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Absolution
by Jeff VanderMeer
Describes the first mission into the Forgotten Coast, before Area X was given its name, and reveals those who were complicit in creating the abandoned coastal area in the fourth novel of the series following Acceptance.
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
by Ina Garten
In her first memoir, the bestselling cookbook author and host of the beloved Food Network show “Barefoot Contessa” offers a personal, engaging and motivating narrative of her extraordinary journey from a difficult childhood to becoming a cultural icon.
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Betrayal at Blackthorn Park
by Julia Kelly
Evelyne Redfern's first spy assignment at Blackthorn Park turns perilous when she and her handler, David Poole, must solve the murder of the chief engineer to protect a critical wartime facility in the follow-up to A Traitor in Whitehall.
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Blue Christmas Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Sarah's Christmas cheer gets rocked by a jewel heist at the Elvis Festival, forcing her to solve a mystery amongst suspicious minds in the latest addition to the long-running series following Lights, Camera, Bones.
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The Blue Hour
by Paula Hawkins
On an isolated Scottish island, a present-day discovery intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies.
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The Boyfriend
by Freida Mcfadden
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in NYC, has terrible luck with dating until she meets the utterly perfect, charming, handsome doctor Tom, but when a woman is brutally murdered and the suspect is a mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them, Sydney can't shake her own horrifying suspicions.
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A Christmas Duet
by Debbie Macomber
Hailey Morgan, a high school band teacher with dreams of songwriting, escapes to a cabin for a solo holiday retreat only to find herself entangled in small-town drama and a blossoming romance that reignites her passion for music.
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Demon's Bluff
by Kim Harrison
To reverse a dangerous curse and avoid jail time, witch Rachel Morgan must travel back in time with a coven leader in the eighteenth book of the series following Demons of Good and Evil.
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Dreaming of Autumn Skies
by V. C. Andrews
Caroline has endured immeasurable loss, isolation, and cruelty in her young life. With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline finds herself under the thumb of her controlling grandfather once again. Determined not to allow her suffering to have been in vain, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most powerful person in her family. She will stop at nothing to build the life - and the independence - she so desperately dreams of.
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Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
by Benjamin Stevenson
A fan of mystery novels investigates a real-life murder when the benefactor of a world-famous magician turns up dead in the days leading up to Christmas and all the suspects are masters of illusion and misdirection.
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Framed
by John Grisham
Exposes ten harrowing tales of innocent Americans unjustly found guilty and convicted of crimes they didn't commit, shedding light on the flaws within the legal system that led to their imprisonment and the relentless battles for exoneration that ensued.
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From Here to the Great Unknown
by Lisa Marie Presley
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, tells her whole story for the first time in a memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, after Lisa Marie's death.
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The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
by Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe takes on an interesting but sensitive case and learns valuable lessons along the way.
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The Grey Wolf
by Louise Penny
A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Chief Inspector Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder—all propel Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization: something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.
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The House at Watch Hill
by Karen Marie Moning
A #1 New York Times best-selling author is back with a new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets.
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Identity Unknown
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Summoned to an eerie, deserted theme park to retrieve the body of a former lover, Dr. Kay Scarpetta faces a perplexing murder scene suggesting otherworldly origins in the latest addition to the long-running series following Unnatural Death.
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I'll be Waiting
by Kelley Armstrong
Outliving the expectations of her Cystic Fibrosis diagnosis, Nicola Laughton marries Anton, but after his death in a car crash goes viral as a supernatural event, a group of spiritualists offering closure hold a séance that unleashes a terrifying force.
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In Too Deep
by Lee Child
Waking up handcuffed in a dark hospital room with no memory, Reacher finds himself framed for a murder, setting the stage for an explosive reckoning in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Secret.
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Into the Uncut Grassby Trevor Noah
In the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about a young child’s journey into the world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers the secrets of solidarity, connection, and finding peace with the people we love. Infused with the author’s signature wit and imagination, in collaboration with visionary artist Sabina Hahn, it’s a tale for readers of all ages.
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Killing Time
by M. C. Beaton
When a series of shop burglaries turn deadly, Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is on the case, but Agatha begins receiving death threats and narrowly avoids being kidnapped, so she takes advantage of a previously arranged trip to Mallorca with former police officer John Glass to lie low for a while.
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The Last One at the Wedding
by Jason Rekulak
A father tries to save his daughter from a life-altering decision that will put everything he loves on the line.
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The Man in Black
by Elly Griffiths
From the internationally best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries comes a collection of short stories featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.
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A Merry Little Murder Plot
by Jenn McKinlay
Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris tries to encourage a grumpy and reclusive writer in residence to join in the town's Christmas festivities and discovers she has a stalker in the fifteenth addition to the series following Fatal First Edition.
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The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Between the World and Me travels the world to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.
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Midnight and Blue
by Ian Rankin
In another tense, gripping game of cat and mouse, Edinburgh's Detective John Rebus may end up behind bars before he gets his criminal there.
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The Mighty Red
by Louise Erdrich
A Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award–winning author tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives.
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The More the Terrier
by David Rosenfelt
Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is excited to be back in Paterson, New Jersey, after a week-long family vacation in the Adirondacks, until he finds out the 16-year-old son of a family whom he fostered a dog for was arrested for murder, and something about the arrest just doesn't sit right with him.
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Murder Island
by James Patterson
When professor turned crime-fighter Brandt "Doc" Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they've found a perfect utopia, but it turns out to be a living hell.
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My Three Dogs
by W. Bruce Cameron
A new novel from the #1 bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose about humankind's best, most loyal friends, and a wonderful adventure of love and finding home.
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One Big Happy Family
by Susan Mallery
At first, Julie Parker is happy that her children do not plan to visit for Christmas, because she has been hiding her younger beau from them, but when they instead want to spend the holiday at the family cabin and the guest list grows beyond Julie's expectations, she discovers that more really is merrier.
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
Twenty-five years after the publication of his bestselling first book, the author returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.
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Rockin' Around the Chickadee
by Donna Andrews
After a body is found in Meg Lanslow and Michael's yard, can Meg still keep her pregnant sister-in-law, Delaney, calm in the middle of a murder investigation, all while trying to catch the killer?
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The Sequel
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
With her signature wit and sardonic humor, the author gives readers an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing.
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Shock Induction
by Chuck Palahniuk
A dark, satirical parable looks at a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future.
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Society of Lies
by Lauren Ling Brown
When her sister Naomi, about to graduate from Princeton, is found dead on campus, Maya, believing it was no accident, discovers Naomi joined the same underground society she did years ago and now every clue is leading her back to the past—and to the secrets she's kept all these years.
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Sonny Boy
by Al Pacino
One of the most iconic actors in the history of film, known for such films as The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon, offers a revelatory account of a creative life in full.
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Triangle
by Danielle Steel
A Paris art gallery owner finds herself in danger when a mysterious man begins leaving her messages.
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The Waiting
by Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.
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What Does It Feel Like?
by Sophie Kinsella
From a #1 bestselling author comes a story about a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew.
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