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The gathering : a novel
by C. J. Tudor
When a boy is found with all the blood drained from his body, Detective Barbara Atkins must determine if a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs, is responsible, or if she's dealing with a twisted psychopath as she uncovers secrets darker than she ever could've imagined.
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The murder inn
by James Patterson
The owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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The heirloom : a novel
by Jessie Rosen
When her boyfriend proposes with an heirloom ring, Shea, remembering her beloved Nonna's warnings, sets out to find its previous owners to ensure the ring contains forever energy and with the help of her long-suffering sister and a nosy journalist, she embarks on the quest of a lifetime. Original.
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The proposal plot : an Amish of Marigold novel
by Kathleen Fuller
"A headstrong young businesswoman. An unlucky-in-love bachelor. And the chaperoning assignment that keeps pushing them together. For someone so strong-willed and certain, Ella Yoder has never been more unsure of her life. It's been a year since she convinced her father to move with her and her younger sister Junia to Marigold, Ohio, to open E and J Grocery. Ella's got a keen eye for running a business and has big dreams to expand. But her plans are stalled because Junia refuses to lift a finger at the store--or listen to her about anything.Nelson Bontranger knows one thing for sure: creating his own artisan deli meats is his passion. Well, maybe one other thing: he's sworn off women forever. After two bouts of heartbreak, he's not willing to open up himself to a third. When he eyes his own butcher shop next to E and J Grocery in Marigold, he's surprised to learn that Ella has had her eye on the property for some time. He doesn't trust this stubborn, pushy young woman--and for her, the feeling is mutual. Against their wishes, Ella and Nelson's paths continue to cross when Nelson's nephew Malachi falls head over heels for Junia. Nelson and Ella are brought together to keep the lovebirds in check, but somewhere along the line, their frustration turns to something altogether more pleasant. But they will both need to come to terms with past pain before they can find their future happiness"
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The mystery guest / : A Maid Novel
by Nita Prose
The esteemed Head Maid of the 5-star Regency Grand Hotel, Molly Gray, when a world-renowned mystery author drops dead, matches wits with her old foe, Detective Stark, to solve this case, which not only threatens the hotel's pristine reputation but may be linked to her own past.
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One of us knows : a thriller
by Alyssa Cole
A resident caretaker of a historic home, Kenetria, diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, finds their newfound life disrupted by a group of strangers, including the man who destroyed her life, and when he turns up dead, they must prove their innocence or risk losing their future—and their life. Original.
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After Annie : a novel
by Anna Quindlen
After Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.
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The twilight garden : a novel
by Sara Nisha Adams
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long
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Feline Fatale : A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor“Harry” Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker, in the latest novel in the long-running series following Hiss and Tell. Illustrations.
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Bring the jubilee
by Ward Moore
""One of the most ingenious parallel world stories ever written." -- Richard A. Lupoff. In this acclaimed work of alternate history, the South claims victory after defeating the Union army at the Battle of Gettysburg. In the mid-20th century, people now live under the constant threat of war between the Confederacy and its bitter rival, the German Union. Can a young scholar travel back in time to reset the path and save the future?"
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The Museum of Lost Quilts : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
by Jennifer Chiaverini
While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, instead researches the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society, discovering its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.
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A noble scheme
by Roseanna M. White
"As part of England's most elite private investigation firm, Gemma and Graham must set aside their broken relationship to work together on a new case. Graham is determined to use this opportunity to win back the only woman he's ever loved, but there's noguarantee Gemma's shattered heart can be restored"
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Trusting her Amish rival
by Jackie Stef
"Everyone in Lancaster County has forgiven Silas Riehl for his wild past-except Amish baker Leah Fisher. When he offers her a business proposition that could benefit them both, Leah doesn't know if she can turn the other cheek. Yes, he's become a kind, hardworking man. But the only thing more dangerous than trusting Silas is falling for him..."
