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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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All In
by David Baldacci
In this exciting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, the 6:20 Man is leaving U.S soil--this time drawn into a storm of billion-dollar secrets and international power plays that could shatter the world order. When fearless war correspondent Theresa Lee is shot on a storm-swept Manhattan street and the man she was meeting, Bill Walker, vanishes, the 6:20 Man, aka former Army Ranger turned federal investigator Travis Devine, is called in. Theresa is an investigative journalist, Walker a legendary analyst for the Five Eyes alliance that gathers intelligence that could topple governments around the world. A professional hit team has tried to silence one and snatched the other--and Devine has to find out why. From New York's glass-and-steel canyons to the glittering harbors of Australia, Devine is pulled into the orbit of the Woolwine empire--an Australian dynasty whose fortune makes them more powerful than some nations. Partnering with Anais Jones, a driven, Sydney-based homicide detective, he uncovers a lethal convergence of rogue intelligence operations, Russian mobsters, compromised prisons, and a quiet campaign to redraw the global balance of power. To stop a conspiracy fueled by weaponized data and manufactured truths, Devine will have to untangle a love story that may be a lie, a rescue that may have been conjured, and a billionaire's ambition with a body count. In a world where enemies wear the faces of allies, the only currency that matters is information--and the 6:20 Man is running out of time to keep it all from crashing down.
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Bad Company: A Thriller
by Sara Paretsky
International bestseller and groundbreaking icon Sara Paretsky returns with a brand new novel and character - proving once again that she's one of the pre-eminent authors in crime fiction and beyond. To all appearances, Lily Sedako is an ordinary retiree--a seventy-something single woman living in Chicago, her days filled with the routine tasks of normal life. But underneath that exterior, lies a remarkable past. A former CIA field agent, she spent her career in various Central Asian countries, most notably in Hayalistan, a former USSR territory. But everything went sideways when Lily's connections to the mountain tribes resulted in her being moved to a new post and Rani, the tribal leader and first democratically elected President was removed, presumed killed, in a coup. All of this is long behind her when she receives an anonymous package containing a magazine with an article about Hayalistan--an article with a previously unknown photo showing Lily in the background. This was no mistake--someone out there is trying to expose Lily, after more than two decades, for reasons unknown. Even worse, the magazine story casts doubt on everything she believed to be true about her time in Hayalistan.Lily is determined to find out who is behind this and, even more important, the truth of what really happened so long ago. As word of her investigation reaches the CIA, the company knows that they must silence her but Lily is no one's pawn, even now. Using hard won skills and personal connections from her former life, Lily takes on the unwise, and perhaps impossible task of fighting back against the powerful forces aligning against her. In a powerful novel about love, power, corruption, aging, trust...and revenge, Bad Company reaffirms Sara Paretsky place as one of the pre-eminent crime writers of our time.
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Birth of the Witch: A Coven of Three Trilogy Book 1
by Nora Roberts
The first novel in the enchanting new epic by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Bride Trilogy, Nora Roberts Niamh McShane was born a witch and died a witch in the same moment, at the tender age of thirteen. A victim of the madness that spread from Salem Town to her home on Piety Island, in her last hours she found comfort from the weavers imprisoned alongside her, who saw within her light and power and gave her some of their own. More than three hundred years later, on the same island, Neve McShane wakes with excitement on her thirteenth birthday and unwraps gifts from her aunts: sneakers, an iPhone, and a stunning antique pendant. Then she receives something else: a revelation that will change her life. Astonished, Neve learns that her aunts' abilities go beyond simple kitchen magic and the potions they sell in their shop. Their tales of past lives aren't just whimsical fantasies. They are witches, and so is she. Their lives-past and present-are bound together by that pivotal day centuries ago. Now Neve has been tasked with stopping a growing darkness. To prepare for the dangerous enemy that awaits, Neve hones her skills and searches for clues to aid her in her quest. And at night, she dreams of a young man from Ireland whose eyes met with hers for a fateful moment, centuries ago.
