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Alternate Side
by Anna Quindlen
Living in a quiet Manhattan brownstone that has become its own little community, Nora discovers her true self in the wake of a violent attack that exposes the racial, economic, martial and interpersonal tensions beneath her neighbors' façade of harmony.
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As You Wish
by Jude Deveraux
Gathering in a house in Summer Hill, Virginia, to support one another through marital woes, three women from different generations reflect on their experiences with estrangement, expectation and infidelity while resolving to pursue life on their own terms.
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Bachelor Girl
by Kim van Alkemade
A novel about the destructive power of secrets and the redemptive power of love--inspired by the true story of Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest in 1939 to an unknown actress, Helen Winthrope Weyant.
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The Balcony
by Jane Delury
A century-spanning portrait—from the Belle Époque to the present day—of the inhabitants of a French village reveals the deception, despair, love and longing beneath the calm surface of their ordinary lives.
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Census
by Jesse Ball
Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey of memories and revelations.
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Every Note Played
by Lisa Genova
A once-celebrated concert pianist who is gradually succumbing to ALS is forced to accept help from the estranged wife he pushed away, a situation that forces the couple to reconcile their past before time runs out.
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Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
Forging a deep friendship with impoverished but passionate fellow weaver Savitha, motherless Poornima begins to reconnect with the beauty of the world before a devastating act of cruelty drives her friend away.
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Gods of Howl Mountain
by Taylor Brown
Concocting potions and cures for her mountain-dwelling community, a folk healer with a dark past helps her bootleg whiskey runner grandson outmaneuver rivals, federal agents, snake charmers and the mystery of his mother's long confinement in a mental hospital.
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Gun Love
by Jennifer Clement
Growing up in the front seat of the car she shares with her mother in a lot beside a trailer park, Pearl suffers a terrible tragedy stemming from her mother's gun-toting boyfriend and is forced to survive on her own as she comes of age.
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Harbor of Spies
by Robin Lloyd
Set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, a young American ship captain is pulled into both the war effort and the dangerous investigation of a murdered English diplomat which threatens his own life.
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The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of family patriarch Miguel "Big Angel" De La Cruz and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore.
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I'll Be Your Blue Sky
by Marisa De los Santos
Three weeks after an elderly neighbor helps her find the courage to end an unhealthy relationship, Clare unexpectedly inherits a small house from the woman and with the help of loved ones pieces together the story of the house and her courageous benefactor.
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I Was Anastasia
by Ariel Lawhon
An evocative retelling of the Anastasia survival myth follows the appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the youngest Romanov daughter, launching a half-century of questions, accusations and changing perspectives on identity as conveyed by her supporters and detractors.
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Memento Park
by Mark Sarvas
Learning that a painting that was stolen from his family during World War II has been found, Hungarian native Matt Santos is challenged to repair complicated relationships, uncover important family history and restore his own connection to Judaism in order to recover the artwork.
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One House Over
by Mary Monroe
Longing to enjoy life on the wild side without consequences in their 1930s Alabama community, spouses Joyce and Odell forge a secret friendship with a pair of successful bootleggers whose resentment over being marginalized leads to the exposure of Odell's scandalous double life.
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The Parking Lot Attendant
by Nafkote Tamirat
Both a mesmerizing coming-of-age story, about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler, and a haunting story of fatherhood, national identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in America today.
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The Reluctant Fortune-Teller
by Keziah Frost
A down-on-his-luck septuagenarian curmudgeon is taken under the wing of a group of fun-loving seniors who use his special skills at observation to remake him as a community fortune teller, a situation that is complicated by the disappearances of two young women.
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The Room on Rue Amelie
by Kristin Harmel
An American newlywed whose romantic dreams are shattered by the realities of war, an 11-year-old Jewish girl witnessing the horrors of mass deportations and a British Royal Air Force soldier who wonders if he is making a difference are brought together by fate and loss in Nazi-occupied Paris, where together they find the courage to survive.
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The Sparsholt Affair
by Alan Hollinghurst
A World War II-era Oxford engineering student who hides secret ambitions to join the Royal Air Force and the lonely son of a celebrated novelist forge a fateful bond that reverberates throughout seven decades of shared family life and friendship
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Stray City
by Chelsey Johnson
Building a home for herself in the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland away from her Midwestern Catholic childhood, a young artist becomes unexpectedly pregnant after a reckless night and is forced to come to terms with her past a decade later when her precocious daughter asks about her father.
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The Vain Conversation
by Anthony Grooms
An engrossing novel based on the true story of the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia as told from the perspectives of three characters--Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy.
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What You Don't Know about Charlie Outlaw
by Leah Stewart
After her boyfriend, Charlie Outlaw, flees to a remote island to escape his newfound fame, actress Josie Lamar copes with the loss of her own fame 20 years after starring in a cult TV show and sets out to revive her career and win Charlie back in this untraditional love story.
