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NEW BOOK PURCHASES AUGUST 2024

2054: A Novel Elliot Ackerman & Adm. James Stavridis USN - From the authors of the New York Times bestseller 2034,
comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical
leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to
the country, and the world.

ALL FOURS Miranda July - Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic and domestic life
of a 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman.
Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

ANGEL OF VENGEANCE Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series

featuringFBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they take a final stand against New York’s deadliest serial killer:
Pendergast’s own ancestor…and Constance’s greatest enemy.

THE BRIAR CLUB Kate Quinn - The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns
with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC boardinghouse during the
McCarthy era.

CLETE David Lee Burke In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave’s partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave

attempt to stop ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug.

THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS Jacqueline Winspear - 1945. In London, it feels as if the peace is harder than the war. Years
of devastating Luftwaffe bombing has obliterated stretches of the city and left others abandoned. Against this backdrop,
psychologist-investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the plight of a group of adolescent orphans, along with a gravely ill
soldier who are squatting in a Belgravia mansion.

A DEATH IN CORNWALL Daniel Silva - Art restorer and legendary spy, Gabriel Allon, has slipped quietly into London to
attend a reception celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the
Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and
dangerous new adversary.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON David Rosenfelt - Investigator, Marcus Clark, has been at Andy Carpenter’s side for a long time.
It’s a shock when Marcus arrives with two strangers in tow. Turns out Marcus takes disadvantaged young men under his
wing. One of the young men, Nick, instantly falls in love with one of the Foundation’s dogs. When there’s a mass
shooting at Nick’s work, leaving six dead, all signs point to Nick. Marcus, who's never asked Andy for anything, asks Andy
for help. Despite Nick's troubled background, Andy trusts his friend and takes the case.

ERUPTION Michael Crichton & James Patterson - The book is a classic summer beach read... The master of the techno-
blockbuster joins forces with the master of the modern thriller to create the most anticipated mega bestseller in years.
Michael Crichton had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years, ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing
how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right
author to complete it: James Patterson, the world’s most popular storyteller.

FLASHPOINT Catherine Coulter - A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed with hundreds more in the
attempted bombing of St. Paul’s in London, believed to be a terrorist act until the police discovered it was a cover for
something even more sinister. For Elizabeth, life is finally back to normal. She’s optimistic, her painting is getting
accolades, when suddenly her world changes in a flash. With three new attempts on her life, and her connection to the
terrorist attack, MI-5 gets involved to find out who is trying to kill her and why.

HOME IS WHERE THE BODIES ARE Jeneva Rose - Three estranged siblings reunite to sort out their mother’s estate. They
stumble upon a collection of home videos, one of which reveals a night that none of them have any recollection of. Their
father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before
the video abruptly ends. They must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their
mother took to her grave.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS John Connolly - Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can
commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working
alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband
too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old crooked house deep in the Maine
woods, a house that should never have been built.

THE MIDNIGHT FEAST Lucy Foley - It’s the opening night of The Manor, the newest and hottest luxury resort, and no
expense, small or large, has been spared. But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and
enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with
secrets. And it’s not too long before the local police are called. Turns out the past has crashed the party, with deadly
results.

THE MINISTRY OF TIME Kaliane Bradley - In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is,
shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering
“expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-
time.

THE PARADISE PROBLEM Christina Lauren - Anna Green married Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family
housing while at UCLA. She thought she'd signed divorce papers when they both went on their merry ways. Three years
later, Anna is a starving artist while West is a Stanford professor. He has little interest in working for the heartless
corporation his family built from the ground up, but he is interested in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance.
There's just one catch. Liam won't see a penny until he's been happily married for five years.

RESURRECTION Danielle Steel - Darcy Gray has spent twenty happy years with her husband, Charlie. Together with
their twin daughters, who are both studying abroad for college, they form one of New York’s wealthiest and most
influential families. But when a shocking betrayal leaves Darcy reeling, she flees to Paris. Rumors of a dangerous new
virus begin to circulate. The Gray family are torn apart, scattered across two continents and three different countries.

STUARD WOODS’ SMOLDER Brett Battles - Finally enjoying some downtime in Santa Fe, Stone Barrington agrees to
attend an art exhibit with a dear friend. There, he encounters an intriguing woman who is on the trail of a ring of art
thieves. Always one to please, Stone offers his help.

SWAN SONG Elin Hilderbrand - Hilderbrand brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move
to the island, social mayhem—and a possible murder follow. Can Nantucket’s best locals save the day, and their way of
life?

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Shari Lepena - Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning all of
that will change because Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield,
circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer. How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly,
familiar faces becomes a town of suspects. Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.

NEW BOOK PURCHASES JUNE 2024

AFTER ANNIE Anna Quindlen - Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the author of STILL LIFE WITH BREAD CRUMBS and ONE TRUE THING.

THE AGE OF MAGICAL OVERTHINKING [NF] Amanda Montell - From the bestselling author of CULTISH and host of the podcast “Sounds Like a Cult”, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

THE AMISH WIFE [NF] Gregg Olsen - Bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story.

THE DEMON OF UNREST Eric Larson - The author of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times). “Perhaps no other historian has ever rendered the struggle for Sumter in such authoritative detail as Larson does here.”—The Washington Post

A GREAT COUNTRY Shilpi Somaya Gowda - From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police.

THE GREAT DIVIDE Christina Henriquez - A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

HELP WANTED Adelle Waldman – HELP WANTED is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll exacted by the labor market.

Elif Batuman, author of THE IDIOT 'Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious' The New York Times

IT HAD TO BE YOU Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke - In the latest thrilling book in the bestselling Under Suspicion series, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons.

