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Baby of the Family
by Maura Roosevelt
When a real-estate magnate leaves the remnants of his fortune to an adopted son on the run after a misguided attempt at political activism, his sisters' efforts to find him are complicated by personal struggles and a love affair.
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Chronicles of a Radical Hag
by Lorna Landvik
When beloved columnist Haze Evans falls into a coma, Susan McGrath, filling the void with Haze’s past columns, stumbles upon secrets that have been locked in the files for decades.
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Daisy Jones & the Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
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The Dragonfly Sea
by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
A young woman growing up in an isolated island off the coast of Kenya discovers friends, enemies and her true self on a dramatic journey to the Far East.
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Fall Back Down When I Die
by Joe Wilkins
A young, orphaned Montana ranch hand takes in the mute, emotionally damaged seven-year-old son of an incarcerated cousin and learns to love him as old grievances involving land and family come back to haunt them.
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Gingerbread
by Helen Oyeyemi
The award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird draws on the classic fairy-tale element of gingerbread in the story of a British family whose surprising legacy and secret past are tied to a favorite recipe
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Grace after Henry
by Eithne Shortall
After the love of her life is killed in a freak biking accident, Grace drifts through her days, denying the hole he's left in her life—until his long-lost twin brother knocks on her door.
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If, Then
by Kate Hope Day
Four neighbors in a quiet Oregon mountain community find their lives upended when they begin to experience disturbing visions of an alternate reality, before a natural disaster reveals an astonishing town secret.
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The Irishman's Daughter
by V. S. Alexander
From the acclaimed author of The Taster comes a novel of strength and resilience, set against the backdrop of the Irish famine.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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The Lieutenant's Nurse
by Sara Ackerman
Stationed in Hawaii in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks, Army Corps nurse Eva Cassidy fights for the lives of her patients and falls for an enigmatic intelligence officer while hiding a difficult secret.
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Little Faith
by Nickolas Butler
A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when an adult daughter falls under the influence of a radical church that threatens a grandchild's safety.
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Me for You
by Lolly Winston
A widower pianist finds his efforts to move on after the murder of his beloved wife complicated by police suspicion, an ex's reappearance and an adult child with marital problems.
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The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell
Three generations of a cursed family traverse from India and Italy to England and ultimately a fantastical Zambia of the near future, where an interstitial Greek chorus of mosquitoes traces their vibrant human experiences as children, parents and grandparents.
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The Other Americans
by Laila Lalami
The suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant impacts the lives of a diverse cast of characters, including his jazz-composer daughter, an undocumented witness and an Iraqi War veteran.
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The Parade
by Dave Eggers
Sent to oversee the completion of a highway that symbolizes an important armistice between two halves of a war-torn state, two foreign contractors are forced to confront the absurdities and dire consequences of their roles in forging peace.
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
An internationally renowned, curmudgeon economist and divorced father of three survives an accident before whimsically trading in his high-stress Nobel Prize ambitions to pursue elusive happiness.
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The Promise of Elsewhere
by Brad Leithauser
In the face of devastating existential crisis stemming from a collapsing marriage and a health scare, a Midwestern professor decides to tour the world's most beautiful architectural sites and becomes sidetracked with a jilted bride in Rome.
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Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
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The Quintland Sisters
by Shelley Wood
Attending the birth of the Dionne quintuplets in 1934 Ontario, a teen midwife witnesses an explosive custody dispute between the government and family members involving the quintuplets' exploitation as curiosities.
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The River
by Peter Heller
Two college students on a wilderness canoe trip find their survival skills and longtime best friendship tested by a wildfire, white-water hazards and two mysterious strangers.
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The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
by H. M. Naqvi
An enthralling novel about one unforgettable and gloriously unaccomplished man, his impending death, and the history and life of his bustling, shape-shifting city. Winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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Silent Night
by Danielle Steel
A psychiatrist gives up her uncomplicated life when she becomes the guardian of her niece, a child star turned emotionally traumatized patient in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.
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Sing To It: New Stories
by Amy Hempel
These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection.
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A Student of History
by Nina Revoyr
A history graduate student at USC takes a job as the research assistant for an elderly oil-fortune heiress transcribing her journals and is soon drawn into her world of wealth and privilege.
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Woman 99
by Greer Macallister
Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away.
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A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.
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The American Agent
by Jacqueline Winspear
Coordinating an effort between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of an American war correspondent in London during the World War II Blitz.
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Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna
by Mario Giordano
A follow-up to Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions finds Prosecco-loving Auntie Poldi defending her community when a dog is poisoned and a respected handyman goes missing amid a rise in local Mafia activities.
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Beautiful Bad
by Annie Nigh Ward
Starting a therapeutic journal in the aftermath of a scarring accident, a former travel writer is forced to reckon with her husband's PTSD, her son's safety and her family's complicated history with a best friend.
