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The Academy
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a surprise national ranking thrusts underachieving Tiffin Academy into the spotlight, a viral gossip app begins exposing students' and staff's secrets, unraveling reputations and relationships as the boarding school's carefully curated image gives way to chaos, scandal and unexpected alliances.
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The Belles
by Lacey N. Dunham
Ada May, Deena, Prissy, Fred, Sheba, and Nell are soon singled out by the headmistress as the most promising girls of their class, and she anoints them The Belles. But no sisterhood comes without secrets, and the Belles are no exception. Playing cruel pranks on their housemother and embarking on boundary-shattering nighttime games, the Belles form a sisterhood....But as their night games become more dangerous, the loyalty Deena feels for The Belles and the sinister history of the college collide--with deadly consequences.
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Buckeye
by Patrick Ryan
In postwar Ohio, a stolen moment between Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt reverberates through generations, as a small town's buried secrets and a wife's spiritual gift expose the longing for love and goodness.
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The Christmas House 🎄
by Beverly Lewis
Liz Lantz runs a buggy tour business in Hickory Hollow, assisted by a handsome young Amish man during the Christmas season. Her Englisher neighbor's lavishly decorated house has brought the quiet community unwanted attention, and Liz is determined to find a way to bring harmony to Hickory Hollow in time for Christmas
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Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
As drought and tension grip the Great Plain, a gifted flint miner and a visionary priestess unite to build a monumental stone circle, but escalating tribal conflicts and brutal violence threaten their civilization and their shared ambition.
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Deadly Storms
by Christine Feehan
Shabina Foster does her best to lead a normal life. She takes comfort in her friends and her dogs and finds passion in running her own small-town café in the eastern Sierra. But she can’t help always looking over her shoulder, not after what happened in her past. Since then, Shabina has worked very hard to build herself up and live life to the fullest. Still, there’s no denying the scars she carries. Truly opening up her guarded world seems like an impossible dream—especially when it comes to the one man who makes her feel safe. Shabina already feels like she’s ruined his life and is determined to keep her distance, even as the ghosts of her past emerge from the shadows. Security expert Rainier Ashcroft knows firsthand that a storm is brewing and that Shabina is in real trouble. Threats are approaching on all sides—and there’s no telling when the next hit will strike. But convincing the woman he loves to truly let him in will be just as difficult as keeping her alive.
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The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
by Michiko Aoyama
In a small community, an eclectic group of residents—ranging from a failing student to a lonely mother—seek comfort, connection, and unexpected healing at a playground's legendary hippo ride said to cure ailments through its mysterious, magical touch.
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Heart the Lover
by Lily King
Decades after a tangled college love triangle shaped her life, a woman is forced to confront her old choices and hidden truths in this intimate novel of friendship and desire.
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The Killer Question
by Janice Hallett
A weekly trivia night has revived Sue and Mal Eastwood's struggling rural pub, until a body is found nearby and a suspiciously successful new team arrives; five years later the pub lies derelict and the Eastwood's nephew Dominic is determined to discover what happened.
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A Killer Wedding
by Joan O'leary
When a beauty mogul dies at her grandson's castle wedding, a fashion reporter uncovers secrets among the glamorous guests and suspects the killer may be one of the family members determined to keep it quiet.
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The Killing Stones
by Ann Cleeves
After his friend Archie is found murdered beside a stolen artifact on Westray, Detective Jimmy Perez returns to Orkney, where personal ties, dark secrets and local rumors complicate his search for the truth behind the killing.
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Land So Wide
by Erin A. Craig
Trapped in the prosperous but cursed settlement of Mistaken, mapmaker Greer Mackenzie defies the Warding Stones to rescue her beloved from monstrous creatures, uncovering dark secrets about her town and her own origins.
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Life & Death & Giants
by Ronald J. Rindo
A remarkable child transforms a small, rural community—and soon the world.
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The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore
by Anika Fajardo
Grieving her parents and burdened by ghosts both literal and emotional, unemployed cartographer Dolores Moore reluctantly leaves Minneapolis for Colombia, guided by a mysterious map and a meddling chorus of dead relatives as she searches for answers about her past and her future.
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A Matter of Pedigree
by Leslie Meier
Armed with a pampered spaniel and designer shoes, Carole Capobianco must clear her husband's name and uncover the truth after a wealthy venture capitalist is found bludgeoned to death, in the first novel of a new series.
