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The Bookbinder's Secret
by A. D. Bell

Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Lilian (Lily) Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father's failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man's profession. But when she's given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder. Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit. Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian's world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life. * This stunning edition includes full-color designed endpapers, unique foiled front and back case stamps, and special interior design elements. While supplies last *

The Devil's Daughter
by Danielle Steel

Graduating magna cum laude from MIT is the happiest day of Billie Banks's life, although her family is not part of it. Her mother, who always supported her, died when Billie was seventeen. Since then, her father has been slowly drinking himself to death on the family farm in Iowa, and she and her younger sister, Mickie, have grown even more estranged ... Despite Billie's attempts to look after Mickie following their mother's death, her sister consistently treated her with cruelty. So when Mickie invites Billie to move in with her in Los Angeles, Billie is both wary and hopeful. Taking a leap of faith, she joins her sister on the West Coast ... But then the siblings' difficult history once again rises to the surface--

Huguette
by Cara Black

A teenage Huguette, ill-treated by her father and others, survives the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. During the lawless aftermath, she assists a famous film director and deals in black market material. Fans of the author's acclaimed Aimée Leduc mysteries set in contemporary Paris will appreciate meeting her grandfather, a kind cop who helps Huguette, in this compelling standalone tale. Read-alike: Pam Jenoff's Last Twilight in Paris.

And Then There Was You
by Sophie Cousens

Hoping to impress her more accomplished classmates (including her former best friend, film director Sean Adler) at her ten-year college reunion, stuck-in-a-rut Chloe Fairway joins an exclusive dating service to secure her perfect plus-one. Rob is everything she could have dreamed of...but he’s a robot. Will her fake romance lead to real love? For another witty and heartfelt romance with speculative elements, try Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer.

Order of Royals
by Jude Deveraux

Princess Aradella is trapped in the iron grip of her evil and powerful aunt, Queen Olina. Navigating the treacherous waters of political machinations and familial duties, Aradella discovers allies in unexpected places, including Tanek, a swansman with his own mysterious connections. Set in a world where royalty, magic, and mythical beings coexist, Aradella's path is intertwined with that of Kaley Arens, an Earthling who becomes deeply entangled in the planet's intricate social hierarchy, as she is faced with a choice between her homeland and newfound love. As Aradella and her companions uncover dark secrets and hidden agendas, they embark on an adventure filled with loyalty, romance, and courage, where the lines between magic and reality blur. Aradella's heart finds a beacon in Mekos, the son of Tanek, whose distinct heritage and protective nature captivate her--

Track of Courage
by Susan May Warren

Pop singer Keely Williams's trip to Alaska turns into a nightmare when her plane is hijacked, forcing her through the woods with a killer in pursuit. Ex-cop Dawson Mulligan and his adopted rescue dog come to the rescue, but he has no idea he's being pulled into a race for his life. Together, Keely and Dawson must stay one step ahead of the killer on their tail.

The Devil in the Details: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery
by Vicki Delany

The game is once again afoot in Vicki Delany's eleventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery, when birthday festivities end in freezing-cold murder. Gemma Doyle is excited about celebrating Jayne Wilson's big day. It's supposed to mark not only the birthday of Jayne, her partner in crime, but also that of the Great Detective himself. Following the festivities at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, Gemma heads for the Blue Water Caf , the site of Jayne's party. To make things even better, Jayne's wedding is only a week away. But the much-anticipated affair quickly turns to disaster with the presence of the bride and groom's respective exes in attendance and other unruly guests. With drama at every corner, Gemma and Jayne take a break on the chilly deck overlooking the ocean when they spot the body of a party attendee floating in the water below. As Detective Ryan Ashburton takes a closer look at the guest list, Jayne's wedding is in peril, especially when it is revealed that her fianc , Andy, is a prime suspect. With the police closing in and more lives on the line, it's up to Gemma to keep Andy from prison and save Jayne's wedding day from ruin.

