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OverBooked Club
Monday, March 10, 2025, 5:30-6:30
Library Conference Room
come chat about books with Kristen and Michelle.
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The Amalfi Curse
by Sarah Penner
Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse... Against the dazzling backdrop of the Amalfi Coast, this bewitching novel shimmers with mystery, romance and the untamed magic of the sea.
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Audition
by Katie M. Kitamura
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. A mesmerizing Mobius strip of a novel that asks who we are to the people we love.
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The Cost
by Morgan Cry
One man's race against time to track down a deadly narcotic before it hits the streets of the seaside hometown he thought he'd never return to.
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Death in the Dressing Room
by Simon Brett
Neighbors Carole and Jude investigate murder most horrid in the theater in the latest Fethering Village mystery from the original king of British cozy crime.
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The Fact Checker
by Austin Kelley
Mirthful, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly philosophical, this is a brilliant debut novel featuring a missing woman who might be perfectly fine, and a single-minded investigator yearning for meaning, morality, and accuracy in an increasingly post-truth world.
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Flirting Lessons
by Jasmine Guillory
Avery Jensen is almost thirty, newly single and ready for a change. Taylor Cameron, champion heartbreaker, just broke up with her most recent girlfriend, and her best friend bet her that she can't make it until Labor Day without sleeping with someone. With Taylor's help, Avery finally achieves the life she always wanted. But now she wants Taylor too...
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Glitter in the Dark
by Olesya Lyuzna
The search for a kidnapped singer in Prohibition-era New York leads an intrepid reporter from Harlem speakeasies to the dazzling world of the theater, all while grappling with her warring passions.
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Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of Margaret Ives. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. Both are invited to balmy Little Crescent Island for a one month trial period to see who will write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Margaret is only giving them each part of her story and it's becoming abundantly clear that their story-just like the tale Margaret's spinning-could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad...depending on who's telling it.
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A Hole in the Story
by Ken Kalfus
A prescient, high-stakes novel dissecting the ways we tell stories-privately and publicly-amid radical social change. Fascinating, tense, and scrutinous, this is a close-quarters account of our changing media landscape, and what happens when one finds oneself on the wrong side of an awakening.
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How to Seal Your Own Fate
by Kristen Perrin
Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades, returning us to the idyllic English village that holds layers of secrets.
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The Influencers
by Anna-Marie McLemore
A social media influencer's empire is burned tot he ground - literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous.
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Into the Gray Zone
by Brad Taylor
Pike Logan uncovers a geopolitical scheme that has spiraled out of control in India in this latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor.
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The Keeper
by Charles Martin
Gripping action, heart-wrenching emotion, and deep questions that deserve to be considered. The Murphy Shepherd series is simultaneously a tender love story, a heartrending search for freedom, and exploration of the terrible cost of human trafficking, and an anthem to the power of love to create change when it shows up regardless of the cost.
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The Maid's Secret
by Nita Prose
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly's life is threatened. The question is who's out to get her, and why?
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A Mind of Her Own
by Danielle Steel
Rising above the devastation of World War I, a young half-French, half-American woman remains true to her own independent spirit in this powerful historical novel. A story of resilience and the courage to open one's heart - no matter how many times it's been broken - and believe in oneself.
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The Murder Machine
by Heather Graham
Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent. FBI agent Jude Mackenzie finds himself in a state-of-the-art home controlled by personal AI, standing over the lifeless body of its owner, faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home.
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One Death at a Time
by Abbi Waxman
A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison.
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Overkill
by J. A. Jance
Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds' husband B. Simpson, once carried on an affair with Clarice, B's first wife. So when he's found murdered with Clarice standing nearby covered in blood, it seems an open and shut case. But Clarice swears she's innocent and begs for Ali's help.
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The Perfect Divorce
by Jeneva Rose
Eleven years after high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress, she has moved on, changing careers and starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller. After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for a divorce. But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues.
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Rabbit Moon
by Jennifer Haigh
A tense, propulsive drama set in Shanghai, about a fractured American family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters. A taut, suspenseful story about the ties of marriage that no divorce can sever, and the fabled red thread that pulls two sisters together across time and space.
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Say You'll Remember Me
by Abby Jimenez
The perfect guy. The perfect date. Utterly disastrous timing. There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date-possibly the best in living history-Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life-and even a love-worth remembering.
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Sealed With a Hiss
by Rita Mae Brown
When a decades-forgotten car bobs to the surface of a local creek, with a body still in the driver's seat, it's up to Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen and her beloved cats and dogs to save the day.
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Shadow of the Solstice
by Anne Hillerman
Detectives Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito must sort out a save-the-planet meditation group connected to a mysterious death and a nefarious scheme targeting vulnerable indigenous people living with addiction.
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The Sirens
by Emilia Hart
A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea. A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.
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Six Days in Bombay
by Alka Joshi
A sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter's death.
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Sky Daddy
by Kate Folk
Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird. Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are.
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The Staircase in the Woods
by Chuck Wendig
A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel. Chuck Wendig weaves his magic once more, turning a lonely staircase in the woods into a searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known.
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Strangers in Time
by David Baldacci
A riveting story of secrets, betrayals, and unlikely friendships. Set in London in 1944, a story about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another.
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Summer Light on Nantucket
by Nancy Thayer
A touching novel about parenthood, first love, family bonds, and rekindled relationships.
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2 Sisters Murder Investigations
by James Patterson
Rhonda and Barbara "Baby" Bird are half-sisters and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. When they take on a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they're accused of being PIs who can't tell a client from a killer. the Bird sisters share a late father, but not much else...except their willingness to fight. Fight the system. Fight for the underdog. Fight for the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together.
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The 10 : A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
by E. A. Hanks
A beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey made along the Ten across the American southwest: a mission to uncover both what harrowing violence may or may not have happened to her late mother, but also to look within and discover who she herself is - where her mother ends and she begins.
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25 Alive
by James Patterson
Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's friend and former partner is brutally murdered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. A top investigator until the end, Warren Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue. Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women's Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi's death before the killer can take another one of their own.
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Tough Luck
by Sandra Dallas
In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father. Filled with vivid period detail, colorful characters, and the irreverent voice of our scrappy heroine, Tough Luck celebrates both the tenacity of youth and the persistence of the heart in the great American West.
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To Catch a Spy
by Mark O'Neill
Estate approved sequel to the novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge and the 1955 Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
by Jesse Q Sutanto
Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective: Vera Wong is perfectly content as a teashop owner. She is definitely not seeking good opportunities for amateur sleuthing. But what else is she to do when a distressed woman called Millie asks for her help? Not even the aroma of chrysanthemum tea can stop Vera from catching the scent of this mystery. However dangerous it is, Vera intends to uncover the truth in the only way that this Chinese mother knows how: by spilling the tea.
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Who Will Remember
by C. S. Harris
The macabre murder of a prominent nobleman throws an already unsettled London into chaos.
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The World's Fair Quilt
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A timely celebration of quilting, family, community, and history in this latest novel in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series.
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