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American Housewife : Stories
by Helen Ellis
A collection of stories featuring conventional, if ruthless, housewives features a rigged reality television show, a unique book club initiation ritual and the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop.
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Best Friends Forever
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Tensions in Celine and Keith's marriage are complicated by Celine's diagnosis with breast cancer, a situation that strengthens her bond with best friend Lauren and forces her to make difficult decisions about her future.
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Blue
by Danielle Steel
Surviving the crash that kills her beloved husband and preschooler son, reporter Ginny Carter becomes a human rights worker in war-torn countries to escape her own grief before meeting a remarkable homeless boy with whom she forges a healing bond.
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Dictator
by Robert Harris
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Imperium and Conspirata explores themes of personal freedom in the face of ambition and corruption against a backdrop of such historical events as the collapse of the Roman republic and the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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Confucius Jane
by Katie Lynch
When she falls in love with Jane Morrow, whom, on leave from grad school, she met at her local noodle shop in New York City's Chinatown, medical student Sutton St. James, who is at a career crossroads, must protect Jane and the community she's come to love when her father's scandalous secret threatens her family and her reputation.
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The Dressmaker's War
by Mary Chamberlain
Brought to Paris by an Austrian aristocrat who disappears when World War II breaks out, Ada, a talented dressmaker, survives by working for Nazi wives and is forced to endure the consequences of her choices years later.
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The Expatriates
by Janice Y. K. Lee
A traumatized college graduate, a lonely housewife and a burned-out mother of three endure the challenges of their respective demons and families in the face of unexpected consequences within their American expat community in Hong Kong.
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Fallen Land
by Taylor Brown
A couple races through the destroyed South, relying on the kindness of strangers and foraging from abandoned farms, as they flee a slave hunter, tracking dogs and ex-partisan rangers during the final year of the Civil War.
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The Forgotten Room
by Karen White
A young doctor is unwittingly drawn into a mystery surrounding three generations of her family after a critically wounded military captain is brought to the hospital in critical condition.
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Girl Through Glass
by Sari Wilson
Told through interweaving narratives that move between past and present, a debut novel follows a young ballerina of rare talent whose life is upended when she falls in love with her much-older mentor, and a professor of dance at a Midwestern college who has a risky affair with a student that threatens to destroy everything she has worked so hard for.
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The Golden Son
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
After his father dies, an Indian doctor doing his medical residency in Texas becomes the head of his family's small village back home. By the internationally best-selling author of Secret Daughter.
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The Guest Room
by Chris Bohjalian
When the bachelor party her husband is hosting goes murderously wrong, Kristin finds her life spiraling into a nightmare of accusations, shame and betrayal while a girl hired to provide entertainment at the party flees for her life from murderous gangsters.
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Hunters in the Dark
by Lawrence Osborne
Traveling aimlessly across the Thai-Cambodia border, a 30-something English teacher unexpectedly wins at the gambling table and finds his fate intertwined with the lives of a cast of sophisticated and dangerous new friends.
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The Kindness of Enemies
by Leila Aboulela
While researching the life of a 19th-century Muslim leader who led a resistance against Russia during the Caucasian War, a history professor discovers that one of her students is descended from the historical figure and also possesses his sword.
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Love in Lowercase
by Francesc Miralles
A homebody linguistics teacher in Barcelona has his world turned upside down when a stray cat, Mishima, introduces him to places he's never been and people he's never met, in an internationally best-selling romantic comedy.
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Mr. Splitfoot
by Samantha Hunt
Interweaving two separate narratives in different points of time that move toward the same point in crisis, a contemporary gothic novel follows Cora, who finds herself accidentally pregnant, as she is taken on a strange mission by her Aunt Ruth, who is mute and full of intention, across the entire state of New York toward a mysterious reckoning,
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My Name is Lucy Barton
by Elizabeth Strout
After an appendix operation puts her in the hospital, New York writer Lucy Barton reconnects with her estranged mother as the pair reminisce about the past. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
by Carl Weber
Ripped from the pages of his best-selling novel To Paris with Love, Carl Weber brings you the story of Niles Monroe, the hitman who will become Paris Duncan's one true love.
