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Daylight by David Baldacci: For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, just as Atlee is pressured to end her investigation into Mercy’s disappearance, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough and finally discovers the truth about what happened, and that truth will shock Pine to her very core.

Marauder by Clive Cussler: While stopping a violent attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Juan Cabrillo and his team discover something even more dangerous: a ruthless billionaire’s dying wish has allowed a paralyzing chemical to end up in the hands of a terrorist group. And the billionaire’s daughter will stop at nothing to see his plan through.

The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo: A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz: Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man in a historic Suffolk hotel, is found guilty of a murder that occurred at the hotel. Late author Alan Conway based a book in his detective series on the hotel. Cecily Treherne, the daughter of the hotel owner, read the book and believes the truth of Stefan’s innocence is found in its pages. But now…she has disappeared and editor Susan Ryeland travels to Suffolk to investigate.

Crisis by Kurt Schlichter: Kelly TurnbullBrought back to the United States to work with an elite group of operators who are seeking to stop the slide to open civil war, Turnbull pursues a leftist terrorist mastermind who will stop at nothing to burn down the country. His odyssey takes him from an attack on Capitol Hill to the “liberated zone” of Minneapolis to a desperate battle in the California desert. Turnbull is once again locked and loaded, with his trusty Wilson Combat .45 and his trademark bad attitude.

A Song for Dark Times by Ian Rankin: When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst – and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast – and a small town with big secrets – he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn’t want to find.

The Butcher’s Blessing by Ruth Gilligan: The Butcher’s roam from farm to farm in Ireland, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter. For photographer Ronan, the Butchers are ideal subjects: representatives of an older, more folkloric Ireland whose survival is now being tested. As he moves through the countryside, Ronan captures this world image by image-a lake, a cottage, and his most striking photo: a single Butcher, hung upside down in a pose of unspeakable violence.

Private Moscow by James Patterson: Before the New York Stock Exchange bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the victim’s wife hires Jack to find the killer. Jack identifies another murder in Moscow that appears to be linked. So he heads to Russia, and begins to uncover a conspiracy that could have global consequences.

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo: Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself–but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus putting her secret life at risk of exposure.

Deadly Cross by James Patterson: Kay Willingham, ex-wife of the sitting vice-president, is murdered inside a luxury limousine. Few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay’s troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected educator whose political ambitions may have endangered their lives. Alex is left without a suspect, even as he faces a desperate choice between breaking a trust and losing his way, as a detective, and as the protector of his family.

Didn’t See That Coming by Rachel Hollis: As Rachel writes, it is up to you how you come through your pain—you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you. To Rachel, a life well lived is one of purpose, focused only on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings: inspirational, aspirational, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful.

Speaking for Myself by Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Sarah Huckabee Sanders describes what it was like on the front lines and inside the White House, discussing her faith, being a working, her relationship with the press, and her unique role in the historic fight raging between the Trump administration and its critics for the future of our country.  Sarah offers unique perspective and unprecedented access to both public and behind-the-scenes conversations within the Trump White House.

Blackout by Candace Owens: Political activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right.

Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads by Al Sharpton: Reverend Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism to shed light on everything from race relations and gender bias to climate change and the global pandemic.

When More Is Not Better by Roger Martin: American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it? We must stop treating the economy as a perfectible machine, Martin argues, and shift toward viewing it as a complex adaptive system in which we must seek a fundamental balance of efficiency with resilience. Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-read guide for saving democratic capitalism

The Innovation Delusion by Lee Vinsel: Historians of technology Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell argue that our focus on shiny new things has made us poorer, less safe, and–ironically–less innovative. Drawing on years of original research and reporting, they show how our fixation on innovation has harmed the economy and offer a compelling plan for how we can shift our focus from the pursuit of growth at all costs, and back toward the people and technologies underpinning so much of modern life.

Obsession by Byron York: Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, investigates the Democrats’ efforts to end the Trump administration through impeachment and other means.

Blitz by David Horowitz: Attacks made against Trump have been the most brutal ever mounted against a sitting president of the United States. Blinded by deep-seated hatred of his person and his policies, the Left even desperately tried to oust Trump in a failed impeachment bid. Horowitz shows that their very attacks backfired, turning Trump himself into a near martyr while igniting the fervor of his base.

Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff: A portrayal of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s fifteen-year friendship with Melania Trump and observations of what many see as the most chaotic White House in history.

