OHCC LIBRARY

NEW BOOK PURCHASES July 2025

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2 SISTERS MURDER INVSTIGATIONS James Patterson & Candice Fox - Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency.  Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.  But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of not being able to tell a client from a killer.  The Bird sisters don’t share much…except their willingness to fight.

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BADLANDS Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.  Is it suicide or… sacrifice? 

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THE BOOMERANG Robert Bailey - The president of the United States has terminal cancer. Chief of Staff Eli James, his faithful consigliere and best friend, is one of the few who know. But just as the president’s condition mysteriously improves, Eli’s hit with another blow: his daughter has cancer too. Eli turns to Big Pharma’s top lobbyist for advice, but their meeting yields more questions than answers. As he races along a twisted trail to the truth, he stumbles upon a devastating cover-up worth billions of dollars—and millions of lives.

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DON’T LET HIM IN Lisa Jewel - Nick Radcliffe is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. He’s just what Nina Swann needed in her life after her husband’s unexpected death. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling…

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CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO 10 Lisa Unger - Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival. A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be.

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FIGHT OR FLIGHT Fern Michaels - From the comfort of her mountain-top retreat, Katherine Winston creates her bestselling young adult series, Girls with Unusual Powers. No one in the nearby small town has any idea of her true identity. To them, she’s just the reclusive woman on the mountain, and Katherine is grateful to be left alone. It wasn’t always this way. Though her parents were as neglectful as they were wealthy, Katherine built up a busy, full life. Then tragedy struck and she retreated, panic-stricken at the idea of engaging with anyone again. 

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THE FIRST GENTLEMAN  James Patterson & Bill Clinton - The President of the United States is up for reelection.  Her husband is on trial for murder.  Is the First Gentleman a killer?  A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse. 

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HEARTWOOD Amity Gaige - In the Maine woods, an Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis. Alone in the wilderness, she pours her thoughts into letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. Beverly, a determined Maine State Game Warden, is tasked with finding Valerie. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. 

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HOMESEEKING Karissa Chen - From WWII to 2008, this deeply moving story follows one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and finding a home far from your homeland. Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, and California. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts.

 

IT TAKES A PSYCHIC Jayne Castle - On an alien planet, Leona Griffin is a para-archeologist. Her high profile

attracts the attention of an organization of elite, secretive collectors. They want her to authenticate the artifacts that aspiring members submit as evidence to join their group. At the reception, Leona is shocked to discover a powerful Old-World object known as Pandora’s Box. And she’s not the only one interested in that artifact. Oliver Rancourt is also there, and Leona knows she must not underestimate him.

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A MIND OF HER OWN Danielle Steel - Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900. At age fourteen, Alex’s comfortable life

ends as war erupts. At eighteen, she has lost much from the war and disease. With her American grandfather’s support, she becomes a newspaper intern and meets reporter Oliver Foster, who also has known devastating loss, and the two are drawn to each other, though both fear any attachment. As it turns out, Alex has good reason to be cautious.

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THE PARIS EXPRESS Emma Donoghue - Based on an 1895 disaster, the train is packed with characters from Brittany, Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia. Politicians hurry back to Paris to vote; a medical student suspects a girl may be dying; a secretary tries to convince her boss of the potential of moving pictures; two of the train’s crew build a life away from their wives; a young anarchist makes a terrifying plan, and much more.

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ROBERT B. PARKER’S HOT PROPERTY Mike Lupica - Spenser gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita’s an ever-present figure who has become family, and family will always be protected. With Rita’s life hanging in the balance, it’s up to him to investigate, even if it means unearthing secrets that lead him into an age-old game of lies and deceit.

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SHADOW OF THE SOLSTICE Anne Hillerman - The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules a trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. Tensions escalate when the body of a stranger is found. Is it coincidence that a violent cult arrives outside Shiprock the same week to celebrate the summer solstice? Officer Bernadette Manuelito finds a young boy at grave risk, abused women, and other shocking discoveries that plunge her and Lt. Jim Chee into a volatile and deadly situation.

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SILENT AS THE GRAVE Rhys Bowen & Clare Broyles - Molly Murphy Sullivan’s dear friend, Ryan O’Hara, is shooting a movie. He invites Molly and the children to visit the set and watch the excitement. Molly’s adopted daughter, Bridie, is called to act in a scene. Turns out she’s a natural and is asked to star in the rest of the film. But soon, special effects start to malfunction and then turn deadly. With rumors of a feud between studios, Molly believes these malfunctions are sabotage. She goes undercover on set to investigate the burgeoning film war. 

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THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU Kristen Harmel - Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for as long as she can remember. During the war, Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested, and Colette’s four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared, along with a diamond bracelet hidden in her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane’s body was found floating in the Seine—but the bracelet was nowhere to be found. Seventy years later, the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up.

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STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL Charlotte Wood - Burnt out, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community. She doesn't believe in God, but finds herself living there almost by accident. Then three things happen. First comes a terrible mouse plague. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

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STUART WOODS’ FINDERS KEEPERS Brett Battles - Stone Barrington is in New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter. Over lunch, Jack requests Stone’s help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing. But when various men from Sara’s past start getting hurt, and Jack’s loved ones find themselves a target in a deadly scheme, it’s up to Stone to put the pieces together.

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THE SUMMER GUESTS Tess Gerritsen - Former spy Maggie Bird retired to Purity, Maine. But enemies from her past soon threaten to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the Martini Club, ex-CIA friends. After a teenager vanishes—and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect—she joins the investigation. But the girl’s wealthy family pushes for an arrest. And when authorities discover a long-dead corpse in a nearby pond, the case becomes doubly complicated, with unthinkable ties to long-buried secrets.

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THE UNEXPECTED DIVA (LP) Tiffany L Warren - Born into slavery, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield has been raised in the safety of Philadelphia’s Quaker community by a wealthy adoptive mother. Sheltered and educated, Eliza’s happy childhood always included music lessons to nurture her unique gift: a glorious three octave singing voice that leaves listeners in awe. But young Eliza’s world is thrown into a tailspin when her mother dies. Eliza’s inheritance is contested by her mother’s white cousins, leaving her few options. When a chance performance leads to a surprising opportunity, fearless Eliza seizes her moment. Within a year she is touring America, singing to packed houses, and igniting controversy wherever she goes.