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OverBooked Club
May 12, 2025, 5:30-6:30
Library Conference Room
Come chat about books with Kristen and Michelle.
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
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Badlands
by Douglas J. Preston
A thrilling tale in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they've faced before.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by V. E. Schwab
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. 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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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.
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The Death Mask
by Iris Johansen
A new thriller starring Eve Duncan as she races against time to protect her beloved family from a merciless killer. Against and unpredictable enemy, Eve and Joe must each focus on their own unique abilities to get out alive. The future of their love and their famliy depends upon it.
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Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Bessie Holland finds strength in a suffragette mentor, battles forces threatening her Texas home and flees to New York, where she is drawn into a violent underworld that tests her unbreakable spirit.
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Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
When charming Nick Radcliffe enters Nina's life, her daughter Ash grows suspicious, uncovering unsettling secrets that connect them to Martha, a florist with a husband who keeps disappearing, leading all three women toward a chilling truth they never expected.
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Don't Open Your Eyes
by Liv Constantine
Shaken by premonitions of a future where she hates her husband and her daughter is in danger, Annabelle's perfect life is shaken forcing her to decipher her visions before a single choice seals her fate and the future becomes reality.
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El Dorado Drive
by Megan Abbott
Facing financial ruin, three sisters in Detroit join a seemingly lucrative club called "The Wheel," but their desperation for financial independence spirals into an addiction, leading to shocking crimes that threaten to destroy everything.
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Finders Keepers
by Brett Battles
After helping his friend Jack Coulter's newly divorced niece, Sara, adjust to life in New York, Stone Barrington becomes entangled in a dangerous scheme as men from Sara's past are attacked and Jack's family is threatened by an unknown adversary with deadly intentions.
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The First Gentleman
by James Patterson
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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Flashlight
by Susan Choi
One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. What really happened to Louisa's father? Why did he take Louisa and her mother to Japan just before he disappeared? And how can we love, or make sense of our lives, when there's so much we can't see?
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Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
After the vehicle belonging to the enigmatic new teacher at a boarding school is discovered submerged in the woods near a dead body, the community begins to unravel.
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Fulfillment
by Lee Cole
Two estranged half-brothers, one an academic and the other a factory worker, reunite in their family's Kentucky home, igniting a dangerous chain of betrayals that forces them to confront desire, failure and the cost of change.
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The Ghostwriter
by Julie Clark
June, 1975. The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.
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The Homemade god
by Rachel Joyce
During a sweltering European heatwave, four siblings gather at their family lake house to investigate the mysterious death of their renowned artist father—who vanished after remarrying a younger woman, leaving behind an unfinished masterpiece—while confronting long-hidden familial wounds and an enigmatic stepmother's influence.
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I'll Be Right Here
by Amy Bloom
After immigrating to New York alone after World War II, Gazala builds an unbreakable bond with her brother and two spirited sisters, forming a fiercely loyal found family whose love, desires and unorthodox connections shape generations to come.
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It Happened on the Lake
by Lisa Jackson
When Harper Reed Prescott returns to her family's eerie Victorian house on Lake Twilight to sell it, old rumors of murder and disappearance resurface, along with chilling memories, unsettling whispers and the terrifying suspicion that someone is watching her.
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Kill Your Darlings
by Peter Swanson
Wendy and Thom's marriage is told in reverse, moving backward to witness key moments from the couple's lives—their fiftieth birthday party, Jason's birth, the mysterious death of a colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a terrible act they plotted together years ago.
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King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
After returning to Jefferson Run, Virginia, and family business Carruthers Crematorium—with brother Dante in debt to criminals and sister Neveah exhausted from holding everything together—Roman discovers that his father's crash was no accident and Dante has placed them all in real danger.
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Knave of Diamonds
by Laurie R. King
Mary Russell's long-lost Uncle Jake reappears and is somehow connected to the infamous theft of the Irish Crown Jewels, pulling her into a mystery and pitting her against Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft and her own loyalties.
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The Love Fix
by Jill Shalvis
In a heartwarming enemies-to-lovers tale, found family, forgiveness and love may just be the key to finding oneself.
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A Mother's Love
by Danielle Steel
Empty-nester and bestselling author Halley Holbrook befriends charming Bart Warner on a flight to Paris, but when a cunning thief steals her handbag and starts harassing her, reawakening ghosts from her traumatic childhood, she fights back with Bart's help.
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Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Former private investigator and middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom's vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery… that only she can solve.
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The Poppy Fields
by Nikki Erlick
A high-concept speculative novel about heartache, home and human resilience, The Poppy Fields explores the path of grief and healing, a journey at once profoundly universal and unique to every person, posing the questions: How do we heal in the wake of great loss? And how far are we willing to go in order to be healed?
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The President's Shadow
by James Patterson
For over 150 years, Lamont Cranston has been The Shadow. Possessed with an array of mental and physical powers, Cranston - a New York society-man turned crusader - users his abilities in pursuit of justice. When a series of deadly natural disasters strike the planet, The Shadow immediately sets out to identify the human threat...
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The River is Waiting
by Wally Lamb
Corby Ledbetter, grappling with addiction, prison life, and the tragedy that shattered his family, finds unexpected kindness and connection behind bars, as he seeks redemption and hopes for forgiveness from those he's hurt the most.
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So Far Gone
by Jess Walter
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins - and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' True Grit - comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
by Kristin Harmel
A new historical novel features two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
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Tell Me Something Good
by Court Stevens
This is a story of the rich and the very poor. This is a story of an illegal auction with dire consequences. This is a story of murders past and present. This is a story of intertwined relationships and the silent ripples they leave behind, where love becomes a guiding force, revealing the lengths one will go to protect those they cherish.
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Thus With a Kiss I Die
by Christina Dodd
Rosie Montague, a 20-year-old free spirit in Verona, finds her life upended when she's tasked by the ghost of Prince Escalus the Elder to solve his murder, all while navigating a love triangle, revolution, and a looming threat that may turn her into a tragic heroine.
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With a Vengeance
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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