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Once upon a time at the end of the world. : Love in the Wasteland Book one, Love in the wasteland
by Jason Aaron
"In this decades spanning post-apocalyptic tale, Maceo and Mezzy have never met anyone like each other, and they'll need all the help they can get to survive a planet ravaged by environmental catastrophe. "Love in the Wasteland" kicks off the first arc of this epic trilogy that spans a lifetime as the dark mysteries of a ruined world and their own stark differences tear at the threads holding Mezzy and Maceo together. As they endure the horrors of plastic tornadoes and frozen sludge, Maceo proves to be more than just a burden, and they make an unlikely connection. But to their peril... they might not be as alone as they thought"
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The list : a novel
by Yomi Adegoke
A celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, Ola Olajide is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on“The List,” an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this razor sharp exploration of the real-world impact of online life.
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A cold highland wind
by Tasha Alexander
"Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their dear friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comesto a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered on the banks of the loch. Handsome Angus Sinclair had a host of enemies: the fiancâee he abandoned in Edinburgh, the young woman who had fallen hopelessly in love with him, and the rough farmerwho saw him as a rival for her affections. But what is the meaning of the curious runic stone left on Sinclair's forehead? Clues may be found in the story of Lady MacAllister, wife of the Laird of Cairnfarn Castle, who in 1676 suddenly found herself widowed and thrown out of her home. Her sole companion was a Moorish slave girl who helped her secretly spirit her most prized possessions--a collection of strange books--out of the castle. When her neighbors, wary of a woman living on her own, found a poppet--a doll used to cast spells--and a daisy wheel in her isolated cottage, Lady MacAllister was accused of witchcraft, a crime punishable by death. Hundreds of years later, Lady Emily searches for the link between Lady MacAllister's harrowing witchcraft trial and the brutal death of Sinclair. She must follow a trail of hidden motives, an illicit affair, and a mysterious stranger to reveal the dark side of a seemingly idyllic Highland village"
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The ex-mas holidays
by Zoe Allison
"It's hard to escape your ex when you're working together over Christmas in the Scottish Highlands, but being stuck together might be the best possible present in this sparkling new contemporary romance. Maya Bashir is dreading her drive home for Christmas and having to explain that she's just left her high-paying job and a long-term relationship-so a brief detour to her friend's festive party doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Until Maya walks in to find the last person she wants to see: Sam, the boy who broke her heart, who's serving drinks-naked. Sam Holland is working an extra job on the sly to help his friend get by. But little did he expect Maya Bashir to come barreling back into his life, learning about his secret side hustle and taking back her old job alongside him at his daytime role as a ski instructor on the slopes of the Scottish Highlands. As both Sam and Maya realize that the reason for heartbreak so many years ago wasn't entirely as it seemed, they must learn to stand up for what they truly want in life . . . or else they might miss their second chance at love"
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Let it crow! Let it crow! Let it crow!
by Donna Andrews
Participating in a weaponsmithing competition taking place on the estate of her friend Ragnar, a retired heavy metal drummer, Meg joins a cast laden with grudges and feuds who have large weapons and forges full of fire at their disposal—what could possibly go wrong?
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Bright lights, big Christmas : a novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
Freshly single and unemployed, Kerry agrees to help her brother sell Christmas trees in New York and make a new start in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Santa Suit.
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What you are looking for is in the library : a novel
by Michiko Aoyama
This tribute to the magic of libraries, friendship and community follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.
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Glory be
by Danielle Arceneaux
Suspicious and doubting, Glory Brussard decides to investigate after learning that her best friend, a nun beloved by her Lafayette, Louisiana community has died mysteriously and has been ruled a suicide by the authorities.
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Traitors Gate
by Jeffrey Archer
Preparing to execute the most secret operation in their armory—transporting the Crown Jewels across London, the Metropolitan Police have 24 hours to stop a master criminal from pulling off the most outrageous theft in history—and expose a traitor in their midst.
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The long game
by Elena Armas
"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"
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A fire in the flesh
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Held captive by the false King of the Gods, Sera, with the Ascension upon her, is out of time, while Nyktos, who will do anything to protect the woman he loves, risks the utter destruction of the realms as he desperately tries not to Ascend as the Primal of Life.
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A soul of ash and blood
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Primal of Blood and Bone has risen and the mortal realm hangs in the balance as Poppy and Casteel's love is put to the test, in the fifth novel of the series following The War of Two Queens.
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Baumgartner : a novel
by Paul Auster
Still struggling nine years after his wife's death in a swimming accident, a soon-to-be-retired philosophy professor becomes lost in the memories of their relationship in the new novel by the best-selling author of Sunset Park.
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The man in the McIntosh suit
by Rina Ayuyang
"The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in thefields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city to find her. What follows is classic noir with seedy dives, mouthy pool sharks, and obsession"
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Dayswork : a novel
by Chris Bachelder
Obsessed with sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville during the pandemic, a woman finds her days' work extending outward to an orbiting cast of Melvillean questers and fanatics, as well as to biographers and writers, which ultimately becomes a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition.
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Wreck the halls : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything—the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
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The holiday mix-up
by Ginny Baird
When Juan Martinez, on whom she has a huge crush, asks her to pose as his girlfriend for holiday festivities at his family's winery, lonely hearted waitress Katie Smith agrees and finds herself falling for Juan's brother Mateo instead, and must decide if she should follow her heart to a Christmas miracle.
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Bookshops & bonedust
by Travis Baldree
Injured while hunting for a notorious necromancer, Rackam's Ravens mercenary Viv is forced to recuperate in Murk, spending hours at a beleaguered bookshop with a foul-mouthed proprietor in the prequel to Legends & Lattes.
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No two persons
by Erica Bauermeister
When a devastating event breaks her heart open, aspiring writer Alice creates a stunning debut novel in which her words find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness to a widower rent by grief, who, due to her book, find new paths forward.
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Dead on Target
by M. C. Beaton
Convinced of foul play, Agatha Raisin disregards the conclusion of her old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes and investigates the death of a local landowner struck by an arrow, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Devil's Delight.
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Murder on the Christmas Express
by Alexandra Benedict
Heading home for the holidays aboard the Christmas Eve sleeper, recently retired Met Detective Roz Parker, when the train derails, stranding them on the snowy tracks, must identify a killer picking of passengers one by one, hoping to solve this mystery before the birth of her first grandchild.
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Murder most royal : a novel
by S. J. Bennett
When the severed hand of a scion of the St Cyr family is found, Queen Elizabeth II is dragged into the matter and, with the help of her assistant private secretary, must separate fact from fiction surrounding this high-profile case when all clues point to someone in her close circle.
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Tom Clancy weapons grade
by Don Bentley
After witnessing a professional hit, Jack Ryan Jr., following one lead, is drawn into the seedy underbelly of a small Texas town and the cold case of a college student who vanished from its streets—an investigation that pulls him into an international conspiracy of epic proportions.
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Dark ride : a thriller
by Louis Berney
"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"
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Iris Kelly doesn't date
by Ashley Herring Blake
After a horrible one-night stand, Iris Kelly agreeing to pose as Stevie's girlfriend, which might provide her with some much-needed romantic content for her new book, but as they play the part of a happy couple and lines begin to blur, she wonders who will make the first real move.
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Masters of death
by Olivie Blake
"Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the mansion has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on. Fox D'Mora is a medium, and though he is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isn't entirely without his uses--seeing as he's actually the godson of Death. When Viola seeks out Fox to help her with the ghost infestation, he becomes inextricably involved in a quest that neither he nor Vi expects (or wants). But with the help of an unruly poltergeist, a demonic personal trainer, a sharp-voiced angel, a love-stricken reaper, and a few mindfulness-practicing creatures, Vi and Fox soon discover the difference between a mysterious lost love and an annoying dead body isn't nearly as distinct as they thought"
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The Glutton
by A. K. Blakemore
In 1798 France, in a Versailles hospital lies The Great Tarare, a dying man rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite—an appetite they say tortures him still.
