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Contents

Adventure ...... 3-4 Alaskana ...... 4-5 ...... 5-7 General ...... 7-21 Historical ...... 13-15 Mystery ...... 15-22 General ...... 15-18 Cozy ...... 18-20 Suspense ...... 20-21 Thriller ...... 21-22 ...... 22-25 Western ...... 25-27 Juvenile ...... 28

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Fiction Adventure

Brotherhood of War, Three Novels The Aviators (Brotherhood of War Book 8) by W.E.B. Griffin by W.E.B. Griffin

Hailed by Tom Clancy as "an American epic," It is 1964. The War has begun to escalate, its the Brotherhood of War series is a sweeping new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics, military saga that probes the hearts and and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the Army must scramble to create its first- minds of those who fight our nation's wars. ever Air Assault Division, a critical to its chances Packed with adventure and realism, loyalty, of success. The obstacles are staggering--but through victory, and betrayal, the absorbing stories in sheer courage and dedication, these heroic fighters rise this omnibus edition are classics of the genre. to the challenge. For they are America's bravest. Havana Storm The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure by edited by Lawrence Ellsworth

Investigating a toxic outbreak in the A delicious, pulse-quickening compendium of Caribbean Sea that is threatening the thrilling rescues, daring escapes, dreadful peril, United States, Dirk Pitt is embroiled in a and glorious adventure, masterfully curated by post-Castro power struggle for control of an editor who wields his pen as skillfully as any Cuba; while his children, Dirk Jr. and ever swung a sword. Summer, embark on a high-stakes hunt. Pyramid The Colonels (Brotherhood of War Book 4) by David Gibbins by W.E.B. Griffin

Perfect for fans of Clive Cussler and Dan They were the professionals, the men who had Brown, Pyramid is a thrilling new adventure been toughened by combat in the mine-laden starring fearless marine archaeologist fields of Europe, in Korea, in , in Indochina. Howard, in a heart-stopping quest to uncover Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must an ancient Egyptian secret—and make the return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches most amazing discovery of our time. of Cuba and in a new war yet to come…

Special Ops (Brotherhood of War Book 9) The Generals (Brotherhood of War Book 6) by W.E.B. Griffin by W.E.B. Griffin

W.E.B. Griffin returns to the series that Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with launched his phenomenal career-- in an nothing on his mind except fishing, when some explosive new novel that pits a team of joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally it Special warriors against the was no accident. When secret agents get shot at, legendary revolutionary . it never is. So Helm has to go back to work. At least there’s a bonus in the form of his boss’s beautiful daughter, a playmate in peril. Take Down The Interlopers by James Swain by Donald Hamilton

There are hundreds of casinos in Las Vegas, and Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with Billy Cunningham knows how to rip off every one. nothing on his mind except fishing, when some His scams are so perfectly orchestrated that joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally it onlookers believe he and his crew are winning fair was no accident. When secret agents get shot and square. In a town where bosses kill to at, it never is. So Helm has to go back to work. protect profits, Billy can’t afford to make mistakes, At least there’s a bonus in the form of his boss’s but even the best-laid plans can go wrong . . . beautiful daughter, a playmate in peril.

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Fiction Adventure

The New Breed (Brotherhood of War Book 7) The Revenant by W.E.B. Griffin by Michael Punke

From the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the A story of survival on the American frontier far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a Glass, who after surviving a grizzly bear attack, different kind of war. But the courage and undertakes an arduous trek through the skill of these young fighting men were an wilderness to seek revenge against the trappers American tradition. Like their fathers before who left him for dead. them, they rose up to the ultimate challenge

Fiction Alaskana

Cabin, Clearing, Forest Murder on the Last Frontier by Zach Falcon by Cathy Pegau

“People break my heart. Every single one of There’s many who feel the Alaska Territory is no them does.” In settings that range from rural place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte fishing communities to the urban capital, the Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let stories of Cabin, Clearing, Forest are a lyrical public opinion dictate her life choices. She’s road map to the human landscape of contem- come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her porary Alaska. brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaska—to start over. Elizabeth’s Journey The Angels Will Not Care by Shirley Stephenson by John Straley

An historically accurate novel based upon Following a series of unexplained deaths on board the true story of a courageous young widow a luxury cruise , PI Cecil Younger of Alaska is who arrived in Alaska Territory in the hired to investigate the ship's doctor. Suspicion is winter of 1918 and finds her place among he may be offering assisted suicides. commercial fishermen, loggers, miners, fox farmers, Indians, merchants, traveling salesmen and part-time politicians. Cold Water Burning The Curious Eat Themselves by John Straley by John Straley

Three years ago someone killed 4 people on Cecil Younger is a defense investigator in Sitka, the scow Mygirl and, in court, Cecil Younger Alaska but this client is the victim of a crime helped fee the accused. Now that man has who wants Younger to break through corporate disappeared and 2 people connected with the cover-ups and police apathy to find evidence case die in separate and bizarre explosions of against the man who raped her. But before she gunfire. Younger is certain someone is trying can tell him the details, her throat is slashed. to finish the grisly job.

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Fiction Alaskana

The Music of What Happens The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley by John Straley

In Alaska, a child custody fight leads to mur- In Sitka, Alaska, the bizarre death of a big- der. A mother accuses a state senator of con- game hunter years before is investigated by spiracy with her ex-husband to deny her cus- Cecil Younger, who uncovers a many-layered tody of their child. She confronts the senator, mystery involving the folklore and mythology he is killed and she is arrested. Did she do it, of the local Tlingit Indians. or was she framed? PI Younger investigates.

Fiction Fantasy

Bitterblue Foxglove Summer by Kristin Cashore by Ben Aaronovitch

Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of When two young girls go missing in rural Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in- the futility of relying on advisors who training Peter Grant is sent out of London to surround her with lies as she tries to help her check that nothing supernatural is involved. people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psycho-path with mind-altering abilities. Faerie Lord (Faerie Wars Chronicles bk. 4) Ganymede by Herbie Brennan by Cherie Priest

When a terrible plague takes over the faerie The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, realm and causes its inhabitants to age straighter. Although he's happy to run alcohol unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find guns wherever the money's good, he doesn't think a cure in order to save the realm. the world needs more sap, or its ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly's first legal gig―a supply run for the Seattle Underground―will be paid for by sap money.

Five Portraits Iron Axe: Books of Blood & Iron by Piers Anthony by Steven Harper

Piers Anthony delivers another tale set in the In this new series from the author of the bestselling world of Xanth, filled with magic, Clockwork Empire series, a hopeless outcast surprises, adventure, and a few puns must answer Death's call and embark on an epic adventure. With his unlikely companions, Danr will brave fantastic and dangerous creatures to find a weapon that could save the world--or destroy it.

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Fiction Fantasy

Jewel and Amulet Styxx by Michael Moorcock by Sherrilyn Kenyon

In an alternate far future, Dorian Hawkmoon As the twin to Acheron, the who saved the is pulled unwillingly into a war against the human race centuries ago, Styxx hasn't always armies of the Dark Empire. Antique cities, been on his brother's side. But with an scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines Atlantean goddess bent on setting wrongs right, serve as a backdrop to this high adventure, how do you find a way back from the darkness the first 2 novels in the Hawkmoon series. that wants to consume the entire world? One that wants to start by devouring your very soul? Night Music: Nocturnes vol. 2 The Diabolical Miss Hyde by John Connolly By Viola Carr

Offers a collection of thirteen short fiction Forensic science, magic, mystery, and romance tales of horror and the supernatural. mix in this edgy fantasy—a retelling Connolly is a graceful, even elegant writer, of the horror classic, in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll, one who uses his characters and words to daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll— pull us into his stories; and when the scary pursues a dangerous murderer in an alternate stuff starts happening, we’re so engrossed Victorian London. that we couldn’t stop reading even if we tried.

