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New Fiction - August 2021
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Agatha of Little Neon
by Claire Luchette
Claire Luchette's debut is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self.
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All's Well
by Mona Awad
A college professor with chronic back pain, painkiller dependence and a failed marriage meets three strange benefactors who know her past and offer her a tantalizing future in this new novel from the critically-acclaimed author.
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American Estrangement: Stories
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Stories set in a contemporary America full of people contending with internal struggles, even as they are battered by larger, often invisible, economic and political forces of American society. Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy.
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At Summer's End
by Courtney Ellis
After accepting an invitation from the Earl of Wakeford to summer at his country home, an ambitious artist Alberta Preston arrives to find the estate and its residents diminished by the Great War and becomes entangled by family secrets.
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Between Tides
by Angel Khoury
This lyrical historical novel set on two wild seascapes, Cape Cod and North Carolina’s Outer Banks, follows two women stitching together a family ripped at the seams.
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Beware the Mermaids
by Carrie Talick
A scorned Hermosa Beach housewife leaves her cheating husband and invests in a racing sailboat with a group of girlfriends and must fight her ex on a real estate development deal that threatens her beloved harbor and new home.
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Beyond the Tides
by Liz Johnson
When Meg's father decides to sell his Prince Edward Island lobster fishing business to her high school nemesis Oliver, she sets out to prove she should inherit it instead. But there is more than just a fleet on the line-her heart is, too.
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The Bookseller's Secret
by Michelle Gable
This dual-narrative set at the famed Heywood Hill Bookshop in London follows a struggling American writer’s search for a lost manuscript written by Nancy Mitford—a bookseller, spy, author and aristocrat—during World War II and the surprising link she discovers between the past and present.
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Bullets and Silver
by Nik James
In the fledgling town of Elkhorn, Caleb Marlowe is commissioned to bring a railroad robber baron to justice who happens to be his father—a ruthless and abusive man he will bring to justice—or he’ll die trying.
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Complications
by Danielle Steel
After four years of renovations and the death of its beloved manager, a popular Paris boutique hotel reopens with new staff looking to make good impressions and guests seeking luxurious accommodations, but what they all find is unrelenting drama.
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Damnation Spring
by Ash Davidson
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it’s caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company.
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Edge Case
by Y. Z. Chin
A Malaysian immigrant working at a tech start-up in New York City to secure a green card tries to determine what went wrong as she searches for her husband who mysteriously packed up and left.
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Emily's House
by Amy Belding Brown
Amherst, 1869. An evocative novel about Emily Dickinson's longtime maid, Margaret Maher, whose bond with--and ultimate betrayal of--the poet ensured Dickinson's work would live on.
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The Eternal Audience of One
by Rémy Ngamije
Follows the coming-of-age journey of Séraphin as he flees Rwanda during the Civil War and makes sense of his reality as his life intersects with a cast of unforgettable characters, in this provocative tale of family, migration, friendship, war, identity and race.
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The Garden House
by Marcia Willett
After her father dies, El moves into his house where she uncovers more about his life, and the secrets he had been keeping from her and her family, while his lover Julie holds on to the memories of their time spent at The Garden House.
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Her Heart for a Compass
by Duchess of York, Sarah Mountbatten-Windsor
Expected to make an advantageous marriage, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott rebels shortly before her betrothal is announced and flees to Ireland, befriending a group of similarly-minded, independent women.
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The Human Zoo
by Sabina Murray
Having returned to Manila both to avoid her pending divorce and to research a biography of an Indigenous Filipino man displayed in a "human zoo" in early 1900s America, Filipina American journalist Christina Klein slips easily into her family's upper-middle-class life. But she can't ignore the depredations wrought by the dictatorial regime.
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The King of Infinite Space
by Lyndsay Faye
After his Broadway theater baron father dies mysteriously, Ben Dane, his best friend Horatio and his artist ex-fiancé Lia, on one explosive night, are drawn into otherworldly events where the only outcome is death.
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The Last Chance Library
by Freya Sampson
June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.
