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NEW BOOK PURCHASES APRIL 2024

 

 

THE #1 LAWYER                    James Patterson & Nancy Allen - Biloxi’s best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his client’s beautiful wife is murdered, and America’s #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect. 

 

CIRCLE OF DEATH                   James Patterson & Brian Sitts - In this action-packed story from a New York Times bestselling author, a ruthless killer is seeking to overturn the world order—and our only hope is vigilante justice.

 

THE COUNTERFEIT COUNTESS  [NF]         Elizabeth B White & Joanna Sliwa - The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.

 

GOODBYE GIRL     James Grippando - A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck’s client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer.

 

HOW TO KNOW A PERSON [NF]               David Brooks - As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”

 

THE HUNTER      Tana French - Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, BBC, TODAY, Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and more. Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French spins a taut tale of retribution, sacrifice, and family."—TIME   Bestselling author of THE SEARCHER and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox), a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside.

 

IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW   Rhys Bowen & Clare Broyles - Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back in this beloved series. New York, 1908: The days are getting longer—and warmer—in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn’t want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she’s expecting. So, she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County. 

 

LAST NIGHT        Luanne Rice - On the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House Hotel. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes ground zero for an investigation.

 

THE LAST SUMMER AT CHELSEA BEACH     Pam Jenoff - An intoxicating novel of love and redemption during a time of war, from the international bestselling author of THE KOMMONDANT”S GIRL.

 

NEVER TOO LATE              Danielle Steel - Following the death of her beloved husband, Kezia Cooper Hobson decides to leave her home and move to Manhattan. As she stands on her terrace to watch the 4th July firework display, Kezia is shocked to see smoke and flames pouring from three famous New York landmarks. What follows is a summer of healing and change, and the discovery that it's never too late for dreams to be born again. . .

 

THE NEW COUPLE IN 5B                    Lisa Unger - Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.

 

NO ONE CAN KNOW      Kate Alice Marshall - Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count… A propulsive and intricate psychological thriller. . . Meticulously plotted. . . Family connections prove both their damage and their worth in this community-focused thriller.

 

ODYSSEY'S END                     Matt Coyle - San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill desperately wants to reunite his family and help provide for daughter Krista's future. Rick can't pass up the chance to buttress Krista's future. When what seems like a simple missing person case spirals out of control into cryptocurrency machinations, dead bodies, and an outgunned faceoff. Rick is forced to battle evil from his past. Can he stay alive long enough to see his family one last time?

 

 

THE RESCUE       T. Jefferson Parker - While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story’s subjects—a Mexican street dog being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. She adopts the dog. But he’s not a Mexican street dog, rather a former DEA drug-sniffing dog. With Bettina’s story going viral, some interesting people are looking for him, making him a target—again. Bettina soon finds herself drawn into a deadly criminal underworld from which she and her beloved dog may not return.

 

SNAKE BITE         Jim Malloy - In 1966, the Hells Angels, led by Cutter, controlled all the movement of marijuana and meth through the Apache reservation at the Arizona border. El Serpiente, Snake, was one mean-ass Mexican connected to the cartel that declared war on the Angels for control of the drug routes. Arizona territory on the Apache reservation was still the Wild West, no law and no rules. Join Retired Sergeant Jack Delaney, known as Micky, the Doom Squad, and the Apache nation as they battle Snake, the meanest hombre west of the Rio Grande.

 

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEVLINS              Lisa Scottoline - The #1 bestselling author of WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.

 

THE WHARTON PLOT     Mariah Fredericks - This mesmerizing novel follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer.

 

THE WIFE YOU KNOW   Chad Zunker - Widower Luke Driskell didn't expect to fall in love and marry again so quickly. But Ashley and her daughter, Joy, are special--a quality borne out when Ashley rushes into a burning day-care center to save the children. Immediately she's a social media sensation and hero. Then, just as suddenly, Ashley and Joy disappear into the bitterly cold night. Luke's cross-country pursuit of the truth soon spins into something more dangerous than he imagined. Because Ashley's secrets run so deep and dark that finding her could threaten all their lives.

 

THE YEAR OF THE LOCUST     Terry Hayes - If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again - by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide - and when to shoot.  But some places don't play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane's experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet are such a place - a place where violence is the only way to survive.

 

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THE PHOENIX CROWN  (LARGE PRINT)     Kate Alice Quinn & Janey Chang - Kate Quinn & Janey Chang   A thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.