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The proof of the pudding
by Rhys Bowen
"Georgie, back home at her estate in Eynsleigh, impatiently awaits the birth of her baby. But she has plenty to occupy her: her new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, and Sir Hubert, who owns Eynsleigh, is back from his latest expedition. It's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to celebrate his return and show off her new chef. The dinner party is a smashing success. Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of creepy Gothic horror novels--is one of the guests. He recently purchased a nearby Elizabethan manor nearby because it has a famous poison garden. After the dinner, Sir Mortimer approaches Georgie and asks to borrow her new chef for his upcoming party, and Georgie and Darcy, her dashing husband, are invited! The tour of the poison garden is fascinating, as is Sir Mortimer's laboratory. Shockingly, just after the banquet several of the guests become sick. And one dies, apparently poisoned by berries from the garden. But how could this be when they all ate the same meal and the same delectable dessert? Georgie has to find the culprit to save her new chef and her own reputation--all before her bundle of joy arrives!"
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Loved and missed
by Susie Boyt
"When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs"
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Death Valley : a novel
by Melissa Broder
"The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite froman emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What this woman finds inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant. This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley"
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Condor's fury
by Graham Brown
Kurt and Joe respond to a nearby distress call while on a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean to discover a terrified and disoriented crew potentially suffering from Havana Syndrome, in the 20th addition to the series following Dark Vector.
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Hiss & tell / : A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
by Rita Mae Brown
Harry, Susan and Fair investigate the suspicious deaths of three people found in Crozet with a deadly drug in their systems with the help of their feline sidekicks in the latest addition to the long-running series following Claws for Alarm.
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Lost & hound : a novel
by Rita Mae Brown
When a dead body is placed directly in the path of an early season hunt,“Sister” Jane Arnold, with the Jefferson Hunt Club busier than ever, must decipher cryptic clues left for her and her friends before any of them wind up dead.
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The Olympian affair
by Jim Butcher
Standing alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon, Lord Albion uses the trading summit at Spire Olympia to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war with the help of a privateer and the crew of the AMS Predator.
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A dish best served hot
by Natalie Caña
A stressed-out single dad and caregiver to his mischievous abuelo butts heads and creates sparks with a teacher and social justice advocate in the second novel of the series following A Proposal They Can't Refuse.
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Enchanted to meet you
by Meg Cabot
Chosen by Derrick Winters to mentor a local teen who might be the savior of West Harbor, witch Jessica Gold helps the girl control her immense powers, while exploring the magic between her and Derrick, which is put on hold when they're plunged into an otherworldly battle.
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Stars in your eyes
by Kacen Callender
To create positive buzz about their new romantic comedy, Hollywood bad boy Logan Gray, a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate, and Mattie Cole, an up-and-coming golden boy, are persuaded into a fake-dating scheme that soon becomes all too real, opening up old wounds and insecurities.
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Murder by invitation only
by Colleen Cambridge
In a historical mystery, Agatha Christie's ever-capable housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, not only keeps the celebrated author's English country home in tip-top shape, she excels as an amateur sleuth; but when a murder-themed game goes awry, can she outfox the guilty party?
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The twelve books of Christmas
by Kate Carlisle
Arriving in Loch Ness, Scotland, to attend the New Year's Day wedding of their dearest friends, Brooklyn Wainwright and Derek Stone discover murder is in attendance when two guests and must catch the culprit, who may also have stolen 12 rare books, before their friends' bright and happy future turns deadly.
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The secret / : A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child
In 1992, when eight respectable, upstanding people are found dead across the US, Jack Reacher, assigned as the Army's representative, must discover the link between these victims and who killed them, navigating around the ulterior motives and deciding if he should bring the bad guys to justice the official way—or his way.
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The art of destiny
by Wesley Chu
"A hero once believed to be the chosen one must find a new path with the help of a band of unlikely allies in the sequel to The Art of Prophecy, an epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic"
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The golden gate
by Amy Chua
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. InBerkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco. Some say she haunts the Claremont still. The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Iris's sister, Isabella, and her cousins Cassie and Nicole. Determined not to let anything distract him from the truth-not the powerful influence of Bainbridges' grandmother, or the political aspirations of Berkeley's district attorney, or the interest of China's First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in his findings-Sullivan follows his investigation to its devastating conclusion. Chua's page-turning debut brings to life a historical era rife with turbulent social forces and groundbreaking forensic advances, when race and class defined the very essence of power, sex, and justice, and introduces a fascinating character in Detective Sullivan, a mixed race former Army officer who is still reckoning with his own history"
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Sword catcher
by Cassandra Clare
"Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of an epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles"
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Breaking new ground
by Amy Clipston
"In the third installment of Amy Clipston's beloved Amish Legacy series, Korey Bontrager and Savannah Zook pretend to date, only to find themselves unexpectedly falling in love"
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Break of day
by Colleen Coble
The personal and professional lives of law enforcement officer Annie Pederson merge when a man escapes custody and puts the life of her formerly estranged sister in danger, in the third novel of the series following Dark of Night.
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Tremor : a novel
by Teju Cole
Masterfully exploring what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world, this startling work of realism and invention examines the passage of time and how we mark it, reckoning with human survival amidst history's brutality as well as demonstration the possibility of joy.
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Midnight at the Christmas bookshop : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop's manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.
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Marshaling her heart
by Mary Connealy
"When Becky Pruitt's ranch foreman, Nate Paxton, confesses he's a former US Marshal investigating the notorious Deadeye Gang, she agrees to let the marshals use the ranch as a hideout. But the outlaws won't go quietly, and as danger draws ever nearer, Becky is drawn to Nate and finds both her heart and life in peril"
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The land of lost things
by John Connolly
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
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Red : a novel
by Claudia Cravens
"'Some years ago, in Dodge, I was a sporting woman. I didn't mind whoring-it can be good work in the right house-but it demands a great deal of keeping still, and I'm one of those itchy, fidgety sorts who's always looking out the window or glancing toward the door, so it was only a matter of time until I had to move on.' In the Spring of 1877, Bridget-sixteen years old and already disillusioned after caring for her alcoholic father-is orphaned while crossing the Kansas prairie. She arrives penniless in Dodge City, and, thanks to the allure of her bright red hair and country-girl beauty, is soon recruited to work at the Buffalo Queen, the only brothel in town run by women. Bridget takes to brothel life instantly, appreciating the good food, good pay, and good friendships she forms with her fellow "sporting women," even catching the eye of the town's Sheriff's Deputy, who offers the Queen protection and security. Then, Spartan Lee-the most legendary (and only) female gunfighter in the region-rides into town, and Bridget falls in love. Hard. Sick of having been pushed and pulled by other people's whims and decisions, Bridget resolves to claim her own destiny. But her quest for autonomy detonates a series of events that explodes the tenuous safety she's secured for herself and her friends at the Buffalo Queen"
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Bloom
by Delilah S. Dawson
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Ana Marâia and the fox
by Liana De la Rosa
Seeking refuge in London from the French occupation of Mexico, a Mexican heiress enjoys her first taste of freedom away from her domineering father and the scorching looks she begins receiving from a member of Parliament, Gideon Fox.
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Blood lines : a novel
by Nelson DeMille
"Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited andtasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and whose body was discovered in a city park in the heart of Berlin's Arab refugee community. The authorities suspect this is an act of Islamic terrorism, but Brodie and Taylor soon believe there is more to this case. The reason for Vance's presence in Berlin is unknown, and as Brodie and Taylor work to discover what the murder victim was doing in the days and weeks preceding his death, they become immersed in the many conflicts and contradictions of modern Germany-the Arab refugee crisis, the dark legacy of the Cold War and the Stasi secret police, and the imminent threats of a rising neo-Nazi movement. At the same time, they are butting heads with the authorities--both German and American--and facing a possible threat from American intelligence agents who fear that Brodie and Taylor might have learned too much about US clandestine operations during their mission in Venezuela. Ultimately, Brodie and Taylor realize that the murder of Harry Vance was merely the prelude to a much more sinister future event--unless they can unravel the mystery in time to stop it."