JAMES Percival Everett - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

KINGPIN Mike Lawson - Carson Newman doesn’t think of himself as a gangster. He doesn’t have a consigliere or operate out of the back room of a bar. No, Carson’s a different sort of gangster, a billionaire Boston real estate developer, who only breaks the law when necessary—and he doesn't usually get his hands dirty.

MATTERHORN Christopher Reich - A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold in this alpine thriller from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich.

ONLY THE BRAVE Danielle Steel - From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful, sweeping historical novel about a courageous woman in World War II Germany.

THE SECRET LIVES OF BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIANS James Patterson & Matt Eversmann - Step inside THE SECRET LIVES OF BOOKSELLER AND LIBRARIANS and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place has the magic of rainbows and unicorns, but it's also a business. The book business.

STILL SEE YOU EVERYWHERE Lisa Gardner - Lisa Gardner delivers a harrowing locked-room style thriller set on a remote island. Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding missing people, but not even she could have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time.

AN UNFINISHED LOVE STORY Doris Kearns Goodwin - Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life

AN UNFINISHED MURDER Jude Deveraux - Sara Medlar may be retired as a bestselling author, but her career as an amateur detective is facing one final mystery—and it’s a killer.

THE WATERS Bonnie Jo Campbell - If you loved WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, you're going to love, and I'm saying love, our first read of 2024." —Jenna Bush Hager, TODAY Show A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.

WHAT HAPPENDED TO NINA? Dervla McTiernan - An emotional novel of suspense about two families at war. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.

THE WILD SIDE Fern Michaels - A seemingly ordinary guidance counselor goes undercover as a high-class escort to bring down a dangerous network of ruthless and powerful men in the gripping new standalone page-turner from legendary, #1 international bestseller Fern Michaels.

THE WIVES [NF] Simone Gorrindo - A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job—a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection.

DEATH AND DIAMONDS Laura Soldinger Yotter - This is the true story of Samuel Soldinger, a survivor of seven concentrations camps. He later worked for diamond magnate Harry Winston in Arizona teaching the art of diamond cutting to Native Americans. This is a powerful and poignant story of perseverance, courage, and dignity written by his daughter, in-house resident, Laura Yotter, using much of Samuel’s own words.

Don’t miss AFTERNOON WITH AUTHORS to learn more about this sweet, strong, and gentle giant of a man who survived beyond those unthinkable days to brighter new ones.

NEW BOOK PURCHASES MAY 2024

A CALAMITY OF SOULS David Baldacci Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama.

CITY IN RUINS Don Winslow Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.

CLOSE TO DEATH Anthony Horowitz Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of his neighbors come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death.

DUAGHTER OF MINE Megan Miranda When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, inherits her childhood home, she’s drawn back to the town she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.

END OF STORY A, J. Finn “I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective-fever.”

EXPIRATION DATES Rebecca Serle Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for.

EXTINCTION Douglas Preston Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.

THE FROZEN RIVER Ariel Lawhon From New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Helene comes a gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial.

LISTEN FOR THE LIE Amy Tintera After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy's blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. It's been years but Lucy can't remember anything about it. She has moved to LA and started a new life. Now the true crime podcast "Listen for the Lie," decides to investigate Savvy's murder. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it.

LOST BIRDS Anne Hillerman Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp. His experience will be essential to solve a new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem.

THE MURDER INN James Patterson & Candice Fox It's the perfect getaway. But the past will always find you . . .
When ex-cop Bill Robinson takes over The Inn by the Sea, all he wants is a quiet escape from the city. But when a crime boss moves into town and begins terrorizing Bill's friends, he can't just sit back and watch. It's not long before local criminals are turning up dead and The Inn comes under attack. With the help of The Inn's fearless residents, Bill must do everything he can to defend his town, his chosen family, and his home.

PAY DIRT Sara Paretsky When a young woman disappears without a trace in Kansas, private investigator V.I. Warshawski knows she must act fast. But when she discovers her close to death in a drug house, the locals don't take kindly to her - and her mother becomes suspicious. V.I. finds herself under the sharp gaze of the FBI - and the men running the county's opioid distribution. V.I.'s survival depends on keeping one step ahead in a game she doesn't even know she's playing...

THE PRICE YOU PAY Nick Petrie War veteran Peter Ash must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear. They find themselves up against professional criminals, and the two men may have to tap into the dark sides that they have worked to keep hidden in order to take on particularly ruthless enemies.

PRIVATE ROME James Patterson & Adam Hamdy Jack Morgan is in Rome celebrating the opening of a new local Private office. Private agent Matteo Ricci is found at the party standing over the body of a dead priest with a gun in his hand, swearing he did not kill the man. As Jack tries to prove Matteo's innocence, he uncovers a much deadlier conspiracy - which leads him straight to the heart of the Vatican. With corruption closing in on all sides, Jack must decide who he can trust before the city falls.

SHE’S NOT SORRY Mary Kubica Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While Meghan is on duty at the hospital, a patient arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, after jumping from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was she pushed, and if so, by whom? And why?

TABLE FOR TWO Amor Towels Here we have shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories consider what can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in a noirish tale.

THE TITANIC SURVIVORS BOOK CLUB Timothy Schaffert Weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. The day the Titanic set sail he was left stranded at the dock. After the ship’s sinking, he follows his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris. Soon after, he receives an invitation to a secret society of survivors where he encounters other ticket holders who didn’t board the ship. Haunted by their good fortune, they decide to form a book society, where they can grapple with their own anxieties.

TOXIC PREY John Sandford Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world. As Letty and Lucas begin to uncover startling and disturbing connections, their worst fears are confirmed, and it quickly becomes a race to find the doctor before the virus he created becomes the perfect weapon.

WANDERING STARS Tommy Orange Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the aftermath of a shooting in the early 21st century, this is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope.

WHISKEY TENDER (MEMOIR) Deborah Taffa We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.