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Here some of the new exciting releases for you to take a look at this week!

IN TOO DEEP

Waking up handcuffed in a dark hospital room with no memory, Reacher finds himself framed for a murder, setting the stage for an explosive reckoning, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Secret.

KARLA’S CHOICE

George Smiley, John le Carré’s most famous spy, is drawn out of retirement in 1963 to investigate a missing man tied to a Russian defector, leading him back into the perilous world of espionage and his most cunning adversary’s secrets.

PATRIOT

A political freedom fighter who paid the ultimate price for his convictions recounts his political career, the many attempts on his life and the lives of the people closest to him and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT

Seattle attorney Keera Duggan helps former childhood friend Jenna Bernstein, a disgraced biotech CEO accused of murdering her former partner, amidst rising doubts and circumstantial evidence in the second novel of the series following Her Deadly Game.

THE WOOD AT MIDWINTER

From an internationally bestselling and prize-winning author comes a short story set in the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

EVERYONE THIS CHRISTMAS HAS A SECRET

A fan of mystery novels investigates a real-life murder when the benefactor of a world-famous magician turns up dead in the days leading up to Christmas and all the suspects are masters of illusion and misdirection.

DREAMING OF AUTUMN SKIES

Caroline, living with her domineering grandfather, embarks on a determined campaign to reclaim her power and independence, vowing to overcome her past suffering in the third novel of the series following Chasing Endless Summer.

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Here are some of the new books coming to our shelves this week for you to add to your book list!

WE SOLVE MURDERS

Investigator Steve Wheeler comes out of retirement when his daughter-in-law, Amy, needs help finding out who left a dead body on a remote island with a huge bag of money.

THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM

As Nora and her estranged brother Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery of their father’s death, they start putting together the pieces of their father’s past and uncover a family secret that changes everything.

GOOD LOOKIN’ COOKING’

Music legend Dolly Parton and her sister Rachel share their prized dishes and family stories in recipes sorted by months of the year including Barbecue Spare Ribs, Slaw of Many Colors, Watermelon Fruit Salad, Mac and Cheese and Strawberry Shortcake.

CONNIE

In this witty and definitive memoir, the trailblazing journalist recounts her groundbreaking career as the first Asian woman in U.S. television news, detailing her experiences with sexism, her major stories and her behind-the-scenes challenges and triumphs.

A SONG OF ASH AND MOONLIGHT

After the curse destroying their families finally breaks, Farrin and Ryder must put aside their hate and work together as the old gods of Middlemist awaken, in the second book of the trilogy following A Crown of Ivy and Glass.

A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE

A folklorist embarks on an expedition with six eccentric nobles to find a fabled spring and must figure out who murdered her beloved mentor at the start of their trip before they have a chance to strike again.

~Semanur

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BY ANY OTHER NAME

Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.

THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY

Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this stunning novel follows a trio of characters living in the shadows of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. Nineveh and its Remains as they become entwined by a single drop of water.

THIS IS WHY WE LIED

While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge’s manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.

SPIRIT CROSSING

As a huge manhunt is launched to find a local politician’s daughter, Cork O’Connor. and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police, when the body of a young Ojibwe woman is found, uncover a connection to the missing teenager one that places his own grandson in the crosshairs of a killer.

BACKWATER JUSTICE

Bound by friendship and a quest for justice, the members of the Sisterhood investigate when two young women go missing in Mountain Valley, Oregon, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Rock Bottom.

SHADOW STATE

Cut off from his comrades at The Campus just when he needs them most, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy that may be too much for even him to handle.

CITY OF SECRETS

LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan investigates what appears to be a fatal car-jacking, but uncovers details about the victim that suggests there’s more going on, in the fourth novel of the series following The Devil You Know.

SHE WHO KNOWS

When she receives The Call, which has never happened to a female in the history of her village, 13-year-old Najeeba must journey with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake where her presence changes everything and her family will never be the same.

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JOY

Abandoned by her free-spirited mother and raised by an emotionally distant father, Allegra finds solace in books and love, only to face the harsh realities of war and its impact on her husband, who returns from Afghanistan nearly unrecognizable.

ANGEL OF VENGEANCE

An FBI Special Agent poses as a cleric in New York’s notorious Five Points slum to help catch a dangerous serial killer, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Cabinet of Dr. Leng.

