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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

1ST CASE

by James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts

A computer genius pulls off her greatest hack yet -- and her skill might just get her killed. Angela Hoot's government career begins with an ending. Her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school and into the Bureau's cyber-forensics unit.

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2034

by Elliot Ackerman, James Stavridis

On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress...

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THE AFFAIR

by Danielle Steel

When Rose McCarthy’s staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood’s hottest young actress, the actress’s sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose’s son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her.

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AFTER ALL I'VE DONE

by Mina Hardy, Megan Hart

She's lost her best friend, her husband--and possibly, her mind. Five months ago, an accident left Diana Sparrow badly injured and missing a few months of her memory. As if that's not enough, she's started having nightmares about the night of the accident.

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AFTERLIFE

by Julia Alvarez

Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE MUSEUM OF DESIRE

by Jonathan Kellerman

Alex Delaware #35. Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. This one's beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level.

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SERPENTINE

by Jonathan Kellerman

Alex Delaware #36. LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he's written his own rule book. Some of those successes--the toughest ones--have involved his friend, the psychologist Alex Delaware.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

by Judith A. Jance

Ali Reynolds #16. Ali Reynolds’s personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene—a former employee of her husband’s who has just been released from prison, Mateo Vega, and a serial killer who sets his sights a little too close to home.

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ALL ADULTS HERE

by Emma Straub

When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence?

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DOG EAT DOG

by David Rosenfelt

Andy Carpenter #23. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, enjoy walking their dogs, Tara and Sebastian. By this point in their marriage, it's routine. When out for one of their strolls, their simple ritual is shattered. Now they work to free a man who risked it all to help a dog.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

ANIMAL

by Lisa Taddeo

Honestly, sometimes it’s the only recourse: Killing men in times like these. Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her.

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THE ANTIDOTE FOR EVERYTHING

by Kimmery Martin

Two doctors travel a surprising path when they must choose between treating their patients and keeping their jobs. Georgia Brown’s profession as a urologist requires her to interact with plenty of naked men, but romantic prospects have fizzled. The most important person is her friend Jonah.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

A GAMBLING MAN

by David Baldacci

Archer #2. Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran is fresh out of prison. The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So he hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California.

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THE ARREST

by Jonathan Lethem

Post-apocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car. It isn’t a dystopia. It isn’t a utopia. It’s what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits working.

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DEBUT NOVEL

THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT

by Syed M. Masood

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016; provocative comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America. It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi...

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SUMMER OF LOST AND FOUND

by Mary Alice Monroe

Beach House #7. The Beach House series returns with this tender and compassionate novel following the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina as they face a summer of upheaval and change with perseverance, a spirit of unity, and a dose of humor.

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BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED

by Lisa Gardner

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. She spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for, after the police and public have given up.

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DEBUT NOVEL

BEFORE THE RUINS

by Victoria Gosling

An empty manor, four teenagers, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives. It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em, and Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse...

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BEHIND THE RED DOOR

by Megan Collins

A darkly thrilling novel about a woman who comes to believe that she has a connection to a decades old kidnapping and now that the victim has gone missing again, begins a frantic search to learn what happened in the past.

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THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP

by Susan Wiggs

Bella Vista Chronicles. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but cash-strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her sick grandfather Andrew, her only living relative—not counting a scoundrel father.

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BIG SUMMER

by Jennifer Weiner

Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn’t spoken one word to Drue in all this time...

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE RED BOOK

by James Patterson

Black Book #2. Detective Billy Harney, goes from hero to statistic is one false move. From newest member of Chicago PD's elite Special Operations Section to getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case.

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DEBUT NOVEL

BLACK BUCK

by Mateo Askaripour

A young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. All after a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup.

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DEBUT NOVEL

THE BLACK KIDS

by Christina Hamm Reed

This coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

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THE HOLLOW ONES

by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

Blackwood Tapes #1. A horrific crime that defies ordinary explanation. A rookie FBI agent in dangerous, uncharted territory. An extraordinary hero for the ages. Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo.

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THE BOOK OF LONGINGS

by Sue Monk Kidd

Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. Then she meets the eighteen-year-old Jesus.

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THE BOOK OF LOST FRIENDS

by Lisa Wingate

Inspired by historical events: a story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its connection to her own students' lives.

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THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS

by Jodi Picoult

Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

BROKEN (IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY)

by Jenny Lawson

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. She humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way.

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THE BROTHER YEARS

by Shannon Burke

Powerful new novel of class striving and the precarious dynamics of brotherhood in the Chicago suburbs of the late 1970s. Willie, the narrator, looks back on his teen years in the Brennan house of four kids--and his nearly mortal combat with his domineering older brother, Coyle.

