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New Fiction Titles - September 2017
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After the Flare
by Deji Bryce Olukotun
A catastrophic solar flare reshapes the world: in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, the only functioning space program in the world happens to be in Nigeria, and now the future depends on former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket and his team.
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All That Makes Life Bright: The Life and Love of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Josi S. Kilpack
Resolving to pursue her literary life and retain her identity after marrying the supportive, deeply religious Calvin Stowe, Harriet Beecher is overwhelmed by a pregnancy while her husband travels in Europe, a situation that makes her question her place in her husband's heart.
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Caroline: Little House, Revisited
by Sarah Miller
Authorized by the Little House estate, a retelling of the early pioneering journeys of the Ingalls family is told from the perspective of a pregnant Caroline, who in the frigid winter of 1870 leaves the safety of Wisconsin for a life of hazards and promise in unsettled Kansas Indian Territory.
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Cherished Mercy
by Tracie Peterson
Praying for peace after surviving the Whitman Massacre in childhood, Mercy travels to another mission to help a friend and bonds with a handsome young minister in the wake of a tragedy that tests the strength of her faith, in an uplifting conclusion to the series that includes Treasured Grace.
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A Column of Fire
by Ken Follett
A half-century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies, in a latest entry in the best-selling series that includes The Pillars of the Earth.
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Five-Carat Soul
by James McBride
The National Book Award-winning author presents a never-before-published collection of stories that are funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable and imaginative and authentic, and explore the ways we learn from the world and the people around us.
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Forest Dark
by Nicole Krauss
Giving away all of his personal possessions after retiring, a once-ambitious man embarks on a journey to honor his parents in Israel, where a blocked writer is drawn into a mystery that alters her life in unimaginable ways.
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George and Lizzie
by Nancy Pearl
A first novel by the "America's Librarian" NPR books commentator traces the story of a couple challenged by very different views of love and marriage, who must confront their disparate feelings of fulfillment as well as a difficult secret from the past.
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The Good People
by Hannah Kent
Three women in 19th-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes.
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes
by Jamie Ford
A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
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The Ninth Hour
by Alice McDermott
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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The Other Alcott
by Elise Hooper
A tale inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott's youngest sister finds young May longing to study art outside of the confines of her Concord home before turning down a marriage proposal and pursuing an identity in contrast to the spoiled and worldly character of Amy in her sister's famed novel.
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The River Bank: A Sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
by Kij Johnson
In this delightful dive into the bygone world of The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings, lost letters, and family secrets-lavishly illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Kathleen Jennings.
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Second Chance Girl
by Susan Mallery
A biologist finds herself falling for her handsome neighbor after they spend time together trying to adopt a herd for her lonely giraffe, in the second novel of the series following You Say It First.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
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Solar Bones
by Mike McCormack
On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one of Ireland's most important contemporary novelists, SolarBones builds its own style and language one broken line at a time.
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Something Like Happy
by Eva Woods
Thirty-five-year-old Annie Hebden is stuck in a rut until her bubbly new friend, Polly Leonard, challenges her to try a new way to be happy each day for 100 days.
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Sourdough
by Robin Sloan
Enduring a virtually solitary existence working for an ambitious software company, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology.
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The Summer That Made Us
by Robyn Carr
Returning to her childhood summer home to rebuild her life after losing her job, a television talk-show host is flooded with memories of the summers she spent with her sisters and cousins before a tragic event that they seem to remember quite differently.
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To Be Where You Are
by Jan Karon
Father Tim Kavanagh struggles to find meaning in an unexpected new job, while newlyweds Dooley and Lace are stricken by a crisis that overshadows their happiness, and four-year-old Jack Tyler looks forward to the biggest day of his young life.
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
by Eleanor Henderson
When a Depression-era girl gives birth to twins including one that is dark skinned, a black man is murdered amid allegations of rape, an act that reverberates throughout the plantation and forces the young mother to raise her children in an environment fraught with lies.
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Under a Pole Star
by Stef Penney
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of 12 and fell in love with the unforgiving terrain, and, in 1889, despite those who believe that a woman has no place in this harsh world, she heads back to Greenland at the head of a British expedition.
