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Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban
Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his
community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie,
and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy
is blindsided by what happens next : his fourteen-year-old son is charged with
the murder of a fellow student.
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Dr. Alex Hoffmann's name is carefully guarded from the general
public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich, he is a legend.
He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts
movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based
in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder
breachs the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking
nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing
desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.
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All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars
have a cost .... Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the
pressures of everyday life -- children, careers, bills, chores -- even as their
twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends
Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home,
unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it
agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a soldier she has always understood
the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version
of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war
will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy
strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own -- for
everything that matters to his family.
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"A helicopter crash kills six random passengers off the coast of
Ireland. A mercenary working for a private security contractor in the Congo
starts a bloody gun battle, endangering the valuable package he is assigned to
protect. An Irish politician makes a risky gambit to revive his career, while
protecting one of his darkest secrets. The last thing Jimmy Gilroy, a hungry
young Dublin journalist, expected when hired to write a hack biography of a dead
starlet was a Pulitzer-worthy scoop. Soon, however, he stumbles upon a bizarre
nexus of coincidence between his subject and these disparate people and events
around the world, a real story of frightening reach and consequence--one that
could cost him his life. Set against a vividly drawn world of commerce, corrupt
politics, and international intrigue, Alan Glynn's Bloodland is a riveting
paranoid thriller of uncommon depth and page-turning suspense. "-- Provided by
publisher.
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Stumbling over a murder scene while making a blackmail payment for a
young attorney, Cora Felton's efforts to solve the crime put her in the path of
a killer who may be targeting her niece and her niece's new baby.
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Handsome, headstrong Jacob offers Lilly his hand in marriage, but his heart belongs to someone else.
While Lilly Lapp has loved Jacob for years, she wouldn't compete with Sarah King, the woman Jacob was determined to marry. But when Sarah marries another, Jacob spontaneously agrees to wed Lilly.
Lilly divides her time between teaching the local Amish children and caring for her widowed mother who suffers from depression. Lilly's faith comforts her, but her heart still longs to be the sole object of Jacob's affection.
As the days slip by, Lilly decides that hoping is too risky and vows to protect her heart. But God is subtly as work, and as winter turns to spring, their hearts awaken.
The furthest thing from Lilly's mind is her Amish wedding quilt, a traditional gift for new brides. And the person she'd least suspect is the one making it. Like stray pieces of fabric quilted into a new design, Jacob and Lilly's marriage begins to bind them together in ways neither expected.
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Madora was seventeen, headed for trouble with drugs and men, when
Willis rescued her. Fearful of the world and alienated from family and friends,
she ran away with him and for five years they have lived alone, in near
isolation. But after Willis kidnaps a pregnant teenager and imprisons her in a
trailer behind the house, Madora is torn between her love for him and her sense
of right and wrong.
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An anonymous man has received nine seals from The Prophet, with each
seal containing mysterious sayings and prophecies from the Book of Isaiah about
America's recent past and possible future destruction.
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You know the one: a little bougie, a little opinionated, knows it all, has it all, and is a total perfectionist. But Christina's perfectly crafted world isn't really so perfect. Her third engagement fizzled three days before the wedding, her family expects her to solve their problems, and her friends are more than a little bit out of control. To keep it all together, she dedicates herself to her work, because it's the one thing that won't let her down. But when her latest assignment leads her to sizzling hot professor Steven Williams, the one man who sees through her efforts to outsmart and outmaneuver her way through every situation, Christina can't believe she's falling for a man who may be a key player in the scandal she's investigating.
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Julia Bailey is a mompreneur with too many principles and too little
time. Her fledgling company, Julia's Child, makes organic toddler meals. But
turning a profit while saving the world proves tricky as Julia must face a 92-
pound TV diva, an ill-timed protest rally, and a room full of 100 lactating
breasts.
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When Colorado marshal David Paxton gets a letter from a stranger
claiming to be his wife and pleading with him to come for her and his daughter,
he dutifully responds and is saddled with a ready-made family.
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When Maggie Larkin resists the come-ons of a sleazy actor in town to
shoot a film, she pisses off more than a pretty boy and his manager. Turns out
that Rafe DeLuca isn't just a movie star...he's possibly a killer, and Maggie's
landed herself in more trouble than she could imagine. Enter Cal Drummond, cop
extraordinaire, who's been trailing DeLuca himself for weeks, convinced that his
recently murdered sister is one of Rafe's victims. He's determined not to let
another woman be victimized by the dangerous Rafe, and if that means sticking
like glue to Maggie, so be it. Maggie and Cal seem like perfect opposites, but
as we all know...opposites attract!
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Falsely imprisoned for the murder of a Freetown priest, special
operative Joe Green, who has gone vigilante to avenge his fallen brothers,
escapes with the help of his ex-lover Stephanie Tompkins and together they must
expose a deadly traitor in the highest level of the government.
