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Other birds
Allen, Sarah Addison
Paper Book
The New York Times Bestseller From the acclaimed author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale of lost souls, lonely strangers, secrets that shape us, and how the right flock can guide you home. Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of...
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Mother ocean father nation : a novel
Batsha, Nishant
Paper Book
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD "A brilliant debut novel." --Joyce Carol Oates A brother and sister's paths diverge in the wake of political upheaval: one forced to leave, one left behind On a small Pacific...
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The wrong victim
Brennan, Allison
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan comes a gripping new thriller. A lethal attack with no clear motive...and a killer dead-set on keeping the truth buried. A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the...
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The killing stones
Cleeves, Ann
Paper Book
"Everything Ann Cleeves writes is incredible."--Richard Osman "This novel is more than worth every minute you spend with it."--David Baldacci A Washington Post Best Mystery of 2025 The Killing Stones...
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Ironwood
Connelly, Michael
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in. Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina...
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Death on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery
Courage, Rachel Ekstrom
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling series that began with Murder by Cheesecake continues with an all-new Golden Girls cozy mystery! When the Girls accept a very strange invitation to a lavish party on a remote island estate, they find that murder has a way of ruining even...
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Disco witches of Fire Island : a novel
Fell, Blair
Paper Book
It's 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond the heartbreak of having lost his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The two friends are...
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The violet hour
Frank, Victoria Benton
Paper Book
A heartwarming and empowering novel about thriving after tragedy, from the author of the "enchanting, hilarious, and insightful" (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times author) My Magnolia Summer. Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud,...
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Camino ghosts
Grisham, John
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Will an ancient curse darken the skies over Camino Island? Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann are about to find out. Don't miss John Grisham's forthcoming thriller, The French Illusion! Mercer Mann, a popular writer from...
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The Island Club
Harrison, Nicola
Paper Book
"The Island Club is a Carrie Soto is Back meets Big Little Lies delight that will exceed all reader expectations!" --Lynda Loigman "A story of the power of friendship, the defiance of societal expectations, and the finding of one's true self." -- Kristin...
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Reckless girls
Hawkins, Rachel
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes Reckless Girls, a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico,...
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Troubles in paradise : a novel
Hilderbrand, Elin
Paper Book
Travel to the bright Caribbean for love, romance, and passion in this sizzling summer read from a nationally bestselling author and "Queen of the Summer Novel" (People). After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her...
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A line to kill : a novel
Horowitz, Anthony
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. "Horowitz is a master of misdirection, and his brilliant self-portrayal, wittily...
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A five-letter word for love : a novel
James, Amy
Paper Book
A heartwarming and humorous romantic comedy in which an unlikely couple fall in love over Wordle. Twenty-seven-year-old Emily doesn't have a lot going well in her life right now. She dreams of a creative career but works as a receptionist in an auto shop. She longs for big city life...
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Beyond summerland
Lecoat, Jenny
Paper Book
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Indigo Isle
Lowe, T. I.
Paper Book
Christy Award Winner for Contemporary Romance and Book of the Year! "Storms show up and there ain't a thing we can do to stop them." Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back.Now she's a successful Hollywood location scout who...
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The fury
Michaelides, Alex
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel, The Fury. The highly original story presents the reader with the king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels, and a host of...
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Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.
Paper Book
Read the timeless classic about the beloved Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery spirit, behind the hit Netflix series Anne with an E--now celebrating a hundred years of this children's favorite. "[Anne is] the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since...
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Mansion beach : a novel
Moore, Meg Mitchell
Paper Book
From Summer Stage national bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore comes a sparkling novel following a young woman entwined in the opulent lives of her neighbors on Block Island, set against a backdrop of scandal, secrets, and a not-so-subtle love triangle, perfect for...
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This is not a game : a novel
Mullen, Kelly
Paper Book
Golden Girls meets Only Murders in the Building MURDER MARTINIS A GRANDMOTHER-GRANDDAUGHTER SLEUTHING DUO DACHSHUNDS (x2) A GLAMOROUS ISLAND MANOR Widow Mimi lives on idyllic Mackinac Island, where...
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Deeper Than the Ocean
Ojito, Mirta
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A moving multigenerational novel about the enduring power of a mother's love, the ripple effect of secrets, and the strength of family bonds from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In 1919 Spain, Catalina Quintana...
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Nights of plague : a novel
Pamuk, Orhan
Paper Book
From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria--the...
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Wish You Were Here A Novel
Picoult, Jodi
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes "a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit" (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy...
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Floreana : a novel
Raymond, Midge
Paper Book
On the Galápagos Islands, the lives of two women--a century apart--converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continent. After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana...
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The bone hacker
Reichs, Kathy
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs's twenty-second high-stakes thriller! In this "attention-grabbing" (Booklist) narrative, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan follows a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos and enters a sinister...
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Bad summer people
Rosenblum, Emma
Paper Book
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Welcome to glorious Tuga : a novel
Segal, Francesca
Paper Book
A bighearted page-turner set on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean about love, community, and what it means to come home Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny South...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. "Treat yourself to this book, please--I can't recommend it highly enough."--Elizabeth Gilbert,...
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Mists Over the Channel Islands: A Novel of World War II
Sundin, Sarah
Paper Book
Behind enemy lines, adversary and ally become impossible to distinguish. The German invasion of the British Channel Islands shatters Dr. Ivy Picot's peaceful world, forcing her to shoulder the weight of her father's medical practice and hold together a family unraveling under the...
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The Author Weekend
Zigman, Laura
The Devil Wears Prada meets The White Lotus in a story of colliding egos and shocking betrayal, as intoxicatingly ice cold as the pink prosecco that flows all weekend. Everything needs to be just right for bestselling mystery writer Faye Wader's first-ever fan weekend. Her sales might be...
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