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American Fantasy
by Emma Straub
When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous, nineties-era boy band and three thousand screaming women who have worshipped them since childhood. Annie is here on a lark to appease her sister. Yet when the lights come up and the idols of her youth begin to sing, something is unlocked. Call it memory. Call it nostalgia. Call it the chemical reaction of hormones, hope, and sexual reawakening. Between the slushy alcoholic drinks, the familiar music, and the throngs of middle-aged women acting like lovesick teenagers, Annie finally reconnects to a long-submerged part of herself. By the time she meets one of the band members--not just a celebrity but someone in need of a friend--she has accessed a new sense of possibility...
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The Auction
by Sadie Kincaid
I was trained to be a pawn, but I will rise as a queen. My life has never been my own. After the death of my parents, I was saved by my grandfather, with the promise that he would turn me over to the Brotherhood on my twenty-first birthday. I was kept away from the outside world so I could one day be sold to the highest bidder--pure and unsullied. Penance for my parents' alleged crimes. That's how I come to be sold at an auction. And who buys me but the reclusive billionaire, Lincoln Knight?
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The Book Witch
by Meg Shaffer
Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary, jumping in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes. Book Witches live by a strict code: Real people belong in the real world; fictional characters belong in works of fiction. Do not eat, drink, or sleep inside a fictional world, lest you become part of the story. Which is why Rainy has been forbidden from seeing the Duke of Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favorite mystery series. But when her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there's only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke.
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Boring Asian Female
by Canwen Xu
Elizabeth Zhang has always known her strengths and limitations—high-achieving, not especially liked, and shaped by her immigrant parents’ belief in hard work. So when Harvard Law rejects her for not standing out, her sense of control collapses. Shocked that her classmate Laura Kim was accepted, Elizabeth begins observing her, trying to understand what makes Laura more “interesting.” But all she sees is someone who took the spot she believes she earned—and intends to reclaim.
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The Caretaker
by Marcus Kliewer
A supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater--and more dangerous--than she ever could have imagined.
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Chasing the Clouds Away
by Debbie Macomber
Maisy Gallagher has her own dreams, but when her father passes away, she selflessly sets them aside to help her family. Despite knowing it was the right thing to do, she can't help but wish for the road not taken. Chase Furst, the hardened heir to a financial empire, is primarily focused on his own life and on his work as a bank executive. His troubled childhood left him cynical and emotionally distant. But then Chase meets Maisy, a beautiful woman full of optimism and kindness who offers him help during a time of need, and declines his offer of payment. Instead, she asks him to pay it forward--and not with money or a quick fix, but through an act of true selflessness.
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Cherry Baby
by Rainbow Rowell
Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie. Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday—a semi-autobiographical webcomic that's become an international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry—Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page, let alone on the big screen. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the Internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha and wondering who she's supposed to be without him.
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Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead
by Mai Nguyen
All Cleo Dang has ever wanted was to be a mother. The day she discovers she's pregnant is the happiest of her life, especially when she learns that her best friend, Paloma, is also expecting. It's a wonderful surprise and together, they enjoy their pregnancies. But when they both go to the hospital in labor, something goes very, very wrong. Paloma comes home with a baby. Cleo does not. Now a grieving Cleo must navigate life after losing her baby.
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A Cruise to Die for
by Heather Graham
Special Agent Chloe McMurray has been asked to do many things in the name of her job. Going undercover on a cruise ship leaving from her home port of Miami, however, is a new one. Not only that, but she's tasked with posing as the wife of her federal counterpart, Special Agent Wesley Law. Their investigation? A string of murders and suicides across three states that seem unrelated, until they uncover a deadly technological connection. Every victim was an expert in technology and had some connection to Milestones, a megacorporation with ties to many industries...including the cruise industry. Chloe and Wesley must successfully go undercover as tech employees on the ship hosting the ten-year anniversary of the Milestones cruise company. A tough ask when the two have never met before. They'll infiltrate the technology events, investigate their fellow passengers and try to uncover what's really going on. However, danger is never far behind. Their killer can use tech to do the job without lifting a finger, and at sea, there's no escape if their covers are blown
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Dark Is When the Devil Comes
by Daisy Pearce
Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents' vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet. Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn't show. Their relationship is strained from a fallout half a decade ago, but something isn't adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can't be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying. If you go looking for trouble, you just might find it.
