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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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The wrong victim
Brennan, Allison
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The killing stones
Cleeves, Ann
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"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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The violet hour
Frank, Victoria Benton
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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
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#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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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
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Beyond summerland
Lecoat, Jenny
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Indigo Isle : a novel
Lowe, T. I. (Tonya)
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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. (Lucy Maud) 1874-1942
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
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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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Deeper Than the Ocean
Ojito, Mirta
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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
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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 1966-
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#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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The bone hacker
Reichs, Kathy
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#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
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann
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#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
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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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