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Oblivion
by Sergey Lebedev
In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past.
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Only Love Can Break Your Heart
by Ed Tarkington
Struggling to come to terms with the worshipped older brother who disappeared seven years earlier, 15-year-old Rocky is seduced by a wealthy older girl in the wake of a mysterious double murder that forces the town to confront past misdeeds.
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Only the Stones Survive
by Morgan Llywelyn
Orphaned when the Gaels invaded the peaceful island home of the Túatha Dé Danann, Joss tries to reunite his broken and scattered people. By the author of Lion of Ireland.
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The Past
by Tessa Hadley
Assembling at their country house one final time before it is sold, four siblings and their children share past memories, hidden passions and devastating secrets that threaten to overwhelm them.
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The Portable Veblen
by Elizabeth McKenzie
An aimless amateur translator struggling under the thumb of an oppressive parent and an ambitious medical researcher from a hippie family endure tests to their bond and question their priorities as their wedding approaches.
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
by Katarina Bivald
A Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.
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Repercussions
by Anthony Schneider
From anti-apartheid revolutionary to aging exile, Henry Wegland struggles to balance truth and justice, love and passion; in this gentle and heartfelt first novel, nothing is black and white. A thoughtful look back at one of the great movements for social and political change of the last century and its ramifications in the present through the life of one man. -Kirkus
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Silence
by Shusaku Endo
A classic novel of faith by one of Japan's finest novelists tells the story of a 17th-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the fearful persecution of the small Christian community, and is soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson.
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The Stargazer's Sister
by Carrie Brown
After her brother—astronomer and composer William Herschel—rescues her from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England, introducing her to a world of music-making and stargazing, Lina is happy in her new role as his assistant—William announces that he is to be married and her whole world begins to collapse.
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue
by Melanie Benjamin
Steeped in the glamour and smoky atmosphere of New York's high society, a novel from the best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife follows Babe Paley, known for her high-profile marriage to CBS founder William Paley, her ranking in the International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame and her scandalous, headline-making friendship with Truman Capote.
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Stars over Sunset Boulevard
by Susan Meissner
When a hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind ends up in her vintage clothing boutique by mistake, Christine McAllister embarks on a journey to return it to its rightful owner that becomes even more magical than any classic movie.
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A Taste for Nightshade
by Martine Bailey
After a shipwreck frees a budding criminal bound for the Australian penal colony, she takes a job as a cook at Delafosse Hall where she plots her revenge in this historical novel that also features authentic 19th century recipes.
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That Other Me
by Maha Gargash
Secrets and betrayals consume three members of a prominent Emirati family, including an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter and a vulnerable niece.
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The Things We Keep
by Sally Hepworth
While a couple with early-stage Alzheimer's disease struggles to hold fast to their memories and growing relationship with one another, a chef at their assisted-living facility questions her willingness to help them in the wake of a tragic incident.
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Thomas Murphy
by Roger Rosenblatt
An aging poet contemplates the later chapters of his life while avoiding trips to the neurologist, spending time with his grandson, and falling for a blind woman less than half his age.
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The View from Prince Street
by Mary Ellen Taylor
A woman confronts her past when she meets up with the survivor of the car accident that killed her sister in this intelligent, heartwarming exploration of compassion and new beginnings.
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Warriors of the Storm
by Bernard Cornwell
Loyalties and ambitions are put to the test by raids on the wealthy lands and churches of Wessex, where a fragile peace is maintained by the security-minded children of King Alfred and the kingdom's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
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What Was Mine
by Helen Klein Ross
When Mia discovers the shocking truth of her origins, she refuses to speak to the mother who raised her and reaches out to her birth mother, while her adoptive mother, Lucy, is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution, in a powerful story of motherhood, loss, grief and hope—and the life-changing effects of a single, irrevocable moment.
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Where My Heart Used to Beat
by Sebastian Faulks
Robert, a British doctor haunted by World War II memories, agrees to write a biography of a renowned specialist in memory loss who possesses unsettling knowledge of Robert's past.
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Winter
by Christopher Nicholson
A fictionalized account of the final years of the life of Thomas Hardy, as the London theatre production of his acclaimed Tess of the D'Urbervilles premiers and his obsessive infatuation with the show's star becomes known to his reclusive wife.
