Books I'd Like to Request
These are books I'll request once I have the credits and can request them. Unless something else strikes my fancy before I can get to the list ;)
List created by Denneane C. (denneane) on Mar 5, 2011
List Votes: 1 Books: 188 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Friends
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Dandelions in a Jelly Jar (Lake Emily, Bk 2) by Traci Depree
The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay!
Mae Morgan’s flamboyant art teacher sister, Trudy Ploog, moves to the quiet, rural town of Lake Emily, Minnesota, to be closer to Bert Biddle, her shy, unassuming farmer boyfriend. Everything is... more
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush...
After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted... more
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The Truth Teller by Angela Hunt
All Lara Godfrey wanted was the chance to bear her late husband's child, but the fertility doctor betrayed her trust. That's why Lara fled the clinic before the baby's birth. It's why she changed her name and hid for five years. All for the sake of her beloved little Hunter, who has grown to be... more
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The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
Sophie Edgar barely recognizes her husband, Thomas, an amateur naturalist, when he returns from the Amazon, where he had hoped to find his long-dreamed-of mythical butterfly, Papilio sophia. The optimistic young Edwardian gentleman is gone, replaced by a weak, nearly mute shadow of the man she... more
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True Notebooks (Alex Awards) by Mark Salzman
Salzman (Lying Awake; Iron & Silk) volunteered to teach creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall, a Los Angeles County detention facility for "high-risk" juvenile offenders. Most of these under-18 youths had been charged with murder or other serious crimes, and after trial and sentencing many... more
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Walks With Men: Fiction by Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker?s young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times. So does the protagonist of her intense new novella, Walks with Men. It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian... more
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The Obituary Writer: A Novel by Ann Hood
A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras.On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or... more
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Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline
Four people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: everything is about to change
It was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeling... more
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Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline
A mysterious bequest, a mother's terrible death, and a daughter's search for the truth about the past yield taut suspense in this powerful first novel. Cassie Simon, a young sculptor living in New York, is frustrated with her work, her love life, and the city. When Amory Clyde, her grandfather,... more
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Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parents in Mississippi, Starla is being raised by a strict paternal grandmother, Mamie, whose worst fear is that Starla will turn out like her mother. Starla hasn’t seen her momma since she was... more
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The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World by Matt ...
While writing his celebrated Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times, Matt Gross began to feel hemmed in by its focus on what he thought of as traveling on the cheap at all costs.? When his editor offered him the opportunity to do something less structured, the Getting Lost series was... more
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra
Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.
In the final days of... more
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Lick Creek : A Novel by Brad Kessler
Set in the remote mining country of West Virginia in the late twenties, Lick Creek is the compelling story of a fiery young woman, Emily Jenkins, and what happens when progress -- and tragedy -- comes to her family's farm. Brad Kessler has a generous and keen eye for natural landscape and its... more
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Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas, Bk 6) by Dean Koontz
The pistol appeared in his hand the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if it materialized out of thin air. “You think I won’t do it right here in the open. But you’d be surprised. . . . You’ll drop before you get the breath to scream.”
The... more
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The Child Thief: A Novel by Brom
Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life, but his promised land is not Neverland. Fourteen-year-old Nick would have... more
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Why Sinatra Matters by Pete Hamill
As products of the same urban landscape, Pete Hamill and Frank Sinatra have both been credited with giving the American city a voice. In this widely acclaimed and bestselling appreciation--now available in paperback for the first time--Hamill draws on his intimate experience of the man and the... more
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Northwest Corner: A Novel by John Burnham Schwartz
The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road ?a triumph,? and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road?s unforgettable characters in a... more
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Good Things I Wish You by A. Manette Ansay
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances -- one historical, the other modern-day -- separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.
Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, novelist Jeanette struggles to... more
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The Fox's Walk by Annabel Davis-Goff
Alice Moore is eight years old and has just been left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely old house in the south of Ireland. It is 1915, the First World War has just entered its second year, and, in Ireland, Nation-alists are edging toward revolution. Often lonely... more
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The Dower House by Annabel Davis-Goff
Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel Davis-Goff delivers the story of Molly Hassard, an Anglo-Irish orphan coming of age in a formerly privileged society. As the Protestant-Irish emerge from the postwar years, the refuse to face the inevitable: They have beautiful old houses,... more
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On the Night Plain : A Novel by J. Robert Lennon
At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family’s ranch on the Great Plains for a fishing boat on the Atlantic, only to be drawn back by his mother’s death. His father has mysteriously disappeared, and Grant’s brother, Max, a lifelong rival, takes off on the day... more
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The Raising (P.S.) by Laura Kasischke
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who was driving, remarkably—some say... more
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Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
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The Preacher (Patrik Hedstrom, Bk 2) by Camilla Lackberg & Steven T. Murray (Tran...
The second psychological thriller from Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka, life is remote, peaceful -- and for some, tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a... more
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Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, Bk 4) by Tana French
Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective -- and that’s what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands.
On one... more
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and... more
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Bliss House by Laura Benedict
"The past never stays buried at Bliss House...Rainey Bliss Adams' perfect life came to an end one spring afternoon, when her husband was killed in an explosion that horrifically burned their fourteen year-old daughter, Ariel. Desperate for a new start, she takes Ariel to live in the beautiful... more
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Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
By the celebrated author of Canada Reads Finalist Indian Horse, a stunning new novel that has all the timeless qualities of a classic, as it tells the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. For male and female... more
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Disappearance at Devil's Rock: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.?A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I?m pretty... more
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Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone.
When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The... more
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Darktown (Darktown, Bk 1) by Thomas Mullen
In the tradition of our most acclaimed suspense writers, the author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in Atlanta, a ripped-from-the-headlines depiction of a world on the cusp of great change involving race relations, city politics, and police... more
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You Will Know Me: A Novel by Megan Abbott
One of the Best Books of 2016--NPR, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Elle, Thrillist, Publishers Weekly, Time Out New York, Self and Kirkus
The audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one of the best living mystery writers" (Grantland) and bestselling,... more
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Final Girls by Riley Sager
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to -- a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final... more
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The Nix by Nathan Hill
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson -- college professor, stalled writer -- has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies... more
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Slade House by David Mitchell
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you... more
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The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
If elephants could tell just one story, it would be the story of Mud, a young elephant cow orphaned at birth and blessed with visionary powers. Mud's life on the Africa plain is changed forever when she and her adopted family are forced by prolonged drought to linger at one of the few remaining... more
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Hex (Robert Grim, Bk 1) by Thomas Olde Heuvelt & Nancy Forest-Flier (Translator)
The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvel...
Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.
Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock... more
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
The apocalypse will be asymmetrical. In the aftermath of a plague that has decimated the world population, the unnamed midwife confronts a new reality in which there may be no place for her. Indeed, there may be no place for any woman except at the end of a chain. A radical rearrangement is... more
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Daughters of the North (P.S.) by Sarah Hall
From Publishers Weekly
Chronicling a journey of violence, oppression and fleeting liberation, this brutal third novel from the author of The Electric Michelangelo is a timely feminist commentary on war, gender, politics and identity. Set in a dystopian near-future northern U.K. where global... more
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When She Woke: A Novel by Hillary Jordan
When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign.An enthralling and chilling novel from the author of MUDBOUND, for fans of THE HANDMAID?S TALE and THE SCARLET LETTER.Hannah Payne?s life has been devoted to church and family, but after her... more
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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
WATER IS POWER
Paolo Bacigalupi,New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and National Book Award finalist, delivers a near-future thriller that casts new light on how we live today?and what may be in store for us tomorrow.
