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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction February 2018
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White houses : a novel
by Amy Bloom
A New York Times best-selling author presents a novel inspired by the life of Lorena Hickok, and by her love affair and enduring friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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The great alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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Only killers and thieves : a novel
by Paul Howarth
Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power after a tragedy shatters their family on the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia. A first novel.
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An American marriage
by Tayari Jones
When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. By the author of Silver Sparrow.
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Winter sisters
by Robin Oliveira
When the two young daughters of friends killed in a storm vanish without a trace, a former Civil War surgeon launches a determined rescue effort that is challenged by a community that believes there is no hope and a niece who returns home from Paris with a secret agenda. By the best-selling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter.
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Force of nature
by Jane Harper
When one member of a five-woman team of co-workers goes missing during a corporate wilderness retreat, federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower and major contributor to his latest case. By the best-selling author of The Dry.
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Night moves : an Alex Delaware novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
When an affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner to discover the murdered body of a complete stranger in their house, psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis navigate unexpected consequences in a case that tests their intellectual and emotional limits. By the best-selling author of Heartbreak Hotel.
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Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
A pair of travelers, one of whom may be playing a dangerous psychological game with the other, embark on a steamy summertime affair that is thrown into chaos by dark secrets and a suspicious death, in a story inspired by the classics of James M. Cain. By the New York Times best-selling author of And When She Was Good.
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The Kremlin's candidate : a novel
by Jason Matthews
Overhearing a Kremlin plot to install a spy in a high-intelligence position so that the Russians can identify CIA assets in Moscow, Dominika launches a desperate mole hunt, only to be exposed and arrested before recklessly immersing herself in Kremlin palace intrigues in the hopes of stealing as much information as possible before her time runs out.
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Down the river unto the sea
by Walter Mosley
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Tarnished city
by Vic James
The next entry in the darkly fantastical series that began with Gilded Cage finds the brother-and-sister revolutionaries confronting the possible failure of their efforts to end lower-class forced servitude at the same time the mysterious young aristocrat reveals the incredible extent of his dark gifts.
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The gone world
by Tom Sweterlitsch
Time-travel secret agent Shannon Moss visits future time periods for clues about a Navy SEAL astronaut's murdered family and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, a case that is complicated by the SEAL's and Shannon's own impact on the timeline. By the author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
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