Follow the Money by Dan Bongino: Follow the Money exposes the labyrinth of connections between D.C.’s slimiest swamp creatures–Democrat operatives, lying informants, desperate, and destructive FBI agents, Obama power brokers, CIA renegade John Brennan, George Soros, and more–who conspired to attack Trump by manufacturing one bogus scandal after another.

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meachum: John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother’s unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father’s tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence.

The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty: Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world they may need to fight those they once loved.

The Golden Cage by Camilla Lackberg: Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company, Faye leaves school to support him. Then Faye finds herself alone, shattered, and financially devastated–but hell hath no fury like a woman with a violent past bent on vengeance. Jack is about to get exactly what he deserves–and so much more.

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue: In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at a hospital where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia’s world step two outsiders: a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel and a teenage girl procured from an orphanage as an extra set of hands. In the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves: On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope finds a car has skidded off a narrow road, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Inside, there’s a party in full swing. Outside, a woman lies dead in the snow.

The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith: In Edinburgh, the latest whispers hint at mysterious goings-on, and who but Isabel can be trusted to get to the bottom of them? At the same time, she must deal with her two small children, her husband, and her rather tempestuous niece, Cat, whose latest romantic entanglement comes–to no one’s surprise–with complications. Still, even with so much going on, Isabel, through the application of good sense, logic, and ethics, will triumph.

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell: A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s 11 year old son Hamnet–a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain–and the years leading up to the production of his great play. Hamnet offers luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.

The Order by Daniel Silva: When Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the papal apartments the night of the pope’s death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to Gabriel.

Relentless by R.A. Salvatore: Displaced in time and unexpectedly reunited with his son, Drizzt Do’Urden, Zaknafein has overcome the prejudices ingrained in him as a drow warrior to help his son battle the ambitious Spider Queen and stem the tide of darkness that has been unleashed upon the Forgotten Realms. When circumstances take an unexpected turn, Zaknafein discovers he must not only conquer the darkness but learn to accept the uncontrollable: life itself.

Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb: While Eve examines a fresh body in Washington Square Park, her husband, Roarke, spots a man among the onlookers he’s known since his younger days on the streets of Dublin. A man who claims to be his half-brother. A man who kills for a living and who burns with hatred for him. Eve is quick to suspect that the victim’s spouse resentful over his wife’s affair and poised to inherit her fortune would have happily paid an assassin to do his dirty work. Roarke is just as quick to warn her that if Lorcan Cobbe is the hitman, she needs to be careful.

Florence Sadler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland: Esther and Joseph Adler find their apartment bursting at the seams with one daughter home from college, the other on bed rest, and an immigrant from Nazi Germany. When tragedy strikes during one of Florence’s practice swims, Esther makes the decision to keep the truth about Florence’s death from Fannie-at least until the baby is born. She pulls the rest of the family into an elaborate web of secret keeping and lies, forcing to the surface long-buried tensions that show us just how quickly the act of protecting those we love can turn into betrayal.

Outsider by Linda Castillo: “Chief of Police Kate Burkholder’s past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn’t seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. The reunion takes an ominous turn when Kate learns Gina is wanted for killing an undercover officer.

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby: Beauregard “Bug” Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. However, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series of financial calamities, Bug feels he has no choice but to take one final job as the getaway driver for a daring diamond heist that could solve all his money troubles and allow him to go straight once and for all.

Fast Girls by Elise Hooper: This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society’s expectations of what women could achieve.

Into Darkness by Terry Goodkind: The story of a world confronted by an apocalyptic nightmare. Continues Richard and Kahlan’s lives after the Sword of Truth series in novella form.

A Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke: When Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell, he inadvertently stumbles into a real life Romeo and Juliet love story playing out in the in the New Iberia criminal underworld. A Private Cathedral is both vintage Burke and one of his most inventive works –mixing romance, violence, mythology and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming power of love.

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green: The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May. Now mysterious books seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers – all of which seems to suggest that April could be very much alive. In the midst of the search for the truth and the search for April is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality.

When These Mountains Burn by David Joy: When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead–just one word–sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide. As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the other.

