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Adair, Cherry,
Night shadow. [Fantasy]
An anti-terrorist operative with the T-FLAC organization, wizard Alex Stone finds his life complicated by his gorgeous and enigmatic new partner, Lexi, who finds her own black-and-white attitudes toward good and evil thrown into turmoil by Alex’s shadowy world as they confront the deadly threat of rogue wizards out to destroy everything they care about.

Asher, Bridget.
My husband’s sweethearts.

Baldacci, David.
Divine justice.
Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in this thriller when the assassinations Stone carries out prompt the highest levels of the government to unleash a massive manhunt.

Barnes, Kim.
A country called home.
Idaho marriage

Beach, Shelly.
Hallie’s heart. [Inspirational]
Winner of the Christy Award for 2008.

Blevins, Christine.
Midwife of the Blue Ridge. [Historical]
They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursed–and unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old country–and find a home of her own. But what she discovers is a New World fraught with new dangers.

Boucheron, Rose.
Cedar Green.
English Pastoral novel

Brownrigg, Sylvia.
The delivery room.
Marriage and therapy

Card, Orson Scott.
Ender in exile. [Science Fiction]
At the close of Ender’s Game, Andrew Wiggin–called Ender–is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Clark, Mary Higgins & Carol Higgins Clark
Dashing through the snow.
Regan Reilly & Alvirah Meehan in NH

Coyle, Harold & Barrett Tillman
Vulcan’s fire: Harold Coyle’s Strategic Solutions, Inc. [Suspense]
Preventing nuclear warfare in Lebanon

Cussler, Clive.
Arctic drift. [Suspense]
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there’s a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control.

Davies, Adam.
Mine all mine.
Romantic Suspense

Deaver, Jeffery.
The bodies left behind. [Mystery]
Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.

DiMaria, Megan.
Out of her hands. [Inspirational]
Linda Revere is back and continuing to struggle with the turmoil of contemporary life. She has been praying for her children’s future spouses since they were very small. Confident that her prayers will be answered, Linda is not prepared for the young woman her son brings home. But Linda soon learns that while everything she once controlled is out of her hands, God is still in control.

Donoghue, Emma,
The sealed letter.
Emily Faithfull, known to friends as “Fido,” is single and successful. She owns her own printing business and is a prominent figure in the burgeoning British women’s movement. Everything is going smoothly until, after a seven year separation, Emily’s friend Helen Codrington reappears in her life.

Gaskell, Whitney.
Good luck. [Smart Funny Women]
Overwhelmed when she wins the lottery on the same day that her career derails, she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating, and she ends up in the middle of a media circus, Lucy Parker seeks refuge at the home of an old college friend in Palm Beach, where she tries to build a new life for herself, until the past catches up once again.

Goldreich, Gloria.
Open doors.
Jewish women

Greeley, Andrew M.
The archbishop in Andalusia: a Blackie Ryan novel. [Mystery]
Taking leave of his usual Chicago haunts, Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain. The local cardinal has summoned the wily archbishop to Spain in hopes that Blackie can avert a murder before it happens.

Hamilton, Laurell K.
Swallowing darkness. [Fantasy]
In the sequel to A Lick of Frost, Meredith Gentry, whose rightful place on the throne of Faerie is dependent on being able to produce an heir, is overjoyed when she finds herself pregnant after many failed attempts, but her triumph is overshadowed by court plots against her life and those she loves.

Hardie, Titania.
The rose labyrinth. [Suspense]
Discovering hidden writings by Queen Elizabeth I’s astrologer that made shocking predictions for the modern world, documentary producer Lucy King races throughout England, France, and New York to decipher clues leading to a fated lost treasure.

Kallos, Stephanie.
Sing them home.
This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother’s disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician’s wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope’s three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother’s spitfire best friend, is no match for Hope’s absence. When they’re summoned home after their father’s death, each sibling is forced to revisit the childhood tragedy that has defined their lives.

King, Stephen,
Just after sunset: stories.
This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney’s, in a volume that includes such tales as “The Gingerbread Girl” and “N.”

Kogan, Deborah Copaken.
Between here and April.
Motherhood

Lamb, Wally.
The hour I first believed.
Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.

Landvik, Lorna,
‘Tis the season!
Alienating everyone with her public misbehavior and fresh from a stint in rehab, heiress Caroline Dixon is looking to turn her life around, going into seclusion to avoid vicious paparazzi haunting her every move, until a correspondence with her former nanny, Astrid Brevald, and cowboy Cyril Dale teaches her a valuable lesson in truth, forgiveness, love, and redemption.

McCall Smith, Alexander,
The world according to Bertie.
Six-year-old Bertie and artist Angus Lordie join forces to rescue Lordie’s beloved dog Cyril from the pound in this fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.

Melikan, R. A.
The blackstone key. [Historical]
Suspenseful trilogy; bk.1

Morrell, David.
The spy who came for Christmas. [Suspense]
As holiday celebrations take place in Santa Fe, Agent Paul Kagan is on the run with a baby the Russian mafia wants to destroy and turns to a mother and her young son for help during a violent night where they all must work together to keep the child safe from harm.

Morrison, Toni.
A mercy.
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love–first from an older servant woman at her master’s new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.

O’Nan, Stewart,
Songs for the missing.
Missing teenage girl in OH

Patterson, James,
Cross country. [Suspense]
When the home of Alex Cross’s oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he’s chasing a horrible new breed of killer.

Perry, Anne.
A Christmas grace. [Mystery]
With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once close-knit community.

Plain, Belva.
Crossroads.
The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.

Robards, Elizabeth,
With violets. [Historical]
Edouard Manet & Berthe Morisot triangle

Robb, J. D.
Salvation in death. [Mystery]
In the latest in this SF/Mystery hybrid series, the priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the chalice to his lips and falls over dead. When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contains potassium cyanide, she’s determined to find out who committed this unholy act.

Rosnay, Tatiana de,
Sarah’s Key. [Historical]
WWII

Shelton, Sandi Kahn.
Kissing games of the world. [Romance]
Smart Funny Women

Sigler, Scott.
Infected. [Suspense]
CIA operative Dew Phillips, working together with CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya, races to stop the spread of a mysterious disease that is turning ordinary people into murderers. A former football player who has become infected with the deadly bioengineered parasite may carry the cure.

Steel, Danielle.
A good woman.
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women she finds her true calling. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris–now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgotten…until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind and she returns to New York one more time.

Truman, Margaret,
Murder inside the Beltway: a Capital crimes novel. [Mystery]
On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate’s closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation’s capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl–and a killer whom no one will see coming.

Viswanathan, Padma,
The toss of a lemon.
Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow’s whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband’s house and village to raise her children. That decision sets the course of her children’s and grandchildren’s lives, twisting their fates in surprising, sometimes heartbreaking ways.

Wellington, David.
13 bullets: a vampire tale. [Horror]
PA vampires

Westerson, Jeri.
Veil of lies: a medieval noir. [Mystery]
14th C. England

Wolfe, Gene.
An evil guest. [Fantasy]
A century from now, in a world reminiscent of the 1930s (but with iPods and flying cars), aspiring actress Cassie Casey is torn between two men: wizard-detective Dr. Gideon Chase and wealthy William Reis, who seeks to further her stage career. Chase has promised Cassie fame and fortune if she will ensnare Reis, a spy whose years as an ambassador to alien planets have made him a very wanted man. But while Cassie plays Mata Hari, she finds herself falling for the man she’s meant to expose.

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