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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked. Until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulders. There's another newcomer in town who puts the Inn under surveillance. When the surveillance turns into a series of attacks. Robinson launches an...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
3) Eruption
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
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Series
Camino volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Bookstore owner Bruce Cable is reunited once again with Mercer Mann for another thrilling mystery packed with sun, sand, and mayhem.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as an archival librarian, constantly surrounded by thought-provoking ideas and the books she loved. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured divorcee with a job that took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like...
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Series
Jason Bourne volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's been over a decade since Nash Rollins recruited a brilliant, talented, but disaffected young man named David Webb to join Treadstone. Webb became the agent known as Cain-and later took on the identity of Jason Bourne. That violent winter-which included Cain's first mission for Treadstone-was also a story of betrayal in ways that David never knew. So after the injury that erased Bourne's whole life, Nash lied about the circumstances of David's...
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Luke Daniels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus - a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke's list of painful regrets for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed....
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Stone Barrington volume 65
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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. From Santa Fe to Los Angeles, it quickly becomes clear that her investigation has links to Stone-particularly to rare Matilda Stone art, his mother's paintings. And when old grudges come to light, Stone is...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, climate change and the crumbling of societal institutions have caused a Great Unwinding. The Farmer-Bowens are already struggling, but when Russell Bowen loses his job at the EPA, they are devastated. Pediatrician Linda doesn't make enough to pay the rent on their tiny apartment. Miraculously, Russell receives an offer at a company town, where every citizen is committed to helping the company work in exchange for an idyllic life....
12) The ascent
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Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hazel Sharp's detective father dies and leaves her the family home, forcing her to confront a dysfunctional family and unanswered questions about her missing mother. Her brothers are upset with her for moving away and seem to be hiding secrets. Hazel's former love also appears to be hiding something, making Hazel feel isolated and alone. Her home town of Mirror Lake is suffering through a drought, and objects under the surface of the lake begin...
14) One of us knows
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...
15) Southern man
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Series
Penn Cage volume 7
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting-one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown Black group claims the fires as acts of justice, panic ensues, driving...
16) Still waters
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Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Liv and Gabe Ahlstrom are estranged siblings who haven't seen each other in years, but that's about to change when they receive a rare call from their older brother's wife. "Mack is dead," she says. "He died of a seizure." Five minutes after they hang up, Liv and Gabe each receive a scheduled email from their dead brother, claiming that he was murdered. The siblings return to their family-run resort in the Northwoods of Minnesota to investigate Mack's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old William "Shoe" Shumacher, a cub crime reporter at the Seattle Daily Star, has just arrived from Kansas City, Mo. After following a tip from Det. Ernie Blunt, Shoe hits it big with his first story: an account of former boxer Frankie Ray's murder at the Pom Pom Club, where members of Seattle's elite illegally drink and gamble. The Pom Pom's owner, well-connected gangster George Miller, is accused of shooting Frankie over a debt, but...
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Series
Housemaid volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way I used to clean other people's houses-now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Painter Annie Shaw appears to be living the American dream with her renowned journalist husband, Duncan, and daughter, Tabitha, in the Virginia countryside. The facade starts to crack when Annie discovers her elderly Vietnamese refugee mother's dead body among her hoarded goods in Annie's carriage house. In the weeks that follow, the emotionally fragile Annie gradually loses her grip on reality. Medication that once kept her obsessive-compulsive disorder...
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