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THE CABINETS OF BARNABY MAYNE

by Elsa Hart

London, 1703. In a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new, one elite community attempts to understand the world by collecting its wonders. Sir Barnaby Mayne, most formidable of collectors, has devoted a life to filling his cabinets.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

YOU BETRAYED ME

by Lisa Jackson

Cahills #3. The Cahills of San Francisco are famous for two things: their vast wealth, and the scandals that surround them. Murder, greed, deadly ambition...some people will do anything to get, and keep, that kind of money. Not that James Cahill wants any of it.

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CARDIFF, BY THE SEA

by Joyce Carol Oates

Four deeply disturbing novellas that will leave the reader both quaking and pining for more. In the titular novella, an academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of.

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CARRY: A MEMOIR OF SURVIVAL ON STOLEN LAND

by Toni Jensen

Powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of author’s encounters with gun violence. Toni Jensen learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her dad. As an adult, she had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

CAUL BABY

by Morgan Jerkins

Laila desperately wants to become a mother, after years of miscarriage. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE DIRTY SOUTH

by John Connolly

Charlie Parker #18. It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief and mourning the death of his wife and child.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE

by Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, and see deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

CHOOSE ME

by Tess Gerritsen, Gary Braver

A sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets. Taryn Moore is young, beautiful and brilliant...so why would she kill herself? Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony...

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

COBBLE HILL

by Cecily von Ziegesar

A year in the life of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose, community, and meaningful relationships—until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses. Welcome to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE CODE BREAKER

by Walter Isaacson

A gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. An enthralling and intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

LIFE AFTER DEATH

by Sister Souljah

Coldest Winter Ever #2. Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, etc.

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BEST SELLING AUTHOR

THE FINAL TWIST

by Jeffery Deaver

Colter Shaw #3. Just hours after the harrowing events of The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw is hot on the trail of a missing person whose disappearance he desperately hopes to explain: his own father. Following clues his father left behind, Shaw explores one site after another.

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DEBUT NOVEL

THE COMEBACK

by Ella Berman

Grace Turner was one movie away from Hollywood’s A-List. No one understood why, at the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, she disappeared. Now, one year later, Grace is back in Los Angeles and determined to reclaim her life on her own terms.

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PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

THE COMMITTED

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still tortured...

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

CONFESSIONS ON THE 7:45

by Lisa Unger

Everyone has a secret... Now she knows yours. Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy.

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WHEN SHE WAS GOOD

by Michael Robotham

Cyrus Haven #2. Criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this new thriller from author Michael Robotham. Who is Evie, the girl with no past, running from? She was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DANGER IN NUMBERS

by Heather Graham

A ritualistic murder on the side of a remote road on the edge of the Everglades brings in the Florida state police. Special Agent Amy Larson has never seen worse, and there are indications that this killing could be just the beginning. The crime draws the attention of the FBI...

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DEATH WITH A DOUBLE EDGE

by Anne Perry

Daniel Pitt #4. When junior barrister Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he knows only that the victim is a senior barrister from the same firm. To Daniel's relief, it is not his close friend Toby Kitteridge...

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DEBUT NOVEL

THE DARK TIDE

by Alicia Jasinska

Gripping, dark fairy-tale fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island city. Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, a boy sacrificed on the full moon...

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A PRIVATE CATHEDRAL

by James Lee Burke

Dave Robicheaux #23. After getting caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, he must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DEAD TO HER

by Sarah Pinborough

Marcie has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn’t easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DEAR EDWARD

by Ann Napolitano

Inspired by a true story of one child’s incredible survival--riveting, uplifting, unforgettable. After losing everything, a young boy discovers there are still reasons for hope in this luminous, life-affirming novel. In the face of tragedy, what does it take to find joy?

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AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

DEATH IN HER HANDS

by Ottessa Moshfegh

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home.

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WHEN YOU SEE ME

by Lisa Gardner

Detective D.D. Warren #11. Unites Detective D.D. Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy - in a twisty new thriller, as they investigate a mysterious murder from the past that points to a present-day crime. Follows the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness.

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HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

by Jeffrey Archer

Detective William Warwick #2. William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad; immediately tasked with apprehending Khalil Rashidi, a notorious drug dealer.

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ILLEGAL

by Francisco X. Stork

Disappeared #2. What does it mean to be illegal in the United States? Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara. To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping that they can find a way to bring their pursuers to justice.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE DISAPPEARING ACT

by Catherine Steadman

A woman has gone missing, but did she ever really exist? Mia Eliot has travelled from London to LA for pilot season. This is her big chance to make it as an actor in Hollywood, and she is ready to do whatever it takes. At an audition she meets Emily, and a simple favour takes a dark turn.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

A DISTANT SHORE

by Karen Kingsbury

He never dreamed he'd see her again. She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DON'T LOOK FOR ME

by Wendy Walker

One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn't be put back together.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

DREAM GIRL

by Laura Lippman

After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE DROWNING KIND

by Jennifer McMahon

Be careful what you wish for. When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

BLOOD GROVE

by Walter Mosley

Easy Rawlins #15. It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE ECHO WIFE

by Sarah Gailey

Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be and having an affair with Evelyn’s husband. Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and wives have a mess to clean up.

