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Table for Two
by Amor Towles
Bestselling author Amor Towles shares six stories, all based in New York City, that consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, starring the indomitable Evelyn Ross, that is told from seven different viewpoints.
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
by Julia Alvarez
When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories -- literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives.
4/2/2024 |
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She's Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything into question. Was Caitlin pushed and, if so, by whom and why?
4/2/2024 |
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Toxic Prey
by John Sandford
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon. Prey, Book 34
4/9/2024 |
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Close to Death
by Anthony Horowitz
When Giles Kentworthy is found dead on his own doorstep, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest, after having offended all of his neighbors, Detective Hawthorne is called in to solve the case. But how do you solve a murder when everyone in the community is a suspect? Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery, Book 5
4/16/2024 |
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case pits two lawyers -- one white, one Black -- against a deeply unfair system as they work to exonerate their wrongfully accused Black defendants.
4/16/2024 |
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The Murder Inn
by James Patterson and Candice Fox
The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked... until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulder, while another newcomer in town puts the Inn under surveillance. When the surveillance turns into a series of attacks, Robinson launches an all-out fight to defend his town, his chosen family, and his home.
4/16/2024 |
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It Had to Be You
by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way — handsome, intelligent, popular — until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now, with children of their own, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other; they turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents’ murder. Under Suspicion, Book 8
4/16/2024 |
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Extinction
by Douglas Preston
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
4/23/2024 |
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Funny Story
by Emily Henry
Daphne moved to Waning Bay, Michigan, her fiancé Peter's hometown, to build a new life with him, only to have Peter leave her for his childhood best friend, Petra. With few options for a new living situation, Daphne moves in with Petra's ex, Miles, and makes plans to escape from Waning Bay as soon as possible, but finds herself forming a tenuous friendship with Miles.
4/23/2024 |
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Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
As young girls, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia were rescued from family tragedies and raised on a seemingly idyllic farming estate by their foster mother, Miss Fairchild. But their childhood wasn’t the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. Years later, a body is discovered under the home they grew up in and the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
4/23/2024 |
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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
by Janet Skeslien Charles
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen: children’s libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson stumbles across a passing reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. In her obsessive research, she discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York’s famed library, but she has no idea their paths will converge in surprising ways across time.
4/30/2024 |
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