No True Way: All-New Tales of Valdemar The Faeman Quest (Faerie Wars bk. 5) edited by Mercedes Lackey by Herbie Brenan

The sixth collection set in Lackey's world of Stubborn and feisty Mella, the half-faeire half- Valdemar presents stories of Heralds and human daughter of Lord Henry and Queen their telepathic horse-like Companions and of Holly Blue, has the power to determine the Bards and Healers, and provides glimpses of fate of both the faerie and "analogue world" the many other aspects of a setting that has a when she travels to the country of Haleklind large and avid readership. The fifteen original and discovers rebel forces preparing for war. tales in this volume will appeal to series fans. Pathfinder Tales: Bloodbound The Globe: Science of Discworld II by F Wesley Schneider by Terry Pratchett

Larsa is a dhampir-half vampire, half human. In the In this second installment of the miniseries, gritty streets and haunted moors of gothic Ustalav, she's Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart an agent for the royal spymaster, keeping peace between the capital's secret vampire population and its huddled weave the history of the human mind, culture, human masses. Yet when a noblewoman's entire house language, art and science into a story in which is massacred by vampiric invaders, Larsa is drawn into a the wizards compete with the elves for control of deadly game of cat-and-mouse that will reveal far more Roundworld and grapple with the nature of about her own heritage than she ever wanted to know. Good and Evil. Ruler of the Realm (Faerie Wars bk. 3) The Jonah Watch by Herbie Brennan by Jack Cady

While simultaneously trying to prevent and Supposedly a true story framed in the format of a prepare for war between the Faeries of the novel, The Jonah Watch is based on Jack Cady's Night and Faeries of the Light, Queen Holly experiences while serving on a Coast Guard cutter off the coast of Maine. Trapped on an icebound Blue is kidnapped from her Uncle cutter, the crew of the Adrian are haunted by Hairstreak's home by human Henry Atherton apparitions, and the resulting terror and paranoia and learns she must face another, far greater make for a claustrophobic tale of initiation and enemy. survival.

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Fiction Fantasy

The Love Book The Wicked by Nina Solomon by Douglas Nicholas

Four women on a singles' bike trip through The mesmerizing and highly anticipated Normandy discover a mysterious red book sequel to Something Red transports readers to about love. Magical words, spells, conjura- the harsh and enchanting world of thirteenth- tions, and a little dose of synchronicity century England, where a group of unlikely abound as the women embark on a soul mate heroes battles an ancient evil. An unforgettable seeking journey. blend of fantasy, mythology, and horror.

The Man Who Spoke Snakish The Young Elites by Andrus Kivirahk by Marie Lu

Set in a fantastical version of medieval A Game of Thrones meets X-Men in this 14th- Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish century fantasy from Marie Lu, in a world where follows a young boy, Leemet, who lives with ‘fear is power.’ The overriding epic fantasy will his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and keep readers hooked for book two, which teases is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of to be a game-changer. snakish, a language that allows its speakers to command all animals. The Secrets of Life and Death We Are Here by Rebecca Alexander by Michael Marshall

Alexander has crafted a gripping page-turner Marshall combines mystery with urban fantasy successfully blending history and fiction with to create an eerie, convoluted tale of shadow magic and sorcery; truly a wonderfully and beings living between the cracks of our world. uniquely inspired novel. Readers comfortable with mixing genres will enjoy the ride.

Fiction General

A Second Bite at the Apple by Dana A Table by the Window Bate by Hillary Manton Lodge

From the acclaimed author of The Girls' Food writer Juliette adores her Guide to Love and Supper Clubs comes a temperamental, trilingual family of witty, honest novel, perfectly seasoned with restaurateurs, but she could do without their both humor and heart, about daring to bite bossy skepticism of her online love interest, as into the life you really want… she navigates a long-distance romance, career decisions, and a genealogical mystery. A delectable tale that includes recipes.

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Fiction General

All for You, by Susan Mallery, Lori Bring the Ring Foster, Gena Showalter & Bella Andre by Janet Dailey

Four unforgettable stories from the biggest From beloved New York Times bestselling names in romance. author Dailey comes a brand-new collection featuring two complete, classic novels of love and romance at a special price.

All of Us and Everything Broken Bonds by Bridget Asher by Karen Harper

Life as Augusta Rockwell knows it changes once she Book 3 in the Cold Creek series, a place with a unearths a box of letters written by her absent husband, dark history, especially for the Lockwoods. Now Nick Flemming, the love of her life and the father her children have never known. She's told her daughters adults, the three sisters are still recovering from that their absent father was actually a spy, but the the events that led to the destruction of their letters reveal that Nick has secretly been keeping tabs family when they were children, and oldest sis- on his family from afar -- a discovery that has the potential to mend the fractured lives of the three ter Char is certain something sinister is being Rockwells. covered up. An Amish Man of Ice Mountain Change of Heart by Kelly Long by Jude Deveraux

Joseph King has good reasons to work an oil rig far from Two childhood playmates grow into more than his beloved Ice Mountain… and to mind his own business. just friends in #1 New York Times bestselling He hopes to protect his younger brother Edward from worldly influences. And maybe he can finally forget how author Jude Deveraux’s full-length romantic yielding to temptation forced him to leave home in novel based on her short story of the same disgrace. Still, no honorable Amish man would let Priscilla name. Allen and her four-year-old daughter remain homeless, living out of their car. And how can he not be drawn to the feisty waitress's bravery and hidden strength... Angel's Peak Decoy : A Novella by Robyn Carr by Allan Gurganus

Four years ago, air force sweethearts Franci Set in mythical Falls, North Carolina, this Duncan and Sean Riordan reached an mysterious and compelling tale maps the impasse. She wanted marriage and a family. lifelong eroticized friendship between two He didn't. But a chance meeting proves that married men. When Doc Roper, the town’s the bitter breakup hasn't cooled their beloved physician, announces he is retiring from sizzling chemistry. practice to carve exquisite duck decoys, he triggers an epidemic of catastrophes Branching Out Finding Amos by Kerstin March by JD Mason

Nestled along the shores of the beautiful Three national bestselling authors join talents Great Lakes, Meyers Orchard is where Shelby in a multi-dimensional novel that illustrates Meyers found unexpected love and strength— the importance of love, family, and and now must forge a new life on her own forgiveness. terms….

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Fiction General

First Impressions: Blithe Images Hollywood Skye by Nora Roberts by Suzetta Perkins

Escaping the rat race and the lure of gold-digging When a young woman seeking fame and women, wealthy businessman Vance Banning moves fortune falls into a con artist's trap, she learns to rural Maryland. Posing as an out-of-work carpen- what Hollywood is really all about…and what ter, all he wants is peace and quiet. So the last thing Vance needs is a charitable neighbor—especially a really matters most. beautiful and persistent one of the female persua- sion. But there's something about Shane Abbot that Vance just can't ignore. Gift of Truth Home in Seattle by Robert Fleming by Debbie Macomber

While visiting a fellow pastor in Alabama, Diana Collins is put off by Cliff Howard's play- New York Pastor Clint Winwood witnesses a boy reputation—but finds herself falling for him. battle between poor black farmers and rich More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that her white planters and resolves to help prevent daughters are crazy about him. And most sur- bloodshed and find a . prising of all, Cliff Howard is changing his views about the kind of woman he could love. Ready- made family and all! Girl Before a Mirror Huckleberry Hearts by Liza Palmer by Jennifer Beckstrand

