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Upcoming Hot Releases August 2024 |
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Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
Mystery. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie investigates a string of unsolved art thefts that point to a former estate that was converted into a hotel and now hosts Murder Mystery-themed weekends in the sixth novel of the series following Big Sky. (September)
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Safe Enough: And Other Stories
by Lee Child
Short Stories. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, a collection of 20 short stories shows the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been gathered before now. (September)
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The Waiting
by Michael Connelly
Crime Thriller. Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. (October)
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Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell
Crime Thriller. Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano's skin is strangely red. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. (October)
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Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier
by Mike Maden
Adventure. Juan Cabrilla and the crew of the Oregon track down a mysterious arms dealer chasing him from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur known as “the Vendor,” in the latest addition to the long-running series following Hellburner. (September)
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Fatal Intrusion
by Jeffery Deaver
Thriller. To stop a ruthless serial killer who is threatening his sister, a by-the-books Homeland Security agent, Carmen Sanchez, grudgingly teams up with a brilliant but unorthodox private security expert to unravel a sinister web of secrets. (September)
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The Mighty Red: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
Fiction. A Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award–winning author tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives. (October)
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Precipice: A Novel
by Robert Harris
Historical Thriller. In 1914 London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley, a part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie,” finds her affair with the Prime Minister becoming a matter of national security that could topple the British government—and alter the course of political history. (September)
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Bad Liar: A Novel
by Tami Hoag
Thriller. A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff's detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn't been seen since. Meanwhile, sheriff's detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack by taking on the case of B'Lynn Fontenot, a mother desperate to find her grown son, a recovering drug addict. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight days, but the local police have no interest in the case, telling B'Lynn that an adult has the right to disappear, and a missing addict is no big surprise. But B'Lynn swears her son was turning his life around. (September)
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The Accomplice
by Curtis Jackson
Thriller. The first novel by New York Times best-selling author and global superstar Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, who confidently charts the journeys of Nia Robinson, a Texas ranger who is on the hunt for wily bank robber Desmond Roberts in this high-tension, fast-moving page turner about power, equity, and revenge. (September)
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On the Hunt
by Iris Johansen
Thriller. A #1 New York Times best-selling author introduces a bold new heroine—and her search-and-rescue Golden Retriever, Mack—as Kira Drake begins an international search for an elusive killer who bombed a museum in Paris. (September)
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The Forest of Lost Souls
by Dean Koontz
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn't cast such a dark shadow. It's where Jose Nochelobo, the love of Vida's life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That's the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can't be contained for long. Nor can the hungry men of power in Kettleton who want something too: that Vida, like Jose, disappear forever. One by one they come for her, prepared to do anything to see their plans through to their evil end. Vida is no less prepared for them. (September)
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A Christmas Duet: A Novel
by Debbie Macomber
Holiday Fiction. Hailey Morgan, a high school band teacher with dreams of songwriting, escapes to a cabin for a solo holiday retreat only to find herself entangled in small-town drama and a blossoming romance that reignites her passion for music. (October)
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Here One Moment: A Novel
by Liane Moriarty
Fiction. Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens when passengers learn of their predicted deaths from a mysterious woman known as "The Death Lady, For some, their death is far in the future--age 103!--and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all, leading to a race against time for some and a chance to redefine their time left for others. (September)
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Shock Induction
by Chuck Palahniuk
Fiction. In Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface. These kids have been under surveillance since birth, monitored and measured by an online service called "Greener Pastures." It's here, in Greener Pastures, that billionaires observe and recruit the next generation of talent. The highest test scores, the best grades, and the most niche extracurriculars just might land these teenagers an enticing offer at auction. A couple billion dollars in exchange for the remainder of your life and intellectual labor sounds like a pretty fair deal--doesn't it? (October)
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Robert B. Parker's Buzz Kill
by Alison Gaylin
Crime Thriller. Boston PI Sunny Randall is back to investigate the disappearance of a hard-partying energy drink mogul. (September)
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Lies He Told Me: She's in Love—with a Liar.
by James Patterson
Thriller. When Marcie Bowers, an attorney and mother of two in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, discovers her husband David's secret life, it could mean a death sentence for them all. (September)
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The Grey Wolf
by Louise Penny
Mystery. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Chief Inspector Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder—all propel Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization: something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching. (October)
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Passions in Death
by J. D. Robb
Mystery/Thriller. On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls' night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée--two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii. Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room--but she'd been able to fight back and survive. She'd gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin. (September)
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Counting Miracles: A Novel
by Nicholas Sparks
Historical Fiction. Returning to 1903 Iowa, a reclusive musician, Otis Taylor, returns to settle family affairs and find his missing niece, while Sadie West, seeking to help her family, creates a transformative bond with him, potentially unlocking the mystery of his niece. (September)
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Triangle
by Danielle Steel
Fiction. A Paris art gallery owner finds herself in danger when a mysterious man begins leaving her messages. (October)
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham
Law/True Crime. Exposes ten harrowing tales of innocent Americans unjustly found guilty and convicted of crimes they didn't commit, shedding light on the flaws within the legal system that led to their imprisonment and the relentless battles for exoneration that ensued. (September)
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Lovely One
by Ketanji Brown Jackson
Memoir. In this unflinching account, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court pulls back the curtain to marry the public record of her life with what is less known, chronicling her extraordinary path to become a jurist on America's highest court. (September)
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Sonny Boy: A Memoir
by Al Pacino
Memoir. One of the most iconic actors in the history of film, known for such films as The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon, offers a revelatory account of a creative life in full. (October)
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American Heroes
by James Patterson
Military. U.S. soldiers who served in overseas conflicts--from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan--share true stories of the actions that earned them some of America's most distinguished military medals, up to and including the Medal of Honor. (October)
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