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Adams, Lorraine. The room and the chair.
Political novel on terrorism and war.

Albert, Susan Wittig. Holly blues. [MYSTERY]
China Bayles series

Allan, Christa.Walking on broken glass.
Christian Fiction about recovery.

Armstrong, Kelley.Tales of the otherworld. [FANTASY]
Short stories and novellas about Otherworld characters.

Atkins, Ace. Infamous. [HISTORICAL]
Crime fiction about Machine Gun Kelly.

Baldacci, David. Deliver us from evil. [SUSPENSE]
Espionage.

Berg, Elizabeth. The last time I saw you.
This reunion means something different to everyone attending. A last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear.

Block, Brett Ellen. The language of sand.
Grief in N.C.

Burton, Gabrielle. Impatient with desire. [HISTORICAL]
Donner Party

Butcher, Jim, Changes: a novel of the Dresden files. [FANTASY]
In the twelfth book of the series, Harry finds out he has a daughter and has to work with his former lover, Susan Rodriguez, to protect them both.

Center, Katherine. Get lucky.
Smart Funny Women

Chiaverini, Jennifer. The aloha quilt: an Elm Creek Quilts novel.
The Elm Creek Quilts series continues at a quilter’s retreat in scenic Hawaii.

Clark, Mary Higgins. The shadow of your smile. [SUSPENSE]
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician and medical researcher, may have been murdered instead of his twin brother, Charles. Her search for the truth plunges her into life-threatening danger which is only increased when she crosses the path of Henry Patton, a criminologist, who is on a search of his own, the truth behind a long-ago scandal involving his grandmother that must now be solved at all costs.

Coben, Harlan, Caught. [SUSPENSE]
Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband’s death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer’s innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer’s alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer’s next victim.

Cowell, Stephanie. Claude & Camille: a novel of Monet. [HISTORICAL]

Crouch, Katie. Men and dogs.
In the spring of 1985, Hannah’s father disappeared, and was presumed drowned. Now she has returned to Charleston, and encounters rivals and ghosts from her past, as she sets out to discover what really happened to her father so long ago.

Cullen, Lynn. The creation of Eve. [HISTORICAL]
Renaissance portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola joins the Spanish court of Felipe II after a scandal in her native Italy and becomes embroiled in a love triangle involving the royal couple and the king’s illegitimate half-brother, Don Juan.

Cusk, Rachel, The Bradshaw variations.
From award-winning novelist Cusk comes a timely and absorbing story of the harmony and discord of family life.

Dallas, Sandra. Whiter than snow. [HISTORICAL]
The powerful story of a small Colorado town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there. Set in 1920.

Endicott, Marina, Good to a fault.
Cancer and women caregivers

Evans, Richard Paul. The walk.
What would you do if you lost everything–your job, your home, and the love of your life–all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.

Farmer, Ben. Evangeline. [HISTORICAL]
Acadians

Fiorato, Marina. The Botticelli secret. [MYSTERY]
Art thefts in Rome

Fitzgerald, Conor. The dogs of Rome: a Commissario Alec Blume novel. [MYSTERY]

Freeman, Brian, The burying place. [MYSTERY]
Jonathan Stride; bk.5

Genovese, Kate.Two weeks since my last confession.
Spousal abuse in Boston

George, Elizabeth, This body of death. [MYSTERY]
On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest–and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

Gilmore, Jennifer. Something red.
In Washington, D.C., life inside the Goldstein home is as tumultuous as the shifting landscape of the times. It is 1979, and Benjamin is heading off to college and sixteen-year-old Vanessa is in the throes of a rocky adolescence. Sharon, a caterer for the Washington elite, ventures into a cultlike organization. And Dennis, whose government job often takes him to Moscow, tries to live up to his father’s legacy as a union organizer and community leader.

Giordano, Paolo, The solitude of prime numbers.
Debut about life-changing events.

Hammond, Diane Coplin. Seeing stars.
Family drama.

Holden, Wendy, Beautiful people
Smart Funny Women

Hughes, Declan, City of lost girls. [MYSTERY]
Ed Loy series, L.A.

Johansen, Iris. Eight days to live. [SUSPENSE]
Eve Duncan’s adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days to live.

Keener, Rachel. The memory thief.

Kellerman, Jesse. The executor. [SUSPENSE]
A grad student meets his intellectual match and seals his dark fate when he responds to a newspaper ad seeking a conversationalist.

Kendrick, Beth. Second time around.
Smart Funny Women

Kiernan, Kristy. Between friends.
Best friends and motherhood

King, Laurie R. The god of the hive: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.

Kring, Sandra. How high the moon. [HiSTORICAL]
Wisconsin childhood

Lamott, Anne. Imperfect birds.
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth’s hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Now, Elizabeth is forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to her, and that her deceptions will have profound consequences.

LeCraw, Holly. The swimming pool.
Adultery on Cape Cod

Lewis, Beverly, The telling.
Seasons of Grace; bk.3

Luckett, Jacqueline E. Searching for Tina Turner. [ROMANCE]

Lyle, D. P. Stress fracture. [MYSTERY]
Serial killer in Alabama

Martel, Yann. Beatrice and Virgil.
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey–named Beatrice and Virgil–and the epic journey they undertake together. From the author of The Life of Pi.

