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New and Upcoming Adult Fiction
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Toxic prey
by John Sandford
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
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A calamity of souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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Funny story
by Emily Henry
"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night,while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photosof their adventures together-for a particular audience of two-who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancâe's new fiancâee's ex-boyfriend. Who's to say?"
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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, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.
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Only the Brave
by Danielle Steel
During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy where she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
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Table for Two : Fictions
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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Pay Dirt
by Sara Paretsky
While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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The summer we started over : a novel
by Nancy Thayer
Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father's increased eccentricities; her sister's resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.
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The Familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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The Museum of Lost Quilts
by Jennifer Chiaverini
While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, instead researches the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society, discovering its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.
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It Had to Be You
by Mary Higgins Clark
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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An unfinished murder
by Jude Deveraux
A novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet in the fifth novel of the series following A Relative Murder.
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Extinction
by Douglas 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. 250,000 first printing.
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Darling girls
by Sally Hepworth
Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse. 300,000 first printing.
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Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls. Simultaneous.
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She's Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
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Close to Death
by Anthony Horowitz
When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife. 100,000 first printing.
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City in ruins : a novel
by Don Winslow
A Las Vegas casino mogul with a spotty past must fight for the life he created and everything he holds dear after old enemies surface, in the third novel of the series following City of Dreams. 250,000 first printing.
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The Reaper Follows
by Heather Graham
Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate a series of murders linked to conspiracy theorists and doomsday cults.
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Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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Feline Fatale : A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor“Harry” Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker, in the latest novel in the long-running series following Hiss and Tell. Illustrations.
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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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The Paris novel
by Ruth Reichl
Resigning herself to honor her mother's last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who's who of the 1980's Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.
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The 24th Hour
by James Patterson
While celebrating Cindy's engagement at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants, a woman is assaulted and Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action, but 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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Camino Ghosts
by John Grisham
Bay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida in the third novel of the series following Camino Winds.
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You Like It Darker
by Stephen King
Delving into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal, the legendary storyteller and expert in short fiction presents this exhilarating collection of 12 tales, many never-before-published, about fate, mortality, luck and the folds in reality where anything can happen.
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Think Twice
by Harlan Coben
When his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, his longtime friend and colleague, search for answers, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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Mind games / : A Novel
by Nora Roberts
With the ability to see into minds and souls, Thea, who brought her parents' killer to justice years ago, discovers the inmate who shattered her childhood has the same ability when she can hear his twisted thoughts and witness his evil acts from miles away as he plots his revenge.
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One Perfect Couple
by Ruth Ware
Landing on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
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Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews
The widowed owner of the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel, Traci Eddings has one summer season to restore it to its former glory, but when a tragic death changes everything, she must put wrongs to right, put guilty parties in their place and maybe even find a new romance along the way.
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First Frost
by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire tries to manage his increasingly complicated personal life while staving off the violent underworld that is encroaching on the Old West in the twentieth novel of the series following The Longmire Defense.
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The Paradise Problem
by Christina Lauren
When his 100-million-dollar inheritance comes with a catch—he must be happily married for five years, Liam Weston, the uptight heir of a grocery chain, turns to his secret not-so-ex-wife Anna Green, a feisty, foul-mouthed artist, to fake their relationship and convince his one-percenter parents they're in love.
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Lies and weddings : a novel
by Kevin Kwan
Forced by to attend his sister's wedding to seduce a woman with money and get his family out of debt, Rufus, the future Earl of Greshambury, finds their plans—and their reputation—going up in flames when a secret tryst and tragedy become known, revealing a shocking twist.
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The heist
by Jack B. Du Brul
Detective Isaac Bell investigates an attack on the Federal Reserve being led by a master thief and his assassin accomplice in 1914 Washington, D.C., in the 14th novel of the series following The Sea Wolves.
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Southern man
by Greg Iles
A man—and a town—are rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but he's unbowed in the fight to save those he loves.
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This summer will be different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her to Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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Long Island : a novel
by Colm Tâoibâin
"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town in Ireland where she grew up remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at his job, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child, and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead will deposit it on Eilis's doorstep. It is what Eilis does - and what she refuses to do - in response to this stunning news that makes Tâoibâin's novel so riveting. Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis's life are thunderous and dangerous, and there's no one defter than Tâoibâin at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest of bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and peopleshe left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she'd lost. Eilis is perhaps Tâoibâin's most moving and unforgettable character, and this novel is a masterpiece"
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Death Behind Every Door
by Heather Graham
Posing as a tourist, an FBI special agent visits a Scottish castle that's been turned into a bed and breakfast to infiltrate a society of twisted killers named after the man believed to be America's first serial killer.
