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The Night We Met
by Abby Jimenez
In everyone's life, there's a split-second decision that can change everything... For Larissa, it came when choosing who to ride home with after a concert. That night, she had no idea she'd met the perfect man. She and Chris are great friends, co-parenting a slightly unhinged rescue Yorkie, sharing their favorite books, and judging bread. But she didn't choose Chris to drive her home all those months ago--she went with his best friend, and he became her boyfriend. All Chris wants is for Larissa to be happy. Standing by on the sidelines is slowly killing him, but making a move would destroy someone else.
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Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line (Finlay Donovan #6)
by Elle Cosimano
Life hasn't been easy for Finlay Donovan lately, but it just got a whole lot harder. Her nanny and partner-in-crime, Vero, has been extradited from Virginia to Maryland, where she's facing criminal charges. A prisoner to an ankle bracelet as she awaits her trial, Vero is forced to live with her overbearing mother and nosy aunt. With her court date quickly approaching, and her mysterious stalker on her tail, Vero needs to clear her name fast. Finlay decides a trip to Maryland is in order. She sets off on a mission to sus out the real thief and bring Vero home.
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Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4)
by Benjamin Stevenson
I've spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I've never been a hostage before. The doors are chained shut. No one in or out. Which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, everyone is a suspect. Turns out, more than one person planned to rob the bank today. You can steal more from a bank than just money. Who is stealing what? Are they willing to kill for it? And can I solve the crime before the police kick down the door and rescue us?
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Bloodlust
by Sandra Brown
Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and, since, has attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Vowing to avenge his late wife's murder, Mitch has been on a downward spiral. When Mitch is forced to get therapy he meets Dr. Dylan Reede. She's determined to make the most of his mandated sessions. As Mitch begins to close in on Oz and Malone's operation, they're prepared to stop him by any means necessary. And when it's revealed that Dylan might hold the key to bringing them to justice, Mitch and Dylan's attraction to each other may not only compromise both of them professionally, but place them in Oz's bullseye.
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The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3)
by Tana French
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiance Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty's tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel's death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
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Felicia's Favorites
by Danielle Steel
After the unexpected death of their mother, Felicia Morgan Weston, her five daughters are summoned to Connecticut farmhouse. Charlotte, the oldest, always resented her mother's advice, but now misses her terribly. TV producer, Quinne is about to have an opportunity to dream bigger. Former ballet dancer Olivia has lived as a paraplegic since a car accident. Veronica resigned herself to a secret relationship with a married senator. Mother of three Isabelle has just found out that her husband is having an affair. Each sister is about to receive a gift beyond her wildest dreams from their loving mother, who considered all her girls her favorites.
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Two Kinds of Stranger
by Steve Cavanagh
Elly Parker has made it her mission to help others in need. Even strangers. When Elly meets a man on the steps to the subway platform, crutches in one hand and a yellow suitcase by his feet, she can't help but feel sorry for him. Just as he planned. This small act of kindness sets off a change of events more terrifying than anything she ever could imagine. To survive, Elly will need to convince the world what happened to her was real. She needs a lawyer who can bend the rules to find the truth. Eddie Flynn and his team must find the stranger with the yellow suitcase. But little do they know this cunning killer is a master manipulator and is always one step ahead.
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Once and Again
by Rebecca Serle
The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time. One summer, Lauren's husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, her childhood home. She looks forward to surfing with her dad again and repairing her relationship with her mother. She doesn't expect the boy next to door to return home as well. As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.
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Judge Stone
by James Patterson
All rise...for Judge Stone. The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It's there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South. Criminally, it's open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it's a choice between life and death. No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
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Daughter of Egypt
by Marie Benedict
In the 1920s, archeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon made headlines around the world with the discover the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. But behind it all stood Lady Evelyn Herbert, daughter of Lord Carnarvon. Nearly 3,000 years earlier, another woman defied the expectations of her time: Hatshepsut, Egypt's lost pharaoh. When Evelyn becomes obsessed with finding Hatshepsut's secret tomb, she risks everything to uncover the truth and keep valued artifacts in Egypt. But as danger closes in and political tensions rise, she must make an impossible choice: protect her father's legacy--or forge her own.
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A Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz
They're making a feature film of the first Hawthorne/Horowitz mystery novel. But the star has just been murdered. Rising star David Caine has been stabbed, and it seems that everyone had a motive. But what if Caine's murderer had made a mistake? For it turns out that the detective may have got it wrong ten years earlier. An innocent man has died in jail. And perhaps someone has decided that Hawthorne must pay the price. A burned-down school, a car accident that isn't what it seems, blackmail and murder in an Elizabethan country house . . . somehow they combine to unlock the secret of what has happened in Hastings. Local Officer, Sarah Milnes gives Hawthorne carte blanche to investigate. Which leaves his sidekick, Horowitz, stumbling his way to the truth.
