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UNDER CURRENTS Nora Roberts #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #1 TITLE In a perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, two children feel like prisoners of war. People see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. . . .

| 978-1-4328-6469-9 | $38.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 7/9/2019 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

THE SUMMER OF SUNSHINE THE SUMMER GUESTS AND MARGOT Mary Alice Monroe Susan Mallery NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #6 TITLE EDITOR’S CHOICE #2 TITLE Monroe’s heartwarming and evocative new The Baxter sisters come from a long line novel is about the bonds and beginnings of women with disastrous luck in love. But born from natural disasters, and how in the this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn worst of circumstances we discover what is disasters into destiny . . . important in life.

| 978-1-4328-6652-5 | $37.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6721-8 | $36.99 U.S. Romance | Releases 7/3/2019 Women's Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

LOCK EVERY DOOR Riley Sager 17 TURBULENT TALES NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Edited by and Bev Vincent Riley Sager’s latest heart-pounding thriller #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR follows Jules Larsen, a heartbroken and Stephen King, who hates to fly, presents broke young woman whose new job as tales about all the things that can go an apartment sitter at one of Manhattan’s horribly wrong when you’re six miles in most high-profile, glamorous and the air, hurtling through space at 500 mph, mysterious buildings may cost more than it pays. sealed in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. | 978-1-4328-6667-9 | $35.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6666-2 | $35.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

STONE MOTHERS RECURSION Erin Kelly Blake Crouch “Utterly engaging, terrifying, and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR unputdownable.” ― starred, Booklist “Reminiscent of the best and most fantastic works At seventeen, Marianne fled her home — by Philip K. Dick.” — Library Journal leaving behind her family, her boyfriend, NYC cop Barry Sutton investigates a and the body they buried. Thirty years devastating phenomenon dubbed False later, forced to return to help her sick Memory Syndrome, which drives its mother, she feels the past closing around her. victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. 978-1-4328-6669-3 | $33.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6715-7 | $33.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Basic 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 6, 7 & 8.

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LIGHTS ALL NIGHT LONG Lydia Fitzpatrick "Beyond the brothers’ crystalline characterizations, Fitzpatrick gifts her intriguing debut with elegant prose, affecting images, and rich settings.”— starred,Booklist A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer. This rich tale about the pull of homes both native and adopted is a spellbinding story of the fierce bond between brothers determined to find a way back to each other.

978-1-4328-6664-8 | $31.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 | Available in Basic 6, 7 & 8.

THE GREAT PRETENDERS AUNTIE POLDI AND Laura Kalpakian THE VINEYARDS OF ETNA The daughter of Hollywood royalty, An Auntie Poldi Adventure Roxanne Granville is used to getting Mario Giordano what she wants — even if she has to “Giordano gives his heroine's second outing as break the rules. But after a falling- much punch as her debut. Long may she reign.” out with her grandfather, a powerful — starred, Kirkus Reviews movie mogul, she has to face life on Prosecco‑loving Auntie Poldi is ready her own for the first time. . . . Roxanne bravely defies for some peace and quiet, interrupted by romantic convention. She won’t let men make all the rules, honor encounters with handsome Chief Inspector Montana. the blacklist as an agent, or let skin color determine Then she finds a body in a vineyard, tangles with the whom she loves. This riveting novel reminds us that Mafia, and yet again makes herself unpopular in the some things are worth fighting for. pursuit of justice. But once wine and murder mix, how could she possibly stay away?

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29 DATES DARIUS THE GREAT IS NOT OKAY Melissa de la Cruz Adib Khorram #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WINNER OF THE WILLIAM C. MORRIS “A surefire hit wherever lighthearted romances DEBUT AWARD are popular.” — Kirkus Reviews “Will inspire reflection about identity and belonging.” — starred, School Library Journal Jisu’s traditional South Korean parents are working with Seoul’s premiere Darius doesn’t think he’ll ever be enough, matchmaker to find the right boyfriend in America or in Iran. Then he met as a step toward ensuring Jisu’s success. By going on Sohrab. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this story is for the dates, Jisu can please her parents and find space to anyone who’s ever felt not good enough — then met a figure out her own dreams. Until they ship her off to a friend who makes them feel so much better than okay. private school in San Francisco. This unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.