Recently divorced 40-year-old advertising While on an extended break from college, account executive Anna Wyatt must learn Cassie Coblenz returns home to her how to be the heroine of her own life -- a grandparents Amish farm where she meets a journey that will teach her priceless lessons handsome English doctor Zach Reynolds, who about love, friendship, family, work and her she is determined to avoid, but Zach is own heart. determined to become a man worthy of her love. Girls Who Travel If We Lived Here by Nicole Trilivas by Lindsey Palmer

A hilarious, deftly written debut novel about After three years of dating and trading nights at a woman whose wanderlust is about to show their respective New York City apartments, her that sometimes you don’t have to travel Emma and Nick are moving in together. Or they very far to become the person you want to will be, as soon as they find the right place. For be… two happily-in-love professionals how hard can it be? As it turns out, very--in ways that are completely unexpected. Heritage of Lancaster County Last Chance Hero by Beverly Lewis by Hope Ramsay

Journey into the fascinating world of the Ross Gardiner has had his fill of difficult Amish with the three-part story of a young relationships. Returning to Last Chance after a woman who must face her past in order to rough divorce, the town's handsome new fire chief just wants safety and stability-a tall order given his discover her future. Includes The Shunning, dangerous job and the way he has the attention of all The Confession and The Reckoning. the single women in town. All except Sabina Grey, the girl who stole his heart when they were teenagers.

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Fiction General

Leaving Amarillo (Neon Dreams bk 1) My Very Best Friend by Caisey Quinn by Cathy Lamb

Nashville meets New Adult in this dramatic, From a childhood friendship sustained over sexy series from a bestselling author about a years and distance, to a journey of discovery, country band’s rocky road to fame—and the Cathy Lamb’s poignant novel tells of two ambition, dreams, and love of the people who women whose paths converge with unforeseen make the music. results—and reveals the gift of connection, and the challenges that can change everything for the better… Lip Reading My Year of Meats by Harry Kraus by Ruth Ozeki

Dr. Rebecca Jackson, a medical researcher, Hired to produce a TV program aimed at Japa- stands on the verge of a breakthrough that nese housewives extolling the pleasures of meat will transform medicine. But she soon consumption, Jane has second thoughts about discovers the reason behind the miraculous meat and the practices of the industry. Mean- progress in her research, and it leaves her while an abused wife questions her role when with a nearly impossible choice and little viewing the "Typical" Americans in the series. time to decide. Love by the Book Quesadillas by Melissa Pimentel by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Why can't Lauren convince the men she's Both profoundly moving and wildly funny, seeing that she really isn't after anything Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos's more serious than good sex? Determined to Quesadillas is a satiric masterpiece, chock-full break the curse, Lauren turns her love life of inseminated cows, Polish immigrants, into an experiment: each month she'll follow religious pilgrims, alien spacecraft, psychedelic a different dating guide until she discovers watermelons, and many, many "your mama" the science behind being a siren. insults. Love Gently Falling Recipe for Disaster By Melody Carlson by Stacey Ballis

Rita returns home to Chicago to run her A delicious broth of a novel about a woman family’s business while her mother recovers whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular after a stroke. At the skating rink, Rita renews fashion leaving her with a house to restore, an friendships with her childhood best friend antique cookbook (but no cooking talent), and and her classmate Johnny. With romance one very unhappy schnauzer. For fans of Jen kindling in the air and on the ice, their Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin. friendship may just fall into something more.

Minister Without Portfolio Tapestry of Fortunes by Michael Winter by Elizabeth Berg

In a quest to find meaning in an emotionally Any woman who has ever longed to shake off arid life, Henry travels to Afghanistan as an her life and embark on a road trip with female army-affiliated contractor. But everything companions will love this book which has all changes during a tragic roadside incursion. the ingredients for a satisfying read: a And Henry, who survives, knows in his heart backroads journey, a testament to the power of that he is responsible. female friendships, and the possibility of second chances.

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Fiction General

The Amish Heart of Ice Mountain The Forgiven by Kelly Long by Marta Perry

Forced to marry a man she no longer recog- When three women, all cousins, are given the nizes who has returned from working task of sorting through the of several Englischer oil rigs, young healer Sarah Mast generations of their Amish family, they each and her new husband, Edward King, sur- discover a story from the past that provides rounded by the love and faith of the mountain insights and inspiration for their own lives. Amish, have a chance to get to truly know each other for the first time. Original. The Boatmaker The Heart You Carry Home by John Benditt by Jennifer Miller

A man wakes from a dream compelled to A novel about surviving on the home front, fa- build a boat and sail away from the small thers and daughters, and the limits and limit- island where he was born to a bigger, island lessness of love where he struggles to understand the intricacies of a larger society and its dark underworld and uncovers truths that allow him to redirect the course of his destiny. The Burgess Boys The Longest Ride by Elizabeth Strout by Nicholas Sparks

Hotshot lawyer Jim and bighearted Bob Two couples with little in common, separated Burgess come together over a politically by years and experience. Yet their lives will incorrect prank --and discover that their converge with unexpected poignancy, distrust of each other has never really gone reminding us all that even the most difficult away. But then, neither has their love. decisions can yield extraordinary journeys: Nobody does buried conflict and tortured beyond despair, beyond death, to the farthest familial relations better than Strout. reaches of the human heart. The Calhoun Girls: Suzanna & Megan The Memory House by Nora Roberts by Linda Goodnight

Revisit the unforgettable Calhoun women in Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for these two exceptional stories about love and Julia Presley—though tragedy took away both years ago. legend from #1 New York Times bestselling Finding comfort in the routine of running the Peach Orchard Inn, she lets the historic, mysterious place fill author Nora Roberts the voids of love and family. Life is calm, unchanging… until a stranger with a young boy and soul-deep secrets shows up in her Tennessee town and disrupts the loneliness of her world. The Day We Met The Natural Order of Things by Rowan Coleman by Kevin Keating

For fans of Jojo Moyes's Me Before You These 15 interconnected stories concern the comes a beautifully written, heartwarming adventures and exploits of a small group of novel about mothers and daughters, students, teachers, employees, and priests at a husbands and wives. The Day We Met asks: Jesuit prep school in a dying industrial city. A Can you love someone you don't remember novel in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's falling in love with? Winesburg, Ohio but with a gothic sensibility.

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Fiction General

The Orphans of Race Point Together Again by Patry Francis by Debbie Macomber

Stretching over more than three decades, this Two older favorites from this popular romance is a gripping tale of stubborn love, the legacy writer known for her honest portrayals of of domestic violence, and the family secrets ordinary women in small-town America; The children keep. A sprawling, Dickensian novel Trouble with Caasi and Reflections of that readers long for in this post-modern age. Yesterday.

The Seafront Tearoom Wake Up Happy Every Day by Vanessa Greene by Stephen May

The first rule of afternoon tea: Never rush. Take For decades, Russell's annual birthday celebration has time to savor it. Just like friendship... The Seafront reminded Nicky, his childhood friend, of how much Tearoom is an insider secret in small-town more successful Russell is. But on his fiftieth birthday, Scarborough, and journalist Charlie Harrison Russell drops dead in his mansion, with Nicky as the would love to put it on the map with a feature in her only witness. And now Nicky has come up with an magazine. But single mom Kat Murray doesn't want uncharacteristically daring plan. If he were to become to see her favorite sanctuary overrun by tourists, Russell and leave his old life lying dead on the bath- and begs Charlie to seek out other options. room floor, then he and his wife could start again. The Spinning Heart Whiskey and Charlie by Donal Ryan by Annabel Smith

Irish author Ryan's debut takes readers to the A captivating debut novel of brothers who have 'heart' of hardscrabble life in Ireland in the drifted apart and the accident that will era after the economic boom and bust of determine their future, by an unforgettable 2008. The novel received Book of the Year new voice in fiction. "A sharp, perceptive honors at the Irish Book Awards. The book novel about family and forgiveness, Whiskey & gives readers a story—or rather stories—told Charlie will stay with me for a very long time." from multiple perspectives. The Third Hill North of Town Whisper Beach by Noah Bly by Shelley Noble

When Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental Fifteen years ago, seventeen-year-old Vanessa Moran fell hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in in love and lost her virginity but not to the same boy. Pregnant, desperate, and humiliated, she fled friends and 1962, she knows she must go back to the family and Whisper Beach, never a word about tiny farming community in northern her secret to anyone. Now a professional Manhattan Missouri where she was born and raised and organizer, she returns to the funeral of her best friend’s the place where her life's course shifted husband. But her plans to make this a short visit fall by irrevocably one night long ago. the wayside when her girlfriends have other ideas. The Visitors by Simon Sylvester

In the tradition of Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks, Simon Sylvester brings an ancient myth to life with this lush, atmospheric coming-of-age tale.