 

NEW BOOK PURCHASES MARCH 2024

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ASTOR: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN FORTUNE (NF)     Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe   The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. This page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, chronicles the lives of the Astors and explores what the Astor name has come to mean in America—offering a window onto the making of America itself.

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THE ATLAS MANEUVER   Steve Berry   In this Cotton Malone adventure, Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a lost treasure, worth billions, known as Yamashita’s Gold. From the stolid banking halls of Luxembourg, to the secret vaults of Switzerland, and finally up into the treacherous mountains of southern Morocco. Each move he makes seems wrong, and nothing works, until he finally comes face-to-face with the Atlas Maneuver.

 

THE CHAOS AGENT   Mark Graney   Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real devastation in this new novel in the bestselling Gray Man series. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or something even more sinister? After all, AI may be the deadliest battlefield game changer since the creation of gunpowder.

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COLD VICTORY   Karl Marlantes   Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. Russsian, Natalya Bobrova, and American, Louise Koski, are wives of their country’s military attachés. Their husbands, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a secret cross-country wilderness race. Louise is delighted, but Natalya is worried. If news of the race gets out and her husband loses, she knows it would mean his death, her imprisonment, and the loss of her two children.

 

THE COMFORT OF CROWS   Margaret Renkl   Fifty-two chapters follow the creatures and plants in the author’s backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons--from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring--what develops is a portrait of joy and grief. With fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, this book is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.

 

CROSSHAIRS   James Patterson & James O. Born   Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin. 

 

FIRST LIE WINS    Ashley Elston   Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given that name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.

 

THE GHOST ORCHID   Jonathan Kellerman   Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis confront a baffling, vicious double homicide that leads them to long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller.

 

HAPPINESS FALLS   Angie Kim   Mia Parkson's life is turned upside down when her stay-at-home dad, the family's anchor, goes missing. The only witness? Eugene - her younger, nonspeaking teenage brother. As the Police struggle for leads, and her mother and twin brother struggle to keep things together at home, Mia gains access to key clues about her father's disappearance. Headstrong, hyper analytical, and with secrets of her own, she decides to try and solve the case. But could Mia's impulsive actions be putting her whole family in danger?

 

THE HEIRESS   Rachel Hawkins   Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden and questions about its infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following her disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will.

 

LET US DESCEND   Jesmyn Ward   On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother's resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis must venture onward through unforgiving landscapes of the American South alone. We see a magnificent portrait of the strength of the human spirit and its ability to emerge from darkness into light.

 

THE LONE WOLF   Gregg Hurwitz   Once a black ops government assassin, Evan Smoak reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere to help the truly desperate. Now struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission - the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog. But this unlikely, tiny job quickly explodes into his biggest mission yet. Evan must outwit an opponent who will literally stop at nothing.

 

MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT   Nina Simon   Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder. The headstrong Rubicon women must learn to do the one thing they’ve always resisted: depend on each other. It’s a mystery but shows the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother and a teenager.

 

THE NIGHT ISLAND   Jayne Ann Krentz   Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night none of them can remember, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what happened to them months ago—an experience that amplified innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, all they have to do is find the list of others who took that same test.
 

THE SIBERIA JOB   Josh Haven   A thrilling adventure inspired by true events, The Siberia Job charts a course through one of the most dramatic periods in recent Russian history. 1990s Russia. Following the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly established Russian government is privatising its industries. The people have the chance to become shareholders in a capitalist future. The impact of which continues to be felt to the present day.

 

THE SUMMER BOOK CLUB   Susan Mallery   When the Summer Book Club begins, it’s a place for three women to share stories they love. But it soon becomes a chance to open up in ways none of them expected. Inspired by their favorite literary heroines, Laurel, Cassie and Paris begin to take chances in life and love. They soon find that facing an unwritten chapter can be as terrifying as it is exhilarating. If only they can find the courage to change.

 

THREE-INCH TEETH   C. J. Box   A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe Picket’s daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property.

 

WELLNESS   Nathan Hill   Moving from the gritty nineties Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness mines the absurdities of technology and modern love to reveal profound, startling truths about intimacy and connection. Wellness reimagines a love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, and heart.

 

WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN VEGAS (NF)   James Patterson & Mark Seal   What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through lively tales of those who labor and dream in Sin City. No dream is too big, no wish is too small. A gambling VIP “whale” loses $1 million at the casinos, yet still leaves saying, "Had a great time. I'll be back."

