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June 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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The 9th Man
by Steve Berry
Embroiled in a war between two determined sides after rescuing an old friend, Luke Daniels confronts a series of shocking truths about JKF's assassination on November 22, 1963, which not only rewrite history but will forever change his own life as he comes face to face with the ninth man.
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Welcome to Beach Town
by Susan Wiggs
Compelled to return to Alara Cove, the place where an accusation she made years ago sent her into exile, competitive surfer Nikki Graziola finds old friendships, rivalries and an unexpected romance drawing her back into the life of the beach town she's never quite forgotten.
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You Can Trust Me
by Wendy Heard
Grifting their way through sunny California, best friends Summer and Leo target Michael Forrester, a self-made billionaire and philanthropist who invites Leo to his private island, but when Leo disappears, Summer infiltrates the island to find the truth—and becomes trapped in a scheme she helped initiate.
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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 Quiet Tenant
by Clemence Michallon
A kidnapper and serial killer, widower Aidan Thomas, a hardworking family man and beloved figure in his community, moves with his 13-year-old daughter to a new town, taking along Rachel, the woman he's earmarked for death who tests the boundaries of her new living situation to escape.
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Famous in a Small Town
by Viola Shipman
After her relationship goes down in flames on a playground, assistant elementary school teacher Becky decides to recover in Michigan and inadvertently enters and wins an annual cherry-pit-spitting contest, running afoul of a local woman and long-time title-holder.
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Private Moscow
by James Patterson
The founder of Private, the world's biggest and best detective agency, Jack Morgan investigates the murder of his former U.S. Marine comrade, which appears to be linked to another murder in Moscow, and arriving in Russia, begins to uncover a conspiracy that could have global consequences.
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The Spectacular
by Fiona Davis
In 1956 New York City, Marion Brooks, one of the famous Radio City Rockettes, is unwittingly drawn into the police search for the“Big Apple Bomber” and may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for, as well as the people she loves most, to catch this elusive criminal.
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You Were Always Mine
by Christine Pride
When Cinnamon Haynes, a black woman, takes an abandoned white baby into her home, she struggles to keep her own past hidden while dealing with the shocking judgments from friends and strangers alike as she strives to do right by the child she grows more attached to with each passing day.
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Inside Threat
by Matthew Quirk
Secret Service agent Erik Hill puts aside his growing disillusionment with Washington corruption to uncover a conspiracy that forced the President to flee to a doomsday bunker, in the new novel by the author of Red Warning.
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Zero Days
by Ruth Ware
When a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, resulting in her husband's murder, penetration specialist Jack, now the #1 suspect, goes on the run, deciding who she can trust as she races against time to clear her name and find the real killer.
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
by Lorrie Moore
A teacher visits his dying brother in the Bronx and gets swept into a mystery involving a journal from the 19th century stolen from a boarding house, in the new novel by the author of A Gate at the Stairs.
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Holding Pattern
by Jenny Xie
Searching for direction after a humiliating breakup, a young woman returns to her Oakland home and finds herself planning her own mother's wedding to a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur.
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A Right Worthy Woman
by Ruth P. Watson
Describes the true story of the determined daughter of a 19th century laundress who was dismayed by the racial disparities in Richmond, Virginia and worked to found a newspaper, bank and department store where black customers were treated with respect.
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The First Ladies
by Marie Benedict
Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women's rights and the power of education, civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt fight together for justice and equality, holding each other's hands through tragedy and triumph.
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Lucky Dogs
by Helen Schulman
In this passionate exploration of love, betrayal and survival, two women, both victims of male violence, and both warriors, meet in line at an ice cream kiosk on the Ile de la Cité, each thinking they know who they are dealing with, but both are very, very wrong.
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The Wind Knows My Name
by Isabel Allende
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she's separated from her mother.
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Save What's Left
by Elizabeth Castellano
Starting over in a small beach community on the east coast, Kathleen Deane discovers this picturesque town is not what it seems but just what she needs as she finds herself in an all-out war with her neighbors who are building a huge monstrosity next to her tiny cottage.
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Banyan Moon
by Thao Thai
Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light.
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The Bookshop by the Bay
by Pamela M. Kelley
After discovering her husband cheated on her, high-profile lawyer Jess retreats to her childhood home on Cape Cod where she purchases a beloved local bookstore with her best friend Allison, and by reopening its doors, they open themselves up to the possibility of romance and the magic of second chances.
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My Murder
by Katie Williams
Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, Lou, the victim of a serial killer, readapts to being a mother and wife but wonders how much she can really trust those around her as she sets out to figure out the circumstances of her death.
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The Little Italian Hotel
by Phaedra Patrick
After her husband asks for a divorce on their anniversary, acclaimed radio host Ginny Splinter impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her on her holiday to Italy and, with her newfound friends, embarks on a vacation of healing and second chances.