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TOM CLANCY ENEMY CONTACT BACKLASH: A Thriller A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel The Scot Harvath Series Mike Maden Brad Thor #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #5 TITLE EDITOR’S CHOICE #6 TITLE Jack Ryan Jr.’s race to stop an international Fearless men of honor have been known criminal conspiracy becomes intertwined throughout history: Spartan, Viking, with the final request of an old friend. Samurai. Today, one man is all three. And two days ago, Scot Harvath was crossed — badly. | 978-1-4328-6566-5 | $37.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6653-2 | $37.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

SOMEONE TO HONOR THE DITCH A Westcott Novel Herman Koch Mary Balogh NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Written with Herman Koch’s trademark If at first Gilbert Bennington and Abigail originality, playfulness, and edge, The Ditch Westcott seem to embody what the other is a wildly clever — and guttingly familiar most despises, they soon discover how — story of a man whose sadistic skill for wrong first impressions can be in the undermining himself and his marriage charming new Westcott Regency romance. comes to cost him nearly everything. | 978-1-4328-6733-1 | $36.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6497-2 | $34.99 U.S. Regency Romance | Releases 7/3/2019 General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Available in Core 5, 6, 7 & 8.

A GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER DEAR WIFE Bev Thomas Kimberly Belle Ruth Hartland is an experienced From the bestselling author of psychotherapist, but her new patient — Three Days Missing comes a riveting unstable and traumatized — looks exactly new novel of suspense about a woman like Ruth’s son, who disappeared a year on the run from domestic abuse and and a half ago. She’s determined to help a woman gone missing, and how their him, but complicated feelings cloud her lives are connected in unexpected and judgment. inextricable ways. 978-1-4328-6655-6 | $31.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6656-3 | $32.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Core 6, 7 & 8. Available in Core 7 & 8.

DARK AGE CITY OF FLICKERING LIGHT A Red Rising Novel Juliette Fay Pierce Brown “One of the best authors of women’s #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR fiction” (Library Journal) transports us For a decade Darrow led a revolution back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and against the corrupt color-coded Society. the raucous Roaring Twenties, as three Now, outlawed by the very Republic friends struggle to earn their places as he founded, he wages a rogue war on stars of the silent screen. Mercury. But is he still the hero who broke the chains?

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THE LAST HOUSE GUEST Megan Miranda NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR’S CHOICE #6 TITLE Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl — but that’s just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable — until Sadie is found dead. While the police rule the death a suicide, Avery can’t help but feel there are those in the community who blame her. Someone knows more than they’re saying, and Avery is intent on clearing her name before the facts get twisted against her. | 978-1-4328-6617-4 | $37.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 7/3/2019 | Available in Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5.

ASYMMETRY THE DAUGHTERS OF Lisa Halliday TEMPERANCE HOBBS NATIONAL BESTSELLER Katherine Howe WHITING AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR A TIME AND NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK Katherine Howe returns with a bewitching ON 7 BEST BOOK LISTS FOR 2018 story of a New England history professor "A beautiful debut novel . . . Halliday deftly who must race against time to free her and subtly intersects the two disparate stories, family from a curse. resulting in a deep rumination on the relation of art to life and death." — starred, Booklist A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain our most dramatic human relations.

978-1-4328-6663-1 | $36.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6701-0 | $36.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5. Available in Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5.

THE NIGHT VISITORS SOLACE ISLAND Carol Goodman The Solace Island Series “Brilliantly conceived and executed.” Meg Tilly — starred, Publishers Weekly “A complex and involving tale.” — Booklist Mattie lives alone and is always available, Dumped on the eve of her wedding and so she is the person the hotline and looking for a quiet place to lick her always calls when they need a late- emotional wounds, Maggie Harris joins night pickup. And although according to her sister on Solace Island, where she protocol Mattie should take Alice and Oren to a local hopes to recover from the stunning betrayal. What she shelter, instead she brings them home for the night. definitely doesn't need on her road to recovery are Both women have their secrets and as a snowstorm Eve's efforts to fix her up with their mysterious and worsens around them, each woman's past will prove alluring neighbor, Luke Benson — even if he is incredibly itself unburied, stirring up threats both within and handsome and desirable. without.

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THE DREAM PEDDLER FLOWERS OVER THE INFERNO Martine Fournier Watson A Teresa Battaglia Novel “A winning novel with broad appeal.” Ilaria Tuti — Publishers Weekly “[Teresa] is an unforgettable character readers A page-turning debut about a traveling will want to see a lot more of.” salesman and the small town he changes — starred, Publishers Weekly forever. Gorgeously told through a broad In a quiet village surrounded by ancient cast of fully realized characters, The Dream woods and the Italian Alps, a man is Peddler is an imaginative, moving novel of overcoming found naked with his eyes gouged out — the first in a loss and reckoning with secret longings. string of gruesome murders that Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. 978-1-4328-6700-3 | $31.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6688-4 | $30.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019 Mystery | Releases 7/3/2019

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WE MUST BE BRAVE DEAR GEORGE, DEAR MARY Frances Liardet A NOVEL OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S A NATIONAL BESTSELLER FIRST LOVE “[A] blazing story of hearts wounded and Mary Calvi restored.” — starred, Kirkus Reviews “Will appeal to readers of romance and historical December 1940. In the evacuation of fiction.” —Publishers Weekly Southampton, England, newly married Did unrequited love spark a flame Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep that ignited a cause that became the on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who American Revolution? Award-winning journalist Mary Pamela is. This poignant debut explores the fierce love Calvi’s debut novel explores George Washington’s we feel for our children and the power of that love to relationship with New York heiress Mary Philipse. endure.