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Clive Cussler Obsidian Sky
by Dirk Cussler
A forgotten civilization. A lost Biblical artifact. A criminal enterprise lurking beneath the seas. What links them with a potential cataclysmic event that threatens all of humanity? That's the question facing Dirk Pitt in this latest electrifying novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the grand master of adventure Clive Cussler. When National Underwater and Marine Agency director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of archaeologists trapped in a cavern by an earthquake, an unexpected artifact is discovered that rewrites history. A two-thousand-year-old silver scroll contains a message in a language more ancient than Phoenician and offering clues to a priceless treasure from antiquity. While they work to decipher the message, another mystery arises. A freighter has disappeared without a trace in the Mediterranean. When Pitt and his partner Al Giordino find the wreck, they discover that the cargo--a large scale particle accelerator capable of creating plutonium and radioisotopes--is missing. In the wrong hands, its use could spell disaster for Western civilization. It's only the first step in a perilous journey to uncover a trail of drugs, deceit, secret technology, and a conspiracy that threatens the planet. From a desperate car chase in the hills of Sicily, to a wild escape on a Spanish river, to a harrowing ride on an underground boring machine, the race begins to connect the pieces in a puzzle with very ancient roots but deadly modern consequences. Only Pitt can discover the truth and halt the plans to extinguish humanity and turn the skies to obsidian.
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The Cold Read: A Twisty Locked-Room Suspense Novel
by Tara Laskowski
Tara Laskowski gives readers their very own slasher movie With one diabolical twist after another, The Cold Read will keep you guessing until the very last page.--Alma Katsu, author of FiendThey're there to make a sequel. But someone came for revenge. A decade ago, the release of the horror film No One Can Hear You Scream catapulted a young no-name cast into Hollywood fame. But below the surface, they were dealing with the fallout of their friend's tragic death on set.Now the cast is reuniting at the remote ski resort where the movie was filmed to announce the sequel and get a first glimpse of the screenplay. Cassidy, Jake, Ben, and Ruby--they've all followed different paths over the years, and each has their own reason for agreeing to return to a place they had sworn to leave behind.At first everyone works hard to ignore the shadows of the past and focus on the opportunity ahead. But the reunion takes a dark turn during the midnight announcement to fans when a disturbing incident stirs up a long-buried secret.Each of them has something to lose. Each of them has something to hide. And if they want to survive the weekend, they'll have to deliver the performance of a lifetime...A witty, wicked thriller packed with juicy secrets. --Andrea Bartz on The Mother Next DoorWill keep you obsessively reading well past your bedtime. --Paul Tremblay on One Night GoneA riveting puzzle for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. --Hank Phillippi Ryan on The Weekend Retreat
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The Collateral Heart
by Jeffery Deaver
New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with a propulsive new thriller featuring forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs (from The Bone Collector) as they investigate a series of arsons in New York City. When a harrowing arson in Manhattan burns a building to the ground, Rhyme and Sachs are called to investigate, only to discover in the rubble a package of clues that teases where the perp will strike next. Rhyme and Sachs work feverishly to unravel the mystery, turning to an unlikely source for help: one of the nation's most popular history podcasters. Along the way they cross paths with Desdemona Vale, a determined detective from Long Island who is in search of the killer of a young woman from her neighborhood. As Rhyme's team digs into both cases, it becomes increasingly clear that their suspect's plot might be more complicated than they initially thought. But can Rhyme and Sachs unpack his vile scheme, and stop the carnage in time?
