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NEW BOOK PURCHASES SEPTEMBER 2025

ATMOSPHERE   Taylor Jenkins Reid – Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Then she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan is selected to go to space.  In the summer of 1980, Joan begins training with an exceptional group of fellow candidates.  Joan finds a passion and a love, and begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the universe.  Then, in December of 1984 it all changes in an instant.
 

BEACH HOUSE RULES  Kristy Woodson Harvey – When Charlotte’s husband is arrested she and her daughter are locked out of their house by the FBI and featured in the town’s snarky anonymous Instagram account. Desperate, Charlotte moves to a former beachfront bed-and-breakfast that’s home to a community of single mothers and draws plenty of gossip in town.  They find solace and fun with the other families despite their circumstances. But when a secret link between them emerges, it changes everything.   Will the skeletons in the closets shatter the sisterhood forever?
 

BROKEN COUNTRY  Clare Leslie Hall – Beth and her gentle, kind husband are happily married, but that relies on the past staying buried. When a dog attacks their sheep,  their lives change. Gabriel, who broke her heart years ago, has returned to the village with his young son Leo, who reminds Beth of her own dead son.  As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, she must choose between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
 

THE CARDINAL  Alison Weir – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s rise from humble beginnings coincided with young Henry VIII’s ascension to the throne in 1509. The two grew to be cherished friends, and by 1515 Wolsey, now a cardinal, had become the controlling figure in all matters of church and state.  All was well until Henry fell in love with Anne Boleyn and sought to divorce his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. Wolsey, who had given his master everything he wanted, was now failing. 
 

THE DEATH MASK  Iris Johansen – Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s skills can make her a target. She is ordered to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious client. Her would-be employer threatens her family to force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask.  Eve knows that her husband is searching for a way to help. Joe has back-up from Alex Dominic, a mercenary for hire, as he navigates the jungle and masterminds a breathtaking escape.
 

DOGGED PURSUIT  David Rosenfelt – Andy Carpenter worked as a prosecutor until he became disillusioned.   He starts his own defense firm and decides to adopt a dog.  At the shelter he adopts both Tara and Sunny.  Andy discovers that Sunny's owner, Ryan Tierney, has been arrested for the murder of his ex-boss. But he takes an immediate liking to Ryan and his clear dedication to his dog, and ends up with his first case along with the two dogs.
 

DREAM COUNT  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Chiamaka is a Nigerian living in America. Alone during the pandemic, she grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a successful lawyer and she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor is a financial powerhouse who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an awful hardship. In Dream

Count, Adichie focuses on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. 
 

EDGE OF HONOR  Brad Thor –After six months abroad, Scot Harvath returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle—the likes of which the United States has never experienced.  Drawn into a web of deceit and deadly politics, he is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control and if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees.

 

FOUR RED SWEATERS (NF)  Lucy Adlington – Jock, Anita, Chana, and Regina all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other—in fact had never met—each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, award-winning clothes historian Lucy Adlington documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives.
 

HANG ON ST CHRISTOPHER  Adrian McKinty –  Riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland continue. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely away to Scotland.  Duffy’s a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month. But then a murder case falls into his lap.  A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hit man and why?
 

THE HUMAN SCALE  Lawrence Wright – Tony Malik, an Irish-Arab FBI agent, specializes in tracking money.  When a relationship ends, Malik becomes intrigued by his Palestinian father's past. He decides to visit his ancestral homeland, accepting a seemingly simple FBI assignment along the way.  Upon arrival, Malik's finds that the Israeli police chief is murdered. Initially a suspect, Malik's investigative prowess soon earns him a place in the Israeli investigation.
 

THE IDAHO FOUR  James Patterson & Vicky Ward – The murders of four college students at the University of Idaho left us all with questions.  After 300 plus interviews, James Patterson and journalist Vicky Ward finally have the answers.  We know what the local police and FBI did right. And wrong. We’ve learned about the four heartbroken families. And we have the backstory for Bryan Kohberger, brilliant grad student, loner, apparent incel.  Now you are the jury. The evidence is in.
 

IT'S A LOVE STORY  Annabel Monaghan – Jane Jackson spent her adolescence as "Poor Janey Jakes," the punch line on America's fifth-favorite sitcom. Now acting as a Hollywood studio executive, she embraces a new mantra: Fake it till you make it.  Except maybe not this far. Desperate to get her first project greenlit and riled up by pompous cinematographer and one-time crush Dan Finnegan, she claimed that she could get mega popstar Jack Quinlan to write a song for the movie. Jack may have been her first kiss—and greatest source of shame—but she hasn’t spoken to him in twenty years.
 

