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1) Hideaway
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English
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"A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts' emotional new suspense novel"-- Publisher.
2) The Janes
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Alice Vega novels volume 2
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Doubleday
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English
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"The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan"-- Publisher.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne comes a brand-new novel for fans of Debbie Macomber and Susan Wiggs. RaeAnne Thayne tells the story of an emotional homecoming that brings hope and healing to three generations of women.
The life Olivia Harper always dreamed of isn't so dreamy these days. The 16-hour work days are unfulfilling and so are things with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when she hears that her estranged...
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Claude McKay Love is a young black man in search of a place where he can fit. Born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights-era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change. After a riot consumes his neighbourhood, Claude decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new life and identity. But as he discovers, there's no escaping the people and places that made him.
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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"Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone-running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove herand her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her...
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English
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In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand-but despite their devoted efforts, there's no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits. A moving story of love and mourning, elegantly translated by Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me asks what...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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English
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Set on a fictional island off the coast of Southern California, this lyrical, inventive, and edgy literary debut opens on the eve of Evangeline's wedding, when her long-absent mother returns. From there, the novel unfolds both forward and backward in time to probe the complexities and contradictions of her family and, by extension, her life.
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Emily Bester Books/Atria
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English
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Early in the 20th century, far upstate in New York's ancient forests, a village was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Now, a century later, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known. An inspector assigned to oversee the dam, dangerously neglected for decades, witnesses something inexplicable. A dark prophecy remained - and the time has come for it to be fulfilled. And as...
10) Girl
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English
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Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. This is an unforgettable story of one victim's astonishing survival,...
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Henry Holt and Company
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English
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Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford,...
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English
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Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter and from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband's secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she's forced to confront the evidence of her husband's guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men...
13) Seeing darkness
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Krewe of Hunters volume 30
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English
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When a terrifying past-life regression during a girls' weekend in Salem reveals a local politician's sinister nature, FBI Krewe of Hunters special agent Jon Dickson teams up with an apprehensive witness to stop a twisted serial killer.
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English
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Once standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés has collapsed into a pile of rubble. Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his brother Bernard who is alive and miraculously broadcasting somewhere under the massive rubble. The station's parent company wants to boost its profits by having Orville slyly drop brand names into his nightly talks with Bernard. When Orville refuses, his access to Bernard is suddenly cut...
15) Hello, summer
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer. Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rear view mirror years ago. Now, after ten years of blood, sweat, and tears, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position at a New York City newspaper. That is, until she discovers at her own going away...
16) Behind every lie
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Gallery Books
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English
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Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva can't remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva unravels her mother's carefully held secrets and soon realizes that someone doesn't want her to know the truth. And with violent memories beginning to emerge, Eva doesn't know who to trust. Least of all herself.
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Hanover Square Press
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English
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For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when a suspected overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving nefarious opioid traffickers and flashy tech titans who got rich...
18) The Paris hours
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Flatiron Books
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English
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"One day in the City of Lights. One night in search of lost time. Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city's most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they've lost. Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer's notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she...
19) Remembrance
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
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English
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Ohio, present day. An elderly woman warns against rising racism as a young woman grapples with her life. Haiti, 1791. slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers. New Orleans, 1857. House girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom. Remembrance. It's a rumour, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on...
20) The look-alike
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English
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Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions. But in her mother's shuttered house, an old fear that has haunted Sienna for years rears its ugly head - that it was she who had been the killer's target that night. And now, with it, a new fear - that the killer not only intended to remedy his past mistake - he's already begun. As the walls close in, the line between truth and lie, reality and delusion disintegrate.
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