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The Bishop's Pawn
by Steve Berry
Thriller. Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone uncovers a disturbing link between a case from his past and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that risks innocent lives and threatens the legacy of the Civil Rights movement's iconic martyr. By the best-selling author of The 14th Colony.
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The Flight Attendant: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Suspense. A binge-drinking flight attendant wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room beside a dead body and sneaks back to her work, telling a series of lies that complicate her ability to figure out what really happened. By the best-selling author of Midwives.
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The Disappeared
by C. J Box
Mystery. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett tackles two parallel cases involving the disappearance of a prominent British executive and a group of falconers who are being harassed by the feds, a double assignment that catches the attentions of a dangerous adversary. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Vicious Circle.
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Lethal in Old Lace: A Consignment Shop Mystery
by Duffy Brown
Cozy Mystery. There are two social functions in Savannah guaranteed to get people talking: weddings and funerals. And just as consignment shop owner Reagan Summerside agrees to marry the hunky Walker Boone, her neighbors, sisters Annie Fritz and Elsie Abbot, step up their business as professional mourners. They are so successful that the Sleepy Pines Retirement Center has hired them as a part of their retirement package. But the celebration over good business is cut short when the residents at Pines suddenly begin dying at an alarming rate. And the sisters are the first suspects. Reagan has her doubts, however, and begins to look into the strange phenomenon.
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As You Wish
by Jude Deveraux
Fiction. Gathering in a house in Summer Hill, Virginia, to support one another through marital woes, three women from different generations reflect on their experiences with estrangement, expectation and infidelity while resolving to pursue life on their own terms. By the award-winning author of For All Time.
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Covert Game
by Christine Feehan
Paranormal Thriller/Romance. When one of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence is captured by a criminal mastermind, a GhostWalker assassin desperate to escape from the demons of his past embarks on what could prove to be a suicide mission. By the best-selling author of the Shadow Riders series.
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Star Wars, the Last Jedi
by Jason Fry
SF. An official novelization of the highly anticipated Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, continues the epic adventures of Rey, Finn, Poe and Luke Skywalker. By the author of The Secret Life of Droids.
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If I Die Tonight
by Alison Gaylin
Psychological Suspense. When a once-famous 80s pop queen stumbles into a quiet Hudson Valley police station to report a hit-and-run auto theft, the case goes viral on social media, transforming the lives of locals who remember their interactions with the victim and perpetrator in ways that distort popular opinions about what really happened.
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The Punishment She Deserves
by Elizabeth George
Mystery. Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and the pugnacious but loyal detective sergeant Barbara Havers tackle one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered in a latest entry in the best-selling series by the Agatha Award-winning author.
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The Other Mother: A Novel
by Carol Goodman
Suspense. A woman on the run with her infant daughter from a controlling husband takes a job at a Catskills estate and navigates the difficult challenges of Post Partum Mood Disorder at the side of a charismatic new friend who proves to have a disturbing hidden nature. By the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages.
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Flash Points: A Kirk Mcgarvey Novel
by David Hagberg
Thriller. When an unpredictable new American President is elected, retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey is challenged to stop a dual plot involving terrorist assassins and staged attacks on volatile world regions designed to expose the new President's inability to fulfill his duties. By author of Tower Down.
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The Purloined Puzzle: A Puzzle Lady Mystery
by Parnell Hall
Cozy Mystery. Agreeing to help an obnoxious teen solve a puzzle, amateur sleuth and crossword impresario Cora Felton discovers a blood-stained knife in the puzzle's place before a body is discovered in the middle of Main Street, a case that is further complicated by her ex-husband's real-estate scam. By the co-author of the Teddy Fay series.
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The Sparsholt Affair
by Alan Hollinghurst
Historical Fiction/Family Saga. A World War II-era Oxford engineering student who hides secret ambitions to join the Royal Air Force and the lonely son of a celebrated novelist forge a fateful bond that reverberates throughout seven decades of shared family life and friendship. By the award-winning author of The Line of Beauty.
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Duel to the Death
by Judith A Jance
Thriller. After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate bid by Frigg, a rogue A.I. program created by the killer, to keep itself from being fully deactivated. To sort out his situation and take Frigg down for good, Stu enlists the help of Ali Reynolds and the rest of his cyber security colleagues at High Noon Enterprises. But they are not the only ones who know about Frigg’s existence.
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Jackrabbit Smile
by Joe R. Lansdale
Mystery. Hired by a couple of Pentecostal white supremacists to find their missing daughter, Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican, find themselves mixed up in a revivalist cult that believes Jesus will return flanked by an army of lizard-men and a murder.
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I Was Anastasia: A Novel
by Ariel Lawhon
Historical Fiction. An evocative retelling of the Anastasia survival myth follows the appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the youngest Romanov daughter, launching a half-century of questions, accusations and changing perspectives on identity as conveyed by her supporters and detractors. By the author of Flight of Dreams.
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
by Donna Leon
Mystery. A suspicious accident involving the father of a boy suspected of doing drugs finds Commissario Guido Brunetti pursuing a series of false and contradictory leads before uncovering a long-standing scam and unleashing unintentional consequences.
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Glimpse: A Novel
by Jonathan Maberry
Horror. A recovering addict who has been clean for three years begins seeing things and hearing voices in her head when a ghostly boogey man she imagined in her drug-induced hallucinations begins hunting her in real life.
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The Escape Artist
by Brad Meltzer
Thriller. Discovering that a military artist-in-residence who has been officially declared dead by the government is actually alive and on the run, Zig, a worker at Dover Air Force Base, uncovers disturbing facts about the young woman's past before learning that she witnessed something she was not supposed to see.