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Conspiracy Theory: A Thriller
by Phillip Margolin
Searching for a plot for his next legal thriller, D.C. area lawyer and novelist Michael Harris stumbles across a conspiracy theory that may have put his own life at risk.Five years ago, Gloria Hale, the President's wife, was assassinated by a lone gunman, who was himself killed in a shoot out with a security guard while trying to escape. At the same time and hotel, a young lawyer, Marsha Hart, disappears in the chaos after the shooting, only to have her murdered body turn up a few days later, her murder never solved. Michael Harris is a D. C. area lawyer with a second career as a novelist, but after a very successful debut, his subsequent legal thrillers have been less and less successful. With one more book due under his contract and desperate to revive his flagging career, Harris is stumbles across the voluminous research done by a recently deceased former Secret Service agent obsessed with proving that the First Lady's assassination was a conspiracy. Thinking he might be able to turn one of these wildly unlikely theories into his next book, Harris begins to look into the matter. He doesn't turn up anything but his inquiries might have set something into motion - leading to another murder, a fire destroying the original evidence, and an attempt assault of Harris himself. This might be a coincidence or Harris may well be the next target in an increasingly deadly conspiracy.
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Devoted to Love
by Tracie Peterson
While Leah Garrison has a distrust of men after a friend's tragedy, Dr. Erik Sjolander refuses to believe in lasting love after his mother abandoned their family. When they clash over Leah's charity for unwed mothers, their hearts are tested as America edges toward World War I and dark secrets come to light. Will faith and love be the remedy they need?
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A Glimmer of Death
by Laurell K. Hamilton
New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton returns for the first in a two-book epic conclusion to her genre-defining Merry Gentry Series. I am Meredith Gentry. Princess of the realm of faerie, private investigator in the mortal land of Los Angeles, mother of triplets, and lover to my men--the royal guards sworn to protect me. With a family and a court to support back home, I can't say no to a job investigating a string of magical attacks against up-and-coming Hollywood actresses. Not when the case raises old nightmares from my own past. This time when I find out who is responsible for all this pain, I can make him pay. But affairs in the land of faerie keep interrupting my hunt. Aisling is supposed to be the next king of the Seelie Court, but he is doubly cursed once by beauty and once by despair. If we cannot cure him my uncle Taranis, former King of Light and Illusion, may regain the throne. If he does he will destroy me and everyone I care about. Only true love will cure Aisling of his curse but is my love true enough? If not, I will share his fate and lose myself to the haunted magic that torments him. While we fight for one kingdom of faerie, my aunt Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, claims my deceased best friend, Keelin, has turned up alive and well along with a child supposedly sired by her dead son. If this baby is the true child of my former rival to the Unseelie throne, my enemies might use it to take the throne from me. Mysterious fey babies, curses both ancient and new are shaking the delicate balance of the faerie courts, and I am still hunting a monster terrorizing the women of Los Angeles.
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Have Courage: Longmire Stories
by Craig Johnson
Extraordinary. . . . The O. Henry-esque twists that conclude every story in this collection are intricately plotted and expertly written. Like assorted homemade Christmas cookies, each story is an entire and perfect treat.--Library Journal, starred review A wintry collection of Longmire stories by the beloved author of the New York Times bestselling series Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates a series of eccentric small-town crises in fifteen holiday-inspired stories. An old dog mysteriously escapes the animal shelter night after night. A deputy deploys an unexpected diversion during a hostage standoff. The baby Jesus vanishes from a nativity scene. And Walt faces one of his most challenging assignments yet: caring for a 150-year-old sourdough starter, while apprehending a seven-year-old suspect with the diction of a 1930s gumshoe. With a foreword by Longmire actor A Martinez, Have Courage is a gripping and open-hearted holiday collection--rich with the humor, humanity, and irresistible high jinks of Craig Johnson's Absaroka County.
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The Heights
by Ian Rankin
#1 International bestselling author Ian Rankin returns with a razor-sharp, twisty standalone thriller--this one exposing the lives of the 1% in London's most exclusive high rise. Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London's most coveted luxury high-rise apartment--designed to satisfy every need, with a gym, infinity pool, cinema, and more, where self-made owner-developer Allan Franklyn himself has claimed the penthouse duplex. His neighbors include some of Money London's biggest personalities: a wealthy art dealer, a young heartthrob pop star, a foreign heiress, a gangster's wife. The residents are used to service, deference, and privacy, all on their terms. But when nighttime concierge Dwayne Hogarth is found dead in the lobby, none of that is in their control anymore, and everyone's under the unwelcome scrutiny of Detective Sergeant Gillian Gish. Her questions begin with the party on the 4th floor the night Dwayne died, which ended with a fight; the missing key to one of the apartments; and a mysterious gap in the security camera footage. Before long, Gish uncovers the unsavory truths and dark secrets that lurk beneath the glittering facades of the building and its inhabitants. Filled with shocking twists and unforgettable characters, The Heights confirms Ian Rankin's status as one of the most original and compelling crime writers of our time.