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The 8th Circle : A Thriller
by Sarah Cain
Traumatized by two violent events that cost him his family and best friend, journalist Danny Ryan investigates his friend's last assignment to prove his own innocence only to find himself on the wrong side of Philadelphia politics and nightlife.
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After the Crash
by Michel Bussi
A best-selling psychological thriller from Europe details the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in which a baby is the only survivor and two families — one poor, one wealthy and dangerous — step forward to claim her.
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Angels Burning
by Tawni O'Dell
A dedicated rural Pennsylvania police chief confronts both the worse crime of her law career and a fiery secret from her youth when a man convicted of killing a murdered teen's mother years earlier makes a startling accusation.
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Beside Myself
by Ann Morgan
A quarter century after swapping identities with her identical twin in early childhood, Helen learns that her sister has landed in a coma after an accident, a situation that forces her to confront past and present demons.
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The Bitter Season
by Tami Hoag
While Nikki spends time with her family and misses more satisfying work with her former partner, Sam struggles with a rookie new partner and investigates a double homicide before unexpectedly teaming up with Nikki to stop a threat against a former foster child. By the best-selling author of Cold Cold Heart.
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Blackout
by David Rosenfelt
When his suspended partner, Doug, loses his memory after a gunshot wound sustained during an obsessive off-the-books search for infamous criminal Nicholas Bennett, Nate is drawn deeply into the investigation and makes a traumatizing discovery.
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Coconut Cowboy
by Tim Dorsey
Floridaphile and serial killer Serge A. Storms embarks on a wild plan to finish the motorcycle journey of his Easy Rider heroes in the Florida panhandle, where Coleman and he encounter regional Americana and hyper-corrupt politicians.
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The Covenant
by Jeff Crook
A follow-up to The Sleeping and the Dead finds Memphis photographer and ex-detective Jackie Lyons investigating the suspicious death of a man against a backdrop of his tragic history and a tumultuous power struggle between wealthy suburbanites and a charismatic preacher.
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Detective Fiction
by William Wells
Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey, the narrator of this delightfully quirky crime novel, has relocated to Fort Myers Beach, Fla., where he finds retirement boring and takes an undercover assignment for the local police. The town is dominated by a variety of rich and ultra rich seniors, and they have begun dying under questionable circumstances. The book is crammed with fascinating asides on topics ranging from haute cuisine to high-tech weaponry to the sad state of the Chicago Cubs. Fans of Carl Hiaasen and John D. MacDonald will find a lot to like.
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The Drifter
by Nicholas Petrie
Forcing himself to manage his PTSD when a fellow Marine commits suicide, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Peter Ash helps his friend's widow and discovers a cache of money and explosives that place him at the center of a wide-scale plot with ties to the world he tried to leave behind.
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Even Dogs in the Wild
by Ian Rankin
Investigating the robbery-related death of a senior lawyer who had recently received a mysterious warning, Siobhan Clarke and John Rebus follow leads to a ruthless crime family.
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Even the Dead : A Quirke Novel
by Benjamin Black
Rendered prone to hallucinations by overwork, Quirke investigates suspicions of foul play in the aftermath of a fatal car crash before teaming up with Inspector Hackett to search for a missing pregnant woman who had been in fear of her life.
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The Evening Spider
by Emily Arsenault
Two haunted young mothers live in the same house in two different centuries—Frances, who becomes obsessed with a famous murder trial, and Abby, who, 125 years later, discovers Frances' diary and is convinced that there is a supernatural presence in her house.
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The Ex
by Alafair Burke
Agreeing to defend her long-ago ex-fiancé when he is arrested for a triple homicide involving his wife's murderer, a top criminal lawyer confronts formidable doubts in the face of mounting evidence.
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The First Order
by Jeff Abbott
Sam is shocked to learn that his brother, Danny, may still be alive and may be involved in a plot to assassinate the president of Russia.
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Foreign Eclairs
by Julie Hyzy
When she becomes part of a bold strategy to make sure a terrorist gets his just desserts, White House executive chef Ollie Paras must stop a killer from serving up an ice-cold dish of revenge.
