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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.