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THE EIGHTH DETECTIVE

by Alex Pavesi

There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, once worked them all out.

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ONE TRUE PATRIOT

by Sean Parnell

Eric Steele #3. Special operative Eric Steele must stop a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel and derail a diabolical plot to undermine America’s safety.

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ETERNAL

by Lisa Scottoline

The tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism. What war destroys, only love can heal. In the autumn of 1937, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power, aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis.

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THE BULLET

by Iris Johansen

Eve Duncan #27. Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn must protect the life of a brilliant scientist so that she can live long enough to bring her discovery to the world. But while conducting private research trials, word has gotten out. The wrong people have heard the news and are now up to no good.

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EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD

by Emily Austin

Gilda, a twenty-something lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff.

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FALLING

by T.J. Newman

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. Enjoy the flight.

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR

FAMILY REUNION

by Nancy Thayer

Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for an annual family reunion, eager for the life and laughter that will follow.

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FIND YOU FIRST

by Linwood Barclay

Tech millionaire Miles Cookson has more money than he can ever spend, and everything he could dream of—except time. He has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation

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FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: STORIES

by Haruki Murakami

A riveting new collection of short stories. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like With the Beatles, Cream and On a Stone Pillow ) are nostalgic looks back at youth.

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DEBUT NOVEL

THE FIRST SISTER

by Linden Lewis

First Sister Trilogy #1. First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars—the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her...

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THE FIRST TO LIE

by Hank Phillippi Ryan

What happens when an undercover reporter gets in too deep? And when a practiced liar has to face off with her own truth—how does she choose her true reality? Who will be the first to lie? Another twisty, thrilling suspense novel that will leave you breathless.

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FLOWERS OF DARKNESS

by Tatiana de Rosnay

Author Clarissa Katsef is struggling to write her next book. She just snagged a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of Paris, a dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But since moving in, she has had the feeling of being watched.

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ALL THE COLORS OF NIGHT

by Jayne Ann Krentz

Fogg Lake #2. North Chastain possesses a paranormal talent that gives him the ability to track down the most dangerous psychic criminals. When his father falls into a coma, North is convinced it was caused by an artifact traced back to a secret government laboratory.

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THE FOREST OF VANISHING STARS

by Kristin Harmel

An evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything. After being stolen, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies.

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THE FORTUNATE ONES

by Ed Tarkington

When Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. But when he is be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite private school, he is now aware of money cushioning people.

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THE FOUR WINDS

by Kristin Hannah

Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. The Great Depression...

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THE BOUNTY

by Janet Evanovich, Steve Hamilton

Fox and O'Hare #7. FBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming con man Nick Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with $30 billion in Nazi gold left untouched for 75 years. Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood are also on the hunt.

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FRIENDS AND STRANGERS

by J. Courtney Sullivan

Insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life. Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town.

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THE FRIENDSHIP LIST

by Susan Mallery

Do the following: [ ] Dance till dawn, [ ] Go skydiving, [ ] Wear a bikini in public, [ ] Start living. Two best friends jump-start their lives in a summer that will change them forever. Single mom Ellen Fox couldn’t be more content—until she overhears her son saying he can’t go to his dream college because she needs him too much.

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GIRL A

by Abigail Dean

About a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life. Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A.

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DEBUT NOVEL

THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE

by The Abi Daré

The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is simultaneously heartbreaking...

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GOLDEN GIRL

by Elin Hilderbrand

On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha.

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GOOD COMPANY

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring.

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A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD

by Therese Anne Fowler

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting...

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THE GOOD SISTER

by Sally Hepworth

From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one and Fern is the quirky one. But the sisters are devoted to one another and Rose has always been Fern's protector from the time they were small.

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GREAT CIRCLE

by Maggie Shipstead

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their uncle in Missoula, Montana. After encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences a lifelong love affair with flight.

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THE CITY WE BECAME

by N. K. Jemisin

Great Cities #1. Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth..

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THE GUEST LIST

by Lucy Foley

The bride. The plus one. The best man. The wedding planner. The bridesmaid. The body. On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star.

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THE RUSSIAN CAGE

by Charlaine Harris

Gunnie Rose #3. An alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power. Follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner held for murder, Prince Eli, jailed in the Holy Russian Empire.