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Dear Monica Lewinsky
by Julia Langbein
A novel about a middle aged court stenographer who must reexamine an ill-advised affair she had with a professor during the summer of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Don't Fall in Love with Me
by Paige Toon
Grace has loved Jackson since she was fifteen. Spending every summer together exploring his grandfather's chateau and the tumbling rivers of the gorgeous Ardèche region of France, they were best friends. Until he married someone else. Three years later, a newly single Jackson re-enters Grace's life with an irresistible offer: her dream job in the very town where their story began. As memories from those idyllic summers flood back, Grace encounters another old friend Étienne, who proposes a plan to make Jackson jealous. Their scheme begins to work just as Grace finds herself questioning if the sparks between them might not be so pretend after all.
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Edmonia
by Brianne Baker
At the age of 8, orphaned Wildfire seems fated to a life of toil selling her handmade crafts to Niagara Falls tourists alongside her Ojibwe aunts. But Wildfire’s older half-brother, Samuel, has been making other plans for his gifted sibling. Soon, she is set on a new trajectory—and with it comes her birth name, Edmonia, and a revelation about her true origins. Ensconced at the home of a trusted benefactor while Samuel makes his fortune in California, Edmonia flourishes. Privately nurturing artistic ambitions, she advances through the abolitionist’s prep school and lands at Oberlin College. But at Oberlin lies a devastating trap: Edmonia is accused of poisoning, nearly fatally, two friends, with tainted wine. What ensues is a headline-making trial, a vicious attack by a white mob—and a bold journey that will lead Edmonia to decide whether to abandon her romantic entanglements or devote herself to bringing to life her visions of beauty and justice—and hopefully, forge her place in a rapidly changing world.
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Elegy in Blue
by Mark Helprin
High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed 82-year-old narrator of Elegy in Blue looks out across the rooftops of Brooklyn all the way to the sea. His distinguished career on Wall Street is in ruins, his mansion in Brooklyn Heights has been burned to the ground, and most of all, his father, his son, and his wife--the stunningly beautiful and equally kind Clare--have been taken from him, one by one, over the decades, by war and an act of violence.Now his allegiance is to his ghosts. He's almost lost to memory, reflection, and a purposeful letting go of life. But when violence threatens to destroy another family, he takes drastic action in hope of restoring a portion of justice to the world. Can he fashion his life into an elegy, one that heals a broken heart and relieves the sting of death?
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The Ending Writes Itself
by Evelyn Clarke
Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending that will change their lives. Arthur Fletch, one of the world's bestselling novelists, is a reclusive genius known for his iconic protagonists and fiendish twists. When six struggling authors are invited to spend a weekend on his private Scottish island, they arrive to discover a shocking secret: Arthur Fletch is dead...and his last book is unfinished.
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Ghost Town
by Tom Perrotta
A gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer, looking back on a series of events that changed his life--and the story he finally has the courage to tell. Jimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, Jimmy finds himself lost in a fog of grief that alienates him from friends and family, drifting instead into troubling friendships with two older teenagers: one a notorious local burnout with a fast car, an endless supply of weed, and a shaky grasp of reality; the other a smart, eccentric girl, whom Jimmy finds himself drawn to as they become entranced by her Ouija board, which may just offer the only salve to their grief. As a fateful public drama unfolds, Jimmy is torn between the occult beyond and the cold realities of the place he has called home.
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The Girls Trip
by Ally Condie
A novel of suspense and friendship about three friends who decide to disappear from their lives for a few days while on a trip to a national park—only to have one of them vanish.
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Go Gentle
by Maria Semple
A TV comedy writer turned popularizer of Stoic philosophy falls in love, is swept into an international art incident, and deals with buried trauma.
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Guilt: A Mystery
by Keigo Higashino
A man and a woman work in very different ways to gather exculpatory evidence in a murder case whose leading suspect has already confessed.
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Happy Ending
by Chloe Liese
Thea and Alex have three things in common--they love food, they hate where they live, and they're both divorced. Otherwise, they couldn't be more different. Beyond a few friends in common, a couple small-world connections, their lives look nothing alike. Fast forward two years, and they're truly the best of friends, despite what friends and family seem to think. No one would ever know their friendship began as a lie... But when their exes invite them on a two-week, two family beach vacation, Alex and Thea start to wonder if this story they've spun might have gotten away from them, and if it's led them to the last place they ever thought it could: a happy ending.
