Hardcover Fiction
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#1 DEADLOCKED
Charlaine Harris
The telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates a murder that has more to do with her than she imagines.
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#2 THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
Stephen King
A new entry in the Dark Tower epic western-fantasy series; this novel, King says, is “Dark Tower 4.5.”
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#3 THE INNOCENT
David Baldacci
A hitman who has become a target of the government rescues a teenage girl whose parents have been murdered and who may be at the center of a dangerous conspiracy.
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#4 CALICO JOE
John Grisham
A pitcher beans a promising rookie, ending both their careers; years later, the pitcher’s son brings them together.
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#5 THE WITNESS
Nora Roberts
A programmer hides from the Russian mob in the Ozarks.
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#6 ROBERT B. PARKER'S LULLABY
Ace Atkins
Spenser helps a girl investigate her mother’s murder; a continuation of the series by Parker, who died in 2010.
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#7 GUILTY WIVES
James Patterson and David Ellis
Four friends in Monte Carlo for a luxurious girls’ vacation find themselves in prison, accused of a crime.
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#8 THE LOST YEARS
Mary Higgins Clark
A biblical scholar who made an amazing discovery is murdered.
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#9 UNNATURAL ACTS
Stuart Woods
The New York lawyer Stone Barrington becomes involved in the family problems of a billionaire hedge fund manager.
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#10 THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE
Adriana Trigiani
Childhood sweethearts in turn-of-the-20th-century Italy meet again in America.
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#11 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
George R R Martin
After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
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#12 SACRÉ BLEU
Christopher Moore
Vincent van Gogh’s friends in the 19th-century Parisian art world investigate his suicide.
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#13 THE REVEREND'S WIFE
Kimberla Lawson Ro
The Rev. Curtis Black and his wife, Charlotte, are on the brink of divorce.
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#14 BORN OF SILENCE
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Darling battles the resistance and vows to regain the throne his uncle stole; a League novel.
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#15 SKINNYDIPPING
Bethenny Frankel with Eve Adamson
An entrepreneur lands a role on a reality show where her loud mouth gets her into trouble with the rest of the cast.
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#16 THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION
Alexander McCall Smith
The 13th novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
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#17 CRYSTAL GARDENS
Amanda Quick
In the first book of a new Victorian series, Ladies of Lantern Street, a paranormal investigator is stalked by an assassin; by Jayne Ann Krentz, writing pseudonymously.
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#18 COME HOME
Lisa Scottoline
A woman joins with her estranged former stepdaughter to investigate the possible murder of her ex-husband.
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#19 THE LIFEBOAT
Charlotte Rogan
A power struggle in the lifeboat carrying survivors of an ocean liner’s mid-Atlantic explosion in 1914.
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#20 THE PARIS WIFE
Paula McLain
Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, narrates this novel set in Paris.
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