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Wildwood
by Elinor Florence
To earn her inheritance, a single mother from Arizona must spend a year enduring pioneer conditions in the remote Alberta backwoods. If she makes it through the year, she can sell the land to fund her daughter’s medical treatment. But a local farmer hopes to stop her plan to sell to an oil company.
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Accidental Heroes
by Danielle Steel
A decorated former Air Force pilot, a pregnant flight attendant and a dedicated TSA agent find their fates colliding with those of other fellow passengers who must fight for their lives during a fateful flight from New York to San Francisco.
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Barbed Wire Heart
by Tess Sharpe
In a book set in upstate New York near the Canadian border, Harley McKenna has had to work for her North Country-criminal father since she was 16, and as she is trying to decide whether to stay in the family business or get out, her family's biggest rivals, the Springfields, come gunning for her.
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The Bishop's Pawn
by Steve Berry
Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone uncovers a disturbing link between a case from his past and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that risks innocent lives and threatens the legacy of the Civil Rights movement's iconic martyr.
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The Broken Girls
by Simone St. James
More than 60 years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
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Caribbean Rim
by Randy Wayne White
When a discriminating director of the Florida Division of Historical Resources and his young assistant go missing, Doc Ford navigates a high-stakes mission to fight a murder charge against his amateur archaeologist friend.
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Closer Than You Know
by Brad Parks
When Melanie Barrick finds herself being framed by on drug charges and her son taken by Social Services, her only hope is Amy Kaye, an assistant commonwealth attorney working a serial rapist cold case, a case from Melanie's past.
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Crimson Lake
by Candice Fox
Wrongly accused of the brutal abduction of a 13-year-old girl, Sydney detective Ted is forced to hide in the crocodile-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake, where he agrees to help convicted killer Amanda Pharrell in a case involving dangerous secrets.
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A Dangerous Game
by Heather Graham
When a desperate woman shoves an infant into her arms and flees, only to be murdered minutes later, psychologist Kieran Finnegan teams up with FBI Special Agent Craig Frasier to expose and end a human-trafficking operation.
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The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover
by Susan Wittig Albert
When the post-Prohibition community of Darling is thrown into a turmoil by disappointments surrounding a Dixie barbershop competition and a breakdown in the local telephone system, sheriff Buddy Norris makes a perspective-changing discovery while confronting Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger.
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Death Comes In through the Kitchen
by Teresa Dovalpage
Arriving in 2003 Havana to marry his fiancée, a San Diego journalist is shattered by her murder and immediately targeted with suspicion by the authorities, prompting the young man's desperate personal investigation to clear his name and find justice for a woman who may have been hiding the truth about her identity.
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Death in the Stars
by Frances Brody
Suspecting the true nature of a theater actress' invitation to a viewing party at a school chapel during an eclipse in 1927 Yorkshire, Kate Shackleton investigates the suspicious death of one of the actress' co-stars, the third to have died recently under mysterious circumstances.
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Death of an Unsung Hero
by Tessa Arlen
After a patient at the auxiliary hospital for World War I officers with shell shock is found murdered, Lady Montfort and her pragmatic housekeeper investigate, in the fourth novel of the series.
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The Disappeared
by C. J. Box
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett tackles two parallel cases involving the disappearance of a prominent British executive and a group of falconers who are being harassed by the feds, a double assignment that catches the attentions of a dangerous adversary.
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Duel to the Death
by Judith A. Jance
The best-selling author presents another entry in the popular series starring Ali Reynolds, former Los Angeles news anchor-turned-amateur sleuth.
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The Escape Artist
by Brad Meltzer
Discovering that a military artist-in-residence who has been officially declared dead by the government is actually alive and on the run, Zig, a worker at Dover Air Force Base, uncovers disturbing facts about the young woman's past before learning that she witnessed something she was not supposed to see.
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Fade to Black
by David Rosenfelt
Struggling to recover his memory after being wounded in the line of duty, New Jersey State Police officer Doug Brock is approached by a fellow member of his amnesia support group who has discovered a cold-case murder victim's scrapbook and possible ties to Doug's own past.
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The Flight Attendant
by Chris Bohjalian
A binge-drinking flight attendant wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body and sneaks back to her work, telling a series of lies that complicate her ability to figure out what really happened.
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The Innocent Wife
by Amy Lloyd
Falling in love with a man on Death Row she believes was falsely accused, a young schoolteacher successfully campaigns for the man's release and becomes his wife only to begin wondering about his possible guilt in the aftermath of his release.
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The Kremlin Conspiracy
by Joel C. Rosenberg
When a rising czar in the Kremlin feverishly consolidates power and plots a lightning-fast military strike to rupture the NATO alliance, former U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker is challenged to save an America on the brink of war.
