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Holly : a novel
by Stephen King

Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
Things we left behind
by Lucy Score

When enemies-to-lovers Sloane Walton, a feisty small-town librarian, and Lucian Rollins, a vengeance-seeking mogul hellbent on building an indestructible empire, are stuck at an impasse, both wanting different things, they must decide whether or not to take a chance on forever. Original.
Payback in death
by J. D. Robb

While investigating the apparent suicide of a retired Internal Affairs captain, who made his career tripping up bribe takers, rule breakers and worse, homicide detective Eve Dallas follows a trail of corruption all the way to the top to expose a killer bent on revenge.
Fourth wing
by Rebecca Yarros

"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter--like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise"
The river we remember : a novel
by William Kent Krueger

When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
Tom Lake : a novel
by Ann Patchett

Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance with, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
The Longmire defense
by Craig Johnson

Investigating a crime that goes back to his grandfather's time in Wyoming, Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absaroka County, recalling clues and motives from his past, questions the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West.
Tom Clancy Weapons Grade
by Don Bentley

After witnessing a professional hit, Jack Ryan Jr., following one lead, is drawn into the seedy underbelly of a small Texas town and the cold case of a college student who vanished from its streets—an investigation that pulls him into an international conspiracy of epic proportions. (suspense). Simultaneous.
The housemaid
by Freida McFadden

"'Welcome to the family,' Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny roomon the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the timeI realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am. They don't know what I'm capable of..."
Assistant to the villain
by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

"With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn's most infamous Villain results in a job offer--naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don't find evil so attractive, Evie. But just when she's getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat...and not just the literal kind. Because something rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn, and someone wants to take the Villain--and his entire nefarious empire--out. Now Evie must not only resist drooling over her boss but also figure out exactly who is sabotaging his work...and ensure he makes them pay. After all, a good job is hard to find"
Lessons in chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of Americas most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
Too late : a novel
by Colleen Hoover

"Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals.She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her--one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day"
The raging storm
by Ann Cleeves

When the body of Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer and legend—is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, DI Matthew Venn returns home to investigate where he is faced with superstition and rumor as another body is found, placing him and his team in danger. 150,000 first printing.
The covenant of water : a novel
by Abraham Verghese

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
Condor's fury
by Graham Brown

Kurt and Joe respond to a nearby distress call while on a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean to discover a terrified and disoriented crew potentially suffering from Havana Syndrome, in the 20th addition to the series following Dark Vector.
 
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