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Clive Cussler: Fire Strike
by Mike Maden
When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon team must journey from the Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea before a final showdown in the mountains of Yemen, using every shred of courage and cunning they can muster to disable the ship-killer missile before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
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The Paris Daughter
by Kristin Harmel
A gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation.
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The House of Lincoln
by Nancy Horan
An outsider in her community for as long as she can remember, Ana, in 1860s Springfield, Illinois, finds employment as a Saturday girl and household help for Abraham and Mary Lincoln where she gets a front-row seat to historic societal changes that reshape Springfield and the entire country.
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The Rachel Incident
by Caroline O'donoghue
Roommates and best friends Rachel and James, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while Ireland is in chaos, find their fates intertwined with a married professor, with whom Rachel falls in love, and his glamorous, well-connected bourgeois wife through a series of secrets and compromises.
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The Whispers
by Ashley Audrain
When their picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her and then he falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night, three women grapple with what led to that terrible night as his life hangs in the balance.
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A Little Ray of Sunshine
by Kristan Higgins
A young man shocks his adoptive mother by flying to Cape Cod and walking unannounced into the bookstore owned by his birth mother and her grandfather and surprising them, forcing both women into addressing their assumptions about motherhood.
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Hotel Laguna
by Nicola Harrison
Unwilling to return to traditional female roles after becoming a “Rosie the Riveter” during the war, Hazel Francis heads to an artsy, bohemian life in Laguna Beach, in the new novel from the acclaimed author of Montauk.
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Talking at Night
by Claire Daverley
Will and Rosie, two opposites destined to be together until tragedy strikes, ending their relationship before it starts, keep finding their way back to each other, time and time again, unable to let go of what might have been.
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The Beach at Summerly
by Beatriz Williams
In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters where she's forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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My Magnolia Summer
by Victoria Benton Frank
Maggie must head back to Sullivan's Island, in South Carolina low country, in order to help mend her family as it goes through a number setbacks.
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The Happiness Plan
by Susan Mallery
Three best friends—Heather, who finally sees the beauty of family; Daphne, who is trying to fix her marriage after an emotional affair; and Tori, who has fallen in love with a longtime friend—navigate the joy, and heartache, of letting people into their hearts for the very first time.
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Be Mine
by Richard Ford
Frank Bascombe details and confronts his own morality and that of his son, just diagnosed with ALS, on a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lay of the Land.
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The Puzzle Master
by Danielle Trussoni
A celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor, Mike Brink finds his world upended by Jess Price, a woman serving 30 years in prison for murder who draws a perplexing puzzle believed to explain the crime she committed, and, obsessed with solving it, discovers there are powerful forces at work he cannot escape.
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The History of a Difficult Child
by Mihret Sibhat
In the 1980s, indomitable Selam Asmelash, forced to grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution, seeks revenge on despotic comrades, neighborhood bullies and a ruthless God as she relentlessly pursues education, freedom and love.
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Speak of the Devil
by Rose Wilding
On New Year's Eve, 1999, seven women, gathered together in a hotel room on midnight with a man's head sitting in the center of the floor, must figure out which one killed Jamie Spellman in order to protect each other.
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Whispers at Dusk
by Heather Graham
Arriving in Norway to find an elusive vampire killer, who is leaving bodies drained of blood across the country, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter must use all of the abilities to uncover the killer's identity and put a stop to the terror they've begun to inspire.
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Loot
by Tania James
Set in 18th-century India, England and France, this sweeping novel follows gifted woodcarver Abbas who embarks on a perilous journey to retrieve the giant wooden tiger he created for Tipu Sultan from an estate in the English countryside, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered art.
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The Last Sinner : A Chilling Thriller With a Shocking Twist
by Lisa Jackson
When a victim surfaces bearing the signature of serial killer Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are convinced the monster is back and he won't be stopped until the last sinner has paid the ultimate price.
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A Most Agreeable Murder
by Julia Seales
A young woman growing up in a well-to-do family in Regency England hides her obsession with true crime from her etiquette-obsessed social circle joins forces with a detective when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball.
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How the Murder Crumbles
by Debra Sennefelder
A Connecticut cookie shop owner with unreliable employees and a cheating boyfriend is suspected of murder after a blogger who accused her of stealing a recipe turns up dead, in the first novel of a new cozy series.
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In a Hard Wind
by David Housewright
A former homicide detective moonlighting as a private investigator helps a friend who is on trial after a body is found buried on her property, in the latest addition of the long-running series following Something Wicked.
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Night Will Find You
by Julia Heaberlin
An astrophysicist and reluctant psychic Vivvy Bouchet, agreeing to help the police with a high-profile cold case of a kidnapped girl, becomes the target of a conspiracy theorist podcast and fights back with bother her scientific mind and her inexplicable gifts to find a child who haunts her.