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THE WOMEN   Kristin Hannah   Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student “Frankie” hears these words, it is a revelation. It’s 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. But war is just a start for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a divided America that wants to forget Vietnam.

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ALL THE SINNERS BLEED   S. A. Cosby   Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight.

 

THE BAD WEATHER FRIEND   Dean Koontz   Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.

 

BEIRUT STATION   Paul Vidich   Lebanon, 2006. The Israel-Hezbollah war is tearing Beirut apart: bombs are raining down, residents are scrambling to evacuate, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level, Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark truth that puts her life at risk.

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DEAD MAN’S HAND   Brad Taylor   To finally end the war between their nations, Ukranian partisans team up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst. US agent Pike Logan discovers Putin is preparing a devastating endgame: activating the Dead Man’s Hand nuclear response that will launch Russia’s missiles in the event of his death. . .

 

DIVA   Daisy Goodwin   In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. When she meets the fabulously rich shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, her isolation melts away.  And then, suddenly, it's over. The international press announce that Onassis will marry the most famous woman in the world, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, leaving Maria to pick up the pieces.

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THE FRIENDSHIP CLUB   Robyn Carr   Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed.  Thankfully, they have each other to lean on. The realities of modern love are far from easy, but there’s no better group to have in your corner than friends who will lift you up, no matter what, and hold fast in the face of any storm.

 

THE FURY   Alex Michaelides   A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder…  This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it?  You will soon see.

 

GHOSTS OF HONOLULU                 (NF)   Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll    A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed. NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger.

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GOING INFINITE   (NF)   Michael Lewis   When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks? Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall offers an education in high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies, philanthropy, bankruptcy, and the justice system.

 

HOLMES, MARPLE & POE   James Patterson & Brian Sitts   In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private investigators open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Who are these detectives with famous names and mysterious, untraceable pasts? The agency’s daring methodology and headline-making solves attract the attention of NYPD Detective Helene Grey. Her solo investigation into her three unknowable competitors will delight both old- and new-school mystery-detective fans. 

 

THE LAST OUTLAWS   Tom Clavin   The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves before graduating to robbing banks and trains.

 

THE MYSTERY GUEST   Nita Prose   Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tearoom floor.

 

OLIVIA STRAUSS IS RUNNING OUT OF TIME   Angela Brown   Olivia Strauss is turning thirty-nine. No major milestone. She still considers herself young. At least young enough to assume she has decades to check the unchecked boxes of her life's to-do list. There's time--until Olivia's best friend gives her a birthday present she could have lived without. It's a visit to a trendy wellness clinic with a state-of-the-art genetic test that can predict the exact date of one's death.

 

THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING   Rhys Bowen   Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house party when the festivities lead to murder…

 

RANDOM IN DEATH   J. D. Robb   Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A. Then, from the stage, the lead guitarist catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life. It’s the last night of her life. But why?? If Jenna wasn’t targeted, if she was just the random, unlucky victim of a madman consumed by hatred, there are likely more deaths to come.

 

ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE BOURNE DEFIANCE   Brian Freeman   With a team of killers hot on his trail, Jason Bourne chases the mystery of Defiance around the world. But as he closes in on the shocking truth, Bourne realizes that one man holds the key—his archenemy, the assassin known as Lennon.  The Russian hitman has been at the heart of Defiance from the very beginning, and his next target will put Bourne —and the woman he loves—in the cross-hairs.

STANDING IN THE SHADOWS   Peter Robinson   In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. His ex-girlfriend has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend is missing. Nick realizes two things: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has his own suspicions as to what might have happened. Decades later, in November 2019, an archaeologist unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more contemporary than the Roman remains she is seeking. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in, and as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.

 

TOM CLANCY COMMAND AND CONTROL   Marc Cameron   For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. A Russian plot to seize the Panama Canal plunges President Jack Ryan into a desperate fight for his life in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

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UPSIDE DOWN   Danielle Steel   Upside Down is a powerful story of unconventional romance, bold choices and second chances. You don’t need to follow the rules to find the path to happiness . . . It’s time for a daughter to decide whether she can bury the hurt of the past and forgive, and for her mother to find a way to follow her heart – because finding true happiness with the right partner has nothing to do with age.