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Murder in Bloomsbury
by D. M. Quincy
After the brother of her maid is poisoned, Lady Lilliana Warwick joins aristocrat Atlas Catesby to investigate the crime and they discover that the brother threatened to expose his high-born lady lover shortly before he was murdered.
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The Other Mother
by Carol Goodman
A woman on the run with her infant daughter from a controlling husband takes a job at a Catskills estate and navigates the difficult challenges of postpartum mood disorder at the side of a charismatic new friend who proves to have a disturbing hidden nature.
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Plum Tea Crazy
by Laura Childs
When a banker believed to have died accidentally is discovered to have been hit by a crossbow, Theodosia is challenged to identify the killer among multiple suspects, including an estranged wife, a disgruntled co-worker and a real-estate partner.
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The Punishment She Deserves
by Elizabeth George
Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and the pugnacious but loyal detective sergeant Barbara Havers tackle one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered in a latest entry in the best-selling series.
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Red Alert: An NYPD Red Mystery
by James Patterson
When a fundraiser involving New York's wealthy elite is targeted by a fatal blast, detectives Zack Jordan and Kylie MacDonald discover a link between the bombing and the murder of a high-profile woman filmmaker before realizing that the bombers may be among the A-list guests they were hired to protect.
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Rip Crew
by Sebastian Rotella
Maverick agent Valentine Pescatore investigates a killing that leads him across borders and reveals a vast conspiracy of wealth and power close to home.
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The Rising Sea
by Clive Cussler
Investigating an alarming rise in the world's sea levels, Kurt, Joe and the rest of the NUMA scientific team uncover a diabolical plot to upset the Pacific balance of power by triggering natural disasters to displace billions of people.
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Santa Fe Mourning
by Amanda Allen
Perfect for fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen, brilliant new heroine Maddie Vaughn-Alwin makes her daring debut, discovering that speakeasies conceal more than just liquor.
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
by Donna Leon
A suspicious accident involving the father of a boy suspected of doing drugs finds Commissario Guido Brunetti pursuing a series of false and contradictory leads before uncovering a long-standing scam and unleashing unintentional consequences.
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To Die But Once
by Jacqueline Winspear
Investigating the disappearance of an apprentice craftsman who had been working on a secret government contract, Maisie Dobbs discovers suspicious links to the London underworld and another boy close to her heart.
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True Fiction
by Lee Goldberg
When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, best-selling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn’t an accident.
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The Woman Left Behind
by Linda Howard
A gruff, no-nonsense GO-Team leader who relies on the sensual voice of the team's communication expert to guide him through dangerous assignments becomes her rescuer in the aftermath of an attack that leaves her stranded on a deserted station.
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Her Perfect Affair
by Priscilla Oliveras
When her simple fling with Jeremy Taylor, the man on whom she has had a secret crush for years, turns into something more, threatening everything they’ve both worked for, librarian Rosa Fernandez must decide what is more important—her career or a love to last a lifetime.
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My Once and Future Duke
by Caroline Linden
Surviving on her skill at cards, Sophie Campbell, determined to by mistress of her own fate, is made a scandalous bet she cannot refuse by the Duke of Ware that, if she wins, she will get enough money to secure her independence forever.
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No Earls Allowed
by Shana Galen
When he is asked to help the Earl of St. Maur’s daughter, Lady Juliana, with a charity, Neil Wraxall, a son of nobility, thinks it will be an easy task until passion and danger enter the picture.
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The Undercover Billionaire
by Jackie Ashenden
When he kidnaps his best friend Olivia DeSantis to get revenge on her father, billionaire Navy SEAL Wolf Tate pushes the boundaries of their friendship as passion interferes with his plans and must decide whether to let go of the past and allow himself to fall in love with the daughter of his enemy.
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Burn Bright
by Patricia Briggs
When the rest of their pack goes into voluntary exile for the sake of peace, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are asked to help rescue an abducted wolf, only to find themselves confronted by dark magic elements from the past.
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The Feed
by Nick Clark Windo
Living in a world where everyone is willingly addicted to The Feed, a technology that instantly connects everyone to news, information and the thoughts and feelings of others, Tom uses his skills of existing without being connected to help his family survive when The Feed collapses, decimating modern society.
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Glimpse
by Jonathan Maberry
A recovering addict who has been clean for three years begins seeing things and hearing voices in her head when a ghostly boogey man she imagined in her drug-induced hallucinations begins hunting her in real life.
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Lake Silence: The World of the Others
by Anne Bishop
In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy set in the world of the Others series, an inn owner and her shape-shifting lodger find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets as a murder investigation is complicated by corrupt detectives and the awakening of omnipotent ancient forces.
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Torn
by Rowenna Miller
The first book in an enchanting debut fantasy series featuring a seamstress who stitches magic into clothing, and the mounting political uprising that forces her to choose between her family and her ambitions.
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