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The Alice network: a novel
By Kate Quinn. 2017
Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American…
socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--team up to discover the truth, no matter where it leads. Bestseller. 2017.Ten days in the hills
By Jane Smiley. 2007
For ten days in the L.A. hills, as the United States invades Iraq, middle-aged movie director Max and his lover…
Elena idly visit with friends and family. They watch movies and debate topics such as their diets, lovers, and politics. Includes strong language and sex. 2007.The Afghan
By Frederick Forsyth. 2006
Something big is about to happen - the intelligence community is certain of it. Exactly what will happen and where…
is open to wild speculation. To date, it has been impossible to infiltrate Al Qaeda, but now a daring new plan is in the works. A notorious Afghan named Izmat Khan, held at Guantanamo Bay for five years, is finally going to be released - or is he? Meanwhile, Iraq-born Colonel Mike Martin begins his impossibly dangerous mission. 2006.Tell
By Frances Itani. 2014
In 1919, after the end of the Great War, the men and women of Deseronto struggle to recover from the…
wounds of the past, both visible and hidden. Kenan, a young soldier who has returned from the war damaged and disfigured, confines himself to his house on the Bay of Quinte, wandering outside only under the cover of night. His wife, Tress, attempting to adjust to the trauma that overwhelms her husband and which has changed their marriage, seeks advice from her Aunt Maggie. Maggie finds joy in the choral society started by Lukas, a music director who has moved to the town from an unknown place in war-torn Europe. As the decade draws to a close and the lives of these characters become more entwined, each of them must decide what to share and what to hide, and how their actions will lead them into the future. Bestseller. 2014.The alchemist
By Paulo Coelho, Alan R Clarke. 1998
The story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a treasure. He journeys to the…
markets of Tangiers and into the Egyptian desert where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him. This story teaches us about the wisdom of listening to our hearts, reading the omens along life's path and following our dreams. Bestseller. 1998. Uniform title: Alquimista.The 9th judgment (Women's murder club. #9.)
By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2010
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends puzzle over motives in two cases they don't realize are linked. A well-known actor…
insists the Hello Kitty jewellery robber shot his wife, while the Lipstick Killer begins murdering mothers and children. Bestseller. 2010.The 8th confession (Women's murder club. #8.)
By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2009
The Women's Murder Club investigates the brutal death of street person Bagman Jesus. Meanwhile detective Lindsay Boxer reluctantly examines the…
high-profile case of young socialite couple Isa and Ethan Bailey, who mysteriously died in their sleep. 2009.Ten big ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum novel. #10.)
By Janet Evanovich. 2004
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sidekick, Lula, witness a convenience store robbery. Because Stephanie can identify the…
culprit, she is a hit-list target. Stephanie tracks a killer and suppresses her attraction to Ranger. Bestseller. 2004.Thanksgiving
By Janet Evanovich. 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia. A chance encounter with a wayward pet rabbit introduces potter Megan Murphy to the animal’s owner, pediatrician Patrick…
Hunter. Megan and Patrick become unlikely guardians of an abandoned infant, and as Thanksgiving approaches, the pair contemplates making their makeshift family legitimate. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006.Suite française: roman
By Irène Némirovsky. 2004
Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un…
désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, dévoilant avec une extraordinaire lucidité l'âme de chaque Français pendant l'Occupation (enrichi de notes et de la correspondance d'Irène Némirovsky), Suite française ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan à vif de notre mémoire. Prix Renaudot, 2004.Sweetland: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2015
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now they are facing…
resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay on alone. That coot is Moses Sweetland, who refuses to leave. But in the face of determined opposition from his family and friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night. Bestseller. 2015.Tate: Tate (McKettricks of Texas. #1.)
By Linda Lael Miller. 2010
All Tate McKettrick cares about is giving his twin daughters a normal life after he and his wife divorce. But…
can he make time to repair his own broken heart? Bestseller. Followed by "Garrett". 2010.Taggerung (Redwall Abbey. #14.)
By Brian Jacques. 2003
A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe…
and goes off to seek adventures of his own. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "Lord Brocktree", followed by "Triss". Bestseller. 2003.Tea time for the traditionally built (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. #10.)
By Alexander McCall Smith. 2009
Mr. Leungo Molofololo, proprietor of a local soccer team, believes a saboteur is to blame for a recent losing streak.…
He hires Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to investigate the players. Meanwhile Mma Ramotswe tries to salvage her trusty, but ailing, little van. Bestseller. 2009.Sleeping in the ground: an Inspector Banks novel (Inspector Alan Banks mystery. #24.)
By Peter Robinson. 2017
After a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team must unravel a baffling mystery,…
and corner a killer hiding in plain sight. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award. 2017.Secrets of the tulip sisters
By Susan Mallery. 2017
Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings:…
Griffith Burnett--Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly--and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward, and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep when she was alone. Bestseller. 2017.Spymaster: a thriller (Scot Harvath. #17.)
By Brad Thor. 2018
Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity…
of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules-all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before. Bestseller. 2018.Strange weather: four short novels
By Joe Hill. 2017
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug…
who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump, and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." Short horror stories that deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Novels.Someone to love (Westcott novel. #1.)
By Mary Balogh. 2016
Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath, knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers…
that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However, they want nothing to do with her or her attempts to share her new wealth. But the new earl's guardian is interested in Anna. Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition from orphan to lady. As London society and Anna's newfound relatives threaten to overwhelm her, Avery steps in to rescue her and finds himself vulnerable to feelings and desires he has hidden so well for so long. Followed by "Someone to hold". Bestseller. 2016.Sting
By Sandra Brown. 2016
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard locked eyes across a run-down bayou bar, something definitely sparked between them. Shaw was…
the kind of tall, dark, and ruthless man who was bad news to women and stunning, elegant Jordie definitely shouldn't have been in a dive like this. Unfortunately, romance wasn't in the air; Shaw Kinnard was there to kill her. As Shaw's partner takes aim at the New Orleans party planner, she's certain her time has come, but Shaw has other plans. The hit man abducts Jordie hoping to get his hands on the thirty million dollars her brother has stolen. Now on the run from the FBI and her brother's crooked boss, they'll have to work together to stay alive, but staying together might be the most dangerous thing they could do. Bestseller. 2016.