WORST CASE SCENARIO

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications.

I NEED YOU TO READ THIS

When her childhood hero, Francis Keen, the woman behind a famous advice column, is brutally murdered, Alex takes over as her replacement and begins receiving threatening letters, drawing into her inter her predecessor’s murder, which takes her all the way up to the power centers of Manhattan where a killer waits.

BURIED TOO DEEP

Accused of a break-in he did not commit, Phineas Bishop, a nighttime security guard at a private investigator’s office resolves to track down the intruder and earn back everyone’s trust. By the author of Cheater.

NEVER SAW ME COMING

A money-grabbing tech genius shares her deeply personal story of how she, after the FBI said “these are not the kind of crimes Black people are smart enough to commit,” pulled off an ingenious white-collar scheme, stealing $40 million dollars, and after receiving an outrageous prison sentence, orchestrated her own release.

THE MURDERS IN GREAT DIDDLING

Moving to a run-down Cornwall village, author Berit Gardner, when a man blows up during a tea party, decides to snoop around to both help the police and gain ideas for her new book, discovering the villagers are using this murder as an opportunity to attract tourists to Great Diddling.

BORN OF BLOOD AND ASH

After freeing themselves from captivity at the hands of the false King of the Gods, Sera and Nyktos race to maintain peace in the Shadowlands, in the fourth novel of the series following A Fire in the Flesh.

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FIRE AND BONES

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a deadly fire in a Washington, DC neighborhood called Foggy Bottom with a colorful past and ties to gangs in the present, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Bone Hacker.

THE LOST COAST

PI Clay Edison, when a case of simple fraud explodes into an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims, follows the evidence to a tiny town on California’s remote Lost Coast where he discovers the price of truth is higher and deadlier than he ever could’ve imagined.

SHADOW OF DOUBT

When a plot to destroy the United States is uncovered, the lives of a shadowy Russian defector, a beautiful Norwegian intelligence officer and a deadly American spy are intertwined as, in the fog of war, friends can appear as enemies and enemies as friends and when in doubt, there is no doubt.

HOUSE OF GLASS

Best Interest Attorney, Stella Hudson, takes on the case of an 8-year-old girl who witnessed the death of her nanny amid her parents’ ugly divorce and realizes that everyone is a suspect.

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THE ROSE ARBOR

In 1968 London, obituary writer Liz Houghton, to break into the newsroom at a London newspaper, helps her best friend, a police officer, investigate a high-profile case and uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II that is linked to the recent disappearance of a young girl and a murder.

PEACH TEA SMASH

When Cricket Sadler asks her to find out who killed her beloved husband Harlan during the Mad Hatter Masquerade, tea shop owner Theodosia realizes the killer might have mistaken Harlan for his crazy son a slum landlord who recently injure a woman in a boating accident.

ARKANGEL

Sigma Force is summoned to help search for a missing trove of ancient books after a Vatican archivist is murdered near the Kremlin, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Tides of Fire.

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THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME

In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

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There’s an abundance of exciting new book releases on the horizon, and you won’t want to miss them…

CALDER COUNTRY

Making a deal to keep her smuggler father out of prison, Ruby Weaver agrees to help the Feds break up a bootlegging ring in 1920s Blue Moon, Montana, in the third novel of the series following A Calder at Heart.

THE HAUNTING OF HECATE CAVENDISH

In 1881 England, assistant librarian for the Hereford cathedral, Hecate Cavendish, who can see ghosts, guards an ancient chained library where some lost souls become her dearest friends, others seek her helping in finding peace and others threaten the lives of everyone she loves.

A HUNGER TO KILL

Describes the true story of Ashland, Ohio detective Kim Mager who used psychological expertise to unravel the crimes of serial killer Shawn Grate, known as “The Ladykiller,” through a series of high-stakes interviews during which he confessed.

THE WRONG HANDS

While dealing with his dead wife’s yet-to-be-solved murder and a briefcase containing a pair of severed hands, unconventional Detective Declan Miller finally has leverage against Wayne Cutler, whom he suspects killed his wife, which lands him in a mess he might not be able to dance his way out of.

THE BOOK OF ELSEWHERE

A warrior who cannot be killed, known simply as “B,” wants to die and a U.S. black-ops group has promised they can help with that if he helps them in return, but when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event points to a force even more mysterious than B himself.