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The wings of Poppy Pendleton
by Melanie Dobson
"1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York's gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving the island she inherited from her grandparents and reviving their vintage candy shop. Until the day a girl named Emma shows up on Chloe's doorstep, with few possessions, save a tattered scrapbook that connects her to the Pendleton family. When a reporter arrives at Chloe's store, asking questions about her grandfather, Chloe decides to help him dig into a past she'd thought best left buried. The haunting truth about Poppy, they soon discover, could save Emma's life, so Chloe and Logan must work together to investigate exactly what happened long ago on Koster Isle"
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The reformatory : a novel
by Tananarive Due
In the Jim Crow South, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
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Mary and the birth of Frankenstein : a novel
by Anne Eekhout
In 1816 Switzerland, 18-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron where she, anguished by the recent loss of her child, spends her days in strife until Bryon issues a challenge—write the best ghost story.
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And then she fell : a novel
by Alicia Elliott
"From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a fierce, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture--is nothing but supportive; and they've just moved into a new home in a wealthy neighbourhood in Toronto, a generous gift from her in-laws. But Alice could not feel like more of an imposter. She isn't connecting with Dawn, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their picture-perfect neighbours, amongst whom she's the sole Indigenous resident. Even when she does have a moment to herself, her perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story. At first, Alice is convinced her discomfort is of her own making. She has gotten everything she always dreamed of, after all. But then strange things start happening. She finds herself losing bits of time, hearing voices she can't explain, and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her, all while her neighbours' passive aggression begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve urges her this is all in her head, Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very, very wrong, and that in her creation story lies the key to her, and Dawn's, survival. . . . She just has to finish it before it's too late. Told in Alice's raw and darkly funny voice, And Then She Fell is an urgent and unflinching look at inherited trauma, womanhood, denial and false allyship, that speeds to an unpredictable--and unforgettable--climax"
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The enchanters : a novel
by James Ellroy
In the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
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Dirty thirty
by Janet Evanovich
Trenton, New Jersey's most underappreciated bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, while taking care of her boyfriend's giant orange dog, tracks the former security guard of a local jeweler who supposedly stole a fortune of diamonds, and must keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty.
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Exadelic
by Jon Evans
Considered the primary threat to the existence of an AI trained in the dark arts, Adrian Ross, on the run, seeks out the truth, uncovering strange revelations that lead him on a journey—and a love story—across worlds, eras and everything, everywhere, all at once.
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The sun sets in Singapore : a novel
by Kehinde Fadipe
In Singapore, three very different women—Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned“trailing spouse” from the US—find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva who brings their worlds crashing down.
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Dark memory
by Christine Feehan
When evil comes to their small town on the coast of Algeria, an evil she can feel but cannot see, Safia Meziane, trained since birth to protect her tribe, is joined in her fight by Petru Cioban, one of the oldest Carpathians in existence who has waited 2,000 years to claim her as his lifemate.
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The armor of light
by Ken Follett
In a new era of manufacturing and industry, and as war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond in 1770, a cast of unforgettable characters in Kingsbridge, England, are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes.
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Meet me at the lake
by Carley Fortune
"A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of EverySummer After. Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn't. At thirty-two, Fern's life doesn't look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern's back home, running her mother's Muskoka lakeside resort-something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend's the manager, and Fern doesn't know where to begin. She needs a plan-a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern's going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern's not sure she wants to know what it is. But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?"
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Devil makes three
by Ben Fountain
"Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'âetat, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker, forced out of his beachfront scuba shop by a drug-smuggling operation, turns to hunting colonial Spanish treasure off a remote section of Haiti's southern coast. Misha Variel, a Haitian-American scholar, returns to Haiti to care for her aging parents, and soon stumbles onto an arms-trafficking ring masquerading as a U.S.-government humanitarian aid office. Rookie CIA case officer Audrey O'Donnell finds herself managing a grabbag of intelligence assets in an assignment more difficult and more dubious than she could have imagined. All are embroiled in a game of deceit that culminates in a vicious, zero-sum scramble for survival. Devil Makes Three's depiction of blood politics, the machinations of power, and, most of all, a country in the midst of upheaval is urgently and insistently resonant."
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The running grave
by Robert Galbraith
Business partners Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are back, in the seventh installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally best-selling series.
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The spy coast : a thriller
by Tess Gerritsen
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her“Martini Club” of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
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Malibu burning
by Lee Goldberg
Setting fires as a distraction to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend, master thief Danny Cole is pursued by relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe, and when they meet face-to-face in a canyon of flames, they are both pitted against an unexpected enemy.
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Maybe once, maybe twice : a novel
by Alison Rose Greenberg
In this novel of second chances and finding your own way, 35-year-old aspiring singer Maggie Vine, when her first boyfriend from summer camp turned heartthrob actor offers her a career-changing opportunity, it feels like everything is falling into place, but her past won't let her move on without a fight.
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One Christmas morning
by Rachel Greenlaw
Reliving Christmas Day over and over through the perspectives of her friends, Eva, unable to forget the heartbreaking events of the Christmas that ripped her world apart, gains an insight into the secrets and struggles they've been hiding and must find a way to forget the past and fix the future.
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The Exchange : After the Firm
by John Grisham
In this explosive sequel to The Firm, Mitch, a partner at the largest law firm in the world, is asked for a favor by a mentor in Rome that plunges him into a sinister plot that has global implications and once against places everyone he holds dear in danger.
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The hurricane wars : a novel
by Thea Guanzon
Tasked with obliterating any threats to the Night Empire's rule, Prince Alaric, the emperor's only son and heir, tries to kill Talasyn, a girl burning brightly on the battlefield with the magic that ignited the Hurricane Wars, but instead, in a clash of light and dark, creates a force the likes of which has never been seen.
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Friends don't fall in love : a novel
by Erin Hahn
After performing a protest song at a concert, Lorelai Jones implodes her career and upcoming celebrity marriage, but finds a second chance at happiness and love with her former fiancé's bandmate and co-writer.
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10 things that never happened
by Alexis J. Hall
A chain-store owner attempts to fire the manager of the Leeds location, who bumps his head and appears to be faking amnesia, in the first novel of the new series by the author of Husband Material. .
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The Christmas appeal : a novella
by Janice Hallett
When a dead body interrupts the rehearsals for their holiday production of Jack and the Beanstalk, Fairway Players Femi and Charlotte page through letters, emails and police transcripts to identify both the victim and killer before its curtains for their production—permanently.
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Slay
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Dreading introducing her fiancé, the newly crowned vampire king of America, to her ultra-religious human relatives, necromancer Anita Blake, as she tries to keep the peace between the family she left behind and the family she's chosen, must battle against the dark forces putting her happily-ever-after at risk.
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A haunting on the hill
by Elizabeth Hand
After receiving a grant to develop her play, a struggling playwright seeks a remote getaway upstate to complete her work and stumbles upon Hill House, the enormous, old, eerie house from the story created by Shirley Jackson.
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Hercule Poirot's silent night : the new Hercule Poirot mystery
by Sophie Hannah
In 1931, the world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot, finds his plans for a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday thwarted by a murder investigation and has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders while someone plans to wreak holiday havoc on his life.
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The last applicant : a novel
by Rebecca Hanover
When Sarah, an overachieving mother, insinuates herself into her life, Audrey Singer, the admissions director of an exclusive Manhattan private school whose power is undeniable-as is her perfect life, finds things taking a dark and ominous turn when she realizes Sarah wants more than just her son's admission
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All the dead shall weep
by Charlaine Harris
Lizbeth Rose waits for her sister Felicia to join her in Texoma while their mother's family of high-powered Mexican wizards tries to kidnap or assassinate her family, in the fifth novel of the series following The Serpent in Heaven.