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought.... more
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The Horseman by Tim Pears
From acclaimed author Tim Pears, the first novel in a sweeping historical trilogy, beginning in rural, pre-WWI England. Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains... more
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Landed: A Novel by Tim Pears
Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell?s sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents? small farm in the hills. There he is deeply impressed by his grandfather?s primitive, cruel relationship with his... more
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In the place of fallen leaves by Tim Pears
It is the hottest summer of the twentieth century. In a faraway Devon village hidden in a valley, the world hast stopped turning and time is slipping backward. "This idn't nothing" Alison's grandmother tells her, recalling the electric summer after the war when the earth swallowed the lambs.... more
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Beyond the Wild River by Sarah Maine
A highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disappeared from her family's estate the night of a double murder.
Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre has... more
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Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
'A must for mystery fans ...great customer reviews' The Bookseller The huge international bestseller - with over 3 million copies sold. On a wet November day, Detectives Pia Kirchoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to the scene of a mysterious accident. A woman has fallen from a bridge... more
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present danger by stella rimington
the latest in the stella rimington (former head of MI5)series of spy novels, present danger is a compulsive thriller fileed with action and suspense
When MI5 officer Liz Carlyle arrives in Belfast, danger immediately follows - she soon discovers that the peace process in the province is... more
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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the... more
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Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
“I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.”
So begins Liz Nugent’s astonishing debut novel -- a chilling, elegantly crafted, and psychologically astute exploration of the nature of evil.
Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been... more
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A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth?s mysterious and iconic painting Christina?s World. "Later he told me that he?d been afraid to show me the painting. He... more
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The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom.
Lilly isn’t allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She’s never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it’s for Lilly’s own... more
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The Zero (P.S.) by Jess Walter
From its opening pages -- when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head -- novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his... more
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People Like Us by Dana Mele
A sharp psychological thriller that's just right for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Pretty Little Liars--this story will seduce, mislead, and finally, betray you.
Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer... more
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
From Patricia Lockwood?a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice?a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father.
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met?a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and... more
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American War by Omar El Akkad
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is... more
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Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War... more
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Anything Is Possible (Amgash, Bk 2) by Elizabeth Strout
An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss and explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in... more
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What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
A haunting story about the nature of love and loyalty, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most... Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in... more
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A Boy in Winter: A Novel by Rachel Seiffert
From the award-winning author of the Booker Prize?short-listed The Dark Room, a startling portrait of the Nazis' arrival in Ukraine as they move to implement the final solution
Otto Pohl, an engineer overseeing construction of a German road in Ukraine, awakens to the unexpected sight of SS men... more
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Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The unforgettable and achingly tender new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS. 'Exquisite' Joanna CannonIt begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the... more
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone... more
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The Ex by Alafair Burke
In this breakout standalone novel of suspense in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on a Train, a woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murder -- but begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated.
Twenty years ago she ruined his life. Now she has the chance... more
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Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks
It?s 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families how to modernize their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent?s self-possession. Already, cracks are... more
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The Court Dancer: A Novel by Kyung-Sook Shin
Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history.Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom... more
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Lake Success: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
?Stupendous . . . a novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute.??Elizabeth Gilbert
The bestselling author ofSuper Sad True Love Storyreturns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally... more
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Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones
Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme.
When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit... more
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The Black Ascot (Inspector Ian Rutledge, Bk 21) (Larger Print) by Charles Todd
An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible—but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal... more
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Smoke and Ashes (Sam Wyndham, Bk 3) by Abir Mukherjee
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force.
When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he’s... more
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Wolf Pack (Joe Pickett, Bk 19) (Large Print) by C. J. Box
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf -- only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down.
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is... more
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Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent.
Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood... more
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The Tale Teller (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, Bk 5) (Larger Print) by Anne Hillerman
Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact -- a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation.... more
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The Better Sister (Larger Print) by Alafair Burke
Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.
Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky -- always restless and more than a little reckless -- was the... more
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, Bk 1) by Alexander McCall Smith
In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmo, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.
These are their stories.
The first case: the... more
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The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne and Horowitz, Bk 2) by Anthony Horowitz
"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…"
These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer. Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine – a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth... more
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Paper Son: A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel (Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mysteries) by S. J. R...