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Hope Rises (Walter Nash #2)
by David Baldacci
Walter Nash, working under the alias of Dillon Hope, is on the road to revenge after becoming an informant for the FBI against a global criminal operation headed up by Victoria Steers. Steers has ripped everything Nash held dear away from him. He has only goal left in life: taking down Victoria Steers. In order to succeed, he's going to need to cross enemy lines and work the job from the inside. But Steers is shrewd and only brings those with her complete trust into her inner circle. Despite hating the woman for destroying his life, Nash finds himself oddly drawn to Steers in ways that he never could've imagined. And what he ultimately discovers will turn all he believed upside down, forcing Nash to do something truly unfathomable.
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Revenge Prey (Prey #36)
by John Sandford
Leonard Summers is a former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service's Witness Protection Program (WPP), Leonard's family is transported to Minneapolis. The Summers are received at their destination by Lucas Davenport and fellow marshal Shelly White. Unbeknownst to them, the WPP group has been tracked by a Russian hit team. As shots are fired and enemies dodged, Lucas must move quickly to uncover where the leak is coming from, before the hit team can strike again.
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Yesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children delightful. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes. What Natalie's followers don't know won't hurt them. She's living the ideal--and building an empire from it. Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn't hers. Her home, her husband, her children--they're all familiar, but something's off. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she's expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
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Paradox (Cash & Colcord #2)
by Douglas Preston
When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, whom we met in the New York Times bestseller, Extinction, team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money transfers, and a fanatical secret society. And all the while, the resurrected Neanderthals, who vanished into the Colorado mountains, seem to be biding their time for something...spectacular.
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A Woman's Place
by Danielle Steel
In April 1912, twenty-three-year-old Lady Victoria Oldbrooke is traveling with her father from England on the Titanic. But when the ship strikes an iceberg, Lord Alfred gives his place to another. Before he goes, he asks Bert Banning to promise he'll marry his daughter. Bert accepts his charge but as friendship turns to deeper feelings he hesitates to propose. Not only is he forty years her senior and an Industrialist will cause Victoria to be ostracized by the aristocratic. Cruelly shunned by everyone she knows, she marries Bert. Isolated from her familiar universe and peers, and fascinated by Bert's business, she learns all she can about it. When he meets a tragic end, she steps into his shoes and applies everything she learned.
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We Burned So Bright
by TJ Klune
Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. They've experienced the highest highs of love and family. The world is ending. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth. They're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business. On the road they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. There are also people living their final days as best they know how-- weddings, bright burning bonfires, and new friends. As the black hole draws near, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.
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Chasing the Clouds Away
by Debbie Macomber
Maisy Gallaher has always dreamt of becoming a nurse. But when her father passed away, she selflessly set aside her aspirations to help her family. Chase Furst, on the other hand, is primarily focused on his own life and his work as a hardened bank executive and heir to a financial empire. His childhood was marred by his mother's struggle with addiction. Then he meets Maisy, who can see past his defenses and who helps him with his struggles. Chase doesn't know where to begin, but is determined to rise to this challenge. Doing good for others leads Chase back to Maisy, who begins to break down his walls, even as she resists risking her own gentle heart. The more time they spend together, the more they realize how much they have to learn from each other, and how much love could make a difference in their future.
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Shadow Strike (Pike Logan #20)
by Brad Taylor
A rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot to strike back at their hated enemies once and for all. The first is the assassination of the Israeli prime minister. And there's only one assassin with the skills to pull it off: Abdul Rahman, known as the Ghost. The only Operator who can hunt him down is the man who stopped him before: Pike Logan. Working with Mossad agents Pike's pursuit leads the Taskforce to Argentina. They work to unravel the scope of the attack, and the chase leads them through the waterfalls of Iguazu and the Triple Frontier, to the streets of Buenos Aires, and the village of Ushuaia. As the team races against the clock, Pike learns the stakes are much greater than a single life.
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The Patchwork Players (Elm Creek Quilts)
by Jennifer Chiaverini
TV actress Julia Merchaud almost can't believe her good fortune. Her beloved historical drama, A Patchwork Life, revived her career and made stars of several younger actors. But Julia's happiness turns to dismay when she learns that the hit show will have only one more season. When Summer Sullivan, an expert quilter, confides that Elm Creek Quilt Camp is in financial trouble, Julia concocts a brilliant plan. She sets about persuading the cast and crew to join her for what she promises will be a marvelous week at a luxurious nineteenth-century mansion. After several joyful days, Julia's scheme takes a turn. Soon she'll have to make hard choices about which matters more--career or friendship.