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Harmless Women
by Rebecca Sharpe
In this pacy thriller, a female con artist chooses the wrong woman as her target, and both women end up on the run for their lives.
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Honey in the Wound
by Jiyoung Han
Spanning ninety years of one Korean family’s life under Japanese imperialism, where at its heart is Young-Ja, whose magical gift of infusing emotion into her cooking becomes a force for survival amid loss, love, and the brutality of war.
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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
by Glenn Dixon
In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient vacuum cleaner listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold's stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. But when Edie passes away, Scout and her fellow sentient appliances discover that there are sinister forces in their midst. The omnipresent Grid, which monitors every household in the City, seeks to remove Harold from his home, a place he's lived in for fifty years.
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Invasive Species
by Ellery Adams
In Cold Harbor, a crumbling mansion and its enigmatic resident draw new attention. Mrs. Smith, long a recluse, now moves among the townspeople—while rumors swirl about her beauty and her hunger for immortality, sustained by human sacrifice. Natalie Scott, eager to close her first real estate deal, sees Mrs. Smith as an obstacle, but her daughter Jill and housekeeper Una suspect something far darker. Their search for answers forces the town to confront what truly makes a monster.
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Japanese Gothic
by Kylie Lee Baker
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls. October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.
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A Killer in the Family
by Amin Ahmad
An intoxicating drama set in the world of New York City’s elite, explores the underside of the American dream and asks, what happens when you marry into a family that keeps secrets?
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Last Night in Brooklyn
by Xochitl Gonzalez
In 2007, Alicia Canales Forten feels trapped—living at home, saving for a wedding, and tethered to a long-distance fiancé. One night in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene, she’s drawn into a vibrant world of creatives and possibility. At its center is La Garza, a fearless designer whose legendary parties captivate Alicia from across the street. But when her wealthy cousin moves in, Alicia is pulled deeper into La Garza’s orbit—and into lives as dazzling as they are precarious.
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The Last Woman of Warsaw
by Judy Batalion
Follows two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search for love, meaning, and a sense of home, and as they grapple with the storm clouds gathering around them.
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Livonia Chow Mein
by Abigail Savitch-Lew
In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history. Joining together the present and the past is a community organizer who was also displaced by the fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville's residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust.
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The Lumber Baron's Wife
by Lynn Austin
In 1873, Hannah Wagner leaves her secure life for a remote Michigan lumber town, where her husband’s medical skills are in demand. There she befriends Kate Abernathy, whose troubled marriage and hidden past unsettle the community. More than a century later, Ashley Gilbert moves into the doctor’s historic home and becomes drawn to its history. Her volunteer work at a nearby mansion uncovers the mystery of Kate’s disappearance, linking the lives of three women across time.
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Mad Mabel
by Sally Hepworth
They called it murder. She called it justice. 'In 1959, at just fifteen years of age, Mabel Waller became the youngest Australian in history to be convicted of murder.' In 2025, on a quiet Melbourne lane, an elderly man is found dead by his neighbour, 81-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick. No one suspects any foul play. Until they discover Elsie's past. In the 1950s, her name was not Elsie. It was Mabel. When the police open a new investigation and the media descend upon her, the elderly Mabel decides it's time to set the record straight.
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Meet Me in Italy
by Brenda Novak
In the wake of her debut novel’s breakout success—and a very painful public divorce—Charlotte Williams-Jackson has something to prove. With her second novel overdue, she’s scrambling to hold it together. But her focus is rocked when she discovers that her childhood wasn't as it seemed—and she has a tween half-sister who's been orphaned in Italy. Alongside her best friend, Sloane, and Sloane’s charming brother, Julian, Charlotte ventures to the Amalfi Coast to meet her sister. She would never turn her back on family, especially since this girl doesn’t have anyone else, but between her looming deadline and her entire identity being flipped upside down, it’s a lot. Determined to rebuild her life, Charlotte must confront the relationships she’s held dear—and the loss of those she thought she had but didn't—forcing her to question everything she understood about herself and the bonds that shape a family.
