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New Fiction - February 2020
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The American Fiancée
by Éric Dupont
Follows three generations of the Lamontagnes family as they travel the world experiencing passion, jealousy, revenge and death, from the family patriarch, Louis, who served in World War II to his ladies' man grandson, Gabriel.
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Apeirogon
by Colum McCann
Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace.
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Bird Summons
by Leila Aboulela
Three active members of a Muslim women’s group take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, where each confronts the contrast between their hearts and their realities.
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An Everyday Hero
by Laura Trentham
Greer Hadley gives up her Nashville music dreams and returns to her tiny hometown of Madison, Tennessee. After a series of events, she finds herself the temporary music teacher at a local charity dedicated to aiding veterans and their families in this emotionally layered novel about loss, love and second chances.
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Everywhere You Don't Belong
by Gabriel Bump
Raised by a civil-rights activist grandmother on the South Side of Chicago, Claude McKay Love searches for a sense of belonging before a riot compels his departure for college, where he discovers he cannot escape his past.
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The Fifth Avenue Story Society
by Rachel Hauck
Five New Yorkers each receive a mysterious invitation to join a “story society” in this exhilarating inspirational - a captivating novel about the healing power of story, community and love.
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Adunni, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.
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Isaiah's Legacy
by Mesu Andrews
The drama of the Old Testament comes to life as Judah's most notorious king ascends to the throne in this gripping novel from the award-winning author of Isaiah's Daughter.
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The King at the Edge of the World
by Arthur Phillips
A secret Muslim warrior from the height of England’s religious battles is sent to Scotland to uncover the true nature of James VI’s actual religious beliefs while an heirless Elizabeth I lies on her deathbed.
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The Lost Diary of M
by Paul Wolfe
A reimagining of the life of Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer traces her marriage to a CIA chief, presidential affair and LSD experiments before her baffling murder a year after JFK's assassination.
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The Mercies
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
In Finnmark, Norway, 1617, after 40 fishermen are drowned in the sea, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardo must fend for themselves especially when a sinister figure arrives, bringing with him a mighty evil that threatens their very existence.
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More Than We Remember
by Christina Suzann Nelson
The lives of three women living in the small town of West Crow, Ore., intersect in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in this story of how community and faith help people through difficult times.
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Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
As the countdown to the New Year begins, soon-to-be-19 Oona Lockhart faints and awakens 32 years in the future in her 51-year-old body; and, greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random.
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A Perfect Explanation
by Eleanor Anstruther
A debut novel based on true events from the author’s grandmother’s life follows the experiences of an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and life of privilege in search of something to claim as her own.
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Promises of the Heart
by Nan Rossiter
Macey and Ben Samuelson discover the true meaning of family and that love doesn’t have to be complicated, even though life is, when a three-legged Golden Retriever and a nine-year-old foster girl with a heart condition come into their lives.
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The Queen's Fortune
by Allison Pataki
A historical novel inspired by the life of Desiree Clary finds the future queen of Sweden and Norway entering a secret engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte before imperial uprisings and his relationship with rising-star Josephine places her life at risk.
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Red Letter Days
by Sarah-Jane Stratford
A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London, where they find creative freedom and fight the injustices of the Red Scare.
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The Resisters
by Gish Jen
Enduring life on the margins in a near-future world ruthlessly divided between the employed and unemployed, a once-professional couple give birth to an athletically gifted child, whose attention by the government compels her mother to challenge society’s foundations.
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Saint X
by Alexis Schaitkin
When a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with one of the men originally suspected of killing her sister, Claire, hoping to gain his trust and learn the truth, forms an unlikely attachment with this man whose life is forever marked by the same tragedy.
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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
A young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. Perfect for getting lost in, Stuart's richly wrought coming-of-age saga is a masterpiece.
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Sisters by Choice
by Susan Mallery
Three cousins navigate the joys and dramas of family life, including a former business owner struggling to adapt to small-town dynamics, an aspiring college student and a wife who must choose between her husband and her dreams.
