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Amnesia : A Novel
by Peter Carey
Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States.
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Before I Go
by Colleen Oakley
Confronting the final months of her life when her breast cancer aggressively returns, 27-year-old Daisy endeavors to find her beloved husband another wife, an effort that forces her to make difficult choices.
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Coyote
by Colin Winnette
A daughter disappears in the middle of the night. What happens in the aftermath of this tragedy, after the search is abandoned, after the TV crews move on to cover the latest horrific incident, is the story of COYOTE. There is a marriage and a detective. There is a storm, a talk show host, and a roasted boar. People are murdered and things are hidden. Coyotes skulk in the woods, a man stands by the fence, and a tale emerges within this familiar landscape of the violent unknown.
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Don't Let Him Know
by Sandip Roy
When Romola Mitra, a young Indian bride in the United States, stumbles upon a letter she was not meant to open, it changes her life. Decades later, her son, Amit, finds that letter among Romola's possessions and thinks he has discovered a secret about her. But secrets sometimes conceal deeper secrets. Sometimes the secrets that could break us apart are the same that glue us together.
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Driving the King
by Ravi Howard
Explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat Weary.
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The Empty Throne
by Bernard Cornwell
Supporting the widow of the dying ruler of 10th-century Mercia in her unconventional fight for leadership, wounded soldier Uhtred searches for his lost sword to regain his strength. By the best-selling author of The Pagan Lord.
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
by Emma Hooper
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
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The First Bad Man
by Miranda July
A haunted woman's reclusively ordered world is thrown into chaos by a houseguest who bullies her into reality and brings love into her life. A first novel by the best-selling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You.
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First Frost
by Sarah Addison Allen
A tale set 10 years after the events in Garden Spells finds Claire's happy contentment shattered by her father's revelations, which challenge everything she ever believed about herself.
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If I Fall, If I Die
by Michael Christie
A U.S. debut by the award-winning author of The Beggar's Garden follows the experiences of young Will, who is closeted in his home by a fiercely agoraphobic mother and who ventures out and makes a new friend with whom he searches for a missing boy.
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In Some Other World, Maybe
by Shari Goldhagen
Follows a group of teenagers throughout their lives after a shared 1992 experience at a theater showing the film version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. A razor-sharp, darkly comic page-turner.
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Lillian on Life
by Alison Jean Lester
In the early 1990s, Lillian, who was born in the Midwest in the 1930s, takes stock of her life, grappling with parental disappointment, societal expectations and wins and losses in love and creating her own brand of wisdom.
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Lost & Found
by Brooke Davis
An award-winning debut novel from Australia follows a shared encounter between an abandoned seven-year-old, a widowed shut-in and a nursing home escapee who embark on a road trip across Western Australia to find the child's mother.
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The Magician's Lie
by Greer Macallister
A debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murderand she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence.
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways
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Rodin's Lover
by Heather Webb
As a woman, aspiring sculptor Camille Claudel has plenty of critics, especially her ultra-traditional mother. But when Auguste Rodin makes Camille his apprentice--and his muse--their passion inspires groundbreaking works. Yet Camille's success is overshadowed by her lover's rising star, and her obsessions cross the line into madness. Rodin's Lover brings to life the volatile love affair between one of the era's greatest artists and a woman entwined in a tragic dilemma she cannot escape.
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The Sacrifice
by Joyce Carol Oates
A brutal act of racial violence against a 14-year-old girl shocks and galvanizes a racially torn New Jersey community, which becomes a maelstrom of strong personalities, police responses, media hype and secrets. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Accursed.
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The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
by Chris Scotton
Witnessing his younger brother's accidental death, teenaged Kevin spends the summer traumatized in his grandfather's Appalachia coal-mining community, which is fighting plans for a massive mountaintop-removal operation.
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Smoke Jensen, the Beginning
by William W. Johnstone
Explores the roots of the Jensen family, which spawned three generations of legendary frontiersman, by focusing on the clan's rugged patriarch, Smoke, and his fight for freedom and justice in the mountains of the West.
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Steadfast Heart
by Tracie Peterson
Refusing to consider an arranged marriage to her wealthy father's older business partner, Lenore unexpectedly falls for Chicago lawyer Kolbein, who has arrived in Seattle to prevent his sister from becoming a mail-order bride.
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Sweetland
by Michael Crummey
Refusing to leave when the few remaining citizens of his Canadian island shore community are offered resettlement packages, enigmatic Moses Sweetland recalls the town's rugged history and colorful characters. By the award-winning author of Galore.
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Trust No One
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Retreating to her hometown after her motivational speaker boss dies from alcohol poisoning, a traumatized Grace Elland shares a dreadful blind date with a venture capitalist who uses his skills as a former Marine to help her outmaneuver a stalker.
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West of Sunset
by Stewart O'Nan
A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood finds him reflecting on past events at the height of the Jazz Age while falling in love, struggling to hold his family together and penning The Last Tycoon.
