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New Fiction and Romance eBooks January 2020
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Anyone : a novel
by Charles Soule
When a botched experiment leads to the unexpected development of consciousness-transferring technology, a scientist witnesses the havoc of her innovation throughout two subsequent decades of body-rental violence, entertainment and warfare. 75,000 first printing.
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Dead Astronauts
by Jeff Vandermeer
Lives human and otherwise, from a demon-haunted homeless woman to a messianic blue fox, converge in terrifying and miraculous ways in a nameless city that is overshadowed by a brutally powerful company.
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The Dead Girls Club
by Damien Walters
Decades after her friend’s obsessive belief in a witch’s ghost led to tragedy, Heather receives her late friend’s necklace in the mail and discovers that she is being targeted by a vengeful killer. By the award-winning author of Paper Tigers.
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Dear Edward
by Ann Napolitano
A 12-year-old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses. By the author of A Good Hard Look.
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Hired Guns
by William W. Johnstone
Legendary bounty hunter Luke Jensen must take the road to hell itself, aka Hard Rock, Montana, to capture half-breed outlaw Tom Eagle who has a $5,000 bounty on his head for killing a millionaire’s son. Original.
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The Intended Victim
by Alexandra Ivy
After escaping a serial killer 5 years ago, Remi Walsh must live the same nightmare over when she becomes someone’s deadly obsession. Original.
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Preacher's Frenzy
by William W. Johnstone
When his friend Charlie is swindled out of his money, Preacher, after infiltrating the criminal underworld of the French Quarter, is enslaved on a pirate ship and must start a mutiny to return to New Orleans and reunite Charlie with his money. Original.
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Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel
by Karma Brown
In a dual-narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife, causing her to question the foundation of her relationship with her husband.
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Reputation : a novel
by Sara Shepard
Told in multiple points of view, a story of intrigue, sabotage and secrets follows a tight-knit college community as it is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people’s emails onto an easily searchable database, which results in murder.
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The revisionaries
by A. R. Moxon
When a nearby mental hospital releases its patients to run amok throughout his neighborhood, a man pretending to be a street preacher to hide his dark past struggles to protect his followers from otherworldly forces.
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The Unspoken Name
by A. K. Larkwood
Destined to become a sacrifice on behalf of her superstitious people, Csorwe accepts a powerful mage’s alternate offer to become his bodyguard and spy to help him reclaim his power in the land from where he was exiled.
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When Silence Sings : a novel
by Sarah Loudin Thomas
In 1930, after the rival McLean clan guns down his cousin, Colman Harpe chooses peace over seeking revenge. But when he hears God tell him to preach to the McLeans, a failed attempt to run away leaves him horribly sick in their territory. But evil doesn't look how he expects
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The Bridge to Belle Island
by Julie Klassen
Investigating a mysterious death on a remote island on the Thames, a disgraced lawyer is unexpectedly drawn to the case’s chief suspect, an enigmatic woman who has been having recurring nightmares about the victim. (religious fiction).
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The Fall and Rise of Sadie Mcqueen : Cold Feet Meets David Nicholls, With a Dash of Jill Mansell
by Juliet Ashton
Sadie McQueen has leased a double fronted space in this small cul de sac in a culturally diverse corner of central London. The cobbles muffle the noise of double-deckers roaring past the arched gates. Turn right and you are in a futuristic maze of corporate glass monoliths. Turn left and you see a wide street with many different houses. Towering above the mews are the degenerating tower blocks of an infamous estate. The old folks home and the nearby school are both in need of TLC; the private members' club that set up shop in a listed Georgian building has been discreetly refurbished at huge expense. Into this confusion comes Sadie. She fell in love with the street the moment she first twisted her ankle on its cobbles. Her double-fronted unit is now a spa. She has sunk all her money into the lease and refurbishment. She's sunk all her hope into the carefully designed treatment rooms, the calm white reception space, the bijou flat carved out of the floor above. Sadie has a mission to connect. To heal herself from tragedy. Sadie has wrapped the mews around her like a warm blanket, after unimaginable loss and unimaginable guilt. Her hard-won peace is threatened, not only by the prospect of the mews going under but by a man aptly named Hero who wakes up her comatose heart. Sadie has a lot to give, and a lot to learn, not least that some ghosts aren't ghosts at all.
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Huckleberry Lake
by Catherine Anderson
Erin De Laney comes to Mystic Creek hoping to rekindle her enthusiasm for law enforcement, and her life gets more complicated when she begins to fall for handsome, deaf cowboy Wyatt Fitzgerald. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Meg & Jo
by Virginia Kantra
When their mother falls ill, the March sisters—reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy and shy Beth, return home to North Carolina for the holidays where they’ll rediscover what really matters. Original.
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Sanditon : also including the complete texts of Lady Susan and The Watsons
by Jane Austen
"In the final months of Jane Austen's life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seaside town of Sanditon, once a small fishing village and now a bustling spa town. In the story of Charlotte Heywood, a new arrival, Austen contemplated a changing society with a mixture of skepticism and amusement, and notably crafted her only character of color in the mixed-race heiress Miss Lambe. Though unfinished at the time of her death, it is a key work for readers of Jane Austen, and all themoreso with a major upcoming TV adaptation. This volume includes Sanditon, as well as two other lesser-known works, Lady Susan and The Watsons. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with several men. And The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine, Emma, finds her marriage opportunities restricted by poverty and pride. With three vital and less familiar works by one of the most important novelists in the English language, this book is a must-have for Austen fans"
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Snowfall in the City
by Susan Wiggs
The St. James Affair
Elaine St. James has it all—a thriving career as an elite Manhattan publicist, A-list best friends and a gorgeous, high-profile boyfriend her parents adore. But when Byron breaks up with her on Christmas Eve, Elaine is faced with the prospect of spending the holidays alone…until the man she loved long ago reappears, much like a ghost from Christmas past.
Tony Fiore was everything her Upper East Side parents wanted Elaine to avoid—the Italian-American boy from Brooklyn was hardly an ideal match for their perfect socialite daughter. Despite their differences, they always found themselves together on Christmas Eve, ice-skating at Rockefeller Center. Until the year Tony failed to show up and broke Elaine’s heart. Now, seven years later, on another Christmas Eve, they might finally have a second chance at first love…
Candlelight Christmas
A single father who yearns to be a family man, Logan O’Donnell is determined to create the perfect Christmas for his son, Charlie. The entire O’Donnell clan arrives to spend the holidays in Avalon, a postcard-pretty town on the shores of Willow Lake, a place for the family to reconnect and rediscover the special gifts of the season.
One of the guests is a newcomer to Willow Lake—Darcy Fitzgerald. Sharp-witted, independent and intent on guarding her heart, she’s the last person Logan can see himself falling for. And Darcy is convinced that a relationship is the last thing she needs this Christmas.
Yet between the snowy silence of the winter woods and the toasty moments by a crackling fire, their two lonely hearts collide. The magic of the season brings them each a gift neither ever expected—a love to last a lifetime.
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