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NEW BOOK PURCHASES BOOK OCTOBER 2026

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THE BIG CATS DANCE PARTY  Alexander McCall Smith –  Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi volunteer for an important case up north involving an elephant sanctuary, leaving assistant detective Charlie to manage a complicated and potentially risky new one back home.  In navigating these precarious situations, Mma Ramotswe and her associates must once again rely on their compassion, gentle humor, and good sense to win the day.

 

DOG PERSON  Camille Pagan – Harold may be an aging mutt—but Amelia May adopted him and taught him about the human heart before she died. And she left Harold with a final task: to help her partner, Miguel, find love again.  But Miguel rarely goes out, not even to the bookstore he and Amelia owned.  Miguel and Harold set out to save the failing store, and Harold is running out of time to help Miguel.

 

THE DYING LIGHT  Ann Cleeves  –   Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate when Lottie is found dead at a holiday home. The girl’s best friend, Hannah, is missing. They had arrived a few days earlier, quickly stirring up the locals  with incendiary social media videos mocking the place. When further tragedy strikes, Venn finds a community filled with secrets. Hannah’s father, Paul Armstrong, is a rising political star which draws intense media scrutiny to the case.

 

FIGHTING EDGE  Margaret Mizushima – A routine welfare check becomes a nightmare when Deputy Mattie Walker finds a young mother dead and a hysterical toddler. Then she stops a nervous driver and a teenage passenger frozen with fear, possibly a victim of human trafficking.  Meanwhile, Mattie’s husband notices suspicious activity at a dog kennel, indicating yet a third crime.  Organized crime has infiltrated their rural mountain community.

 

THE FOURTH OPTION  Jack Carr & M.P. Woodward  –   Disillusioned, former Navy SEAL and CIA operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker’s help.  Walker must go up against the system to find justice for his friend’s widow.  With FBI agent Jarrett Stanton on his tail, Walker and his Belgian Malinois using his VW camper filled with a hidden cache of weapons—takes the law into his own hands, exposing corruption and delivering lethal outlaw justice.

 

THE FRENCH ILLUSION  John Grisham –   Paul and Chelsea Tanner’s honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped.  Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon involves the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.

 

FURY IN DEATH  J.D. Robb  –  NYSPD lieutenant Eve Dallas’s case is Larry Chu, a wealthy biotech executive. The victim’s corpse is so mangled and damaged it’s obvious the killer was unnaturally strong—and smart enough to enter Chu’s highly secure building. Most of all, whoever did this was very, very angry.  The mystery only grows when it turns out Chu isn’t the only victim—and Dallas will need to tear through layers of secrecy to reveal what lies behind this explosion of fury...

 

HOLLOW BONES  Jodi Picoult –  On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to NYC and never came home. Her father and stepmother couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.  Now she runs the Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband Jesse have found love in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

 

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND  (NF)  Beverly Gage –  Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of 13 places and 13 key moments, defining America’s greatest successes and challenges.

 

LOVE YOU MORE  Emily Giffin –  Billie’s medical practice in NYC is thriving, and she’s finally found Dean after years trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick.  Distance and ambition pulled them apart when she left Wisconsin for medical school.  Then one morning, just after becoming engaged, Mick calls.  His news is urgent and everything changes. As she travels back to Wisconsin, her past comes rushing in—her hometown friendships, the love she and Mick shared, and the choices that shaped them all. She must resolve what she’s lost, what she’s built, and what she still wants.

 

 

THE MUNICH AFFAIR  James Patterson & David Ellis –  A suspenseful thriller that spans a century—set in motion by the murder of Adolf Hitler's young lover by his own hand.  A determined detective, Thomas Bauer, obsessively pursues Hitler. A courageous journalist, Fritz Gerlich, writes story after story detailing the murder.  An American professor, Eleanor Robbins, picks up the trail of evidence from present-day Neo-Nazis guarding the Führer’s long-held secrets to the death. 

 

MURDER AT THE GRAND ALPINE HOTEL  Lucy Foley –   The brand-new Miss Marple mystery.  High in the Swiss Alps, accessible only by a single, winding railway, stands the luxurious Grand Alpine Hotel. With glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, it draws guests from far and wide.  The notorious actress.  The high-flying politician.  The society wife.  The reckless friend.  The shrewd doctor.  But not everyone is here for a winter holiday.

 

THE PARISIAN HEIST  Jo Piazza –  Emma is a struggling American artist in Paris, when she becomes both a player and a pawn in a family battle to conceal its crimes.  In the late 1800s, Jo van Gogh is determined to prove Vincent’s genius, but a  vanished painting and a thwarted love affair leave her distrustful of everyone.  From glittering auction houses,  Amsterdam’s canals and Paris museums, the lives of these two women converge.

 

THE PIRATE QUEEN  Ariel Lawhon – A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with Grace as she must fight to defend her land, her ships, and the people she loves most against the cruel and power-hungry English deputies, who will stop at nothing to check her influence.