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Last Summer in the City
by Gianfranco Calligarich
A witty and despairing classic of Italian literature, with a foreword by André Aciman.
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The Light of Luna Park
by Addison Armstrong
A historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island and America's first incubators.
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A Million Things
by Emily Spurr
A heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears, until her grumpy, lonely neighbor Lettie--with her own secrets and sadness--falls one night and needs Rae's help.
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Moon and the Mars
by Kia Corthron
Set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, this novel is told through the eyes of Theo, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents, as the nation divides and marches to war.
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More Than I Love My Life
by David Grossman
Thirty-year-old Gili seeks to make a film that might help explain her life and embarks on an unlikely journey with her grandmother, Vera, to a barren island off the coast of Croatia where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for not denouncing her husband as an enemy of the state.
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Mrs. Rochester's Ghost
by Lindsay Marcott
When she falls in love with her employer, Evan Rochester, accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, tutor Jane cannot let go of the dark suspicions aroused when a ghostly presence repeatedly appears in the night’s mist that puts Evan’s innocence in question.
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Once There Were Wolves
by Charlotte McConaghy
When a farmer is mauled to death after she reintroduces 14 gray wolves into the remote Scottish Highlands, Inti Flynn knows where the town will lay blame and makes a reckless decision to protect them no matter what the cost.
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The People We Keep
by Allison Larkin
Chronicling her life in the songs she writes, April Sawicki, after leaving home for good, finds her way to Ithaca, New York where she finally finds a sense of belonging but cannot shake the feeling that she’ll hurt her new friends the way she’s been hurt.
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Provenance
by Carla Laureano
To save his beloved town from a local developer, young, untried mayor Gabriel Brandt must convince the granddaughter of one of its most prominent former citizens to join him in his cause by helping her unravel the truth of her own provenance.
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Radiant Fugitives
by Nawaaz Ahmed
A consultant for Kamala Harris’ attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema, nine months pregnant and estranged from the black father of her unborn son, attempts to reconcile with the family who exiled her after she came out as a lesbian.
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Ramadan Ramsey
by Louis Edwards
When Ramadan Ramsey, the son of a ninth generation New Orleans African American and a Syrian refugee, turns 17, he sets off to find the father he has never known—an adventure-filled journey filled that takes him from NOLA to Egypt, Istanbul and finally Syria.
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The Reading List
by Sara Nisha Adams
Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she’s facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
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The Republic of False Truths
by Ala Aswani
In 2011 Cairo, as tensions are rising in the city, the lives of several individuals collide — a new generation who finds a voice and love across class divides as the revolution gains strength.
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Several People Are Typing
by Calvin Kasulke
When his consciousness is uploaded into his company’s internal Slack channels, boosting his productivity, Gerald, who works for a PR firm, as his reality becomes more absurd, enlists the help of a co-worker to help him escape – and to find out what happened to his body.
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She Wouldn't Change a Thing
by Sarah Adlakha
When 39-year-old psychiatrist, wife and mother Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, she desperately tries to get back to her home and life, and wonders if she can change time and still keep what it’s given her.
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The Shimmering State
by Meredith Westgate
After their minds and memories are warped by a new drug call Memoroxin, an emerging photographer and an aspiring actress must figure out, with the help of an ambitious yet conflicted doctor, how they got there and why they are inexplicably drawn to each other.
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The Show Girl
by Nicola Harrison
In 1927, Olive McCormick, a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, accepts a marriage proposal that forces her to decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves.
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas
by Vinod Busjeet
A young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean, Vishnu Bhushan battles to experience the world beyond, and cultural, political and familial turmoil that hold on to him.
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Sisters in Arms
by Kaia Alderson
The first Black women allowed to serve in the army, Grace Steele and Eliza Jones, helping form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, navigate their way through the segregated ranks, finally making it overseas where they do their parts for the country they love.
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Skinship: Stories
by Yoon Choi
Centering around Korean American families, this exceptional debut from a master of short fiction presents a searing look at the failure of intimacy to show us who the people we love truly are.
