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Stuart Woods' Smolder
by Brett Battles
When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother's paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.
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The Rom-Commers
by Katherine Center
Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he's kind of a jerk and doesn't even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
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The Busy Body
by Kemper Donovan
After a very public defeat, former Senator Dorothy Gibson retreats to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her, and soon the two women are drawn into a mystery when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances and find their investigation unfolding in a way no one could've ever expected.
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Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley
During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
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Camino Ghosts
by John Grisham
Bay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida in the third novel of the series following Camino Winds.
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Look on the Bright Side
by Kristan Higgins
When a solution to get her life back on track comes from foul-tempered and renowned surgeon Lorenzo Santini who needs a date for his sister's wedding, oncologist Lark Smith agrees and falling in love with his big, warm family, discovers the best things in life aren't planned at all.
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First Frost
by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire tries to manage his increasingly complicated personal life while staving off the violent underworld that is encroaching on the Old West, in the 20th novel of the series following The Longmire Defense.
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You Like It Darker
by Stephen King
Delving into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal, the legendary storyteller and expert in short fiction presents this exhilarating collection of 12 tales, many never-before-published, about fate, mortality, luck and the folds in reality where anything can happen.
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Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan
Forced to attend his sister's wedding to seduce a woman with money and get his family out of debt, Rufus, the future Earl of Greshambury, finds their plans—and their reputation—going up in flames when a secret tryst and tragedy become known, revealing a shocking twist.
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Mind Games
by Nora Roberts
With the ability to see into minds and souls, Thea, who brought her parents' killer to justice years ago, discovers the inmate who shattered her childhood has the same ability when she can hear his twisted thoughts and witness his evil acts from miles away as he plots his revenge.
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One Perfect Couple
by Ruth Ware
Landing on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
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Shelterwood
by Lisa Wingate
In 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horse thief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
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The Comfort of Ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear
In 1945 London, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs visits a vacant Belgravia mansion where she finds four adolescent orphans and a demobilized, gravely ill soldier and as she tries to bring comfort to them all, she is forced to examine her own painful past and the beliefs she has always accepted as true.
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The Book of Doors
by Gareth Brown
When her favorite customer, a lonely yet charming old man, dies right in front of her, Cassie holds on to the last book he was reading, which turns out to be a rare volume that has great power and she is tasked with protecting it from those who will do evil.
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Swift River
by Essie Chambers
In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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The Unwedding
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Recent divorcee Ellery Wainwright, while staying at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, finding the place beautiful, yet unsettling, especially when a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has something horrific in store for them all.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
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If Something Happens to Me
by Alex Finlay
Trying to pick up the pieces after his girlfriend's kidnapping, Ryan Richardson goes to law school but must pivot back to the case when her car is found submerged in a lake with a cryptic note.
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Not in Love
by Ali Hazelwood
A successful biotech engineer, Rue Siebert, when a hostile takeover and its front man, Eli Killgore, threaten to bring her stable, hard-fought world crashing down, is torn between loyalty and undeniable attraction when they embark on a forbidden, no-strings-attached affair that proves all's fair in love and science.
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Swan Song
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
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Summer Romance
by Annabel Monaghan
A professional organizer whose own life is a mess, newly single mom Ali Morris meets a man who looks at her like she's a version of herself she hasn't been in a long while and decides there's no harm in a little summer romance—or is there?
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When the Moon Hatched
by Sarah A. Parker
The bestselling phenomenon, When the Moon Hatched, is a fast-paced fantasy romance featuring an immersive, vibrant world with mysterious creatures, a unique magic system, and a love that blazes through the ages. The Creators did not expect their beloved dragons to sail skyward upon their end. To curl into balls just beyond gravity’s grip, littering the sky with tombstones. With moons. They certainly did not expect them to FALL.
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The Guncle Abroad
by Steven Rowley
With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
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Nosy Neighbors
by Freya Sampson
When their apartments in Shelley House face demolition, sworn enemies 25-year-old Kat and 77-year-old Dorothy put their differences aside to save their historic building, but when one of its residents is murdered, the duo seek justice to restore peace in their community.
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
by Helen Simonson
In the summer of 1919, Constance, sent as a lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, is welcomed by Poppy Wirrall, a baronet's daughter who runs a ladies' motorcycle club, but as the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, the club realizes the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi Thorpe
When an affair leads to an unexpected pregnancy, Margo, the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, finds herself on her own with an infant, and in desperate need of cash, starts an OnlyFans account that turns her into a runaway success, which soon comes with a high price.
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Coming Home
by Brittney Griner
From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist comes a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
by Amy Tan
Mapping the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions and beautiful original sketches, the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club shares her search for solace which turned into an opportunity to connect with nature in a meaningful way and imagine the intricate lives of the birds she admired.
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