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Starling house
by Alix E. Harrow
"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she's never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice: to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she'll have to fight for it."
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The summer of songbirds : a novel
by Kristy Woodson Harvey
"Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process"
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Happy place
by Emily Henry
Despite breaking up months earlier, a picture-perfect couple still haven't told their friends about the split and attempt to pretend they are still together at an annual Maine getaway, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Book Lovers.
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The secret book of Flora Lea : a novel
by Patti Callahan Henry
"When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed"
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Girls from da hood 15
by Treasure Hernandez
A trio of novellas from three best-selling Urban Books authors include tales categorized as Lust, Greed and Wrath following the street life of underground sex clubs, drug kingpins, hitmen and fixers.
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The secret hours
by Mick Herron
"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable First Desk did not become Britain's top spy by accident, and she has succeeded thwarting the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that brought Monochrome into being has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust--and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects swirl down the drain in the pounding London rain. Until the eve of Monochrome's shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a highly classified operation in 1994 Berlin--an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history."
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The five-star weekend
by Elin Hilderbrand
Inviting her best friend from each phase of her life, widow Hollis Shaw hosts an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, during which things don't go as planned as each woman deals with heartbreak, infidelity, scandal and secrets, but things turnaround due to new friendships, unexpected romance and self-discovery.
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The water outlaws
by S. L. Huang
Recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan, expert arms instructor Lin Chong, disgraced, tattooed as a criminal and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who wants her dead, joins these mountain outlaws who live on the fringe of society—and who are ready to make history or tear it apart.
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Hot springs drive : a novel
by Lindsay Hunter
Jealous of her long-time best friend Theresa, who seems to have an easier life with a perfect child, Jackie is eventually driven to extremes by her envy, in the new novel by the author of Eat Only When You're Hungry.
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Mrs. Claus and the trouble with turkeys
by Liz Ireland
"At Castle Kringle, the elves are excitedly arranging their first ever Thanksgiving day feast. April's husband, Nick--the real Santa--as some misgivings, since it's tough to get ready for Christmas when everyone is obsessed with helium balloons and pie recipes. Chaos erupts when Gobbles, the live turkey imported for the castle feast, is bird-napped. That crime is quickly overshadowed at a pre-Thanksgiving potluck when Nick's cousin, Elspeth, face-plants into her mashed potatoes--dead. Someone poisoned Elspeth, and April believes Constable Crinkle is hauling the wrong suspect off to jail. An ominous message, written in what seems to be blood and urging April to stop investigating, only convinces her more. But who's really to blame? Where is Gobbles the turkey? And can April solve a double helping of mystery in time for everyone to sit down to a non-deadly dinner together?"
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Soichi
by Junji Ito
"Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsujii family, chews nails and makes them clatter and clack as he spouts horrific curses to bring about the most bizarre happenings. Whether it's summer holidays or a birthday party, Soichi can turn any occasion into a nightmare in a heartbeat. What is the terrible secret of his origin?' Meanwhile, tormented by his little brother's never-ending pranks, older brother Koichi has a soundproof room built. But why does it have a series of four doors? And then there's the strange phenomenon surrounding the handmade casket their grandfather left behind. What on earth--or hell--has the family seen there? Ten tales that celebrate the sinister and hilarious world of Junji Ito's favorite antihero, Soichi!"
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Blessing of the lost girls
by Judith A. Jance
In the first novel of a new series by the New York Times best-selling author of the J.P. Beaumont and the Joanna Brady series.
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A Christmas to remember
by Beverly Jenkins
When their long-awaited walk down the aisle to say“I do” hits a speed bump that could derail everything, Bernadine and Mal discover their relationship isn't the only one being tested as Preston Mays gets his heart broken and Reverend Paula Grant asks God to send her someone to share her life.
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None of this is true
by Lisa Jewell
"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life-and into her home. But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family's lives under mortal threat. Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?"
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Chenneville : a novel of murder, loss, and vengeance
by Paulette Jiles
After recovering from a traumatic head injury, John Chenneville discovers his beloved sister and her family were murdered during the end of the Civil War and embarks on an odyssey across the Reconstruction-era South seeking revenge.
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The Longmire defense
by Craig Johnson
Investigating a crime that goes back to his grandfather's time in Wyoming, Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absaroka County, recalling clues and motives from his past, questions the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West.
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Godkiller
by Hannah Kaner
After a great war, the new king outlaws gods, paying “godkillers” to destroy them, and Kissen, tasked with helping a young noble girl whose soul is bonded to a tiny god of white lies, discovers there's something rotting at the heart of her world and she's the only who can stop it.
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Love Me Do
by Lindsey Kelk
While visiting her sister in Hollywood, Brit Phoebe Chapman plays matchmaker for her sister's personal trainer and the sweet carpenter next door, and caught up with writing love letters and an unexpected friendship with a reclusive 82-year-old film star, finds herself falling for the real LA—and someone unexpected.
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A traitor in Whitehall
by Julia Kelly
"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use all of her amateur sleuthing expertise to find the killer. But doing so puts her right in the path of David Poole, a cagey minister's aide who seems determined to thwart her investigations. That is, until Evelyne finds out David's real mission is to root out a mole selling government secrets to Britain's enemies, and the pair begrudgingly team up. With her quick wit, sharp eyes, and determination, will Evelyne be able to find out who's been selling England's secrets and catch a killer, all while battling her growing attraction to David?"
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Paws to remember
by Sofie Kelly
Librarian Kathleen Paulson and her enchanted cats look into the 30-year disappearance of a young woman whose body was just discovered—a cold case that puts some people in Mayville Heights in hot water.
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Bride of the tornado : a novel
by James Kennedy
A high school student discovers that her midwestern town falls victim every twenty years to a plague of sentient tornadoes determined to destroy them all and discovers a strange connection with the only person who can stop them.
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The world wasn't ready for you : stories
by Justin C. Key
Deftly blending science fiction, horror and fantasy, this electrifying new collection expands and subverts the horror genre to expertly explore issues of race, class, prejudice, love, exclusion, loneliness and what it means to be a person in the world, while revealing the horrifying nature inherent in all of us.
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The dead take the A Train
by Cassandra Khaw
Trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, Julie, a coked-up, burnt-out 30-year-old, finds her desperation for a quick fix to break the dead-end grind and help save her best Sarah setting off a deadly chain of events that puts them all directly in the path of annihilation.
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The heart of it all
by Christian Kiefer
Set in an America of increasing unsurety, this breathtaking novel focuses on the members of three very families in a small, declining Ohio town where they are both divided and bound by their differences.
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Mobility : a novel
by Lydia Kiesling
Following Bunny Glen, an American teenager in 1998 Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family, from adolescence to middle age, this geopolitical exploration and domestic coming-of-age novel is a propulsive and challenging story about class, power, politics and desire told through the life of one woman.
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What we kept to ourselves : a novel
by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee comes a propulsive new novel of a family that unravels when a stranger is found dead in their backyard, only to find he might hold the key to finding their mother who disappeared ayear ago"
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Holly : a novel
by Stephen King
"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight, and must face some of her most depraved adversaries yet.When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her own mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be taking time off. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are smart, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outhink and outmaneuver this brilliant and twisted pair in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King"
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The burnout : a novel
by Sophie Kinsella
Retreating to the British seaside resort she loved as a child, burned out professional Sasha meets Finn, who's just as stressed a she is, and forced together by curious messages addressed to them, talk about everything, including the simmering attraction between them.
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The deep sky
by Yume Kitasei
When a lethal bomb knocks the The Phoenix—a ship carrying humanity's last hope—off course, Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect and with the crew turning on each other, she is determined to find the culprit before the bomber strikes again.
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The house of love and death
by Andrew Klavan
An ex-spy-turned-English professor defies accepted narratives and corrupt local authorities to investigate the murder of a wealthy family in the Chicago suburbs.