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Sweet Vengeance
by Fern Michaels
Fiction. Wrongly accused of murdering her husband and children, an innocent woman endures 10 years in prison before a technicality prompts a new trial that she prepares for by retreating to a small tropical island to gather information that she hopes will lead to her exoneration. By the best-selling author of the Sisterhood series.
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One House Over
by Mary Monroe
Historical Fiction. Longing to enjoy life on the wild side without consequences in their 1930s Alabama community, spouses Joyce and Odell forge a secret friendship with a pair of successful bootleggers whose resentment over being marginalized leads to the exposure of Odell's scandalous double life.
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Alternate Side
by Anna Quindlen
Fiction. Living in a quiet Manhattan brownstone that has become its own little community, Nora discovers her true self in the wake of a violent attack that exposes the racial, economic, martial and interpersonal tensions beneath her neighbors' façade of harmony.
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Closer Than You Know
by Brad Parks
Suspense. Enduring a brutal foster-care upbringing, Melanie embarks on an adult life that she hopes will allow her to leave the past behind only to be framed for drug charges that threaten her ability to keep her baby, a situation that is aided by an attorney who would solve the cold case of a serial rapist.
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Red Alert: An NYPD Red Mystery
by James Patterson
Mystery/Thriller. When a fundraiser involving New York's wealthy elite is targeted by a fatal blast, detectives Zack Jordan and Kylie MacDonald discover a link between the bombing and the murder of a high-profile woman filmmaker before realizing that the bombers may be among the A-list guests they were hired to protect.
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Murder at Half Moon Gate
by Andrea Penrose
Historical Mystery. When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor’s widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband’s designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be worth a fortune...and are very dangerous in the wrong hands.
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The Baby Plan
by Kate Rorick
Fiction. A first adult novel by an Emmy Award-winning television writer follows the pregnancy misadventures of two rival sisters and a Hollywood makeup artist who believed her nest was nearly empty. Nathalie’s plan: to announce her pregnancy now that she’s finally made it past twelve weeks! But just as she’s about to deliver (so to speak) the big news to her family, her scene-stealing sister swipes the spotlight by revealing her own pregnancy. Lyndi’s plan: finally get her life together! She’s got a new apartment, new promotion, new boyfriend. What she didn’t count on—a new baby! Now these women are about to jump headlong into the world of modern day pregnancy.
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England Expects
by Sara Sheridan
Historical Mystery. Dangers abound in 1950s Brighton as former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan cuts to the chase to solve multiple murders. When sportswriter Joey Gillingham stops off at a Brighton barbershop for a shave and a trim, he gets a slashed throat instead. With the ghastly murder the talk of the seaside town, Mirabelle and her close friend and coworker Vesta Churchill find themselves irresistibly drawn to the case. Rumors of the newspaperman being a member of the freemasons lead the ladies to the group’s local lodge, where they happen upon a cleaning lady in the throes of poisoning. Are the two deaths related?
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Barbed Wire Heart
by Tess Sharpe
Thriller. Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. Duke McKenna's run more guns, cooked more meth, and killed more men than anyone around. Harley's been working for him since she was sixteen--collecting debts, sweet-talking her way out of trouble, and dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural drug empire he's built. Her time's run out. The Springfields, her family's biggest rivals, are moving in. Years ago, they were responsible for her mother's death, and now they're coming for Duke's only weak spot: his daughter.
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Paris Metro: A Novel
by Wendell Steavenson
Thriller. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspaper. Moving between war-torn Baghdad, riots in Beirut, Syria during the Arab Spring, and Greece in the midst of a refugee crisis, she befriends insurgents, fundamentalists and soldiers, diplomats, middlemen, and monks, determined to understand and tell their story. Along the way she falls in love and marries a charismatic Iraqi diplomat named Ahmed, before their separation leaves Kit raising their teenage son alone in Paris. But after the Charlie Hebdo attack occurs and, a few months later, terrorists storm the Bataclan, Kit’s core beliefs are shattered. The violence she had spent years covering abroad is now on her doorstep. What is the point of truth and tolerance when everything is blowing up around you? As Kit struggles with her grief and confusion, she begins to mistrust those closest to her: her friends, her husband, even her own son.
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To Die But Once
by Jacqueline Winspear
Historical Mystery. Investigating the disappearance of an apprentice craftsman who had been working on a secret government contract, Maisie Dobbs discovers suspicious links to the London underworld and another boy close to her heart.
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Unmasked: A Memoir
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Memoir. Published to coincide with his 70th birthday, a memoir by the award-winning composer, producer and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in theater history traces his half-century career, sharing insights into his eccentric, diverse family; his Oxford education; his creative process; and the events that shaped his characters and productions.
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Train Your Dog Now!: Your Instant Training Handbook, from Behavior Fixes to Basic Commands
by Jennifer L. Summerfield
rain Your Dog Now! takes the best dog training tips, advice, and instructions and breaks them out into bite-sized pieces to help you—and your dog— learn everything you need to know, fast. With step-by-step instructions for teaching simple commands such as sit and drop it, guides for getting your dog used to new environments, as well as easy-to-follow instructions for teaching basic tricks and correcting bad behaviors, this book has everything you need for your pet.
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
by Laura Thompson
Biography. The award-winning author of The Six offers a portrait of the iconic mystery writer that shares insights into her Edwardian youth, her marriages, her relationship with her daughter and her mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.
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