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Fiction Historical

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding Coal River by Jackie Copleton by Ellen Marie

In the tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha and In this vibrant new historical novel, the The Piano Teacher, a heart-wrenching debut acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What novel of family, forgiveness, and the exquisite She Left Behind explores one young woman's pain of love. determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town.

A Memory of Violets God’s Formula by Hazel Gaynor by James LePore

Step into the world of Victorian London, The sequel to No Dawn for Men but a where wealth and poverty exist side by side. standalone story by itself. A scientist in Nazi This is the story of two long-lost sisters, has discovered the formula to quickly whose lives take different paths, and the enrich uranium, but does not want Hitler to young woman who will be transformed by have this information. Using his son to slip the their experiences. formula out of Germany starts a race to capture the boy and formula. After the War is Over Gwendolen by Jennifer Robson by Diana Souhami

The International bestselling author of Diana Souhami performs a bold feat of Somewhere in France returns with her imagination: what would happen if George Eliot's sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, Daniel Deronda was retold from the perspective of and freedom—in which a young woman must its beautiful, complicated, circumscribed heroine? find her place in a world forever changed. A Both an arresting interpretation of Eliot's work and a compelling fiction in its own right, Souhami good read for fans of Downton Abbey. has breathed fresh life into a classic.

An Unseemly Wife ’s Millions by EB Moore by Bohumil Hrabal

1867. Ruth Holtz has more blessings than she By the writer whom Milan Kundera called can count—a loving husband, an abundant Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer farm, beautiful children, and the warm comes a novel peopled with eccentric, embrace of the Amish community. Then, the unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the English arrive, spreading incredible stories of elderly who reminisce about their lives and their free land in the West and inspiring her changing country. husband to dream of a new life in Idaho.

Beyond All Dreams In the Shadow of Jezebel by Elizabeth Camden by Mesu Andrews

In 1897 Washington, D.C., Anna O'Brien, a Set in Israel in the days of Elisha and Jezebel, librarian at the Library of Congress, assists this story weaves a tale of powerful women, charismatic young congressman Luke kingdom politics, and the protection and Callahan, but the more political secrets they restoration of the rightful heir to the Throne of uncover the more their growing trust is David. strained.

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Fiction Historical

Lady Maybe The Danish Girl by Julie Klassen by David Ebershoff

In the new novel by the three-time Christy It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of Award-winning author of The Maid of Fair- her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact bourne Hall, a woman’s startling secrets lead and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish her into unexpected danger and romance in Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines Regency England… every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. Longing The Dovekeepers by Mary Balogh by Alice Hoffman

The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Nearly 2,000 years ago, nine hundred held out for Sian abandoned her heritage to live in amongst months against armies of Romans on Masada, a Welsh coal miners and is engaged to the leader mountain in the Judean desert. According to the fighting the tyranny of English mine owners. But ancient historian Josephus, two women and five Sian’s principles are shaken when she becomes children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, the governess for the Marquess, the oppressive Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four symbol of everything she has come to resist. extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Madam: A Novel of New Orleans The Imposter by Cari Lynn by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Filled with fascinating historical details and Katrina Stoltzfus needs time to heal her cameos by Jelly Roll Morton, Louie broken heart. What she doesn't need is Armstrong, and photographer E. J. Bellocq, attention from Andy Miller, a farm hand who Madam is a fabulous romp through The Big always seems to say the right thing, and be in Easy and the irresistible tale of a woman's the right place, at the right time. Is Andy for rise to influence and infamy in a world ruled real, or too good to be true? by men. Rebels of the Kasbah The Innocent by Joe O’Neill by Ann H Gabhart

When Tariq is captured from his safe life in Carlyn Kearney has spent two lonely years not a Tangier orphanage and sold into slavery knowing whether to mourn or to hope after she as a camel jockey, his adventures begin. receives word from the Union Army that her husband Forced to compete in deadly camel races, is missing. When the war ends without further word, Carlyn finds herself penniless, in debt, and forced and suffer the abuse of his slave master, from her home. With nowhere else to go, she seeks Tariq must rely on his wits and his refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill. newfound friendships to survive. Shadows Over Paradise The Island of Doves by Isabel Wolff by Kelly O’Connor McNees

When ghostwriter Jenni Clark agrees to pen Susannah lives in one of Buffalo’s finest the memoir of an elderly farm owner, she mansions, but her husband has made it a expects nothing more than the ordinary, quiet prison. When a mysterious woman offers to tale of a life well-lived. But Klara's life has help her escape, Susannah boards a boat for been far from quiet; and as she narrates her Mackinac Island. But after being a dutiful story of World War II, Jenni finds herself daughter and obedient wife, she realizes how forced to face her own ghosts. unprepared she is for freedom.

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Fiction Historical

The Miracle Thief The Witnesses by Iris Anthony by Linda Byler

This tale of medieval pilgrimage is told from The third novel in Amish novelist’s series, the points of view of three very different "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside women - a poor orphan seeking healing, a the home of the leader of the Amish community, princess fleeing a dreaded marriage, and a Davey Beiler, who finds himself at the center of nun who must guard the relics of St. Cathe- mounting fear and controversy after fires destroy rine against pagan invaders. two more barns, and many farmers are asking for police protection, an unheard of action.

The Spy on the Tennessee Walker Things Half in Shadow by Linda Lee Peterson by Alan Finn

Maggie Fiori, San Francisco magazine editor and Postbellum America makes for a haunting amateur sleuth, gets a package that leads her to backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale investigate a family scandal going back to the Civil of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning War. Why was her great-great-great grandmother imprisoned for bigamy and espionage? Was she a mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be criminal or a hero? Did she support the unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter in 1869 Confederates or the Union? Maggie's husband joins Philadelphia. her on the trip to dig deep and solve the mystery.

Fiction Mystery

Alex Cross, Run Cold Judgment by Joanne Fluke by James Patterson

Detective Alex Cross arrests a renowned On the surface they are beautiful and talented. plastic surgeon for sleeping with teenage But few know of the harrowing darkness inside girls, but now he is out of jail, and has given each of them, how close they are to losing their himself a new face. When three murder tenuous grip on sanity. Dr. Elias is their only victims are discovered, rumors of a serial hope. But he's dying. And he's made his cold, killer send Washington D.C. into a frenzy, final judgment: Those he can't cure, he must kill. but Alex’s investigations are going nowhere. Autumn, All the Cats Return by Death by the Book Philippe Georget by Julianna Deering

Inspector Sebag is a policeman in the South of When the family lawyer is murdered and France with an unparalleled sixth sense, who discovered with an unusual clue, can Drew and excels at slipping into the skin of killers and Madeline solve the case before the hatpin hunting them down. However, when a retired murderer strikes again? Fans of Agatha French Algerian cop is discovered in his apartment Christie need to make room on their with the symbol OAS left near his body and few indications who kiled him or why, Sebag's skills are bookshelves for the Drew Farthering Mystery put to the test. series.