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The Wanting Life
by Mark Rader
Set in Door County, WI, Father Paul, a closeted gay Catholic priest who’s dying of cancer, reflects on his life while his sister, Britta, and niece, Maura, grapple with their own choices they've made in this poignant debut novel.
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Weather
by Jenny Offill
Hired by her famous podcaster mentor to answer letters from increasingly polarized fans, a librarian who has acquired her education from a lifetime spent reading struggles between the limits of her knowledge and growing crises in the outside world.
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Wolf
by Herbert J. Stern
Drawing on brand-new historical research to construct a realistic portrait of the evolving Hitler, this work of fiction follows an amnesiac soldier in 1918 who encounters Hitler in the mental ward at Pasewall Hospital and forms an unbreakable bond with this man known as “Wolf.”
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The Women in Black
by Madeleine St. John
This charming and uplifting debut novel, set in a department store in Sydney, portrays the roles of women in the 1950s and the timeless importance of female friendship.
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Above the Bay of Angels
by Rhys Bowen
When a twist of fate lands her in Queen Victoria’s kitchen, a talented young chef is selected to accompany a royal retinue, only to be wrongly implicated in a murder.
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All the Best Lies
by Joanna Schaffhausen
Suspended cop Ellery Hathaway helps her friend, FBI agent Reed Markham, try to finally solve the mystery behind who murdered his mother 40 years ago.
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The Aosawa Murders
by Riku Onda
In the 1960s, 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime.
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The Big Lie
by James Grippando
When a corrupt President is narrowly reelected by the Electoral College but not the popular vote, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is embroiled in a political frenzy involving an opponent’s refusal to concede and a lobbyist’s fateful decision.
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Blindside
by James Patterson
Agreeing to help the mayor of New York track down his missing daughter in exchange for leniency for his imprisoned son, detective Michael Bennett investigates a tricky homicide before uncovering ties to a sophisticated hacking operation.
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The Burn
by Kathleen Kent
A Dallas detective struggles to adjust at work and home after a run-in with an apocalyptic cult while trying to track down crooked cops and the cult leader who had taken her hostage.
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The Case of the Reincarnated Client
by Tarquin Hall
A client claiming she was murdered in a past life is a novel dilemma even for Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator, in Hall’s lively, amusing fifth mystery set in Delhi.
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The Chill
by Scott Carson
A century after an early 20th-century New York community is intentionally flooded to redistribute water downstate, an inspector overseeing a dangerously neglected dam uncovers a prophecy that warns of additional sacrifices.
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Coconut Layer Cake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Racing home to wintry Minnesota when her sister’s boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is implicated in a murder case, Hannah struggles with Lonnie’s foggy memory about driving the victim home.
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The Coldest Warrior
by Paul Vidich
When the release of the Rockefeller Commission report implicates the CIA in the death of a bioweapons scientist decades earlier, agent Jack Gabriel confronts a life-threatening cover-up at the highest levels of government.
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Crooked River
by Douglas J. Preston
Investigating dozens of grisly blue shoes containing severed human feet floating in the ocean off the coast of Florida, Pendergast and Junior Agent Coldmoon make harrowing discoveries while confronting an adversary of unimaginable power.
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The Dark Corners of the Night
by Meg Gardiner
Hunting a serial killer who has been murdering parents in front of their children, FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix discovers that the killer holds a devastating secret from Caitlin’s own past.
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Dead to Her
by Sarah Pinborough
Navigating her new husband’s complicated social circle and wandering eye, a mistress-turned-wife becomes ruthless when her husband begins an affair with his boss’s own second wife.
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A Divided Loyalty
by Charles Todd
Investigating the murder of an unknown victim who was found within a great prehistoric circle near Stonehenge, Rutledge follows unreliable clues to an impossible conclusion that places him on the wrong side of Scotland Yard.
