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Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, Bk 1) by Lucy Score
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon.
Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.
Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was... more
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Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
In the wake of the Great War, London is a restless city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption, in this tale of seduction and betrayal... 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of... more
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Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger
What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah’s loving and generous tech-mogul brother found the listing online. The reviews are... more
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The First Ladies by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune -- an unlikely friendship that changed the world.
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to... more
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, Bk 1) by Heather Fawcett
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never... more
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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the... more
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Billy Summers by Stephen King
Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war... more
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left... more
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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close... more
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The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
Diving into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and to rewrite the future... Two women. Many aliases. Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job.... more
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The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, Bk 1) by C. J. Archer
Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she’s descended from magicians, she’s skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she’s just an... more
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The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
Who decides which stories are worth telling?
Maggie Banks's life is a bit of a mess. After losing a job and moving back home with her parents, she's desperate for a new Life Plan. So when her best friend asks for help running her struggling bookstore in the quaint town of Bells River,... more
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The Runaway (Peter Ash, Bk 7) by Nick Petrie
When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine...
War veteran Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what... more
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Lessons at the School by the Sea (Little School by the Sea, Bk 3) by Jenny Colgan
School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House...
Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie’s attraction to her colleague David... more
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Cake and I Scream (Down South Cafe, Bk 8) by Gayle Leeson
In the snowy retreat of Beech Mountain, the grand opening of a ski lodge becomes the backdrop for a chilling crime when a cast-iron skillet attack shatters the festivities, drawing Amy, Scott, and Aunt Bess into an icy puzzle.
Join Amy, the owner of the Down South Cafe, her quirky Aunt Bess,... more
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Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Christmas comes early—far too early—to McCredie’s little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It’s summer, but an American production company has decided that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. After all, who can resist... more
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All the Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan
The chilling story of the abduction of two teenagers, their escape, and the dark secrets that, years later, bring them back to the scene of the crime.
It’s senior-year spring break, and Noelle Meyer and Evan Sinclair have been kidnapped. Neither knows why they were chosen, only that... more
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (10th Anniversary Edition) by Cheryl St...
For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through her hit podcast, Dear Sugars, and now through her popular Substack newsletter. Tiny... more
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Summer Stage by Meg Mitchell Moore
The Trevino family hasn’t spent much quality time together lately. But as the summer months arrive, they find themselves all together on Block Island.
Amy Trevino, a high school teacher and occasional theater director, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous... more
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Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh
She’s meant to be catching flights, not catching feelings…
Molly and Andrew are just trying to get home to Ireland for the holidays, when a freak snowstorm grounds their flight.
Nothing romantic has ever happened between them: they’re friends and... more
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The Handler (Maddie Castle, Bk 1) by L. T. Ryan & C. R. Gray
Wounded in the line of duty, former K9 Handler Maddie Castle finds herself back to square one. The bullet that shredded her leg took the life of her four-legged partner. The pain of recovery goes well beyond the daily physical torment she endures.
Time is the supposed healer of all wounds. In... more
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Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her... more
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Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly by Marie Bostwick
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had... more