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Murder on the Celtic (Ocean Liner Mysteries)

EDWARD MARSTON - Allison & Busby
Format: Paperback

New York, 1910. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ship's detectives. On several of those crossings they've had the pleasure, and in some cases the trouble, of sailing with some very famous passengers. Dukes....
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Dance with Death: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas
Format: Hardcover

In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kchessinska. Rumored to be the target of a professional assassin known only as La Sylphide, and the subject of conspiracies against...
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Plantation Shudders: A Cajun Country Mystery

Ellen Byron - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Check in for some Southern hospitality in Plantation Shudders, the Cajun Country series debut from Ellen Byron.It's the end of the summer and Prodigal Daughter Maggie Crozat has returned home to her family's plantation-turned-bed-and-breakfast in Louisiana. The Crozats have an inn full...
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Dachshund Through the Snow

David Rosenfelt - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

This Christmas, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, can't say no to helping young Danny and his dachshund, Murphy. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet store has a Christmas tree, where instead of ornaments...
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Doughnuts and Doom

BALAZS LORINCZI - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

Being a teenage witch - or rock star - is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends ... or more? Flying brooms and electric guitars set hearts aflame in this fantastically fizzy graphic novel.When Margot meets Elena, emotions run high, magic is in the air, and doughnuts...float?...
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The Morning Star: A Novel

Karl Ove Knausgaard - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Srlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar, the journalist Jostein is out on the town,...
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When We Were Young & Brave: A Novel

Hazel Gaynor - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . .The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during WWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army's internment of teachers and children...
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Roundabout of Death

Faysal Khartash - New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback

"A remarkable book, a vivid testimonial to the horrors of the Syrian civil war." -- Set in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by bombing, Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers...
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Mouth to Mouth: A Novel

Antoine Wilson - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life - a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man. Jeff reveals that after that traumatic,...
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The Immortality Thief (The Kystrom Chronicles)

TARAN HUNT - Solaris
Format: Hardcover

The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.Far off the edge of human existence, beside...
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