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New Fiction Arrivals at MPL |
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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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Onyx Storm
by Yarros, Rebecca
After nearly 18 months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail must seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre, and she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.
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Good Dirt
by Wilkerson, Charmaine
"The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick."
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Presumed Guilty
by Turow, Scott
Rusty is a retired judge asked by his fiancée, Bea, to defend her adult son Aaron, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend Mae, and Rusty agrees to help but questions whether the system can provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.
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Never Say Never
by Steel, Danielle
After her husband of twenty-five years leaves her for a younger male lover, Oona Kelly Webster takes her anniversary trip to France alone, where after renting a house called La Belle Florence, she risks love with her friendly Trinidadian neighbor, a well-known actor.
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Better Than Friends
by Shalvis, Jill
When Olive's off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly turns to her ex, Noah, a National Park Service agent, for help, forcing them both to confront their unresolved past in the seventh novel of the series following The Summer Escape.
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The Texas Murders
by Patterson, James
Texas Ranger Rory Yates, a quick-draw champion, teams up with Tigua Tribal police archer Ava Cruz to investigate the disappearance of a native woman, pursuing a suspect in a long-cold case across Texas's harshest landscapes.
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Holmes Is Missing
by Patterson, James
Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations face a challenging string of child abductions that forces them to solve the case without their brilliant leader, Brendan Holmes. in the second novel of the series following Holmes, Marple & Poe.
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Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right
by Mosley, Walter
Detective King Oliver fulfills his grandmother's dying wish to reunite with his estranged father while also protecting a missing woman and her daughter from a powerful billionaire in the third novel of the series following Every Man a King.
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Shattering Dawn
by Krentz, Jayne Ann
When PI Gideon Sweetwater disrupts the kidnapping of Amelia Rivers, they escape and return to the ruins of the hotel where Amelia lost a night to amnesia before gaining powers, desperate to stop a killer and the people who are conducting illegal experiments with a dangerous drug designed to enhance psychic abilities.
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The Life of Herod the Great
by Hurston, Zora Neale
Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel offers a reimagined portrayal of Herod the Great, not as the notorious villain of the New Testament, but as a philosophical and visionary king who brought prosperity to Judea during a tumultuous period of war and imperial expansion in the first century BCE.
also available in audio
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Hendrix, Grady
Four teenage girls trapped in a secretive maternity home for unwed mothers in 1960 St. Augustine, Florida, find an unexpected source of power through witchcraft.
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Grave Danger
by Grippando, James
Jack Swyteck must defend a woman accused of kidnapping her niece while uncovering deadly secrets about the parents as political forces and international law complicate the case in the latest addition to the series following Goodbye Girl.
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B Is for Bonnet
by Gray, Shelley Shepard
The second in this delightfully moving new series from beloved, New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray continues the story of four English-raised siblings who return to their grandparents' Ohio community planning to become Amish.
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Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Vendetta
by Freeman, Brian
When a hacked database known as the Files upends the intelligence community, with careers destroyed and assassinations spreading from Europe to the U.S., Treadstone sends Jason Bourne to get or destroy them before the Chinese or the Russians—and Bourne's ex-lover, treacherous spy Johanna, may be the only one who can help him.
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The Oligarch's Daughter
by Finder, Joseph
Paul Brightman, a former Wall Street star hiding in a New England town with a bounty on his head, is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness as he unravels a conspiracy involving Russian operatives and government agencies after falling in love with Tatyana, the daughter of a powerful oligarch.
also available in audio
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The Stolen Queen
by Davis, Fiona
In 1978, as a valuable Egyptian artifact disappears during the Met Gala, Met curator Charlotte Cross and young assistant Annie Jenkins embark on a high-stakes search that leads them to Egypt, where Charlotte must confront an ancient curse and the haunting tragedy of her past.
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Beautiful Ugly
by Feeney, Alice
A year after his wife Abby mysteriously disappeared, author Grady Green, still consumed by grief, retreats to a remote Scottish island only to encounter a woman who looks exactly like the wife he lost.
also available in audio
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Order of Swans
by Deveraux, Jude
Kaley Adams travels to friend Jobi's island home, but she awakens on the plane in the birthplace of fairytales, and when the king asks Kaley to find the prince, she must rely on fairytale knowledge and her handsome guide to survive this new world.
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Lie for a Million
by Dailey, Janet
Following her husband's murder, Lila Culhane battles his pregnant mistress for leverage while preparing for a high-stakes reining competition, questioning her ranch manager and lover's loyalty, and dealing with a growing list of suspects in Frank's death.
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The Big Empty
by Crais, Robert
When Elvis Cole finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, a missing-persons cold case becomes far more sinister, and soon he must call his ex-Marine friend Joe Pike for help.
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The Note
by Burke, Alafair
May Hanover, always the rule-following“Little Sheriff,” reunites with her childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for a carefree trip to the Hamptons, but when a drunken prank goes disastrously wrong, May becomes the focus of a police investigation and begins questioning whether her friends are hiding dangerous secrets.
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Power of Persuasion
by Abrams, Stacey
A.J. Grayson is hired by the cabinet of King Damon Toca of Jafir to install her revolutionary AI system to thwart a potential coup, and as Damon guards against a treacherous adversary, he finds he is drawn to A.J. and will risk everything for a future with her.
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The Crash
by McFadden, Freida
Eight months pregnant and abandoned by her baby's father, Tegan embarks on a desperate journey to her brother's house during a storm, only to crash and find herself at the mercy of a remote couple with potentially sinister intentions.
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