KILLS WELL WITH OTHERS  Deanna Raybourn – After time laying low, assassins Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but a professional killer wants to strangle someone...literally. When they are called by the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready to tackle the challenge.  Someone on the inside has a list of important kills committed by Museum agents.  This new nemesis is murdering agents who got in the way of their power hungry plans and the aging quartet of killers is next.
 

KISS HER GOODBYE  Lisa Gardner – Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera was last seen three weeks ago. The police haven’t opened a case, and her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. Sabera's closest friend contacts missing persons expert Frankie Elkin just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.   When her husband also disappears under mysterious circumstances and an attempt is made on her daughter’s life, Frankie realizes she must crack the code of this family's horrific past.
 

THE MAN MADE OF SMOKE  Alex North – Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a child committed by a notorious serial killer. He has since become a criminal profiler, seeking justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan is determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?
 

MY FRIENDS  Fredrik Backman – In Benghazi, Khaled hears a story about a man eaten by a cat, and he feels that his life is  changed forever.  Khaled embarks on a journey that takes him to the West.  There, in an open society, Khaled begins to change. In a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain.  My Friends is a meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds.
 

THE NAMES  Florence Knapp – In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband is respected in the community but is terrifying and controlling at home. He intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks for the name, Cora hesitates...  Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name.
 

THE NANTUCKET RESTAURANT  Pamela Kelley – Three sisters, each at her own crossroads in life, inherit a Nantucket restaurant and embrace working together.  Mandy, Emma and Jill  grew up together on Nantucket, but since have scattered. When their grandmother passes a week before her 99th birthday, she leaves them quite a surprise. In addition to her Nantucket home, they learn that they've inherited Mimi's Place, one of Nantucket's most popular restaurants. They had no idea that she was the silent owner of a restaurant, and no idea how they're going to handle this kind of inheritance.
 

WILD DARK SHORE  Charlotte McConaghy – A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.  Dominic and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.  Isolation has affected the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.

 

 

NEW BOOK PURCHASES AUGUST 2025

AN INSIDE JOB   Daniel Silva – Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
 

BLOOD TIES   Jo Nesbo – By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves in small town Os. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa and hotel, while Roy runs a gas station and has grand plans to build it out into an entire amusement park.  Then news breaks about a new highway that will bypass Os.   It’s clear that something has to be done -  even if the methods are dirty. Fortunately, Carl and Roy have experience with just that kind of work. 
 

THE BOOK CLUB FOR TROUBLESOME WOMEN (LP)   Marie Bostwick – By 1960s standards, Margaret is living the dream. She has a husband, children, and a home in the suburbs.  But it doesn't feel like enough.  Margaret invents a book club get-together for a mysterious new neighbor where the women share reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique.  They begin to discover that the American dream they'd been sold isn't all roses and sunshine.  
 

BROKEN FIELDS   Marcie Rendon – Minnesota, 1970s:  Cash Blackbear is doing fieldwork for a local farmer—until she finds him dead in the property’s rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and his wife are missing, but Cash discovers their young daughter cowering under a bed. The girl, a possible witness to the killing, is too terrified to speak.
 

CODED JUSTICE   Stacy Abrams – Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back . . . at a prestigious high-end law firm in Washington, D.C. Avery is now working as an internal investigator when a high-profile client seeks her out. Camasca Enterprises has developed a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry. To prove its potential, Camasca’s charismatic founder has picked a complicated target: delivering cutting-edge health care to his fellow veterans. The potential is staggering, but their prototype has been plagued by a series of disturbing anomalies—culminating in the mysterious death of a beloved Camasca engineer.
 

COURTROOM DRAMA   Neely Tubati Alexander – Sydney Parks is looking forward to serving jury duty. When Margot Kitsch, a cast member of the hit reality show Authentic Moms of Malibu is arrested after the untimely death of her cast member husband, Sydney knows being selected for the jury is the most interesting thing that ever happened to her.  However, it doesn’t take long for Sydney to realize that being part of a sequestered jury in a high-profile case is not at all what legal dramas had led her to expect.  
 

THE DOORMAN       Chris Pavone – Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite.  Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she quietly loathes.  But  their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can’t leave him – yet.  And downstairs in 2a, Julian Sonnenberg just received a devastating phone call.   Meanwhile, the building’s Black and Hispanic staff is disturbed that a Black man has just been killed by the police, leading to a long night of violence across the tinderbox city.
 