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Bright young women
by Jessica Knoll
"Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer--and that he's struck again. Determined to find justice, the two join forces as their search for answers leads to a final, shocking confrontation"
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The river we remember : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past
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The leftover woman : a novel
by Jean Kwok
Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
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Flipping boxcars : a novel
by Cedric
Struggling to get by during the Great Depression and World War II, Babe, a gambler with a heart of gold and the gift of gab, when he endangers the little security his family has, risks everything for one big score—a make-or-break scheme involving railroad boxcars.
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The maniac
by Benjamín Labatut
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"
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Roman stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated from Italian into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this masterful collection of nine short stories has Rome, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical, as the protagonist, not the setting.
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Time's mouth : a novel
by Edan Lepucki
"Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost"
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Brooklyn crime novel
by Jonathan Lethem
In 1970s Brooklyn, with the promise of violence everywhere, a currency itself, this story of community, crime and gentrification chronicles more than 50years of life in one neighborhood where the players write the headlines, the histories and the laws of the streets.
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My roommate is a vampire
by Jenna Levine
Moving into a too-good-to-be-true apartment, artist Cassie Greenberg, wondering what the catch is, discovers her gorgeous new roommate is a vampire—and he has a proposition for her.
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The heirloom
by Beverly Lewis
Clara Bender believes a visit to Hickory Hollow may help her find direction after her father remarries.
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Wednesday's child : stories
by Yiyun Li
Written over the span of a decade, this new collection of stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters striving for an ordinary existence until doing so becomes unsustainable as the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces—death, violence, estrangement—come to light.
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Better hate than never
by Chloe Liese
Making a rare visit home, Katerina Wilmot finds her and Christopher Petruchio's fiery animosity rekindled into a raging inferno until a drunken night leads to a confession and an impassioned kiss, forcing them to decide if it's truly better to hate than to never risk their hearts.
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The witch of Maracoor : a novel
by Gregory Maguire
A young witch coming into her own, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West, reups her mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two after a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz.
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All you have to do is call
by Kerri Maher
The founder of an underground women's health organization that offers reproductive counseling and safe, illegal abortions, Veronica finds it more difficult to lead a double life, while two women in her neighborhood, grappling with similar disconnects, must make choices that will change the course of their lives forever.
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Murder and mamon
by Mia P. Manansala
When the building housing their new laundromat is vandalized and Ninang April's niece, recently arrived from the Philippines, is found dead, Lila Macapagal and her network must figure out who has hung her aunties out to dry by airing out town of Shady Palms' dirty laundry.
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Lilith : a novel
by Nikki Marmery
Banished forever from Paradise for refusing to submit to Adam's will, Lilith, endowed with wisdom from the Tree of Knowledge, finds her quest for justice driving her through history where she finally understands what must be done to correct the wrong done to women—and all humankind—at the beginning of time.
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The unsettled
by Ayana Mathis
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama-about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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From a far and lovely country
by Alexander McCall Smith
Busier than ever, the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, with no shortage of sensitive situations, are reminded by Mma Ramotswe that the best solutions to life's problems can be found with a bit of good humor, generosity of spirit and a steaming cup of red bush tea.
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Moscow X : a novel
by David McCloskey
Posing as a couple to target Vadim, Vladimir Putin's moneyman, CIA officers Sia and Max, as they descend further into a Russian world of luxury and violence, find their only hope may be Vadim's wife, Anna, who is playing a game of her own.
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Absolution
by Alice McDermott
Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.
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West heart kill
by Dann McDorman
Attending the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, PI Adam McAnnis, when a major storm hits, is faced with three corpses within four days and a cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful members.
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My darling girl
by Jennifer McMahon
"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and is reluctant to unearth these traumatic memories. Still, she eventually agrees to take in Mavis, hoping that she and her mother could finally heal and have the relationship she's always dreamed of. But when mysterious and otherworldly things start happening upon Mavis's arrival, Alison begins to suspect her mother is not quite who she seems. And as the holiday festivities turn into a nightmare, she must confront just how far she is willing to go to protect her family"
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Santa & Company
by Fern Michaels
Reuniting for a holiday adventure at a fabulous ski lodge, longtime friends Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina find it's the season for new beginnings when an unexpected turn of events leads them to confront their pasts.
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The quiet room / : A Rabbits Novel
by Terry Miles
"After nearly winning the eleventh iteration of Rabbits, the mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas, Emily Connors suddenly finds herself trapped in a dimensional stream where the game does not exist. At all. Except . . . why do sinister figures show up to stop her every time she goes looking? Does Rabbits truly not exist, or is it being hidden? And if it's being hidden, why--and by whom? Meanwhile, architect and theme park designer Rowan Chess is having the weirdest month of his life, full of odd coincidences and people who appear one moment and vanish the next, with no trace they ever even existed. The game that is hiding from Emily seems to have found Rowan--with a vengeance. But only when Rowan and Emily meetdo things start to get dangerous, for together they uncover a conspiracy far deeper and deadlier than either of them expected--one that could forever change the nature not only of the game, but of reality itself"
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The Magic Order
by Mark Millar
"We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians, and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness...unless the darkness gets them first. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians--sworn to protect our world for generations--must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one"
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Christmas in Painted Pony Creek
by Linda Lael Miller
When Tessa Stafford and her daughter arrive in Painted Pony Creek, Texas, cowboy Jessie McKettrick, who always wanted a family of his own, is immediately smitten, but when her past threatens their newfound future, he won't let the family he's come to love go without a fight.
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Julia Monroe begins again
by Rebekah Millet
"With her two boys off to college, forty-year-old Julia Monroe intends to expand her cleaning business in New Orleans, but God seems to have other plans. Samuel Reed, the ruggedly handsome Green Beret who broke her heart more than twenty years ago, has returned to town, and he's determined to win her back"
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Code red
by Kyle Mills
Mitch Rapp crosses into war-torn Syria at the behest of a powerful crime lord to determine who is manufacturing a highly addictive new narcotic in the latest addition to the long-running series following Oath of Loyalty.
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Contrarian
by L. E. Modesitt
After his patron is assassinated, Counselor and Isolate Steffan Dekkard must handle political infighting and ongoing murder attempts while uncovering who is supplying arms to insurrectionists, in the third novel of the series following Councilor.
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Same time next summer
by Annabel Monaghan
"The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself"
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The book club hotel
by Sarah Morgan
While dealing with her fully booked inn for the holidays, widow and single mom Hattie Coleman just wants to make it through the festive season and is not prepared when her own story becomes entwined in those of three lifelong friends, changing all their lives during the most enchanting time of the year.
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Sisters under the rising sun
by Heather Morris
Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers—held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra—battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but find, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
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When I'm dead :
by Hannah Morrissey
When her daughter Chloe goes missing after the death of her best friend, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp and her husband question how deeply they really knew their daughter as they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions, which threaten to tear them apart.
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Touched : a novel
by Walter Mosley
When he wakes up with the knowledge that humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence and he is the cure, Martin, uses his new physical strengths to violently defend his family—the only Black family in their neighborhood in Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles—against pure evil.
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Murder by degrees : a mystery
by Ritu Mukerji
In 1875 Philadelphia, Dr. Lydia Weston, a professor and anatomist at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, investigates the death of her patient Anna, a young woman who seemingly committed suicide, and discovers a terrible, long hidden secret that makes her the target of those who wished to silence Anna.
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Home at night
by Paula Munier
"Beware the blackbirds... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room-and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in the library. There's something about Grackle Tree Farm thatpeople are willing to kill for-and Mercy needs to figure out what before they move in. A coded letter found on the victim points to a hidden treasure that may be worth a fortune-if it's real. She and Captain Thrasher conduct a search of the old place-andend up at the wrong end of a Glock. A masked man shoots Thrasher, and she and Elvis must take him down before he murders them all. Under fire, she and Elvis manage to run the guy off, but not before they are wounded, leaving Thrasher fighting for his life in the hospital, Mercy on crutches, and Elvis on the mend. Now it's up to Mercy and Troy and the dogs to track down the masked murderer in a county overflowing with leaf peepers, Halloween revelers, and treasure hunters and bring him to justice before he strikes again and the treasure is lost forever, along with the good name of Grackle Tree Farm..."