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Jane Austen's the Watsons
by Claudia Gray
From New York Times bestselling author and creator of the beloved Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mystery series comes a continuation of Jane Austen's famous unfinished novel The unsung heroine of Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons is a privileged girl living with her wealthy aunt and uncle absent any meaningful contact with her birth family. Then her life abruptly gets turned upside down: Her uncle dies, and her aunt remarries unwisely, which means she must return to Wiltshire and rejoin the greater Watson clan. There, she becomes an object of desire for the most eligible bachelor in the county, the proud Lord Osborne . . . but her own fascination alights upon Mr. Howard, the local clergyman. In the hundred pages Austen wrote before abandoning the novel, she asks: Can the youngest Watson sister afford to neglect the fortunes of her struggling family to truly follow her heart? But Austen never completed this book--and therefore, her devoted fans have never discovered the answer, leaving the heroine's fate undefined and open to speculation. Until now, as bestselling author Claudia Gray expands this story into a vivid tale of love, sorrow, social class, honor, and, as in any Austen novel, the ways these all become intertwined for a young woman in Regency-era England. Transforming The Watsons from an unpolished draft into a riveting ensemble novel filled with romance, humor, and social commentary, Gray recaptures the spirit of Austen's most enigmatic story.
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The Killing Time: A Mystery
by Elly Griffiths
The second mystery following Ali Dawson, the brilliant time-traveling detective, on her newest foray into Victorian London Detective Ali Dawson leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel back in time to solve them. But ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, Ali and her team have been forbidden from time travel. At a loss, Ali dives into a present-day case - an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. Ali believes the death is linked to a bad-news psychic medium, Barry Power, who convinced the boy he could fly. Suspicious, Ali attends one of Power's shows, where he claims to be in contact with none other than Jones. Minor trouble closer to home inspires Ali to sneak back in time just long enough to prevent misfortune. Her plan backfires, and she finds herself once again in Victorian London, where she reencounters Jones, as well as the darkly mysterious Cain Templeton, with whom Ali has unfinished business from her previous visit to the nineteenth century . . . When she spies Barry Power lurking in the past, Ali knows she's onto something. But with a potential murderer operating in multiple centuries, how on earth is she supposed to protect everyone at risk? It's a different time. It's a dangerous time. It's the killing time.
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Midnight in the House of Commons: A Charles Lenox Mystery
by Charles Finch
Amateur sleuth Charles Lenox investigates the murder of a Parliament member, moving through the glamorous high society of Victorian London in the next novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch. In the spring of 1881, Lenox is caught up in the whirl of London life when his brother arrives to tell him that there's been a murder in the House of Commons. Robert Baddeley, a charismatic, womanizing Member, has been found poisoned in the hallowed chamber itself. Suspicion immediately falls on the women in his life, including his wife and mistress, but as Lenox digs deeper, he realizes that there were more than a few people who might have wanted Baddeley dead. Meanwhile, Lenox must balance his investigation with his family life, which has grown increasingly complicated: his ward Sari struggles with heartbreak, the Lenox household receives an odd visitor, and a young woman comes to Lenox to implore him to find her fianc , who has mysteriously vanished. And just when Lenox is nearing the truth of Baddeley's murder, someone close to him is arrested for the crime--and Lenox must race to solve the case before losing everything. Joyfully set in ballrooms, supper parties, palaces, and Parliament, Midnight in the House of Commons takes Charles Lenox through his trickiest, most satisfying case yet.