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Songbirds
by Christy Lefteri
A poacher who traps songbirds in Cyprus and sells them on the black market, Yiannis dreams of finding a new way of life with his love, Nisha, but when Nisha disappears, he works with her employer to unravel the truth, taking him to the darker side of a migrant’s life.
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Tin Camp Road
by Ellen Airgood
In a novel set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a young single mother and her 10-year-old daughter stand up to the trials of rural poverty and find the community they need in order to survive.
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Under the Bayou Moon
by Valerie Fraser Luesse
A young, restless Alabama teacher searching for a sense of purpose accepts a position at a tiny Louisiana bayou school, where a lonely Cajun fisherman, a tight-knit community, and a legendary white alligator will change her life forever.
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Waiting for the Waters to Rise
by Maryse Conde
Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.
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We Are the Brennans
by Tracey Lange
Returning to the east coast to recover from a drunk driving accident she caused, 29-year-old Sunday Brennan must protect her family from a man from her past who brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin.
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The Women of Troy
by Pat Barker
Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles slave, forges alliances when she can with Priam’s aged wife, the defiant Hecuba and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
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56 Days
by Catherine Ryan Howard
In this timely thriller, Ciara and Oliver meet at a Dublin supermarket just as COVID-19 descends and, once lockdown is imposed, decide to move in together. Fifty-six days after they first meet, the police arrive at their apartment to find a rapidly decomposing body. Who's dead, and why?
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100 Proof Murder
by Mary Ellis
Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, but the night before her first tour at Parker’s Distillery, she is shocked to learn that the master distiller, William Scott, has died suddenly of a heart attack. Could there be more to William’s death than meets the eye?
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Another Kind of Eden
by James Lee Burke
After hopping off a boxcar in early 1960s Denver, aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard meets and instantly connects with Joanne McDuffy, a college student who is involved with a shady professor caught up in a drug-addled cult.
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Autumn Leaves, 1922
by Tessa Lunney
After a year away from Paris, Kiki Button is delighted to be back in the City of Lights. But danger threatens her return as she is pulled into another spy mission--one that brings her ever closer to the rising fascist threat in Europe.
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Billy Summers
by Stephen King
A former Iraq war vet working as an assassin-for-hire who only accepts jobs when the target is truly a bad guy seek to retire.
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The Bitter Taste of Murder
by Camilla Trinchieri
When his Tuscan hometown of Gravigna is shaken by the poisoning of a vindictive wine critic, ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle is recruited by Italian authorities to help solve this high-profile murder case.
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Blind Tiger
by Sandra Brown
A moonshiner in Prohibition Texas must deal with murder, lust, greed and other mayhem.
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Bloodless
by Douglas J. Preston
When completely exsanguinated bodies are found in Savannah, Georgia, FBI Agent Pendergast investigates amid growing panic and whispers of an infamous local vampire in the 20th novel in the series.
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Bullet Train
by Kotaro Isaka
A novel full of intricate action follows the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins. Soon to be a major film from Sony.
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Clark and Division
by Naomi Hirahara
Released from a Japanese internment camp in 1944, Aki Ito moves to Chicago to be with her sister, Rose, only to lose her in subway train accident on the event of their reunion and vows to learn what really happened.
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Class Act
by Stuart Woods
Returning to New York from Maine, Stone Barrington helps out a former client who mistakenly thought an old feud would remain in the past.
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The Coldest Case
by Martin Walker
An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors from the Cold War era of espionage—Bruno’s investigation into a long-standing cold case finds him caught between an enigmatic winegrower and a menacing Communist organization from the past.
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Cul-De-Sac
by Joy Fielding
Five families on a quiet, suburban cul-de-sac deal with the shooting of one of their own and the secrets they each harbor, including newlyweds whose marriage is already on the rocks and a family who fled to Florida from California.
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Danger at the Cove
by Hannah Dennison
While renovating their Tregarrick Rock Hotel, sisters Evie and Margot find themselves short on time, funds and staff after two of their employees turn up dead.