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Dead Man's Wake
by Paul Doiron
Game Warden Mike Bowditch and his fiancée Stacey Stevens witness a boat accident on the eve of their engagement party that reveals a mysterious double murder, in the 14th novel of the series following Hatchet Island.
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The Only One Left
by Riley Sager
In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family's massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
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And Then He Sang a Lullaby
by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
A young Nigerian track star attends university to escape his overbearing sisters and does well despite finding himself obsessed with an openly gay student, and the pair share a closed-door romance as a new, sweeping anti-gay law is enacted.
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The Spare Room
by Andrea Bartz
Staying with her childhood friend Sabrina– now a glamorous best-selling author with a handsome, high-powered husband—Kelly Doyle, falling for both her hosts, is shocked when they open up their marriage to her, but as their relationship deepens, Kelly discovers they've done this before—and the last woman is missing.
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What the Neighbors Saw
by Melissa A. Adelman
When their neighbor, Teddy, a handsome, successful father of three, is found dead on the banks of the Potomac River, Alexis, as tension in the neighborhood mounts takes comfort in her budding friendship with Teddy's beautiful widow until the unthinkable truth about his murder is finally revealed.
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Robert B. Parker's Bad Influence
by Alison Gaylin
When her new client, Blake, an Instagram influencer, is targeted by a killer, PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media as she is drawn into world rife with lies and schemes and ties to a dangerous criminal scene.
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The Gulf
by Rachel Cochran
In 1970s Texas, on the gulf coast, 29-year-old Lou, mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, attempts to solve the murder of her elderly neighbor and unearths disturbing secrets involving the history of her tight-knit, religious small town and its residents that may be the key to catching a killer.
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The Survivor
by Iris Johansen
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history—if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
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A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality
by Kate Khavari
A brilliant woman botanist studying in London in the 1920s is asked to assist in a crime where victims were sent bouquets of poisonous flowers in the second novel of the series following A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons.
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A Newlywed's Guide to Fortune and Murder
by Dianne Freeman
Accepting an assignment from the dowager Viscountess Wingate, Frances notices that the once-formidable aristocrat has grown shockingly frail and believes someone is poisoning her, in the sixth novel of the series following A Bride's Guide to Marriage and Murder.
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The Sweetheart List
by Jill Shalvis
With her new Sugar Pine Bakery nestled between a tavern and a bookstore, Harper Shaw feels a peace she's never felt before until she meets Ivy, a teenage runaway who barrels into her heart, and finds her world upended by Ivy's secrets, which change everything.
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The Seven Year Slip
by Ashley Poston
In Red Mountain, where everyone's lives are intertwined like the vines in the town's beautiful and renowned vineyards, the secrets of four complicated people are revealed, and they each wonder if this town filled with eccentrics will rally around them—or turn their backs.
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Remember Me
by Mary Balogh
Lady Philippa Ware, arriving in London to meet the ton, encounters the one man who could ruin everything—the detestable Marquess of Roath, and unfortunately for her, his grandparents, the Duke and Duchess of Wilby, have declared they are a perfect match—and will not take no for an answer.
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Love, Theoretically
by Ali Hazelwood
Secretly offering her services as a fake girlfriend, theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway engages in an all-out war of scholarly sabotage when the older brother of her favorite client, the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career, stands between her and her dream job at MIT.
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The Archive Undying
by Emma Mieko Candon
Unable to die, age and forget the horrors he's seen, Sunai, the son of a mad robotic god, is drawn back into a world of gods and machines when he wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with.
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The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
by Brandon Sanderson
Waking up in medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from and why he is there, a wizard's sole hope for survival is the fragments of a manual that provides clues to his situation—and his missing memories.
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Demons of Good and Evil
by Kim Harrison
A witch-born demon struggling to protect the paranormal citizens of Cincinnati becomes the target of The Mage, a mysterious and avenging former associate of Hodin, in the 17th novel of the series following Trouble with the Cursed.
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The First Bright Thing
by J. R. Dawson
After World War I, Rin and her troupe—the Circus of the Fantasticals, a safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts—travel the Midwest, but when a malevolent shadow takes the form of another circus, one with dangerous power, that wants what she has, she must fight to protect everything she holds dear.
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The Endless Vessel
by Charles Soule
Trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, young Hong Kong-based scientist Lily Barnes, as the human race dwindles due to a“depression plague,” comes across something that could lead to happiness and journeys through time and space to find out.
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Translation State
by Ann Leckie
With the long-stranding treaty between humans and the dangerous alien Presger on the line, three individuals—Qvwn, a rebellious AI; Enae, a reluctant diplomat; and Reet, an adopted mechanic—make decisions that have ripple effects across the stars.
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