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The Forgotten Room
by Karen White
A young doctor is unwittingly drawn into a mystery surrounding three generations of her family after a critically wounded military captain is brought to the hospital in critical condition.
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Forty Thieves
by Thomas Perry
Two retirees from the LAPD and a pair of assassins are hired to offer professional expertise for the same murder case, which is hampered by a mysterious contractor's deadly efforts to keep the facts hidden.
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The Girls She Left Behind: A Lizzie Snow Novel
by Sarah Graves
When a 16-year-old girl goes missing in the aftermath of a kidnapper's escape from prison, Aroostook County Sheriff's deputy Lizzy Snow consults the fugitive's embittered former captive, who blames the family who failed to rescue her a decade earlier.
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Hour of the Wolf
by Hakan Nesser
When a killer linked to a hit-and-run and a possible second murder proves increasingly unstable, a personally affected Van Veeteren comes out of retirement to face the greatest trial of his career.
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I Am Your Judge
by Nele Neuhaus
Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff tracks a sniper whose victims seem to be randomly singled out.
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The Luzern Photograph : A Noir Thriller
by William Bayer
Three narratives propel Bayer's crafty whodunit. In the present, Tess Berenson has just moved into an apartment whose previous occupant was murdered. In 1912, a strange man displays an obsessive interest in Lou Andreas-Salomé, a prominent intellectual who has come to Vienna to study with Freud. Extracts from the unpublished memoirs of Maj. Ernst Fleckstein, a Nazi fixer, who crosses paths with Lou in the 1930s, add another layer to the puzzle.
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The Newsmakers
by Lis W. Wiehl
Moving to Manhattan to take a news network job, an ambitious reporter from a humble background is catapulted to fame by two headline-making news events that she begins to suspect have been engineered for her benefit.
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Once a Crooked Man
by David McCallum
Overhearing how the brothers in a powerful crime family intend to tie up loose ends before retiring, a New York actor flies to London to warn an intended victim and endures a madcap game of cat-and-mouse, in a quirky thriller by the actor best known for his roles on NCIS and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Orphan X
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Using his skills as an elite former agent and assassin to advocate anonymously for desperate people, Evan Smoak finds himself pursued by someone with comparable training who would exploit his life of service to find and eliminate him.
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Passenger 19
by Ward Larsen
Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen -but for one terrible detail: his daughter is listed on the passenger manifest.
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Presumed Puzzled : A Puzzle Lady Mystery
by Parnell Hall
Hired to track down a straying husband, the Puzzle Lady is challenged to defend her client when the husband is found brutally murdered, a situation that is further complicated when she is selected to be a witness for the prosecution.
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Private Paris
by James Patterson
Asked to track down a girl who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer, Jack Morgan identifies chilling links to a series of murders involving Paris's cultural elite. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Alex Cross series.
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The Rataban Betrayal
by Stephen Alter
The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters, foreign missionaries, Indian military, tourists, and spies. Here, in a top-secret facility, India's legendary spymaster keeps a watchful eye on sensitive high-altitude borders. When an American agent is shot dead in Mussoorie, both the CIA and India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), dispatch undercover agents to investigate. When more violent acts shatter Mussoorie's calm, the CIA and RAW have no choice but to team up and piece together a bloody conspiracy of revenge and murder that could shake the very foundations of world peace.
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Real Tigers
by Mick Herron
When one of their own is kidnapped by a vengeful former soldier, the “slow horses”—disgraced MI5 operatives reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing papers—find themselves back in the game when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very future of MI5 itself.
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River Road
by Carol Goodman
Wrongly accused in a hit-and-run accident that has killed a favorite student, a creative-writing professor is shunned by the same community that once rallied around her when her own daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years earlier.
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Scandalous Behavior
by Stuart Woods
New York City cop-turned-Manhattan law firm rainmaker Stone Barrington confronts a particularly challenging adversary whose nefarious schemes test the limits of Barrington's skills.
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A Second Chance at Murder
by Diana Orgain
When former cop Georgia Thornton and her boyfriend, Scott, former reality TV stars, compete in a new show that pits them against other teams in an athletic journey across the countryside of Spain, the competition turns deadly when Scott disappears and a woman's body is found.