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Clouds without rain
by Paul L. Gaus
"Written in the tradition of Tony Hillerman, in Clouds without Rain, P. L. Gaus once again provides compelling intrigue and insight into Amish culture and tradition alongside contemporary American life. In the wake of a fatal accident involving an Amish buggy and an eighteen-wheeler, Professor Michael Branden, working with the Holmes County Sheriff's Department, becomes suspicious about the true nature of the crash. His suspicions only grow when the trustee of the dead man's estate disappears a few days later. Faced with Amish teenagers in goat masks robbing buggies on dusty lanes, land swindles involving out-of-town developers, several mysterious deaths, and the disappearance of a bank official, Branden realizes that there is far more to the story than a buggy crash on a sleepy country road. This new edition of Clouds without Rain features an exclusive interview with the author, reading group materials, and a detailed map and driving guide to Holmes County, Ohio with everything one needs to visit the iconic scenes depicted in the story"
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Daughter of mine : a novel
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls. Simultaneous.
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The beautiful people : a novel
by Michelle Gable
In 1961, Margo Hightower, becoming the assistant to a society photographer, is thrown headfirst into the glamorous Jet Set world she so covets where she becomes friends with heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, but when the lines between work and play blur, the golden life she desires slips from her grasp.
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Garden of the midnights
by Hannah Linder
"The accidents are not a matter of chance. They are deliberate. As English gentleman William Kensley becomes aware of the danger at Rosenleigh Manor, he pleads for the truth of his past from the only man he can trust--until that man is murdered. As the secrets unfold into scandal, William's world is tipped into destitution, leaving him penniless and alone. His only comfort is in the constant friendship and love of Isabella Gresham. If he does not have their nonsense at the seashore, their laughter, theirreckless adventures, has he anything at all? He should have known that would be ripped from him too. When a hidden foe arises from their acquaintances and imperils Isabella's life, William may be the only one willing to risk his life to rescue her. But even if he frees Isabella from her captors, will he still have to forsake her heart? Some sacrifice everything for love. Others sacrifice love for everything else. In this haunting tale of rigid social prejudices and heart-aching regrets, the greatest decision of their life will be determined in the garden of the midnights"
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Pay dirt
by Sara Paretsky
While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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The starlet spy
by Rachel Scott McDaniel
"In 1943, movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie's homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has become the "Casablanca of the North." When top-secret atomic research goes missing in Sweden, the Allied forces scramble to recover the files before they fall into Nazi hands. The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) needs someone who's subtle enough to spy on the Swedish elite without triggering suspicion. Who better than the "all beauty, no brains" Scandinavian starlet? Fluent in three languages and possessing a brilliant memory, Amelie loathes being labeled witless but uses the misconception as her disguise. She's tasked with searching for the crucial files, but Finn Ristaffason keeps getting in her way. Is the charming shipping magnate after the missing research? Or does he have other reasons for showing up at her every turn? With the Gestapo on her heels, Amelie must rely on her smarts in addition to her acting skills to survive a world of deadly spies and counterspies"
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Lucky
by Jane Smiley
Coming of age in recording studios, backstage and on tour, rising folk musician Jodie Rattler, trying to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell, feels like something is missing and sets out on a journey in search of herself.
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It had to be you
by Mary Higgins Clark
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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Death by food truck : 4 cozy culinary mysteries
by Joi Copeland
"Birch Tree, Maine, is experiencing a rash of deaths, all mysteriously linked to food trucks that frequent the Birch Point Lake Park. Mey's noodle truck was her ticket to a new life, until her ex-boyfriend threatens to take it away. Angel's new donut truck was doing great, until deathly rumors started. Shanice thought she had customer support when taking over her grandpa's potato truck, until one started complaining. Marisol's taco truck is a fixture in the park, until linked to a food judge's death. Could competition between vendors have led to this murder and mayhem?"
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Extinction : a novel
by Douglas J. Preston
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation. 250,000 first printing.
