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NEW BOOK PURCHASES DECEMBER 2024

BAD LIAR Tammy Hoag - Old jealousies and fresh deceits, family loyalties gone wrong and love turned sour all lay a twisting trail that leads deep into the Louisiana swamp, endangering all who cross the path of a bad liar.

THE BLUE HOUR Paula Hawkins - Welcome to Eris: Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: a famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace: a solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .

MR. CHURCHILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE (NF) Robert Schmuhl - A new perspective on the politician, war leader, and author through his intimate involvement with one Democratic and one Republican president during his two terms as prime minister. Diaries, letters, government documents, and memoirs supply the archival foundation and color for each Churchill visit, providing a wholly novel perspective on one of history’s most perplexing and many-faceted figures.

THE FROZEN RIVER Ariel Lawhon - From the bestselling author of CODE NAME HELENE comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community. Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec River, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death.

A HAPPIER LIFE Kristy Woodson Harvey - The historic houses in the seaside town of Beaufort, North Carolina, have held the secrets of their inhabitants for centuries. One of the most enduring refuses to be washed away by the tide: What happened to Rebecca and Townsend Saint James on that fateful night of their disappearance in 1976?

HERE ONE MOMENT Liane Moriarty - If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? A brilliantly constructed story that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. Liane Moriarty is a modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery and asking profound, universal questions

THE HOUSE OF CROSS James Patterson - In Washington, DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential—until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross’s investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered on a city street. Cross is the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior. Cross must put himself in the most dangerous place there is: inside the mind of a diabolical killer.

LIES HE TOLD ME James Patterson & David Ellis - Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, his muscled physique and shaved head are broadcast on every news outlet. For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline. For David Bowers, it’s a death sentence. For Marcie Bowers, it’s a test. A wife knows the difference between a loving husband and a cold-blooded assassin. Yes?

MIDNIGHT AND BLUE Ian Rankin - A convict is brutally murdered in his locked cell deep in the heart of Scotland’s most infamous prison. Sleeping in a cell across the floor lies John Rebus, the equally notorious detective. Stripped of his badge, he is now fighting for his own life - protected by an old nemesis but always one wrong move away from the shank. As new allies and old enemies circle, even this legendary figure struggles to keep his head.

THE MIRROR Nora Roberts - Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two. When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. When she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets. Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past—and sees a bride murdered.

THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM Laura Dave - Nora Noone’s father was many things to many people. To the public he was a self-made titan of industry, whose luxury boutique hotels were among the most coveted destinations in the world. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving yet distant family man who managed to keep his finances—and his families—separate. But, to Nora, he was always a mystery—especially after his suspicious death at his cliffside home.

NOW OR NEVER Janet Evanovich - She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two

fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone. She can’t hold Ranger and Morelli at bay for long, and she’s keeping a secret from them that is the biggest bombshell of all. Now or never, she’s got to make the decision of a lifetime.

ROBERT B. PARKER'S BUZZ KILL Alison Gaylin - After a near-death experience, Sunny Randall is ready to lighten her load as a PI, until she is called upon by billionaire media magnate Bill Welch to investigate the disappearance of his son, Dylan, the cofounder of the Gonzo Energy Drink Company. Dylan’s mother, Lydia, insists this time her son is in danger.

SAFE ENOUGH Lee Child - Lee Child has published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law. They've never been collected before now. These twenty rapid-fire fictions are sure to please new and longtime fans. Featuring an introduction from the author, the collection stands as the first book written entirely by Child in three years.

SUMMIT'S EDGE Sara Driscoll - FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, vie to rescue plane crash survivors from a Colorado mountain—and contend with a hijacker determined to escape justice.

TO DIE FOR David Baldacci - Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he's given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.

TRIAL BY FIRE Danielle Steel - Travelling for business, Dahlia is left stranded in San Francisco when terrible wildfires break out. Moved by the tragic stories of injured animals, Dahlia volunteers at a pet rescue center in Napa Valley, where she meets Mark Hamilton, a handsome lawyer. When Dahlia seeks Mark’s legal counsel, they grow close, feeling a spark that both thought they never would again. But as black smoke fills the air, their lives remain in grave danger.

