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Julie Clark
(40,295)
Summary: Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her...
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Call #: F CLARK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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Elisabeth Thomas
(11,280)
Summary: Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly...
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Call #: F THOMAS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Sandie Jones
(5,373)
Summary: Sisters Kate and Lauren meet for Sunday lunch every week without fail, especially after the loss of their father. But a knock at the door is about to change everything. A young woman by the name of...
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Call #: F JONES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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Riley Sager
(51,547)
Summary: Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on and play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes. Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the...
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Call #: F SAGER
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Stephanie Wrobel
(18,548)
Summary: For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all...
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Call #: F WROBEL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Tanen Jones
(5,397)
Summary: Robin is dead. If Leslie had arrived at her sister's cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, they would have had their first reunion in a decade. Robin ran away from home as a teenager, while...
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Call #: F JONES
Locations: Adult Fiction, New Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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Megan Miranda
(16,372)
Summary: Arden Maynor was just six years old when she was swept away while sleepwalking in a rainstorm. Fame as the survivor of Widow Hills undid her life, until she moves far away and changes her name. She...
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Call #: F MIRANDA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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Lucy Foley
(198,134)
Summary: On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and...
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Call #: F FOLEY
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 6
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John Grisham
Series:
Camino Island Novels - #2
(37,705)
Summary: Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen -- even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime. Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the...
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Call #: F GRISHAM
Locations: Adult Fiction, New Adult Fiction
copies in: 3 of 4
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Sarah Pinborough
(5,358)
Summary: "Being the second wife can be murder...Once a cheat, always a cheat,| they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago....
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Call #: F PINBOROUGH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Greer Hendricks
(38,290)
Summary: "The thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us. Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her...
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Call #: F HENDRICKS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 3
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Liz Moore
(47,655)
Summary: "A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone...
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Call #: F MOORE
Locations: Adult Fiction, New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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C. J. Tudor
(13,140)
Summary: "Driving home one night, Gabe is stuck behind a rusty old car. He sees a little girl's face appear in its rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It's his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees...
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Call #: F TUDOR
Location: Adult Fiction
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Joe Ide
Series:
IQ Novels - #4
(1,773)
Summary: Cristiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach...
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Call #: F IDE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Chris Hauty
(1,970)
Summary: Recently elected President Richard Monroe--populist, controversial, and divisive--is at the center of an increasingly polarized Washington, DC. Never has the partisan drama been so tense or the...
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Call #: F HAUTY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Catherine Steadman
(11,580)
Summary: "When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find...
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Call #: F STEADMAN
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 2
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Chris Bohjalian
(10,700)
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor...
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Call #: HOT PICK F BOHJALIAN
copies in: 2 of 2
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Walter Mosley
(1,275)
Summary: "Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to...
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Call #: F MOSLEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Patterson
(8,021)
Summary: The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense...
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Call #: F PATTERSON
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 1 of 2
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Lisa Gardner
(15,482)
Summary: "FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing...
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Call #: F GARDNER
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 1 of 3
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William Gibson
Series:
Peripheral - #2
(6,352)
Summary: ""One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane,...
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Call #: F GIBSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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