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The Murder Trial: A Thriller
by James Patterson
A young woman stands trial for the double murder of her parents in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson. Eighteen-year-old Janelle Thompson is used to seeing her adoptive parents in the news. Her father is a rising political star. Her mother is the mind behind his first major campaign. Then one Friday night, the whole family makes headlines. Her parents are missing, declared dead--and all the evidence points to Janelle. A perfect family destroyed by a daughter barely old enough to vote. From her cell at Westfall Justice Center, Janelle swears she's innocent, that she loved her parents. If only she could convince someone--anyone--that she's telling the truth.
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Nola and Baldwin
by Donna Hill
Their Eyes Were Watching God for a new generation craving a romantic finale--a sweeping historical tale that is a journey of the heart and of the times.Dual narration by Robin Miles and Aaron Goodson.If it wasn't for Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Nola Denny didn't know how she would have survived her father's tragic death or her mother's descent into mental illness. Inspired by Hurston's main character, Janie Crawford, Nola sets out to find her own voice, silenced by the weight of being a caretaker and the pains of her past. On her journey to New York, Nola stops in Meridian--a detour that unexpectedly leads to a fresh start, a home, and her own Tea Cake, a Pullman Porter named Baldwin Carter.Baldwin escaped a loveless childhood and found a caring stranger who invited him into her home and gave him a chance at a new life. A proud, hardworking Pullman Porter, Baldwin must endure bowing and scraping to passengers who barely see him as a man. When he encounters Nola, he instinctively knows he has met his anchor, a woman who makes every inch of him stand tall.Experiencing loss, hardship, and months of separation, Nola and Baldwin must come to terms with their pasts to share a future together. The young couple know that time and distance cannot separate them, and that the sacrifices they must make are not only for themselves, but for all those who come after them, searching for a better life.Set during the end of the Great Depression, and shaped by real-world events, crisscrossing the country from South to Midwest to North, Nola and Baldwin is an epic tale of a love powerful enough to overcome the dark forces of racism that threatens to tear it apart.
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Numb Were the Beadsman's Fingers: A Flavia de Luce Novel
by Alan Bradley
A nun's corpse leads beloved amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this charming final novel in the New York Times bestselling series. I love the Flavia de Luce novels Flavia is the best female detective I've ever read, full of realism, self-confidence, and emotion (in roughly equal parts), and her tales are hilarious, engaging, and occasionally heartbreaking.--Diana Gabaldon In the cloisters of Golgotha House, a mere binocular's-squint away from Buckshaw, a nun lies dead. When her fellow sisters prepare her corpse for burial, they discover that their companion has been living a shocking lie for years. The truth about her past, and the dark reasons she harbored for escaping it, are impossible to fathom. Charged with cracking this mystery is the firm of Arthur W. Dogger & Associates (Discreet investigations)--consisting, of course, of the inimitable young Flavia de Luce and her faithful partner-in-detection Dogger. Working under the eye of a glowering Mother Superior, Flavia and Dogger must uncover a decades-old crime and a secret that lies an ocean away--along with a trail of deception that lies closer to home.
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Peculiar Stars
by Rebecca Yarros
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a slow-burn romance about love, family, and what it means to become the truest version of yourself.Callista Moran has spent a lifetime putting her own plans aside to care for other people. Once she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her future is finally set. But when a routine sailing trip goes tragically wrong, a cyclone blows those carefully made plans away.Stranded on an island for the next eighteen months alongside the crew and her fianc 's cousin, Callista discovers a strength she never knew she had. And begins to question the life she always thought she wanted. With Dominic, an ex-army medic, she finds true peace--and a version of herself that she doesn't need to explain. They resist their connection at first, but as months wear on, and the hope of rescue fades, something real starts taking shape, built on who they are when everything else is stripped away.When they're finally found, the world hasn't changed. But they have. In the height of a modern media frenzy, learning to live as the people they've become will challenge not only their definition of survival, but love.(c) 2026 by Rebecca Yarros, all rights reserved.