McCall Smith, Alexander, The Double Comfort Safari Club.
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi travel to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been several unexplained and troubling events–including the demise of one of the guests. No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

McEwan, Ian. Solar.
When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard’s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.

Meier, Diane. The season of second chances.
Divorced women

Michaels, Fern. Return to sender.
At seventeen, Rosalind Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby’s father and the man she naively hoped to marry, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Rosalind vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she’s been denied.

Miller, Sue, The Lake Shore Limited.
This is a story of how Wilhelmina “Billy” Gertz has come to create the title’s play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play’s performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy’s.

Min, Anchee, Pearl of China. [HISTORICAL]
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.

Mitchell, Siri L., She walks in beauty. [HISTORICAL]
For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, debutante Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city’s most eligible bachelor. But when a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it’s not just her heart at stake– the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.

Nemirovsky, Irene, Dimanche and other stories.
Originally published, with additional stories, in French as: Dimanche et autres nouvelles., 2000.

Notaro, Laurie. Spooky little girl.
Humorous ghost tale

Parker, Robert B., Blue-eyed devil. [WESTERN]
When Appaloosa police chief Amos Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don’t want to play along seek the help of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.

Patterson, James and Maxine Paetro, The 9th judgment. [SUSPENSE]
Women’s Detective Club; bk.9

Perry, Drew. This is just exactly like you.

Quick, Amanda. Burning lamp. [ROMANCE]
Dreamlight trilogy; bk.2, An Arcane Society novel

Quindlen, Anna. Every last one.
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.

Rice, Christopher, The moonlit earth. [SUSPENSE]
A woman feels a duty to save her brother’s life and reputation when he is accused of a terrorist act.

Roberts, Sheila. Small change.
Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany have major money problems. Together, they start a financial support group called The Small Change Club, challenging each other to bring balance back to their checkbooks, and their lives. They are about to learn some very important lessons: that small changes can make a big difference, and that some things in life, like good friends, are truly priceless.

Ross, Jennifer. The icing on the cupcake. [ROMANCE]
When Ansley Waller’s fiancé Parish cancels their upcoming wedding, Ansley decides to leave Dallas and make a fresh start. In a surprise move, she heads to New York City to live with her recently widowed grandmother Vivian, who gives Ansley an ultimatum: get a job or go home. Before long, she’s opening up her own cupcake shop and even trying her hand at dating. But the ways of Manhattan’s eligible bachelors are altogether different from their Southern counterparts, and worse, someone’s got a half-baked scheme to sabotage Ansley’s new life.

Shaffer, Louise. Looking for a love story.
Women authors

Soli, Tatjana. The lotus eaters. [HISTORICAL]
A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.

Steinbeck, Thomas. In the shadow of the cypress. [HISTORICAL]
Chinese immigrants

Stepakoff, Jeffrey. Fireworks over Toccoa. [HISTORICAL]
The daughter of a prominent family in Toccoa, Georgia, child bride Lily Davis Woodward hasn’t seen her husband, Paul, since he was shipped off to war three years ago. She is now nervously anticipating his return, until she comes across a handsome stranger named Jake setting off fireworks in a lush field. The chemistry between them is explosive, and before long, Lily finds herself showing Jake the secret abandoned cabin where she goes to create her artwork and entering into a torrid affair with him. Lily is predictably torn between love and duty, and wrestles with her desire to be with Jake and her fear of upsetting her genteel parents and the husband she barely knows by running away with him.

Trollope, Joanna. The other family.
When Richie dies unexpectedly, Chrissie must now tell the truth to their three daughters: their parents were never married. There is more shock to come when his will is read: he ever forgot the wife and son he left behind years ago. Now two families must confront their losses–and each other.

Ward, J. R., Lover mine: a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. [ROMANCE]
Black dagger brotherhood series; bk. 8

Webb, Wendy. The tale of Halcyon Crane.
Gothic family secrets

White, Jenny B., The winter thief. [MYSTERY]
Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: Vahid, head of a special branch of the secret police, who has convinced the sultan that a socialist commune is leading a secessionist movement and should be destroyed–along with surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason. Third in series.

White, Susan Rebecca. A soft place to land.
Sisters and death

Woods, Stuart. Lucid intervals: a Stone Barrington novel. [SUSPENSE]
Stone and his former cop partner, Dino are enjoying some pasta at their favorite restaurant when Herbie Fisher, a former client, walks in with a briefcase filled with $14 million in cash. He claims to have won the money in a lottery game. Suddenly, a single shot comes smashing through the window above his head. They suspect Herbie may have left out a few details about the money, and he may need a P.I. and a detective.

Yessayan, Raffi. 2 in the hat : a novel of suspense.
Boston thriller

Young-Stone, Michele. The handbook for lightning strike survivors.

Zevin, Gabrielle. The hole we’re in.
Texas

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