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A Christmas deliverance : a novel
by Anne Perry
As Christmas approaches, a former penniless orphan now studying medicine, Scuff, is forced to conduct surgery alone after his instructor and benefactor, Dr. Crowe, becomes involved with a former patient being forced to marry someone she doesnt love.
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Night shift : a novel
by Robin Cook
When her longtime friend, Dr. Sue Passero, dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, newly appointed chief medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery asks her husband to investigate, which pits him against a clever and deranged killer determined to administer another lethal blow.
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Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy
Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrators psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows 20-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
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A Dangerous Business
by Jane Smiley
A 1851 Monterey widow working at a brothel investigates when the dead bodies of young women start appearing on the outskirts of town in the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.
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Devil's delight : an Agatha Raisin mystery
by M. C. Beaton
Agatha investigates after a naked man bursts out of the woods claiming to have seen a dead body near a sight supposedly once used for sacrifices in the latest addition to the series following Down the Hatch.
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Desert star
by Michael Connelly
After quitting the force in disgust, RenÄ› Ballard is persuaded to return to rebuild the cold case unit in the elite robbery-homicide division.
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A World of Curiosities
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Gamache investigates after a 150-year-old letter points to the discovery and opening of a bricked-up room in an attic thats filled with curiosities, in the 18th novel of the series following The Madness of Crowds.
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Going rogue : rise and shine twenty-nine
by Janet Evanovich
After tracking down fugitive Oswald Wednesday with a fellow apprehension agent, Stephanie Plum faces a new obstacle as she tries to bring in her latest bounty, in the latest addition to the long-running, very popular series following Game On.
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The perfect assassin
by James Patterson
Forced into a top-secret training program, Dr. Brandt Savage, on sabbatical from the University of Chicago, is mentally and physically transformed into the perfect assassin and must prevent a new class of killers from escaping this harsh place where their ancestors first fought to make a better world.
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The Whittiers : a novel
by Danielle Steel
When a devastating tragedy takes their parents from them, the eldest four adult Whittier children must put aside their personal issues and grief to keep the family together and support each other and their two youngest siblings.
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Clive Cussler the Sea Wolves
by Jack B. Du Brul
After the heroic rescue of a senator in Panama from a local insurgency, Isaac Bell finds himself in international hot water again, in the 13th novel of the series following The Saboteurs.
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Hunting time
by Jeffery Deaver
A wealthy entrepreneur hires Colter Shaw to track down and protect his employee, Allison Parker, a brilliant engineer, who is on the run from her ex-husband with her teenage daughter, in the fourth novel of the series following Hunting Time.
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The twist of a knife : a novel
by Anthony Horowitz
When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime.
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Dawnlands : a novel
by Philippa Gregory
The Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England.
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A Christmas memory : a novel
by Richard Paul Evans
Reeling from the loss of his brother in Vietnam, Richard moves with his family from California to his grandmother's abandoned house in Utah, where he finds the holiday spirit with the help of an elderly neighbor and his dog.
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Steeped in secrets
by Lauren Elliott
From the USA Today best-selling author of the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries comes the first installment in a new series featuring Shay Myers, intuitive gemologist and owner of a New Age tea and crystals shop in beautiful coastal Californias Monterey Peninsula.
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Bleeding heart yard
by Elly Griffiths
Twenty years after she and her friends killed a fellow student, Cassie Fitzgerald is working as a police officer and must investigate her former classmates for what seems to be another very recent murder.
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Someday, maybe : a novel
by Onyi Nwabineli
After her husband, the greatest love of her life, commits suicide, a young woman finds the strength to move on with the help of her tight-knit Nigerian family and happy memories of the man shell never forget.
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The last party
by Clare Mackintosh
When homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd is murdered after opening the doors to his new luxury resort on New Years Eve, Ffion Morgan, called in to investigate, fears her deep ties to this once tranquil village will reveal dark truths about her neighbors, friends, family and even herself.
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The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
by Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles--the earned wisdom that helps her continue to "become."
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Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family
by Rabia Chaudry
From the best-selling author and host of the popular Undisclosed podcast comes a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family.
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A book of days
by Patti Smith
In a companion to her Instagram account, this photography book from the acclaimed singer, songwriter, poet, painter and National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids showcases a year of her life through personal images of 365 days.
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The world record book of racist stories
by Amber Ruffin
The host of The Amber Ruffin Show and writer/cast member on NBCs Late Night with Seth Meyers and her sister present a hilarious, intergenerational look at the absurdity of everyday racism as experienced across age, gender and appearance.
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The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family
by Kerri K. Greenidge
Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the mostinfluential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective,shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality.
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Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius
by Nick Hornby
From the best-selling author of High Fidelity comes a short, warm book about art, creativity and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince.
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A Heart That Works
by Rob Delaney
The co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe presents a deeply personal memoir about the death of his young son from a brain tumor and takes readers through the grief and pain that followed.
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Cheap land Colorado : off-gridders at America's edge
by Ted Conover
The Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author recounts his experiences living off the grid in Colorado with vivid depictions of the diversity of people he encountered on his journey.
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Maus now : selected writings
by Hillary Chute
Gathers together responses from leading critics, authors and academics who confirm how the classic graphic biography Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history and art, and enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression more than 40 years after its first publication.
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