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell: Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Over two years and two albums, Utopia Avenue navigates the dark end of the Sixties: its parties, drugs and egos, political change and personal tragedy; and the trials of life as a working band in London, the provinces, European capitals and, finally, the Promised Land of America. What is art? What is fame? What is music? How can the whole be more than the sum of its parts? Can idealism change the world? How does your youth shape your life? This is the story of Utopia Avenue. Not everyone lives to the end.

The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton: With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and who was suspicious of his own government. In Bolton’s telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment.

The Hardest Job in the World by John Dickerson: The presidency is a job of surprises with high stakes, requiring vision, management skill, and an even temperament. Ultimately, in order to evaluate candidates properly for the job, we need to adjust our expectations, and be more realistic about the goals, the requirements, and the limitations of the office. As Dickerson writes, “Americans need their president to succeed, but the presidency is set up for failure. It doesn’t have to be.”

Liberal Privilege by Donald Trump, Jr.: While Americans strive to make an honest living by working hard, liberals within the swamp have perfected a way of barely working while elevating themselves above all of us. This book will take you behind the scenes of the swamp, just as the nation gears up for the next presidential election as Donald Trump, Jr. reveals the truth the media has long refused to cover.

Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump: In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro: A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build–and they’ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can’t agree on what makes America special. We’re coming to the point that we can’t even agree what the word America itself means.

Donald Trump and His Assault on the Truth: Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth is based on the only comprehensive compilation and analysis of the more than 16,000 fallacious statements that Trump has uttered since the day of his inauguration. Drawing on Trump’s tweets, press conferences, political rallies, and TV appearances, The Washington Post identifies his most frequently used misstatements, biggest whoppers, and most dangerous deceptions.

Trump and the American Future by Newt Gingrich: The 2020 election will be a decisive choice for America, especially as we emerge from the coronavirus crisis. Not since the election of 1964 has the choice in an election been so stark. Featuring insights gleaned from the lifetime of experience and access only Newt Gingrich can bring, Trump and the American Future will be crucial reading for every citizen who wants to continue to make America great again.

The Impostors by Steve Bennen: I recent years, the Republican Party has undergone an astonishing metamorphosis, one so baffling and complete that few have fully reckoned with the reality and its consequences. The Impostors serves as a devastating indictment of the GOP’s breakdown while challenging Republicans with an imperative question: Are they ready to change direction? As Benen writes, “A great deal is riding on their answer.”

Fallout by John Soloman: An indispensable guide to the hidden background of recent events, Fallout shows how Putin’s bid for nuclear dominance produced a series of political scandals that ultimately posed one of the greatest threats to our democracy in modern American history.

Rage by Bob Woodward: An essential account of the Trump presidency draws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, diaries, and confidential documents to provide details about Trump’s moves as he faced a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.

All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny: On their first night in Paris, the whole family gathers dinner with Gamache’s billionaire godfather, Stephen Horowitz. Walking home, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family.

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson: A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society called Bethel discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her

The Woman in the Mirror by Rebecca James: In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey’s twin children. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting, and their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel, the manor itself seems to lash out. What she finds in Cornwall is a legacy borne from greed and deceit, twisted by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage.

Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang: New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for a girl who relies on facts and figures to know what’s real—or whether she can trust those closest to her.

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Peter Straub’s Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends.

We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin: Found on the side of a remote highway, half-dead and blowing wishes in a field of dandelions, the young girl Angel refuses to speak. Local pariah Wyatt, who believes he can communicate with the dead, finds her and takes her home to nurse her back to health. Now a cop, Odette must reenter Wyatt’s ghost-ridden world. As she begins to coax Angel into speaking and slowly pieces together her identity, Odette is ignited to reopen a cold case that plunges her back into a small Texas town’s dark, violent mythology.

Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Adam Christopher: Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. Over Hopper’s protests, Eleven pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement– and the tough questions begin. Summer, New York City, 1977. Returning home from Vietnam, a young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show up and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth.

Half Moon Bay by Jonathan Kellerman: Deputy Coroner Clay Edison receives a call. Workers demolishing a local park have made a haunting discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a child. But whose? And how did it get there? No sooner has Clay begun to investigate than he receives a second call – this one from a local businessman, wondering if the body could belong to his sister. She went missing fifty years ago. Or at least he thinks so. It’s a little complicated. And things only get stranger from there.

The Confessions of Frannie Langdon by Sara Collins: London is abuzz with the case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder. Testimonies claim she is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore. Frannie doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship.