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CAPE MAY EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER Chip Cheek Linda Holmes “[A] sobering reminder of how the possibilities “A warm and lovely romance, perfect for readers of life, when first encountered, often carry their of Rainbow Rowell and Louise Miller.” own riptide.” — starred, Booklist — starred, Kirkus Reviews A mesmerizing debut, Cape May A joyful, hilarious, and hope-filled debut explores the social and sexual mores set in a sleepy seaside town in Maine, of 1950s America through the eyes Evvie Drake Starts Over will have you of a newly married couple from the genteel south cheering for the two most unlikely comebacks of the corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites. year — and leave you wanting more from Linda Holmes.

978-1-4328-6722-5 | $31.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6570-2 | $30.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 7/17/2019 Women's Fiction | Releases 7/17/2019

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THE QUINTLAND SISTERS Shelley Wood The collective amazement around the girls hints at the AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER line between supporting or exploiting things deemed For fans of Sold on a Monday or The Home to be exceptional, strange, or fascinating. The use for Unwanted Girls, Wood’s novel tells of personal letters and newspaper clippings in the the story of the world’s first identical presentation of this rich, historical story makes this quintuplets to survive birth from the book feel authentic. Quintland Sisters will give groups perspective of a midwife in training who or solo readers plenty to think about. " helps bring them into the world. — Selector Kate Morgan, Adult Services Librarian for the King County Library System, WA 978-1-4328-6693-8 | $31.99 U.S. Historical Fiction | Releases 7/17/2019

DEATH BY DUMPLING A Noodle Shop Mystery Death by Dumpling is more than just a delicious, fun, Vivien Chien whodunit. The mystery is the wrapper for a filling of interesting, personable characters touching on some After a brutal break-up and a workplace complex themes. Inside Death by Dumpling are themes walk-out, Lana Lee is waiting tables at of cultural identity and the struggles within families her family’s Ho-Lee Noodle House. But she becomes yesterday’s news when the when children challenge tradition. This is a great title property manager turns up dead after a for a group to combine with discussion either at the delivery of shrimp dumplings from Ho-Lee. local Chinese restaurant or over takeout." — Selector Kate Morgan 978-1-4328-6685-3 | $30.99 U.S. Mystery | Releases 7/17/2019

STANDING % 24 hardcover titles each year for about $567. 25OFF ORDER BILL’S BOOKSHELF I PROFESSOR CHANDRA FOLLOWS HIS BLISS The philosophical debates and witty banter explore Rajeev Balasubramanyam generational differences in what is ultimately a A LIBRARYREADS PICK reflection on what it means to have a life well-lived. For fans of A Man Called Ove." Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as, after a — Selector Bill Kelly, Adult Programming Manager near-miss on his bicycle, he tries to answer for the Cuyahoga County Public Library the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?

978-1-4328-6510-8 | $31.99 NCR General Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019

THE LOST HISTORY OF DREAMS This atmospheric and absorbing labyrinthine mystery Kris Waldherr is one of nested Scheherazade-like stories featuring “Waldherr writes that ‘love stories are ghost romantic poetry, mythology, history and ghosts told stories in disguise.’ This one, happily, succeeds as in stunning, incandescent prose while exploring the both.” — starred, Kirkus Reviews nature of love and grief. For readers of Wuthering A post-mortem photographer unearths Heights, Poe and The Thirteenth Tale." dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut — Selector Bill Kelly novel. 978-1-4328-6299-2 | $30.99 U.S. Historical Fiction | Releases 7/3/2019

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THE KENNEDY HEIRS D-DAY GIRLS JOHN, CAROLINE, AND THE NEW THE SPIES WHO ARMED THE RESISTANCE, GENERATION — A LEGACY OF SABOTAGED THE NAZIS, AND HELPED WIN TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY WORLD WAR II J. Randy Taraborrelli Sarah Rose NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR In 1942 the Allies were losing, Germany A unique burden was inherited by the seemed unstoppable, and every able children of President John Fitzgerald Englishman was on the front lines. Britain’s Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert Special Operations Executive had to do something and Ted Kennedy. Now acclaimed Kennedy historian unprecedented. This is the story of thirty-nine extraordinary J. Randy Taraborrelli draws back the curtain on the next women recruited by the SOE to help pave the way for Allied generation of America’s most victory in World War II. famous family. | 978-1-4328-6676-1 | $34.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6612-9 | $34.99 U.S. Biography | Releases 7/17/2019 Nonfiction/History | Releases 7/17/2019 Available in Nonfiction 2 & 3. Available in Nonfiction 2 & 3.

