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My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
by Isabel Allende
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. Pursuing her taste for adventure and passion for writing, Emilia eventually comes to Chile to cover the civil war for The Daily Examiner, an assignment which endangers her life and causes her to question her identity.
5/6/2025
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My Friends: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman
In a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into 18-year-old Louisa’s care 25 years later. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it.
5/6/2025
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One Golden Summer
by Carley Fortune
When she was 17, Alice spent one summer with her Nan at the lake, where she took a photo of 3 grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat. Years later, Alice, now a professional photographer, returns to the lake to take care of Nan, and reunites with Charlie, one of the young men with the speedboat, now grown up and a shameless flirt. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.
5/6/2025
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The Tenant
by Freida Mcfadden
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...
5/6/2025
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Speak to Me of Home: A Novel
by Jeanine Cummins
From a 1968 wedding in San Juan to a 2023 hurricane in Puerto Rico, this multigenerational saga follows Rafaela Acuña y Daubón, her daughter Ruth, and granddaughter Daisy as they navigate dislocation and familial sacrifice while rediscovering their roots after years in the Midwest.
5/13/25
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Fever Beach: A Novel
by Carl Hiaasen
The lives and fates of a large cast of eccentric characters -- including a hitchhiker, a hatemonger kicked out of the Proud Boys for incompetence, a corrupt politician, a wealthy eco-warrior, and a Scandinavian agnostic -- become intertwined in this humorous novel set in the politically fraught state of Florida.
5/13/2025
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Marble Hall Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. While freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. And once again, the real and fictional worlds become dangerously entangled, and if Susan doesn't solve the mystery, she could well be its next victim.
Magpie Murders, Book 3
5/13/2025
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The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia. They forge an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory, and resilience on the margins of society.
5/13/2025
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Nightshade
by Michael Connelly
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor—a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig.
5/20/2025
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Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, but Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.
5/20/2025
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Never Flinch: A Novel
by Stephen King
When the Buckeye City Police department receives a letter threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty" in "an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man," Detective Izzy Jaynes turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help in finding the letter writer. Meanwhile, Holly is hired as a bodyguard for an outspoken women's rights activist.
5/27/2025
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Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
After surviving a near-fatal shooting, injured police officer Sloan Cooper moves back to her quiet hometown and investigates a string of mysterious disappearances across three states.
5/27/2025
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