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Robert B. Parker's Framed
by Mike Lupica
Spenser fights to prove the innocence of a friend in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series.There has never been a more admired figure in the history of the Boston Police Department than Martin Quirk, Spenser's friend. Now an unknown adversary has devised an elaborate plan to ruin his reputation -- and his life. His bosses believe the lie. So does the whole city. The BPD won't allow Quirk to defend himself, and clear his name. That's Spenser's job.
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Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo
by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum's life is never boring, not even for a split second, in the adrenaline-fueled new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. In a now-or-never moment, Stephanie Plum made the decision of a lifetime. But some lifetimes are shorter than others and Stephanie will be lucky if she makes it to the end of the week. Over the years, Trenton's best-known bounty hunter has acquired a long list of enemies. It's an occupational hazard as a bond enforcement agent. The problem is that she now has a mysterious enemy whose name isn't on any list. Disturbing packages, threatening notes, and near misses are keeping Stephanie in the dark and her anonymous tormentor, who wants her dead, in the shadows. Bond jumper Greb Tusi also wouldn't mind getting rid of Stephanie. He's wanted for going on a three-hour rampage--one that he swears wasn't his fault--that included mugging an old lady and stealing a hearse. And if adjusting to being newly married isn't enough to take a few years off Stephanie's life, working for her ex-fianc and mentor, Ranger, might do the trick. Ranger has taken a security job for a powerful political figure, and Stephanie is in charge of babysitting one of the figure's family members. The clock is ticking for Stephanie to find bail-jumper Greb Tusi and the invisible stalker who is sending her increasingly menacing messages. If she lets her guard down for even a split second, her time will be up.
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The Taken Ones: A J. P. Beaumont Novel
by J. A. Jance
The disappearance of a young Alaskan woman, lured to Seattle by a fake internship, sets an auto mechanic and a PI hunting for her. Regina Holt's grandparents, her guardians, know she was last seen at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, but the Port of Seattle Police keep blowing them off. So up in Anchorage, Alaska, Gina's grandfather turns to a family acquaintance, the acerbic auto mechanic Twinkle Winkleman, for help. Twinkle, who's had some surprising past experience with crime, brings in PI J.P. Beaumont, who learns that the architectural firm that hired Gina for an internship was bogus--all traces of it have vanished from the web. Then Twinkle and Beau make separate discoveries: Gina wasn't the first victim of whoever seized her without demanding a ransom; she's the fifth in a line of "smart, college-age girls who've received some kind of public acknowledgment" for their academic, artistic, or volunteer work. Who's behind the serial abductions, and what could possibly be their motive? Most of this unspools in enjoyable, workmanlike prose. Still, after an opening chapter announcing the retirement of Beau's second wife, Bellingham Police Chief Melissa Soames, and conscientiously listing every relative who's been invited to her surprise party, as if they were actually going to have anything to do with the story, Jance launches into a gripping round robin of narratives focused on Beau, Twinkle, and Gina until the secret behind the crime wave comes to light--and then spends an unnecessary 50 pages winding this story down. Best for readers who prize abduction stories over murder mysteries because they can have happy endings.