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THE HARPY

by Megan Hunter

Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend.

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THE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPUR

by Alka Joshi

Henna Artist #2. It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education. At twenty, he met a young woman named Nimmi when he left to apprentice at the Facilities Office of the Jaipur Royal Palace.

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HIDEAWAY

by Nora Roberts

A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for this emotional new suspense novel. Caitlyn Sullivan, was already a star at ten, but still loved to play hide-and-seek; it was during one of those games that she disappeared.

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THE HILL WE CLIMB

by Amanda Gorman

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe.

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HOOKED

by Michael Moss

A powerful exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. What if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control?

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HOUR OF THE WITCH

by Chris Bohjalian

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, in a community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful.

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THE HOUSE UPTOWN

by Melissa Ginsburg

An emotional coming-of-age novel about a young girl who goes to live with her eccentric grandmother she's never met in New Orleans after the death of her mother. Ava, 14 years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother's death when she starts the journey.

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HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE

by Imbolo Mbue

A sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an America oil company. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by the oil company.

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HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE

by Cherie Jones

Set in Barbados, about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise." In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them: braiding their hair, minding their children, and selling them drugs.

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IF IT BLEEDS

by Stephen King

If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas —Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds— each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places. Four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a sequel to The Outsider.

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IMPERFECT WOMEN

by Araminta Hall

An enthralling, irresistible novel of psychological suspense about three women and the destructive power of buried secrets. When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoring husband and daughter, and a secret lover of unknown identity.

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SHADOWS IN DEATH

by J.D. Robb

In Death #51. Lt. Eve Dallas is about to walk into the shadows of her husband's dangerous past. As it often did since he'd married a cop, murder interrupted more pleasant activities. But, the woman lying in a pool of blood in Washington Square Park had a heftier complaint.

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FAITHLESS IN DEATH

by J.D. Robb

In Death #52. The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wine glasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. Dallas tracks down the woman who called 911, but the details don't add up.

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A FATAL LIE

by Charles Todd

Inspector Ian Rutledge #23. A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct. There is no id on the body, he isn’t a local, and no one admits to having seen him before.

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INVISIBLE GIRL

by Lisa Jewell

Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice...

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FAIR WARNING

by Michael Connelly

Jack McEvoy #3. Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered.

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TWENTY

by James Grippando

Jack Swyteck #17. Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties—Florida’s fifth mass shooting in as many years. It is the message every parent of a school-age child fears: “Active Shooter on Campus.”

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A GALWAY EPIPHANY

by Ken Bruen

Jack Taylor #16. Jack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back Jack is hit by a truck...

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A TIME FOR MERCY

by John Grisham

Jake Brigance #3. Jake Brigance, the protagonist of A Time to Kill, the classic legal thriller is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. His life and reputation are on the line.

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JINGLE ALL THE WAY

by Debbie Macomber

Trapped in the middle of five siblings, Everly Lancaster always had big dreams. Now a top real-estate executive, Everly finds her work is her life, leaving no space for anything (or anyone) else. Sensing her stress, Everly's boss insists she take December off.

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MISSING AND ENDANGERED

by J.A. Jance

Joanna Brady #19. Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady’s professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter Jennifer Brady returns for her sophomore year, and is involved in a missing persons case, set in the beautiful desert country of the American Southwest.

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DARK SKY

by C.J. Box

Joe Pickett #21. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted. Joe must rely on his wits and his knowledge of the outdoors to protect himself and his charge.

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A SIMPLE MURDER

by Linda Castillo

Kate Burkholder #4.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, 9.5, 10.5. Together for the first time in print, A Simple Murder features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder.

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OUTSIDER

by Linda Castillo

Kate Burkholder #12. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman nearby.

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HINDSIGHT

by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Kendra Michaels #7. Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities.

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BLINK OF AN EYE

by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Kendra Michaels #8. Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal cops can solve it.

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HEAD WOUNDS

by Michael McGarrity

Kevin Kerney #14. Given a chance to salvage his law enforcement career, Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Detective Clayton Istee catches a bizarre late-night double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel. Both victims, a man and a woman, have been scalped with their throats cut.

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THE KINDEST LIE

by Nancy Johnson

A promise could betray you. It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain.

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THE LAST TRIAL

by Scott Turow

Kindle County Legal Thriller #11. In this explosive legal thriller, two formidable men collide: a celebrated criminal defense lawyer at the end of his career and his lifelong friend, a renowned doctor accused of murder and his entire life's work is put in jeopardy.

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THE KING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

by Arthur Phillips

It is 1601. Queen Elizabeth is dying, childless. There is no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable arrives. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem.

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KLARA AND THE SUN

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will choose her.