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The Darkness Knows
by Arnaldur Indriðason
When the frozen body of a businessman who disappeared 30 years earlier is found in the icy depths of the Langjökull glacier, former detective Konrad is called out of retirement to reopen this case that has weighed on his mind for decades.
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Death in Castle Dark
by Veronica Bond
Part of the Castle Dark acting troupe, actress Nora Blake, after the death of one of her castmates, must figure out which one of her fellow actors has taken the role of a murderous villain too seriously. Original.
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The Double Mother
by Michel Bussi
Taking the case of a four-year-old boy who claims his mother is not his real mother, school psychologist Vasily, convinced the boy is telling the truth, turns to police commander Marianne Augresse for help, in this brilliant world of deception and memory manipulation.
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Down Range
by Taylor Moore
An elite, undercover DEA officer helps out a formerly-peaceful ranching community in Texas who are under assault by a group of criminals controlled by a rich, entitled businessmen with ties to law enforcement and local businesses.
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Felonious Monk
by William Kotzwinkle
Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem whose days of prayer and atonement are interrupted by a legacy from his uncle, leading to cartel hitmen and women intrigued by his vow of chastity. A dark comic thriller.
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Getaway
by Zoje Stage
Two sisters and a best friend go on a hiking getaway, but tensions from their shared past flare up as someone appears to be stalking them in the new thriller by the best-selling author of Baby Teeth.
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Gone by Morning
by Michele Weinstat Miller
A Deputy Press Officer working at City Hall discovers and investigates a strange connection between herself and an ex-madam, who was found brutally murdered, as a wave of violence hits New York City, putting her own life in danger.
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Gone for Good
by Joanna Schaffhausen
Chicago Detective Annalisa Vega investigates when a new tally is added to the body count of the Lovelorn Killer, a notorious, local serial killer who has evaded the police and been dormant for 20 years.
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How to Kill Your Best Friend
by Lexie Elliott
What would you do if you knew, deep down, that your best friend - a strong swimmer who presumably has drowned - was a sociopath? A novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.
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Ice and Stone
by Marcia Muller
Hired by Crimes Against Indigenous Sisters, private investigator Sharon McCone goes undercover in Eiwok county on the Oregon border to determine who killed two women.
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In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
by Ashley Winstead
Returning to Duquette University for her 10-year reunion, ready to flaunt her achievements, Jessica Miller soon discovers that someone has set an elaborate trap to catch the real killer of her friend Heather 10 years ago and close the cold case for good.
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The Killing Look
by J. D. Rhoades
Civil War veteran L.D. Cade arrives in 1870s San Francisco, seeking his fortune and a place to end his restless wandering. But beneath the glitter and glamour of the Gilded Age lie festering corruption and intolerance. It’s a dangerous place for an honest man, even one who’s good with a gun
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The Last Guests
by J. P. Pomare
A wife finds herself racing for answers when the decision to rent out her family vacation home takes a deadly turn.
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The Last Mona Lisa
by Jonathan Santlofer
Explores the 1911 theft and the present-day underbelly of the art world, in a book by a best-selling author whose own replications of iconic art are highly sought.
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Lightning Strike
by William Kent Krueger
In this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor series, 12-year-old Cork stumbles upon the body of a man hanging in a tree—the first in a series of events that cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family and himself.
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The Madness of Crowds
by Louise Penny
When a visiting professor spreads lies so that fact and fiction are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart, leading to murder, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must investigate this case as well as this extraordinary popular delusion – and the madness of crowds.
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Mrs. March
by Virginia Feito
When someone suggests that the protagonist in her husband’s latest book is based on her, Mrs. March questions everything she believes about her husband as she embarks on a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis – one that may uncover a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past.
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The Noise
by James Patterson
After a mysterious explosion kills thousands in the Pacific Northwest, two survivors are left—16-year-old Tennant and her eight-year-old sister, Sophie.