THE BEST LIES

Diagnosed a pathological liar with unimaginable skeletons in his family’s closet, crusading attorney Leo Balanoff, when his fingerprints show up on the murder weapon used to kill a ruthless drug dealer, is forced to go undercover for the FBI, finding himself backed into a corner, but has a few more cards left to play.

BAD RIVER

While investigating his brother’s mysterious death in South Dakota, Arliss Cutter returns to Alaska after the discovery of a woman’s body in the permafrost indicates the two have things in common in the sixth novel of the series following Breakneck.

WHAT WE’LL BURN LAST

Sixteen years after the disappearance of her sister, Grace, and Grace’s boyfriend Adam, Leyna, when something strange happens, returns home to find answers, and as a wildfire sparks, tempers flare and intentions turn deadly because someone knows what really happened that night?—?and how good the forest is at keeping its secrets.

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There’s an abundance of exciting new book releases on the horizon, and you won’t want to miss them…

FUNNY STORY

After being dumped for her boyfriend’s lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra’s freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.

THE SUMMER WE STARTED OVER

Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father’s increased eccentricities; her sister’s resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.

EXTINCTION

Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.

DARLING GIRLS

Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.

LOST BIRDS

Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.

THE PARIS NOVEL

Resigning herself to honor her mother’s last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who’s who of the 1980’s Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.

THE LAST WORD

Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.

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Here we have some new exciting releases for you to take a look at this week!

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DISAPPEARING

Accompanying her sister on a search for their mother, who ran off with an accomplished con man years earlier, Jess, as they make their way across the country, unraveling the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why, discovers a willingness to expand beyond the walls she’s so carefully built.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEVLINS

The charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, TJ Devlin finds his world turned upside down when his lawyer brother confesses he has just killed one of his clients and, seizing this chance to prove his worth, becomes entangled in a deadly web of deception and murder to save his brother.

CHEATER

San Diego Detective Kit McKittrick investigates a nursing home with numerous skeletons in the closet after a resident is found stabbed to death with his apartment ransacked, in the second novel of the series following Cold Blooded Liar.

THE ANGEL OF INDIAN LAKE

Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her. Indian Lake trilogy.

THE WILD SIDE

Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.

EVERYONE IS WATCHING

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening.

STUDIES AT THE SCHOOL BY THE SEA

Even though literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast, lately she’s been feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown.

~Semanur

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Here are some of the new books coming to our shelves this week for you to add to your book list! Click on the book title to go to our catalog and place a hold!

THE PRINCESS OF LAS VEGAS

Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.

THE #1 LAWYER

A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi’s #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation’s #1 suspect.

EXPIRATION DATE

Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together; usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.

JAMES

Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.

THE MORNINGSIDE

Settling at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City, Silvia, struggling with her new reality, becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse and is determined to unravel the truth about this woman’s life, and her own haunted past.

GOOD HALF GONE

After witnessing her twin sister get kidnapped years prior, Iris Walsh decides to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane where she believes the perpetrator is being held and discovers something even more sinister going on.

KILL FOR ME, KILL FOR YOU

Two ordinary women make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.

~Semanur

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There are tons of new releases that come to our shelves every week. With all the books being unique in their own ways, it is hard to choose between the ones that are suitable for your taste. Here are some books we picked out for you!

STILL SEE YOU EVERYWHERE

Asked by a female serial killer, with only 21 days left to live, to locate her long-lost sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, Frankie Elkin is led to a tech mogul’s remote island where she goes undercover to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman’s life.

IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW

Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the latest book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. Deep in the New York Catskills in 1908, tensions are running high, and it’s not long before a body delays Molly Murphy’s return to Westchester.

THE UNDERGROUND LIBRARY

When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city’s residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they’ve built.

WATCH WHERE THEY HIDE

Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.

BECOMING MADAM SECRETARY

Describes how Frances Perkins met a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt in turn-of-the-century New York and, despite initially not getting along, the pair formed a historic partnership that led them both to the White House.

2054

Set 20 years after the events of the New York Times best-selling 2034 the fate of American democracy is threatened by tech visionary in the Amazon rainforest who uses a breakthrough in AI to assassinate the president.

UNTIL AUGUST

In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.

~Semanur