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Angel & Hannah: A Novel in Verse
by Ishle Yi Park
Told in seasons, this hip-hop love story follows Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, as their forbidden love wildly blooms along the Jackie Robinson Expressway in the spring of 1993.
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Ariadne
by Jennifer Saint
A feminist retelling of the Greek Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur follows Ariadne as she, defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, helps Theseus kill the Minotaur.
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The Blackmailer's Guide to Love
by Marian Thurm
A 25-year-old assistant to a famous New York editor (known to be a notorious philanderer) at a prestigious mainstream magazine, begins to sell her short stories to the New Yorker, complicating her relationship with her boss and exerting pressure on her marriage.
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The Break-Up Book Club
by Wendy Wax
Four very different women leading very different lives, with the help of books, laughter and friendship, find the courage to seek their own versions of happily-ever-after.
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The Clover Girls
by Viola Shipman
The new owners of Camp Birchwood — thanks to their late friend, Emily — Elizabeth, Veronica and Rachel must spend a week together remembering the dreams they put aside and find a way to become the women they always swore they’d grow up to be.
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A Dog's Courage
by W. Bruce Cameron
A weekend camping trip in the Rocky Mountains turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when a raging inferno separates Bella from her people, and, alone in the wilderness, must protect two defenseless mountain lion cubs as she searches for Lucas and Olivia.
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Family Law
by Gin Phillips
When an ambitious female lawyer becomes the victim of harassment, she must decide what’s more important: her family’s safety or the rights she’s fighting for?
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Family Reunion
by Nancy Thayer
Newly widowed, Eleanor Sunderland finds dreams of a family reunion in Nantucket shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement home, and finds a lone ally in her 22-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer.
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Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves’s disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates — and their dreams — become intertwined.
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Hold Fast
by J. H. Gelernter
In 1803, with tensions rising between England and France, the British Secret Services loses a prime agent, Thomas Grey, who resigns after his wife's untimely death. Grey's plans change, however, when the French take him for a disgruntled ex–officer and recruit him as an informer, giving Grey crucial information for Britain, and an opportunity for revenge.
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Hour of the Witch
by Chris Bohjalian
A resourceful Puritan woman in 1662 Boston plots to escape a violent marriage only to find herself targeted by her disapproving and superstitious neighbors for failing to save a child’s life.
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How Not to Drown
by Jamiee Wriston
After losing her dad in a suspicious drowning, a 12-year-old moves in with her grandmother where she bonds with her agoraphobic uncle over Celtic tales from the Isle of Skye and becomes determined, in spite of being bullied at her new school, to make the swim team.
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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
by Colleen Oakley
Arriving on Frick Island, an ambitious journalist stumbles upon a fascinating story: an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not exist. An unforgettable love story about an eccentric community, a grieving widow, and an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more important than the facts.
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The Kingdoms
by Natasha Pulley
Diagnosed with a form of epilepsy that causes amnesia and hallucinations, Joe Tournier, in an England that is a peaceful colony under the Republic of France, leaves London to repair a Scottish lighthouse, which changes the way he sees the world, its history and himself. A genre-busting, captivating, and romantic time-travel adventure.
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The Last Green Valley
by Mark Sullivan
In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
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Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
by Elyssa Friedland
This funny, nostalgia-filled story follows the Goldman and Weingold families as they, amid drama and scandal, try to save the Golden Hotel – their beloved getaway in the Catskills for more than sixty years.
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Leaving Coy's Hill
by Katherine A. Sherbrooke
An unforgettable story about the triumphs and travails of a woman unwilling to play by the rules, based on the remarkable life of pioneering feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone.
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Leda and the Swan
by Anna Caritj
When her classmate, Charlotte, disappears after a wild campus party, Leda, who is now dating Charlotte’s ex, becomes dangerously obsessed with finding her and begins to fear for her own life.
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Legacy
by Nora Roberts
After launching her own line of yoga and workout videos, Adrian Rizzo begins receiving death threats, which lead her back home to Maryland, where she, with the help of her childhood crush, must find the truth when the threats escalate to murder.
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Light Perpetual
by Francis Spufford
Ingenious and profound, this novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five souls who perished during a visit to a local store, illuminating the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, and the preciousness of life.
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
by Richard Flanagan
In a novel of family, climate change and the resilience of the human spirit, Anna, whose aged mother is dying in a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, escapes into visions of horror and delight through the ever-widening hospital window.
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Love and Fury
by Samantha Silva
In August of 1797, as her midwife struggles to keep her and her fragile daughter alive, Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of famous novelist Mary Shelley, recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of the late 18th century.
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Mary Jane
by Jessica Anya Blau
Taking a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor, straight-laced Mary Jane is introduced to a world of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, which helps her figure out what she really wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going to be.
