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NEW BOOK PURCHASES August 2026

BACK TRACK   Marc Cameron – 1977. D Wayne Cutter is a Texas deputy sheriff.  The theft of five million dollars in diamonds leaves two men dead, one outlaw killed by Cutter, and another, Ricky Lee Pink sentenced to life. The diamonds were never recovered. 2026. Cutter’s grandson, U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter gets word that Pinky has been released. Pinky vows to avenge the murder of his partner and find the stolen gems.  And he wants to make the last living Cutter pay.
 

CLIVE CUSSLER COLD FIRE  Graham Brown –  Over the Arctic Ocean a super-secret American plane is hijacked.  Russian ships are seen putting out to sea. Chinese vessels are north of Norway. The only American asset is a small NUMA research vessel. Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala soon find that all is not as it seems. The Chinese and Russians were waiting for the plane’s arrival.  And now all three groups are determined to keep the others from finding the missing plane.
 

COOL MACHINE  Colson Whitehead  –   1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline. Successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney gambles on one last heist.  1983. When Carney’s partner in crime, Pepper, takes on a bodyguard gig, he’s plunged into the art and club scene and he reacts with violence.  1986. Carney has a chance to rescue his cousin’s son.   But teaming up with Pepper again will risk the safety and security of his  family, 
 

COUNTRY ROAD MURDERS  James Patterson & Mike Lupica – After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s football career is suddenly over.  He returns to his hometown,  where his father was murdered.  He goes back to his family’s small, struggling farm. Then Silas is pulled into battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder.  Silas follows one rule for survival: you don’t ride these country roads alone, or in the dead of night.
 

DEAD MEN DON’T PLAY FETCH  David Rosenfelt  –   Andy Carpenter’s dream to retire is once again thwarted when an old friend asks for a favor.  A homeless veteran is charged with first degree murder, and he needs Andy's help. And of course, Andy will also be called on to care for the accused’s dog, but that’s okay: What's one more dog?  Once again, Andy is enmeshed in a puzzling, twisty case. But in order to reunite a man and his dog, Andy will have to untangle it all.
 

HOW THE STORY GOES  Andrew Forrester –   Whit Longacre’s wife, Helen, died of cancer, and she left him with their eight-year-old daughter and the task of writing the final book in her mega-popular children’s fantasy series.   Without any direction, Whit is dodging calls from Helen’s publisher and agent as the deadline fast approaches.  Then Whit meets Merritt Pryor, who works at the local bookstore. They decide to tackle the book together. Then Whit uncovers a buried secret about Helen’s final wishes…
 

JOHN OF JOHN  Douglas Stuart  –  Out of money, John-Calum Macleod returns to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.  He returns to the windswept croft with his father John, a sheep farmer and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian who helped Cal survive the sudden departure of his mother.  Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s unwillingness to be saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. 
 

THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME  Ilona Andrews –  When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, she  recognizes the city she knows from her favorite dark fantasy series. She's been waiting years for the final novel.  Maggie knows the plot, the setting, and the characters.  But while she cannot be killed, the characters she's coming to love—a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, various magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier can die. Soon, she finds herself consumed by dueling princes, dukes, and villains, all while trying to save them from a cataclysmic war.
 

LAST BRANCH STANDING (NF) Sarah Isgur –  Most people get the Supreme Court all wrong.  The ultimate insider, Isgur takes readers on a deep dive inside the Supreme Court: how cases land at the Court’s doorstep, which justices attend clerk happy hours (and which ones even bother showing up to the office), why conservatives already have buyer’s remorse about Amy Coney Barrett.  Blending irreverent humor and incisive commentary, Isgur shows us what we need to do to preserve the rule of law in this little self-governing experiment we’ve been running for the last 250 years.
 

LIFE: A LOVE STORY  Elizabeth Berg –  As ninety-two-year-old Flo Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to her friend Ruthie describing the items Flo is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those “little” things (What could possibly be the worth of a rubber band kept in a matchbox tied up in red ribbon?), a portrait of the life she has lived emerges.  The letter will transform Flo and those around her. Flo decides to try new things = a pedicure and a blue streak put in her hair. Flo finds the fulfillment that living a full life has given her.
 

THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY  Kiran Desai  –  A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity.  Sonia and Sunny are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive them apart.  Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world.
 

MAD MABEL  Sally Hepworth –   Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent. She minds her own business, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying.  Because Elsie hasn’t always been Elsie. Once upon a headline, she was Mad Mabel Waller—Australia’s youngest convicted murderer. But was she really mad, or just misunderstood? Either way, she’s kept her secret buried for decades.  Enter public interest—the cops and the media are circling like seagulls at a picnic.  So Mabel takes matters into her own hands.
 

MEET ME IN PARIS  Kristin Harmel –  Julia Glover has brought her daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time.  Julia is dying, and they desperately try to make memories together.  Piper meets a cute French waiter, and Julia meets a man and struggles with how to tell him about her future.  Aging rock star Jackson Quick meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is.  Henry McGee is in Paris to re-connect with an old love.  Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after.
 

MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB  James Patterson & Susan Patterson – The Mother-Daughter Book Club—four longtime friends and their five daughters—more often discuss the books in texts than in-person. And maybe it’s just as well, after what happened at their last get-together ...   They finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy’s Lake Como. These friends, and sometime rivals, are close readers—of novels, memoirs, and of each other. But as the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations.  
 

OUR PERFECT STORM  Carley Fortune –  Frankie and George have been best friends since they were eight years old. Both passionate, impulsive, and headstrong—they’ve always clashed . . . and come back together. Now it’s the eve of Frankie’s wedding weekend.  For one glorious evening, surrounded by her loved ones, Frankie’s life is finally perfect. But it all comes crashing down when her fiancé dumps her the next morning.  Frankie is crushed and confused, but George wants her to go on her honeymoon. With him. For one week, to the lush rainforests and misty beaches of Tofino.
 

PURPLE STATE  Dana Perino – Dot Clark, a buttoned-up PR professional from NYC feels stuck. She’s sent to Cedar Falls,  a swing district in a swing state.  Dot quickly discovers that small-town Midwestern life is far outside her urban comfort zone.  Dot meets the Danny, a big-hearted guy who follows hockey, not headlines—and she finds herself falling fast.  But with the campaign heating up, how can Dot find time for Danny, and what’s the point when she’s going back to the city after the election? Can love really cross party lines? 
 

RANSOM  Daniel Silva –  Alice Winter  seemingly has the perfect life—a lavish home, a grand estate, millions of followers on social media. But when she disappears while on holiday with three old friends, her desperate husband turns to Gabriel Allon to find her.  He soon discovers that Alice Winter has a reckless side, and secrets. But her husband has a secret too, so dangerous that Gabriel must return to the life he left behind. An old enemy lurks there, waiting for him.  
 

A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD  John Connolly –  In Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens” school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils—one new and one ancient—to an end…
 

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