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What cannot be said
by C. S. Harris
"On a sunny day in July 1815, thirty-eight-year-old Philippa, Lady McKinsey, takes her sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, and her young niece and nephew, fifteen-year-old Arabella and thirteen-year-old Percy, on an outing to Richmond Park. But when Arabella and Percy go off to pick flowers, tragedy strikes. Shots echo across the park. Two young gentlemen investigate and find Lady McKinsey and her daughter dead. As the men gaze in horror at the strangely posed bodies of the victims, the other two children come up laughing, their arms full of blossoms. Arabella opens her mouth to scream, but there is no sound. Sir Henry Lovejoy, Bow Street magistrate and good friend of Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself reliving a nightmare. Fourteen years before, Lovejoy's own wife and daughter were murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in the same bizarre fashion. Lovejoy himself had been instrumental in the arrest of the ex-soldier later found guilty of the killings, and he'd watched the man hang with grim satisfaction. Now he must turn to Sebastian for help as he confronts the very real possibility that he helped send an innocent man to the gallows, and that the monster responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter is still at large--and has killed again."
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The summer we started over : a novel
by Nancy Thayer
Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father's increased eccentricities; her sister's resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.
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Empire of the damned
by Jay Kristoff
Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel de Le�n must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone. Illustrations. Tour.
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The library of borrowed hearts
by Lucy Gilmore
Stumbling across a rare edition of a book from the 1960s with love notes scribbled in the margins, librarian Chloe Sampson is sent on a literary scavenger hunt that brings about unexpected friendship and the discovery that some love stories begin in the unlikeliest places. Original.
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Patchwork quilt murder
by Leslie Meier
When the director of the new community center and her young employee are found dismembered, part-time reporter Lucy Stone, trying to piece the clues together, discovers the truth rests somewhere between wild rumors, a trusted friend's emotional new sewing project and the authenticity of a mysterious 300-year-old patchwork quilt.
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Love through the seasons
by Tracie Peterson
"Four short contemporary romances take readers to the author's native state of Kansas. Spring - Stormy Weather Gina Bowden, a young widow, fights city council to regain funding for her son's Boy Scout troop. Something better than lightning hits, though, when she teams up with the equally tenacious troop leader. Summer - King of Hearts Elise Jost is a non-traditional student just one credit short of graduating. A hard-working woman determined to establish herself in the business world, she enrolls begrudgingly in a Renaissance appreciation course that will complete her credit hours. Her life's direction takes a different course when she makes a high grade with Professor Ian Hunter. Autumn - Falling for Love Karen Armstrong Jacobs has been widowed five years and taken in her mother to live with her. When she learns her mother's three sisters need a place to live, she opens her home up to them as well. Now there are a lot of repairs that need to be made to the house for safety's sake. Enter Dan Polk, a widower with a contracting business and a heart for ministry, who makes over the house and Karen's lonely heart. Winter - Silent Nights Lynn Murphy always dreamed of having the perfect marriage, and for a while she delighted in her dream come true. But Frank's job has gradually overtaken their lives. When their plans for an anniversary trip at Christmastime are ruined by yet another business obligation, Lynn decides she's had enough. She runs away to her grandfather's house looking for answers. Only there does she begin to glimpse the surprising ways that God will satisfy the desires of her heart"
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The angry land
by William W. Johnstone
After a cattle train bound for Texas is ambushed by blood-thirsty rustlers, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, on a mission of vengeance, vows to bring swift—and deadly—justice to the men responsible.
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Lost birds
by Anne Hillerman
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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Death by chocolate raspberry scone
by Sarah Graves
Passamaquoddy Bay bakers Jake and Ellie search for the remains of a skilled fisherman who vanished with a valuable gold doubloon inherited from his grandfather, in the seventh novel of the series following Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie.
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Under the paper moon
by Shaina Steinberg
Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II's end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
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The last word
by Elly Griffiths
Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.
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Darling girls
by Sally Hepworth
Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse. 300,000 first printing.
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Midnight harbor
by T. Davis Bunn
When his Aunt Amelia, his closest friend and greatest supporter, passes away, leaving him her home in Miramar, classical guitarist Ian Hart uses this opportunity to reflect and move forward after a scandal destroyed his career but instead finds himself drawn to another newcomer, artist Kari Langham, who changes everything.
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The flower sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
Dumped in Possum Flats, Missouri, by her free-spirited mother, in 1978, 15-year-old Daisy Flowers, sentenced to spend the summer with her mortician grandmother, sets the town on edge when she becomes obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of a long-ago tragedy after a family connection is revealed. Original.