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Before She Knew Him
by Peter Swanson
A Boston artist with bipolar disorder, while she is in a new neighbor's home, spots an item that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder.
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Black and Blue
by David Rosenfelt
Struggling with amnesia after surviving a shooting, Doug Brock reinvestigates a cold case involving the DNA of a man he eliminated as a suspect, but can no longer remember.
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Blood Oath
by Linda A. Fairstein
A key witness' revelation about a sexual assault at the hands of a prominent official is complicated by rumors about a colleague's abusive conduct and another associate's violent, mysterious collapse.
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Bones of the Earth
by Eliot Pattison
Inspector Shan realizes he is being caught in the middle of a dangerous power struggle after a Tibetan monk is accused of using Buddhist magic to murder Chinese soldiers. This is the much- anticipated tenth and final installment in the series.
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Call Me Evie
by J. P. Pomare
Isolated in a remote beach-town cabin by a man who is either a captor or benefactor, a 17-year-old girl struggles with her fragmented memory to uncover why she is accused of committing an unspeakable act.
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Celtic Empire
by Clive Cussler
The murders of a U.N. science team in El Salvador, a deadly collision in the Detroit waterways and an attack on the Nile are linked to the ancient story of a fugitive Egyptian princess.
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Cemetery Road
by Greg Iles
His father's terminal illness, his family's struggling newspaper and a politically charged murder trial force a Washington journalist to return to his small Mississippi hometown.
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The Cornwalls Are Gone
by James Patterson
An intelligence officer must use lethal tactics in open defiance of Army Command when a mysterious adversary kidnaps her family and gives her 48 hours to commit an unspeakable crime.
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Crashing Heat
by Richard Castle
Nikki investigates the activities of a secret society when an invitation by Rook's alma mater is thrown into chaos by the scandalous death of a student reporter.
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A Dangerous Collaboration
by Deanna Raybourn
Attending a party in remote Cornwall as a favor to a colleague, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell races to uncover her host's true agenda when suspicious accidents plague the guests.
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Dark Tribute
by Iris Johansen
Kidnapped by a mysterious adversary from her grandfather's past, violin prodigy Cara Delaney struggles to escape and protect her loved ones from becoming casualties of dark forces from her tragic childhood.
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The Devil Aspect
by Craig Russell
A brilliant young psychologist in 1935 Czechoslovakia begins his job at an asylum housing the country's six most depraved murderers, while a detective tries to identify the mindset of a brutal serial killer in Prague.
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The Fifth Doctrine
by Karen Robards
Offered her freedom in exchange for a dangerous undercover assignment, master manipulator Bianca St. Ives poses as an elite hacker to feed strategic misinformation to North Korea's tyrannical regime.
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The First Lady
by James Patterson
When the First Lady disappears after her husband’s affair goes public, top secret agent Sally Grissom is charged with finding her and is faced with a twisted case after the White House receives a ransom note along with the First Lady’s finger.
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Forgotten Murder
by Dolores Gordon-Smith
After a friend has a disturbing vision in the garden of a smart suburban house, Jack Haldean uncovers a possible murder that happened there twenty years ago. But how do you solve a murder when there are no clues, no reliable witnesses and someone determined to stop you uncovering the truth?
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A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself
by William Boyle
Goodfellas meets Thelma and Louise when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures from their pasts.
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The Good Detective
by John McMahon
Struggling with his professional detachment after the death of his wife and son, once-promising detective P. T. Marsh is implicated in the death of an abusive man who is subsequently linked to a hate killing.
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House on Fire
by Bonnie MacDougal
Believing in the strength of their blended family, a couple are horrified when the son of one is charged in the drunk-driving death of the other's daughter, triggering a manslaughter trial that is rocked by conflicting accounts.
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The Last Act
by Brad Parks
Accepting a lucrative six-month job from the FBI, a struggling stage actor impersonates a felon to get close to the fearsome head of one of Mexico's deadliest cartels.
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The Last Second
by Catherine Coulter
When an eccentric treasure hunter finances a private space agency and augments its first satellite with a nuclear device, special agents Drummond and Caine race to prevent a corrupt scientist's apocalyptic plot.
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The Malta Exchange
by Steve Berry
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone races to Italy to secure a history-changing document with ties to a 900-year-old organization that would manipulate the selection of the next pope.
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Murder Once Removed
by S. C. Perkins
When a high-profile billionaire makes a history-changing claim on live television, genealogist Lucy Lancaster of Austin, Texas begins an investigation dating back to the mid-19th century before she is confronted by a modern descendant who would protect family secrets.
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Murder by Matchlight
by Martin Edwards
London, 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout when a man is murdered. C.I.D. MacDonald must unravel this near-impossible mystery in this terrifically atmospheric puzzler.
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Murder in Belgravia
by Lynn Brittney
A group of well-educated women form a special task force to investigate the murder of an aristocrat in 1915 London after his widow and primary suspect refuses to speak to men in the first novel of a new mystery series.
