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Calypso
by David Sedaris
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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A Conspiracy of Tall Men
by Noah Hawley
A professor of conspiracy theory at a small California college is taught a terrible lesson in his own subject when he discovers a link between his late wife's employer, an advertising agency, and the government.
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The Map of Salt and Stars
by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Two girls living 800 years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—place today’s headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.
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How It Happened
by Michael Koryta
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good--a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict--so when she confesses to having a role in two murders, the locals don't believe her. But FBI investigator Rob Barrett thinks she's telling the truth. One question remains: Where are the bodies?
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Love and Ruin
by Paula McLain
After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
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Warlight
by Michael Ondaatje
Years after growing up in the care of a group of mysterious protectors who served in unspecified ways during World War II, a young man endeavors to piece together the truth about his parents and the unconventional education he received. By the award-winning author of The English Patient.
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Shelter in Place
by Nora Roberts
A group of survivors navigate trauma and recovery challenges in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a mall, an event that inspires a career in law enforcement, triggers devastating PTSD and gives way to an escaped killer's plot to orchestrate an event with an even higher death toll.
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the funeral of the deceased and realizes that something is very, very wrong.
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The high tide club
by Mary Kay Andrews
Unexpectedly hired by an eccentric millionaire from a vast barrier island home, a young attorney learns the story of the new client's now-deceased circle of friends, her determination to protect the land from developers, disturbing clues about a long-unsolved murder and her ambitious plans for heirs and descendants.
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The Cutting Edge
by Jeffery Deaver
Returning to New York City from their honeymoon to learn that a serial killer has been targeting couples in the process of buying engagement rings, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs discover that their target has a larger agenda than originally realized and that there is something unusual about the ring that Rhyme gave Sachs.
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Then She Was Gone
by Lisa Jewell
Struggling to put her life back together a decade after her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a divorced woman bonds with a charming single father whose young child eerily resembles the woman's own lost daughter and who compels a wrenching search for answers.
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The Outsider
by Stephen King
In the aftermath of a boy's brutal murder in Flint City, a local detective is forced to arrest a popular Little League coach who, in spite of an alibi, presents with open-and-shut evidence that is called into question when the suspect's true nature and the realities of the crime come to light.
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