Scott
Hired by other families looking for MIA soldiers, a grieving man searches for his own missing brother along the Western Front, where he photographs soldier graves while making life-changing discoveries.
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The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The author of the National Book Award-nominated A Kind of Freedom explores the impact of racism and interracial relationships between women through the story of an early 20th-century farmer and her unemployed single mother descendant.
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The Second Sleep
by Robert Harris
Arriving in a remote mid-15th-century Exmoor village, a young priest discovers his late predecessor’s possibly fatal obsession with the ancient coins, glass and human bones strewn throughout the region.
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Serving Up Love: A Four-in-One Harvey House Brides Collection
by Tracie Peterson
This intriguing novella collection crosses the country-from Kansas to Texas, the Grand Canyon to New Mexico-with tales of sweet romance while exploring the fascinating history of the Harvey girls: young women seeking adventure and independence who worked in hotels throughout the country from the early 1880s to the late 1920s.
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Spy
by Danielle Steel
Recruited as a spy during World War II, a stunningly beautiful young woman hides her dangerous double life from her foreign-service husband throughout the decades of the Cold War.
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Sword of Kings
by Bernard Cornwell
A latest entry in the series that inspired, The Last Kingdom, continues the epic conquests and challenges of Uhtred of Bebbanburg as they shaped a fledgling Britain.
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Twisted Twenty-Six
by Janet Evanovich
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is challenged to protect one of her own when her suddenly widowed grandmother is targeted by ruthless gangsters.
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36 Righteous Men
by Steven Pressfield
Two New York homicide detectives make an apocalyptic discovery before racing to prevent the murder of a last surviving guardian who would protect the world from destruction.
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The Accomplice
by Joseph Kanon
Entreated by his dying Auschwitz-survivor uncle to track down a Nazi war criminal who committed atrocities at the side of Mengele, a rogue CIA agent investigates the hidden scientist’s alluring daughter to uncover complicated truths.
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The Andromeda Evolution
by Daniel H. Wilson
A 50th-anniversary sequel to The Andromeda Strain finds a Brazilian drone detecting a bizarre anomaly in the middle of the jungle with the same chemical signature of the microparticle that nearly ended all life on Earth.
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The Angels' Share: A Wine Country Mystery
by Ellen Crosby
Attending a Thanksgiving weekend party at a newspaper family’s castle estate, Lucie Montgomery learns of her nonagenarian host’s aspirations about a rare Prohibition-era Madeira before he is found dead in his wine cellar amid rumors of his Freemason connections.
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Anything for You
by Saul Black
When her next-door neighbor, a San Francisco prosecutor, is brutally murdered, a woman is forced to reckon with her murky past to help the victim’s family and the police uncover clues about the killer’s identity.
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Ash
by James Rayburn
Desperately trying to elude both law enforcement and paid killers to find his son, Danny Ash, framed as a terrorist, goes up against the shadowy venture capitalist who killed his wife, forcing him to finally confront a secret from his past in order to survive.
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Blind Search
by Paula Munier
A sequel to A Borrowing of Bones finds former MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing dog investigating a murder to which the only witness is a 10-year-old boy on the autism spectrum.
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The Body on the Train
by Frances Brody
Called in by Scotland Yard to investigate an unidentified body on the train, Kate Shackleton gets too close to a killer as she edges toward the shocking truth, forcing her to call upon all her strength and resourcefulness to solve this case before she meets the same fate.
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The Chocolate Shark Shenanigans
by JoAnna Carl
A dispute involving house flipping, a land developer and a mysterious gun finds Lee risking her life to investigate dark secrets surrounding a local murder.
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The Chosen One
by Walt Gragg
When an Islamic fundamentalist organizes a terrorist army to invade Saudi Arabia and Egypt, American Marine Lieutenant Sam Erickson leads forces to the outskirts of Cairo before a critical juncture compels him to consider wrenching sacrifices.
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A Christmas Gathering
by Anne Perry
A beautiful spy’s clandestine message complicates the holidays at a friend’s country home for a newly married former head of the London Special Branch, who would prevent history from repeating itself.
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City of Scoundrels
by Victoria Thompson
Elizabeth Miles races to find the hidden will of a Great War soldier who was killed in action after secretly marrying and leaving his fortune to his wife and unborn child.
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Criss Cross
by James Patterson
An ominous message by a copycat killer forces Alex Cross and John Sampson to investigate whether an innocent man has been executed.
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Death Has Deep Roots
by Michael Gilbert
Expertly combining authentic courtroom drama at London's Old Bailey with a perilous quest for evidence across France, Gilbert's novel (first published in 1951) is an unorthodox marvel of the mystery genre.
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The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Discovering the identity of her birth parents and her inheritance of a valuable mansion, 25-year-old Libby makes horrifying discoveries about the massacre and disappearances of her biological family.
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Final Option
by Clive Cussler
Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his team of government-sponsored operatives hide their state-of-the-art weaponry and cutting-edge scientific technologies while navigating a dangerous mission aboard the Oregon.
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Guilty Not Guilty
by Felix Francis
A volunteer horseracing steward finds his life upended by sensational media allegations about the violent death of his beloved wife and his dangerous efforts to clear his name by capturing the true killer.