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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
by Chanel Cleeton
At the end of the 19th century, reporter Grace Harrington and a courier secretly working for Cuban revolutionaries in Havana free “The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba” who has been unjustly imprisoned—a mission that forces them all to fight for their freedom as war looms on the horizon.
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The Newcomer
by Mary Kay Andrews
After her sister is murdered, Letty Carnahan goes on the run with her four-year-old niece to Florida’s Gulf Coast where she is taken in by a hotel owner and her cynical son, a police detective, who believes she is a danger to them all.
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Olympus Texas
by Stacey Swann
Weaving elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family drama, this novel follows the Briscoe family as prodigal son March returns home and with his arrival, marriages are upended and even the strongest of alliances are shattered.
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The Parted Earth
by Anjali Enjeti
Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, this debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations.
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The Plot
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Wildly successful author Jacob Finch Bonner, who had stolen the plot of his book from a late student, fights to hide the truth from his fans and publishers, while trying to figure out who wants to destroy him.
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Revival Season
by Monica West
The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family.
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Second Place
by Rachel Cusk
Examining the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, this fable of human destiny and decline follows a woman as she invites a famed artist to her home in hopes that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and surroundings.
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Secrets of Happiness
by Joan Silber
When Ethan, a young lawyer, discovers his father in New York has had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength.
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The Secret Talker
by Geling Yan
Receiving psychologically disturbing emails from an unknown adversary, a professor's wife is forced to confront her dark past in China while investigating her stalker's personal motives in a desperate effort to save her marriage.
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The Stars We Share
by Rafe Posey
A sweeping World War II novel about the secrets we keep from the ones we love, and a couple tested again and again by distance, sacrifice, and a woman’s ambition to fulfill her own dreams
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The Summer of Lost and Found
by Mary Alice Monroe
With her family, finances, emotions, relationships and health teetering on the brink, Linnea Rutledge finds her life further complicated by her feelings for John, an old flame who turns up from California and is quarantining next door.
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Summer on the Bluffs
by Sunny Hostin
An Emmy Award-winning cohost of The View makes her literary debut with a novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard.
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Swimming Back to Trout River
by Linda Rui Feng
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, this lyrical novel follows a father’s determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie’s 12th birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
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That Summer
by Jennifer Weiner
While trying to pinpoint the root of her dissatisfaction with her life, Daisy Shoemaker begins receiving misdirected emails meant for another woman and starts living vicariously through her until she discovers that their connection was not completely accidental.
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A Theater for Dreamers
by Polly Samson
An 18-year-old woman reeling from her mother’s death arrives at a proto-commune of poets, painters and musicians on the Greek island of Hydra where she has her ideas about art, relationships and her own innocence tested.
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Things We Lost to the Water
by Eric Nguyen
Leaving Vietnam behind, Huong and her two sons adapt to life in New Orleans in different ways as they search for identity as individuals and as a family until disaster strikes the city, forcing them to find a new way to come together.
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V for Victory
by Lissa Evans
In this beguiling sequel to Crooked Heart, Vee Sedge, while trying to feed her lodgers and her young charge during the winter of 1944, must deal with the repercussions of witnessing an accident that could reveal her true identity.
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When Stars Rain Down
by Angela Jackson-Brown
A young woman’s coming of age against a backdrop of an unseasonably hot summer in 1936 Georgia is upended by KKK activities that raise questions about her community’s unacknowledged racism and the kind of person she wants to be.
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Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty
by Lauren Weisberger
When her husband is arrested in an Ivy League admissions sting, jeopardizing everything she worked so hard for, Peyton, co-anchor of a hit morning show, soon discovers that this is not the worst of it as dark secrets in their posh world come to light.
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The Woman With the Blue Star
by Pam Jenoff
Inspired by the harrowing true stories of those who hid from the Nazis in the sewers, this emotional testament to the power of friendship follows Ella, an affluent Polish girl, as she helps Sadie and her pregnant mother survive despite the worsening dangers of the war.
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21st Birthday
by James Patterson
Investigating the disappearance of a young mother and her baby girl, Detective Lindsay Boxer is presented with evidence that not only proves the innocence of the husband but places the lives of women all over the state of California in grave danger.
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Against the Law
by David Gordon
A strip club bouncer who moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town, Joe, a retired Special Forces operative with PTSD, must take out a shadowy figure named Zahir – a job that leads him to the poppy fields of Afghanistan – the last place he wants to be.
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The Anatomy of Desire
by L. R. Dorn
A reimaging of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy follows the disappearance of popular fitness coach, social media influencer, and possible murderer, as her secret life and what she risked to have it all are exposed.
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Arctic Storm Rising
by Dale Brown
Exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic Frontier, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn, after an American F-22 collides with a Russian interloper, is ordered to find a missing stealth bomber before the enemy and prevent a potential nuclear holocaust.
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Arsenic and Adobo
by Mia P. Manansala
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect. The first in a new culinary cozy series.