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A holly jolly ever after
by Julie Murphy
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex, in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute.
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Vengeance is mine
by Marie NDiaye
Hired by a man she vaguely remembers to defend his wife, who's been accused of a horrific crime, quiet middle-aged lawyer, Maître Susane finds unsettling memories coming to the surface, while becoming increasingly concerned about her housekeeper's furtive behavior.
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The night house
by Jo Nesbø
When he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, when he is suspected in the disappearances of two classmates, must prove his innocence and preserve his sanity as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing the town.
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Julia : a novel
by Sandra Newman
In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.
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Picture perfect autumn : a novel
by Shelley Noble
Discovering old photos in which she sees what her work is missing, Manhattan photographer Dani Campbell searches for their source, which leads her to 80-year-old Lawrence Sinclair who agrees to mentor her until his estranged grandson arrives believing she's a fortune hunter.
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Charm city rocks : a love story
by Matthew Norman
"When a single dad meets the former rock star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew about happiness and love is thrown into chaos in this hopeful, heartwarming romantic comedy Billy Perkins is happy. No, for real. It's kind of his thing, actually. And why wouldn't he be? He loves his job as an independent music teacher and his apartment in Baltimore above a record shop called Charm City Rocks. Most of all, he loves his brainy teenage son, Caleb. Although not the world's most traditional parent, Billy has plenty to teach his son about art and manhood before Caleb goes off to college. Margot Hammer, on the other hand, is far from happy. The former drummer of the once-famous rock band Burnt Flowers, she's now a rock and roll recluse living alone in New York City. When a new music documentary suddenly puts Margot back in the spotlight, she begins to realize how much she misses her old band and the music that gave her life meaning. Billy has always had a crush on Margot. But she's a legitimaterock star-or at least, she was-so he never thought he'd actually meet her. Until Caleb, worried that his easygoing dad might actually be lonely, cooks up a scheme to get Margot to perform at Charm City Rocks. It's the longest of long shots, but Margot's label has made it clear that any publicity is an opportunity she can't afford to miss. When their paths collide, Billy realizes that he maybe wasn't as happy as he thought-and Margot learns that sometimes the sweetest music is a duet"
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Guy's girl
by Emma Noyes
When she meets Adrian, Ginny, who has always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free than dating, questions her own rules, and as they fall into something intoxicating, something dangerous, they reveal their innermost secrets that could help them or destroy them.
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America fantastica : a novel
by Tim O'Brien
On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage, in the new novel from the author of The Things They Carried.
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Some of us are looking : a County Kerry novel
by Carlene O'Connor
When a beautiful young woman named Brigid, part of a ragtag caravan of young people selling wares by the roadside, is brutally murdered after bringing an injured hare to her veterinary practice, Dimpna Wilde helps Detective Sergeant Cormac O'Brien investigate, finding ominous signs everywhere they look.
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The wake-up call
by Beth O'Leary
When hotel receptionists and enemies, Izzy and Lucas, find a collection of old wedding rings, they compete to return them to their owners as a way to save the hotel and their jobs but find their bitter rivalry turning into something much more complicated.
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The last devil to die
by Richard Osman
When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
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Not forever, but for now : a novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Two brothers in a family of professional killers, Otto and Cecil find it hard to continue the family legacy due to a series of escaped convicts showing up at their door, a lecherous new tutor with disturbing hobbies, their mother's burgeoning opioid addiction and the disappearance of their father.
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A haunting in Hialeah Gardens : a novel
by Raul Palma
"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babalâawo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except this time Alexi is calling because he needs spiritual help. His house is haunted. Alexi proposes a deal: If Hugo can successfully cleanse his home before Noche Buena, Alexi will forgive Hugo's debt. Hugo reluctantly accepts, but there's one issue: Despite being a babalâawo, he doesn't believe in spirits. Hugo plans to do what he's done with dozens of clients before: use sleight of hand and amateur psychology to convince Alexi the spirits have departed. But when the job turns out to be more than Hugo bargained for, Hugo's old tricks don't work. Memories of his past--his childhood in the Bolivian silver mines and a fraught crossing into the United States as a boy--collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax."
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Wyoming proud
by Diana Palmer
Fleeing to Wyoming after Ty Mosby, the love of her life, breaks her heart, Erianne, keeping her pregnancy a secret, tries to stand strong when he follows her, willing to do anything to beg for her forgiveness and win back her trust.
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12 months to live
by James Patterson
An ex-NYPD beat cop, unrelenting PI and undefeated defense attorney, terminally ill Jane Smith, while knee-deep in the murder of trial of the century, is targeted by a killer who's determined to end her life before her expiration date.
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23 1/2 lies : thrillers
by James Patterson
The world's best-selling author presents three thrilling novellas including one about an ex-Texas-Ranger and a starving artist who agree to expose a client's cheating wife in the latest addition to the long-running series following 23rd Midnight.
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The 23rd midnight
by James Patterson
When an obsessed maniac turns serial killer Evan Burke's true-crime story into a playbook, adding some of his own gruesome touches, Detective Lindsay Boxer, who put Burke in jail, tracks this elusive suspect, who is determined to put an end to the Murder Club—permanently.
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Love at 350 degrees : a novel
by Lisa Peers
Competing in the American Bake-o-Rama TV competition, chemistry teacher Tori Moore, an avid home baker, falls in love with notoriously ruthless celebrity judge Kendra Campbell and wonders if their blossoming relationship is the real thing or if it's a recipe for disaster.
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A Christmas vanishing : a novel
by Anne Perry
Mariah Ellison investigates after accepting an invitation to spend Christmas with a friend and her husband but arrives and discovers her friend has disappeared without a trace and her invitation has been rudely rescinded.
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The traitor among us
by Anne Perry
Infiltrating Wyndham Hall, where the body of a longtime MI6 agent was found, Elena Standish, as Hitler's control spreads across Europe, covertly investigates his murder, working to uncover the true loyalties of the people in the house while protecting her sister from her beau's potentially dangerous relatives.
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The berry pickers : a novel
by Amanda Peters
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
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Night Watch : a novel
by Jayne Anne Phillips
"In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands that ConaLee introduce herself as her mother's nurse--not her daughter--so they'll both be admitted and allowed to stay. There, far from family, their beloved neighbor, Dearbhla, and the home they know, ConaLee will care for her mother and try to reclaim their lives. Years earlier, ConaLee's father left for the war before she was born and never returned. After suffering a life-threatening head wound in battle, he couldn't remember his name, his family, or where he came from. Forced to start over, he takes the name of the doctor who gave him a second life, and ventures back into the world looking for work and the truth about his past"
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Up on the woof top
by Spencer Quinn
When best-selling author Dame Ariadne Carlisle's lead reindeer Rudy—and her good luck charm—goes missing, Chet the dog and his human partner Bernie, while searching for Rudy, find their seemingly simple case turning into a murder investigation when Dame Ariadne's personal assistant plunges to her death.
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Murder in Drury Lane
by Vanessa Riley
While attending a production at the Drury Lane theater, Lady Abigail Worthing, when murder is in attendance, launches her own investigation, dismayed to discover one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart—the abolition of slavery within the British Empire.
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Payback in death / : An Eve Dallas Novel
by J. D. Robb
While investigating the apparent suicide of a retired Internal Affairs captain, who made his career tripping up bribe takers, rule breakers and worse, homicide detective Eve Dallas follows a trail of corruption all the way to the top to expose a killer bent on revenge.
