Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family...
FICTION / General
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Author:Herron, MickSummary:Set in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, an ex-spook with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death. Tom Bettany is...
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Author:Trapido, BarbaraSummary:Ali Bobrow is an otherworldly single parent with an overwrought nine-year-old daughter, a malevolent ex and his grabby new wife, and an underused artistic talent. A pushover when it comes to needy neighbors and uninvited children, she...
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Author:Reed, Mary, Mayer, EricSummary:The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes. Everyone except Emperor Justinian who orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find the murderer...
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Author:Palumbo, DennisSummary:After twenty years spent inside the heads of the nation’s worst serial killers, retired FBI profiler Lyle Barnes is falling apart mentally. Psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi thinks he can help Barnes through his terrible...
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Author:Goodkind, TerrySummary:Kate Bishop is in a world of trouble. In the wake of several inexplicable and brutal murders, Kate is thrust into a police inquiry that reveals shocking family secrets. Suddenly exposed to a shadowy network of global evil, her life...
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Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, is engaged to find out if the antique-shop son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He has some strange friends: a Balkan adventuress, a...
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Graham and Annie are a golden couple, and have been married for nearly thirty years. So when Graham suddenly dies, Annie becomes lost. But when she discovers that Graham had been unfaithful to her, she spirals into darkness.
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Author:Tesh, JaneSummary:It’s Christmas in Parkland, North Carolina, and PI David Randall is looking forward to his mother’s visit to 302 Grace Street, even though he knows she’ll want to talk about his daughter, Lindsey, who died in a car accident. Then, he...
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Author:Simon, CleaSummary:Theda Krakow is in a funk. Her sometime boyfriend’s gone for good. The death of her beloved cat opened a bigger void. And the career leap she’s made from copy editor to freelance writer has left her finances and her spirit flat. She...
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Author:Mehrotra, RatiSummary:Kyra is the youngest Markswoman in the Order of Kali, a highly trained sisterhood of elite warriors armed with telepathic blades. Guided by a strict code of conduct, Kyra and the other Orders are sworn to protect the people of Asiana....
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Author:Lynberg, MichaelSummary:Make Each Day Your Masterpiece is an extraordinary statement on what it means to live a rich and successful life. Michael Lynberg has assembled a wealth of uplifting stories and powerful ideas, coaching and inspiring readers to embrace...
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Author:Leav, LangSummary:Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the bestselling Love and Misadventure. Lang Leav's...
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Author:Rowe, JenniferSummary:She stared into the speckled mirror, wondering how she had come to this. How could she, Holly Love, apple of her parents’ eye, competent manipulator of invoices in Gorgon Office Supplies, have ended up alone and starving in a dead man’s...
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Author:Malatji, ReneilweSummary:Love Interrupted is set partially in the university town of Grahamstown and partially in rural Limpopo. The stories in this collection have an intimate feel, like conversations eavesdropped on. We hear the voices of black South African...
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Author:Schein, MaggieSummary:An enticing collection of tales told in the fabulist and metafiction traditions, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves embraces a cyclical movement of renewal, like the ancient ouroboros motif itself, in which artfully rendered answers...
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Author:Shoub, RobertSummary:In this dark satire of pop culture, an unnamed, teenaged narrator describes his descent into violence and destruction. Drowning in wealth yet parentally neglected, he is starved for true attention and so aligns himself with a new...
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Author:Rudolph, PennySummary:Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic, owns and lives in an apartment on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles. She leases parking space and the use of the rooftop helicopter pad to nearby businesses. Tough but...
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Author:Larsen, K. J.Summary:Burned by her run-around ex-husband Johnnie Ricco, Caterina DeLuca took the skills she mastered during marriage and opened her own private eye agency. Now she’s a second-story woman, armed with a camera, ready to print 8x10 glossies for...
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Author:Clark, Mary HigginsSummary:The newest thriller from "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark! When talented journalist Penelope "Casey" Harrison starts to research a piece about the #MeToo movement that includes an incident in her own life which...
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