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The Mother-Daughter Book Club
by Susan Patterson
Between their busy lives and their far-flung residences, the Mother-Daughter Book Club--four longtime college friends and their five daughters--more often discuss the books on their nightstands via 2 a.m. texts than in-person meetings. And maybe it's just as well, after what happened at their last get-together ... So it's an emotional reunion when they finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy's Lake Como. Sightseeing excursions, reminiscing fueled by Cosmopolitans, and a hint of vacation romance all build toward the book club's trademark Night of Secrets. These friends, and sometime rivals, are close readers--of novels, memoirs, and of each other. But as the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations.
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The Name Game
by Beth O'Leary
A man and a woman with the same name are looking for a fresh start only to discover they have landed the same job in this charming new romance by bestselling author Beth O'Leary. Charlie couldn't be happier to take the job of farm-shop manager on the remote, wild Isle of Ormer. She's grieving, a little lost, and in desperate need of a fresh start. Jones has come out of a difficult breakup and is looking forward to some peace away from the noise of his city life. Moving to Ormer couldn't have come at a better time. But when Charlie Jones and, ahem, Charlie Jones both turn up at Ormer's one and only farm shop, claiming to have been offered the role of manager, everyone is baffled. How could this have happened? And just who is the real Charlie Jones?
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Odessa
by Gabrielle Sher
Yetta is a bright teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her anxious parents, she craves a freedom whose edges she doesn't know. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending Gentile attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed. Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned--but although she looks the same, Yetta is not the girl she once was. She knows the answer resides, in part, in the creature stalking the villagers, lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl.
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The Photonic Effect
by Mike Chen
The starship Horizon's crew spent ten years trapped across the expanse of space. Now they're finally home-only it's not the home they knew. The Cluster, once a peaceful coalition of planets, has fractured in the wake of civil war. Captain Demora Kim wants nothing more than to protect her surviving crew. It's what she owes them after years of instability and terror. But in times of war, no one is allowed neutrality. After an attack on a mining station leaves thousands dead, Demi's efforts become almost impossible. Every ship is needed on the frontline. Thrust deeper into a conflict she barely understands, Demi considers a bold choice-one that might keep her promises but tip the galaxy further into chaos.
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Porcupines
by Fran Fabriczki
Hungarian immigrant Sonia is a single mom to daughter Mila. Her days are a blur of not-quite-illegal business activities and other minor mistakes that remind her of everything she doesn't understand about America and parenthood. Meanwhile sixth-grader Mila is trying to get her mother to share something about her past. When she discovers emails between her mother and a strange man, she takes matters into her own hands with a plan that will implode their carefully constructed lives.
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Purple State
by Dana Perino
Dot Clark, a buttoned-up PR professional from New York City, feels stuck in her career and her love life. Seizing a chance to follow her passion, she's sent to Cedar Falls, Wisconsin, a swing district in a swing state that could decide the next presidential election. Joined by her two best friends, Dot discovers that small-town Midwestern life is far outside her urban comfort zone, and falls for Danny, a man who's her complete opposite. How can Dot find time for Danny when she has a job to do, and what's the point when she's going back to New York City after the election? And who says that two people from opposite sides of the aisle can't eventually walk down one together?
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The Radiant Dark
by Alexandra Oliva
In 1980 Earth receives communication from intelligent life eleven light-years away. All that is known about them is that they know we exist too. So begins a decades-long exchange of messages with this faraway civilization. As humanity's understanding of its place in the universe shifts, we follow the stories of the Girard family through five decades of love, loss, ambition, and self-discovery.
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Short Circuit
by Wolf Haas
Franz Escher waits for an electrician to fix a faulty outlet and reads a book about Elio Russo, a former Mafia member preparing for release to witness protection and fearing retaliation. In his cell, Elio reads a novel about a man named Franz Escher awaiting an electrician, each man absorbed in a story that mirrors his own situation and blurs the divide between their worlds.
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Stay for a Spell
by Amy Coombe
An overworked princess is cursed to remain in a bookshop until she discovers what her heart truly longs for...
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The Take
by Kelly Yang
A provocative, fast-paced novel about two creative women—a young writer fighting to be heard and an older producer clinging to relevancy—and the age reversal treatment that intertwines both of their lives...