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Cruel seduction
by Katee Robert
"Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now--even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet. Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to put his new wife in her place. Her ex, Adonis, seems like he'll do the trick. It doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous in the way of fallen angels, either. The only problem with using seduction as a weapon? Hearts are all too quick to get involved. With Hephaestus and Aphrodite trading venomous strikes that feel a whole lotlike foreplay, lines become blurred and emotions entangled. But a broken heart may be the least of their worries. With unrest in Olympus reaching new heights, these bedroom games may have deadly consequences for themselves, their city, and everyone they've come to love"
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Hunt on dark waters
by Katee Robert
After stealing from her vampire ex and falling through a portal to another realm, witch Evelyn is rescued by telekinetic sailors in the first novel of a new series by the New York Times best-selling author of Neon Gods.
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The interpreter : a novel
by Brooke Robinson
A court interpreter, fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and courtrooms across London, Revelle Lee, when someone discovers her long-ago error and its terrible consequences, finds her life being destroyed, piece by piece.
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'Twas the bite before christmas
by David Rosenfelt
When one of the Tara Foundation's best foster volunteers, Derek Moore, is arrested for murder during the annual Christmas party, lawyer Andy Carpenter, believing in Derek's innocence, discovers he's in the witness protection program and vows to clear his name and catch a killer before this case goes to the dogs.
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Evil eye : a novel
by Etaf Rum
The acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents.
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Brainwyrms
by Alison Rumfitt
After surviving a hate crime at her gender identity workplace, a trans woman, Frankie, meets Vanya at a queer kink club and spirals into increasingly destructive behaviors ultimately uncovering her involvement in a sinister conspiracy.
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Thank you for sharing : a novel
by Rachel Runya Katz
"A chemistry-filled childhood friends to enemies to lovers debut romance about two people forced to confront their pasts to save both their relationship and careers. Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson's last conversation-fourteen years ago at summer camp-ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up right where they left off. At least they can go their separate ways again after landing... That is, until Daniel's marketing firm gets hired by the Chicago museum where Liyah works as a junior curator, and they're forced to collaborate with potential career changing promotions on the line. With every meeting and post-work social gathering with colleagues, the tension (and chemistry) betweenDaniel and Liyah builds until they're forced to confront why they broke apart years ago at camp. But as they find comfort in their shared experiences as Jews of color and fumble towards friendship, can they ignore their growing feelings for each other? With sexy charm and undeniable wit, Rachel Runya Katz's sparkling debut, Thank You For Sharing, proves that if you're open to love, anything is possible"
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Red River seven
by A. J. Ryan
"A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of who or where he is. He's not alone - there are six others, each with a unique set of skills. None of them can remember their names. All of them possess a gun. When a message appears on the onboard computer- Proceeding to Point A - the group agrees to work together to survive whatever is coming. But as the boat moves through the mist-shrouded waters, divisions begin to form. Who is directing them and to what purpose? Why can't they remember anything? And what are the screams they can hear beyond the mist?"
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Yumi and the nightmare painter
by Brandon Sanderson
When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, Yumi—who comes from a land of gardens, meditation and spirits—and Painter—who lives in a world of darkness, technology and nightmares—must learn to compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
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Judgement prey
by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to solve another challenging case in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
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Starter villain
by John Scalzi
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
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Unleashed holiday
by Victoria Schade
When an unfortunate (and literal) run-in with her nemesis, certified gym bro Andrew Gibson, leaves her with a bum wrist, they strike a deal: he'll help her rehab the injury if she'll help him train his adorably uncivilized boxer, and with Christmas fast approaching, they wonder if they are training for keeps.
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Flight of Icarus
by Caitlin Schneiderhan
Feeling that 1984 is his year, Eddie Munson meets a badass record producer from LA who offers him a chance to get out of Hawkins, Indiana, if he gets her a demo tape of his band, and he will do whatever it takes to make that recording.
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The English experience
by Julie Schumacher
Chaperoning Payne University's annual“Experience: Abroad,” beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for 11 undergrads, including a claustrophobe, a pair of unreconciled lovers and a young woman who has never been away from her cat before, through a sea of personal, institutional and international troubles.
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The Fragile Threads of Power
by V. E. Schwab
As two royals fight to keep their crowns amidst old friends and new enemies in fantastical realms connected by a single city—London, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could bring them together—or unravel it all.
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Midnight showing
by Megan Shepherd
Drawn to Hollywood, Haven, discovering a string of murders that point directly to members of her family, is given shelter by a mysterious benefactor and finds the trail of death ending at a studio from the Golden Age of horror films, where the lines between reality and fiction dangerously blur
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A winter in New York : a novel
by Josie Silver
Moving to New York, young chef Iris offers her services to save a struggling gelato shop in Little Italy where she finds herself falling for the owner's nephew Gio and his family until all the secrets she's been keeping threaten to ruin her new life—and new love—she's been building.
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Snowed in for Christmas
by Jaqueline Snowe
"Sorority mom Becca Fairfield is used to guys not taking her seriously. She's too blond, too quirky, or Just. Too. Much. So she's ditched dating to focus on her job and a house filled with drama and plenty of tea. Now with the holidays and a major blizzard on her doorstep, Becca has everything she needs to survive the next two weeks on her own. Hot cocoa, plenty of books . . . and the memory of a steamy kiss with a certain hot, grumposaurus next-door neighbor to keep her warm. Only Becca's seriously underestimated this Snowpocalypse. So when the power goes out and Harrison Cooper--football coach, master crank, and the guy who acted mega-awkward after said steamy kiss--offers her shelter, it only makes sense to accept. They'll just be Blizzard Buddies. Hang out, stay safe, and maybe indulge in a little R-rated cuddling. Becca knows that Harrison isn't the dating kind, and what happens during the storm lasts only as long as the storm. But are they keeping warm . . . or playing with fire?"
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Night of the ghoul
by Scott Snyder
"Horror film obsessive Forest Inman stumbles across a seemingly forgotten canister of old footage. Thinking he has found the legendary unreleased would-be classic 1936 film "Night of the Ghoul," he sets off on a dark odyssey to the California desert, where he's warned that the film's ghoul is far more than a work of fiction: it's a very real monster who plans to kill him. It was said to be the greatest horror movie in cinematic history. Shot in 1936, "Night of the Ghoul" by writer/director T.F. Merritt was meant to sit beside "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" as an instant classic...But the legendary film never made it to the silver screen. Just before editing was finished, a mysterious studio fire destroyed the footage and killed the cast and crew celebrating at wrap-party"
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Last to leave the room : a novel
by Caitlin Starling
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgèanger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel. It appears fully, terribly human, passing every test Tamsin can devise. But the longer the double exists, the more Tamsin begins to forget pieces of her life, to lose track of time, to grow terrified of the outside world. As her employer grows increasingly suspicious, Tamsin must try to hold herself together long enough to figure out what her double wants from her, and just where the mysterious door leads."
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Second act : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Out of a job and humiliated, Andy Westfield, the head of a prestigious movie studio, flees to a tiny, forgotten coastal town in England where he hires a former journalist to help get his affairs in order and in a surprising turn of events, finds a miracle that could change both their lives.
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The Christmas guest : a novella
by Peter Swanson
When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
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Kill show : a true crime novel
by Daniel Sweren-Becker
"When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial TV docu-series that followed her disappearance in real time. But is it possible thateveryone missed the biggest secret of all? Ten years after the events in question, the people who knew Sara best are finally ready to talk. In this genre-bending novel, Daniel Sweren-Becker fashions an oral history around the seemingly familiar crime of a teenage girl gone missing. Yet Kill Show, filled with diabolical twists and provocative social commentary, is no standard mystery; through "interviews" with family members, neighbors, law enforcement, TV executives, and a host of other compelling characters, Sweren-Becker constructs a riveting tale about one family's tragedy... and Hollywood's insatiable desire to exploit that tragedy. By revealing the seedy underbelly of the True Crime entertainment machine, Kill Show probes literary territory beyond the bounds of the standard whodunit-it's a thoughtful exploration into America's obsession with the mysteries, cold cases, and violent tales we turn to for comfort. Groundbreaking, fast-moving and informed, this is a novel about who's really responsible for the tragedies we love to consume"
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Ink blood sister scribe : a novel
by Emma Törzs
"Two estranged half sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power"
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The house of doors : a novel
by Twan Eng Tan
In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley, as her friendship with Willie grows, makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits, including her relationship with a charismatic Chinese revolutionary—a confession that has devastating consequences.