AN AMERICAN SUMMER THE LADY FROM LOVE AND DEATH IN CHICAGO THE BLACK LAGOON Alex Kotlowitz HOLLYWOOD MONSTERS AND THE LOST LEGACY OF MILICENT PATRICK “[A] bold, unflinching depiction of an ever- lengthening crisis." Mallory O’Meara — starred, Publishers Weekly “Captivating and exhaustively researched.” Over the past twenty years in Chicago, — starred, Publishers Weekly 14,033 people have been killed and In a true-life detective story and roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do celebration of a forgotten feminist trailblazer, Mallory to the spirit of individuals and community? Kotlowitz O’Meara uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick set out to chronicle one summer, and his spellbinding — one of Disney’s first female animators and the only profiles upend what we think we know about gun woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic violence in America. movie monsters. 978-1-4328-6636-5 | $32.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6679-2 | $31.99 U.S. Nonfiction | Releases 7/17/2019 Biography | Releases 7/17/2019 Available in Nonfiction 2 & 3. Available in Nonfiction 3.

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THE HONEY BUS FUNNY MAN: Mel Brooks A MEMOIR OF LOSS, COURAGE Patrick McGilligan AND A GIRL SAVED BY BEES “. . . superb account by film biographer Meredith May McGilligan of Mel Brooks’s life and career . . .” “[A] sharply visceral memoir.” — Booklist — Publishers Weekly Meredith May recalls the first time a A deeply textured and compelling honeybee crawled on her arm. She was biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, five years old, her parents had recently covering his life and triumphant career in split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her television, films, and theater. Funny Man delivers a great grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper. That first close man’s life story and an anatomy of the American dream encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating of success. for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees.

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LEAVE NO SCONE UNTURNED MURDER WITH A Chef-to-Go Mystery CUCUMBER SANDWICHES Denise Swanson A Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Karen Rose Smith It’s fall and the college students are Notorious restaurant critic Derek returning to Normalton, Illinois ― Schumaker is coming to Daisy’s Tea customers for Dani’s Lunch-to-Go Garden, and Daisy and Aunt Iris are service. But when orientation week simmering with anxiety. Schumaker takes includes a murder, car-jackings and sightings of a a to-go order after the tea service, which is a good sign. mysterious creature, Dani must once again deal with Then he perishes from a seizure . . . the infuriatingly handsome Spencer Drake, head of security at the university.

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STEAMED OPEN TRIMMED TO DEATH A Maine Clambake Mystery A Bad Hair Day Mystery Barbara Ross Nancy J. Cohen It’s summertime in Busman’s Harbor, Savvy hairstylist and amateur sleuth Marla Maine, and the clamming is easy — until a Vail enters a charity bake-off contest at a mysterious new neighbor blocks access to fall festival, then joins a scavenger hunt. the beach, cutting off the Snowden Family Instead of scoring points, she finds a body Clambake’s supply. Julia Snowden is just face-down in the strawberry field. Who one of many townspeople angered by Bartholomew cut short the life of food magazine publisher and fellow Frick’s decision. But which one was angry enough to kill? bake-off contestant Francine Dodger? Marla soon finds there’s no shortage of suspects.

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THEY ALL FALL DOWN THEIR LITTLE SECRET Rachel Howzell Hall Mark Billingham “The twists start from page one and never let up “Morse, Rebus, and now Thorne. The next ― dramatic, thrilling and even compulsive.” superstar detective is already with us ― don’t ― James Patterson miss him.” ― Lee Child It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. When DI Tom Thorne is called to the site For fans of thrilling contemporary of a suicide, he expects to be in and out suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall’s brilliant in no time. But when he arrives at -alone novel brings seven sinners to a private metro station where a woman threw herself in front island in the Sea of Cortez for a reckoning that will leave of a train, Thorne senses something awry and feels you breathless. compelled to dig deeper.