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We Were Strangers Once
by Betsy Carter
Escaping Germany on the eve of World War II, a successful Jewish doctor and son of two famous naturalists finds himself in a tight-knit group of fellow immigrants in Manhattan who share the stories of respective degradations and triumphs.
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The Whole of the Moon
by Brian Rogers
Six crisscrossing narratives are set along historic Route 66, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby.
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The World of Tomorrow
by Brendan Mathews
Fleeing Ireland for New York City after stealing a small fortune from the IRA, three brothers immerse themselves in the cultural and political tensions of 1939, only to find their lives falling apart when they are tracked down by a hired assassin.
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The Blackbird Season
by Kate Moretti
After a student claiming to have had an affair with a popular school teacher and coach goes missing, the teacher is the main suspect.
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The Blind: A Chilling Psychological Suspense
by A. F. Brady
As accomplished Manhattan psychologist Sam James gets pulled into patient Richard’s twisted past, she can’t help but analyze her own life, and what she discovers terrifies her.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
Forced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman.
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The Blood Card
by Elly Griffiths
Edgar Stephens heads to New York to investigate a mesmerist who may be involved in the death of a British war hero right before the coronation of Elizabeth II, in the latest installment of the series following Smoke and Mirrors.
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Body on Baker Street A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery
by Vicki Delany
When the author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series comes to their bookshop for an author signing—and winds up dead—owners Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson must do their best to clear the name of one of their patrons and deduce the real killer.
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A Casualty of War
by Charles Todd
Caring for an increasingly unstable soldier who believes his cousin is responsible for multiple injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
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The Cuban Affair
by Nelson DeMille
When his shaky finances compel him to accept a lucrative job for a 10-day fishing tournament to Cuba, Army combat veteran-turned-charter boat captain Mac learns that one of his clients is seeking to claim millions hidden by her grandfather, who was forced to flee Castro's revolution years earlier.
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Death at the Seaside: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
by Frances Brody
A visit to a fortune-teller friend's home in Whitby is interrupted by the disappearance of the woman's daughter, an event that leads to a shocking discovery and roadblocks by local officials who would maintain the community's idyllic façade.
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The Devouring
by James R. Benn
Sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a banking official with ties to the OSS, Billy and Kaz crash-land in France, where they encounter a vengeful member of the Sinti ethic group who is slaughtering Nazis at the same time Swiss banks begin laundering gold stolen from concentration camp victims.
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Don't Let Go
by Harlan Coben
When suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas gets a lead on Maura, an ex who left him without explanation 15 years earlier, he searches for answers and uncovers dark secrets about the woman he once loved and the real reason behind his twin brother's death.
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The Downside
by Mike Cooper
Cracking the most heavily guarded private vault in North America? No problem. Hauling $50 million in precious metal out past guards, policemen, and an armored SWAT battalion? Even easier. But navigating the betrayals of double-crossing partners, the machinations of a hedge-fund billionaire gone bad, and the ambiguous proposals of a woman with her own agenda will truly test Finn’s mettle, and he’ll need nerves of steel just to get out alive.
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An Echo of Murder
by Anne Perry
Investigating the gruesome murder of a Hungarian warehouse owner, Thames River Police Commander Monk is challenged to rethink his crime-solving techniques in order to avoid being caught in the crosshairs of violence stemming from ethnic prejudice.
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Enemy of the State
by Kyle Mills
In the aftermath of a secret non-aggression pact that America will cover up evidence of Saudi involvement in the September 11 attacks in exchange for oil, evidence of hostile Saudi activity forces Mitch Rapp to resign from the CIA and assume the guise of a traitor as part of a covert mission to keep the peace.
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Enigma
by Catherine Coulter
Agents Savich and Sherlock network with agent Cam Wittier and New York Special Forces agent Jack Cabot in a race against time to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe.
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The Essence of Malice
by Ashley Weaver
Traveling to Paris with Milo to investigate the death of a famous parfumier, Amory discovers that the victim was just about to release a highly anticipated new fragrance and had been increasingly targeted by industry rivals and heirs who would seize control of his empire.