The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community. The Most Southern Place on Earth: that?s what they call the Mississippi Delta. It?s not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private... more
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The Editor by Steven Rowley
After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie (or Mrs. Onassis, as she's known in the office) has fallen in love with James's candidly... more
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Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, “Folly,” tells the story... more
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| Denneane C. (denneane) |
Saving Meghan by D.J. Palmer
Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer.
Can you love someone to death? Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others claim she's obsessed and can't stop the vicious circle of finding a cure at... more
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| Denneane C. (denneane) |
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom?s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman?s transformation from a struggling single parent to an... more
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| Denneane C. (denneane) |
I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
Russia, July 17, 1918 -- Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have... more
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Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in... more
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Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?Night Boat to Tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death and... more
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by A...
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the... more
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Turbulence: A Novel by David Szalay
From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.
A woman strikes up a... more
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The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster.We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few... more
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton
A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made
The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the... more
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When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
A heart-swelling debut for fans of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Sometimes life isn?t as simple as heroes and villains.
For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived with some... more
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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why. Upstate New York, 1982: Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New... more
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some... more
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Illegal by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin
An Amazon Best Book of the Month!A powerfully moving graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants.Ebo is alone.His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it... more
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Highfire by Eoin Colfer
In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs - now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks,... more
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The Words of Every Song by Liz Moore
The Words of Every Song is a literate and original debut novel in the form of fourteen linked episodes, each centered on a character involved with the music industry in some fashion. There’s the arrogantly hip, twenty-six-year-old A&R man; the rising young singer-songwriter; the... more
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The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. Emmeline lives an... more
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Treason by Meredith Whitford
Treachery in Love and War in the Struggle for the English Crown.
From the time he sees his parents brutally slain and his home destroyed in a bloody Lancastrian power struggle for the crown, young Martin Robsart's life becomes entwined with that of England's royal Plantagenet... more
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Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward
A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work and the power of perseverance from the beloved, New York Times bestselling, and two-time National Book Award?winning Jesmyn Ward.
For Tulane University?s 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring... more
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The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
Imagine that your husband has two other wives. You've never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don't care. Or at least that's what... more
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One by One by Ruth Ware
Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, and company to keep you warm. But what happens when that company is eight of your coworkers…and you... more
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And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall
Isabel Lincoln is gone.
But is she missing?
It's up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want to be found, Gray's search for Isabel Lincoln becomes more complicated and dangerous with every new revelation about the woman's... more
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Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
Cassie McDowell’s life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents’ strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she’s grown accustomed to them.
All that... more
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Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon
When Josie Jensen, an awkward 13-year-old musical prodigy crashes headlong into new-comer Samuel Yazzie, an 18-year-old Navajo boy full of anger and confusion, an unlikely friendship blooms. Josie teaches Samuel about words, music and friendship, and along the way finds a kindred spirit. Upon... more
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The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area --... more
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Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others... more
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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
Now with a New Afterword
When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did this intimate investigative memoir usher in a media storm of coverage, but it also prompted the elite St.... more
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| Denneane C. (denneane) |
Fable (Fable, Bk 1) by Adrienne Young
Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old... more
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Copper River (Cork O'Connor, Bk 6) by William Kent Krueger
The sixth novel in William Kent Krueger's award-winning suspense series finds Cork O'Connor running for his life -- straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.
In well-crafted settings that are beautiful and unforgiving, with unforgettable characters and... more
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What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two... more
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Tell Me Lies: A Novel by Carola Lovering
A thrilling, sexy coming-of-age story exploring toxic love, ruthless ambition, and shocking betrayal, Tell Me Lies is about that one person who still haunts you?the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn?t let go of. The one you?ll never forget.
Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island... more
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The Slow Regard Of Silent Things: Signed by Patrick Rothfuss
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it, a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.Her name is Auri, and she is full of... more
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Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher -- for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks... more
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The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they... more
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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.
Marra never wanted to be a hero.
As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an... more
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in... more
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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark,... more
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan F...
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Quicksilver by Dean Koontz
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery -- abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism”. It compelled him to drive out to the... more
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Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
A Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl.
