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New Adult Fiction - Authors P - S
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The night the river wept : a novel
by Lo Patrick
Struggling in her new marriage, Arlene takes a part-time job bagging evidence at the local police department. She becomes obsessed with a cold case involving the murder of three young brothers. Since she yearns to be a mother herself, she becomes hellbent on solving this case.
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Masquerade
by O. O. Sangoyomi
After a lifetime of subjugation, Òdòdó', a young Yorùbá woman is to be the wife of a great warrior king. She soars to the very heights of society where power and political savvy are too enticing to resist. However, as tensions grow and betrayal runs rampant she must defy her cruel husband even though she risks losing everything, including her life.
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The lost story : a novel
by Meg Shaffer
no matter how traumatic the memories, reclusive artist Rafe and famed missing persons' investigator Jeremy are forced to return to the enchanted world they called home for six months 15 years ago. They must confront their shared past. They must search for their friend Emilie's sister, and for everything they've lost.
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All this and more : a novel
by Peng Shepherd
A divorced, middle-aged woman, who is full of regrets is selected for a reality show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants to relive and revise their pasts. She discovers that changing everything doesn't necessarily bring her happiness.
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Enlightenment : a novel
by Sarah Perry
Two unlikely best friends in Aldleigh, England investigate the mystery of a vanished 19th century explorer. They uncover a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit, in the new novel from the author of The Essex Serpent.
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Bear : a novel
by Julia Phillips
Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.
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A novel love story
by Ashley Poston
When her car breaks down traveling to her annual book club retreat, a superfan of romance novels finds herself stranded in the quaint, but fictional town of Eloraton. It just happens to be the site of her favorite series.
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Some murders in Berlin
by Karen Robards
In Nazi Germany, Dr. Elin Lund, an expert in psychological profiling, is assisting the Kripo in solving a series of murders. When the killer realizes she's figured out who he is she must join Denmark's Jews, along with her family, who are being smuggled to Sweden that very night to survive.
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Middle of the night : a novel
by Riley Sager
Ethan returns to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance. Ethan is plagued by strange occurrences. He sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to a mysterious institute where clandestine research is performed.
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The library thief : a novel
by Kuchenga Shenjâe
A white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England, Florence is restoring a collection of rare books in the forbidding Rose Hall. She hears whispers about Lord Belfield's late wife. When the library is broken into and his wife's secret diary is burned, she realizes with horror it may have held the clue to her fate.
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The watchers
by A. M. Shine
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.
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Resurrection : a novel
by Danielle Steel
42-year-old Darcy Gray is a successful influencer and half of a power couple on the international stage. After her perfect life comes crashing down, she finds that she must stay indefinitely in France during an escalating worldwide health crisis. She begins to see glimpses of new possibilities through her newfound friendships with others who are stranded.
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The 24th hour: Is This the End?
by James Patterson
While celebrating Cindy's engagement at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants, a woman is assaulted. Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action. However, when the victim's story keeps changing, Lindsay must expose a high-society killer before the Women's Murder Club is short a bridesmaid… or two.
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The Sisters Grimm
by Menna Van Praag
Once upon a time, a demon who desired earthly domination fathered an army of dark daughters to help him corrupt humanity. The critically acclaimed author of The House at the End of Hope Street combines love, mystery, and magic with her first foray into bewitching fantasy with a dark edge evocative of V.E. Schwab and Neil Gaiman.
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The Berlin letters
by Katherine Reay
Codebreaker Luisa Voekler discovers a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead. She learns the truth about her grandfather's work and her father's identity. With a rudimentary plan and hope, Luisa journeys to Berlin to free her father from an East German prison.
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Summer Fridays : a novel
by Suzanne Rindell
During the summer of 1999, as her fiancé spends long hours at work with Kendra, an all-too-close female colleague, 20-something Sawyer becomes friends with Kendra's boyfriend, Nick. Together they spend Fridays exploring NYC together. As real feelings develop, they wonder what will happen when summer is over.
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Home is where the bodies are
by Jeneva Rose
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. While going through their parents' belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of.
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Very bad company
by Emma Rosenblum
Caitlin Levy is on an exclusive retreat in Miami with her new employer, trendy tech startup Aurora. A high-level executive vanishes. This is a disappearance that could cost the team millions. Her colleagues must continue the charade to keep the future of Aurora afloat amid all the fatal speculations.
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When among crows
by Veronica Roth
A hunter who sacrifices his soul to slay monsters, Dymitr, is tasked with finding legendary witch Baba Jaga. He offers Ala, a fear-eating zmora, a cure for her curse in exchange for her help. Together they fight against time and the wrath of the Chicago underworld where his secrets could destroy them both.