FAGIN THE THIEF   Allison Epstein – Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nineteenth-century London. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob's whole world is his open-minded mother, Leah. But Jacob’s prospects are forever altered when a light-fingered pickpocket takes Jacob under his wing and teaches him a trade that pays far better than the neighborhood boys could possibly dream.
 

THE FIFTEEN (NF)   William Geraux – America needed to house nearly 400,000 German POWs.  However, inside POW camps there were Nazi power games playing out.   Ardent Nazis started killing Germans who befriended their captors.  Fifteen POWs were sentenced to death for murdering fellow POWs.  In response, German authorities condemned fifteen American POWs to death, and then Germany proposed a trade: fifteen Germans for fifteen Americans,  
 

THE HAMPTON’S LAWYER   James Patterson & Mike Lupica – The Hamptons on Long Island is known for its luxury lifestyle—and its exclusive legal advice.  When Jane Smith takes on a famous celebrity client, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glocks.  Yet she’s chased down, shot at, and risks contempt of court. 
Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s a survivor. For now.
 

INTO THE GRAY ZONE   Brad Taylor – While on a routine security job in India, Pike Logan foils an attack on a meeting between the CIA and India’s intelligence service. Both agencies believe it’s only a minor terrorist attack, but Pike suspects something more sinister.  He begins to believe that outside powers are attacking India in the gray zone between peace and war, using terrorist groups for economic gain. But the terrorists have their own agenda.
 

THE LIBRARIANS OF LISBON   Suzanne Nelson – Lisbon 1943. As two American librarians are drawn into a city of dangerous subterfuge and unexpected love affairs, they must choose between their missions and the men they love. Inspired by real historical figures, this is a captivating story of two remarkable women, their bravery and heartache, and a friendship that withstands the ravages of war.
 

THE LOVE HATERS   Katherine Center – Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past—now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job or take a career-making gig profiling Tom Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. The catch? Katie’s not qualified. She can’t swim—but pretends that she can.
 

MICHAEL WITHOUT APOLOGY   Catherine Ryan Hyde – Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a fireworks accident scarred him and placed him in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from everyone and himself.  When Michael signs up for a film class, he is encouraged to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception. Michael places an ad seeking people who feel unattractive and rejected by society—and is surprised to learn that this is essentially everyone. 
 

A MOTHER’S LOVE   Danielle Steel – Between her daughter’s wedding and her looming fiftieth birthday, bestselling author Halley Holbrook finds herself reflecting. Raising her twins is her proudest accomplishment. Halley has been able to give them the loving and safe home she never had, having survived a childhood so traumatic she’s never talked about it with her girls. Long ago, Halley decided to live in the sunlight of the present, not the dark shadows of the past.
 

MURDER IN AN IRISH GARDEN   Carleene O’Connor – While Siobhán studies for her Detective Sargeant exams, her brother plans to enter Kilbane’s Top Garden Contest.  But trouble brews when he hires a mercurial landscape designer with an unflattering reputation and questionable practices that nearly eclipse her talents—and causes chaos at the competition.  A winning garden emerges from the controversy, with a spectacular golden statue in the center of the display. But in a devastating twist, the work of art leads to the shocking discovery of a bold and brutal work of murder.
 

THE PERFECT DIVORCE   Jeneva Rose – It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted … or is it?  After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah files for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. 
 

THE VIEW FROM LAKE COMO   Adriana Trigiani – Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life of her dreams. Not even close.  In blue-collar Lake Como, New Jersey, family comes first. Recently divorced from her “perfect husband," Jess moves into her parents’ basement.  Despite her role as the family drudge, Jess is also a talented draftswoman in the marble business run by her uncle, who believes she can do anything   When the family suffers an unexpected loss, the shock unearths long-buried secrets that will force Jess to question her loyalty to those she trusted. Fueled by her lost dreams, Jess takes fate into her own hands and escapes to her ancestral home, Carrara, Italy.
 

WHERE THE RIVERS MERGE   Mary Alice Monroe – 1908: In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Mayfield, the estate held by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refuses to be confined by society  but  the Great War, coastal storms, and family turmoil bring challenges to Eliza, as she struggles with the patriarchal traditions of a bygone era.  1988: At 88, Eliza has fought a lifetime to save her beloved Mayfield. Now, she must make decisions that will assure the future of the land and her family—or watch them both be split apart. 
 

THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11   Ruth Ware –  Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago.  She is invited to the opening of a luxury hotel - a chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva.   Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to the owner’s hotel room, where she is met by a woman claiming to be his mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy.  What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe,,, 

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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.