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Fiction Mystery

Death on the High Lonesome Murder at Westminster Abbey by by Frank Hayes Amanda Carmack

Virgil knows that his sleepy hometown is As England celebrates the coronation of Queen starting to reflect the times, in good ways and Elizabeth I, her friend and personal musician bad. It still comes as a shock when his deputy Kate Haywood must discover who is is almost killed by the body of a woman murdering redheads who resemble the new falling from the highway overpass onto his queen. car. A woman who had been fleeing for her life… Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet Natural Causes by Amara Lakhous by James Oswald

Enzo Laganà is an Italian journalist with a Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean is wry sense of humor and questionable ethics drawn into a set of cases separated by six who, almost despite himself, will get to the decades, but connected by a macabre and brutal bottom of a series of gang murders. But ritual killing. before he does, he has to settle a thorny issue concerning Gino, a small pig belonging to his Nigerian neighbor. Distortion Satan’s Lullaby by Terri Blackstock by Priscilla Royal

The second book in the Moonlighters series Abbess Isabeau has sent Father Etienne Davoir starts off with a frightening incident and is to inspect Tyndall Priory from its morals to its filled with actions from that point forward. A roofs. Surely she would not have chosen her multilayered story of deception, greed and own brother for this unless the cause was secrets unravels at a perfect pace to keep serious and she had reasons to fear readers interested and entertained. intervention from Rome. Prioress Eleanor knows something is terribly amiss. Hunting Season Sister Eve, Private Eye by Lynne by Andrea Camilleri Hinton

Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Two decades into her calling at a New Mexico Cosa Nostra, Inspector Montalbano can monastery, Sister Evangeline Divine breaks her daily discuss a pointy-headed book as routine when a police officer appears, carrying a unflinchingly as he can pore over crime-scene message from her father. Sister Eve is no stranger to snuff photos. He throws together a lunch of the law, having grown up with a police captain turned private detective. She’s seen her fair share of crime— shrimp with lemon and oil as gracefully as he and knows a thing or two about solving mysteries. dodges advances from attractive women.

Killer’s Instinct The Alchemist's Daughter by Mary by Dawn Dalton & Judith Graves Lawrence

Hope has always been a bit of a freak. But Bianca Goddard employs her knowledge of herbs and when her mother crawls from her grave and plants to concoct remedies for the disease-riddled her undead corpse goes MIA, Hope's last poor in London’s squalid slums. But when her friend Jolyn comes to her complaining of severe stomach thread of normal snaps with a vengeance. pains, Bianca’s prescription seems to kill her on the Enrolling in a militia-style school for spot. Recovering from her shock, Bianca suspects hunters seems her best bet for tracking down Jolyn may have been poisoned before coming to her— Mommy-dearest. but the local constable is not so easily convinced.

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Fiction Mystery

The Angel of Highgate The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Vaughn Entwistle by Agatha Christie

It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, After humiliating a literary critic and surviving the resulting meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults many others—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night, he puzzles to the fore… including the unforgettable unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to Hercule Poirot classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, punish a man with no fear of death… one of her own ten favorite novels. The Arnifour Affair The Other Side of Midnight by Gregory Harris by Simone St. James

In turn-of-the-20th-century London, London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and made her fortune helping the bereaved contact his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the loved ones killed during the Great War. Now murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well she's been murdered at one of her own séances, as the disappearance of a street urchin's after leaving a message requesting the help of sister. her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter.

The Cold Song The Perfect Mother by Linn Ullmann by Nina Darnton

Recounts the unfolding of a large tragedy that In this fictionalized account of the Amanda has already happened—the mysterious Knox case, journalist Darnton asks the disappearance of Milla, an adolescent girl— question any parent would dread: Is my child while also showing the smaller tragedy of a capable of murder?... A fast-paced thriller with faltering marriage. Combining the tension of the kind of emotional impact that transcends a a whodunit with the subtlety of a domestic simple whodunit. drama. The Day of the Dead Thoreau on Wolf Hill by Maurizio de Giovanni by BB Oak

Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the The winter of 1847 has brought a consumption streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, (tuberculosis) epidemic which is devastating the Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his village of Plumford, Massachusetts. In an investigation in secret since his superiors atmosphere of increasing hysteria and are preparing for a state visit from Benito superstition, country doctor Adam Walker and Mussolini. philosopher Henry David Thoreau seem the only voices of reason. The House that Jack Built and Tempest (Edge of Freedom Vol 3) by Jakob Melander by Elizabeth Ludwig

The first book in the crime series featuring Two years ago, Tillie's fiancé died crossing to Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, America. Now Captain Keondric Morgan and drug addict--and the most dedicated believes he was murdered. Can he save Tillie detective in Copen-hagen. While tracking his from the same fate? city’s most sadistic serial killer to date, Lars’ past--which has long been kept secret-- is slowly catching up to him.

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Fiction Mystery

Whirlwind by Rick Mofina

A kind stranger helps protect a baby boy when a tornado rips through Dallas. But in the aftermath, Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been holding him. Reporter Kate Page, vows to determine what happened and uncovers troubling clues to a plot more sinister than anybody had imagined.

Fiction Mystery-Cozy

A Second Helping of Murder Dead for a Spell by Christine Wenger by Raymon Buckland

Trixie Matkowski is warming up to running Bram Stoker, business manager for London’s her family’s diner in the small town of Sandy Lyceum Theatre, is never surprised to find the Harbor in upstate New York. But the only supernatural waiting in the wings—especially thing more demanding than serving up piping when a chilling murder appears to have origins -hot comfort food twenty-four hours a day is in the occult… getting to the bottom of a double homicide....

Assault and Pepper Death on Eat Street by Leslie Budewitz by J. J. Cook

The Agatha Award-winning author of Crime Zoe Chase always wanted to own her own Rib is proud to introduce Pepper Reece, the restaurant—but first, she’ll have to serve up a owner of the Seattle Spice Shop who thinks heaping helping of meals on wheels, with a side she can handle any kind of salty customer- of mystery. . . until a murderer ends up in the mix ...

Days of Wine and Roquefort Death Takes Priority By Avery Aames by Jean Flowers

Something is troubling the cheese shop After caring for her dying aunt and being dumped by owner’s secretive houseguest, and Charlotte's her fiancé, Cassie Miller decides to return to her life is upended when she finds the sommelier small hometown in the Berkshires to lick her wounds and live in the house where she was raised. Leaving dead. Charlotte has her pick of suspects, but behind her managerial position in the Boston main she needs to act fast--this is a mystery that postal office, Cassie trades in her tailored suits and only gets more dangerous with age. high heels for the comfortable blue shirt of the Postmaster for North Ashcot, Massachusetts.

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Fiction Mystery-Cozy

Dog Crazy In Hot Water by Meg Donohue by J.J. Cook

As a pet bereavement counselor, Maggie helps Stella Griffin should be joyful now that she's the patients come to terms with losing their four- full-time fire chief of Sweet Pepper, except legged friends, but she's struggling with problems trouble is brewing on her doorstep. An angry of her own. When she meets a woman who claims resident has purchased her cabin, and is ready to her dog is not dead, but missing, Maggie finds tear it down. But as Stella worries over the fate of herself entangled in a mystery that will force her her home and Eric, her ghostly roommate, to face her biggest fear--and maybe find new love. there's soon an even greater cause for alarm.