 

WHERE COYOTES HOWL   Sandra Dallas   1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year’s time she’s fallen in love—both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. She soon finds purpose in her work as a rancher’s wife and in her bonds with other women settled on the prairie. Not all of them are so lucky as to have loving husbands, not all came to Wallace willingly, and not all of them can survive the cruel seasons. In the end, it is not the trials Ellen and Charlie face together that make them remarkable, but their love for one another that endures through it all.

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NEW BOOK PURCHASES JANUARY 2024

 

ALEX CROSS MUST DIE                   James Patterson - An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. “Drop whatever you’re doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.” Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn’t fail—it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War–era machine gun. 

 

THE BALL AT VERSAILLE        Danielle Steel - 1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in history. It is a glamorous dusk-to-dawn ball, where a select group of debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. And for four young women, all with something to prove, it is an event they will never forget. An exclusive invitation, a trip to Paris, and one spectacular, show stopping night will change these young women’s lives forever.

 

THE BEACH AT SUMMERLY          Beatriz Williams - June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly’s year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island’s settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility.

 

THE BERRY PICKERS        Amanda Peters - A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. A stunning debut novel, The Berry Pickers is a riveting story about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.

 

BETRAYAL            Phillip Margolin - Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney, but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and her only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago.

 

THE BURNOUT         Sophie Kensella - She can do anything . . . just not everything. Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn’t seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall.

 

CLIVE CUSSLER THE CORSICAN SHADOW              Dirk Cussler - As the German army blitzes Europe the chief curator of the Musee de l'Armee is ordered to take a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. But he learns his intended ship has been sunk; the fate of his cargo must rest on a decrepit steamer, sailing out under German fire. . . From the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to the islands of the Caribbean, he must locate the treasure that will save the world from catastrophe

 

THE EDGE            David Baldacci - Retired from the Army's most prestigious special ops force, Travis Devine is now part of an elite undercover team in Homeland Security. But when he's brought in by DC Emerson Campbell to investigate the murder of a young woman, he quickly learns that this case is more personal than most.

 

GRACE:  PRESIDENT OBAMA AND TEN DAYS IN THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA [NON FIC]       Cody Keenan - A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act. Grace is the propulsive story of ten days in June 2015, when Obama and his chief speechwriter Cody Keenan composed a series of speeches to meet a succession of stunning developments.

 

HULA    Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes - Set in Hilo, Hawaii, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of three generations of women—a tale of mothers and daughters, dance and destiny.  “There’s no running away on an island. Soon enough, you end up where you started.”

 

INHERITANCE    Nora Roberts - 1806. Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him. Today. After finding her fiancé in a compromising position, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. A lawyer turns up on her doorstep. She has inherited a Victorian house; Sonya thinks maybe this is the change of scene she needs. She’s inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking it...

 

THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE    Richard Osman - A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series.  An old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--they have no idea whom to trust.

 

THE LITTLE LIAR   Mitch Albom - A powerful novel of hope and forgiveness that moves from a coastal Greek city during WWII to America in the golden age of Hollywood, as the intertwined lives of three young survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption. Narrated by the voice of Truth itself, The Little Liar is a timeless story about the power of love to ultimately redeem us, no matter how deeply we blame ourselves for our mistakes. 

 

MANNER OF DEATH        Robin Cook - In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are inadvertently drawn into a dangerous vortex of a series of homicides that have been cleverly staged as suicides.

 

THE PRESIDENT'S WIFE      Tracey Emerson Wood - Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new marriage.

 

ROBERT B PARKER'S BROKEN TRUST        Mike Lupica - Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker and the first written by writer Mike Lupica. As Spenser digs into a billionaire's past, he realizes that the man may have done terrible things to rise to the top - but he also may have had good reason to. What he discovers will cause him to question his own views on morality - and place him in grave danger.

 

THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE                        Sara Driscoll - A treat for dog lovers, this latest novel in the only mystery series that revolves around a K-9 search-and-rescue unit is gripping, timely, and “wonderfully readable” (Publishers Weekly), with a gutsy heroine and an authentic, harder edge that will appeal to fans of harder-edged mysteries.

 

UNNATURAL DEATH       Patricia Cornwell - In this installment of Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

 

WALK THROUGH FIRE [NON FIC]              Sheila Johnson - The cofounder of BET (Black Entertainment Television) and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life.