Royal by Danielle Steel: Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse– and falls deeply in love with her protectors’ son. When tragic events leaves an infant orphaned, the child is raised by a stable manager and his wife. No one, not even she, knows of her lineage. Then a secret finally surfaces, and a long lost princess emerges.

Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer: When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. At last, readers can experience Edward’s version. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his many years. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward’s past and the complexity of his thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger?

The End of Her by Shari Lapena: In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. Then a woman from Patrick’s past drops in on them unexpectedly, raising questions about his late first wife, and when the police start digging, Stephanie’s trust in her husband begins to falter. As their marriage crumbles, Stephanie feels herself coming unglued, and soon she isn’t sure what–or who–to believe. Now the most important thing is to protect her girls, but at what cost?

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christoper Paolini: A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.

The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel: Eva, a semi-retired librarian, is shelving books one morning when she runs across an article about The Book of Lost Names. The book, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France by the Nazis, is now housed in a Berlin library. It appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?

Thick as Thieves by Sandra Brown: Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who vanished twenty years ago following a heist gone wrong, returns to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake to finally get answers to the questions that torment her about his disappearance, but little does she know, two of her father’s co-conspirators — a war hero and a corrupt district attorney — are watching her every move.

The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi: There are rules for murder mysteries. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, calculated the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. Now Grant lives in seclusion. Until book editor Julia Hart shows up wanting to republish his book. But there are things in the stories that don’t add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve.

Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney: Pete Riley opens his door to find Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete’s son, Theo, isn’t actually his son—he is the Lamberts’, switched at birth by an understaffed hospital while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife, Lucy. Then a plan to sue the hospital triggers an official investigation that unearths some disturbing questions about the night their children were switched. How much can they trust the other parents—or even each other?

1^st Case by James Patterson:  Genius programmer Angela Hoot has always been at the top of her class. Now she’s at the bottom of the FBI food chain — until her first case threatens everyone around her. With little training, Angela is quickly plunged into a tough case: tracking murderous brothers who go by the name Poet and the Engineer. When her boss tells her to “watch and listen,” Angela’s mind kicks into overdrive. The obsessive thinking that earned her As on campus can prove fatal in the field.

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher: When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, joins the White Council’s security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago–and all he holds dear?

Chaos by Iris Johansen: CIA agent Alisa Flynn is determined to rescue schoolgirls kidnapped from their African boarding school in a ripped-from-the-headlines story. But Alisa is hiding her personal stake in the rescue from her co-conspirator and billionaire inventor Gabe Korgan, and when the truth gets out, the stakes grow even higher. Now Alisa and Gabe’s budding relationship may be at a breaking point.

The Stone Wall by Beverly Lewis: A Lancaster County tour guide researches her Alzheimer’s patient grandmother’s Plain heritage and the story behind a mysterious stone wall while confronting a difficult choice about her growing feelings for a handsome Mennonite and a young Amish widower.

Muzzled by David Rosenfelt: Beth reunites lost dogs with their owners. Over the years, she’s helped Andy reunite countless dogs from the Tara Foundation–the dog-rescue foundation that’s Andy’s true passion–with their owners. A particular case is weighing on Beth. Months of searching for a stray’s owner led to a gruesome discovery: the owner had been murdered. Andy is happy to help, but that that’s not why Beth is there … the ‘murdered’ owner contacted Beth, and he wants his dog back.

The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs: Natalie Harper feels she must sell the bookshop she’s inherited to pay for her grandfather’s care, but he refuses to acquiesce. After she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop, Natalie carries out her grandfather’s request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher to do the necessary and ongoing repairs. His young daughter, Dorothy, also becomes a regular at the store, and she and Natalie begin reading together while Peach works.

Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley: Leonid McGill’s spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid’s help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. But when a famed and feared assassin puts out a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past.

Deadlock by Catherine Coulter: A series of three red boxes are delivered personally to Savich at the Hoover Building, each one containing puzzle pieces of a town only FBI agent Pippa Cinelli recognizes. Savich sends in Cinelli to investigate undercover but someone knows who she is. Savich and Sherlock are up to their eyebrows in danger, but can they figure out the red box puzzle and the young wife’s secret before it’s too late?

Cajun Justice by James Patterson: Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. What he thought was a simple security post unravels a tangled web of corruption, greed, and extortion, but now Cain is on his own and without the wealth of resources he had with the Secret Service.

