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| Murder Takes A Vacation by Laura LippmanAfter winning the lottery, 68-year-old widow Mrs. Blossom goes on her first international trip, which finds her facing deceptive fellow travelers and a deadly mystery. Using skills she learned from working for PI Tess Monaghan, Mrs. Blossom sets things right while seeing Paris and going on a European river cruise. |
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| The Listeners by Maggie StiefvaterIn January 1942, war comes to West Virginia when the United States government orders the luxury Avallon Hotel to house Axis Power diplomats. Balancing work, worry, and ethical questions, hotel manager June Porter Hudson also gets to know a handsome FBI agent. This atmospheric adult fiction debut by a bestselling YA fantasy novelist has hints of magic and is a "must-read for all historical fiction fans" (Library Journal). |
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| Kill Your Darlings by Peter SwansonPeter Swanson's twisty thriller follows Thom and Wendy Graves, a seemingly ordinary couple with a deadly secret. Told in reverse, the narrative reveals their shared dark past, Wendy's growing plan to murder Thom, and the slow unraveling of their marriage. This complex psychological tale is full of surprises and emotional tension. |
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| Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. SchwabThis genre-defying novel follows three lesbian vampires, their lives connected across centuries as they come to terms with their affliction and face love, hunger, immortality, and grief. For fans of: LGBTQIA fantasy with intricately plotted narratives and complex supernatural characters such as Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell. |
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| So Far Gone by Jess WalterIn a divided 2016 America, retired Rhys Kinnick hits his son-in-law Shane at Thanksgiving and then goes off-grid in Washington State. A few years later, his grandkids show up, brought by a neighbor at the request of Rhys' daughter. But then Shane sends members of his church militia after the kids, leading Rhys to team up with an eccentric group of old friends. |
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| With A Vengeance by Riley SagerAnna Matheson lures six individuals responsible for her family’s ruin onto a luxury train, planning to confront them and force confessions. But when a passenger is murdered, Anna's carefully laid plans unravel. Now, she must risk her own life to protect her enemies as the situation spirals into deadly chaos. |
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Finders Keepers
by Sarah Adler
Last week, Nina Hunnicutt was a professor about to move into a gorgeous new apartment with her long-term boyfriend. Now, she's single, unemployed, and living with her parents. Even more surprising is the fact that Quentin Bell, her childhood neighbor, is also back in town-and wants to resume the treasure hunt that ended their friendship almost two decades ago. Nina agrees even though, last time the search resulted in a broken heart and seventeen years of silence. But Nina's older and wiser now-surely things will be different. Except, Quentin is also older and wiser ... not to mention distractingly handsome.
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| Flashlight by Susan ChoiFlashlight follows American Louisa Kang and her family across locations and years, but focuses on the night young Louisa and her ethnically Korean father walk on a Japanese beach. The next morning, she washes ashore, amnesiac and clinging to life, but her dad can’t be found. Covering family relationships and geopolitics, this slow burn novel is "never sentimental, never predictable" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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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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The Rabbit Club
by Christopher J. Yates
When Ali McCain is accepted at Oxford, it's a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in England; to meet true intellectuals; and to glimpse the life he might have lived had his father--British rock star Gel McCain--not abandoned him and his mother when he was a toddler. But not long after he arrives at the storied campus, Ali is drawn into one of Oxford's oldest and most selective secret societies, a dark, disorienting world where events grow more and more curious.
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| The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House by Joanna Davidson PolitanoIn 1901 England, clockmaker Sydney Forrester runs a small shop with the aunt who raised her and is drawn to broken things. When she's told she's inherited the estate of an unknown relative, she heads alone to remote Northumberland, finding a house filled with unusual inventions, two men who also have a claim to the estate, and rumors of murder. A "masterful work," raves Library Journal. |
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The Staircase in the Woods
by Chuck Wendig
Twenty years after a childhood friend vanished on a mysterious staircase in the woods, a group of former high school friends reunites to uncover the truth, facing the dark secrets and horrors that await beyond the staircase.
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| Can't Get Enough by Kennedy RyanIn this 3rd and final novel of the Skyland trilogy, ambitious talent manager Hendrix Barry tries to quell her attraction to off-limits billionaire tech tycoon Maverick Bell while also juggling caregiving responsibilities for her mother, who has Alzheimer's. Will her complicated family dynamics and forbidden feelings keep her from her happily-ever-after? |
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| Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline FraserIn her disturbing and well-researched true crime account, Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser (Prairie Fires) examines the history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest from the 1940s to the 1980s. For fans of: The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. |
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| Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Belonging by Cristina JiménezIn her moving debut, MacArthur Fellow and community organizer Cristina Jiménez recounts her family's fraught immigration journey from Ecuador to the United States in the 1990s, detailing her fears of living undocumented, her commitment to social justice activism, and her role in helping enact Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). |
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How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
by Bonny Reichert
A journalist embarks on a journey to reconnect with her culinary heritage, tracing her roots through food and family, while confronting her father's Holocaust survival by using cuisine as both a means of healing and a link to her past.
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No More Tears: The Dark Story of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris
In this blistering exposé, an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of Johnson & Johnson's deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions.
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| George & Lenny Are Always Together by Jon AgeeAnxious brown bear George and curious gray rabbit Lenny are best friends who do everything together. So what will happen when Lenny wants to try a bit of solitude? This sweet and simple story uses expressive art to explore a timeless question about friendship. |
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The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
When a teenage boy appears out of nowhere in 1999, claiming he's the world's first time-traveler and has a book outlining the events of the next 20 years, 12-year-old Michael wants to get his hands on the book and must decide how far he's willing to go to do so.
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The Otherwhere Post
by Emily J. Taylor
Maeve Abenthy lives under a fake name and avoids putting down roots to escape the stain of her father's crime, and then she receives a letter saying her father was innocent and starts looking into her father's past.
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