Fry Another Day Murder Simply Brewed by J.J. Cook by Vannetta Chapman

With a few loyal friends in tow--including her When coffee shop manager Ethan Gray is handsome attorney, Miguel, and her cat, Crème murdered in Middlebury's Amish Artisan Brûlée--Zoe drives the Biscuit Bowl to Charlotte, Village, two women from different walks of life North Carolina, to enter a nationally televised must join together to solve the mystery. Will food truck race. The contest features challenges God's grace enable them to find the truth about across the Southeast, and with a fifty-thousand- dollar grand prize, competition isn't just fierce-- Ethan's death? it's killer. Guilty as Cinnamon Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles by Leslie Budewitz by A.L. Herbert

Springtime in Seattle’s Pike Place Market means Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper’s food restaurant in Prince George's County, Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful Maryland, investigates after a smooth-talking, combinations and a fresh approach, she’s sure to shady entrepreneur turns up murdered in her win over the public. Business is cooking, until one of Pepper’s potential clients, a young chef, is found kitchen, right next to her cast iron frying pan. dead, her life extinguished by the dangerously hot ghost chili—a spice Pepper carries in her shop. Here Today, Gone Tamale Murder, Served Simply by Rebecca Adler by Isabella Alan

After losing her newspaper job in Austin and Angie’s parents are visiting Rolling Brook for having her former fiancé unfriend her on Christmas—but unfortunately, her ex is joining Facebook, Josie Callahan scoops up her them. Luckily, Angie has no time to dwell on her Chihuahua, Lenny, and slinks back to Broken romantic troubles as she prepares her store, Boot, Texas. Maybe working as head waitress at Running Stitch, for the town’s traditional Milagro—her aunt and uncle’s Tex-Mex progressive dinner, featuring a sleigh ride stopping restaurant—isn’t exactly living the dream, but it is at each shop for a different course of the meal. a fresh start. How to Paint a Cat Pouncing on Murder by Rebecca M. Hale by Laurie Cass

Continuing the mystery surrounding the Springtime in Chilson, Michigan, means it's murder of the mayor's intern (in How To Tail librarian Minnie Hamilton's favorite time of a Cat), this fifth in the clever San Francisco- year: maple syrup season! But her excitement based paranormal cozy series leads up the fades when her favorite syrup provider, Henry Bohemian Highway. Perhaps the city's Gill, dies in a sugaring accident. It’s tough famous New Deal-era murals will provide the news to swallow...even if the old man wasn’t as necessary clues. sweet as his product.

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Fiction Mystery-Cozy

Slayed on the Slopes The Whole Cat and Caboodle by Kate Dyer-Seeley by Sofie Ryan

After talking her way into a job writing for When Sarah's elderly friend Maddie is found Portland's Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg with the body of a dead man in her garden, the Reed may now really be in over her head. kindly old lady becomes the prime suspect. It’s Actually, about 8,000 feet over her head. . . up to Sarah and her cat Elvis to clear her friend's name and make sure the real murderer doesn't get a second chance.

Spinning in Her Grave Throw in the Trowel by Molly MacRae by Kate Collins

Kath Rutledge is settling in as the owner of Flower shop owner Abby Knight has just the Weaver’s Cat, a fiber and fabric shop in returned from a romantic honeymoon and Blue Plum, Tennessee. But nothing, not there’s no reason for the bloom to be off the rose even the ghost haunt-ing her shop, prepares just because she and Marco are returning to her for the mystery that will leave the whole normal life. But when Marco discovers a town spinning. Book 3 in the Haunted Yarn skeleton buried in the basement of his bar, it is a Mystery series. bit of a mood killer.

Fiction Mystery-Suspense

Cockroaches Converging Parallels by Jo Nesbo by Timothy Williams

When the Norwegian ambassador to A small-town kidnapping presents a Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok problem for Commissario Trotti—and draws us brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched into CWA Award winner Timothy Williams' from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once debut, set against the rich backdrop of a he arrives Harry discovers that this case is provincial Italian city. about much more than one random murder.

Color Blind Innocence by Colby Marshall by Dean Koontz

There is something unusual about Dr. Jenna Ramey’s Mystery and terror, the paranormal and brain, a rare perceptual quirk that punctuates her romance—all combine to make Innocence a experiences with flashes of color. They are hard to challenging and emotional experience. explain, but she can use these spontaneous mental associations, understand and interpret them enough to help her read people and situations in ways others cannot. As an FBI forensic psychiatrist, she used it to profile and catch criminals.

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Fiction Mystery-Suspense

Little Girls The Forgetting Place by Ronald Malfi by John Burley

From Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital Malfi comes a brilliantly chilling novel of finds herself at the center of a shadowy childhood revisited, memories resurrected, conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of and fears reborn… psychological suspense.

Operation Cinderella The Striker by James Douglas by Clive Cussler

Leslie Palmer, code-name Cinderella, is drawn It is 1902, and a bright, young man, only two years into a nightmare when the CIA recruits her as a out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective double for the First Lady of the United States in Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired the weeks after 9/11. Our hero will have to use to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal all her resources and act boldly if she is to save mines, he is witness to an accident that makes him the lives of her twin sons—and her country from think something else is going on…that provocateurs is planned as the follow-up to the Twin Towers. are at work and bigger stakes are in play.

Remember Mia What's Done in Darkness by Alexandra Burt by Kayla Perrin

Like Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, Remember After a series of mishaps that lead everyone to Mia is a riveting psychological suspense, exploring believe that she is crazy, Jade Blackwin takes a what happens when a young mother’s worst job in Key West at a coffee shop where her new nightmare becomes devastatingly real…Estelle boss explodes into fits of rage, a crime writer Paradise wakes up in a hospital after being found near dead at the bottom of a ravine with a asks too many questions and a killer lurks in fragmented memory and a vague sense of loss. Then the shadows. By the USA Today best-selling a terrifying reality sets in: her daughter is missing. author of Spring Break.

Fiction Mystery-Thriller

Lost and Found in Prague The Dismantling by Kelly Jones by Brian DeLeeuw

The author of The Woman Who Heard Color Twenty-five-year-old med school dropout Simon transports readers to a dreary Good Friday in Worth is an organ broker, buying kidneys and Prague in an intriguing thriller as the livers from cash-strapped donors and selling mysterious death of a nun sets off a tangled them to recipients whose time on the waitlist is chain of events that inexorably draws three running out. When a seemingly straightforward strangers together—and forever changes their liver transplant has an unexpectedly dangerous lives… outcome, Simon finds himself on the run.

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Fiction Mystery-Thriller

The English Girl The Hit by Daniel Silva by David Baldacci

The wayward son of Israeli intelligence Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. plunges into a high stakes game of murder, government to track down fellow assassin espionage, and corruption after a woman Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during vanishes on the island of Corsica, which his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her threatens to destroy a prime minister's betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that career. could impact the whole world.

Fiction Science Fiction

Feed (Newsflesh trilogy #1) Dinner by Mira Grant by Cesar Aira

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and had beaten the common cold. But in doing so his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. Back at home, the bachelor we had created something terrible that no one decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the taking over bodies and minds with one, newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising unstoppable command: FEED. from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living―all somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party. Deadline (Newsflesh trilogy #2) Cell by Mira Grant by Robin Cook

When a CDC researcher, after faking her George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los own death, arrives on his doorstep with a Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of ravenous pack of in tow, Shaun an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone Mason, the head of a news organization, is is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as plunged into the biggest story of his life. a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. Blackout (Newsflesh trilogy #3) Ecko Endgame by Mira Grant by Danie Ware

In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a Winter has come to the Varchinde and with it, the fatal team of CDC researchers, must find her way spread of the blight. The grass is dead, the cities are falling and the Kas take their chance to rise from back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his Rammouthe. Betrayed by his own forces, Rhan will own problems, such as bears, mad abandon Fhaveon to lure the Kas into a final scientists and rogue government agencies, confrontation. As battle rages round him, Ecko realises before things get worse in her post-zombie, that to save the Varchinde, he must face the greatest post-resurrection America. threat of all – the one that has come from his own world.

