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New Releases December 2017
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Year one
by Nora Roberts
A tale of suspense and survival is set in the wake of a cataclysmic pandemic that wipes out more than half the world's population, replacing science and technology with magic and compelling Lana, a practitioner of good witchcraft, to embark on a perilous journey west with her lover and other survivors. By the best-selling author of the In Death series.
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The wanted
by Robert Crais
Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, embark on a seemingly simple case involving a client who fears her troubled teen son is dealing drugs, an investigation that reveals the young man's dangerous role in a string of high-end burglaries that have resulted in a murder and a disappearance. By the award-winning author of The Promise
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The Demon Crown : A Sigma Force Novel
by James Rollins
The members of Sigma Force reluctantly join forces with their most hated enemy to stop a primordial threat with ties to the American Civil War and the secret work of Alexander Graham Bell. 500,000 first printing. Tour.
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Enchantress of numbers : a novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Rigorously educated in mathematics and science by her mother, an only legitimate child of brilliant Romantic poet Lord Byron is introduced into London society as a highly eligible heiress before forging a deep bond with inventor Charles Babbage and using her unique talents to become the world's first computer programmer. By the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker. Tour
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Death at Nuremberg
by W. E. B. Griffin
Assigned to the Nuremberg war trials, special agent James Cronley, Jr., finds himself fighting wars on multiple fronts, in a dramatic entry in the popular series about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Cold War. By the author of Curtain of Death
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The body in the casket : a Faith Fairchild mystery
by Katherine Hall Page
Catering the lavish birthday party of a Broadway legend, Faith Fairchild is astonished when her client reveals that he hired her less for her culinary prowess and more for her skills as a detective and that one of his guests is trying to kill him. Includes recipes. By the Agatha Award-winning author of The Body in the Birches. 25,000 first printing
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The girl in the tower : a novel
by Katherine Arden
In a second entry in the Russian fairy tale-inspired series that began with The Bear and the Nightingale finds an adult Vasya, forced to choose between an arranged marriage and life in a convent, fleeing in the disguise of a boy before her defeat of a band of terrorizing bandits earns her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow
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Beau death
by Peter Lovesey
When human remains in 18th-century clothing are discovered on a demolition site, Chief Inspector Peter Diamond eagerly embarks on a mission to prove that a scandal-marked fashion icon from Bath may have had quite a different end than the one popularly believed.
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Mississippi Roll
by George R. R. Martin
A collection of fantastical adventures set along one of America's greatest rivers is edited by the award-winning author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series and features contributions by such best-selling authors as Carrie Vaughn, David D. Levine and Cherie Priest.
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Firefly Cove
by T. Davis Bunn
A follow-up to the internationally best-selling Miramar Bay follows the experiences of terminally ill young adult Lucius, who returns to the home of his youth to reunite with the only woman he ever loved
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The ice house : a novel
by Laura Lee Smith
A man on the brink of losing his family's business in the wake of a mysterious accident receives an equally devastating health diagnosis that compels him to reach out to his estranged drug-addict son and the baby granddaughter he has never met. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
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Nightblind : a thriller
by Ragnar Jónasson
A U.S. release of an international best-seller follows the murder of a policeman with a haunted past and the arrival of a mysterious young woman whose own secrets threaten the safety of everyone in a tight-knit Northern Iceland fishing village.
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Wild Chamber
by Christopher Fowler
Octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate the baffling case of a girl and a dog who vanish into thin air from London's Regent Park on an early summer morning. By the award-winning author of Strange Tide
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