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The Shut Eye
by Belinda Bauer
A grieving mother attempts to use a true psychic to find her missing four-year-old son, but their meeting does not go as expected. By the British, award-winning crime author.
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Supernotes
by Agent Kasper
A tale inspired by the life of a top-level undercover spy for the American CIA and Italian intelligence services finds Agent Kasper investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea only to be betrayed by his governments and subjected to a brutal incarceration.
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A Tangled Thread : A Family Mystery Set in England and Scotland
by Anthea Fraser
Three distant households - one in Scotland, one in the north of England and one in the south - have known the pain of losing a loved one. But it takes the suspicious death of Martin Petrie, a stranger from the Scottish Borders killed in a hit and run, to untangle the threads that will draw them together, with far-reaching and fatal results.
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The Undoing
by Averil Dean
Pursuing a longtime dream of buying and renovating a dilapidated hotel on the perilous cliffs of Jawbone Ridge, best friends Eric, Rory and Celia find their bonds strained by new jealousies and old suspicions that culminate in a violent act of betrayal.
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Vagabond
by Gerald Seymour
Living in quiet isolation after a brutal military career, elite spy handler Danny Curnow is summoned by his former boss to resume the work he tried to leave behind while helping a double agent broker an arms deal between Northern Ireland and Russia.
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Where It Hurts
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Losing everything in a single shattering moment, former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy reluctantly agrees to help an ex-con who would solve a family member's murder. By the Shamus Award-winning author of the Moe Prager series.
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Finding Promise
by Scarlett Dunn
After surviving a massacre that leaves her with no memory, a target on her back and a protector in U.S. Marshal Jake McBride, heiress Parker Promise Sinclair joins Jake on a high-stakes cattle drive, proving that she can ride and shoot with the best of them, stealing his heart in the process.
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The Knave of Hearts
by Elizabeth Boyle
A young woman's hopes of a match encounter a wickedly handsome complication.
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My American Duchess
by Eloisa James
Determined to marry a well-bred Englishwoman, the Duke of Trent instead, after a steamy encounter, finds himself drawn to adventuresome American heiress Merry Pelford, who has infamously jilted two fiancés and is on the run from her third.
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The Spring at Moss Hill
by Carla Neggers
A children's book illustrator finds she has a lot in common with a private investigator who moves to town to keep a friend out of trouble. By the author of A Knights Bridge Christmas.
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Rustler's Moon
by Jodi Thomas
On a dirt road marked by haunting secrets, three strangers caught at life's crossroads must decide what to sacrifice to protect their own agendas ... and what they're each willing to risk for love.
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All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Anders
Reunited as adults in the hipster mecca San Francisco as the planet falls apart around them, childhood friends Patricia Delfine, who is magically gifted, and Laurence Armstead, an engineering genius, discover that something bigger than either of them has brought them together to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages.
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Bands of Mourning
by Brandon Sanderson
When a researcher returns to Elendel with images of a mythical Lord Ruler artifact, believed to grant wearers his power, Waxillium Ladrian conducts an investigation in the southern city of New Seran, where he makes unsettling discoveries about the true goals of The Set.
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City of Blades
by Robert Jackson Bennett
After turning her back on a position most people could only dream of, General Turyin Mulaghesh, one of the most powerful people in all the Saypur empire, is sent to a backwater posting to investigate a discovery only she's qualified to make sense of, one that could change the world—or destroy it.
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The Dirt on Ninth Grave
by Darynda Jones
Living in a small village with no memory of her past, Charley Davidson is startled by her ability to see ghosts and by people of dubious trustworthiness who claim to know her before sensing a malevolent force and bonding with an alluring new friend.
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Doom of the Dragon
by Margaret Weis
Trapped in limbo between life and death after failing a quest to summon the great dragon Ilyrion, Skylan Ivorson must reach the last Spiritbone to win back his life, in the latest addition to the series.
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Feverborn
by Karen Marie Moning
Sidh-seer MacKayla Lane, at the side of sexy and powerful immortal Jerricho Barrons, fights deadly factions who would seize control of Dublin.
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