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The First Gentleman
by James Patterson and Bill Clinton
America has a powerful new president... And her husband's on trial for murder. The President of the United States is up for reelection.
Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer?
A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. In 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates. As the new astronauts become friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a love she never imagined. Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then in December of 1984 it all changes in an instant.
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Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher. Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. When she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father, she must flee to New York. There, her brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.
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Badlands
by Douglas J. Preston and Lincoln Child
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two artifacts are found clutched in her hands-lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found-exactly like the other-the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.
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Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
A novel following three woman who have seemingly separate lives and the one man connecting them all.
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Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery...that only she can solve.
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With a vengeance : a novel
by Riley Sager
Anna Matheson lures six people onto a luxury train to expose their crimes against her family a decade earlier, but when a passenger is murdered, she must risk her life to protect those she sought to destroy
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V. E. Schwab
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1827.
Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
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King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
When Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family and the family business together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. Roman, a financial whiz, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself. Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother. Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything. Because everything burns.
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A Mother's Love
by Danielle Steel
Bestselling author Halley Holbrook finds herself reflecting. Raising twins Valerie and Olivia is her proudest accomplishment. After Valerie moves to Los Angeles with her husband, and Olivia follows to remain close to her sister, Halley is alone in her Fifth Avenue apartment. Facing her first holiday alone in years, she books a trip to Paris. On the flight, she meets Bart Warner. Halley hasn’t dated since her partner died three years ago, yet she quickly begins to feel more like herself. When a thief makes off with her handbag and then begins to harass her, it reawakens ghosts from her past. Vowing not to be a victim, and with Bart’s help, she chooses a bold course of action.
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Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
"Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.
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The Woman in Suite 11
by Ruth Ware
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel—owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann—arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo’s ever dreamed of, and she hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’s hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’s mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.
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The Hamptons Lawyer
by James Patterson
Undefeated criminal defense attorney Jane Smith, known as the Hamptons Lawyer, represents a local real estate mogul with more enemies than clients. When Jane’s own life is threatened, mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense. Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glocks. Until she hears the words “not guilty,” Jane Smith never fails to make her case.
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An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with twenty-four thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring the “much-loved Gabriel Allon” (Booklist) and ingenious plots that have taken him around the globe and back—from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. Now, Silva returns with another blockbuster thriller, a powerhouse novel showcasing his superb skill and brilliant imagination that is a must read for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts.
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The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she's cursed. She's lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. Then a letter arrives, informing her that she inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from a stranger, Emilia Rossi. Julia wonders if Rossi could family. She heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia discovers that Rossi was a recluse, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her resemblance to Rossi and to Caterina. Next, Julia suspects she's being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her mind. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia's struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival.
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Edge of Honor
by Brad Thor
After six months abroad, America’s top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle.
Drawn into a web of deceit and deadly politics, Scot Harvath is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control and if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees.
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The List
by Steve Berry
Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, Georgia. Ten years ago, after the sudden death of his wife, Brent closed his law practice and moved three hundred miles. Now Brent's coming back to take care of his ailing mother, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as an assistant general counsel. Southern Republic's success is based largely on the Priority program, a highly unorthodox way to secretly control costs. Only the three owners of the company are aware of the program's existence. Brent's return to Concord, a move owner, Bozin, personally orchestrated, provides a chance at redemption that Bozin wants before cancer takes his life. So a plan is set into motion-one that will not only criminally implicate Bozin's two partners-it will also place Brent Walker right in the crosshairs of men who want him dead.
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The Winds from Further West
by Alexander McCall Smith
A dazzling and uplifting novel of new beginnings and endless possibilities, in which a slew of personal and professional disasters cause a young researcher to upend his seemingly stable life in Edinburgh and move to a remote island off the Scottish coast
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The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes
One night in Twickenham,Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life-from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him.To complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: His sister, missing and presumed dead, just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.
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The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths
Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many questions. As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day.
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
by Sangu Mandanna
After resurrecting her great-aunt and befriending a half-villainous talking fox, Sera Swan is exiled from the magical Guild and loses her magic, but an old spell book mentioned by a handsome historian may hold the key to restoring her power.
