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Bestseller Preview August 2024
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Between a Flock and a Hard Place by Donna AndrewsMeg grapples with belligerent turkeys, building code violations and a murder during a reality show makeover, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!.
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Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. ArmentroutAfter freeing themselves from captivity at the hands of the false King of the Gods, Sera and Nyktos race to maintain peace in the Shadowlands, in the fourth novel of the series following A Fire in the Flesh.
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Talking to Strangers by Fiona BartonDetective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.
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Peach Tea Smash by Laura ChildsWhen Cricket Sadler asks her to find out who killed her beloved husband Harlan during the Mad Hatter Masquerade, tea shop owner Theodosia realizes the killer might have mistaken Harlan for his crazy son—a slum landlord who recently injure a woman in a boating accident.
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djáelâi ClarkOne of the Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Eveen the Eviscerator, highly skilled, discreet and professional, when the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the ancient city of Tal Abisi upside down, is brought face-to-face with a past she isn't supposed to remember and a vow she can't forget.
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The Dark Wives by Ann CleevesWhen a man's body is found by a care home for troubled teens—a murder linked to the disappearance of a 14-year-old resident, DI Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate and when second connected body is found near the Three Dark Wives monument in the Northumberland countryside, superstition and folklore collide with fact.
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Close Knit by Jenny ColganThe New York Times best-selling author returns with the story of a woman who leaves her knitting circle for a job to become a flight attendant in this romantic summer novel set in Scotland's Northern isles.
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The Mercy of Gods
by James S. A. Corey
When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their home world, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.
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Daydream
by Hannah Grace
Academic superstar and fellow junior, Halle Jacobs, befriends Henry Turner when he accidentally crashes her book club and the pair work together to overcome their collegiate challenges in the third novel of the series following Wildfire.
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The Lost Coastby Jonathan KellermanPI Clay Edison, when a case of simple fraud explodes into an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims, follows the evidence to a tiny town on California's remote Lost Coast where he discovers the price of truth is higher—and deadlier—than he ever could've imagined.
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Spirit Crossing
by William Kent Krueger
As a huge manhunt is launched to find a local politician's daughter, Cork O'Connor. and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police, when the body of a young Ojibwe woman is found, uncover a connection to the missing teenager—one that places his own grandson in the crosshairs of a killer.
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.
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Bear
by Julia Phillips
Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.
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By Any Other Nameby Jodi PicoultAcross centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.
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Angel of Vengeance by Douglas J. PrestonAn FBI Special Agent poses as a cleric in New York's notorious Five Points slum to help catch a dangerous serial killer, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Cabinet of Dr. Leng.
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Fire and Bones by Kathy ReichsForensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a deadly fire in a Washington, DC neighborhood called Foggy Bottom with a colorful past and ties to gangs in the present, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Bone Hacker.
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Arkangel by James RollinsSigma Force is summoned to help search for a missing trove of ancient books after a Vatican archivist is murdered near the Kremlin, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Tides of Fire.
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Buried Too Deep
by Karen Rose
When nighttime security guard of Broussard Private Investigations, Phineas Bishop, tries to track down an intruder to clear his name, his only lead and witness is spirited librarian Cora Winslow.
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This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter
While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge's manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying—lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.
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Joy
by Danielle Steel
Abandoned by her free-spirited mother and raised by an emotionally distant father, Allegra finds solace in books and love, only to face the harsh realities of war and its impact on her husband, who returns from Afghanistan nearly unrecognizable.
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
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City of secrets by P. J. TracyLAPD Detective Margaret Nolan investigates what appears to be a fatal car-jacking, but uncovers details about the victim that suggests there's more going on, in the fourth novel of the series following The Devil You Know.
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Tom Clancy Shadow State
by M. P. Woodward
Cut off from his comrades at The Campus just when he needs them most, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy that may be too much for even him to handle.
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