THE WAITING Michael Connelly - Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-three, so the genetic link must be familial. It is his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets.

WAITING FOR THE MONSOON [NF] Rod Nordland - written by the “New York Times” legendary war correspondent, while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest circumstances.

WE THREE QUEENS Rhys Bowen - It's late 1936, and King Edward is in turmoil, having fallen in love with the scandalously divorced American Wallis Simpson. He wants to marry her but knows that doing so will jeopardize his crown. Edward confides in his dear friends Darcy and Georgie who agree to hide Wallis in their home while Edward figures out what to do. But unbeknownst to Georgie and Darcy the owner of the estate, has given a film crew permission to shoot a film about Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn on the grounds. Trying to keep Mrs. Simpson hidden while raising a newborn baby seems like it couldn't be any more stressful for them until one of the stars of the film is found murdered on set. Georgie must solve the murder for king and country before scandal threatens to envelop them all.

NEW BOOK PURCHASES NOVEMBER 2024

A WALK IN THE PARK [NF] Kevin Fedarko - Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller THE EMERALD MILE, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth, The Grand Canyon.

BIG LOVE AND WARHOURSE Shallen Anne Chitwood - In the wake of the Great Depression, during the 1942 bombings off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Deacon family has lost the life they knew before the Second World War. As the family and their closest friends struggle to make sense of the secrets they keep from one another, their dogs-Big Love

and War Horse-help them find the strength to survive the aftermath of devastating loss and adversity.

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Lisa Unger - Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the owner of The Next Chapter Bookshop. When Harley Granger, a true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events Madeline would much rather forget. As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline and her childhood friend Badger return to a past they both hoped was dead.

DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG Eve J Chung - A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.

DEN OF INIQUITY J. A. Jance - J. A. Jance returns with a new pulse-pounding suspense novel featuring beloved private investigator J. P. Beaumont as his investigation of a seemingly accidental death uncovers a complex web of evil.

GATHERING MIST Margaret Mizushima - Deputy Mattie Wray, formerly Mattie Cobb, is summoned to Washington’s Olympic peninsula for an urgent search and rescue mission to find a celebrity’s missing child. With only a week left before her wedding, Mattie is hesitant to leave Timber Creek, but her K-9 partner Robo’s tracking skills are needed.

THE GREY WOLF Louise Penny - Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN Joyce Maynard - From “New York Times” bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel COUNT THE WAYS—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.

HUSBANDS AND LOVERS Beatriz Williams - Timeless and bittersweet, Williams takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Here we have a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience.

IDENTITY UNKNOWN Patricia Cornwell - Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

IN MY TIME OF DYING [NF] Sebastian Junger - For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was, when crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. IN MY TIME OF DYING is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.

IN TOO DEEP Lee Child & Andew Child - We have a gripping new Jack Reacher thriller… Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

THE LIBRARY THIEF Kuchenga Shenje - 1896. Florence is not so easy to tame - and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester. Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Then one night, the library is broken into. Strangely, all the priceless tomes remain untouched. Florence is puzzled, until she discovers a half-burned book in the fireplace. She realizes with horror that someone has found and set fire to the secret diary of Lord Belfield's dead wife - which may hold the clue to her fate.

LIES AND WEDDINGS Kevin Kwan - From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the CRAZY RICH ASIANS trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners.

THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE Matt Haig - “What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…” When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN Marjan Kamali - From the nationally bestselling author of the powerful, heartbreaking THE STATIONERY SHOP, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

LONG ISLAND Colm Toibin - Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, an Italian American plumber. One day, when Tony is at work, an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting and suspenseful.

SHADOW OF DOUBT Brad Thor - A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia’s most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. No one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it’s going or what it’s carrying. A high-level Russian defector seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA’s most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country.