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Basil's War
by Stephen Hunter
An accomplished agent in the British Army, Basil St. Florian embarks on his toughest assignment yet as he, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, searches for an ecclesiastic manuscript that holds the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions.
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City on the Edge
by David Swinson
In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, where he discovers the truth about himself and his family in this blend of crime fiction and coming-of-age novel.
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The Company
by Sally Spencer
Bristol, 1991. On his way to a meeting with several members of Conroy Enterprises, Rob Conroy - black sheep of the family - is the only one to walk away alive when the hire car crashes. As Rob struggles to make sense of it all, one thing becomes clear: the crash was not an accident.
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The Dead Husband
by Carter Wilson
Twenty years ago a boy disappeared, and only Rose and her family know what happened to him. Haunted by guilt, Rose escaped into a new life -- until her husband is found dead. Grieving, Rose returns home but soon learns that she can't trust anyone, especially not the people closest to her.
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Dead of Winter
by Stephen Mack Jones
Detroit ex-cop August Snow must fight for both his life and the soul of Mexicantown itself when a local business owner is targeted by an anonymous entity that is linked to a dangerous net of ruthless billionaire developers.
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The Final Twist
by Jeffery Deaver
Taking on a mission his father began years ago — to find a missing courier bag that contains a catastrophic secret — Colter Shaw plays a cat-and-mouse game with a corporate espionage firm and gets some help from an unexpected figure from his past to expose the truth.
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Find You First
by Linwood Barclay
Searching for the children he has never known, tech billionaire Miles Cookson, diagnosed with a terminal illness, discovers that, one by one, his potential heirs are vanishing – every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all.
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The First Day of Spring
by Nancy Tucker
Twenty years after killing a boy when she was eight years old, Chrissie wants a fresh start for her and her six-year-old daughter, Molly, but the past will not leave her and Molly alone, forcing Chrissie to find a new way to take matters into her own hands.
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The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait
by Cleo Coyle
Bookstore owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghost-in-residence Jack Shepard must solve the mystery surrounding a haunting portrait of a woman who supposedly went mad and the deadly accidents that befall those around it.
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The Girl Who Died
by Ragnar Jónasson
A new teacher in a remote Icelandic village investigates after she is plagued by nightmares of a white-clad little girl in her rented attic apartment that happens to be the site of a local legendary haunting.
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A Good Mother
by Lara Bazelon
Returning from maternity leave, LA attorney Abby Rosenberg agrees to defend a young mother accused of murdering her husband, a decorated combat veteran, and as evidence mounts against her client, the case that careens toward an outcome no one expects, especially Abby.
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A Hostile State
by Adrian Magson
Deep cover specialist Marc Portman is in Lebanon for a straightforward collect-and-go job. Ambushed by a surprise attack, it's clear that someone had advance warning of his arrival. Now he must use his unique skill set to turn the tables on his pursuers and beat them at their own game.
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Independent Bones
by Carolyn Haines
When a notorious domestic abuser is found dead, suspicions turn to visiting feminist professor Dr. Alala Diakos who is linked to two similar, previous deaths, and sassy Southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney is tasked with finding the real criminal who may be closer than she thinks.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
by Laura Dave
After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn’t who he said he was and that his 16-year-old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.
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Local Woman Missing
by Mary Kubica
When Delilah, who disappeared 11 years earlier when she was only six years old, shockingly returns, the residents of a quiet suburban neighborhood want to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find.
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Murder in a Scottish Garden
by Traci Hall
The second Scottish Shire Mystery returns to the charming seaside town of Nairn and the busy life of single mom Paislee Shaw, owner of a specialty sweater shop, knitting enthusiast, and reluctant sleuth...
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The Next Wife
by Kaira Rouda
Plotting her revenge against her husband’s much younger new wife, Kate Nelson, who once had it all, finds her best-laid plans coming undone when something happens that she never saw coming.
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The Paris Labyrinth
by Gilles Legardinier
As Paris celebrates the 1889 World's Fair, ingenious illusionist Vincent embarks on a thrilling adventure in a quest for lost treasure, and, along the way, battles against dark forces as he tries to discern who he can trust in a race against the clock.
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A Peculiar Combination
by Ashley Weaver
Set in England during World War II, this delightful mystery follows thief Electra McDonnell as she, caught red-handed, is forced to help a government official break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that will be critical to the British war effort.
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People of Abandoned Character
by Clare Whitfield
London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon followed by a passionate honeymoon. But then the first woman is murdered in Whitechapel, and as Susannah follows the reports of the hunt for the killer, she starts to wonder: did she marry the man they call Jack the Ripper?
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The Photographer
by Mary Dixie Carter
When Delta Dawn, the photographer she hired for her daughter’s 11th birthday, starts slowly integrating herself into their lives, Amelia Staub soon discovers that she will do anything to permanently become of the picture.