A Walk along the Beach by Debbie Macomber: Inseparable since the sudden loss of their mother as teenagers, Willa and Harper Lakey are perfect opposites. When a handsome customer shows interest in Willa, Harper urges her sister to take a chance on love–something totally out of Willa’s comfort zone. But just as Willa begins to explore the possibilities, Harper receives crushing news that threatens to bring everything to a screeching halt.

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker:  The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family’s unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

The Hour of Fate by Susan Berfield: The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.

Lincoln on the Verge by Edward Widmer: As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration–an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent by any means necessary. Drawing on new research, this account reveals the President-Elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, foiling an assassination attempt, and forging an unbreakable bond with the American people.

What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO by Mike Lindell: In this memoir written by MyPillow, Inc., inventor and CEO, Mike Lindell describes his entrepreneurial journey and how he overcame addiction to build one of America’s most successful brands. Woven throughout the book are themes of a “what are the odds” outlook, as well as hope, and an unwavering spirit to never give up.

The Lives of Bees by Thomas Seeley: Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. He describes how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits of honey bees.  

The Last Boat out of Shanghai by Helen Zia: The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist Revolution–a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Zia weaves the story of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the U.S.

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold: Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness, and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time – but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

A Guide Book of United States Coins 2021: Shows and lists current prices for antique American coins.

Make Your Own Living Trust by Denis Clifford: Make Your Own Living Trust includes all the forms you need to create your own trust, plus step-by-step instructions for filling them out. Completely updated and revised, this edition includes the latest tax and legal information, including updated information about the federal estate tax. Good in all states except Louisiana.

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The Burning by Megha Majumdar:  After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people in India become inextricably entangled. A novel about fate, power, opportunity, and class; about innocence and guilt, betrayal and love, and the corrosive media cycle that manufactures falsehoods masquerading as truths–A Burning is a debut novel of exceptional power and urgency, haunting and beautiful, brutal, vibrant, impossible to forget.

All Adults Here by Emma Straub: When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? It might be that only Astrid’s 13-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most.

To Wake the Giant: a novel of Pearl Harbor by Jeff Shaara: In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions. But no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat. Told through the eyes of widely diverse characters, this story looks at all sides of the drama and puts the reader squarely in the middle.

Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters by Jennifer Chiaverini: In May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide. The Todd sisters’ fates were bound to their husbands’ choices as some joined the Lincoln administration, others the Confederate Army. Now, though discord and tragedy have strained their bonds, Elizabeth knows they must come together as sisters to help Mary in her most desperate hour.  

Brave Girl, Quiet Girl by Catherine Hyde: In a matter of seconds, Brooke’s life is shattered when she’s carjacked, and her daughter Etta, still strapped in her seat, disappears into the Los Angeles night. Miles away, Etta is found by Molly, a homeless teen who is all too used to darkness. Brooke’s and Molly’s desperate paths converge and an unlikely friendship is formed. With it, Brooke and Molly will come to discover that what’s lost—and what’s found—can change in a heartbeat.

Robert B. Parker’s Grudge Match by Mike Lupica: Sunny’s long-time gangster associate Tony Marcus comes to her for help. He needs Sunny to find his girlfriend and business partner who appears to have left in a hurry. But when a witness is murdered hours after speaking to Sunny, it’s clear there’s more at stake than just Tony’s love life. Someone–maybe even Tony himself–doesn’t want this woman on the loose…and will go to any lengths to make sure she stays silent.

In a New York Minute by Cynthia Kolle: Julia Bennett impulsively follows her heart to NYC on a year-long adventure. She doesn’t know what she expects to find when she gets there, but what happens is far beyond her comprehension. The only thing she wonders now; should stick around for the exciting conclusion, or bail out as soon as possible? Written by a Nebraska author and former Alliance resident.

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore: It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order… Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside.

Golden Poppies by Laila Ibrahim: Years ago, two families intertwined on a plantation in Virginia when two women developed a bond stronger than blood, despite the fact that one was enslaved and the other was the privileged daughter of the plantation’s owner. Now it’s 1894, and as harsh realities of racial divides and the injustices of the Gilded Age conspire to hold them back, the women find they need each other more than ever. Amid the tumult of a quickly changing nation, their destiny depends on what they’re willing to risk for liberation.

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