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The Big Empty
by Robert Crais
When Elvis Cole finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, a missing-persons cold case becomes far more sinister, and soon he must call his ex-Marine friend Joe Pike for help.
#20 Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series
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Chain Reaction
by James Byrne
Dez Limerick, a skilled former "gatekeeper" with a shadowy past, is drawn into a terrorist attack at the Liberty Center while attempting to help a friend with a musical gig; aided by a talented thief, he must confront a formidable enemy who knows his secrets.
#3 in the Dez Limerick series
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The Last King of California
by Jordan Harper
This stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke's father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family's various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of "home," and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang's motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love.
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Star War: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear
by Alexander Freed
In the early days of the Empire, Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera navigate the oppressive regime in the wake of Chancellor Palpatine's proclamation, grappling with their personal struggles and hidden motivations while laying the groundwork for the Rebel Alliance amid the galaxy's increasing tyranny and despair.
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Climbing In Heels
by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
A fictional tale of the rise of three secretaries at the hottest agency in 1980's Hollywood, giving you a glimpse into the boys-will-be-boys club and the women who wanted a seat at a table where they were expected to serve.
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Notes on Surviving the Fire
by Christine Murphy
Only best friend Nathan believes Sarah when she's raped by a fellow student, and when Nathan is found dead of an overdose along with other suspicious deaths, she suspects murder; taught to stalk prey with her hunter father, she must decide if a different kind of killing can be justified.
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The Ghosts of Rome
by Joseph O'Connor
In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir successfully smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls wounded from the sky, The Choir is plunged into danger and the survival of the Escape Line itself is threatened. The Escape Line's collapse would leave thousands stranded. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, its architect and the acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, paralyzed by the perils of keeping his Roman underground railroad functioning. Meanwhile, SS Commander Paul Hauptmann has been tasked with destroying the entire operation, and the price of failure is high-his wife and children are under Gestapo lock-and-key in Berlin. Into this deliriously thrilling melee steps Contessa Giovanna Landini, a reckless, audacious, and magnetic member of the Italian Resistance who has the nerve to challenge Hauptmann's authority.
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Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks
Having no time to grieve when her husband suddenly died, the author after three years flew to a remote Australian island and stayed in a shack on a pristine coast, going days without seeing another person, and pondered the ways cultures grieve and what rituals might help her rebuild her life.
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Soft Core
by Brittany Newell
In San Francisco's shadowy underworld, Ruth, a stripper known as Baby Blue, embarks on a surreal journey through dive bars and strange encounters to find her missing ex-boyfriend, Dino, as her reality blurs amidst secrets, obsession, and self-discovery.
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Isola
by Allegra Goodman
Inspired by a real 16th-century heroine, an orphaned and betrayed young woman, Marguerite, is marooned on a desolate island with her lover, where she must confront nature's harshness and her own strength in a desperate fight for survival.
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Stone Yard Devotional
by Charlotte Wood
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.
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Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
by Michael David-Fox
The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under Stalinist and Nazi rule to unravel the threads of authoritarianism. Focused on personal stories, David-Fox leaves no question as to despots’ reliance on the collaboration and acquiescence of ordinary citizens.
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Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night
by Susan Morrison
Lorne Michaels has become a revered and inimitable presence over his 50 years at the helm of Saturday Night Live, and this volume provides unprecedented access to Michaels and SNL for the definitive story of how he created and maintained a comedy institution.
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Crush
by Ada Calhoun
A woman with a seemingly perfect life confronts the limits of marriage when her husband's provocative question about desire unravels her world, sparking a journey through passion, self-discovery and redefining love in modern relationships.
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The Garden
by Nick Newman
In this gorgeous, eerie book, two elderly sisters live alone on a crumbling estate at the end of the world, tending to a large walled garden to survive. One day a boy breaches the walls and throws their lives into chaos, forcing them to confront the dark truths about their existence, the garden itself, and the world as they've known it.
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Mutual Interest
by Olivia Wolfgang-smith
At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance operates Clancey & Schmidt, a preeminent manufacturer of soap, perfume, and candles, from behind the image of Oscar Schmidt and Squire Clancey, and when Oscar and Squire fall in love, the trio form a new partnership, in this story of queer romance and power.
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Theory & Practice
by Michelle De Kretser
In 1986 Melbourne, a Sri Lankan graduate student studying Virginia Woolf navigates love, jealousy, and shifting beliefs while confronting unsettling revelations about her literary idol, exploring the tension between ideals and desires in the bohemian arts world of St. Kilda.
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Centerville, OH 45459
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