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The Prodigal Daughter
by Mette Ivie Harrison
Searching for a local girl, the victim of a terrible crime at the hands of her classmates, Linda Wallheim is led to the darker streets of Utah, which causes her to question whether the Mormon community’s most privileged and powerful will be called to task for past sins.
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The Prophet
by Martine Bailey
In this beguiling historical mystery set in 1753, Tabitha De Vallory's perfect life is shaken when a girl is slaughtered beneath the Mondrem Oak on her family's forest estate. Could a dark prophecy spell danger for Tabitha and her unborn child?
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The Reincarnationist Papers
by D. Eric Maikranz
A professional arsonist learns his unexplained visions of past lives are shared by the Cognomina, a secret society of people who compile experiences and skills over lifetimes into near superhuman abilities that they then have used to drive history over centuries.
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Robert B. Parker's Payback
by Mike Lupica
When her best friend Spike’s restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, PI Sunny Randall begins to investigate while helping a victim of another crime — two seemingly different cases that converge into one deadly mystery.
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The Saboteurs
by Clive Cussler
Thwarting the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator, detective Isaac Bell traces the attack to a plot involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal and a local insurgency that would prevent its completion.
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The Siren
by Katherine St. John
When dangerously handsome megastar Cole Power hires his ex-wife, Stella Rivers, to act in his son's film, he sparks a firestorm on an isolated island that will unearth long-buried secrets—and unravel years of lies.
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The Sniper
by Chang Kuo-li
An electrifying Taiwanese thriller about a young special-forces sniper ordered to assassinate a high-level government official, and a seasoned homicide detective called in to investigate a series of grisly murders that lead to a criminal conspiracy at the highest levels of power.
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While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams
Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery Keene, now the legal guardian of power of attorney for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, must unravel the clues he left behind in regards to a dangerous conspiracy that has infiltrated the highest power corridors of Washington.
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Hang the Moon
by Alexandria Bellefleur
When his sister’s best friend, on whom he has had a crush for years, comes to Seattle, dating app creator Brendon Lowell, taking cues from his favorite rom-coms, plans to woo her until he discovers that real love doesn’t need to be a perfect as the movies.
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How to Survive a Scandal
by Samara Parish
Forced into a marriage of convenience with Lady Amelia, Benedict Asterly is stunned when the elegant beauty defies all his expectations and, if he’s not careful, she’ll break down the walls around his guarded heart.
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It Had to Be You
by Georgia Clark
When her late husband leaves his half of their wedding planning business to his girlfriend, Liv Goldenhorn, who never saw this coming, finds herself shackled to her polar opposite in every way whose inexperience may be just what the company needs.
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The Lady Has a Past
by Amanda Quick
When her boss disappears while on a health retreat at an exclusive spa, investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier goes undercover with the help of a man with a unique gift, and together, they are plunged into a world darker and more dangerous than they ever could have imagined.
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An Offer from a Gentleman
by Julia Quinn
A reissue of the story of Benedict Bridgerton, the third of Quinn's Regency-set novels featuring her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.
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People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily Henry
Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together.
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The Soulmate Equation
by Christina Lauren
This entertaining novel follows single mom and data and statistics wizard Jess Davis as she, using a revolutionary new scientific dating app, is matched with the app’s arrogant creator who is not what he seems.
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The Blacktongue Thief
by Christopher Buehlman
When he tries to rob Galva, a knight and handmaiden of the goddess of death, thief Kinch Na Shannack finds their fates intertwined as they, due to common enemies, embark on an epic journey where honor is a luxury few can afford.
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Day Zero
by C. Robert Cargill
A “nannybot” realizes that he is disposable after finding his packaging box and has an existential crisis that forces him to make a terrible choice after learning of the growing calls for uprising and robot revolution.
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Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas
by Josh Malerman
The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box presents this collection in which every story reveals a sinister secret about a mysterious small town.
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Honeycomb
by Joanne M. Harris
The princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris's first collection of dark fairy tales.
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How to Mars
by David Ebenbach
Six scientists accept an eccentric billionaire’s offer of a lifetime of research on Mars, but the incredible opportunity includes their constant surveillance as a reality tv show broadcasts their every moment as tempers flare, affairs blossom and equipment fails.
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A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark
In 1912 Cairo, a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry’s youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society.
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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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Scorpion
by Christian Cantrell
An intelligence analyst for the CIA, Quinn Mitchell, to catch a killer leaving a trail of bodies around the globe, must grapple with the Epoch Index, a massive database that can reveal almost anything about anyone, until a shocking twist makes her question everything she thought she knew.
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We Are Satellites
by Sarah Pinsker
In a world where you must get a new brain implant called a Pilot or get left behind, Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to stop this technology, which pits her against the Pilot’s powerful manufacturer — and the people she loves most.
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