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Fiction Science Fiction

Green Earth Shadow of Empire by Kim Stanley Robinson by Jay Allan

More than a decade ago, bestselling author Kim Stanley Smuggler and mercenary Arkarin Blackhawk and Robinson began a groundbreaking series of near-future the crew of the ship Wolf’s Claw are freelance eco-thrillers that grew increasingly urgent and vital as adventurers who live on the fringe of human society global warming continued unchecked. Now, condensed in the Far Stars. A veteran fighter as deadly with a into one volume and updated with the latest research, this sweeping trilogy gains new life as Green Earth, a chillingly blade as he is with a gun, Blackhawk is a man realistic novel that plunges readers into great floods, a haunted by a dark past. Even his cynicism cannot modern Ice Age, and the political fight for all our lives. banish the guilt and pain that threaten his sanity.

Guaranteed Heroes Ship of the Dead by William Lashner by John L Campbell

In a nation still recovering from the nuclear In the weeks following the Omega Virus tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working outbreak, survivors form desperate clusters, a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and uniting to defend against hordes of the walking Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the dead. But they can only hide for so long… Malcontented. But when Moonis’s sister, Cecily, goes missing, the old friends escape their prisons to search for her in post-fallout America.

Marked: A Mindspace Investigations Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire by Alex Hughes

Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn’t a secure Witness the rise of the Empire with these two career; my job’s on the line almost as much as thrilling Star Wars novels—TARKIN and A my life. When my ex needs help, I head to the NEW DAWN—plus exclusive short stories by last place I ever expected to set foot in again— Melissa Scott, John Jackson Miller, and Jason Guild headquarters. Joining that group was a Fry. bad idea the first time.

Mojave Incident Station Eleven by Ron Felber by Emily St. John Mandel

On the night of October 21, 1989, nine Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night glowing objects appeared over an empty Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, stretch of the Mojave desert—and turned a had a heart attack on stage during a production couple’s quiet weekend into an unearthly of King Lear. That was the night when a nightmare of terror. devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Outrage The Darkside War (Icarus Corps #1) by John Sandford and Michele Cook by Zachary Brown

Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a Aliens have conquered Earth, but they haven’t blow to the Singular Corporation. When they rescued conquered humanity—yet. A young army Shay’s brother, Odin, from a secret Singular lab, they conscript battles for survival in this action- also liberated a girl. Singular has been packed futuristic thriller that will appeal to experimenting on her, trying to implant a U.S. senator’s memories into her brain—with partial fans of Halo and Inglorious Bastards. success. Fenfang is now a girl who literally knows too much.

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Fiction Science Fiction

The Eye of God The Time Machine by James Rollins by HG Welles

Rollins’ latest Sigma Force thriller verges on The Time Machine tells the story of the Time science fiction. A satellite crashes in Mongolia, but Traveler, an inventor living in Victorian before it does, it transmits what appears to be an England. Traveling into the distant future image of Boston, New York City, and Washington, using his time machine he encounters the D.C., in ruins. The image, it turns out, is time- descendants of humans and witnesses the end shifted from the very near future by about 90 of life on earth. hours. In four days, the end of the world begins.

The Field Trip The Years of Rice and Salt by RA Andrade by Kim Stanley Robinson

An adventure mixed with a touch of fantasy. Add a A thoughtful and powerful examination of twist of love. cultures and the people who shape them. How Although clumsy with women, botany professor Ross might human history be different if 14th-century Barton possesses the quality of fearlessness when Europe was utterly wiped out by plague, and confronting danger. Relieved to be escaping routine Islamic and Buddhist societies emerged as the school work and a bad relationship for a field research trip, a strange woman and danger are the world's dominant religious and political forces? last of his expectations. The Long War Undercity by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter by Catherine Asaro

A new America called Valhalla grows restless Major Bhaajan, a former military officer with under the controlling long arm of the Datum Imperial Space Command, is now a P.I. with a government, while all of the Long Earth is load of baggage to deal with, and clients with woes infused by the song of the trolls who are sometimes personal, sometimes galaxy- starting to react to humanity's thoughtless shattering. Bhaajan must sift through the shadows exploitation, bringing humankind to the of dark and dangerous Undercity—the enormous capital of a vast star empire—to find answers. brink of war. The Martian Unworthy by Andy Weir by Kirsten Beyer

This gripping and startlingly plausible novel After the Borg are absorbed into the Caeliar tells a story mostly through the log entries of gestalt, the Starship Voyager leads a fleet into astronaut Mark Watney, who has been the home quadrant of the one remaining Borg to stranded alone on Mars. It chronicles his get answers, find new allies, and resolve old efforts to survive: making the prefab habitat enmities, but things do not go as planned. Based livable and finding a way to grow food, make on the Star Trek: Voyager series. water, and get himself off the planet. The Shadow Protocol Wastelands 2 by Andy McDermott edited by John Joseph Adams

Gray is a covert agent armed with a device that This companion volume to the critically allows him to copy the brain patterns of the acclaimed Wastelands offers thirty of the terrorists and operatives he meets in the field. finest examples of post-apocalyptic short For 24 hours he can recall their memories and fiction, chiefly by American authors. can be America's worst enemy. Now Gray’s team is racing to stop a plot to release a radioactive isotope that could kill millions.

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Fiction Science Fiction

Weighing Shadows by Lisa Goldstein

Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by—until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers have ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to travel in time.

Fiction Western

All the Pretty Horses Bloodshed of the by Cormac McCarthy By William Johnstone

A 16-year-old dispossessed Texan and his pal Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado cross the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949. Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. The two precocious horsemen pick up a Instead, the rancher and his wife have been laughable but deadly marksman, encounter mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments adventures on their way south and arrive at a before Smoke’s arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two ill-fated romance. others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Beauty for Ashes and Heaven Is a Borderland Bloodbath Long Way Off by Win Blevins by Jon Sharpe

Beauty for Ashes and Heaven is a Long Way Off The Trailsman rides straight into trouble when follows Sam Morgan, a Pennsylvania boy who ran he goes up against a robber baron's agent who is away from home and joined a party of fur setting explosives to re-route the Rio Grande in trappers in the Rocky Mountains. Filled with an attempt to get his hands on valuable mining action, danger, and romance, this is a memorable land. story of a boy who becomes a man by necessity in the cruel, beautiful, unexplored wilderness of the Old West. Black Noon Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit by Andrew J Fenady By Stephen Lodge

When their wagon breaks down in the desert, Reverend Jon In the lawless frontier town of Brownsville, Texas, a Keyes and his ailing wife Lorna find themselves at the boy and his parents ride a carriage down a crowded mercy of punishing elements. On the brink of death, they street--when a kill crazy band of kidnappers strike are rescued by Caleb Hobbs and his daughter Deliverance, suddenly. Now, to rescue his family, veteran rancher who take them to their home in San Melas. Everyone in the community is convinced that Jon’s been sent from heaven— Charley Sunday cobbles together a ragtag posse that that he’s capable of healing their sick and saving their flock. starts with an and an Indian--and picks up But can he save these God-fearing folk from the gunslinger recruits, weapons, and a lot of trouble all the way who descends on the town like a blood-thirsty vulture? down into Mexico.