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Funny story
by Emily Henry
"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night,while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photosof their adventures together-for a particular audience of two-who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancâe's new fiancâee's ex-boyfriend. Who's to say?"
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Tiny blessings
by Fern Michaels
This uplifting collection of stories about family, love, new beginnings and everyday miracles includes Fern Michaels' Tiny Blessings, in which substitute teacher Emma Swan, newly arrived at Pink Pearl Cove, finds her life forever changed by four dachshund puppies and love at first sight. Original.
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Earls trip
by Jenny Holiday
Three Regency-era Earls on an annual bachelors' weekend find their trip hijacked by a friend begging for help with a family scandal, a runaway bride and a tempting proposal from a childhood friend who had sworn off marriage. Original.
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The Wild Lavender bookshop
by Jodi Thomas
While worrying about their father, sisters Katherine and Cora Lee discover there's more intrigue afoot in Honey Creek when a woman arrives to hear the last wishes of the father she never met, bringing changes that alter the lives of those who call this close-knit town home. Original.
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The eulogist : a novel
by Terry Gamble
In pre-Civil War Ohio, Irish immigrants James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves after they lose their mother to childbirth and their father boards a riverboat to New Orleans, as they confront the reality of slavery on the opposite bankof the Ohio River
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Dear George, Dear Mary
by Mary Calvi
A debut novel based on hundreds of historical accounts, letters and personal journals reimagines the unrequited love affair between a young George Washington and controversial New York heiress Mary Philipse as a catalyst for the American Revolution.
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An unfinished murder
by Jude Deveraux
A novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet in the fifth novel of the series following A Relative Murder.
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Miss Morgan's book brigade : a novel
by Janet Skeslien Charles
The New York Times and internationally best-selling author of The Paris Library returns with a novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France. Illustrations.
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Circle in the water
by Marcia Muller
Sharon McCone is hired by a coalition of concerned San Francisco homeowners whose homes have been targeted in a series of“pranks,” in the latest installment of the long-running series following A Midnight Puzzle. 35,000 first printing.
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The Amish midwife's bargain
by Patrice Lewis
"Grieving after the loss of a patient, midwife Miriam Kemp returns to her Amish roots and vows to leave her nursing life behind. But when she accidentally hits Aaron Lapp on a rain-drenched road, she offers to help the scarred and handsome-if somewhat cranky-bachelor while he recovers. Could this arrangement allow them to heal...while finding a love they never expected?"
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A calamity of souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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Bonding over the Amish baby
by Pamela Desmond Wright
"After he wrecks his car, Dr. Caleb Sutter finds himself stranded in an Amish community in Texas. What he didn't count on is becoming the temporary co-guardian to an abandoned newborn, along with pretty Amish teacher Rebecca Schroder. But the baby soon raises questions about his own family history, catching Caleb at a crossroads between his past-and the love he never expected to find"
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Still see you everywhere
by Lisa Gardner
Asked by a female serial killer, with only 21 days left to live, to locate her long-lost sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, Frankie Elkin is led to a tech mogul's remote island where she goes undercover to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman's life.(suspense). Simultaneous.
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The shadow of war : a novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Jeff Shaara
Told from many perspectives and voices, this gripping story of a global war that almost happened: the Cuban Missile Crisis, brings to life the many threads that led to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in 1962.
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This summer will be different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe. Original.
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The stolen child : a novel
by Ann Hood
Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
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Disturbing the dead [electronic resource]
by Sandra Parshall
Working as a detective for the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department, Tom Bridger returns to his mountain community roots to take on the role of county sheriff's deputy to investigate the killing of a Melungeon woman whose bones have been discovered on a remote mountaintop, a murder that may have profound repercussions for the present as someone will do anything to keep the truth hidden forever.