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A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT: A STORY OF HOPE

by Brittany K. Barnett

An inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity and an urgent call to free those buried alive by America's unjust legal system--from a gifted young lawyer whose journey marks the emergence of a powerful new voice in the movement to transform the system.

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THE DIPLOMAT'S WIFE

by Pam Jenoff

Kommandant's Girl #2. How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should have died. But I am here. 1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life.

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LADY CLEMENTINE

by Marie Benedict

Focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. In 1909, Clementine Churchill steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train.

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THE LAST EXILES

by Ann Shin

An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom. Jin and Suja met and fell in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She a young journalist, and he of little means.

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THE LAST FLIGHT

by Julie Clark

Two women. Two Flights. One last chance to disappear. Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious.

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CHAIN OF IRON

by Cassandra Clare

Last Hours #2. The Shadowhunters must catch a killer in Edwardian London. Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie.

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THE LAST NIGHT IN LONDON

by Karen White

London, 1939. Beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her American best friend, Precious Dubose, are trying to make their way as fashion models. When Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and Royal Air Force pilot, she can’t believe her luck...

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THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME

by Laura Dave

We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey.

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STARGAZER

by Anne Hillerman

Leaphorn & Chee #24. What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend.

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LEGACY

by Nora Roberts

Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her—before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents’ house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade...

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ABSENCE OF MERCY

by S.M. Goodwin

Lightner and Law Mystery #1. A string of grisly murders in Pre-Civil War New York propels an unlikely pair of detectives into a deadly tinderbox. Jasper Lightner is a decorated Crimean War hero with a chest full of medals, and the most admired Inspector in the LMP.

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SUNFLOWER SISTERS

by Martha Hall Kelly

Lilac Girls #3. Tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Ann-May Wilson...

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THE LIONS OF FIFTH AVENUE

by Fiona Davis

It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life--her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children.

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ATTACK SURFACE

by Cory Doctorow

Little Brother #3. Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, making the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents.

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LITTLE CRUELTIES

by Liz Nugent

This story begins with a funeral. One of three brothers is dead, mourned by his siblings. But which one? And how? And, most importantly: why? William, Brian, and Luke are each born a year apart in a lower middle class Catholic family in 1960s Dublin.

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LOCAL WOMAN MISSING

by Mary Kubica

People don’t just disappear without a trace... Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community.

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LOST APOTHECARY

by Sarah Penner

A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them. Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman. Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.

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LOST SOULS AT THE NEPTUNE INN

by Betsy Carter

When an elusive stranger arrives in 1960s New Rochelle, three generations of women are forever changed. When the heart finds its home, anything is possible. Geraldine, Emilia Mae, and Alice Wingo couldn't be more different from each other.

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LOVE AFTER LOVE

by Ingrid Persaud

An electrifying novel of an unconventional family in Trinidad mended by their individual, and collective, quests for love. After Betty Ramdin's husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her son, Solo. Over time, the three become...

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LOVE YOUR LIFE

by Sophie Kinsella

About a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer's retreat in Italy--only to find that real love comes with its own filters. Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign.

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OCEAN PREY

by John Sandford

Lucas Davenport #31 / Virgil Flowers #13. An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family in the Atlantic just off south Florida when he sees, and then calls in, some suspicious behavior in a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower...

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UNDER PRESSURE

by Robert Pobi

Lucas Page #2. A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the FBI turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page. It instantly killed 702 people, including every single attendee of a private Guggenheim Museum gala.

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LUSTER

by Raven Leilani

Luster sees a young black woman figuring her way into life as an artist and into love in this darkly comic novel. She meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage.

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THE CUTTING PLACE

by Jane Casey

Maeve Kerrigan #9. You've got to be in the club to know the truth. Everyone's heard the rumours about elite gentlemen's clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are the height of decadence ... and the secrets are darker than you could possibly imagine.

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THE MAIDENS

by Alex Michaelides

Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR

by Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs #16. As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts. September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, witnesses an argument that ends in murder.

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MALIBU RISING

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch.

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THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND

by Richard Wright

A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel. Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit.

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MARION LANE AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDER

by T.A. Willberg

The letter was short. A name, a time, a place. Plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets.

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CASTLE SHADE

by Laurie R. King

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #17. A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty.

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MEANT TO BE

by Jude Deveraux

Two headstrong sisters are bound by tradition but long to forge their own path. It’s 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps.

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THE FALCON ALWAYS WINGS TWICE

by Donna Andrews

Meg Langslow #27. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia.

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MEXICAN GOTHIC

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find, as Noemí knows little about the region.

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THE RUSSIAN

by James Patterson, James O. Born

Michael Bennett #13. A killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett's wedding. A series of gruesome murders in NYC has Michael angry -- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women.

