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Cross the line
by James Patterson
When a prominent police official in Washington D.C. is murdered, leaving police scrambling for answers, Alex Cross is swept up in a series of deadly attacks by a vigilante killer who is targeting suspected criminals. By the award-winning author of Cross Justice. Simultaneous.
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| The Muse by Jessie Burton; narrated by Bahni Turpin and Maria Elena InfantinoAdult Fiction: An aspiring writer, Odelle Bastien arrives in London from Trinidad in the 1960s. Though literary success eludes her, she finds a job as a typist in a posh art gallery, where she becomes the protégée of eccentric Marjorie Quick. Thirty years earlier, painter Olive Schloss is living in Spain with her Viennese art dealer parents when she meets Teresa and Isaac Robles, half-siblings who will change her life forever. Connecting Odelle's and Olive's stories is a mysterious painting whose secrets are gradually revealed in this intricately plotted novel of intrigue. The Muse's complex female characters, strong atmosphere, and sparkling prose may appeal to fans of Dominic Smith's The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. |
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| Darktown: A Novel by Thomas Mullen; narrated by André Holland Adult Fiction: It's 1948: Atlanta's eight new African American police officers have severe restrictions (no driving a police car, no entering police headquarters, no policing white parts of town, etc.), and they face hostility from their white colleagues as well as distrust from their own community. One night on their beat, officers Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith see a white man driving a car erratically with a young African American woman inside. When the woman is found dead, the men investigate despite the risk to their careers and maybe their lives. Blending history with mystery, this gritty 1st in a planned new series has already been optioned for TV. Publishers Weekly and AudioFile both praise actor André Holland's evocative and steady narration. |
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Settle for more
by Megyn Kelly
The top-rated cable news anchor presents a revelatory memoir that also imparts the values and lessons that have shaped her career, describing her tough-love family, her father's early death, the news events that led to her anchor position and her ongoing feud with Donald Trump. Simultaneous.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there
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| I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows; narrated by Emily Sutton-SmithAdult Fiction: As dust storms bear down on Mulehead, Oklahoma, dashing the region's farmers' hope for rain, the Bell family struggles to survive. Patriarch Samuel turns to religious fanaticism, while wife Annie reflects on how her life might have been different had she stayed home in Kansas instead of following Samuel to Oklahoma. The Bell children, Birdie and Fred, have their own problems, including the pains of first love and living with chronic illness. Vivid imagery and lyrical prose evoke the Depression-era setting, while the novel's emotional weight comes from its moving depiction of a family in crisis. Emily Sutton-Smith's narration deepens the novel's "portrait of yearning as penetrating as the dust storms" (AudioFile). |
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Sex, lies & serious money
by Stuart Woods
Arriving home from his travels to find an unexpected new client on his doorstep, Stone Barrington discovers that the true nature of his client's recent turn of fortune means he is being pursued from New York high-rises to the New Mexico desert
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| Murder Has Nine Lives by Laura Levine; narrated by Brittany PressleyAdult Fiction: Things are looking up for California freelance writer Jaine Austen. There's a vacation to Hawaii on the horizon, a client has hired her to write a new brochure, she's got a date with the client's handsome nephew, and her cantankerous cat Prozac will star in a commercial for Skinny Kitty diet cat food. But things don't go well, especially once Prozac loses it on set and a murderer strikes shortly afterwards. The police have plenty of suspects, including Jaine, so she decides to solve the crime herself in this 14th entry in a fun series. Narrator Brittany Pressley delivers Jaine's narrative with excellent timing, but the best parts, says Publishers Weekly, are "the woozy conversations between Jaine and Prozac." |
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Avenue of mysteries
by John Irving
Embarking on a trip to the Philippines, senior-aged Juan Diego reflects on dreams and memories of his childhood in Mexico before his past and present intersect in unexpected ways. By the award-winning author of A Prayer for Owen Meany. Simultaneous.
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| Loner: A Novel by Teddy Wayne; narrated by David BendenaAdult Fiction: It's clear from the get-go that David Federman is pretty smart but not particularly memorable. Overlooked in high school, he hopes to make a name for himself at Harvard, but (unsurprisingly) things don't get off to a great start. Overlooking friendly overtures from another girl, he becomes enamored of fellow freshman Veronica, and does everything and anything he can to ingratiate himself with her. Soon, his self-absorbed attempts move from pathetic to disconcerting to downright creepy, and we're left wondering exactly what is going on in this page-turner, vividly rendered by narrator David Bendena. |
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