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The Anchoress
by Robyn Cadwallader
Pressured to marry and stricken by her sister's death in childbirth, a 13th-century Englishwoman devotes her life to prayer in a small locked cell that proves ineffective in shutting out the world.
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The Art of Baking Blind
by Sarah Vaughan
Five amateur bakers compete in a baking competition, only to discover that the recipe for happiness may not be so easy to follow.
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Beach Town
by Mary Kay Andrews
Given a last chance to salvage her career after being wrongly blamed for property damage, movie location scout Greer confronts an environmentally-minded mayor in a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast community.
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The Canterbury Sisters
by Kim Wright
After her mother dies and the rest of her life falls to pieces, Che Milan makes a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, befriending and swapping stories with eight other travelers.
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The Distant Marvels
by Chantel Acevedo
A professional storyteller imparts the incredible tale of her youth during the Third War of Independence to eight women who need hope to survive Hurricane Flora in 1963 Cuba.
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Girl in the Moonlight
by Charles Dubow
Falling in love with a friend's beautiful and wild sister, Wylie experiences a tempestuous, heart-wrenching affair over the course of decades also marked by society, finance and art in multiple countries.
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A God in Ruins
by Kate Atkinson
A companion to the best-selling Life After Life follows the experiences of Ursula's younger brother Teddy, who throughout the decades following wartime service he never expected to survive struggles with family life against a backdrop of a changing world.
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Goddess of Buttercups & Daisies
by Martin Millar
Aristophanes is inconsolable: his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won't leave him alone, his actors can't remember their lines, and his own festival sponsor seems to be conspiring against him. A witty and comical romp set in Ancient Greece.
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The Gracekeepers : A Novel
by Kirsty Logan
A shoreside burial coordinator who lives in self-enforced exile as penance for a long-ago mistake and a performer with a floating circus face unexpected life changes and new opportunities in the wake of an offshore storm.
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The Green Road
by Anne Enright
When Christmas day reunites the Madigan children, who all left their mother Rosaleen behind to follow their dreams, under one roof in County Clare, Ireland, they each must confront the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home.
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The Guest Cottage
by Nancy Thayer
Renting a Nantucket cottage after discovering her husband's infidelity, Sophie arrives with her children to discover that a recently-widowed single father, Trevor, has also rented the house.
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How to Start a Fire
by Lisa Lutz
A trio of former college friends reunite 20 years later to share the stories of their adventures, rivalries, secrets and losses while reevaluating the events of a single night that shaped all of them. By the award-winning author of the Spellman Files series.
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Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
A senior-aged widow and widower forge a loving bond over shared loneliness and respective histories, provoking local gossip and the disapproval of their grown children in ways that are further complicated by an extended visit by a sad young grandchild.
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People of the Songtrail
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Follows the members of a Viking settlement in America, 500 years prior to the arrival of Columbus, who left narrow-minded religious beliefs and political and civil unrest to face the unknown in a new world, long before the Pilgrims.
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The Proposal at Siesta Key
by Shelley Shepard Gray
A young Amish woman, yearning for freedom, crosses paths with a handsome Mennonite celebrity in a deeply moving tale of friendship and self-discovery.
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Re Jane
by Patricia Park
Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--escapes to Seoul where she reconnects with her family while struggling to learn the ways of modern-day Korea, and wonders if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures and accept who she really is.
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The Rocheforts
by Christian Laborie
Two very different families are bonded by scandal in this captivating tale of deceit, intrigue, and the dynamic tension between industrialization and a way of life rooted in the land.
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The Rocks
by Peter Nichols
A tale set around a popular Mediterranean seaside resort follows the story of two honeymooners who abruptly split in 1948 and live separately for decades until children from their rivaling families fall in love.
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The Sage of Waterloo : A Tale
by Leona Francombe
A playful reimagining of the Battle of Waterloo is told from the viewpoint of William, a white rabbit living at Hougoumont, the historic farm on the battle site. Full of vivid insights about Napoleon, Wellington, and the battle itself, as well as a slyly profound reflection on our place in the world.
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The Seven Sisters
by Lucinda Riley
Gathering at their Lake Geneva estate when their adoptive father passes away, six sisters receive tantalizing clues about their true heritage, prompting Maia to journey to Rio de Janeiro to learn the story of her parents' forbidden love. By the best-selling author of The Orchid House.
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The Summer's End
by Mary Alice Monroe
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Summer Wind finds Mamaw and the three sisters confronting loss and transition after realizing that they will have to sell their beloved Sullivan's Island estate.
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Tech Darling : A Novel
by Lucy Sykes
Discovering that her young former assistant is plotting to steal her job and transform their fashion magazine into an app, editor-in-chief Imogen Tate is challenged to find her inner geek to save her career and the magazine.
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Traitor's Gate
by Charlie Newton
A grand, pre-WWII epic that ranges from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to a Mediterranean cauldron of conspiracies. "Hard-driving, vivid storytelling propels this historical thriller from Edgar-finalist Newton."