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Thistlemarsh
by Moorea Corrigan
In the wake of World War I, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Misneach "Mouse" Dunne. Mouse once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with one telegram, her world shattered. At the Somme, her cousin Bertie's body disappeared into the mud, and her brother, Roger, came home with devastating shell shock. When Mouse receives news that her uncle, Lord Dewhurst, has left her Thistlemarsh Hall, a dilapidated manor in the English countryside, she has to return to her childhood home and claim her birthright.
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Transcription
by Ben Lerner
The narrator travels to Providence to interview Thomas, a revered artist and his former mentor, for what will be Thomas’s final published conversation. But after accidentally destroying his phone, he arrives without a way to record and cannot admit it. What follows is a tense, layered exchange—part meditation on memory and mortality, part portrait of the fragile dynamics between interviewer and subject when words must stand on their own.
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Underlake
by Erin L. McCoy
Two women explore a mysterious underwater town in search of a missing daughter.
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We Burned So Bright
by Tj Klune
Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they've experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world. Now, the world is ending for real. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they've ever known will be gone. Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it's all over.
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A Woman's Place
by Danielle Steel
In April 1912, twenty-three-year-old Lady Victoria Oldbrooke is traveling with her beloved father from England on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. But when tragedy strikes and the two are separated, Lord Alfred exacts a promise from his friend Bert Banning, a mill owner from Manchester, to promise he'll marry his daughter and care for her. Victoria and Bert take comfort in their growing friendship and eventually marry despite differences in age and class. When Bert meets a tragic end, Victoria takes over management of the mill, proving she has the grit to make a difference in a man's world and change the limitations women have had to face and defy for centuries.
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Year of the Mer
by L. D. Lewis
A dark, bloody epic fantasy reimagining of The Little Mermaid that goes far beyond the fairy tale to explore family legacy, war, and what we will sacrifice for vengeance.
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Yesteryear
by Caro Claire Burke
A social media celebrity, a wife and mother who sells her fantasy pioneer lifestyle of sourdough and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of followers, suddenly wakes up cold, dirty, and hungry in the year 1805 and must uncover the nature -- hoax, reality show, test from God -- of her terrifying new existence in this sensational debut novel.
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Continuing Series - New Releases
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Bertie's Theory of Ice Cream
by Alexander McCall Smith
The latest installment in the lively and deliciously charming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland's most celebrated address navigating their enchanting and eventful lives Settle in and take a trip back to Scotland's favorite fictitious street with Bertie, Irene, Big Lou, newcomer Galactica Macfee and all the rest. Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in 44 Scotland Street.
Book 18 in the 44 Scotland Street series.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Woof
by Spencer Quinn
Chet the dog and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, have been hired to find a missing person--only the missing person is a cat. Miss Kitty, an internet sensation, has disappeared, and Chet and Bernie have been hired to find her. Miss Kitty belongs to Bitty, a sweet teenage girl who lives with her mom. Bitty and her mother are struggling financially, but Bitty now has sponsors, a high-powered agent, and all the tools needed to thrive online, and real money is flowing in. With Miss Kitty gone, the family's income is on the line. The case presents a slew of challenges--for one thing, there's evidence implicating Bernie in the crime.
Book 16 in the Chet & Bernie Mystery series.
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Clawed and Dangerous
by Rita Mae Brown
The leaves have fallen in Crozet, Virginia, and with a sudden downpour of cold rain, autumn gloom has settled. But Harry and her best friend, Susan, are determined to cheer up the town, and with the help of a kind local doctor, they just might succeed. Dr. Anglin has agreed to let Harry and Susan use one of his homes to throw a spooky Halloween bash. But around town, things grow even spookier when a local townsperson turns up dead. Soon, one dead body turns into multiple--and what's even spookier is that the deaths seem to be connected. Could these deaths be the result of a lover's quarrel? Or is something even more sinister haunting the town?
Book 34 in the Mrs. Murphy series.
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Confessions of an Amateur Sleuth
by Lynn Cahoon
Twenty-something bookseller and sleuth Meg Gates has been working on a guide to becoming a detective - but she's her own worst critic. She needs a how-to in order to write her how-to! At the Bainbridge Island writers' group, she meets food critic Lee Anderson, who invites for dinner at the Local Crab so he won't be suspected of reviewing the place. Lee intends to do a hatchet job on the eatery. Instead, someone does a job on the critic - he's found dead by the marina. Now Bainbridge's culinary elite are on the suspect list. With help from her beau, Dalton, and the Mystery Crew at Island Books, Meg dons her sleuthing cap to solve the mystery - before another murder is served cold.