Best Offer Wins
by Marisa Kashino

Former journalist Marisa Kashino’s debut is a darkly comic thriller about the ruthless Washington, D.C. housing market. Desperate to secure her dream home and start a family, Margo Miyake’s obsessive pursuit escalates from awkward charm offensives to manipulative, violent schemes. Sharp, satirical, and chaotic, the novel explores millennial anxieties, material obsession, and the extremes of ambition.

The Keeper of Magical Things
by Julie Leong

Novice mage Certainty Bulrush wants to be useful to the Guild, but her lack of power hasn't made it easy for her to keep up. When she is assigned to work with chronic overachiever Aurelia, the two of them form an unlikely bond moving magical artifacts -- and may learn that magic is stronger when shared instead of hoarded. For fans of: queer romantic fantasy with charm and whimsy, such as Maiga Doocy's Sorcery and Small Magics or Rebecca Thorne's Can't Spell Treason Without Tea.

Silent Bones
by Val McDermid

In 2025 Scotland, a motorway landslide unearths the body of investigative journalist Sam Nimmo, who'd gone missing 11 years ago just after his girlfriend was murdered. In their compelling 8th outing, DCI Karen Pirie of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit and her team dig into the case that has ties to Scottish Independence, gambling, and Edinburgh's The Scotsman Steps. Try these next: Stuart MacBride's Logan McRae mysteries; Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan novels.

The Burning Grounds
by Abir Mukherjee

In 1920s Calcutta, India, by the river where the dead are burned, a popular British philanthropist is found murdered. Police detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case, giving him a chance to reignite the career he sacrificed to help his wrongly accused colleague, Surendranath Banerjee. Meanwhile, Banerjee has returned from Europe to look for his missing cousin, leading the two to reunite in order to help each other in their gritty, intricately plotted 6th outing.

The Stories We Carry
by Robin W. Pearson

Bookstore owner Glory Pryor isn't ready to let go of her North Carolina shop and retire, even if her kind husband of five years thinks she should. Then the arrival of a widow and her young child, who have connections to Glory's past, shake up everything in this warm-hearted Christian novel. Try this next: Lauraine Snelling's The Florence Legacy.

House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk

This reissuing of a book first published in Polish in 1998 by a Nobel and Booker Prize winner explores life in a small village along the Polish-Czech border. Stylistically complex and using a variety of elements (stories, gossip, recipes, etc.), Olga Tokarczuk's "scattered fragments are beautifully tied together to form a unified whole" (Library Journal). Try this next: Vaim by Jon Fosse.

Beasts of the Sea
by Iida Turpeinen

Part of Captain Bering's Great Northern Expedition in 1741, naturalist Georg Steller notices an animal that's never been documented. But the starving men hunt and kill the gentle sea cows for food, which leads to their extinction just 27 years later. As years pass, a sea cow skeleton is found, studied, and moved to a museum in the 1950s in this "masterful debut" (Booklist) that fuses science and literature. Read-alike: Ethan Rutherford's North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther.

Adult Nonfiction

Write, Edit, Publish: What Every Writer Needs to Know but Only an Editor Will Tell You
by Michael J. Totten

Literary agents and publishers reject 99 percent of manuscripts before finishing the first page, and readers are just as impatient. If your opening doesn't grab them by the throat, they're gone. Award-winning author and veteran editor Michael J. Totten will show you-in the first two chapters alone-how to craft a killer first sentence and a gripping first page. Most books about writing are written by writers, not editors. They don't see the troubled manuscripts that Totten sees, so the dozens of crippling mistakes that sink so many otherwise promising manuscripts, both fiction and nonfiction, aren't well covered in most books about writing-until now. In Write, Edit, Publish, you will learn how to: - Correct all the most common mistakes that expose you as an amateur.- Hook your audience and compel them to keep reading.- Avoid the top two fatal errors most self-publishers make.- Tap into readers' innate capacity for empathy so they truly sympathize with the characters and people you're writing about.- Give readers exactly what they want-even if they don't consciously know what that is.- Fast-forward through the boring parts and ratchet up the suspense.- Spellbind readers using real rather than vacuous descriptions-and, just as importantly, know precisely where and when to include that description.- Turn your muddled story into a focused, structurally sound narrative.- Declutter your sentences so they land like hammer blows, not slaps with a Nerf bat.- Remove friction from your prose so readers can relax and glide through it.- Write dialogue that actually sounds spoken rather than written.- Repair fractured, backward, and bloated information flow so your writing is as clear as a still pool of water.- Craft an ending that haunts readers long after it's over. Read this book, show readers you have an expert command of the craft, and write so well the world can't ignore you. Praise for Michael J. Totten This book is game-changing for writers. Michael J. Totten gives great advice about writing that only a seasoned editor could convey. I'm including this book as required reading in my editing course and plan to have other folks in my department read it as well.-Allyson Longueira, professor in the graduate program in creative writing at Western Colorado University I've admired Michael J. Totten's work as a writer for years, but it turns out he is also a superb editor.-Judith Deborah, author of A Falling Knife: An Evan Adair Mystery As an accomplished writer, journalist, and editor, Michael is second to none. He has helped me with two books and enormously improved both.-Fred Litwin, author of I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak If you're looking for an editor to help you take your book to the next level, look no further than Michael J. Totten. I've always found his astute insights invaluable.-Scott William Carter, author of The Gray and Guilty Sea

