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First Readers
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Ace Atkins
Release Date: December 2
It's 1985, what will soon become known as 'The Year of the Spy,' and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. 'Gary' isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He's just a kid into BMX and MTV.
Regular Print, Large Print, Book on CD
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Stuart Woods' Blown Away
by Brett Battles
Release Date: December 2
Teddy Fay joins Peter and Hattie Barrington in Palm Springs. But his hope for a relaxing vacation vanishes when he attends a prominent actor's annual birthday party, witnesses a heated squabble between two women, only for one of them to turn up dead the next day. Teddy investigates who might be lurking in the shadows and uncovers a web of intrigue involving a sinister plan to take over a cutting-edge energy company. If he doesn't act fast, valuable secrets risk falling into the wrong hands, but more importantly, innocent lives could be in jeopardy.
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Spasm
by Robin Cook
Release Date: December 9
When Laurie Montgomery temporarily steps down from her position as Chief Medical Examiner, she and Jack find themselves free for a couple of weeks. Then they receive a call from Jack's former medical school classmate, Robert Neilson, who is the sole family practitioner in remote Essex Falls. Also the coroner, Dr. Neilson is in over his head trying to explain the sudden death of a young, healthy pest control worker on top of an outbreak of rapidly progressive Alzheimer's-like cases, and he pleads with Jack and Laurie to come lend a professional hand.
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Sharpe's Storm: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of Southern France, 1813
by Bernard Cornwell
Release Date: December 2
The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter shows no mercy. Amid brutal conditions, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself saddled with an unexpected burden: Rear-Admiral Sir Joel Chase, dispatched by the Admiralty with sealed orders, unshakable confidence, and a frankly terrifying enthusiasm for combat. Sharpe's mission from Wellington is clear, yet anything but simple: keep Sir Joel alive. Sir Joel could hold the key to defeating Napoleon once and for all.
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Terror on the Train
by Jeanne M. Dams
Release Date: December 2
Dorothy Martin is travelling from England to Canada for a wedding, but her journey takes a dark twist when a man falls from the train. Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, are leaving England behind to attend a wedding on Vancouver Island, Canada. Opting for the scenic route, the pair board the Empire Builder sleeper train from Chicago to Seattle. But the journey takes a terrifying turn when Dorothy witnesses a person falling from the train. The body of a man is quickly found on the route, and Dorothy feels compelled to investigate.
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The Gallagher Place
by Julie Doar
Release Date: December 2
When Marlowe Fisher, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family's bewitching Hudson Valley home for the holidays, she discovers a body in the woods--a murder that draws her back into the haunting case of her teenage best friend's disappearance two decades earlier. What happened to Nora? As police descend on the sprawling Fisher property, Marlowe is pulled into an investigation that threatens to unravel the town's fragile loyalties and expose the shadowed legacy of a weekend home steeped in secrets.
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The Quiet Mother: A Detective Konrad Novel
by Arnaldur Indridason
Release Date: December 9
A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavik home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad's phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth-for her and for himself. As Konrad digs into her tragic past, he is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and betrayal. Each revelation points to a hidden life that connects her death to a decades-old murder-and to shadows from Konrad's own family history.
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Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
Release Date: December 2
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt--it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior. Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who'd been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he's reappeared, buried under the motorway. It's the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit.
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller
by James Patterson
Release Date: December 1
In life, Marilyn Monroe's superstardom defies classification. In death, she remains shrouded in mystery. ... In the hours before her death, she argues with US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and his brother-in-law Peter Lawford. 'Here I am, the most beautiful woman in the world, and I do not have a date for Saturday night.' On June 1, 2026, the world celebrates Marilyn Monroe's one hundredth birthday--without her.
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House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk
Release Date: December 2
A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There's the man whose death - with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech--was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.
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