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The Burning Library
by Gilly Macmillan
Two rival organizations of women, the Fellowship of the Larks and the Order of the Katherines, have been searching for a powerful artifact and will stop at nothing to acquire it. Fresh from Oxford, scholar Anya Brown is offered a prestigious role at the Institute of Manuscript Studies. Gifted with an eidetic memory and skilled in decoding ancient languages, she unwittingly becomes entangled in a web of secrets tied to her own family's past.
Scheduled release date: November 18, 2025 - place holds on physical copy now.
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An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Book #25: Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Wildes : A Novel in Five Acts
by Louis Bayard
A historical novel explores the life of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
Physical copy available only.
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The Spy Coast
by Tess Gerritsen
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her “Martini Club” of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
Physical copy available only.
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The Lost Van Gogh
by Jonathan Santlofer
Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh, and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Templar Secret
by Scott Mariani
A set of symbols scratched on the wall of a crypt in southern France. A flag bearing a red cross on a castle fortress high on a stone ledge. And deep in the heart of the Vatican, a team of agents charged with making sure no one discovers what connects them all.
Available on Hoopla.
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The English Masterpiece
by Katherine Reay
Set in the art world of 1970s London, The English Masterpiece is a fast-paced read to the end, full of glamour and secrets, tensions and lies, as one young woman races against the clock to uncover the truth about a Picasso masterpiece.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Dark Maestro
by Brendan Slocumb
Curtis Wilson, a cello prodigy from D.C. who rose to classical music stardom, is forced into witness protection after his drug-dealer father turns informant, but when the cartel remains untouchable, Curtis and his family must use their wits and his musical gifts to fight for survival.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
A history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Quarry Girls
by Jess Lourey
Best friends Heather and Brenda find their vow to keep a dark secret tested by the disappearance of their friend—the second girl to vanish in a week—which causes Heather to search for answers on her own, soon discovering that no one is who they seem to be—and she's next.
Physical copy available only.
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The List
by Steve Berry
Brent Walker returns home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River, to work for Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as its assistant general counsel, he is drawn into a plan that puts his life on the line.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Babel
by R. F. Kuang
A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Puzzle Master
by Danielle Trussoni
A celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor, Mike Brink finds his world upended by Jess Price, a woman serving 30 years in prison for murder who draws a perplexing puzzle believed to explain the crime she committed, and, obsessed with solving it, discovers there are powerful forces at work he cannot escape.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Back Channel
by Stephen L. Carter
While the Kennedy administration furiously debates about a response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 19-year-old black Cornell sophomore Margo Jensen becomes an unwitting pawn in escalating tensions between American and Soviet government forces. By the best-selling author of The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln.
Available on Libby.
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Inspector of the Dead
by David Morrell
Infamous opium consumer Thomas De Quincey, his irrepressible daughter and their Scotland Yard associates confront the harrowing streets of London to stop a serial killer whose ultimate target is Queen Victoria. By the author of Murder as a Fine Art.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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Blood and Ice
by Robert Masello
After months of seclusion following a tragic accident, journalist Michael Wolfe accepts an assignment in Antarctica, where the scientists and explorers at a South Pole research station stumble upon two bodies at the bottom of the ocean, two young people who carry a deadly curse in their blood that allows them to rise from their tomb to live again.
Physical copy available only.
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The Fire
by Katherine Neville
Summoned to her family's Colorado hideaway for her mother's birthday, Alexandra Solarin not only discovers that her mother is missing but that she is destined to play a key role in the Game, embarking on a desperate quest to recover a dangerous artifact, one tied to the 1822 mission of Sultan Ali Pasha's young daughter to carry a relic from Albania to Rome.
Available on Libby.
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The Blood Gospel
by James Rollins
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
Available on Hoopla.
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A Conspiracy of Paper
by David Liss
An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city's mean streets in the service of England's gentry tracking down debtors and thieves, until the "accidental" death of his wealthy estranged father draws him into a dark conspiracy controlled by powerful men in the world of British finance.
Available on Hoopla.
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Cry Havoc
by Jack Carr
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond, uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy now.
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