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Night Visitors
by Carol Goodman
A social worker living alone in a run-down house in the woods offers shelter to a young boy and a woman fleeing an abusive relationship before their lives are threatened by dangerous secrets.
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The Perfect Alibi
by Phillip Margolin
Two rape cases at the same bar are complicated by a prominent athlete's threats, baffling DNA evidence, suspicious attacks on case lawyers and a D.A.'s resolve to prosecute a killing in self-defense.
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The Persian Gamble
by Joel C. Rosenberg
A former U.S. Secret Service agent infiltrates enemy territory and forges a precarious alliance with a Russian double agent to halt a world-threatening nuclear alliance among enemy nations.
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The Reign of the Kingfisher
by T. J. Martinson
A retired reporter, a disgraced policewoman and a young hacktivist team up to uncover the truth when a gunman threatens to kill hostages in an unknown Chicago location unless the police admit to faking the death of the legendary Kingfisher.
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Run Away
by Harlan Coben
Discovering their drug-addicted daughter playing guitar in Central Park, a desperate narrator follows the young woman into a dark and dangerous world of unspeakable evil. By the award-winning author of the Myron Bolitar series.
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Save Me from Dangerous Men
by Saul Lelchuk
Operating a private-investigator business from an office above her bookstore, bibliophile and part-time vigilante Nikki Griffin becomes the target of dangerous adversaries when she breaks cover to save a woman's life.
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St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking
by Dana Haynes
This clever, fast-paced thriller introduces a decidedly odd crime-fighting couple—Michael Finnigan, a tough former U.S. marshal, and Katalin Fiero Dahar, a lethal ex-spy, who operate an illegal international bounty hunting enterprise based in Cyprus.
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The Stranger Diaries
by Elly Griffiths
A first stand-alone mystery by the author of the Ruth Galloway series finds a high-school English teacher chronicling her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary.
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Treason
by Rick Campbell
The Russian military overthrows the president in a coup after he refuses a plan to retake Ukraine and the Baltic States leaving the U.S. scrambling to rescue the imprisoned leader and help take back control before a continental war erupts.
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Unto Us a Son Is Given
by Donna Leon
When an elderly family friend is urged to bequeath his fortune to a specific heir before suddenly dropping dead, Commissario Guido Brunetti untangles a disturbing mystery from the victim's past.
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Wild Card
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington's peaceful country retreat with his latest paramour is interrupted by an unknown, ruthlessly vengeful adversary who orchestrates multiple plots targeting Manhattan, Barrington and his associates.
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Wolf Pack
by C. J Box
A wealthy poacher he has been ordered to ignore and the murderous acts of a local cartel complicate both the professional and personal lives of a newly reinstated Joe Pickett.
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The Cliff House
by RaeAnne Thayne
Growing up dependent on each other for everything, two orphaned sisters and their aunt reevaluate their choices at a crossroads in life.
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How to Marry a Highlander
by Michele Sinclair
Known far and wide for his skills with his sword and with seduction—Dugan, a commander in the McTiernay clan—meets his match in the mysterious Adanel Mackbaythe, who is using him as a means to escape her cruel father.
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Lady Derring Takes a Lover
by Julie Anne Long
On the hunt for a notorious smuggler, Captain Tristan Hardy is led to the Rogue’s Palace, a London boarding house, and sets out to seduce its beautiful blue-blooded proprietress, the Countess of Derring, to get the answers he seeks.
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Logan's Lady
by Rosanne Bittner
Embarking on an adventure to America after reading penny dreadfuls, wealthy Englishwoman Lady Elizabeth arrives excited to start a new life, only to be swindled by a gentlemanly thief, forcing her to place her trust in a dangerous man who hunts wanted men.
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Springtime at Hope Cottage
by Annie Rains
Containing a bonus story from Hope Ramsay, a heartwarming story follows a magazine editor as she, sidelined in Sweetwater Springs due to an injury, falls in love with her physical therapist and must choose between returning to the city or staying in this small town.
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Ancestral Night
by Elizabeth Bear
Two salvage operators searching through lost human and alien spaceships make a shocking discovery about a species long believed to be dead.
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The Bird King
by G. Willow Wilson
A concubine in the royal court of Granada at the height of the Spanish Inquisition and her mapmaker friend risk their lives to escape when the latter is accused of sorcery.
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A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Taking over for an ambassador who died a suspicious death, Mahit Dzmare investigates the potential murder while navigating the alien culture of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire, which is hiding a technological secret that could impact the universe.
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The Perfect Assassin
by K. A. Doore
A novice assassin is on the hunt for someone killing their own in this breakout high fantasy beginning the Chronicles of Ghadid series.
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Tiamat's Wrath
by James S. A. Corey
While Elvi Okoye weighs the consequences of uncovering the truth about weapons tied to an ancient genocide, Teresa Duarte navigates secrets and dangerous intrigues to fulfill her father's godlike ambition.
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