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Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace
by Patricia Marcantonio
A sequel to Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit finds Felicity clashing with Scotland Yard Inspector Jackson Davies to investigate the murder of her mentor at the British Museum amid the theft of a priceless manuscript.
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Firewatching
by Russ Thomas
South Yorkshire Detective Sergeant and cold-case reviewer Adam Tyler teams up with ambitious fellow outsider, Muslim constable Amina Rabbani, to investigate a high-profile murder in which the main suspect is the victim’s son, Adam’s recent one-night stand.
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Golden in Death
by J. D. Robb
Homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates the springtime murder of a beloved pediatrician by an unknown killer who hid a deadly toxin inside of a small golden egg.
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The Holdout
by Graham Moore
A woman is wrongly implicated in a murder one decade after convincing the members of a deadlocked jury to return a not-guilty verdict.
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In Cold Chamomile
by Joy Avon
When her Valentine’s Day soiree at Haywood Hall is disrupted by a library dispute, the appearance of an old flame and an untimely murder, Callie confronts difficult choices to help her great-aunt Iphy bring a killer to justice.
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The Killing Tide
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
A reluctant Commissaire Dupin and his team investigate a puzzling summertime case on a remote island off the coast of Brittany that is shrouded in myth about the witches that are believed to have once lived there.
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The King's Justice
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Secret agent and spy Maggie Hope, traumatized by her past and living dangerously, gets entangled in another crime when a stolen violin is linked to a serial killer terrorizing London during World War II.
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The Last Passenger
by Charles Finch
A conclusion to the prequel trilogy finds Victorian detective Charles Lenox defying Scotland Yard and navigating the dual challenges of royal obstinance and class prejudice to investigate the murder of a first-class passenger at Paddington Station.
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The Museum of Desire
by Jonathan Kellerman
When a crime of unprecedented malice occurs in a deserted Bel Air mansion, LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware navigate blind mazes in their efforts to identify links among the victims and how they were killed.
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One Day You'll Burn
by Joseph Schneider
Investigating a brutal burning murder that he discovers to be ritualistic in nature, LAPD detective Tully Jarsdel navigates professional conflicts while risking his life to infiltrate the city’s notorious underworld.
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One Minute Out
by Mark Greaney
Uncovering a human trafficking operation while in Croatia, Court Gentry follows its ringleader to Hollywood before encountering unexpected interference by his CIA handlers.
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The Only Child
by Mi-ae Seo
When serial killer Yi Byeongdo asks to speak to her, and her husband’s 11-year-old daughter from a previous marriage shows up at their door, criminal psychologist Seonkyeong starts to unravel the pasts of the two new arrivals in her life and begins to see startling similarities.
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Origami Man
by Matthew Fitzsimmons
Former Marine, brilliant hacker, and wanted fugitive Gibson Vaughn is off the grid in the Caymans. Then his nemesis, the ice-cold assassin Tinsley, draws him out of the shadows with data pertaining to a terrorist plot threatening to cause half a million deaths - necessitating an uneasy partnership.
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The Other Mrs.
by Mary Kubica
Unnerved by her husband’s inheritance of a decrepit coastal property and the presence of a disturbed relative, community newcomer Sadie uncovers harrowing facts about her family’s possible role in a neighbor’s murder.
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Perfect Little Children
by Sophie Hannah
Spying on a former best friend she has not seen in years, Beth is alarmed when she discovers that the woman’s children do not appear to have aged. By the best-selling author of The Monogram Murders.
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Robert Ludlum's the Treadstone Resurrection
by Joshua Hood
When he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague and is then attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site, former Treadstone agent-turned-carpenter Adam Hayes is forced to come out of retirement to discover who wants him dead.
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Salt River
by Randy Wayne White
When his reckless bachelor friend reveals that he has fathered numerous children through sperm-bank donations, Doc Ford races to prevent his friend’s past misdeeds from turning deadly during an impromptu family reunion.
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The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
A young woman takes a night-clerk job at the same roadside motel from where her aunt went missing decades earlier before uncovering the work of a serial killer.
