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The Last Mile

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Following Memory Man, #1 NYT bestselling author David Baldacci returns with his next thriller featuring detective Amos Decker.
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The 14th Colony

Steve Berry · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Book

Also available on Overdrive!

What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain -- in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos.

Shot down...

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Alice and Oliver

Charles Bock · Random House
Format: Print book

"Alice Culvert is a force: passionate, independent, smart, and gorgeous, she--to her delight--attracts attention wherever she goes, even amid the buzz of mid-90s New York. In knee-high boots, with her newborn daughter, Doe, strapped to her chest, Alice is one of those people who just...
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Poisonous

Allison Brennan · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared ... except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. He loved her in spite of her cruelty. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. After a year, the police...

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Fire Touched: A Mercy Thompson Novel

Patricia Briggs · Ace Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Mercy Thompson has been hailed as "a heroine who continues to grow and yet always remains true to herself."* Now she's back, and she'll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it's the children who suffer...

Tensions between the fae and humans are coming...
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All Things Cease to Appear: A novel

Elizabeth Brundage · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A dark, riveting, beautifully written book - by "a brilliant novelist," according to Richard Bausch - that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder

Late one winter...
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A Memoir of the Assassin John Wilkes Booth As Told by Four Ladies: A Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini · Dutton, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence.

The world would not look upon his like again....
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The Other Widow: A Novel

Susan Crawford · William Morrow, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The author of The Pocket Wife explores the dark side of love, marriage, and infidelity in this sizzling novel of psychological suspense.

Everybody's luck runs out. This time it could be theirs . . .

It isn't safe. That's what Joe tells her when he ends their affair - moments...

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The Blackbirds

Eric Jerome Dickey · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers his next delectable, erotic romance

They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Brown, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Erica Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters,...
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The Decent Proposal: A Novel

Kemper Donovan · Harper, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An addictively readable debut romantic comedy, drama, and mystery rolled into one, about two very different strangers whose lives become intertwined when they receive an unusual proposition. This is a funny, tender, and enchanting story about love, attraction, and friendship: Jane Austen...

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Bucky F*cking Dent: A Novel

David Duchovny · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled...

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I Don't Like Where This Is Going: A Wylie Coyote Novel

John Dufresne · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"If Raymond Chandler were reincarnated as a novelist in south Florida, he couldn't nail it any better than John Dufresne." -- Carl Hiaasen

John Dufresne has been hailed by the New York Times as "an original talent . . . [whose] humor is frightfully dark, but . . . dazzling."...

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Dark Promises: A Carpathian Novel

Christine Feehan · Berkley Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Lovers challenge destiny and risk their lives in the new Carpathian novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling "queen of paranormal romance."*

Gabrielle has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing the man she's engaged to nearly lose his life when it isn't...
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Flawless

Heather Graham · Mira Books 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

No one writes suspense like Heather Graham! Read this brand-new romantic thriller by one of today's most popular authors ...

There's a pub in New York City that's been in the Finnegan family for generations. Now Kieran and her three brothers own it. Kieran Finnegan is also,...
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Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.Published in 2010,...
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The Excellent Lombards

Jane Hamilton · Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic...a book you will read and reread."



Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard...
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Maestra

L S Hilton · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

With the cunning of Gone Girl's Amy Dunne, and as dangerous as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Lisbeth Salander, the femme fatale of this Talented Mr. Ripley-esque psychological thriller is sexy, smart, and very, very bad in all the best ways.

Judith...
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Hide away

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

"Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of protecting Cara Delaney, a young girl with ruthless...
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The Everything Box: A Novel

Richard Kadrey · Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels - a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined...

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The murder of Mary Russell : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Laurie R King · Bantam Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

"Laurie R. King's bestselling Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature's most beloved teams. But does this adventure end it all?...
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Before the Wind: A novel

Jim Lynch · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the author of The Highest Tide, Border Songs and Truth Like the Sun, his long-awaited breakthrough--a grand saga of a sailing-obsessed family that will stand alongside Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion.

Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his thirty-one...
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Midnight in Berlin: A Novel

James MacManus · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West's appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae's hostility, seeks to compromise...

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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

James McBride · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the "real" James Brown - and his surprising journey illuminates the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown's legacy.