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Arsenic and Old Books
by Miranda James
Charlie Harris preserves a set of Civil War-era diaries that several other residents of Athena, Mississippi, are literally willing to kill someone to get their hands on. Includes a bonus short story. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Silence of the Library.
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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
by C. Alan Bradley
Young chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again uses her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve a crime, but this time she leaves behind the English countryside and enters the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools. By the best-selling author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
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The Body Snatchers Affair
by Marcia Muller
Conducting a dual investigation in the opium dens of Chinatown, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon search for missing millionaires against a backdrop of a brewing tong war.
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The Book of Fires
by Paul Doherty
In the year 1381, sleuthing monk Brother Athelstan has been ordered to track down a ruthless killer known as the Fire Bringer.
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Breaking Creed : Introducing Ryder Creed
by Alex Kava
Receiving positive and negative attention after intercepting major drug deals with his canine assistants, ex-marine-turned-K9 search-and-rescue trainer Ryder Creed teams up with FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell to stop a human smuggling operation and halt a series of brutal murders.
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Bred to Kill : A Thriller
by Franck Thilliez
When a graduate student who was working at a primate research center outside of Paris is brutally murdered, Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko must solve a puzzling case involving genetics and paleontology that leads them to the dark side of human nature. An international best-seller by the author of Syndrome E.
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Cane and Abe
by James Grippando
Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife. By the best-selling author of The Pardon.
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The Carrier
by Sophie Hannah
Sharing a hotel room with a terrified stranger who claims Tim Breary, the only man Gaby has ever loved, is being wrongly imprisoned for murdering his wife, Gaby Struthers investigates why Tim has confessed to a crime he did not commit. By the author of Kind of Cruel.
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The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.
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The Great Zoo of China
by Matthew Reilly
Attending the opening of a magnificent zoo in China where a newly- discovered animal species is being housed, National Geographic expert Dr. CJ Cameron confronts unexpected dangers posed by the mysterious creatures.
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The Hangman's Song
by James Oswald
Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean must navigate through office politics if he is going to convince his superiors that a string of hangings is more than just a coincidental cluster of suicides.
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The Ice Queen
by Nele Neuhaus
A prequel to Snow White Must Die finds Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein investigating the murder of a Holocaust survivor who may have had ties to Hitler's SS.
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Insatiable Appetites
by Stuart Woods
Settling the estate of a respected friend and mentor, Barrington Stone uncovers secrets ranging from surprising to alarming while an underhanded foe stealthily spreads violent havoc.
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The Jaguar's Children
by John Vaillant
A man trapped inside a tanker truck during an illegal border crossing reflects on the trials of his life in Oaxaca and the events leading to his present circumstances while fellow passengers and he desperately wait for rescue. A first novel by the award-winning author of The Golden Spruce.
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The Martini Shot : A Novella and Stories
by George P. Pelecanos
A collection by the best-selling author of The Night Gardener features protagonists engaged in fights for their lives, from a claims investigator who tracks a supposed dead man to an aging loser who pursues respectability by becoming an informant. By the award-winning writer-producer of The Wire.
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Near Enemy : A Spademan Novel
by Adam Sternbergh
In a mystery set a year after the events of Shovel Ready, Spademan accepts a job to take out a hated philanderer, only to discover that the man holds information about a terrorist plot against the limnosphere.
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A Necessary End : A Percy Peach Police Procedural
by J. M. Gregson
The investigation led by DCI Percy Peach and DS Northcott into the murder of learned man Alfred Norbury reveals several people with good reason to hate the victim and the solution when it arrives is both unexpected and moving.
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One Step Too Far
by Tina Seskis
A woman leaves her happy family and home to reinvent herself as a completely different person, with no trace of her former self, working in a hip London ad agency, until a shocking revelation makes her face what she has done.
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A Pleasure and a Calling
by Phil Hogan
A real estate agent who keeps the keys to people's homes in order to spy on them finds his normal routine of prying into strangers' private things interrupted when a dead body is discovered in a neighbor's garden.
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Private Vegas
by James Patterson
Following leads on two criminals to Las Vegas, private detective Jack Morgan discovers a lucrative murder ring being controlled by a wealthy man who seduces beautiful women into becoming killers for hire.
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Puzzled Indemnity : A Puzzle Lady Mystery
by Parnell Hall
Hoping to escape a lonely winter by investigating a woman's suspicions that her husband is trying to kill her, Cora Felton discovers that the man is having an affair before having to prove her client's innocence in his subsequent murder. Includes six crosswords and a sudoku puzzle by Will Shortz.
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River of No Return : a Jake Trent Novel
by David Riley Bertsch
Ex-lawyer and current fishing guide, Jake Trent, helps his best friend, JP, search for his girlfriend, in the second book in this thrilling series that "fans of C.J. Box and Nevada Barr will relish" (Library Journal).
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Shark Skin Suite
by Tim Dorsey
A darkly whimsical romp starring the Sunshine State's lovable psychotic killer finds Serge Storms taking work as a freelance fixer in the style of his favorite legal movies before coming to the aid of a former flame who is being targeted by greedy bankers.