 

THE WATCHMAKER'S HAND       Jeffery Deaver - When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. With New York in a panic, Rhyme and his team must unravel a handful of plots as tightly wound as a timepiece—before more cranes fall, raining down death and destruction from above.

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12 MONTHS TO LIVE   James Patterson & Mike Lupica    Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders. She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn’t have much time. She’s just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she’s murdered before her expiration date.

 

THE ARMOR OF LIGHT   Ken Follett   An epic continuation of the series that began with The Pillars of the Earth, The Armor of Light heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.

 

BLOOD LINES   Nelson DeMIlle   From New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Blood Lines features the return of Army CID Special Agents Brodie and Taylor who are on the hunt for the cold-blooded murderer of one of their fellow agents.

 

DIRTY THIRTY   Janet Evanovich   Stephanie Plum is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. A local jeweler wants her to locate his former security guard, who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same day.

 

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BIG BAD WOLF   Alexander McCall Smith   In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of preserving the peace. This latest novel is another installment in the series that defines the genre that Alexander McCall Smith is singlehandedly championing: Scandi blanc.

 

THE EXCHANGE                   John Grisham    What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, a sequel to The Firm, the tale that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide.

 

FROM A FAR AND LOVELY COUNTRY   Alexander McCall Smith   As the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency you may expect strangers to approach you with their problems when they see you having dinner with your husband. And if you are Precious Ramotswe, you are a person who will be willing to take on a quest to find the relatives of a man who, many years ago, left the country for the uncertainties and dangers of a distant conflict.

 

THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS   Karin Smirnoff & Sarah Death (Translator)   Lisbeth Salander returns, in a new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, also known as the Millennium series. A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart.

 

JUDGEMENT PREY   John Sandford   Judge Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. With public pressure mounting and both the local police force and FBI hitting dead end after dead end, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what others could not: find answers.

 

THE NIGHT HOUSE   Jo Nesbo   After his parents’ deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard has been sent to live with relatives in the remote town of Ballantyne where he quickly earns a reputation as an outcast. When a classmate goes missing, everyone suspects that the angry new boy is responsible for his disappearance. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence—and preserve his sanity—

 

NORTH WOODS   Daniel Mason   This magisterial and highly inventive novel brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and language, North Woods shows the myriad ways in which we’re connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. It is not just an unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies, but a way of looking at the world that asks the timeless question: How do we live on, even after we’re gone?

 

OBSESSION   Stuart Woods & Brett Battles   Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Picture’s business by making a deal with a Croatian billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to recover the young woman as quickly as possible. Teddy quickly comes to find that dark forces are at play and an old vendetta has been revived that puts them all at risk.

 

RESURRECTION WALK   Michael Connelly   Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence.

 

THE RIVER WE REMEMBER   Willian Kent Krueger   In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances. The River We Remember offers an unflinching look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home, a moving exploration of the ways in which we seek to heal, and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home.

 

SECOND ACT   Danielle Steel   As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional luxury. But then Andy’s world is upended. The studio is sold, and the buyer’s son demands the top seat. In Second Act, Danielle Steel presents a heartening tale of how challenging times give way to opportunities and an original outline does not always contain the perfect ending.

 

THE SECRET   Lee Child & Andrew Child    All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention from the secretary of defense. He wants an interagency task force to investigate with Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy.

 

THE SPY COAST    Tess Gerritsen   Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. But when a body turns up in Maggie's driveway, she knows it's a message from former foes who haven't forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends--all retirees from the CIA--to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.

 

TOM CLANCY WEAPONS GRADE    Don Bentley   The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes and rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he’ll be damned if he’s going to let the hitters escape justice. His quest for answers will take Jack from a quiet Texas road to the middle of an international conspiracy and may just cost him his life.

 

UP ON THE WOOF TOP   Spencer Quinn   Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe) and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing.

 

VINCE FLYN: CODE RED   Kye Mills    The Syrian government appears to have created a highly addictive narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. As he crosses into war-torn Syria, Rapp quickly discovers a shocking truth. The new drug isn’t being produced by Damascus to prop up the government’s collapsing finances. It was created by Russia’s asymmetrical warfare unit, not for profit but as a weapon against the West. Rapp devises a desperate plan that forces him and his team onto a battlefield where the United States is virtually powerless and allegiances shift almost hourly. Further, if Russia uncovers their plot, it will set off a confrontation between the two countries that could change the course of human history.