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Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
by Mary Higgins Clark
A #MeToo investigative journalist discovers that the man who once sexually assaulted her has become a successful industrialist on the brink of a billion-dollar deal.
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Lady Takes the Case
by Eliza Casey
When an agricultural depression threatens her ancestral estate, Lady Cecelia Bates of 1912 England is aided by her curiously intelligent cat in identifying the culprit behind a poisoning death.
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Let Justice Descend
by Lisa Black
Forensics expert Maggie Gardener and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator whose demise is linked to dangerous secrets.
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A Minute to Midnight
by David Baldacci
A high-action sequel to Long Road to Mercy continues the story of FBI agent Atlee Pine in the remote wilds surrounding the Grand Canyon in Shattered Rock, Arizona.
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A Noel Killing
by M. L. Longworth
Magistrate Verlaque, assisted by Marine Bonnet, tackle a long list of suspects and Verlaque’s own jaded perspectives when the poisoning death of a shady businessman threatens to upend the holiday festivities in Aix-en-Provence.
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The Old Success
by Martha Grimes
An unlikely trio of detectives teams up to identify a common link between three very differently executed murders spanning multiple counties in England.
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Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders
by Tessa Arlen
Patrolling her English village by night during World War II, Air Raid Warden and aspiring writer Poppy Redfern witnesses her community descend into hostility and suspicion when local girls begin dating soldiers only to be found dead shortly afterwards.
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Robert B. Parker's Angel Eyes
by Ace Atkins
Hired by a desperate mother to search for a Hollywood starlet who has gone missing, Spenser and his former apprentice-turned-private eye, Zebulon Sixkill, follow clues to a powerful movie studio boss, the Armenian mob and a cult-like empowerment group.
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Scarlet Fever
by Rita Mae Brown
Facilitating romantic matches during the hunting season at Tattenhall Station, proud Master of Foxhounds “Sister” Jane Arnold uncovers a link between a suspicious death and an inheritance scam.
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Secret Service
by Tom Bradby
The best-selling author presents a headline-inspired thriller that follows a senior MI6 agent’s race to unmask a Russian mole in the U.K. government while proving the innocence of her team in a young woman’s murder.
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The Siberian Dilemma
by Martin Cruz Smith
When his lover fails to return from a deep-cover assignment, Moscow investigator Arkady Renko embarks on a dangerous journey involving the rise of a political dissident who threatens Putin’s rule.
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A Step So Grave
by Catriona McPherson
A delightful Dandy Gilver mystery by Catriona McPherson, set in 1930s Scotland. For fans of PG Wodehouse, Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie.
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Tom Clancy Code of Honor
by Marc Cameron
When an old college friend-turned-humanitarian is arrested in Indonesia amid false accusations, President Ryan assigns the Campus team to find answers at the same time he receives an ominous warning.
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Under Occupation
by Alan Furst
A historical novel based on the true stories of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany finds a young member of the French resistance in occupied Paris navigating increasingly dangerous assignments and the machinations of an enigmatic spy.
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Written Out
by Howard Mittelmark
Roger Olivetti has it made: a comfortable career as an editor, a Manhattan brownstone, and a lovely, bestselling novelist wife. Then the bottom falls out of the publishing industry and his marriage, and Roger ends up living in the basement of his mother's house in the Long Island town where he grew up. A fast-paced, darkly comic tale of social mobility, self-publishing, and murder.
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Wrong Girl
by Donis Casey
After a private detective connects her to the mysterious death of a man known for recruiting high-class prostitutes, Bianca LaBelle, a beautiful 1926 movie star, realizes some of her secrets must be revealed.
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The Bromance Book Club
by Lyssa Kay Adams
In this heartfelt romance, a professional baseball player fights to save his failing marriage with the help of some good friends and the inspirational exploits of a fictional nobleman.
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Christmas in Silver Springs
by Brenda Novak
After being dumped by her rockstar husband, Elle Devlin heads with her two daughters to her sister’s place in Silver Springs for the holidays where she meets an attractive ex-con. By the author of Unforgettable You.
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My Fake Rake
by Eva Leigh
When anthropologist and colleague Sebastian Holloway agrees to court her in public so she can catch the eye of a handsome naturalist, Lady Grace Wyatt soon finds herself falling in love with the man she has hired to help her marry someone else.
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Not the Girl You Marry
by Andie J. Christopher
Sparks fly when struggling Chicago professionals meet, but both journalist Jack Nolan and event planner Hannah Mayfield are looking for a temporary, fake relationship in order to get ahead in their careers. As they hide their real intentions behind the blossoming relationship, both start to realize maybe they want it to be real after all.
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The Killing Light
by Myke Cole
Heloise makes an unlikely deal when a rip in the veil between worlds sends devils pouring through as those loyal to her march on the Imperial Capital. The third novel of the series and a phenomenal conclusion to a well-drawn, dark fantasy series.
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The Rise of Magicks
by Nora Roberts
In a conclusion to the trilogy that began with Year One, Fallon finds the limits of her magick skills tested by the needs of the Purity Warrior victims at the same time she is confronted by an old nemesis
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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction.
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