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“Bullets, blood, bodies, and belly-laughs: all the ingredients of a classic mystery novel. Stephen Spotswood hard-boils with the best of ’em!”–Alan Bradley, bestselling author of the Flavia de Luce Mystery Series Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn’t care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. […]

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In the modern world, everything is connected, including how we kill. A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord’s safe house on the Venezuelan border. They’re watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in […]

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a riveting novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts […]

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Click to request eGalleys of our favorite October titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the October list ends on 9/1. Click to Request eGalleys of These October Titles and More. Memorial by Bryan Washington What happens when a love story collides with the limits of love–and everyone has an […]

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“A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom…SUCH FUN!”–Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to…THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in […]

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Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to all the books selected for the August 2020 LibraryReads Top Ten List, including the Hall of Fame Pick Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis! Click to Prepare for Your August Readers’ Advisory. Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel by Fiona Davis (Hall of Fame) “A […]

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Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was […]

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