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A Murder in Paris
by Matthew Blake
Memory expert Olivia Finn races to Paris when her grandmother claims to have committed a 1945 murder at Hotel Lutetia, but as present-day deaths mount, Olivia must uncover the truth before the past kills again.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jâonasson
Young detective Helgi must find bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir, before her disappearance is leaked to the press, and before it is too late for the missing writer.
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No Rest for the Wicked 🎃
by Rachel Louise Adams
In one Halloween-obsessed Midwestern town, everyone's on red alert after a local politician goes missing; little do they know it's only the beginning.
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The October Film Haunt 🎃
by Michael Wehunt
A woman is pulled into a cult horror film that is determined to have a sequel.
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Old Money
by Kelsey Miller
On the Fourth of July, teenager Caitlin dies at Briar's Green country club's annual party; 20 years later, her cousin Alice, who witnessed the murder, returns to her hometown, seeking answers and justice.
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Once upon a Christmas Carol 🎄
by Melody Carlson
Carol Langstrom hates Christmas. Being born on December 25th and growing up in a dysfunctional home has turned her into a modern-day Scrooge. Her plan: to escape this holiday in the Bahamas, but storms reroute her flight to Michigan. Amid the snowy landscape, she gets stuck on her aunt's farm and rediscovers a different kind of Christmas--one wrapped in love.
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Other People's Houses
by Clare Mackintosh
DC Ffion Morgan realizes the death of an estate agent in a kayak on Mirror Lake was no accident, while in Cheshire, DS Leo Brady investigates multiple break-ins, and Ffion and Leo are about to learn that people will pay a high price to hide their secrets.
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Picket Line
by Elmore Leonard
This never-before-published gem from a master storyteller describes an unprecedented farmers' movement in Trinity, Texas; the complex cast of Chicanos, Anglos, and migrants that impact the union; and the careful balance of passion, patience, and pure, stupid guts that it takes to hold the line.
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Play Nice 🎃
by Rachel Harrison
A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel.
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Please Don't Lie
by Christina Baker Kline
Two years ago, Hayley's parents died in a fire and her sister overdosed, leaving Hayley alone to face a media circus; after she accepts her husband's suggestion to start fresh in the Adirondacks, he grows distant and the widow down the road spews accusations—her sanctuary is anything but safe.
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The Portrait
by Danielle Steel
Devon Darcy, a gifted portraitist marked by loss, and Charlie Taylor, a guarded entrepreneur shaped by family wounds, form a powerful bond after a chance meeting, as their deepening summer romance in the Hamptons brings them fear, vulnerability, and the possibility of lasting love.
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Spread Me
by Sarah Gailey
A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when a team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.
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The Summer War
by Naomi Novik
When Celia's accidental curse condemns her brother Argent to a loveless life, she spends years mastering her prophetic magic to break it, uncovering along the way a buried truth about an ancient war that could finally bring peace—or destroy her people entirely.
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Thief of Night
by Holly Black
There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall, crooked from the day she was born, never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on, but will she be good enough to steal back a heart?
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Tourist Season
by Brynne Weaver
Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops and an unusually high body count; with tourists comes trouble, but Harper Starling won't let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home.
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We Love You, Bunny
by Mona Awad
After publishing a novel that enrages her former MFA classmates, Samantha Heather Mackey is kidnapped by the eerie, cult-like Bunnies, who force her to hear their surreal origin story—an unsettling tale of monstrous creativity, deadly friendship and the violent magic at the heart of dark academia.
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan
In a future drowned by climate disaster, solitary scholar Thomas Metcalfe uncovers a trail to a lost 2014 poem that once stirred scandal, unraveling a century-old mystery of love, betrayal and artistic legacy in a world longing for what it has lost.
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Widow's Point 🎃
by Richard Chizmar
When investigators enter the long-abandoned Widow's Point Lighthouse—site of decades of unexplained deaths and disappearances—they awaken a malignant presence that traps them inside, unraveling time and sanity across two harrowing visits in 2017 and 2025.
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The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood - overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences - swoops in and stays. As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another - amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.
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You Weren't Meant to Be Human
by Andrew Joseph White
In a decaying Appalachian landscape where hives of parasites offer shelter in exchange for corpses, trans man Crane embraces the safety they offer—until an unexpected pregnancy with his volatile partner Levi sparks a horrifying descent that threatens to unravel his fragile existence in this brutal world.
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Continuing Series - New Releases
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Clown town
by Mick Herron
While recovering from injury, former MI5 agent River Cartwright investigates a missing book tied to his late grandfather's secrets that draws in the disgraced spies of Slough House.
