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Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit in an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick island in Martha’s Vineyard. The last thing she expects to find is love --- especially with a hermit.  

Gin Mitchell leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia only to find a world of wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption.

For decades Walter Cronkite was heralded as “the most trusted man in America,” from his first reports on the frontlines of World War II to anchoring the CBS Evening News until his retirement in 1981. Yet for the most part he was a remarkably private man. Brinkley, through analysis of Cronkite’s private papers and interviews with family and friends, now brings the American icon into a focus like never before.

Assigned to an unconventional elite military unit known as the “saboteurs,” Lilin’s narrator and his comrades penetrate enemy lines on risky killing missions. Under heavy fire and under corrupt leadership, the camaraderie that develops within their unit is their best hope for staying alive --- and staying human.

Cave diver Erik Hall finds a dead body wearing an ancient ankh, buried deep in an abandoned mine. Religious symbol expert Don Titelman seeks out Erik to study the ankh—but finds Erik dead. