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The Book Club for Troublesome Women
by Marie Bostwick
In suburban Virginia of the 1960s, Margaret Ryan forms an impromptu book club with three neighbors, discovering shared dissatisfaction with societal expectations, as the group bonds over personal struggles, feminist ideas and the transformative power of friendship during a life-changing year.
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Dead Line
by Marc Cameron
In the White Mountain Wilderness of Interior Alaska, twenty-four-year-old protected witness Sam Lujan is lonely for his old life. So much so, the young Apache not only breaks the cardinal rule of the Witness Protection Program-by revealing his whereabouts to his mother-he invites her to join him to see the Northern Lights.
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Nightshade
by Michael Connelly
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor--a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.
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King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
After returning to Jefferson Run, Virginia, and family business Carruthers Crematorium—with brother Dante in debt to criminals and sister Neveah exhausted from holding everything together—Roman discovers that his father's crash was no accident and Dante has placed them all in real danger.
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Beautiful Ugly
by Alice Feeney
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there...but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible--a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
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Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
by Joy Fielding
Reeling from her husband's death and best friend's dementia diagnosis, seventy-six-year-old Linda Davidson feels lost and alone. Linda goes to visit her friend at Legacy Place, a memory care facility for the elderly, where she meets Jenny Cooper, a ninety-two-year-old dementia patient who makes a shocking confession: she kills people. Linda dismisses this as the confusion of an ailing mind, but Jenny seems strangely lucid as she recounts stories of her many victims--mostly men who hurt her. Then a fellow patient at Legacy Place dies. Linda can't help but wonder: is there any chance Jenny's telling the truth?"
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Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Escape
by Brian Freeman
Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He's happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again. As he did once before, Bourne must piece together the fragments of who he is, even as assassins hunt him across Europe.
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It Happened on the Lake
by Lisa Jackson
When Harper Reed Prescott returns to her family's eerie Victorian house on Lake Twilight to sell it, old rumors of murder and disappearance resurface, along with chilling memories, unsettling whispers and the terrifying suspicion that someone is watching her.
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Don't Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
Nick Radcliffe is just what Nina Swann needed in her life after her husband's unexpected death. But to Nina's adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick's past. What she finds is unsettling. Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her infant daughter and her devoted husband, Alistair. But lately, Alistair has been traveling more and more frequently, disappearing for days at a time. Nina, Martha, and Ash are on a collision course with a shocking truth that is far darker than anyone could have imagined. And all three are about to wish they had heeded the same warning: Don't let him in
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Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers but the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. As they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again. But Rowan isn't telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets.
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You Belong Here
by Megan Miranda
When her daughter enrolls at the college Beckett Bowery fled after a deadly scandal two decades earlier, Beckett is forced to return to Wyatt Valley, where buried truths and old suspicions threaten to resurface against the backdrop of the picturesque Virginia town.
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Emma on Fire
by James Patterson
What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire's Ridgemont Academy is to change the world will shock all involved. (suspense).
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Billion-dollar Ransom
by James Patterson
When five members of a billionaire's family are kidnapped in a perfectly timed attack, FBI Special Agent Nicky Gordon faces off against a ruthless mastermind, racing to outsmart a plan that's as precise as it is dangerous.
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The Locked Ward
by Sarah Pekkanen
Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, "I didn't doit. You've got to get me out of here." Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the leastof their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator?
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An Unexpected Grace
by Tracie Peterson
Actor Parker Bennett returns home to Kalispell after ten years and reunites with his first love, widowed Johanna St. John, who is juggling life as a mother and businesswoman. Just as Parker and Johanna believe they have a second chance at love, circumstances in both of their lives threaten any hope of a future together.
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The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
After the shocking death of her husband, a troubled young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
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The Woman in Suite 11
by Ruth Ware
Journalist Lo Blacklock travels to a luxury Swiss hotel hoping to revive her career, but when a mysterious woman draws her into a dangerous chase across Europe, she must weigh ambition against survival in a world of wealth and shifting alliances.
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That Last Carolina Summer
by Karen White
As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother.
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On Air : The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
by Steve Oney
Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network, and its hosts have created a mode of journalism and storytelling that helps Americans understand the world in which we live. In On Air, Steve Oney tells the dramatic history of this institution, featuring details on the controversial firing of Juan Williams, the sloppy dismissal of Bob Edwards, a $235 million bequest by Joan B. Kroc, widow of the founder of McDonald's, and NPR's daring shift into the digital world.
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Who Is Government? : The Untold Story of Public Service
by Michael Lewis
The government is a vast, complex system made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers to find someone doing an interesting job for the government and write about them. The vivid profiles in Who Is Government? show how the essential business of government makes our lives possible and how much it matters."
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