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The case of the missing books : a mobile library mystery
by Ian Sansom
A first installment in a new series featuring Israel Armstrong finds the new Emerald Isle bookmobile attendant struggling to figure out who is responsible for the disappearance of the roving library's 15,000 books. By the author of The Impartial Recorder.
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Cleopatra : a life
by Stacy Schiff
A Pulitzer Prize winner weaves together sex and celebrity, empire and politics in a story that is as contemporary as it is ancient, capturing fully for the first time the operatic power of Cleopatra's life and reign. By the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov).
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An everyday hero
by Laura Trentham
From Laura Trentham, the award-winning author of The Military Wife, comes An Everyday Hero--an emotionally layered novel about loss, second chances, and what it means to be a true hero.
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Family reunion : a novel
by Nancy Thayer
Newly widowed, Eleanor Sunderland finds dreams of a family reunion in Nantucket shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement home, and finds a lone ally in her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer
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Forgiving Paris : a novel
by Karen Kingsbury
A woman who made a life-altering mistake in Paris twenty-four years ago is given a chance at redemption even though she never forgave herself in the new novel from the best-selling author of Truly, Madly, Deeply.
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The four winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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A gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesDeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Hard to break
by Michael Ledwidge
While on a bucket list Alaskan grizzly bear hunt with his adult son. Mike Gannon runs into other hunters who are not looking for grizzlies but for him, in the third novel of the series following Run for Cover.
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The house of secrets
by Brad Meltzer
The #1 best-selling author of The Inner Circle and The Boot of Fate, along with his award-winning co-author, presents a debut entry in a new thriller series.
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The last kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
Captured and raised by Danes in the ninth century, dispossessed nobleman Uhtred witnesses the unexpected defeat of his adoptive Viking clan by Alfred of Wessex and longs to recover his father's land
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The last telegram
by Liz Trenow
After an unexpected event, Lily Verner is forced to remember a disastrous decision she made decades earlier on the 1940s British countryside
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The maid : a novel
by Nita Prose
When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel
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Mariposa
by Greg Bear
When the Talos Corporation threatens to subvert the American government with the mind-altering Mariposa program, it is up to FBI agents William Griffin, Rebecca Rose and Nathan Trace to stop the military-contracting company and its ruthless CEO before it's too late. By the best-selling author of The Forge of God.
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A matter of life and death : a Robin Lockwood novel
by Phillip Margolin
Rising attorney Robin Lockwood takes the death-penalty case of a homeless father who has been set up for the murder of a prominent judge’s wife. By the best-selling author of Gone But Not Forgotten.
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Pioneer girl : the annotated autobiography
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series includes not-safe-for-children tales that feature stark scenes of domestic abuse, love triangles gone awry and a man who lit himself on fire while drunk off whiskey.
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Providence
by Max Barry
A four-person crew aboard Earth’s first warship prepares to defend the planet from hostile aliens only to find their communications disrupted by a sudden and devastatingly real space battle. By the author of Jennifer Government.
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Renovated to death
by Frank Anthony Polito
Just as they are about to start filming the renovation of twin brothers Terry and Tom Cash's local Tudor, real-life domestic partners and stars of a new reality TV show Peter and JP discover Tom Cash dead and must chip away at the clues to catch a killer.
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The road to Grantchester
by James Runcie
A prequel to the Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London, where as a traumatized veteran he navigates devastating survivor guilt and a haphazard religious calling. TV tie-in.
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The sleepwalker : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
When a sleepwalker who has experienced episodes of near violence while unconscious goes missing, her eldest daughter, Lianna, finds herself drawn to a lead detective who seems to know more than he is revealing. By the author of The Guest Room.
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The soul of power
by Callie Bates
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Waking Land and The Memory of Fire finds the king's illegitimate daughter, Sophy Dunbarron, struggling to embrace her powers and retain her throne in the face of war and magical adversaries
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Summer hours at the Robbers Library : a novel
by Sue Halpern
A head librarian who would leave behind the painful realities of her suburbia past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation. By the author of A Dog Walked Into a Nursing Home.
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Who let the dog out? by David RosenfeltWhile tracking down a missing dog that was stolen from his dog-rescue operation, lawyer Andy Carpenter stumbles upon a dead body, which prompts him to launch his own investigation into the break-in, dog theft and killing. By the national best-selling author of Hounded.
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