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THE LAW OF INNOCENCE

by Michael Connelly

Mickey Haller #6. Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. He is an instant target.

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THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY

by Matt Haig

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices; done anything different?

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THE DESOLATIONS OF DEVIL'S ACRE

by Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #6. The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance. The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather's house.

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MOTHER MAY I

by Joshilyn Jackson

Revenge doesn’t wait for permission. Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned by her single mother that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother’s fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Bree now has all a woman could ever dream of.

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MURDER AT SUNRISE LAKE

by Christine Feehan

Takes readers deep into the California backcountry, where a woman is tormented by visions of a killer. It starts in her dreams. Hideous flashes from a nightmare only she can stop. Images of a murderer stalking the ones she cares about most...

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MURDER IN OLD BOMBAY

by Nev March

In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers.

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THE MYSTERY OF MRS. CHRISTIE

by Marie Benedict

In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car—strange for a frigid night. Her husband and daughter do not know her whereabouts.

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NEIGHBORS

by Danielle Steel

A reclusive woman, Meredith White, one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.

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NEVER FAR AWAY

by Michael Koryta

Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine.

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THE NEWCOMER

by Mary Kay Andrews

In trouble and on the run... After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya’s ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Letty heeds her late sister’s warnings...

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THE NIGHT SWIM

by Megan Goldin

After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face.

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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

by Louise Erdrich

Chronicles the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., exploring themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.

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NIGHTS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENED

by Simon Han

A little girl's nighttime odysseys trigger a chain of events that menaces the fragile stability of her family. From the outside, the Chengs seem like "model immigrants."" Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, they grew secure enough for a second child.

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DEAD WEST

by Matt Goldman

Nils Shapiro #4. Nils accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer’s grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood, especially now, in the wake of his fiancée’s tragic death. That easy job becomes much more complicated.

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NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE

by Michael J. Fox

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate author. Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends.

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NO WAY OUT

by Fern Michaels

Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety; starting over in rural Missouri.

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THE SCORPION'S TAIL

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Nora Kelly #2. Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson investigating a new case that requires both their skills. After a shoot-out Swanson is involved in leaves a senior FBI agent gravely wounded.

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FAST ICE

by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown

NUMA Files #18. Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon--a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age.

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BOOKISH AND THE BEAST

by Ashley Poston

Once Upon a Con #3. Beauty and the Beast is retold in the beloved Starfield universe. Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck—on her college application essays, grief over her mother’s death, in her small town, and on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon.

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ONE BY ONE

by Ruth Ware

Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. How about with 8 of your coworkers...and you can’t trust any of them?

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THE ORCHARD

by David Hopen

A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself. Ari Eden’s life in ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has always been governed by strict rules.

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THE OTHER BLACK GIRL

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. Then the notes begin to appear.

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THE OTHER EMILY

by Dean Koontz

A twisting journey of lost love, impossible second chances, and terrifying promises. A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup’s victims whose remains were never found.

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THE (OTHER) YOU: STORIES

by Joyce Carol Oates

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short story. In this stirring, reflective collection, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices.

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OUR WOMAN IN MOSCOW

by Beatriz Williams

In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected?

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PACK UP THE MOON

by Kristan Higgins

Every month, a letter. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help him face this first year without her, leading him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again.

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PALACE OF THE DROWNED

by Christine Mangan

It's 1966 and Frankie Croy retreats to her friend's vacant palazzo in Venice. Years have passed since the initial success of Frankie's debut novel and she has spent her career trying to live up to the expectations. Now she needs to recharge and get re-inspired.

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THE PALM BEACH MURDERS

by James Patterson

The wealthiest zip code in Florida doesn't just have billionaires, yachts, and private planes--it also has the best murder plots money can buy. Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date.

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THE PAPER PALACE

by Miranda Cowley Heller

This house, this place, knows all my secrets. It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"--the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different...

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TROUBLES IN PARADISE

by Elin Hilderbrand

Paradise #3. After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. A visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene learns just how little she knew...

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THE PARIS LIBRARY

by Janet Skeslien Charles

Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians such as the young and ambitious Odile Souchet at the American Library in Paris 1939, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together.

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PAYBACK

by Mary Gordon

Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s.

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PEACES

by Helen Oyeyemi

When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment--and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive to ride on what appears to be no ordinary locomotive.

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CROOKED RIVER

by Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child

Pendergast #19. Before he can return to New York from Miami, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is called to investigate something very strange that has happened on the west coast of Florida. Dozens of human feet, identically clad in blue have washed up on beaches.

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PERFECT LITTLE CHILDREN

by Sophie Hannah

Haven't They Grown. All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the football ground, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her.

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THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN

by Marie Benedict

The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who in her twenties became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true. Her complexion is dark because she is African American...