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How I Won a Nobel Prize
by Julius Taranto
A funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage).
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Idlewild : a novel
by James Frankie Thomas
"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive, and obsessed with Fay. The two of them bond fiercely and spend all their waking hours giddily parsing their environment for homoerotic subtext. Then, during rehearsals for the fall play, they notice two sexually ambiguous boys who are potential candidates for their exclusive Invert Society. The pairs become mirrors of one another and drive each other to make choices that they'll regret for the rest of their lives. Looking back on these events as adults, the estranged Fay and Nell trace that fateful school year, recalling backstage theater department intrigue, antiwar demonstrations, smutty fanfic written over AIM, a shared dial-up connection-and the spectacular cascade of mistakes, miscommunications, and betrayals that would ultimately tear the two of them apart"
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Dead fall : a thriller
by Brad Thor
America's top spy is sent to war-torn Ukraine after a Russian military unit comprised of violent, insane criminals conscripted from their worst prisons and mental asylums goes rogue, in the latest addition to the series following Rising Tiger.
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The circumference of the world
by Lavie Tidhar
"Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia's husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartley's novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?"
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Blackouts : a novel
by Justin Torres
A young man tends to the dying soul of a person he knew only briefly and the pair trade stories as they wait for the end, in the new novel from the author of We the Animals.
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The refugee ocean : a novel
by Pauls Toutonghi
A former piano prodigy who lost his hand in the war, Naim Rahil, a teenage Syrian refugee, struggles to thrive in America where he finds his life inextricably linked—over time and distance—to another refugee by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music.
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Hush Harbor : a novel
by Anise Vance
After the murder of an unarmed black teenager by the police, a resistance group takes over an abandoned housing project, calling it Hush Harbor in honor of their enslaved ancestors, but when the new mayor with ties to white supremacists tries to shut it down, they must fight for their very survival.
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Witch of wild things
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
"With rare plants to find, a dead sister who keeps bringing her coffee, and another sister whose anger fills the sky with lightning, Sage doesn't have time for romance. Sage Flores has an affinity for plants, but it wasn't enough to save her younger sister Sky's life. She ran from the tragedy, only to return to her hometown eight years later. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusualheritage specimens in the surrounding lands. What should be a simple task is complicated by her partner in botany sleuthing: Tennessee Reyes. He broke her heart in high school, and she never fully recovered. Working together is reminding her of all theirpast tender, genuine moments-and new feelings for this mature sexy man are starting to take root in her heart. But being with Tenn is like standing in the middle of a field on the cusp of a summer thunderstorm-supercharged and inevitable"
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Wound : a novel
by Oksana Vasëiìakina
While on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother's ashes, a young lesbian poet reflects on her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening and carefully documents her grief and interrogates her past.
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Batman/Superman: world's finest. : World's Finest 2; Strange Visitor Vol. 2, Strange visitor
by Mark Waid
"The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel might have been victorious in their battle against the dreaded Devil Nezha, but there's one thing they forgot in all the madness... Dick! First, Robin the Boy Wonder is lost in time and to find him, Batman and Superman will need to get creative! Then learn the untold story of Superman's short-lived sidekick is at last revealed, but what secret connection to one of DC's most timeless tales does this story foreshadow?"
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The takedown
by Carlie Walker
Going undercover to gather evidence on her sister's fiancé, Johnny Jones, the heir of an organized crime dynasty, CIA field officer Sydney Swift is distracted from her assignment by Johnny's handsome bodyguard and decides this time, love is a target she can't afford to miss.
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Looking glass sound
by Catriona Ward
"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes, Wilder begins to fear his grip on the truth is fading ... and that the book may be writing itself."
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Let us descend : a novel
by Jesmyn Ward
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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Family meal
by Bryan Washington
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way past all that has been said - and left unsaid - to save each other?"
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A beautiful disguise
by Roseanna M. White
"Dire straits force Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother to become private investigators in London. When Sir Merrick Livingstone hires them to look into the father of Marigold's best friend for suspected international espionage, she is determined to discover the truth, and even more determined to keep her heart from getting involved"
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Crook manifesto : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys.
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The twelve dogs of Christmas : a novel
by Susan Wiggs
"The ultimate holiday gift from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs: a delightful novel about a Christmas transport of rescue puppies that's guaranteed to warm readers' hearts"
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Cleat cute : a novel
by Meryl Wilsner
"A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team for ten years, even though she's only 26. But when she's sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn't-a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. But when Grace ends up making the first move, they can't keep their hands off of each other. As the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. But they're on the same page on the field, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. With every tackle the tension between them grows, and both players soon have to decide what's more important-being together or making the roster. The perfect blend of funny and steamy, Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute is about being brave enough to win on and off the field"
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Faking Christmas
by Kerry Winfrey
When one tiny misunderstanding leads her boss to think she owns her twin sister's farm, Laurel Grant, to keep her white lie going when he unexpectedly arrives on Christmas Eve, pretends to be married to her nemesis, Max, for just one night, or so she thinks.
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Midnight is the darkest hour : a novel
by Ashley Winstead
"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than theGod and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep in the swamp next to mysterious carved symbols, BottomSprings is thrown into uproar--and Ruth realizes only she and Everett, an old friend with a dark past, have the power to comb the town's secret underbelly in search of true evil. A dark and powerful novel like fans have come to expect from Ashley Winstead, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is an examination of the ways we've come to expect love, religion, and stories to save us, the lengths we have to go to in order to take back power, and the monstrous work of being a girl in this world."
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Night side of the river : ghost stories
by Jeanette Winterson
Combining her own supernatural encounters with spinetingling fiction, this gothic and unsettling collection of ghost stories examines grief, revenge and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
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After the forest
by Kell Woods
"After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Gretahas a secret, though: the witch's grimoire, secreted away and whispering in Greta's ear for the past two decades, and the recipe inside that makes the best gingerbread you've ever tasted. As long as she can bake, Greta can keep her small family afloat. But in a village full of superstition, Greta and her mysteriously addictive gingerbread, not to mention the rumors about her childhood misadventures, is a source of gossip and suspicion. And now, dark magic is returning to the woods and Greta's magic-magicshe is still trying to understand-may be the only thing that can save her. If it doesn't kill her first"
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Obsession
by Stuart Woods
Brought in to recover a young Croatian billionaire's wife, who was kidnapped while her husband was making a deal with Centurion Studios, Teddy Fay quickly comes to realize dark forces are at play, while dealing with an obsessive fan with deadly intentions who weasels his way onto the film set.
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Mr. Texas
by Lawrence Wright
After his heroic actions make the evening news, rancher Sonny Lamb, a laughingstock in his town, is asked to run for his West Texas district's seat in the state legislature, and against his better judgment, throws his hat in the ring in an attempt to pursue goodness in the Lonestar State.
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Fourth wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Despite hoping to enter the Scribe Quadrant, the bookish Violet Sorrengail is forced to become one of the hundreds of candidates risking their lives to be a dragon rider in the first novel of a new series.
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The unmaking of June Farrow : a novel
by Adrienne Young
"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere-the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own. After her grandmother's death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother's decades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she's been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love."
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Land of milk and honey
by C Pam Zhang
"about a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"
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Murderworld
by Jim Zub
"Hundreds are killed every year in an elaborate secret tournament run by a sadistic lunatic with nearly limitless resources at his fingertips. It's not an urban legend. It's not a myth. Murderworld is real! It's online, and the gruesome truth has been hidden from everyone except its victims - until now!"
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Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black horror
by Jordan Peele
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates an anthology of all-new stories of black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.
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