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The view from Lake Como
by Adriana Trigiani
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone, "a big-hearted writer who tells big stories" (Jeanette Walls) comes a story of love, second chances, and making your own fate"
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Emma on Fire
by James Patterson
You—all of you—are sleepwalking through global catastrophe. And I intend to wake you up.
What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire’s Ridgemont Academy is shocking. Her school blames a heartbreaking tragedy in her family. Her best friends point to her most recent social media. Her teachers, even her father, say it’s a drastic cry for help. But Emma doesn’t want help. She wants to make a difference. Now. Today. Not tomorrow. She’s going to walk through fire to change the world.
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For Richer for Poorer
by Danielle Steel
After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own company when she turned forty, fourteen years ago. She is now a major name in evening gowns and wedding gowns, ready-to-wear and haute couture. But with the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors. The silver lining in it all may be meeting Patrick Hughes, a successful real estate developer who’s also going through a rough patch. A brilliant and creative businessman, Patrick gives her valuable advice about her business challenges. Eugenia finds friendship with Patrick sailing on his yacht and starts to imagine a new beginning, independent of her roles as mother and entrepreneur.
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We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter
Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home.But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did.
Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?
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Kiss Her Goodbye
by Lisa Gardner
Recent Afghan refugee Sabera Ahmadi was last seen three weeks ago. The police have yet to open a case. Sabera's closest friend, is convinced Sabera would never willingly leave her three‑year old daughter. At her insistence, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search. Frankie quickly realizes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. When Isaad also disappears and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie realizes she must quickly crack the code of this family's horrific past.
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Jenny Cooper has a Secret
by Joy Fielding
In this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places, a dementia patient reveals a deadly secret-and one woman must decide whether to believe her.
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Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.
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For Duck's Sake (Meg Langslow #37)
by Donna Andrews
Meg is in the backyard of the house, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a duck pond. Meg thinks it will be more peaceful at Rob's house--and it is until the bulldozers uncover a skeleton whose skull has a hole and a bullet rattling around inside. Meanwhile, Chief Burke begins searching the police records to see if he can identify any missing persons who would fit the bill. He doesn't turn down Meg's offer to help with his identification efforts. She's all the more eager to help because Iris Rafferty, who sold the house to Rob and Delaney and still lives in the mother-in-law suite, disappears the morning after the finding of the body. Does her disappearance have anything to do with finding the body?
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The Locked Ward
by Sarah Pekkanen
It's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, "I didn't do it. You've got to get me out of here." Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Nothing is as it seems in this shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood-and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point.
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Smuggler's Cove
by Fern Michaels
Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln lived in privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Madison and Lincoln are now the new co-owners of a marina at Smugglers Cove on the Navesink river. Smugglers Cove offers little beyond a dilapidated dock, a few gas pumps, and a handful of clam boats. Madison’s plan to sell the property goes awry when a dead body is found floating under their dock and transforms their new inheritance into a crime scene. They’re discovering more about themselves and each other every day, but with a mystery to solve, and big decisions to make, these are lessons they’ll need to learn fast . . .
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Upon a Starlit Tide
by Kell Woods
In 1758 Saint-Malo, Lucinde Leon, the rebellious daughter of a wealthy shipowner, discovers a world of faerie magic, love, and betrayal after rescuing a drowning man, drawing her into a dangerous web of secrets, power and the pull of the sea.
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Something to Look Forward To
by Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg once said that what the world needs now is a good laugh. That is what she gives us in these thirty warmhearted, often hilarious, stories about Americans finding ways of dealing with the curveballs life throws at us. We meet Velma from Kansas, a loving great-grandmother who struggles to bridge the generational divide with her great-grandchild in California. Why, for instance, does her great-grandchild sign letters to Velma with "(they/them)"? We cheer for Helen, in Ithaca, New York, who takes an audacious course of action when her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Four men in Bent Fork, Wyoming, make a bold decision after learning that the cafâe where they eat breakfast every day is about to be sold to a stranger from out of town. And observing them all is Special Agent Frawley, an odd visitor from another planet, sent to Earth to figure out what makes human beings tick, only to fall in love with one of them-and with her cat"
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