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The Poppy Wife : a Novel of the Great War
by Caroline Scott
The year is 1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis has not come home. Francis is presumed to have been killed in action, but Edie believes he might still be alive. Harry, Francis’s brother, was there the day Francis was wounded. He was certain it was a fatal wound—that he saw his brother die—but as time passes, Harry begins questioning his memory of what happened. Could Francis, like many soldiers, merely be lost and confused somewhere?
Artful and incredibly moving, The Poppy Wife tells the unforgettable story of the soldiers lost amid the chaos and ruins, and those who were desperate to find them.
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Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.
Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late..
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Highfire
by Eoin Colfer
Vern is burned out by the days of yore. Now, the last of the dragons is passing his time in the Louisiana bayou watching Flashdance and drinking vodka. Until the day he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run.
A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau does what he can to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly single mother. He’s finally decided to work for a shady smuggler—but on his first night, he witnesses his boss murdered by a crooked constable.
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A House in the Mountains : The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
by Caroline Moorehead
Drawing on previously untranslated sources, a prize-winning historian tells the little-known story of the women of the Italian-partisan movement and their fight for freedom against fascism in all its forms, while Europe collapsed in ruins around them.
In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women―Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca―living secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overthrow Italy’s authoritarian government.
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The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. Then one evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist. His determination to get Alicia to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.
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The Turn of the Key
by Ruth Ware
Writing to her lawyer from prison, Rowan Caine struggles to explain the unravelling of events from when she took a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home, to her imprisonment for a child’s murder.
It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around. It was everything.
She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.
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An Anonymous Girl
by Greer Hendricks
Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields’s experiments blurs.
Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking… and what she’s hiding. Jessica’s behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated. Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.
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The Whisper Man
by Alex North
Mourning the death of his wife, Tom moves with his young son, Jake, to Featherbank for a fresh start. However, he soon learns their new town has a dark past involving a serial killer named “The Whisper Man.”
Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to The Whisper Man's crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man.
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