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Valley of the Shadow
by Ralph Peters
From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, D.C., to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War--the desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
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Water from My Heart
by Charles Martin
Using skills developed on the outskirts of privileged society to gain an Ivy League education and lucrative business career in ventures, Charlie Finn goes to Central America to make amends with a woman and child who suffered because of his choices.
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The Well
by Catherine Chanter
A first novel by an award-winning writer follows the experiences of an Englishwoman who is targeted by suspicion and superstition when her farm remains lush and her grandson drowns in spite of a widespread drought.
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Wild Wood : A Novel
by Posie Graeme-Evans
When an accident resulting in head trauma brings out latent abilities, causing her to draw places and people from another time, Jesse Marley is transported to Hundredfield, a Scottish stronghold built a thousand years ago by a brutal Norman warlord, where she finally finds her true lineage.
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The Wonder Garden
by Lauren Acampora
A debut collection of complex linked stories, all set in a pristine Connecticut suburb, "so vivid, tightly plotted, and expertly woven that they make you look forward to reading more by this accomplished author." (Library Journal)
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14th Deadly Sin
by James Patterson
Gathering for a birthday celebration that is interrupted by a gruesome killing in public, the members of the Women's Murder Club discover video footage of a deadly plot against the city of San Francisco.
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And Sometimes I wonder About You : A Leonid McGill Mystery
by Walter Mosley
Investigating the murder of a client he initially refused to help, Leonid navigates difficult personal elements in his own life while uncovering dark secrets about the victim's old-money family and its missing heiress.
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Balm : A Novel
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
At the end of the Civil War, Madge, who has the power to heal; Sadie, who can commune with the dead; and Hemp, who is searching for his family arrive in Chicago where they are all caught up in a desperate battle for survival in a community desperate to lay the pain of the past to rest.
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Blood Ties
by Nicholas Guild
Homicide detective Ellen Ridley is tracking a serial killer terrorizing young women in the San Francisco Bay Area, and soon she must team up with the killer's son, Stephen Tregear, a hacker and code breaker who works for U.S. naval intelligence.
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Casino Qaddafi
by Graham Tempest
Taking place largely in Libya in 2011—just weeks after the assassination of Moammar Gadhafi—Tempest's third financial mystery/thriller featuring forensic accountant Oliver Steele revolves around his mission to locate an illegitimate son of the slain leader. Like 007 with a CPA card—who knew accounting could be so wild?
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Death Ex Machina
by Gary Corby
When rumors of ghost sightings in Athens's grand theater threaten the annual Great Dionysia arts festival, Nicolaos and the priestess Diotima organize a public exorcism while investigating private suspicions that a human saboteur is the actual culprit.
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The Devil's Making : A Victorian Detective Mystery
by Sean Haldane
The ramshackle capital of British Columbia in 1869 is the last colony in North America where a few thousand settlers aspire to the values of the Victorian age while coexisting beside the native Indians that vastly outnumber them.
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Disclaimer
by Renee Knight
Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
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Dry Bones
by Craig Johnson
Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire recruits a team of helpers to investigate the murder of a rancher whose body has been found near a T. Rex fossil that is claimed by multiple parties.
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The Fall
by John T. Lescroart
Working to defend a middle-school teacher who has been wrongly implicated in the death of a foster teen, lawyer Rebecca Hardy and her father, Dismas, risk their careers to investigate four other suspects.
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The Fatal Fame
by Lyndsay Faye
Reluctantly embroiled in a 1840s dispute between a corrupt Tammany Hall leader and an arsonist with an agenda, Copper Star Timothy Wilde finds his investigation challenged by his brother's decision to run for public office. By the author of The Gods of Gotham.
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The Final Reveille
by Amanda Flower
Kelsey Cambridge becomes a prime suspect when the tight-fisted nephew of her living history museum's main benefactor is murdered on the grounds amid a Civil War reenactment.
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The Forgotten Room
by Lincoln Child
Investigating a baffling murder-suicide at a Newport mansion that houses a respected think tank, Jeremy Logan discovers a secret room in the mansion filled with obscure scientific equipment related to a dangerous top-secret project.
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A Good Killing
by Allison Leotta
After her sister, Judy, is accused of murdering her old high school coach, sex-crimes prosecutor Anna Curtis returns home to Michigan where no one is telling the truth, not even the people she thought she knew best, and resolves to do everything she can to save the only family she has left.
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The Ice Twins
by S. K. Tremayne
Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin they believed dead.
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Jack of Spades : A Tale of Suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
Enjoying his successful career and devoted family, a best-selling writer secretly authors a masochist-themed series that threatens his respectable community standing and becomes subject to a plagiarism lawsuit.
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The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley
by Jeremy Massey
Fleeing the scene after accidentally killing the brother of Dublin's most notorious mobster, funeral home worker Paddy Buckley interacts with the grieving family before he is caught in a web of intrigue, treachery and deceit.
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The Missing and the Dead
by Stuart MacBride
While working in a small British town, Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae leads a huge manhunt to find the murderer of a young girl in this new novel from the best-selling author of the Logan McRae series.