A product of the complicated history of the American South,...
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Killer Reunion

G A Mckevett · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

If you think going home again is hard, try being a plus-sized PI with a troubled family legacy. But Savannah Reid is no shrinking violet. She's ready for her high school reunion, complete with mean girls, ex-beaus--and murder charges ...

When Savannah Reid fled McGill, Georgia,...
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Titans

Leila Meacham · Grand Central Publishing, 2016.
Pages: 608
Format: Print book

A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses.


Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic...
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No Safe Secret

Fern Michaels · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In her powerful new novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels weaves a story of betrayal, courage, and starting over ...

From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful--at least on the surface. Married to Tanner,...
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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel

Stephen O'Connor · Viking
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms.

Novels such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Known World...
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City of Secrets: A Novel

Stewart O'Nan · Viking
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War

In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it were hunted as illegals...
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The Body in the Wardrobe: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Katherine Hall Page · William Morrow, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Minster's wife, caterer, and part-time sleuth Faith Fairchild pairs up with Sophie Maxwell, last seen in Body in the Birches and now a newlywed living in historic Savannah, Georgia, where Sophie crosses paths with murder. Another delightful entry in the beloved mystery series, complete...

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The Travelers: A Novel

Chris Pavone · Crown, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident

It's 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism...
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Miller's Valley

Anna Quindlen · Random House
Format: Print book

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The Trap

Melanie Raabe · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister's murderer--but is he really the killer?



For 11 years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home. Haunted by the unsolved murder...
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Three-Martini Lunch

Suzanne Rindell · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

From the author of the "thrilling" (The Christian Science Monitor) novel The Other Typist comes an evocative, multilayered story of ambition, success, and secrecy in 1950s New York.

In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz...
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Close Your Eyes

Michael Robotham · Little, Brown, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

When a former student bungles a murder investigation, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin steps in to face a ruthless killer.
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Now and Again

Charlotte Rogan · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A provocative novel about the fallout from a search for truth by the author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat.

For Maggie Rayburn--wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant--life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level...
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War Hawk: A Tucker Wayne Novel

James/ Blackwood Grant Rollins · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood.

Tucker...

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Miss Julia Inherits a Mess

Ann B Ross · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In the latest in Ann B. Ross's New York Times bestselling series, Miss Julia finds herself an executrix on a desperate hunt for a valuable collectible amid a jumble of the estate's antiques, and if she finds a prize she can honor Miss Mattie's last wishes

When Miss...
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Extreme Prey

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.

After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation - no longer employed by the Minnesota...
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Most wanted

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

"Lisa Scottoline delivers another searing, powerful blockbuster novel that explores hot-button issues within the framework of an intricately plotted thriller. When a woman and her husband, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to conceive, they decide to take further steps....
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Eligible : a novel

Curtis Sittenfeld · Random House
Format: Print book

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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

Dominic Smith · Sarah Crichton Books, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing...

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Mothering Sunday: A Romance

Graham Swift · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, intensely moving story that begins with an assignation in 1924 between a servant girl, Jane, and Paul, the young man of the neighboring house, then opens to reveal the whole life of a remarkable woman.

Jane and Paul have been secret...
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The Story of Kullervo

J R R Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural...
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Drawing Dead: A Cross Novel

Andrew H Vachss · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series and two collections of short stories, and his work has appeared in Parade, Antaeus, Esquire, Playboy, and The New York Times, among other publications. A native New Yorker,...
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Father's Day: A Novel

Simon Van Booy · Harpercollins
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The moving story of an orphaned girl named Harvey and the troubled uncle who raises her - an unforgettable tale of loss and redemption from the author of The Illusion of Separateness.

At the age of six, a little girl named Harvey learns that her parents have died in a car accident....

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Daredevils

Shawn Vestal · Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the winner of 2014's PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, an unforgettable debut novel about Loretta, a teenager married off as a "sister wife," who makes a break for freedom

At the heart of this exciting debut novel, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-1970s, is fifteen-year-old...
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Barren Cove: A Novel

Ariel S Winter · Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee Ariel S. Winter explores the secret legacy of an enigmatic family in this thrillingly atmospheric novel with a compelling and unexpected twist.

Sapien is a relic of a bygone age, searching for meaning in a world where his outdated allegiances...
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