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BOOK PURCHASE NOVEMBER 2023

 

23 ½  LIES  James Patterson & Maxine Paetro   Three stories in one book…The first story involves Patterson's Women's Murder Club characters, primarily Lindsay Boxer. The second story is about a Texas Ranger who tries to solve a cold case involving a retired Ranger. The third story describes an artist who agrees to follow a client's wife to see what she is up to.

 

BE MINE   Richard Ford   Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives—sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent—Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.

 

BLESSING OF THE LOST GIRLS   J. A. Jance   From J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker’s son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.

 

THE CELEBRANTS   Steven Rowley   A decades-old pact offers a group of college friends the chance to throw each other "living funerals," in the next poignant and humorous novel by the bestselling author of The Guncle. A deeply honest tribute to selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth, and all the beautiful ways in which friendship can transcend our deepest losses.

 

CENTRAL PARK WEST   James Comey      'The plot goes like a train . . . vivid and compelling' Ian Rankin One chance to crack the case. A million ways to lose. Federal prosecutor Nora Carleton has spent years building a case against a powerful New York mobster. She finally has a star witness whose testimony will lock the defendant away for good. But the courtroom is an unpredictable place. 

 

DEAD MOUNTAIN   Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child   #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, who investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution.

 

*A CHRISTMAS VANISHING*   Anne Perry  Charlotte Pitt’s clever grandmother investigates the sudden disappearance of her dear friend in this chilling holiday whodunit.

 

THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE   James McBride   In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. 

 

HOLLY   Stephen King   Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

 

INDEPENDENCE SQUARE   Martin Cruz   Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels featuring Arkady Renko, one of modern detective fiction’s most popular characters. These novels, beginning with 1981’s international sensation Gorky Park, have collectively traced Russia's evolution over the last half-century. Now, with Independence Square, Smith focuses on the fraught and frenzied days leading up to Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.

 

 

THE LAST RANGER   Peter Heller   The best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range war threatens his closest friend, he must shake off his own losses and act swiftly to discover the truth and stay alive.

 

THE LIBRARIANIST   Patrick deWitt   From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. 

 

THE MAKING OF ANOTHER MOTION PICTURE MASTERPIECE      Tom Hanks   Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the film, we meet a colorful cast of characters including a troubled soldier returning from war, a young boy with an artistic gift, an inspired and eccentric director, a pompous film star on the rise, a tireless production assistant and countless film crew members who together create Hollywood magic.

 

THE NEW EARTH   Jess Row   Assembling a vast chorus of voices and ideas from across the globe, Jess Row explodes the saga from within—blows the roof off, so to speak, to let in politics, race, theory, and the narrative self-awareness that the form had seemed hell-bent on ignoring. The New Earth is a commanding investigation of our deep and impossible desire to undo the injustices we have both inflicted and been forced to endure. 

 

NORTH OF NOWHERE   Allison Brennan   After five years in hiding from their murderous father, Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness. The siblings search desperately for safety—unaware of the severity of the approaching storm.

 

THE RUNNING GRAVE    Robert Galbraith   In the seventh installment in the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. 

 

ROGUE JUSTICE                   Stacey Abrams   Stacey Abrams, author of While Justice Sleeps, returns with another intricately plotted, riveting suspense novel featuring Avery Keene, an ingenious Supreme Court clerk who becomes entangled in a case that has the dark underpinnings of a potential national crisis.

 

*SURF WHEN YOU CAN*  Brett Crozier   Amid one of the darkest times in American history, it was a moment that captured the attention of the nation. Brett Crozier, captain of the most powerful and prestigious aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, walked off his ship for the last time while thousands of his sailors saluted and chanted his name in admiration.

 

TOM LAKE   Ann Patchett   Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety.

 

TRAITORS GATE   Jeffrey Archer   THE TOWER OF LONDON... Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. THE HEIST... But this year, everything is about to change. Because a master criminal has set his sights on pulling off the most outrageous theft in history—and with a man on the inside, the odds are in his favor.

 

*TWAS THE BITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS*  David Rosenfelt   Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation’s annual Christmas party and this is one holiday tradition he can get behind because every dog that’s come through the rescue—and their families—are invited to celebrate. But before the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, homicide detectives ruin the evening. One of the foundation’s best foster volunteers, is arrested for murder.

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