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Our Picks for January, 2024
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Wild and distant seas : a novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
An outsider in Nantucket's small, close-knit community in 1849, Evangeline Hussey, after her husband is lost at sea, makes choices that ripple through generations, across continents and into the depths of the ocean as she and her descendants seek to chart their own futures.
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Anna O : a novel
by Matthew Blake
A forensic psychologist and expert in sleep-related homicides is the last hope for solving a case where a woman with a rare psychosomatic disorder stabbed two people to death while she slept. 200,000 first printing.
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Last call at the Local
by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
When a careless mistake in Ireland leaves her unable to perform, Rainie Hart, a free-spirited American singer-songwriter living with ADHD, starts working at a local pub where she helps her charming OCD employer, Jack Dunne, reinvent his business, discovering a love to last a lifetime along the way. Original.
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The ascent
by Adam Plantinga
When a security system malfunction in a maximum-security prison releases a horde of prisoners, ex-cop Kurt Argento must help a small band of staff and civilians, including the governor's daughter, make their way through six floors of the most dangerous convicts in Missouri to safety.
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Protecting her heart
by Nancy Campbell Allen
In 1887 London, newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall, after her father passes away, discovers there was more to her mother's death than she'd been told and teams up with her treasured friend and director of London's police force, John Ellis, to unravel a dark web of secrets and lies. Original.
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California Bear
by Duane Swierczynski
A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage. 15,000 first printing.
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Old crimes : and other stories
by Jill McCorkle
In this masterful collection of complex stories about crimes large and small, the New York Times best-selling author delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close and who, despite their yearnings for connection, can't seem to tell the whole truth.
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River East, River West
by Aube Rey Lescure
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world. A first novel.
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You only call when you're in trouble
by Stephen McCauley
An architect ready to put himself first, Tom, trying to keep his needy family at bay, finds himself answering their demands when his sister and niece need his help, setting him on a journey that changes everyone's life and demonstrates the beauty or dysfunction of the ties that bind families together.
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Holiday country
by Inci Atrek
Spending the summer in Turkey with her family, Ada begins to imagine a different future for her mother after a mysterious man from her past returns and must come to terms with her own attraction to him. 100,000 first printing.
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Beautyland
by Marie-Helene Bertino
A woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth and was born with knowledge of a faraway planet is encouraged by a friend to share what she knows, in the new novel from the author of Parakeet. 25,000 first printing.
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Hero
by Thomas Perry
After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
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This wretched valley
by Jenny Kiefer
The first person to climb an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, Dylan, a rising star in rock climbing, goes missing, and when three bodies are discovered in various states of decay, each mutilated, there is still no trace of her, dead or alive. Original.
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Behind You Is the Sea : A Novel in Stories
by Susan Muaddi Darraj
A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich—shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion.
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Say you'll be mine : a novel
by Naina Kumar
Theater teacher and playwright Meghna Rama, when Seth, her best friend and secret crush, gets engaged to another, agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement to help her through Seth's wedding until an undeniable chemistry emerges between them. Original.
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The night of the storm : a novel
by Nishita Parekh
Hunkering down with her sister in her fancy house in Sugar Land, along with her brother-in-law's family, as Hurricane Harvey bears down on Houston, single mom Jia Shah and her 12-year-old son, Ishaan, finds tensions escalating along with the storm, resulting in murder.
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The fury
by Alex Michaelides
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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True north : a novel
by Andrew J. Graff
A heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting follows one couple as they navigate the changing currents of family, community and the river itself.
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Who to Believe
by Edwin Hill
When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge.
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The Bullet Swallower
by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower.
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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
An alcoholic, addict and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Family family : a novel
by Laurie Frankel
An actress who makes a film about adoption starts a media storm after admitting to a journalist that it's a bad movie and that she gave up a baby for adoption during her senior year. 100,000 first printing.
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No one can know
by Kate Alice Marshall
Returning to the house where her parents were murdered, mother-to-be Emma Palmer who has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect, is reunited with her estranged sisters who will do anything to keep the past buried.
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Diva
by Daisy Goodwin
Describes the scandalous love affaire between the legendary opera singer, Maria Callas, and the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, whose relationship ended suddenly with the shocking news that he was to marry Jacqueline Kennedy. 125,000 first printing.
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
by Janice Hallett
Looking to revive her career by writing a book about the Alperton Angels cult, who convinced a teenage girl her baby was the anti-Christ, true crime author Amanda Bailey, with the Alperton baby turning 18, seeks to find them until what she uncovers is much darker and stranger then she'd ever imagined.
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Hard by a great forest
by Leo Vardiashvili
After fleeing the former Soviet republic of Georgia as a child and being forced to leave his mother behind, Saba returns to their beautiful, decaying homeland to search for his brother who went missing while searching for their father.
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Held
by Anne Michaels
A war-wounded soldier in 1920 returns home to Yorkshire and has his past push into the present when ghosts with indecipherable messages begin to show up in his photographs, in the new novel from the author of Fugitive Pieces.
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Come and get it
by Kiley Reid
A senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas accepts an easy yet unusual opportunity offered by a visiting professor and things get messy when her new side-hustle is jeopardized by strange new friends and illicit and vengeful dorm antics.
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The Excitements by C.J. WrayArriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over. Original.
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
by Benjamin Stevenson
On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. 150,000 first printing.
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Dear sister : a memoir of secrets, survival, and unbreakable bonds
by Michelle Horton
The sister of a woman incarcerated for killing her abusive partner reflects on how she rearranged her life to care for Nikki's children while simultaneously launching a fight to get her released from prison. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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