TRIANGLE Danielle Steel - As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in Paris. With the companionship of her dog, Lulu, and her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc, Amanda lives well, but so far, the love of her life has eluded her.

THE WEDDING PEOPLE Alison Espach - When Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone, she's immediately mistaken by everyone for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.

NEW BOOK PURCHASES OCTOBER 2024

THE CLIFFS J. Courtney Sullivan - A story of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artefacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism - is even older than Maine itself.

CONFESSIONS OF THE DEAD James Patterson & J. D. Barker - Hollow's Bend is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero. The day the strange girl shows up is when the trouble starts. While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesn’t appear on any map.

COUNTING MIRACLES Nicholas Sparks - His whole life has been spent abroad in the military, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew—and where to find him.

DEATH AT THE SIGN OF THE ROOK Kate Atkinson - Once a magnificent country house, Burton Makepeace has now partially been converted into a hotel, hosting Murder Mystery weekends. As paying guests, old friends converge, we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery; one that pays homage to the masters of the genre. Brilliantly inventive, with all of Atkinson’s signature wit, wordplay and narrative brio, this may be Jackson Brodie’s most memorable case yet.

DOGS DON'T CRY John F Andrews - June 1918. The tidal wave of WWI engulfs the rural French village of Bouresches, forcing two teens to embark on a harrowing journey to an uncertain future and a destination known only to their border collie, Abby, as she seeks to enable their escape to find their uncle, her former owner in Paris…

FATAL INTRUSION Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado - Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. With nowhere else to turn, Sanchez enlists the aid of a former associate, Professor Jake Heron, a quirky private security expert.

FLASH BACK Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen - They were only children when their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Strangler. Now, after spending fifteen years trying to discover his identity, the sisters have suddenly vanished. The San Diego police consider their interest in the crime to be just a coincidence and have little motivation to pursue the cold case. Kendra Michaels uses her heightened powers of deduction to draw out this serial killer.

THE GOD OF THE WOODS Liz Moore - Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

HOUSE ON BISCAYNE BAY Chanel Cleeton - With the Great War finally behind them, wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay. Years later following the tragic death of her parents in Havana, Carmen Acosta journeys to Marbrisa. On the surface, the gilded estate looks like paradise, but Carmen quickly learns that nothing is as it seems. The house has a treacherous legacy, and Carmen’s own life is soon in jeopardy, unless she can unravel the secrets buried beneath the mansion’s facade and stop history from repeating itself.

KILLING THE WITCHES [NF] Bill O'Reilly – KILLING THE WITCHES tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind THE EXORCIST and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, community panic, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.

LOST MAN'S LANE Scott Carson - Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster. When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox. There’s only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does.

LULA DEAN'S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS Kirsten Miller - The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of THE CHANGE, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

ON THE HUNT Iris Johansen - Kira Drake has come to Paris with her highly trained golden retriever, Mack, to investigate the horrific bombing of a museum in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. What she doesn't know is that one powerful man has a special reason to find the person responsible. Jack Harlan has all the money in the world, but it can't bring his brother back. His sibling was murdered during the theft of a scientific discovery that could have made the world a better place. Now, after a four-year search, Harlan learns that this bombing was the work of the same twisted man.

OUR LITTLE SECRET Lisa Jackson - He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him. Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand. He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go.

PASSIONS IN DEATH J. D. Robb - On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty Club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. The bride to be lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room. Useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin.

RED SKY MOURNING Jack Carr - Three seemingly disconnected events are on a collision course to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has ever seen. America’s only hope is a quantum computer that has gone dark, retreating to the deepest levels of the internet, learning at a rate inconceivable at her inception. But during her time in hiding, she has done more than learn. She has become a weapon, positioned to act as the country’s greatest savior or its worst enemy.

SOME MURDERS IN BERLIN Karen Robards - September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she’s been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can’t refuse such a request.

TELL ME EVERYTHING Elizabeth Strout - With her extraordinary capacity for radical empathy, remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

THE TWELVE DOGS OF CHRISTMAS Susan Wiggs - Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog Tim to the emergency vet on Christmas Eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction--a pair of women’s lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda’s.

