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The Andromeda Evolution

Michael Crichton · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Book

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth...

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Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Wilson's best book yet - a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite...

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The Devil in the Saddle

Julia London · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Mass Market Paperback

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia London brings readers another charming, sexy contemporary western.

A devil in her path...

No one cheats on a Prince and gets away with it. And Hallie - Texas socialite, would-be ballerina, and the only...
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White Elephant

EMILY RAYMOND · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: eBook

A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party, in a mashup reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Clue.

There are only a few rules in a White Elephant gift exchange: Everyone brings a wrapped gift. No name. Numbers are drawn...
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A Sister's Power

Cydney Rax · Dafina
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

For the five Reeves women, nothing is more important than keeping their family bond tight and their communication flowing. But honesty isn't so clear cut when it could blow up everything they've fought to build . . .

Already reeling from betrayal, middle sister Coco is fed up with...
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Tracking Game: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery

Margaret Mizushima · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

November 2019 Top Pick, Library Reads

Two brutal murders, a menacing band of poachers, and a fearsome creature on the loose in the mountains plunge Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo into a sinister vortex.

An explosion outside a community dance sends Mattie Cobb...
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel

Rhett McLaughlin · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stranger Things meets the South. Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful - I loved it!" - Felicia Day

From the authors of Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning . . .

It's...
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Find Me: A Novel

André Aciman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken...

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Beside Herself

Elizabeth LaBan · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback

With her signature wit and charm, bestselling author Elizabeth LaBan shows how marriage doesn't necessarily follow a straight line and unexpected detours might just bring you back to the place you most want to be.

When she finds out her husband cheated, Hannah Bent thinks her marriage...

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Not the Girl You Marry

Andie J. Christopher · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days gets a millennial makeover in this romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Andie J. Christopher.

Jack Nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and unlucky in love. His viral success has pigeon-holed him as the how-to guy for a buzzy,...
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Shot Through the Hearth

Kate Carlisle · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Contractor Shannon Hammer is measuring murder motives in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Wrench in the Works and Eaves of Destruction...

Shannon's good friend and retired tech billionaire, Raphael Nash, is loving...
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The Final Play

Shelly Ellis · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Three best friends from the streets found success--in very different ways. But with a crisis detonating around them, their bond could also destroy everything they care about . . .

No matter how tough the odds, Ricky, Derrick, and Jamal learned to unite and fight during their time...
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The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae

Stephanie Butland · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

For fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae is a wholly original, charismatic, and uplifting novel is one that no reader will soon forget.

Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. She's only a few months past the heart transplant that...

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The Municipalists: A Novel

Seth Fried · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu)

*Named one of the best books of the month by Library Journal...
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Christmas Cocoa Murder

Carlene O'Connor · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

'Tis the season for hot chocolate and mouthwatering treats. But sometimes too much of a good thing can be downright deadly . . .

CHRISTMAS COCOA MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR
Siobhán O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns...
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The Pursuit of William Abbey

Claire North · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K.
South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses...

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Nothing More Dangerous

Allen Eskens · Mulholland Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: In a small town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition.
After fifteen years of growing...
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Gimme Some Sugar

Molly Harper · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A young widow returns to Lake Sackett, Georgia to face the ghosts of her past - and decide if she's ready to take another chance on love - in the third sparkling Southern Eclectic novel that "goes down as easy as honey on a deep-fried Twinkie" (Library Journal, on Sweet...
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Famous in Cedarville

Erica Wright · Polis Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most original writers in crime fiction comes a diabolical mystery wrapped in Hollywood tinsel.

When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware has always been something...
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Healing Hannah's Heart

Preslaysa Williams · Immortal Works LLC
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback

Hannah Hart may have been burned by the breakup of her rocky marriage, but the ambitious Afro-Filipina model has big plans for her future. Her stunning looks and flawless skin provide the opening she craves to become a celebrity in the fashion world. Then an arsonist's match brings Hannah's...

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A Noël Killing

M. L. Longworth · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Christmastime in the south of France is as beautiful as ever, but when a shady local businessman drops dead in the middle of the festivities, Verlaque and Bonnet must solve the case while keeping the holiday spirit alive

Antoine Verlaque, examining magistrate for the beautiful town...
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The Killing Light

Myke Cole · Tor.com
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling conclusion to Myke Cole's Sacred Throne trilogy

Heloise and her allies are marching on the Imperial Capital. The villagers, the Kipti, and the Red Lords are united only in their loyalty to Heloise, though dissenting voices are many and they are loud.

The unstable...

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Drowning with Others

Linda Keir · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

They have the perfect marriage. Did one of them kill to get it?

Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending...

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Finding Home Again

Brenda Jackson · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Don't miss Finding Home Again, the next heart-stirring novel in the Catalina Cove series from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson and HQN Books.
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Silent Knit, Deadly Knit

Peggy Ehrhart · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

When murder silences the Christmas cheer in charming Arborville, New Jersey, Pamela and her Knit and Nibble pals must unravel the most bone-chilling mystery this side of the North Pole . . .

Pamela has been in merry spirits since her artsy daughter Penny returned home from...
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Penny for Your Secrets

Anna Lee Huber · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

England, 1919. In Anna Lee Huber's latest mystery, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent is finding that life after wartime offers its own share of danger . . .

The Great War may be over, but for many, there are still obstacles on the home front. Reconciling with her estranged...
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Lethal Pursuit: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

London, 1892 -- Cyrus Barker is brought into a game of international espionage by the Prime Minister himself in the newest mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series.

Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter...

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Salvation Lost

Peter F. Hamilton · Del Rey
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

All the best in humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat in the sequel to Salvation - part of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett) .

The comparative utopia of twenty-third-century Earth...
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Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

Scotto Moore · Tor.com
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You is a story of music, obsession, violence, and madness by Scotto Moore

I was home alone on a Saturday night when I experienced the most beautiful piece of music I had ever heard in my life.

Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band...

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