Greatness Code: The Formula Behind Unstoppable Success
by Alan C. Guarino

Unlock the qualities of success and reach your full potential using this effective guide from leadership and career development expert Alan C. Guarino. Your personal greatness objective is self-defined. For each of us, the definition of success and the journey to achieve it is different. Yet, no matter how talented or driven you are, your ability to achieve greatness is significantly influenced by many factors outside of your control. Leadership sets the tone--defining not just what they think success looks like, but also how you are expected to show up, collaborate, and grow. Greatness Code: The Formula Behind Unstoppable Success shows how to achieve your personal and career related goals. As Vice Chairman of Korn Ferry and the founder of Cornell International, Inc., Guarino devised a formula for success from thousands of data points over decades, helping people achieve their goals. Anyone who achieves their own greatness gets there by applying their social capital and building on five critical qualities: Persistence Stamina Courage Resilience Passion Your personally defined goal of greatness is achievable for almost anyone using this formula. In addition, Greatness Code provides scientific research and real-life examples that show how to advance at every career stage. It's time for you to gain the edge that these tools can give you. It's time to crack the Greatness Code.

Youth Fiction

Love Finds a Way
by Vern Kousky

For fans of LOVE IS MY FAVORITE THING and I NEED A HUG comes a sweet story about the healing power of love. Perfect for Valentine's Day and beyond!

The Littlest Yak
by Lu Fraser

Gertie is the littlest yak, feeling stuck in her smallness--she wants to grow UP and have bigness and tallness. But when it turns out that there are some things that only Gertie can do, might she come to see that she's perfect, just the way she is?

I Am Rebel
by Ross Montgomery

Rebel is a good dog. He loves his simple, perfect life on the farm with his owner Tom--until one day, when the war comes too close. Tom is determined to join the rebellion to defeat the king's men, but Rebel knows that war is dangerous, and he will stop at nothing to save his beloved human. How can he bring Tom home before it's too late? A heartwarming adventure told from a dog's perspective as he travels across a pseudo-Civil War Britain on his loyal mission--

The Spellbook Library 1
by Uta Isaki

Spellbook librarians protect townsfolk from dangerous spellbeasts, sealing them in spellbooks that hold more than just magic, in this smart new fantasy series from the creator of Is Love the Answer? and Sayabito: Swords of Destiny, perfect for fans of Cardcaptor Sakura, and Witch Hat Atelier! A Kodansha Reader Portal Series: Made in Japan, published first in English! When he was a child, troublemaker Yan was attacked by a ferocious spellbeast...until he was rescued by a group of Spellbook librarians. Inspired by the librarians' heroic efforts, Yan vows to turn over a new leaf and become a Spellbook librarian to repay their kindness. On the day of his employment exam, he meets Tohru, a mysterious young boy who has his own reasons for wanting to work at the library. Together, Yan and Tohru set off and join the ranks of the Spellbook Library, and begin the long journey to learn just what it takes to become a Spellbook librarian!

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