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Fever
by Deon Meyer
Expert boy marksman Nico Storm and his wise-leader father, Willem, must forge a new community in South Africa from the few survivors of a deadly virus.
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
by David Lagercrantz
Accepting help from investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the truth about her traumatic childhood, Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, navigates dangerous obstacles in the form of an anti-Muslim gang, her mafia-connected twin and the conductors of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment.
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The Golden House
by Salman Rushdie
A thriller inspired by today's headlines follows the experiences of a real-estate tycoon and his mysterious, corrupt family, who become the subjects of an aspiring filmmaker's project before revelations of monstrous past activities give way to the rise of a mad presidential candidate.
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Haunted
by James Patterson
Vacationing in the Maine woods after a series of traumatic crises, detective Michael Bennett is pulled into the case of a series of child disappearances from a tight-knit community that is reeling from a deadly addiction.
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Keep Her Safe
by Sophie Hannah
A British woman's relaxing holiday at a sunny Arizona resort transforms into a dark, obsessive quest for the truth when she becomes convinced that another guest is the woman who disappeared in a sensational headline case years earlier.
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Last Flag Flying
by Darryl Ponicsan
Three men reprise a journey they made 34 years prior, from Norfolk to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in order to transport a fallen soldier’s remains home from Arlington National Cemetery, in this sequel to the popular cult novel, The Last Detail.
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A Legacy of Spies
by John Le Carré
A long-anticipated new Smiley novel finds George Smiley, his colleague Peter Guillam and other former members of the British Secret Service facing charges for decades-old, once-toasted intelligence operations by a generation that is unfamiliar with the dynamics of the Cold War.
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Lie to Me
by J.T. Ellison
When his wife, Sutton, disappears while they are having marital problems, leaving behind a note saying not to look for her, Ethan Montclair becomes the target of vicious gossip as friends, family and the media speculate on what really happened to Sutton.
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Lightning Men
by Thomas Mullen
Officers Smith, Rake and Boggs and their sergeant navigate volatile racial tensions in 1950 Atlanta, including Rake's once-white neighborhood's violent efforts to force out Smith's black family and an upsurge in drug territory wars.
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Madness Treads Lightly
by Polina Dashkova
Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, 14 years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead.
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Murderous Mistral: a Provence Mystery
by Cay Rademacher
Vilified for his successful corruption investigations into his colleagues, Capitaine Roger Blanc is relocated to the south of France at the expense of his marriage and tackles a first murder case involving a reviled outsider whose demise is linked to the dark undercurrents of Provence.
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Proof of Life
by Judith A. Jance
When his longtime nemesis dies in what is officially declared an accidental fire, uncomfortably retired J. P. Beaumont is unexpectedly dragged into an ensuing investigation at the request of the deceased.
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The Quality of Mercy
by Katayoun Medhat
Quixotic cop Franz Kafka's small-town routine is disrupted by a mysterious death at Chimney Rock. Navajo cop Robbie Begay joins the murder investigation, which leads the mismatched duo across the reservation into the victim's fraught past, to associates living under the shadow of heinous crimes, cunningly camouflaged meth-merchants, and sweet-natured squash-growers.
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Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Struggling to hold himself together through Suitcase Simpson's wedding while grieving the loss of his fiancée, Jesse Stone investigates the death of an elderly woman whose demise may be linked to the disappearance of a master recording tape by a decades-reclusive music genius.
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The Romanov Ransom
by Clive Cussler
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo investigate a kidnapping that may be linked to the Nazi-stolen Romanov ransom, a case that is complicated by the heinous acts of a guerrilla faction that would establish the Fourth Reich.
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The Seagull
by Ann Cleeves
Following leads to the site of a missing con man's body, Inspector DI Vera Stanhope discovers links between the cold case, a 1980s bar and her own father.
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Sleeping Beauties
by Stephen King
A father-son collaboration envisions a near-future where the women succumb to a sleeping disease, the men revert to their increasingly primal natures and one woman, mysteriously immune, struggles to survive in an Appalachian prison town where she is treated alternately as a demon and a lab specimen.