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You should be so lucky : a novel
by Cat Sebastian
Baseball shortstop, Eddie O'Leary is ordered by the team's owner to give a bunch of interviews to reporter Mark Bailey. During the 1960 season, Eddie slowly gives in to the attraction between them. When it's just them against the world, they must decide if that's enough.
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The shadow of war : a novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Jeff Shaara
Told from many perspectives and voices, this gripping story of a global war that almost happened: the Cuban Missile Crisis, brings to life the many threads that led to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in 1962.
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Lucky
by Jane Smiley
Coming of age in recording studios, backstage and on tour, rising folk musician Jodie Rattler, trying to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell, feels like something is missing and sets out on a journey in search of herself.
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I hope this finds you well : a novel
by Natalie Sue
Trapped between petty revenge and a life-changing opportunity, Jolene navigates coworker drama, hidden secrets and forbidden feelings to save her job. She risks exposure of an email vendetta and the walls she's built around her heart.
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Wives like us : a novel
by Plum Sykes
In The Bottoms, tiny Cotswold villages on the English countryside, filthy rich Tata Hawkins is in a tizzy when her husband runs off with a bikini designer. Her glamorous new neighbor, an American divorcée, refuses her overtures at friendship. On top of all that, her two best friends are distracted by their own problems.
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The Murder Inn
by James Patterson
The owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life is a former Boston police detective Bill Robinson. He must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.
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Extinction : a novel
by Douglas J. Preston
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
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Mania : a novel
by Lionel Shriver
In an alternative 2011, the Mental Party convinces Americans to embrace the sacred, universal truth that there's no such thing as variable human intelligence. A college English instructor, confides in her best friend, a media commentator, about her hatred of the MP movement causes their lifelong relationship to implode.
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The #1 lawyer
by James Patterson
A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney is Mississippi's #1 lawyer. He has never lost a case. When his wife is scandalously killed, he spirals into a legal and personal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
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Finding Margaret Fuller : a novel
by Allison Pataki
Describes how Margaret Fuller became the beating heart of the Transcendentalists. How she becomes a role model to Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne and a muse to Henry David Thoreau as he headed into the woods.
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The underground library : a novel
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocate the stacks to the local Underground station. This is where the city's residents shelter nightly. The librarians are determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up. However, soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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Murder road
by Simone St. James
In 1995, newlyweds April and Eddie, make a wrong turn and pick up an injured hitchhiker. Later he dies. And they are now suspects in a series of unexplained murders. They must dig into the town's history to clear their names and discover there's something supernatural at work on that horrible stretch of road.
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The sunlit man
by Brandon Sanderson
Nomad lands on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels. This a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones. Nomad must gain enough power to leap off world before he pays the ultimate price.
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The truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
The charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, TJ Devlin finds his world turned upside down when his lawyer brother confesses he has just killed one of his clients. Seizing this chance to prove his worth, he becomes entangled in a deadly web of deception and murder to save his brother.
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Expiration dates : a novel
by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it that contains the exact amount of time they will be together. Usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.
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Never too late : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Kezia Cooper Hobson starts a new life in New York after being recently widowed. She moves into a beautiful midtown penthouse where she forms an instant connection with her movie-star next-door neighbor over their strong impulse to help those in need after a devastating crisis strikes the city.
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The guest
by B. A. Paris
Iris and Gabriel's friend Laure moves in with them after her husband reveals he's had a child with another woman. As time goes on Laure begins to act increasingly unhinged. Broken relationships and hidden motives linked to a recent tragedy are piling up around them. They must reckon with whether their happy life has been an illusion.
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Crosshairs
by James Patterson
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer, in the 16th novel of the series following Obsessed.
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Owning up : new fiction
by George P. Pelecanos
Drawn together by themes of strife, violence and humanity, this searing collection of four stories introduces characters who defy the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil as they grapple with consequence, random chance and the many paths a life can take.
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Simply the best
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet they have a disastrous one-night stand. It all results in murder. They find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
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The American daughters : a novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Ady, when she's separated from her mother, meets Lenore, a free black woman who invites her to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters, setting her on a journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.
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Love novel
by Ivana Sajko
Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, trying to change the world and write a novel. She, once a passable actress with a vaguely rewarding theater job, now a stay-at-home mom. He is delirious with dreams of grandeur. She is on edge, a detonator bomb with a dirty laundry trigger.
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Cahokia jazz : a novel
by Francis Spufford
A detective and his indigenous jazz pianist partner investigate a seemingly ordinary murder that ultimately threatens to unravel the peace and reveal hidden secrets in an alternate history version of 1920s America where Native American populations thrived.
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