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Our Perfect Storm
by Carley Fortune
Frankie and George have been best friends since they were eight years old. It's the eve of Frankie's wedding weekend, and she doesn't know where they stand or even if George will show up. Then, in walks George. For one evening Frankie's life is perfect. It all comes crashing down when her fiancé dumps her the next morning. Frankie returns to her family's home to wallow. But George has a different idea and a plan for healing Frankie. He wants her to go on her honeymoon. With him. Frankie agrees, seeing the trip for what it really is: one last chance to repair their friendship. Even if it means unearthing secrets and long buried feelings neither knows how to handle.
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The Shippers
by Katherine Center
After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister's wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her first crush, and she decides to woo him during the cruise. Only problem is, her sister's a little busy being a bride at the moment--so JoJo ropes in her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, to be her wing man. Cooper: who RSVPed no, but then showed up, anyway. Cooper: who was, if she's honest, the worst heartbreak of JoJo's life. It's bliss for her to see him again, and it's agony, too--and the more they team up for Project Conquest, the more she obsesses over questions she can't bring herself to ask.
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The Final Target
by Nora Roberts
He showed up at Arden Bowie's author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile. Then he came to her next event. And the one after that. Dustin was just an aspiring writer who wanted advice, Arden reassured herself. But after giving in to one of his invitations, she discovered that ignoring her inner alarm bell had been a mistake. An introvert at heart, Arden had long craved solitude--but now, she finds herself hiding behind locked doors and startling at every sound. And her relief at his imprisonment is tempered by anxiety when Dustin's wealthy mother helps to get him a paltry five-year sentence at a psychiatric facility. Arden moves to a tiny Oregon town and befriends Gideon, an ex-LAPD detective. But while she learns to thrive, Dustin remains his delusional, twisted self, as fixated as ever and now seething with anger.
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The Things We Never Say
by Elizabeth Strout
Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He goes about his days teaching American history to high schoolers, correcting their casual ignorance, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He spends his free time sailing Massachusetts Bay, or with his adult son and his wife of more than three decades - and as Artie does these things, he plans the event that will forever change the world he inhabits. But when an accident awakens a new perspective in Artie, and he realizes that life has its own secret it's been keeping from him - along with a lot more to say on the weighty matters of fate and freedom in his home and his country - he charts another course full of grief, hilarity, and heart, to a place where the end marks the beginning.
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The Calamity Club
by Kathryn Stockett
Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable big girls at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sister's seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates--and Meg's--converge, Charlie comes up with an audacious plan to claim what's rightfully theirs. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife and women's freedom is fragile, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences.
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The Midnight Train
by Matt Haig
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . . A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
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Rules of Engagement (jack Ryan #27)
by Ward Larsen
Coordinated terrorist attacks around the world challenge President Jack Ryan in the latest shocking entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. The western world is stunned when coordinated terrorist attacks blaze up around the globe. While President Jack Ryan works from the Oval Office to organize international response to this threat, John Clark and the Campus team follow a lead to the malignant presence who has orchestrated this strike. But the deeper they dig, the higher the threat level becomes. This isn't just a series of atrocities, it's a designed battle plan that could lead to the destruction of Jack Ryan's presidency.
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Ironwood (Detective Stillwell #2)
by Michael Connelly
Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in. Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. While Stilwell chases the fleeing pickup man, shots are fired and the plane flies off. An inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until he is cleared of responsibility. But he is determined to find out who brought this violence, and begins his own investigation. He follows the mystery all the way to the LA and Detective Ren e Ballard. Stilwell and Ballard work the case from both sides, and realize they are on the trail of a criminal who revels in taunting the authorities.
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Platform Decay (Murderbot #8)
by Martha Wells
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact (Emotion check)
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Summer State of Mind
by Kristy Woodson Harvey
After the worst day in her professional life, NICU nurse Daisy Stevens runs to Cape Carolina, North Carolina, looking for a new life. On her first day at her simpler job, high school baseball coach Mason Thaysden discovers an abandoned baby, sending ripples through the entire tight-knit town of Cape Carolina. Sparks fly as Mason acquaints Daisy with Cape Carolina, introducing her to his Aunt Tilly friends. But as Daisy becomes increasingly attached to this abandoned child, and begins facing her own demons in the process, a startling discovery is made that threatens to rip the entire town of Cape Carolina apart, placing Daisy, Mason, and Tilley in the center of the storm.
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