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A Book that is an Adrenaline Rush
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Velvet was the night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1970s Mexico City, Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, which leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs to escape his own life, and together, they set out to discover the dangerous truth
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Sunrise
by Susan May Warren
"A decade after leaving his family's bush pilot operation to become a Pararescue Jumper, Dodge Kingston is back home in Alaska. He hadn't counted on meeting up again with Echo, a girl with a spirit as free as the sky. When she goes missing, he hopes all her skills will keep her safe until he can reach her-and that she'll accept his help when he does"
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The deadly shallows
by Dani Pettrey
"Coast Guard Flight Medic Brooke Kesler was caught in a mass shooting at a Coast Guard graduation-and little does she know that she overheard something that could expose the mastermind's identity. With targets on their backs, Brooke and her boyfriend CGIS Agent Noah Rowley must race to find the killer before he strikes again"
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The push : a novel
by Ashley Audrain
A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daughter, a fear that is complicated by her husbands dismissive views and the birth of a healthy son. A first novel.
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The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club"
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Razorblade tears
by S. A. Cosby
When his son Isiah and his white husband, Derek, are murdered, ex-con Ike Randolph bands together with Dereks father, another ex-con, to rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys while confronting their own prejudices about each other and their own sons. 150,000 first printing.
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Rock paper scissors
by Alice Feeney
When Amelia wins a free weekend getaway to a remote venue in the Scottish highlands, she views this as the perfect opportunity to reconnect with her husband Adam, but the trip has the opposite effect as she no longer recognizes the person she married. 150,000 first printing.
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The widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
A debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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Lethal white
by Robert Galbraith
When a troubled young man asks him to investigate a crime he thinks he saw as a child, Cormoran Strike sets off on a twisting trail that leads from London's backstreets, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament and a country manor house
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The death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased's funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong
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The night shift
by Alex Finlay
When four teenage girls are attacked at an ice cream shop in Linden, New Jersey, and only one makes it out alive, which is similar to a case in 1999, an FBI agent must delve into the secrets of both crimesstirring up memories of teen love and liesto uncover the truth. 75,000 first printing.
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We lie here
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Returning home to host her parents' twentieth-anniversary party, TV writer Yara Gibson is harassed by texts from her mother's childhood friend Felicia, who desperately needs to talk to her, but when Felicia dies, Yara digs for answers, uncovering a truththat will change her life--or end it
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Blacktop wasteland
by S. A. Cosby
Compelled by poverty to agree to a lucrative final heist that will allow him to go straight, a skilled getaway driver finds his efforts complicated by racial dynamics and the ghosts of his past. 50,000 first printing.
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Labyrinth of lies
by Irene Hannon
While investigating the disappearance of high-profile businessmans daughter from an exclusive girls school, detective Cate Reilly crosses paths with her former colleague and ex-love-of-her-life, in the second installment of the series following Point of Danger.
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Layla
by Colleen Hoover
When the personality of the woman he loves is changed by the trauma of a severe accident, Leeds takes her to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met, before her escalating behavior complicates his ability to help another guest. Original.
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An anonymous girl
by Greer Hendricks
Participating in a psychology study under the mysterious Dr. Shields, Jessica endures intense, invasive sessions and oppressive behavioral restrictions before she begins to lose her grasp on reality. Reprint. A #1 New York Times best-seller. AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW.
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The silent patient
by Alex Michaelides
Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist, is determined to get an artist who shot her husband and then never spoke another word to talk, which takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him. Original. 500,000 first printing.
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American spy : a novel
by Lauren Wilkinson
Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events
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The genesis of Misery
by Neon Yang
As those in power seek to use them to win a terrible war, Misery Nomaki, who possesses a dangerous magic that only saints are said to have, is thought to be the new Messiah and decides to embrace their destiny as they grow close to a rebellious royal. 125,000 first printing.
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The ministry for the future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts of living creatures both past and present, this brilliant novel is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. 150,000 first printing.
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