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"John C. Wright burst upon the SF scene a decade ago with the Golden
Age trilogy, an innovative space opera. He went on to write fantasy novels,
including the popular Orphans of Chaos trilogy. And now he returns to space
opera in Count to a Trillion. After the collapse of the world economy, a young
boy grows up in what used to be Texas as a tough duelist for hire, the future
equivalent of a hired gun. But even after the collapse, there is space travel,
and he leaves Earth to have adventures in the really wide open spaces. But he is
quickly catapulted into the more distant future, while humanity, and Artificial
Intelligence, grows and changes and becomes a kind of superman"-- Provided by
publisher.
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The haunted eyes of pararescueman Hugh Franco should have been her
first clue tht deep pain roiled beneath the surface. But if Amelia couldn't see
the damage, how could she be expected to kow he'd break her heart?
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Connor Grey is a druid consultant for the Boston PD on their "strange" cases. So his world is turned upside down when he suddenly finds that he himself has become one. Wrongly accused of a terrorist attack that rocked the city to its core, Connor evades arrest by going underground, where rumors of war are roiling. A final confrontation between the Celtic and Teutonic fey looks inevitable-with Boston as the battlefield.
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After being exposed to radioactive particles as part of a clean-up
gang in the depths of space, Tanyana develops an ability to understand the
apparently sentient stuff. Powerless, penniless, and scarred, Tanyana must
adjust to her new life collecting magical garbage--but she soon realizes this
debris is more important than anyone could guess.
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Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past,
high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back
in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he
must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
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When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known
offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill."
Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing
his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he
finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla,
the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out all the bad
guys Raylan is after are girls this time: the nurse who collects kidneys and
sells them for ten grand apiece. Carol Conlan, the mine company executive who
comes to Harlan County to sell mountaintop removal, shoots a miner who wastes
her time, then meets the miner's widow in a scene you won't forget. The third
girl's only offense is missing a court date. Jackie Nevada plays high-stakes
poker for a living and is last seen in the shower with Raylan.
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Fiction. Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. Nothing Can Make Me Do This, David Huddle's tenth work of fiction, enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others over fifty years, leaping in chronology and intersecting the vantage points, in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets).
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"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game
champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent
the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple,
Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb,
and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night,
Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into
upheaval; when Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses
to leave the hotel. Soon, he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third
Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the
game's consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among
Roberto Bola{228}no's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning
exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a
world-class writer coming into his own--and exploring for the first time the
themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
Provided by publisher.
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When one woman is caught in the act of her greatest transgression,
it's the beginning of her greatest transformation. It started innocently: a
coincidental meeting between old high school friends--first loves--at
Butterfly's business, The Painted Lady Flower Shop. Then came lunch, then
confessions of unhappy marriages, loneliness. It went on that way for years
between Butterfly and Ethan. That's how they built the soul tie--the bond that,
despite their devotion to God, has now led to adultery. And as with all things
done in secret, they've been found out. Well, Butterfly has. As a leader in her
church, Butterfly is suddenly cast into the spotlight. But she soon realizes
she's being used as a pawn to bring down a new pastor--a young man who is
upsetting tradition by preaching about real-life issues real people deal with.
People like Butterfly. And as she faces a challenging search for truth,
forgiveness, and the real meaning of love, she may finally break out of her
cocoon--Publisher's description.
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After Detective Boone Drake masterminds the most massive sting in
Chicago history, the Chicago Police Department must protect the key witness at
all costs, but despite top secret plans to transfer the witness ahead of his
testimony, an attempt is made on his life.
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"The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical
fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky,
who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in
Moscow--a life filled with salons, balls, and all the trappings of the Upper
Class--very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the Jewish
townlet of Mosny. So when a mysterious and cultured wheat merchant walks into
the grocery, Berta's life is forever altered. She falls in love, unaware that he
is a member of the Bund, The Jewish Worker's League, smuggling arms to the
shtetls to defend them against the pogroms sweeping the Little Russian
countryside. Married and established in the wheat center of Cherkast, Berta has
recaptured the life she once had in Moscow. So when a smuggling operation goes
awry and her husband must flee the country, Berta makes the vain and foolish
choice to stay behind with her children and her finery. As Russia plunges into
war, Berta eventually loses everything and must find a new way to sustain the
lives and safety of her children. Filled with heart-stopping action, richly
drawn characters, and a world seeped in war and violence; The Little Russian is
poised to capture readers as one of the hand-selling gems of the season"--
Provided by publisher.
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When Mike Sweeney is found floating in a vat of green beer and the
nephew of one of their best customers is accused of the crime, Bernie and Libby
Simmons, the owners of A Little Taste of Heaven, must find the real killer.
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Returning home to Shilo, New Hampshire, to raise his teenage
daughter after his ex-wife is murdered, former Navy SEAL Tom Hawkins becomes the
target of vicious rumors and implicated in a series of disturbing crimes.
