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Albom, Mitch
For One More Day

 

Charles "Chick" Benetto turns to the bottle when his beloved mother Pauline passes away.  Through encountering her ghost, he realizes that by putting himself first in his life, he has caused his mother pain, and he finds the root of his failures.

 

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Bohjalian, Chris
Skeletons at the Feast

 

Bohjalian was inspired to write this novel after reading the unpublished diary of a Prussian woman fleeing Germany in 1945.  His characters are Jewish escapees, Prussian aristocrates and Germans who sympathize with Hitler.  The suffering brought by WWI is vividly portrayed.

 

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Child, Lee
Nothing to Lose

 

After getting beat up and put into jail in Colorado, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher puts his mark on the place by investigating a local manufacturing plant linked to the Iraq war and a doomsday cult.

 

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Coben, Harlan
Hold Tight

 

Sixteen-year-old Adam Bayne is struggling to cope with the world around him, and his parents Tia and Mike can't help but feel more than a little concerned that strange events occurring in their neighborhood may lead to Adam's demise.

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Cornwell, Patricia
The Front

 

Cornwell brings back characters from her book "At Risk": state investigator Win Garan, district attorney Monique Lamont, and Garan's psychic grandmother.  Garan is sent to Watertown by Lamont to investigate police departments taking matters into their own hands through an association called the FRONT.

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Crais, Robert
Chasing Darkness

 

When Elvis Cole helped free an innocent man of a murder charge, he was a hero.  What happens now when that same man is found dead clutching photos of the same
murder victim...

 

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Deaver, Jeffrey
The Broken Window

 

Lincoln Rhyme, forensic consultant with the New York Police Dept. and partner Amelia Sachs hunt a psychopath who uses data mining to carefully select victims and the innocent who he will frame for his crimes.  Rhyme's tragic adolescence is also part of the plot.

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Faulks, Sebastian
Devil May Care

 

A James Bond book not written by Ian Fleming, this novel celebrates the centenary of Fleming's birth in 1908.  The setting is Paris, the villain is pharmaceutical magnate Dr. Julius Gorner, and the love interest ins Scarlett Papava.

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Giffin, Emily
Love the One You're With

 

Ellen Dempsey believes she's happily married to Andy but now her feelings of self-doubt and resentment along with her move away from New York City to a less desired Atlanta with Andy may lead her back into the arms of Leo, her moody first love, who is now back in the picture.

 

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Green, Jane
The Beach House

 

Nan finds herself aging and without money, so why not rent rooms in her old Nantucket home on the water?  The people who move into her house provide Nan with a new family and lots of drama.

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Harris, Charlaine
From Dead to Worse

 

The Eighth Sookie Stackhouse novel, from the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, finds the mind-reading heroine working at the vampire bar, Merlotte's, and right in the middle of a battle between Vegas vampires and her Louisiana supernatural friends.

 

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Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns

 

The story takes place in Afghanistan and chronicles the lives of two women: Mariam, who is trapped in an unhappy arranged marriage, and Laila, who becomes an additional wife of Mariam's husband.  The two women band together to survive a violent and patriarchal society.

 

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Johansen, Iris and Roy Johansen
Silent Thunder

 

Hannah Bryson must guarantee that a decommissioned Soviet submarine is safe for tourists, but she and her brother Connor are threatened after they find a message hidden inside the sub.

 

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Koontz, Dean
The Darkest Evening of the Year

 

Amy Redwing rescues golden retrievers but after she risks her life to save Nickie, a series of strange events that immediately follow put her in danger.

 

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Macomber, Debbie
Twenty Wishes

 

The setting is Seattle as four widows make their bucket lists of things the still need to do with their lives.

 

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Martini, Steve
Shadow of Power

 

An author who reveals information devastating to sacred American beliefs is murdered in San Diego and DA Paul Madriani takes on what he believes is not an open and
shut case.

 

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Patterson, James
Sundays at Tiffany's

 

Jane's imaginary friend Michael is a constant source of love and comfort throughout her life.

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Reich, Christopher
Rules of Deception

 

A surgeon who works for Doctors Without Borders, Jonathan Ranson has a great wife and professional partner but all is not what it seems and he's caught up in events he couldn't have imagined.

 

 

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Silva, Daniel
Moscow Rules

 

Silva's hero Gabriel Allon is trying to save the world from the worst terrorist attacks since 9/11 by stopping Russian arms dealer Ivan Kharkov.

 

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Sparks, Nicholas
The Choice

 

Gabrielle Holland and Travis Parker experience romantic complications when they become neighbors.  Will Travis give up bachelorhood, and will Gabby choose him over her longtime boyfriend? The second part of the book sees Travis eleven years later when he must make a difficult choice after a car accident.

 

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The Last Patriot: A Thriller

Thor, Brad
The Last Patriot

 

Scot Horvath is a Navy SEAL turned Homeland Security operative.  His mission: solve an ancient secret that has the power to stop all militant Muslim actions.

 

 

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Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

Weisberger, Lauren
Chasing Harry Winston

 

Three best friends struggle with being young and rich in New York City.  The plot revolves around the pact that two of them make to change their lives.

 

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Wroblewski, David
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel

 

A young man, Edgar, born mute, communites in extraordinary ways.  Edgar and his family's breed of dogs, the Sawtelles, must fight for survival when the family is
thrown into chaos.

 

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