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Andrews, Mary Kay. The fixer upper.
In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father’s offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga., where she quickly slides into the renovation groove, fits in with the locals, and embarks on a romance.

Box, C. J. Below zero. [MYSTERY]
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is forced to relive the tragedy of his foster daughter April’s apparent death six years earlier when his daughter Sheridan starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be April. The nightmare ratchets up a step when whoever is sending these messages is discovered traveling with suspected environmental terrorists.

Brookner, Anita. Strangers.
Wishing to avoid the complications of turning down his cousin’s widow’s Christmas invitation, reclusive retiree Paul Sturgis sets off from the quietude of his London flat for a holiday in Venice. There he meets Mrs. Vicky Gardner, an intriguing and lovely woman in the midst of a divorce and at a crossroads in her life. Although he is avoiding new acquaintances, who might shake up his rather monotonous existence, Paul is surprised to find himself warming to the woman. Then, upon his return to England, his former girlfriend Sarah reintroduces herself into Paul’s life. The two women spark a transformation within him. Paul’s steady and preferred isolation now conflicts with the stark realization of his aloneness and his need for companionship.

Carlson, Ron. The signal.
Wyoming adventure.

Connolly, John, The lovers: a thriller.
Charlie Parker series

Cook, Thomas H. The fate of Katherine Carr. [SUSPENSE]
George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared. Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his sons last day. Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr.

Coulter, Catherine. Knockout. [SUSPENSE]
FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are back in this electrifying thriller as they attempt to keep Autumn Backman, a seven-year-old telepath, from falling into the hands of her uncle and his growing army of exploited children.

Cussler, Clive. Medusa: a novel from the NUMA files. [SUSPENSE]
In this eighth NUMA File novel, Kurt Austin puts the NUMAA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.

Davidson, MaryJanice. Undead and unwelcome. [FANTASY]
Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia–who died in her service–to Cape Cod, where she’s not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome her with fangs or friendship, and dealing with her half-sister’s increasingly erratic behavior back in St. Paul.

Davis, Kyra. Lust, loathing and a little lip gloss. [MYSTERY]
Smart Funny Women

Deaver, Jeffery. Roadside crosses: a Kathryn Dance novel. [SUSPENSE]
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways. Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of
Investigation’s foremost kinesics expert, and Deputy Michael O’Neil follow a lead to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. But as the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes–and Dance is forced to take desperate and risky measures in this searing cliff-hanger.

Deutermann, Peter T. Nightwalkers. [MYSTERY]
PI in NC

Evanovich, Janet. Finger lickin’ fifteen.
New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the company down. Can Stephanie hunt down a killer, a traitor, and keep her Grandma out of the sauce?

Fielding, Joy. The first time.
Mothers & Daughters

Furnivall, Kate. The girl from Junchow.
Russian Political Refugee

Gardner, Lisa. The neighbor. [MYSTERY]
A young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect.

George, Madeleine. Looks. [YA]
Two high school girls, one an anorexic poet and the other an obese loner, form an unlikely friendship.

Gibson, Tanya Egan. How to buy a love of reading.
Quirky adolescent love story

Goldstein, Jan, The bride will keep her name. [SUSPENSE]
Maisie Mandelbaum is a week away from marrying the man of her dreams. Her fiance, the handsome and ambitious WNBC investigative reporter Taylor Darcy, is considered the ultimate catch. But in the midst of a celebration at her SoHo gallery, Maisie receives a mysterious e-mail with a disturbing query: Do you really know the man you’re about to marry?

Green, Jane, Dune road.
Set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town, our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous–and famously reclusive–novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it–including some who fancy the writer for themselves.

Hallaway, Tate. Dead if I do. [FANTASY]
Witch Garnet Lacey is ready to walk down the aisle with the super sexy vampire Sebastian. Besides the fact that he has no pulse, things couldn’t be more perfect. Until plans for the wedding start falling apart, and Sebastian’s zombie-slash-vampire-slash witch ex-lover decides that both of them should be six feet under. It’s just a matter of time before Garnet–who’s already sharing her body with a short-tempered goddess–morphs into Bridezilla.

Hamilton, Laurell K. Skin trade. [FANTASY/MYSTERY]
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re really dealing with.

Harding, Georgina, The spy game.
Cold war

Henry, Patti Callahan. Driftwood summer.
Sisters & family secrets

Hoffman, Alice. The story sisters.
Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing.

Howe, Katherine. The physick book of Deliverance Dane.
While readying her grandmother’s abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking a rare artifact–a physick book–Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem’s past than she could have imagined.

Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew. Trust no one. [SUSPENSE]
Nuclear terrorism

Jansson, Tove. The summer book.
Swedish childhood

Koontz, Dean R. Relentless. [SUSPENSE]
Facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life, successful family man and bestselling novelist Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich finds himself in a desperate struggle with relentless sociopath and reclusive critic Shearman Waxx.

Lindsey, Johanna. A rogue of my own. [ROMANCE]
The passionate story of a maid of honor at Queen Victoria’s court who is forced to wed the royal spy who seduced her–by mistake.

Maloy, Kate. Every last cuckoo.
Restless and unable to find peace in her rural Vermont home in the wake of her husband’s death, seventy-five-year-old Sarah finds new meaning in her life when her home becomes a kind of refuge for wayward souls, from her troubled granddaughter and a family that lost their home to fire, to a mother and child fleeing an abusive partner and an Israeli pacifist needing a retreat.

Margolin, Phillip. Fugitive. [SUSPENSE]
Defense attorney Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild justice and Proof Positive, becomes entrapped in a case of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past … and into the crosshairs of a killer.

Mead, Richelle. Succubus heat. [FANTASY]
Succubus Demon series

Morley, Isla. Come Sunday.
Dealing with grief

Patterson, James& Maxine Paetro. Swimsuit. [SUSPENSE]
Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.

Reyn, Irina. What happened to Anna K.

Rollins, James, The doomsday key: a sigma force novel. [SUSPENSE]
Commander Gray Perce and the Sigma Force confront humankind’s greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint–an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key–and a secret that has already claimed the lives of a famed geneticist, a Vatican archaeologist, and a U.S. senator’s son.

Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. The cheater. [SUSPENSE]
Returning to her most beloved character, Lily Forrester, from Mitigating Circumstances and Buried Evidence, Rosenberg proves once again that she is a master of the suspense thriller, as Forrester finds herself in yet another mix of bizarre circumstances that lead her onto the trail of a vicious criminal mind.

Sethi, Ali. The wish maker.
Pakistan coming of age

Steel, Danielle. Matters of the heart.
In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world’s most celebrated writers–an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.

Strachan, Mari. The Earth hums in B flat. [MYSTERY]
Wales

Tanenbaum, Robert. Capture. [SUSPENSE]
Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi

Thayer, Nancy, Summer house.
Family relationships on Nantucket

Updike, John. My father’s tears and other stories.

Waters, Mary Yukari. The favorites.
Japanese Americans

Zama, Farahad. The marriage bureau for rich people.
Indian Smart Funny Women

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