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Long Island : a novel
by Colm Tâoibâin
"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town in Ireland where she grew up remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at his job, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child, and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead will deposit it on Eilis's doorstep. It is what Eilis does - and what she refuses to do - in response to this stunning news that makes Tâoibâin's novel so riveting. Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis's life are thunderous and dangerous, and there's no one defter than Tâoibâin at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest of bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and peopleshe left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she'd lost. Eilis is perhaps Tâoibâin's most moving and unforgettable character, and this novel is a masterpiece"
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All my secrets
by Lynn N Austin
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter
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People in glass houses
by Jayne Castle
When the Tarnished Knight, a once-respected explorer whose career was destroyed by an Underworld disaster, is found, Molly Griffin heads to his location, confident she can help him regain control of his shattered senses since he is the key to finding her sister—a member of his vanished expedition team.
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Just for the summer : a novel
by Melody Carlson
"Ginny Masters manages a Seattle boutique hotel but is tired of the rat race. Jacqueline Bowman manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in western Washington, but she longs for city life. Eager for a change, these women swap jobs for the summer, but it'snot quite so simple to find the happiness--and love--they're searching for"
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The house that horror built
by Christina Henry
When single mother Harry Adams takes a job cleaning house for a reclusive horror director who values discretion, she keeps her head down until she starts hearing noises from behind a locked door and soon finds this forbidding house may be home to secrets she can't ignore. Original.
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A storybook wedding
by K. J. Micciche
After getting caught in a compromising position while studying in an MFA program, a librarian and a struggling author decide to get married to protect their careers discover that their fake relationship is complicated by mutual attraction. Original.
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Love at first book
by Jenn McKinlay
When her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in Ireland, Emily, jumping at the opportunity, helps Siobhan author the final book in her acclaimed series and spends her days bantering with Siobhan's annoyingly handsome, mercurial son, making her decide if she's ready to start a new chapter in her life. Original.
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The best life book club
by Sheila Roberts
Leaving Seattle and her cheating husband behind, single mother Karissa moves to Puget Sound where she meets her new neighbors, who are also dealing with their own crises, and together they start a book club as a distraction until it becomes a way to build a better life together.
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Turning the Storm
by Lee Jackson
The Blitz is in full force. Bombs rip relentlessly through London, destroying buildings and rattling confidence. How much more can the country—and one family—take? As Britain falls further into chaos, the Littlefields—ever-dedicated—must keep fighting. Their country needs them now, more than ever, and each sibling will be tested in ways they never imagined. Jeremy prepares to fly a mission without his trusted Eagles. But the sudden capture of someone he loves will force him to choose between fulfilling his duty and following his heart. Still held as a POW at a high-security facility, Lance grows more and more desperate to make an escape. And thousands of miles apart, Claire and Paul—both armed with top-secret war intelligence—experience a similar struggle: They know more than they can say. And that knowledge places their siblings in grave danger. Meanwhile, at home and under German occupation on Sark Island, the Littlefield's parents struggle as food becomes scarce and the fire in their bellies is joined by a gnawing hunger. Then, in a move that shocks the entire world, Germany invades Russia. But is it really a surprise to Churchill? What will it mean for Britain—and for the Littlefield family?
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The instruments of darkness
by John Connolly
Working alongside lawyer Moxie Castin to prove the innocence of a woman accused of abducting and possibly murdering of her child, P.I. Charlie Parker, to solve this heart-wrenching case, follows its twists and turns to an old house deep in the Maine woods—house that should have never been built.
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The silverblood promise
by James Logan
A disgraced heir to an ancient noble house, Lukan Gardova, when his estranged father is murdered, vows to solve this mystery as a chance to make amends for his mistakes, which leads him to a fabled city where everything has a price—and the price of truth is the deadliest of all.
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This strange eventful history : a novel
by Claire Messud
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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Every time we say goodbye
by Natalie Jenner
A London playwright working as a script doctor in 1955 Rome faces the mystery of what happened to her fiancé during the war, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Society. 100,000 first printing.
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Last house : or The age of oil
by Jessica Shattuck
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"
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Reunion : a novel
by Elise Juska
Three old college friends in their 40s, coming together for the 25-year reunion at their beloved campus in New England, each find the reunion not what they envisioned when the weekend takes a startling turn, forcing them to reckon with the past and how it will bear on the future.
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