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident... more
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Oh William! (Amgash, Bk 3) by Elizabeth Strout
I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William... Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They... more
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One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s... more
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In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible.
Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle... more
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine... more
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The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us.
Lime green... more
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Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not,... more
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The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
A stark world where evil and magic coincide, an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he... more
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christ...
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The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak
Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to... more
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The Only One Left by Riley Sager
At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope
Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her... more
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Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from hungry reporters and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she... more
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The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life.
Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man -- the... more
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Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
A gorgeous debut novel of marriage, motherhood, metamorphosis, and letting go, this intergenerational love story begins with newlyweds Wren and her husband, Lewis—a man who, over the course of nine months, transforms into a great white shark.
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of... more
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I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman & Ros Schwartz
A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered...if indeed there were crimes.The youngest of forty--a child with no name and no past--she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and... more
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138
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Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster.
When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named... more
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139
| Denneane C. (denneane) |
The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
A New York Times bestseller.
In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel ?is a poignant book that realistically looks at the lasting effects of trauma on love, relationships, and life? (School Library Journal, starred review).
Eden was always good at being good. Starting high... more
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Conversations with Friends: A Novel by Sally Rooney
A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century
Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the... more
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For the Wolf (Wilderwood, Bk 1) by Hannah Whitten
The first daughter is for the Throne. The second daughter is for the Wolf.
As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose -- to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods.
Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a... more
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| Denneane C. (denneane) |
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. — Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely... more
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In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful.
Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy... more
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Full Measures (Flight & Glory, Bk 1) by Rebecca Yarros
She knew. That's why Mom hadn't opened the door. She knew he was dead. Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her... more
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Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke
At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of... more
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The Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein
Dubbed the ?next Ready, Player One,? by former Warner Brothers President Greg Silverman, and now in film development at Lionsgate.
?I read a lot of books but haven?t enjoyed one as much as The Punch Escrow in a long time. Klein creates a plausibly real future that sucks you in. He powers his... more
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The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming Manhattan bassist named Will Dando awakens from a dream one morning with 108 predictions about the future in his head, he rapidly finds himself the most powerful man in the world. Protecting his anonymity by calling himself the Oracle, he sets up a... more
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will... more
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Playground by Richard Powers
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the... more
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The Mighty Red: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
History is a flood. The mighty red . . .
In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.
Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to... more
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Tell Me Everything (Amagash, Bk 5) by Elizabeth Strout
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the... more
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Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth... more
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| Denneane C. (denneane) |
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood... more
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The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang
From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly... more
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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death,... more
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A Touch of Chaos (Hades X Persephone, 4) by Scarlett St. Clair
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of... more
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Baby X by Kira Peikoff
In the near-future United States, where advanced technology can create egg or sperm from any person’s cells, celebrities face the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived. Famous singer Trace Thorne is tired of being targeted by the Vault, a black market site... more
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Moon Of The Turning Leaves: A Novel by Waubgeshig Rice
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I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the... more
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All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she’s locked... more
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The Chamber by Will Dean
Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters.
Then one of them is found dead in his bunk.
With four days... more
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I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell
Years ago Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn’t date. Her carefully cultivated world is upended when her childhood hero, Francis Keen,... more
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Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman
Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discovers that she has inherited property in the British Virgin Islands—a vacation home she had no idea existed, until now. The house is extraordinary: state-of-the-art, all glass and marble. How did her sensible father come into... more
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The Stranger at the Wedding: A Novel by A. E. Gauntlett
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories.
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still has plenty of living to do. Joining the hospital’s... more
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian -- born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness -- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she... more
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The Inmate by Freida McFadden
The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars…
As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules:
Treat all prisoners with respect.
Never reveal any personal information.
Never EVER become too... more
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Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one
"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly... more
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Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Macy is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new paediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot – the first and only love of her life – the... more
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First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.
Evie isn’t privy to Mr.... more
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the... more
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Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he?ll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past... more
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All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Two teens find each other while standing on the edge... Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for, and manages to find, something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future,... more
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