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THE LOST BOYS

by Faye Kellerman

Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #26. When Bertram Telemann goes missing from a local diner near Greenbury, the entire community of the small upstate New York town volunteers to search the surrounding woods in hopes of finding him. Bertram had been on a field trip.

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THE FINISHER

by Peter Lovesey

Peter Diamond #19. Through a particularly ill-fated series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her “curvy” girls shouldn’t waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half.

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PLAIN BAD HEROINES

by Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman

Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir.

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THE POWER COUPLE

by Alex Berenson

A supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep. Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs—at the FBI and NSA.

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MAGIC LESSONS

by Alice Hoffman

Practical Magic #0.1. In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a strong line. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin?

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PRETTY THINGS

by Janelle Brown

Two wildly different women, one a grifter, the other an heiress, brought together by the scam of a lifetime. Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. She turned to stealing from rich kids.

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PROJECT HAIL MARY

by Andy Weir

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

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THE PUSH

by Ashley Audrain

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm mother...

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READY PLAYER TWO

by Ernest Cline

Ready Player One #2. An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, lies an immense technological advancement.

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THE RED LOTUS

by Chris Bohjalian

Twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, Alexis, an ER doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met, a bullet wound in Austin's arm.

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THE RETURN

by Nicholas Sparks

The story of an injured Navy doctor -- and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. Then a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan...

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HID FROM OUR EYES

by Julia Spencer-Fleming

The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #9. 1952: Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered. 1972: Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene very similar to one from the 50s.

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FOOL ME TWICE

by Jeff Lindsay

Riley Wolfe #2. Riley Wolfe, the master thief and master of disguise is back with a bigger take and much higher stakes. Can he steal a fresco in Rome, an actual painted wall, for the arms dealer who has threatened him in the most personal way?

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THE RIVER MURDERS

by James Patterson, James O. Born

After being rejected from the Navy SEALs, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he must find his missing teenage cousin--and uncovers a government conspiracy in the process. Mitchum is back. His brother's been charged.

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A REASONABLE DOUBT

by Phillip Margolin

Robin Lockwood #3. A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act. Robin is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. Former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate.

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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

by Phillip Margolin

Robin Lockwood #4. Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in an illegal bar bout, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house.

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THE ROSE CODE

by Kate Quinn

A heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the German spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call, as some of the best minds in Britain.

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THE LAST MRS. SUMMERS

by Rhys Bowen

Royal Spyness #14. Georgie is just back from her honeymoon with Darcy when a friend in need pulls her into a du Maurier-like murder. Georgie's best friend, Belinda, inherits a spooky old house in Cornwall and asks Georgie to go with her to inspect the property.

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A SAINT FROM TEXAS

by Edmund White

A bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other.

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THE SANATORIUM

by Sarah Pearse

You won’t want to leave...until you can’t. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.

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THE THIRD GRAVE

by Lisa Jackson

Savannah #4. Return to the dark side of Savanna, Georgia where a crime writer and her detective husband are working a cold case, and hot on the trail of a killer who’s work isn’t done. The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through.

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NEAR DARK

by Brad Thor

Scot Harvath #19. The world’s largest bounty has just been placed upon America’s top spy. His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission...

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THE SECRET OF YOU AND ME

by Melissa Lenhardt

True love never fades—and old secrets never die. Nora hasn’t looked back. Not since she fled Texas to start a new life. Away from her father’s volatile temper and the ever-watchful gaze of her claustrophobically conservative small town, Nora has freed herself.

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THE SHADOW BOX

by Luanne Rice

How far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth—and the lengths someone will go to stop her. After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust.

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THE SILENCE

by Don DeLillo

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. A retired physics professor, her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from a dramatic flight from Paris.

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SIX CRIMSON CRANES

by Elizabeth Lim

Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted.

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ANY WAYS THE WIND BLOWS

by Rainbow Rowell

Simon Snow #3. Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward. For Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages -- and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz?

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SOME KIND OF ANIMAL

by Maria Romasco-Moore

A new story about two girls with a secret no one would ever believe, and the wild, desperate lengths they will go to protect each other from the outside world. Jo lives in the same Appalachian town where her mother disappeared fifteen years ago.

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SOOLEY

by John Grisham

In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane.

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SOULMATE EQUATION

by Christina Lauren

Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents--who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno--Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable.

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THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS

by Micaiah Johnson

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. Multiverse travel is finally possible, with a catch.

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THE STEPSISTERS

by Susan Mallery

Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage’s mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn’t have Daisy’s smarts—she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school.

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FORTUNE AND GLORY

by Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum #27. When Stephanie’s beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up easy chair...and the keys to a life-changing fortune. They discover that they’re not the only ones on the hunt.