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The Hazelbourne ladies motorcycle and flying club : a novel
by Helen Simonson
In the summer of 1919, Constance, sent as a lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, is welcomed by Poppy Wirrall, a baronet's daughter who runs a ladies' motorcycle club, but as the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, the club realizes the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked.
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I will ruin you : a novel
by Linwood Barclay
A teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
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The Instruments of Darkness
by John Connolly
In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child; and soon enough, Charlie Parker is on the case.
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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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This strange eventful history : a novel
by Claire Messud
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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Look on the bright side
by Kristan Higgins
When a solution to get her life back on track comes from foul-tempered and renowned surgeon Lorenzo Santini who needs a date for his sister's wedding, oncologist Lark Smith agrees and falling in love with his big, warm family, discovers the best things in life aren't planned at all.
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Swan Song
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades. 1,000,000 first printing.
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Stuart Woods' Smolder
by Brett Battles
When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother's paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.
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Resurrection
by Danielle Steel
A successful influencer and one part of a power couple on the international stage, 42-year-old Darcy Gray, after her perfect life comes crashing down, must stay indefinitely in France during an escalating worldwide health crisis and, through her newfound friendships with others who are stranded, begins to see glimpses of new possibilities.
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Clete / : A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by James Lee Burke
After his car is ransacked at a local car wash, Private investigator Clete Purcel probes into a group of Mexican cartel thugs trafficking fentanyl into New Orleans the latest installment of the long-running series following A Private Cathedral.
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The Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley
During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
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The comfort of ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear
In 1945 London, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs visits a vacant Belgravia mansion where she finds four adolescent orphans and a demobilized, gravely ill soldier and as she tries to bring comfort to them all, she is forced to examine her own painful past and the beliefs she has always accepted as true.
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For the Love of Summer
by Susan Mallery
Fearing she's losing her teen daughter to her“other family” a Seattle salon owner is shocked when her ex-husband is arrested and her daughter convinces her to take in her stepmother, desperate for a friend.
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Red Star Falling
by Steve Berry
Searching for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, rare manuscripts that contain the key to ending a looming threat orbiting 200 miles above the earth, Luke Daniels must find them before others, both inside and outside of Russia, unleash the destructive potential of the Red Star program.
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Some Murders in Berlin
by Karen Robards
Assisting the Kripo in solving a series of murders in Nazi Germany, Dr. Elin Lund, an expert in psychological profiling, when the killer realizes she's figured out who he is, must join Denmark's Jews, along with her family, who are being smuggled to Sweden that very night to survive.
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Our Little Secret
by Lisa Jackson
Breaking off her brief affair with Gideon Ross, who threatens he'll never let her go, Brooke Harmon, after a year goes by, wants to believe it's all behind her but the fear hasn't disappeared—and she's right to be worried because Gideon is a man who keeps his word.
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Middle of the night : a novel
by Riley Sager
Returning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance, Ethan, plagued by strange occurrences, 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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Husbands & lovers : a novel
by Beatriz Williams
Two women, separated by decades and continents, but sharing an exotic family heirloom, search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Summer Wives.
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Don't Let the Devil Ride
by Ace Atkins
A Memphis wife and mother hires an old friend of her father, legendary private investigator Porter Hayes, to search for her missing husband and the pair uncover a dangerous knot of international intrigue involving mercenaries, retired actresses and imposters.
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The Housemaid Is Watching
by Freida Mcfadden
She watches, she sees it all and she'll make you pay. By a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author.
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The Glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier
From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
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Red Sky Mourning
by Jack Carr
When three seemingly disconnected events are about to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has seen, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece, to save America, must reconnect to a quantum computer called“Alice” who is positioned to act as either the county's greatest savior or its worst enemy.
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The next Mrs. Parrish : a novel
by Liv Constantine
With her husband Jackson getting out of prison, prominent socialite Amber Patterson Parrish, when an enemy from her past emerges looking for revenge, she, Jackson and Jackson's ex-wife Daphne become unlikely allies but when all is said and done, they'll have to fight for everything they have left in this zero-sum game.
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Market for Murder
by Heather Graham
In Edinburgh, where murder victims are being dissected and sold for spare parts, Special Agent Luke Kendrick and Carly MacDonald, with the clock ticking on every organ being harvested, are running out of time—and people they can—trust to catch the killers before they themselves are put on ice.
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Sentinel
by Mark Greaney
Sent to Ghana to protect U.S. embassy personnel who are there to highlight American commitment to the construction of a new dam, Josh and Nikki Duffy, when the Chinese get involved, find themselves on the run, caught between a Chinese hit squad and a rebel army.
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