September 2024 list by Nanette Alderman |
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The Break-Up Pact
by Emma Lord
When they both experience public, humiliating break-ups that take TikTok and daytime talk shows by storm, childhood best friends June and Levi pretend to date to solve both their problems, setting out to convince the world they're in love, one swoon-worthy photo op at a time, without getting their hearts involved.
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City of Secrets
by P. J. Tracy
LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan investigates what appears to be a fatal car-jacking, but uncovers details about the victim that suggests there's more going on.
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The Dark Wives
by Ann Cleeves
When a man's body is found by a care home for troubled teens—a murder linked to the disappearance of a 14-year-old resident—DI Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate. When second connected body is found near the Three Dark Wives monument in the Northumberland countryside, superstition and folklore collide with fact.
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Daydream
by Hannah Grace
Academic superstar and college junior, Halle Jacobs, befriends Henry Turner when he accidentally crashes her book club and the pair work together to overcome their collegiate challenges.
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Fire and Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a deadly fire in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood called Foggy Bottom. A place with a colorful past and ties to gangs in the present.
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Fort Buzzard
by William W. Johnstone
When a party of land surveyors meet a gruesome end at the hands of the Crow Indians, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister are led to Fort Buzzard while helping an Army Lieutenant figure out what really happened. There they become involved in the biggest, bloodiest showdown in Rocky Mountain history.
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Good Duke Gone Wild
by Bethany Bennett
When Caroline Danvers, the intriguing bookseller he hires to liquidate his late wife's library, finds love letters revealing an affair, the Duke of Holland is drawn into a mystery. Unbeknownst to him, Caroline also has a secret that, if revealed, could bring about the ruin of them both.
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A Great Marriage
by Frances Mayes
Dara and Austin begin a whirlwind romance and engagement after meeting at a New York City gallery, only to have their love shattered by a life-altering family secret that forces the cancellation of their big day.
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The Mercy of Gods
by James S. A. Corey
When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their homeworld, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.
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Our Narrow Hiding Places
by Kristopher Jansma
When her grandson, Will, and his wife come for a visit, questioning family secrets, 80-year-old Mieke Geborn looks to the past and reveals the final years of Nazi occupation during World War II, and the story of Will's father, absent since Will's childhood.
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Pumpkin Spice Puppy
by Laurien Berenson
When a pet supply shop owner is murdered during Howard Academy's town-wide treasure hunt fundraiser, Melanie Travis, despite the headmaster's objections, gathers a list of suspects and follows a trail of clues before the biggest prize is staying alive.
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Red River Road
by Anna Downes
Desperate to discover what happened to her sister who vanished without a trace in Western Australia, Katy meets Beth, who's on the run from her own dark past, and forms an uneasy alliance with this woman who might be her best and only chance of finding the truth.
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.
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Shadow of Doubt
by Brad Thor
When a plot to destroy the United States is uncovered, the lives of a shadowy Russian defector, a beautiful Norwegian intelligence officer, and a deadly American spy become intertwined.
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Someone in the Attic
by Andrea Mara
After seeing an online video of a masked figure climbing out of her attic, filmed inside her own house in a luxury gated community designed to keep intruders out, Julia finds her worst fears coming true and wonders why a stranger would target her. Unless it's not a stranger at all.
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Spirit Crossing
by William Kent Krueger
A huge manhunt is launched to find a local politician's daughter. When the body of a young Ojibwe woman is found, Cork O'Connor and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police uncover a connection to the missing teenager. One that places his own grandson in the crosshairs of a killer.
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Truly Madly Magically
by Hazel Beck
A witch cursed to tell the truth crosses paths with a man who won't let her lie to herself anymore.
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The Volcano Daughters
by Gina Maria Balibrera
Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways.
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You Will Never Be Me
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
When cracks start forming in an influencer's curated life, she finds out that jealousy can be just as viral as a video.
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Zero Sum
by John Gilstrap
When a 12-year-old dies after consuming fentanyl disguised as candy inside the Resurrection House, the school he created for the children of incarcerated parents, Jonathan Grave, gathering his Security Solutions team, activates Operation Heat Seeker, deciding it's time for a war on drugs that actually looks like a war.
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