WE SOLVE MURDERS Richard Osman - Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job. Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?

NEW BOOKS PURCHASES SEPTEMBER 2024

ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK Chris Whitaker A missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller and an epic love story with a unique twist on each…

ALL THE GLIMMERING STARS Mark Sullivan Anthony and Florence are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s, both outstanding students and good kids before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. Anthony and Florence meet by chance, fall in love, dream of surviving their captivity. They are helping their fellow child soldiers escape bondage and return to their families--and redemption--by following the stars.

ANY OTHER TIME Jodi Picoult Two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.

THE DARK WIVES Ann Cleeves The man’s body is found in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate the death, with her only clue being the disappearance of one of the home’s residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spence. Vera can’t bring herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but even she can’t dismiss the possibility.

ELON MUSK (BIO) Walter Isaacson Elon Musk is an authorized biography of American business magnate and SpaceX/Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN, TIME and the Aspen Institute who has previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.

FIRE AND BONES Kathy Reichs New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the center of a Washington, D.C. arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence.

A GRAVE IN THE WOODS Martin Walker In his latest adventure Bruno, France's favorite country cop, investigates a long-buried war crime and faces a devastating flood that threatens the town he polices and the people he loves.

HARD TO KILL James Patterson & Mike Lupica Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. Jane’s career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She’s tough to beat. She’s even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest.

THE HAZELBOURNE LADIES MOTORCYCLE AND FLYING CLUB Helen Simonson It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to give up her cottage and her job at the estate she helped to run during the war. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club is a timeless comedy of manners, refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside.

JOY Danielle Steel Allegra Dixon has never felt loved or wanted. Rejected by her mother and her absentee military father, Allegra's only escape from her lonely existence is through books and her own rich fantasy world. When she finds love with childhood sweetheart Shepherd Williams, her heart feels full for the first time. But as Shep follows in her father's footsteps. Pulled into the dark world of military conflict, Allegra fears she will end up alone for a second time.

LEAVE NO TRACE A. J. Landau In an act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism attack are already being called into the media and he lacks the security clearance to be in on their meetings.

THE LOST COAST Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman This is the fifth gripping novel in the bestselling Clay Edison series. When coroner-turned-private investigator Clay Edison is approached to work on a fraud case, he uncovers more than he bargained for. His investigation leads him to a strange town in the remote California wilderness where the residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to keep him quiet. . .

MISS MORGAN’S BOOK BRIGADE Janet Skeslien Charles 1918: Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Then she disappears. 1987: When NYPL librarian Wendy Peterson stumbles across a reference to Jessie Carson in the archives, she becomes consumed with learning her fate. Based on the little-known history of the women who received the Croix de Guerre for courage under fire, here is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and ultimately the courage it takes to make a change.

SHELTERWOOD Lisa Wingate Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. Oklahoma, 1990. Ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at a newly minted National Park where she’s faced with local controversy over the park’s opening, a teenage hiker gone missing from one of the trails, and the long-hidden burial site of three children unearthed in a cave. She wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.

THE SICILIAN INHERITANCE Jo Piazza From bestselling author Jo Piazza, comes “a journey to the boot of Italy with murder, romance and ricotta” (The New York Times) about a disputed inheritance and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . .

SMALL ACTS OF COURAGE: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy Ali Velshi A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact.

SOUTHERN MAN Greg Iles A senseless tragedy: The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.

SPIRIT CROSSING William Kent Krueger The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. Soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.

THIS IS WHY WE LIED Karin Slaughter For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

A murderer in their midst…

TOM CLANCY SHADOW STATE M. P. Woodward Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates has sent their best analyst, Jack Ryan, Jr., to mine for investment gold. But a trip with a Hendley colleague to the Highlands of Vietnam to observe the company’s operations takes a treacherous turn when their helicopter is shot down. Some things haven’t changed, and Vietnam is still the plaything of powerful neighbors. He’ll get no help from the government, because in the jungle, it’s the shadow state that rules.

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.