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Meet me in Monaco : a novel of Grace Kelly's royal wedding
by Hazel Gaynor
A struggling perfumer who has forged an unlikely friendship with Grace Kelly against a backdrop of the latter's high-profile wedding considers what she is prepared to sacrifice when she falls in love with a British press photographer.
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Brazen and the Beast
by Sarah MacLean
Lady Henrietta pursues one last night of passion before starting her life as a spinster, finding herself in the arms a king known as Beast in the second novel of the series following Wicked and the Wallflower. The Bareknuckle Bastards series is about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape — and the women who bring them to their knees.
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Say no to the duke
by Eloisa James
Lady Betsy Wilde is considering a duke's marriage proposal, but wants one more adventure before settling down, so she turns to the rakish Lord Jeremy Roden, who promises to help her if she wins a scandalous wager. This novel is the latest in the Wildes of Lindow Castle series, following Born to Be Wilde.
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Stolen things : a novel
by Rachael Herron
When her daughter, Jojo, who is involved in a sensational crime involving a missing girl and a dead body, makes a shocking discovery about the police department, a 911 police dispatcher discovers they can trust no one as they try to find the missing girl before someone else does.
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Cold storage : a novel
by David Koepp
When the deadly mutative organism he put in cold storage decades earlier breaks out and starts killing people, former Pentagon bioterrorism specialist Roberto Diaz works with two security guards to try and contain it. A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park.
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The lovely bones
by Alice Sebold
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy
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The Afterlives
by Thomas Pierce
Struggling with questions about faith and the meaning of life when he recovers after being technically dead without having any profound experiences, Jim Byrd, accompanied by his new wife, investigates ghost sightings, psychic readings and other potentially supernatural activities in their efforts to make sense of new understandings about the afterlife. By the award-winning author of Hall of Small Mammals.
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The whole town's talking : a novel
by Fannie Flagg
The late citizens of a small Missouri community wake up underground after death and reconnect with loved ones over the course of 150 years before some of them begin to actually disappear, prompting a town-wide investigation. By the best-selling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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I Liked My Life
by Abby Fabiaschi
A husband and teen daughter are challenged to redefine their understandings of family when a devoted wife and mother commits suicide and begins meddling from beyond the grave. A first novel.
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