 

RUTHLESS  Danielle Steel –  Shipping magnate John Randall Williams is at sea after the recent death of his devoted wife. He meets Lillith and is immediately drawn to her.   Charlotte Ramsay is known for her integrity as a journalist, she interviews high-tech billionaire Ben Sharpe and becomes intrigued by the real man.  A chance encounter leads to a face-off between  Charlotte and John. He has a reputation for ruthlessness, but in pursuit of a story, she never backs down.

 

THE SHAMPOO EFFECT  Jenny Jackson – One summer Caroline falls for Van, a kayak enthusiast with the personality of a Border collie. Born and raised in this coastal village, Van runs with the same crowd he did as a kid.  Dazzlingly funny, sexy, and as juicy as he is astute, this is a story of late-night parties, early mornings with small children, the dawn of midlife, and a group of old friends finally growing up despite all their best efforts to the contrary.

 

SKYLARK  Paula McLain – 1664: Alouette is unjustly confined in the notorious Salpêtrière asylum, but within its grim walls, she discovers a small group of brave allies, and the possibility of a life bigger than she ever imagined.  1939: Kristof Larson is a medical student in Paris, whose neighbors are a Jewish family who have fled Poland. When Nazi forces descend on the city, Kristof becomes their only hope for survival, even as his work as a doctor is jeopardized.  This is a tale of two parallel journeys of defiance and rescue that connect in ways both surprising and deeply moving.

 

THE SPY AND THE SNAKE  M.J. Robotham – During the Cold War, Maggie Flynn receives an assignment from MI5.  She is to fly to Budapest and pose as the wife of a British defector and smuggle him back to the UK. It should be a straightforward operation, but what's waiting in Budapest is anything but routine.

 

THE THOROUGHBREDS  Elin Hilderbrand & Shelby Cunningham – September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class - college applications, parties and last hurrahs.  But nagging questions and dark secrets exist…  Are Charley and East on the rocks? What happened with football star Dub and his best friend Hakeem? Will Pippa Sacks topple the social hierarchy—or worse? Can Head of School Audre Robinson save her job after a disastrous financial mistake? And what was in that email attachment Cinnamon Peters sent to Dub before she died?

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VINCE FLYNN DOUBLE TAP   Don Bently – When Mitch Rapp’s target—a Pakistani chemical weapons scientist for hire—is snatched from Verona, the American assassin must penetrate the jihadi cell responsible for the kidnapping before they can make use of the scientist’s deadly expertise.  But Mitch isn’t the only one interested in the scientist.

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WE CHASE SHADOWS   Richard Osman – At sunrise in the Italian hills, a body is found at a beautiful private villa. There is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.  Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to take on their first proper case. So what if their new client seems to have his own reasons for avoiding the police? All they need to do is uncover who left the note, and then find them. Simple.  But once they start digging, the suspects keep piling up, yet the murderer keeps evading them. And as the trio chase a villain, danger travels closer to home . . .
 

 

 

 

 

NEW BOOK PURCHASES BOOK SEPTEMBER 2026

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BIG LITTLE TRUTHS   Liane Moriarty –  Ten years after Big Little Lies, Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie all have new problems.  Then when a stranger begins asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. 

 

THE BOAT HOUSE  Fern Michaels –  Madison and Lincoln are settling in for a Jersey Shore summer.   Visitors love the area’s history—the tales of pirates, cryptic maps and treasure. And then a seemingly worthless map is stolen from their boat house.  The town may not survive unless they can quickly separate fiction from fact, and guilty from innocent…

 

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING  Lisa Scottoline  –   Julia Pritzker loves being a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her just as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm.   A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia just before Courtney discovers her murdered grandmother, and the killer is escaping out the back door.  Julia flies home the next morning, and Courtney entreats Julia to use her psychic intuition to help. But events take a deadly turn, and Julia becomes a target  - she ends up fighting for her life, with no one to save her … but herself.

 

CRY HAVOC  Jack Carr – 1968.  A spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea. The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong.  Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.

 

DECEPTIONS  Jeffery Deaver  –   A murder at a crime writers' conference. The method is entirely literary, the motive seems obvious.  A serial killer with a motive never before seen in the history of crime challenges  Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs to rethink everything they know about the nature of evil and the evidence its perpetrators leave behind.

 

DELUSIONAL  James Patterson & James O. Born –   In NYC, a series of deadly explosions. Across the river, a military base is burglarized for munitions. In Montana, violence and arson rock a small town outside of Bozeman. Are the incidents related?  Bennett, Trilling, and the ATF investigate. A group angry with the government keep turning up in unexpected places, insisting that they’re only trying to make the world a better place. To law enforcement, their claims seem delusional.  Will words or gunpowder light the next fuse?

 

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER  Shari Lapena  –  Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone. They have carefully, expensively, made every inch of it their own. So when Ted’s inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their home and lifestyle?  The answer is obvious. The death of one wealthy family member—from whom they stand to inherit millions—could solve all their problems. Together, they will get away with murder?