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To Crown It All
by Rhys Bowen
Lady Georgiana Rannoch never expected to be more than a guest at the coronation of King George VI but murder and some international intrigue make for a change of plans... One of the most daunting things about being related to the royal family but not being royalty myself is finding just the right ensemble for incredibly important events like the coronation. The process has become especially difficult as my maid has fallen ill and I am now relying on Queenie for everything--well almost everything. We do have a lovely new nanny with whom my son James is quite smitten. My concerns about gowns and Queenie-related disasters are put aside when I receive a worrisome letter from my mother. She seems anxious to see me and is missing her grandson-not at all like her Darcy and I read between the lines only to discover a coded plea for help. We decide the best way to get Mummy away from Hitler and his cronies is to secure her an invitation to the coronation and have her stay at Eynsleigh along with our other guests for the big event. Two complications quickly arise. A stern member of the German government has arrived with Mummy who seems to be watching her-and our-every move. And then I unexpectedly find myself involved in the coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Well, that solves my worry about what I should wear as I will be outfitted by Buckingham Palace for the festivities. But with a house full of visitors for the big event, Darcy receives word that the ceremony itself, and all of the royal attendees are under threat. And to make matters immeasurably worse, one of my esteemed house guests is found quite dead in their bed. Darcy and I must find a killer and prevent a terrible tragedy all while I do my best to avoid any embarrassing mishaps at the coronation, as quite literally, the world will be watching
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Tom Clancy the Coldest War
by M. P. Woodward
A Russian plan to open a strategic passage above the Arctic Circle poses a direct threat to the United States and to President Jack Ryan in the latest electrifying entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. The U.S. Navy rules the seas--not only above the waters but below. A large factor in that sovereignty is a network of undersea listening devices scattered around the worlds oceans. Through these devices the Americans have been able to track every move the Russians make for years. Now the Russians have found a solution--create a new ocean or at least ocean passage that only they can use. To this end, they have harnessed nuclear power to melt an icy passage above the Arctic Circle. Not only will this allow Russian ships and submarines to travel undetected, it will shift the balance of power among the navies of the world. President Jack Ryan is faced with a insoluble problem. Any attack on the Russian icebreakers will be an act of war, and maybe even worse, because of the nuclear material being used, could lead to an environmental calamity of epic proportions.
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The Unfinished Work: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln
by Jeff Shaara
New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff Shaara brings to vivid life the man, public and private, who guided the U.S.A. through its most troubled, conflicted time: Abraham Lincoln. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. - The Gettysburg Address, 1863New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff Shaara, renowned for his body of work exploring the conflicts and personalities surrounding key moments in American history, turns his attention to one of the most consequential figures during one of the most critical points in history: Abraham Lincoln. As only the finest of historical novelists can do, Shaara brings to life the travails and conflicts, victories and tragic defeats, the legends and the history, both personal and private of Lincoln during the country's most pivotal years. Beginning with his election as President in 1860, through his time in the Oval Office, Shaara reveals the complexities behind the man who refused to let the deep divisions and conflicting emotions permanently sunder the country itself, at great personal cost. The Unfinished Work is the finest work yet by one of the most popular, most acclaimed historical novelist of our time, a capstone to a life's work.
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Celebration
by Danielle Steel
Second chances come in the most unexpected forms in this wise and moving novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. A timeless beauty in her sixties, Anna Hughes is a sought-after photographer. Six years after the love of her life passed away, she finds fulfillment in her work and in being a mother to her two adult daughters. Ashley is an entertainment lawyer who lives in Los Angeles with her producer husband and two children, and Isabelle is a painter in New York City--and a dreamer who has yet to find direction. While in Los Angeles to photograph a famous actress, Anna's son-in-law asks her to consider being on a dating show for seniors he's producing called Golden Couples. Having no interest, she politely declines, though she agrees to attend at a dinner for potential cast members to help fill out the guest list. At the dinner she meets Shep Anderson, a bank manager devoted to his late wife's memory, his sailboat, and his adult son, Bill. Though neither Anna nor Shep is looking for a new partner, they are drawn together in friendship, and perhaps something more. But just as they are getting closer, their children's lives seem to implode. Ashley's marriage crumbles when she suspects her husband is having an affair. Isabelle shocks her mother by announcing she's pregnant by a man who seems as ill-equipped for adulthood as Isabelle herself. And Shep is equally upset to learn Bill is involved with a woman who wants him to father her baby after six weeks of dating. Surrounded by a whirlwind of chaos with their children, Anna and Shep question whether a relationship is possible. In this tender and nuanced novel, Danielle Steel invites us to celebrate love at any age, despite what life may hurl our way, and remember that it's never too late if we are brave enough to stay open to new opportunities.
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