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Jane Austen at Home
by Lucy Worsley
A profile of the life and times of Jane Austen by the best-selling author and TV host tours the classic author's childhood home, schools, holiday accommodations and grand and small family estates to reveal lesser-known aspects of Austen's character and inspirations.
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Murder Runs in the Family
by Tamara Berry
Amber Winslow's life has taken a serious turn for the worse. When an impulsive decision forces her to flee her former life carrying nothing but the clothes on her back, she heads to the the luxury accommodations of her grandmother's Arizona retirement community. But as soon as she sneaks her things into Seven Ponds, a place she technically doesn't qualify for and definitely can't afford, she finds that her Grandma Jade is about to be arrested for murder. With the help of the other retirees and her grandma's true crime podcast friends, Amber must work to find the real killer.
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The Listeners
by Maggie Stiefvater
Based on a true story, this is the fascinating tale of elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia in 1942. General manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon Hotel skillfully through the first pangs of war. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the State Department leases the hotel as a well-appointed internment center for Axis diplomats. Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick presses his ears to the hotel’s walls, listening for the diplomats’ secrets. June has never met a guest she couldn’t delight, but the diplomats are different. Without firing a single shot, they have brought the war directly to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.
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Not Quite Dead Yet
by Holly Jackson
The bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, now a hit Netflix series, returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.
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Sleep
by Honor Jones
Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a bush in her backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag; 25 years later, newly divorced Margaret waits under her parents' bed for her young daughters to find her—but some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time.
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The Road to Tender Hearts
by Annie Hartnett
Sixty-three-year-old lottery winner PJ Halliday sets out on a cross-country trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart, bringing along his estranged brother's orphaned grandchildren, his drifting adult daughter and a death-predicting cat"
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Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Francis Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.
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The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of wealthy and narcissistic publisher George Putnam, who happened to be looking for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. Their ahead-of-its time partnership supported her grand ambitions, but also pressed her into more and more treacherous stunts to promote her books, influencing a certain recklessness up to and including her final flight. In this cinematic account, Shapiro emphasizes Earhart's human side, her struggles, and her authentic aspirations, the truths behind her brave pursuits and the compromises she made to fit into societal expectations.
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The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she's cursed. She has lost her adoptive parents and her husband has been murdered. Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Since she has no information about her biological family, she heads to Italy to find out if she is related to her benefactor. Julia is stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi and she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology, then strange things begin to happen.
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Culpability
by Bruce W. Holsinger
When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them all in the tragic accident. During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlie's future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Lorelei's odd behavior tugs at Noah's suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incident.
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Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton
Through trial and error, the author learns to care for a rescued newborn hare that had been chased by a dog in the English countryside, and the reader witnesses the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal.
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