 

GOD’S COUNTRY  William Kent Krueger –  Cork O’Connor is troubled by ominous visions about his future.  He uncovers signs of violence while searching for his missing friend, Cordell Bishop. Soon, he is forced to negotiate with dangerous criminals  who are seeking their late father’s hidden stash.  Cork grapples with his darkest instincts as he helps others escape and eventually takes justice into his own hands. 

 

INTO THE BLUE  - Emma Brodie –  In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves is stuck working in a video rental store.  Then in walks Noah Drew, an actor, and her life changes forever. The two forge a deep bond, first as friends, then as acting partners—until one day, Noah disappears without a word.  Seven years later, she finds herself in a TV production with Noah, now a well-known Hollywood heartthrob.  AJ and Noah are forced to confront what happened years ago—and the devastating secret that may send their lives careening apart.

 

LAND  Maggie O’Farrell  1865.  Tomás and his son, Liam, are mapping the whole of Ireland. In a country recently ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. The work should be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course.  His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Ten-year-old Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam going to finish the mapping and get them both home?

 

NOT WHAT IT SEEMS  Lisa Jackson  –  Reporter Nikki Gillette seizes on the story of a horder’s  mysterious death.  She  visits his sprawling property and gains little except the uneasy feeling of being watched. Within days, another body is found—a wealthy, thrice-married Savannah socialite dead in her lavish home. More victims follow, each one pierced through the throat. Beside each body, a stone engraved with a different number and symbol

 

PHOEBE BERMAN’S GONNA LOSE IT  Brooke Averick –   Phoebe Berman fears the one thing she wants the most: love. Thanks to an extremely unfortunate first kiss attempt, crippling intimacy anxiety has plagued her since she was a teen.
She has so much going for her: a dream job, a supportive group of best friends, and all the romance novels. But she drafts up the ultimate “Guide to Losing My Virginity” checklist with the hope of finally getting laid.

 

THE SECRETS WE HIDE  Karen Slaughter –  1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house, but rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on there.  When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead.  Secrets are buried everywhere in this small town.  And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…

 

TOM CLANCY PRESSURE DEPTH  Jack Stewart – Jack Ryan Jr. is on Guam to work on a perfectly ordinary insurance matter.  However, a US Navy dive team working off the coast uncovers a threat to international security.  For years, rumors persisted that the Soviets were tracking American submarines on the sea floor. On a seemingly routine mission they discover that the defensive network they thought they were looking for is actually a weapon unlike anything they’ve ever seen.

 

THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE  Danielle Steel –  February 24 is the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land in Ukraine. Life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment.  Thru the stories of those who fled to Poland (Tatyanna, and Yulya) and those who stayed behind, (Vlad, Symon, Sasha, and Anton) Danielle Steel tells a gripping and deeply moving story of regular people surviving as a war rages around them.

 

YOU’LL BE SORRY  Lisa Gardner – Raquel and Theo Collins decided to repair their marriage, bought an old house in a remote town in New Hampshire to begin over.  But the house has a history.  One night both parents and their four children vanished, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints, and a mystery that has endured for thirty years. For Amanda Grady, police chief, it’s good to see a fresh start for the derelict Dixon place. However, not everyone is happy.  When a skeleton is discovered on the property, Raquel and Theo face a daunting choice of what to believe, who to trust, and how to survive.

 

THE WESTENERS (NF)  Megan Kate Nelson –  The Westerners is an epic counter-history of the American West told in two interwoven stories. The first reveals the lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the 19th century. The second tracks the attempts of many Americans to erase these westerners from history, through the formation of a national mythology that lionized individualism and conquest and celebrated white settlers traveling west in search of prosperity.

 

WHEN YOU LOVED ME  Beatriz Williams – Per local history, a pirate buried his treasure at Windward, the decayed Cooper estate.  Lucy Cooper never believed it. When a widowed Lucy returns with her young daughter to grieve her estranged father, she discovers catastrophe: The property is mired in debt she can’t repay, and Ben Ressler is there.  Thirteen summers ago, the teenaged Lucy fell in love with Ben, a Dartmouth football star vacationing nearby.  Now he has returned. As Lucy learns how to heal from the past, events reveal that someone else is trying to claim the fabled plunder.

 

THE WINDSOR AFFAIR  Melanie Benjamin – The Windsor Affair recreates the cataclysmic events that nearly toppled the monarchy and incited the power struggle between Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Wallis Simpson. Told from the perspective of both women, the novel propels readers into the fabulous world of the debonair Prince of Wales, café society of the 1930s, and the glittering private lives of the Windsors. The Windsor Affair brings us all the gossip and intrigue between the two very different—yet perhaps more similar than they would admit—wives of royals.

 

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THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS   Pip Williams – Esme spends her childhood in Oxford, where her father and his team are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. She sits  beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.  Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the looming Great War, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men.

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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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