Book 9 in the Slough House series.
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A Dark and Deadly Journey
by Julia Kelly
In war-torn Lisbon, typist-turned-spy Evelyne Redfern and her infuriating partner David Poole race to find a missing informant after a murder mid-mission reveals espionage and tension between allies, in the third book of the series following Betrayal at Blackthorn Park.
Book 3 in the Evelyne Redfern series.
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Dark Horse
by Felix Francis
Imogen Duffy is an up-and-coming Irish jump jockey making her mark in steeplechase racing. But not all is well in Imogen's life. Jealous of her success, Imogen's controlling boyfriend Liam is stalking her and when she tries to break it off with him, he turns violent. Fleeing to England, Imogen hopes to leave Liam behind. But Liam vehemently refuses to let her go-until he's found dead, stabbed with a knife bearing Imogen's fingerprints. Imogen's father, convinced of her innocence, seeks out Sid Halley to ask for his help uncovering the truth and Sid reluctantly agrees to investigate.
Book 36 in the Dick Francis series.
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End Game
by Jeffrey Archer
As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Commander William Warwick races against time to dismantle a shadowy international conspiracy planning a devastating attack.
Book 8 in the William Warwick series.
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The Gingerbread Bakery 🎄
by Laurie Gilmore
As Dream Harbor prepares for Jeanie and Logan's festive wedding, baker Annie and laid-back Mac—forced to work together amid holiday cheer, community spirit, and snowy charm—must decide if their playful rivalry might be hiding something else.
Book 5 in the Dream Harbor series.
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The Girl from Devil's Lake
by J. A. Jance
While preparing to celebrate her daughter's police academy graduation, Sheriff Joanna Brady is drawn into a chilling hunt for a serial killer whose crimes stretch from Arizona to North Dakota, forcing her to untangle dangerous secrets and confront betrayal close to home.
Book 21 in the Joanna Brady series.
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The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
by Karin Smirnoff
As unrest simmers in the snowbound town of Gasskas, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are drawn into a web of violence and buried histories involving a murdered journalist, a missing hacker, and Lisbeth's vanished niece, forcing them to confront dangers both personal and political.
Book 8 in the Millennium series.
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The Grave Artist
by Jeffery Deaver
After a newlywed's death at a Hollywood Hills wedding, agent Carmen Sanchez and security expert Jake Heron uncover a serial killer's twisted plot targeting survivors' grief, racing to stop the Honeymoon Killer before they become his next victims.
Book 2 in the Sanchez and Heron series.
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The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
As wedding plans unfold and personal struggles linger, the Thursday Murder Club reunites when a guest vanishes and a suspicious partner hints at something valuable—and deadly—leading Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim into a tangled case of coded secrets and high-stakes deception.
Book 5 in the Thursday Murder Club series.
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Lover Forbidden
by J. R. Ward
Devlin comes out of nowhere to save Lyric's life, and when she later searches for him, they are drawn to each other, but she doesn't know he's hiding a secret—or that he could be the key to ending war between the Black Dagger Brotherhood and the lessers forever.
Book 23 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
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Pitcher Perfect
by Tessa Bailey
Most women love Boston Bearcats rookie Robbie, but Division 1 softball pitcher Skylar thinks he's a dirty player and wants nothing to do with him; Robbie hopes to redeem himself by agreeing to be Skylar's fake boyfriend at a family wilderness competition where her crush will be in attendance.
Book 4 in the Big Shots series.
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The Secret of Secrets
by Dan Brown
When Katherine Solomon vanishes and her manuscript disappears following a murder in Prague, symbologist Robert Langdon races across three cities to uncover a hidden truth about consciousness, pursued by ancient myths, secret societies, and a revelation that could upend humanity's understanding of the mind.
Book 6 in the Robert Langdon series.
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The Shattering Peace
by John Scalzi
Taking place 20 years after the original Old Man's War and 10 years after the pause in intergalactic hostilities that happened in The End of All Things, this seventh series entry brings back characters and alien races from previous books to explore the sudden disappearance of an experimental colony that was intended to be the first step toward humanity integrating with other species.
Book 7 in the Old Man's War series.
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A Slowly Dying Cause
by Elizabeth George
When a tin workshop owner is found dead just as a lucrative land deal looms, Detective Inspector Lynley uncovers a tangle of family tensions and hidden motives, in the 22nd novel of the series following Something to Hide.
Book 22 in the Inspector Lynley series.
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