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Palace of Treason
by Jason Matthews
Navigating brutal enemies in her espionage work for the CIA, a Russian Intelligence agent pursues a life-threatening affair with her CIA handler before she is discovered by a mole.
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Piranha
by Clive Cussler
Covertly recreating the 1902 sinking of a ship on which a German scientist was on the brink of an astonishing breakthrough, Cabrillo and his team are targeted by an assassin before learning that a traitorous weapons designer has finished the scientist's work.
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Radiant Angel
by Nelson DeMille
Taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group after a showdown with The Panther, Corey realizes that America has unknowingly entered a second Cold War era with a newly resurgent Russia. [Note: originally titled, A Quiet End]
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Robert B. Parker's Kickback
by Ace Atkins
When her teenage son and other kids are imprisoned for misdemeanors, a woman hires private investigator Spenser to find the truth behind a corrupt judge's unusually hard sentencing practices for minors.
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Rock With Wings
by Anne Hillerman
Separated by different cases, Chee follows cryptic clues to the body of a missing woman while Bernie manages the fallout of a drug bust gone wrong.
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Secrets of State
by Matthew Palmer
Moving into private intelligence contracting after getting in trouble for speaking his mind, Sam Trainor stumbles on dangerous information about conflicts between India and Pakistan that are escalating into a serious nuclear threat.
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Skies of Ash
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire that claimed the lives a woman and her two children; and the husband, still alive and in the hospital, is the main suspect.
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Solitude Creek
by Jeffery Deaver
A work of suspense by the internationally best-selling and award-winning author of the Lincoln Rhyme thrillers features the return of popular California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance.
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Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins
by James Runcie
In a latest Grantchester mystery set in 1960s Cambridge, a man seeks sanctuary after killing his wife, a friend is pursued by a mysterious stranger, a man is accidentally crushed by a piano and Sidney is wrongly accused of theft.
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Tail Gait : A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
When a popular University of Virginia history professor is found murdered, Harry and her furry entourage disregard the confession of a homeless alum and look for clues in the victim's research about Virginia's revolutionary past. By the best-selling author of the Mags Rogers series.
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The Water Knife
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Working as an enforcer for a corrupt developer, Angel Velasquez teams up with a hardened journalist and a street-smart Texan to investigate rumors of California's imminent monopoly on limited water supplies. By the National Book Award-finalist author of The Windup Girl.
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Zodiac Station
by Tom Harper
When the Coast Guard picks up a scientist claiming to be a survivor of a terrible accident at a research outpost, subsequent survivors reveal accounts of murder, oil-company trickery, Russian espionage, genetic experimentation and global warming.
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Back to You
by Lauren Dane
As she prepares for her upcoming wedding, former model Kelly Hurley, whose previous marriage to rock star Vaughan Hurley ended in heartbreak and divorce, is finally ready to move on, but Vaughan has other ideas and sets out to prove that he is the only man she needs.
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Hold Me
by Susan Mallery
Destiny Mills finds more than she bargained for when she joins the Fool's Gold search-and-rescue team and comes face-to-face with former world-class skier Kipling Gilmore.
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The Marriage Season
by Linda Lael Miller
Believing she will not be as successful as best friends Hadleigh and Melody in finding true love, Bex focuses on her career before unexpectedly falling for an aloof single father who does not believe in romance.
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A Match for Marcus Cynster
by Stephanie Laurens
To protect her clan and save herself from unwelcome and dangerously persistent suitors, Niniver Carrick turns to Marcus Cynster for help and together they embark on an adventure filled with intrigue and dark desire during which they discover they are each other's perfect match
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The Sweetheart Deal
by Polly Dugan
Fulfilling a drunken promise made to his late best friend, Garrett moves west and pursues a loving familial relationship with the widowed Audrey and her two sons, until Audrey finds out about the agreement.
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The Border
by Robert McCammon
This gripping new novel is a dark saga of survival on an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations.
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Born of Defiance
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fighting the stigma of being an Andarion without a father, outcast Talyn Batur is drawn into a plot against the crown and is forced to make a choice between his government and his beliefs.
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Eighth Grave After Dark
by Darynda Jones
Hiding from murderous hellhounds in an abandoned convent, a pregnant Charley Davidson investigates the decades-old murder of a young nun while harboring fears that Reyes is falling ill. By the RITA Award-winning author.
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The Hanged Man
by P. N. Elrod
On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death in this Victorian urban fantasy.
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The Mechanical
by Ian Tregillis
Jax, a mechanical man known as a Clakker, part of an army of similar creatures responsible for making the Netherlands the world's only superpower, takes a chance to escape servitude for a life of freedom in this alternative history, steampunk tale.
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Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event dooms the planet, nations around the world band together to devise an ambitious survival plan in outer space 5,000 years before their progeny organize an audacious return.
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When the Heavens Fall
by Marc Turner
This first in a new epic swords & sorcery fantasy series features gritty characters, deadly magic, and meddlesome gods.
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