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DOUBLE JEOPARDY

by Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington faces down danger on all sides. Stone is settling in for a stretch in New York when he receives news that demands immediate action. An old family matter has unexpectedly resurfaced, and Stone must decamp to the craggy shores of Maine to address the issue head-on.

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THE SUN DOWN MOTEL

by Simone St. James

The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before. Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better.

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THE SURVIVORS

by Jane Harper

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to dire consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit to the small coastal community he once called home.

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MOONFLOWER MURDERS

by Anthony Horowitz

Susan Ryeland #2. Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities.

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HAUNTED HIBISCUS

by Laura Childs

Tea Shop Mystery #22. It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion, also Known as the Gray Ghost.

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THAT SUMMER

by Jennifer Weiner

Novel of intrigue, secrets, and the transformative power of female friendship, set on beautiful Cape Cod. Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content.

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THE THIRTY NAMES OF NIGHT

by Zeyn Joukhadar

Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening.

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THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

by Osman Richard

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. They might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

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TO SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS

by Christopher Paolini

Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.

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TRUE STORY

by Kate Reed Petty

A brilliant and genre-defying novel about rape, memory and the nature of truth. Inventive, electrifying and daring; a novel like nothing you've ever read before. After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in the back seat.

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TURN A BLIND EYE

by Jeffrey Archer

Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers.

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THE UNWILLING

by John Hart

Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars.

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DEAD LAND

by Sara Paretsky

V.I. Warshawski #20. Chicago’s legendary detective, V.I. Warshawski, knows her city’s rotten underbelly better than most, but she’s unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use, in this propulsive novel.

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VENICE SKETCHBOOK

by Rhys Bowen

Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII. Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper...Venice.

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THE VINEYARD AT PAINTED MOON

by Susan Mallery

Step into the vineyard with Susan Mallery’s most irresistible novel yet, as one woman searches for the perfect blend of love, family and wine. Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all—a beautiful home, close friends and a successful career as an elite winemaker with the family winery.

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A WALK ALONG THE BEACH

by Debbie Macomber

Two sisters must learn from each other’s strengths and trust in the redeeming power of love. The Lakey sisters are perfect opposites. After their mother died and their father was lost in grief, Willa had no choice but to raise her sister, Harper, and their brother, Lucas.

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WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT

by A.E. Osworth

Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public. But is Eliza Bright a brilliant, self-taught coder bravely calling out the toxic masculinity and chauvinism that pervades her workplace and industry?

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WE BEGIN AT THE END

by Chris Whitaker

There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal from giving testimony that sent his best friend to prison.

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WHAT YOU WISH FOR

by Katherine Center

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for living. But she wasn’t always that way. Duncan Carpenter is the school principal who lives by rules and regulations, guided by idea bad things can happen.

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WHEN THE STARS GO DARK

by Paula McLain

Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there with her foster parents, and it might be the only place left for her.

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WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN AND THE GIRLS ARE PRETTY

by Lauren Weisberger

A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all. Until...

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WHEREABOUTS

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.

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WHILE JUSTICE SLEEPS

by Stacey Abrams

While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together--excelling in an arduous job with the court.

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WHITE IVY

by Susie Yang

Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, she is taught how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops by her immigrant grandmother. It allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a teen.

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WHY I DON’T WRITE AND OTHER STORIES

by Susan Minot

A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through protests in lower Manhattan and ruminates on an elusive lover; an old woman on her deathbed calls out for a man other than her husband; and others.

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THE WIFE UPSTAIRS

by Rachel Hawkins

Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes.

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THE FOREVER GIRL

by Jill Shalvis

Wildstone #6. A heartfelt story of family, forgiveness, and secrets that have the power to change the course of more than one life. When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, it’s also a reunion.

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WIN

by Harlan Coben

Windsor Horne Lockwood III #1. Story that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of vigilante antihero—drawing him down a dangerous road. Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family's estate...

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WITH TEETH

by Kristen Arnett

If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Now she is uncertain about motherhood.

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THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN

by Ava Reid

In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king.

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THE WOMAN WITH THE BLUE STAR

by Pam Jenoff

1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city.

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THE WRONG FAMILY

by Tarryn Fisher

Have you ever been wrong about someone? Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch. Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. She sees the cracks...

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YOU'LL THANK ME FOR THIS

by Nina Siegal

A pulse-pounding psychological thriller based on the popular Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping teens and pre-teens in the middle of the Hoge Veluwe National Forest with nothing but a few basic supplies and emergency food — and what happens when it goes horribly wrong.

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TAKE IT BACK

by Kia Abdullah

Zara Kaleel #1. A shocking, twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned. The Victim: Jodie Wolfe, a physically flawed 16-year-old girl accuses four boys in her class of something unthinkable. The Defendants: Four...

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