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A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920
Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a
companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their
own.
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Riley Brown never imagined she would find her bliss on Georgia's quiet Sugarberry Island after years of Chicago's city life. With a new career and fantastic new friends, she's got it all - except for eligible men. But a gig staging a renovated beach house delivers a delicious treat - six feet of blue-eyed, gorgeous writer as delectable and Southern as pecan pie. Quinn Brannigan has come to Sugarberry to finish his latest novel in peace, and suddenly Riley has a taste for the bad boy author that no amount of mocha latte buttercream or lemon mousse will satisfy...Riley's friends are rooting for her to give in to her cravings and spice up her life, but it's Quinn who needs to learn that life's menu just might include love, in all its decadent, irresistible flavours.
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An F-18 Navy fighter crashes in the Mojave desert and Wes Stewart
tries to save the piolet's life. The plane explodes and Wes escapes without harm
but plunges into a murderous conspiracy. In the moments he spent with the dying
pilot, Wes discovered something that could get him killed. Now fifteen years
later he finds himself up against the U.S. military, the local police and
someone who is tracking his every move.
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When her daughter Rocky returns home with her employer Hugh, an
English royal who wants to buy some of the townfolk's land, in tow, Ruby Rhodes,
the owner of the Cut 'n' Curl, decides to play matchmaker.
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This story is a tale of riches lost and found, and beneath the
surface lie the greatest treasures. A wave of hope carries Olivia Frost back to
her small New England hometown nestled in the beautiful Swift River Valley. She
is transforming a historic home into an idyllic getaway; picturesque and perfect,
if only the absentee owner will fix up the eyesore next door. Dylan McCaffrey's
ramshackle house is an inheritance he never counted on. It also holds the key to
a generations-old lost treasure he can't resist any more than he can resist his
new neighbor. Against this breathtaking landscape, Dylan and Olivia pursue long-
buried secrets and discover a mystery wrapped in a love story, past and present.
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Molly Larabee left her husband, Jordan, after a tragedy destroyed her faith in their marriage. She began a new life as a foreign aid volunteer. But now, four years later, her safety is in jeopardy—and Jordan comes to her rescue. She discovers that her feelings for him have never died, and they share a night of passion that results in pregnancy.…
Molly wants her husband back. But Jordan, still hurt by her leaving, asks for a divorce. Can a baby reunite them?
Yesterday Once More
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"No one knows about defense attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered
sister, or about her childhood spend with the carnival that's just arrived in
town. For Charlotte, what's past is past. But others don't agree. And as a
madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a
mission that's become terrifyingly personal..." -- P. 4 of cover.
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Beth Venable has seen too much. Witness to a major mob hit, she's
placed in protective custody until the trial. But after her third safe house is
riddled with bullets, she goes off-grid to save herself. What the FBI can't do,
her kinfolk will. The beautiful but forbidding Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky
welcome Beth back, dirt roads and rustic shacks a world apart from L.A. But her
homecoming--even her blissful reunion with strong, silent Ryal Walker--is made
bittersweet by the fight she's brought to the clan's doorstep. Hidden in a
remote cabin with the man she's always wanted, Beth begins to dream of a new
life: her old one. But after so long, with such dangers stalking
her...impossible. But love can distill life down to its essence: an elixir of
pure hope, nerve--and the will to survive.
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After surviving a brutal attack at the hands of her ex-husband, a
cop, Hope Carson, the subject of suspicious rumors, doesn't trust law
enforcement officials until she finds safety in the arms of local DA Remy
Jennings.
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"Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been
fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go
is to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan.
Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she
needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane
wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his
company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into
Culhane's business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt
will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But
several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust
her. And she is falling hard for her boss. Can these two smoke out a saboteur,
save Kate's family home, and keep a killer from closing in ... all while
resisting their undeniable attraction to one another? Filled with humor, heart,
and loveable characters, Love in a Nutshell is delicious fun"-- Provided by
publisher.
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Seemingly out of the blue, Stone Barrington and NYPD detective Dino
Bacchetti receive a most welcome invitation from the White House. It seems that
President Will Lee needs their investigative talents -- and legendary discretion
-- for a particularly sensitive case. For his part, Stone is pleased to discover
they'll be working with his former partner in crime (and in bed), CIA agent
Holly Barker. In the exclusive world of Washington politics, power and privilege
often go hand in hand with private indulgences and clandestine affairs.
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Headstrong Angelica Cynster is certain she'll recognize her fated
husband at first sight. And when her eyes meet those of a mysterious nobleman
across a candlelit ballroom, she knows beyond doubt that he's the one. But her
heart is soon pounding for an entirely different reason--when her hero abducts
her. The eighth Earl of Glencrae has no choice but to kidnap Angelica, the one
Cynster sister he hadn't wanted to tangle with. But to save his castle and his
clan, he must persuade her to assist him--and he's prepared to offer marriage to
seal the deal!
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