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Fiction Western

Cotton’s Inferno Magic Man by Phil Dunlap by J. R. Roberts

When Carp Varner, a newcomer to Apache Clint Adams has seen plenty--but nothing quite like Springs, offers his services as a gunsmith, the magic man. After watching him take down three Sheriff Cotton Burke takes him up on his offer petty thieves with a pair of guns that appear out of until he discovers Varner's true nature and thin air, Clint decides to ride along and maybe even learn the tricks of his trade. But someone is past crimes. following close behind--someone convinced that the magic man is no man at all, but the devil himself.

Devil’s Den Rough Justice by Jon Sharpe by Lyle Brandt

After Sky Fargo runs afoul of the law, he's The Civil War may have ended, but division still more than happy to be set free to work for a remains among its survivors. Some continue to pair of pretty sisters trying to operate a rally for equality. Then, there are others, like the wagon run in the Ozarks. But when the Knights of the Rising Sun. They’re a group of competition gets deadly, the Trailsman has vicious vigilantes who want to halt progress in to send a pack of savage killers straight into Texas and put an end to bluebellies and the ground..." carpetbaggers by bullet, fire, and noose. Fire and Ice Shawn O’Brien, Town Tamer by Mary Connealy by William Johnstone

In the late 1860s West, two independent As a town tamer, Shawn O’Brien takes the ranch homesteaders go head-to-head over most dangerous, lawless towns in the West prized land, until Gage Coulter proposes an and makes them safe for decent men, women, unexpected plan to Bailey Wilde and, in a and children. When a stagecoach accident moment of weakness, she agrees. leaves Shawn stranded in Holy Rood, Utah, it doesn't take long to realize he has landed in one ornery circle of hell. Lawless Showdown at Gun Hill by Diana Palmer by Ralph Cotton

Palmer, a romance writer whose steamy tales Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack is sent to often center around stereotypically sexy, retrieve the sheriff of Big , Arizona, and straight-shooting lawmen and the virginal escort him to Yuma. Sheriff Sheppard Stone women who adore them, returns to the range once saved the life of Territory Judge Albert with her latest contemporary western fairy Long, but the judge has heard stories of Stone tale. Readers looking for steamy, undemanding turning into a reckless drunk—stories that are escapism will find this fits the bill. confirmed when Burrack rides into town. Longarm and the Yuma Prison Summer of Pearls and Spanish Blood by Tabor Evans by Mike Blakely

Former lawman Tom Ray has been falsely The coming of the railroad nearly spelled the end of the convict-ed of murder and left to rot in Yuma riverboat community of Port Caddo until the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874. Ben Crowell remembers Territorial Pris-on, while the men who set it well: that summer, he fell in love. That autumn, Judd him up steal his gold claim. When Ray's Kelso, a local riverboat owner, was killed. The pearl rush daughter Jessica asks Longarm for help, the was over within a few months, but Judd Kelso's murder deputy marshal can't say no. He is not about remained unsolved, and only Ben Crowell seemed to let a good lawman die in a bad prison. interested in finding out who killed Kelso and why.

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Fiction Western

Terror of the Mountain Man Valley of Fire by William W Johnstone by Johnny D. Boggs

Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas, Micah's not in the habit of helping nuns, but it to take delivery of five hundred horses he turns out the only true vow Sister Genevieve purchased from an old friend. That's when a ever took was to get rich--and there's a fortune Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Bustamante Keno, in gold buried along with the sisters in the brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and innocent U.S. citizens in cold blood, and steals a thousand head of cattle--along with two hundred of perilous part of New Mexico Territory. Smoke's horses. Texas Hills Winds of Morning by Ralph Compton by HL Davis

Owen Burnett’s needs are small. All he’s ever H.L. Davis’ captivating novel is narrated by wanted is his wife’s affection, his children’s Amos Clarke who recounts back to thirty years health, and a little plot of land which he can when he was barely twenty and was a hot- farm. Still, he’s no . So when his neighbor headed young sheriff's assistant. For Amos, it is Gareth Kurst makes him a business proposition, one experience that stands out the most for him one that could leave him richer than he’s ever dreamed, he can’t refuse giving the risky scheme during his time spent as a sheriff’s deputy. a try. Those Jensen Boys! By William W Wrath of the Savage Johnstone by Charles West

A bold, sprawling epic of the American West, Unjustly court-martialed on a charge of the Jensen family saga has captivated readers cowardice, former Lieutenant Brent Hollister for nearly three decades. Now comes the and an old trapper named Coldiron rescue two untold story of Smoke Jensen's long-lost women held captive by Indians. nephews, Ace and Chance, a pair of young- gun twins as reckless and wild as the frontier itself. . . Trackdown Wyoming Strong by Lyle Brandt by Diana Palmer

When U.S. Marshal Jack Slade is ambushed Wolf Patterson and Sara Brandon are by the family one of the prisoners he is from ages ago, but mischievous fate has brought the transporting to Leavenworth, Kansas, he tall rancher with the pale blue eyes together with the will stop at nothing to recapture the them. dark-haired beauty—on nearby Wyoming and Texas ranches. They are two passionate people with a talent for falling out. Will love be the spark they need to create what they both want the most…a family?

Trial at Fort Keogh by Charles G West

Clint Cooper, the easy-going foreman of the Double-V- Bar Ranch, expects little in return for his labor other than the satisfaction of a hard day’s work. So when Sioux raiders descend on Yellowstone Valley, threatening not only the livestock, but also the locals, it’s no surprise when Clint goes above and beyond to protect his folk and his livelihood—joining with soldiers from neighboring Fort Keogh to hunt the Sioux down.

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Fiction Juvenile

Sweet Home Alaska Goddess Bootcamp by Carole Estby Dagg by Tera Lynn Childs

This exciting pioneering story, based on Seventeen-year-old Phoebe, unable to control actual events, introduces readers to a the powers inherited from her ancestor Nike, fascinating chapter in American history, must attend summer camp with a group of ten when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska -year-olds, while coping with her boyfriend's to give loans and land to families struggling apparent betrayal and mysterious messages during the Great Depression. about her deceased father.

Uglies (Uglies #1) Oh. My. Gods. by Scott Westerfield by Tera Lynn Childs

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when When her mother marries a man from Greece they will will be transformed into beauties and moves the family onto an island in the whose only job is to have a great time, Aegean Sea, Phoebe's life takes an unexpected Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must turn when she discovers that her new classmates find her and turn her in, or never become at her exclusive academy are all descendants of pretty at all. real Greek gods--and her very real competition on the track team! Pretties (Uglies #2) Vanished: Lightning Strikes, Code Name Cassandra (Books 1 & 2) by Meg Cabot by Scott Westerfield

Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," Jessica Mastriani has never liked attention. All she sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and wants is to make it to high school graduation like programmed to think only happy thoughts, is any ordinary girl. But when Jess is struck by lightning, she becomes anything but ordinary: plagued by tangled memories of living in the suddenly she has the ability to locate missing Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways children. With no one to trust, it's up to Jess to hiding from the Special Circumstances decide what to do with her new power—before it’s authorities. decided for her. Specials (Uglies #3) Vanished: Safe House, Sanctuary by Scott Westerfield (Books 3 & 4) by Meg Cabot

After being captured and surgically Ever since Jessica Mastriani was struck by transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally lightning, she's had the ability to find missing Youngblood, now a government agent people. But her amazing new power came at a programmed to protect society from outside cost: national fame and a crushing responsibility threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel that Jess never asked for. The only way she colony New Smoke, Tally's former home. knows how to get back her old life is to lie and say she’s lost her gift. The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout

In a future world, Fisher is the last boy on earth. But evidence suggests there may be a far-away survival bunk with other humans. In order to get there, he'll need to rely on a ragtag team he assembles, including a robot, a mammoth, and a prairie dog with basic English skills.

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