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Things in Jars
by Jess Kidd
Detective Bridie Devine investigates the kidnapping of a nobleman’s illegitimate daughter, whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the attention of sinister collectors in the underworld’s curiosities trade.
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The Third to Die
by Allison Brennan
A disgraced detective teams up with an ambitious FBI special agent to prevent a cycle of murders by a killer who ended the life of a colleague’s sister.
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Thunder Bay
by Douglas Skelton
When a suspected murderer returns to the island of Stoirm, reporter Rebecca Connolly smells a story and teams up with a local reporter to dig up the truth, which sets in motion a chain of violent events.
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Trouble Is What I Do
by Walter Mosley
Detective Leonid McGill is forced to confront the ghost of his felonious past when a nonagenarian Mississippi bluesman is targeted by an infamous assassin.
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The Wages of Sin
by Judith Cutler
Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft, Matthew Rowsley is distracted from his tasks on the country estate by the disappearance of a housemaid, and teams up with housekeeper Mrs. Faulkner to get to the bottom of the matter.
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The Warsaw Protocol
by Steve Berry
Investigating the thefts of the seven Arma Christi relics from their international sanctuaries, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone learns that the relics are being demanded by a blackmailer in possession of incriminating evidence against the president of Poland.
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Watching from the Dark
by Gytha Lodge
When a vibrant young woman is murdered over video chat, a small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets.
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Calling on Quinn
by Blue Saffire
Quinn Blackheart is a private investigator, former cop, and no-nonsense, take-charge kind of guy. When he starts a relationship with Alicia Rhodes, who is ready to move on from her troubled past, Blackheart must protect her at all costs when his own past comes back with a vengeance.
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Forbidden Promises
by Synithia Williams
Recruited by her politician brother to work with her older sister’s ex-husband, with whom she is in love, violinist India Robidoux and Travis Strickland have a secret affair that neither of them wants to stop until family loyalties and desperate enemies threaten to tear them apart.
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An Inconvenient Duke
by Anna Harrington
Dedicating her life to a charity that helps abused women, Danielle agrees to help Marcus Braddock, Duke of Hampton, who is back from the war, investigate the death of his sister and her best friend—a partnership that leads to danger, passion and love.
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The Worst Best Man
by Mia Sosa
The top wedding coordinator in Washington, D.C., Carolina Santos is offered an opportunity of a lifetime, but there is just one hitch—she has to collaborate with the best man from her own failed nuptials—and decides to dish out a little payback of her own until the unexpected happens.
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The Boatman's Daughter
by Andy Davidson
A stunning supernatural Southern gothic literary horror novel about a young woman facing down drug dealers, a crooked cop, and a mad preacher on the banks of an Arkansas river.
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The Last Day
by Andrew Hunter Murray
In a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future—with clear parallels to today’s headlines—humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled onto a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden.
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The Last Smile in Sunder City
by Luke Arnold
A former soldier turned PI tries to help the fantasy creatures whose lives he ruined in a world that's lost its magic in a compelling debut fantasy.
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The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
by Natasha Pulley
A sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street takes readers to 1880s Japan, where nationalism is on the rise, ghosts roam the streets and Keita Mori is missing.
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Star Trek: Picard: the Last Best Hope
by Una McCormack
An original prequel novel based on the new Star Trek series centered around iconic Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard introduces the next generation of fans to favorite and new characters.
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Stormsong
by C. L. Polk
A young politician confronts affairs of state, the dark secrets of the past, considerable emotional turmoil, and the weather in this follow-up to the World Fantasy Award-winning Witchmark. Magical cabals, otherworldly avengers, and impossible love affairs conspire to create a book that refuses to be put down.
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The Unspoken Name
by A. K. Larkwood
Destined to become a sacrifice on behalf of her superstitious people, Csorwe accepts a powerful mage’s alternate offer to become his bodyguard and spy to help him reclaim his power in the land from where he was exiled.
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