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The Other Me
by Sarah Zachrich Jeng
A failed artist accidentally opens a door to an alternate reality where she never pursued her dreams and must uncover the forces behind the switch before time runs out.
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The Perfect Family
by Robyn Harding
When the seemingly perfect Adler family falls victim to random acts of violence, their lives are overtaken by fear and the only way out is to reveal the secrets that they have kept from the outside world and from each other.
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A Slow Fire Burning
by Paula Hawkins
Three women unknown to each other are each questioned in connection with the gruesome murder of a young man found on a London houseboat.
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The Turnout
by Megan E. Abbott
When a suspicious accident occurs at their family-run ballet studio just at the onset of the annual performance of The Nutcracker, sisters Dara and Marie Durant find their delicate balance threatened by an interloper
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Two Spies in Caracas
by Moises Naim
A gripping political thriller that immerses the reader in the volatile Bolivarian revolution led by Venezuelan army colonel Hugo Chávez.
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We Were Never Here
by Andrea Bartz
After a backpacking trip in Chile with her best friend Kristen goes horribly wrong, Emily is forced to confront their violent past and wonders if she can outrun the secrets they share or if they will destroy her relationship, freedom and even her life.
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What the Cat Dragged In
by Miranda James
Librarian Charlie Harris and his faithful feline companion, Diesel, have inherited Charlie’s grandfather’s house, along with a deadly legacy: a decades-old crime scene, in an all-new mystery in the series.
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Velvet Was the Night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1970s Mexico City, Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student, which leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs to escape his own life, and together, they set out to discover the dangerous truth.
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Vortex
by Catherine Coulter
While FBI agent Sherlock helps an investigative journalist piece together the past to bring a killer to justice in the present, FBI agent Savich becomes a target as he protects a CIA operative who was betrayed on a compromised mission in Iran.
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Battle Royal
by Lucy Parker
After being kicked off by judge Dominic De Vere on a baking-competition show, an otherwise successful London baker, Sylvie Fairchild, returns to Operation Cake as a judge, setting off an intense rivalry and maybe a bit of romance.
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Miss Lattimore's Letter
by Suzanne Allain
The woman who never made a match of her own is making matches for everyone else in this hilarious comedy of manners.
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So We Meet Again
by Suzanne Park
When her cooking channel becomes an actual media company with the help of the Daniel Choi, an M&A lawyer and successful video game streamer, Jess Kim falls in love with the man who happens to work for the company she just recently quit in a spectacular fashion.
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The View Was Exhausting
by Mikaella Clements
Pretending to be in a passionate romance, A-list actress Whitman Tagore and jet-setting playboy Leo Milanowski find their personal and professional lives on a collision course after a shocking secret from his past is revealed, forcing them to confront the many truths and lies of their relationship.
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The Wildest Ride
by Marcella Bell
To save her family’s ranch, Lillian Sorrow Island, determined to win the Closed Circuit rodeo tour with a million-dollar prize, goes up against an undefeated rodeo champion who is her biggest rival onscreen, but offscreen it is a whole different story.
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The Exiled Fleet
by J. S. Dewes
The surviving Sentinels (of 2020’s The Last Watch) face starvation and madness at the edge of the universe in the thrilling second space opera of the Divide series.
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Holdout
by Jeffrey Kluger
When evil forces are going unchecked on earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try and seek justice in the only place she knows how to—the international space station.
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
Protected by horror movies—especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them—Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake.
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Something New Under the Sun
by Alexandra Kleeman
While in Hollywood overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, novelist Patrick Hamlin discovers that a company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water is responsible for the recent droughts and wildfires and teams up with a starlet to investigate the city’s darker side.
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Starlight Enclave
by R. A. Salvatore
In this first in a new trilogy that features the beloved characters from Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms, Jarlaxle seeks a powerful artifact that could prevent the bloodshed looming over the Underdark, while Drizzt searches for salvation to save not just his soul, but all souls.
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A Terrible Fall of Angels
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Introducing Detective Zaniel Havelock who investigates a world where Angels and Demons walk among humans and sometimes interfere with them.
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