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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction April 2018
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Women in Sunlight
by Frances Mayes
Four American expats and strangers become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams and shifting senses of adventure and bravery. By the best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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Gateway to the moon : a novel
by Mary Morris
In 1492, Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Christopher Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. De Torres’ descendants finally settle in the hills of New Mexico. Five hundred years later, it is in these same hills that Miguel Torres, a young amateur astronomer, finds himself trying to understand the mystery that surrounds him and the town he grew up in.
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A Nantucket Wedding
by Nancy Thayer
The long-awaited nuptials of a woman to the love of her life are thrown into turmoil and drama by family dynamics involving her daughters, including one whose husband has just revealed an affair and another who falls for her soon-to-be stepbrother. By the best-selling author of the Hot Flash Club series.
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The female persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend. By the best-selling author of The Interestings
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The Fallen
by David Baldacci
Visiting a friend's family home in an economically troubled western Pennsylvania community, Amos Decker, a detective with an uncanny eidetic memory, spots suspicious lights and discovers two dead bodies with no clear indication of how either victim died before corrupt local authorities and other mysterious roadblocks challenge his investigation.
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The Cutting Edge
by Jeffery Deaver
Returning to New York City from their honeymoon to learn that a serial killer has been targeting couples in the process of buying engagement rings, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs discover that their target has a larger agenda than originally realized and that there is something unusual about the ring that Rhyme gave Sachs.
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Why kill the innocent : a Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by C. S Harris
The murder of a beautiful young musician during a brutal winter in 1914 London ensnares nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr in the unsavory agendas of the British royal court. By the best-selling author of When Falcons Fall.
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All the beautiful lies : a novel
by Peter Swanson
Devastated when his father commits suicide days before his college graduation, Harry returns to his home in Maine, where he is baffled by the increasingly sensual attentions of a mysterious woman and his own alluring stepmother, who he comes to realize are hiding dangerous secrets. By the award-winning author of Her Every Fear.
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Shoot first : (think later)
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington is enjoying a round of golf in Key West when the game is violently interrupted -- and it seems as if the target of the disturbance may have been one of his fellow players, the brilliant businesswoman behind a software start-up on the cutting edge of technology. Soon, it becomes clear that this incident is only the first thrust in a deadly scheme to push her out of the way and put her company's valuable secrets up for grabs.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Elysium fire
by Alastair Reynolds
Helping to keep the peace throughout thousands of utopian city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone, prefect Tom Dreyfus investigates the baffling sudden deaths of innumerable citizens at the same time an increasingly influential, charismatic figure begins sowing seeds of insurrection.
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Head on : A Novel of the Near Future
by John Scalzi
A follow-up to Lock In finds the near-future world reveling in a violent but seemingly harmless, robot-bodied sport until a star athlete dies unexpectedly on the field, prompting an investigation by two FBI agents into the game's increasingly lucrative competition. By the award-winning author of Redshirts
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