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AUNT DIMITY AND ALPHA ALPINE THE HEART OF GOLD EMMA LORD RETURNS Nancy Atherton Mary Daheim NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “Always entertaining.” — The Seattle Times “Atherton smoothly blends history, village life, For a small town in the Cascade Mountain and the otherworldly.” — Publishers Weekly foothills, Alpine provides plenty of When the winter weather takes a headlines to fill editor and publisher turn for the worse in Lori Shepherd’s Emma Lord’s Alpine Advocate. The Labor village of Finch, Emma Harris’s annual Christmas bash Day edition features controversial timber baron Jack becomes a pajama party. And after an unexpected Blackwell’s run for county manager. But the strangling arrival, an impromptu tour of the manor turns up a deaths of two young women are all anyone can talk puzzling room, a hidden compartment, and glittering about. Then a third body is found. treasure. | 978-1-4328-6350-0 | $34.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6599-3 | $33.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 7/3/2019 Mystery | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Mystery 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. Available in Mystery 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.

LIGHTS! CAMERA! PUZZLES! HOME SWEET HOMICIDE A Puzzle Lady Mystery “The doyenne of the comic mystery.” Parnell Hall — Kirkus Reviews NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Unoccupied and unsupervised while “A wild adventure.” — Booklist mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs The latest in this ever-popular mystery find diversion playing amateur sleuths series finds the Puzzle Lady on the set and matchmakers. Poking fun at the of a movie about her own life ― based conventions of the genre, this comedic crime story finds on her ex-husband’s tell-all memoir Confessions of a “the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction” at her most Trophy Husband: My Life with the Puzzle Lady. And when entertaining. The basis for the 1946 film of the same the first dead body shows up on set, it comes with a name, Home Sweet Homicide launched Craig Rice to crossword puzzle. literary fame. 978-1-4328-6335-7 | $31.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-6281-7 | $30.99 U.S. Mystery | Releases 7/3/2019 Mystery | Releases 7/3/2019 Available in Mystery 3, 4, 5 & 6. Available in Mystery 4, 5 & 6.

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GETTING REAL ABOUT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR GETTING OLDER A MUSLIM DOCTOR’S STRUGGLE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT AGING BETTER FOR HOME IN RURAL AMERICA Linda K. Stroh, PhD and Ayaz Virji with Alan Eisenstock Karen K. Brees, PhD In Love Thy Neighbor, Virji relates his story Full of advice and stories from a wide in a gripping, unforgettable narrative variety of older people, this book that shows the human consequences of examines love, loss, and changing our toxic politics, the power of faith and identities, and will help you take control about aging and personal conviction, and the potential for a renewal of experience wisdom and joy as an older adult. understanding in America's heartland. 978-1-4328-6558-0 | $31.99 U.S. | 978-1-4328-6557-3 | $31.99 U.S. Self-Help | Releases 7/17/2019 Autobiography | Releases 7/17/2019

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SHELTER IN PLACE THE OUTSIDER Nora Roberts Stephen King NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was a typical evening at a mall outside An unspeakable crime. A confounding Portland, Maine. Teenagers wait for investigation. An eleven-year-old boy’s the movie to start, a boy flirts with the violated corpse. Eyewitnesses and girl selling sunglasses, mothers shop fingerprints point unmistakably to one with their children. Until the shooters of Flint City’s most popular citizens: Terry arrived, bringing chaos and carnage. But someone Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, wasn’t satisfied with the death toll that day. And as the and father of two girls. As the investigation expands and survivors slowly heal, they find that another conspirator horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive is lying in wait. story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. 978-1-4328-5255-9 | $17.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-5264-1 | $19.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 7/24/2019 Thriller | Releases 7/24/2019 Available in Paperback Bestsellers 2, 3 & 4. Available in Paperback Bestsellers 2, 3 & 4.

BEFORE AND AGAIN THE GRAY GHOST Barbara Delinsky A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER road just long enough to rob her of her In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce beloved daughter and ultimately of her prototype vanishes from the streets marriage, family, friends, and privacy. of Manchester, England, and only the Now she lives in Vermont under the lucky intervention of American detective name Maggie Reid. Covering up scars is a skill she has Isaac Bell prevents it from being lost forever. But he mastered. Then a new friend’s teenage son is thrust into can’t save the good name of Marcus Peyton, the man the national spotlight, accused of hacking a powerful wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred man’s Twitter account. And as the stunning truth behind years later his grandson turns to Sam and Remi Fargo their case is slowly revealed, Maggie’s own carefully to prove his grandfather’s innocence. constructed story begins to unravel as well. 978-1-4328-5334-1 | $17.99 U.S. 978-1-4328-5124-8 | $14.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 7/24/2019 Adventure | Releases 7/24/2019 Available in Paperback Bestsellers 3 & 4. Available in Paperback Bestsellers 4.

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