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A String of Beads : A Jane Whitefield Novel
by Thomas Perry
Approached by the leaders of the Seneca clans for help finding a childhood friend who has been accused of murdering a white man, Jane discovers that her friend is also being hunted by a sinister adversary.
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The Unquiet Dead
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Detective Esa Khattack and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, investigate the death of a local man who may have been a Bosnian war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in a haunting debut novel of loss, redemption and the cost of justice.
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Viking Bay
by M. A. Lawson
Working for the Callahan Group, a mysterious shadow government agency, Kay Hamilton goes undercover in Afghanistan to discover the political motives of an Afghani governor but instead finds herself at the epicenter of an international plot where there is no one she can trust.
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White Plague
by James Abel
When a technically-advanced sub carrying a lethal plague goes adrift in the Arctic, bio-terror expert Joe Rush must rescue the survivors and prevent the plague from falling into enemy hands.
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A Comfortable Wife
by Stephanie Laurens
Miss Antonia Mannering has plans for her childhood friend Lord Philip Ruthven, even though she hasn't seen him for years--plans that include her becoming his wife.
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Heartbreak Hotel
by Deborah Moggach
A mismatched collection of guests, including a cuckolded husband and a hypochondriac mail carrier, fill a run-down bed and breakfast opened by a retired actor in Wales. By the best-selling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
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In His Keeping : A Slow Burn Novel
by Maya Banks
#1 bestselling author Maya Banks continues her suspenseful and steamy Slow Burn series with this second book--a twisting tale featuring a strong yet vulnerable heroine in danger and the sexy alpha hero who must save her.
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The Marriage Charm
by Linda Lael Miller
After a group of women in Bliss County make a pact to find husbands, jewelry designer Melody Nolan tries to determine whether or not police chief Spence Hogan, a notorious charmer, is marriage material.
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Meet Me in Scotland
by Patience Griffin
Hiding out in the tiny town of Gandiegow, Scotland, after a video of her bashing the idea of "happily ever after" goes viral, marriage therapist Emma Castle uses this time to catch up with her old childhood friend, Claire, and to avoid the one man she hoped never to see again.
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Texas Mail Order Bride
by Linda Broday
Rancher Cooper Thorne thinks his life is finally on an even keel-until Delta Dandridge steps off the stagecoach and claims she's his mail order bride.
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The Deep
by Nick Cutter
When a seemingly miraculous healing agent is discovered in the Pacific in the wake of a devastating plague, a team of brave heroes descends through pitch-black waters to an incommunicado research lab in the ocean deep.
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Drifters
by John L. Campbell
The survivors of the Omega Virus band together to seek out the living amid the chaos of a destroyed civilization and encounter a new threat in the form of a hybrid monster that cannot be outrun or outwitted. By the author of Ship of the Dead.
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The Galaxy Game
by Karen Lord
A student at a school for psychic super-humans travels the universe with an intergalactic team and encounters strange alien cultures that help him discover himself. By the award-winning author of Redemption in Indigo.
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Golden Son
by Pierce Brown
A sequel to the New York Times best-selling Red Rising follows the efforts of tragedy-forged rebel hero Darrow to infiltrate the world of the elite Golds to secure his people's freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future.
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Inside a Silver Box
by Walter Mosley
Two people struggle to protect humanity from a imposing alien race that aims to regain control over the powerful Silver Box. By the award-winning author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries.
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The Just City
by Jo Walton
In Just City, a planned community populated by more than 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, its residents, consisting of gods and humans, discover that they must all learn from each other in order to survive this experiment and become their best selves.
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The Last American Vampire
by Seth Grahame-Smith
A follow-up to the best-selling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter follows the offbeat historical experiences of Reconstruction-era vampire Henry Sturges.
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Low Midnight
by Carrie Vaughn
Ex-convict Cormac Bennett and Amelia Parker, the Victorian magician living in his head, investigate an old murder in a Colorado mining town as they struggle to translate a book of magic whose secrets could prove very destructive.
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The Mime Order
by Samantha Shannon
A sequel to The Bone Season finds fugitive Paige Mahoney fleeing Scion while Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare for a rare assembly of the clairvoyant community that is clouded by dark secrets, the emergence of the Rephaim and an elusive Warden.
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Saint Odd : An Odd Thomas Novel
by Dean R. Koontz
A conclusion to the best-selling series finds psychic fry cook Odd Thomas returning to his home town while preparing to confront an evil force that tests his friendships, reveals his purpose and reunites him with a lost love.
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Strands of Sorrow
by John Ringo
In the thrilling conclusion to the Black Tide Rising series, the Wolf Squadron, its leader Steve Smith and what's left of the U.S. Navy band together to retake the mainland from the infected, while Smith's teenage daughters hold the key to the rebirth of civilization on a devastated planet. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Wolf Winter
by Cecilia Ekback
Moving with her husband and children to early 18th-century Swedish Lapland to escape the traumas of their life in Finland, Maija investigates a suspicious local death that reveals their new community's dark history of betrayals.
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