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A Tale of Two Kitties
by Sofie Kelly
When one of two estranged brothers is found murdered, Kathleen Paulson and her highly attuned feline helpers are challenged to dig deep into the town's history to clear a lead suspect's name and find the real culprit.
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This Side of Murder
by Anna Lee Huber
England, 1919. Verity Kent’s grief over the loss of her husband pierces anew when she receives a cryptic letter, suggesting her beloved Sidney may have committed treason before his untimely death. Verity’s first impulse is to dismiss the derogatory claim, but the mystery sender knows too much—including the fact that during the war, Verity worked for the Secret Service.
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Trace
by Archer Mayor
While Joe Gunther takes time off to care for an ailing family member, the VBI finds their hands full with three separate big cases involving a roommate's murder by contract, the cold-case double murder of a state trooper and motorist and an act of sabotage on critical military equipment.
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Turkey Trot Murder
by Leslie Meier
An uneventful Thanksgiving season is shattered by the overdose-related death of a wealthy investor's beautiful daughter, a tragedy that Lucy Stone links to the possible schemes of the victim's pregnant stepmother.
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The Unquiet Grave
by Sharyn McCrumb
A tale based on the bizarre 1897 case of the Greenbrier Ghost follows the "talking therapy" of an asylum inmate, a black attorney who decades earlier helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride, who famously implicated her husband from beyond the grave.
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The Western Star
by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire navigates a violent convergence of his past and present during a parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men he has ever met, a criminal whose thirst for vengeance threatens everyone Walt cares about and echoes complicated dynamics from a Vietnam-era sheriff's convention.
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Wicked Deeds
by Heather Graham
A romantic weekend for historian Vickie Preston and special agent Griffin Pryce is interrupted by the murder of a popular author in a literature-themed restaurant, a case with disturbing parallels to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Duchess Deal
by Tessa Dare
After returning from war, the Duke of Ashbury decides he needs an heir and offers a marriage proposal to a vicar’s daughter turned seamstress who happens to be in his library wearing a wedding gown.
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The Duke
by Katharine Ashe
When a woman from his past arrives at his castle in the Highlands, demanding answers, Gabriel Hume, known to society as the Devil’s Duke, embarks on a game of wit and desire with Lady Amarantha Vale to keep her from learning his darkest secret.
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Going Dark
by Monica McCarty
Swept up in a dangerous conspiracy during a trip to the Western Isles of Scotland to protest a hazardous offshore drilling venture, marine ecologist Annie Henderson teams up dive boat captain Dan Warren who, unbeknownst to her, is on a mission of his own. The members of a top-secret SEAL Team can’t keep their passion under wraps in this thrilling contemporary romantic suspense series.
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No Time to Explain
by Kate Angell
When he strikes out with Stevie, a beautiful woman with a smart mouth, Richmond Rogues’ left-fielder Joe “Zoo” Zooker goes to bat to win her over, but Stevie refuses to acknowledge her attraction to this notorious player who will break her heart.
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Too Scot to Handle
by Grace Burrowes
Former army captain turned titled gentleman Colin MacHugh fights to keep his bachelorhood safe from the marriage-minded debutantes until he meets Miss Anwen Windham who needs his help in raising money for the local orphanage.
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The End of the World Running Club
by Adrian J. Walker
A best-selling post-apocalyptic thriller from the UK follows the harrowing experiences of a man stranded on the wrong side of the country who pushes his limits to traverse more than 500 miles of devastated wasteland to return to his family.
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The Man in the Tree
by Sage Walker
When the decimation of Earth compels the world's nations to pool their last resources to build a seed ship to carry colonists on a multigenerational journey to a distant planet, a suspicious death prompts a determined effort to prevent a saboteur from threatening the mission.
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Secrets in Death
by J. D. Robb
When a professional gossip informant is murdered in a chic Manhattan hotspot, Eve Dallas learns that the woman had been hiding her most shocking information through a system of strategic blackmail, a situation that forces Eve to uncover sordid secrets that threaten her own safety.
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