Book 1 in the Bainbridge Island mystery.
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A Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz
The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film. The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings. But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit the set, they find a far from happy family. The director’s pretentious, the screenwriter’s an eco-warrior, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money. And things are about to get much, much worse. In the middle of shooting, the actor playing Hawthorne is stabbed – which leaves the real Hawthorne with no choice. He has to step in and investigate his own murder. Because the killer may not have got the right man. Was it Hawthorne himself who was meant to be the target?
Book 6 in the Detective Daniel Hawthorne series.
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Death by Chocolate Ladyfingers
by Sarah Graves
As the sun sets on summer in Eastport, local celebrations are in full swing--and Jake and Ellie have their hands full supplying the most decadent of desserts for extended family gatherings, class reunions, and other catered events. The organizers for Eastport High School's Class of '86 reunion thought it would be fun for former schoolmates to dress up in costume for a masquerade ball. Unfortunately, masks cannot hide old grudges borne out of teenage angst. So when Cindy Munson's body is discovered murdered on the night of the dance, suspicion immediately falls upon Eastport High's one-time notorious school bully.
Book 9 in the Death by Chocolate Mystery series.
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Death Times Seven
by Anne Perry
1913. Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby's mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman. Daniel is convinced that Ward is innocent, yet the evidence seems to prove otherwise. His pathologist wife, Miriam Fford Croft, offers her forensics expertise and exposes a community of fellow pathologists who may have purposefully omitted information from their autopsy reports.
Book 7 in the Daniel Pitt series.
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The Faith of Beasts
by James S. A. Corey
The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran's command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered. Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives, is feared and despised by the very people he champions. Ruthless in carving out his niche in the eternal war machine of the empire, he will reshape human nature itself as a tool for their alien masters' use. But Dafyd's loyalty is not what it seems.
Book 2 in the Captive's War series.
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Harbor Pointe
by Irene Hannon
Prima ballerina Devyn Lee's life and career have taken her far from her hometown. When a family emergency compels her to return, she meets the daughter of a widowed millworker while fundraising for a local charity. But what are the odds that such an accomplished, polished woman from the city could ever fall for a small-town lumberman with two left feet?
Book 12 in the Hope Harbor series.
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King of Gluttony
by Ana Huang
Handsome, talented, and beloved by (almost) everyone, Sebastian Laurent is used to being on top. The heir to a culinary empire, his sharp instincts and effortless charm have made him a legend. What people don't see are the demons lurking beneath his golden-boy facade. There's only one person who's come close to knowing the real him—Maya Singh, his childhood rival and secret obsession.
Book 6 in the Kings of Sin series.
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Paradox
by Douglas Preston
When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, whom we met in the New York Times bestseller, Extinction, team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money transfers, and a fanatical secret society.
Book 2 of the Cash & Colcord series
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The Patchwork Players
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Acclaimed TV actress Julia Merchaud's good fortune turns to dismay when she learns that her beloved historical drama, A Patchwork Life, will have only one more season. Can she convince everyone to stay just a little longer? Inspiration comes after a conversation with Summer Sullivan. When Summer confides that Elm Creek Quilt Camp is in financial trouble, Julia concocts a brilliant plan that will help the Elm Creek Quilters and herself. She sets about persuading the cast and crew to join her for a week at a nineteenth-century mansion amid the autumnal splendor of central Pennsylvania. But after several joyful days of quilting and camaraderie, Julia's scheme takes an unexpected turn.
Book 24 in the Elm Creek Quilts series
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Rites of the Starling
by Devney Perry
Calandra's five kingdoms are on the verge of destruction. The crux migration is coming. And in the wake of a devastating attack, I've been separated from the man who owns my heart. Hunted by monsters, driven to exhaustion, and kidnapped by a powerful priest, the only thing keeping me going is the little girl counting on me to keep her safe. It's my turn to become the Guardian. Our lives change one fateful night, when I learn the real meaning of fear--and the depth of my own strength. Everyone wants me to be something I'm not--a queen, a spy, a sacrifice. But what if I embrace my crown? What if the secrets I uncover save our realm? What if my sacrifice means salvation for the man I love?
Book 2 in the Shield of Sparrows series.
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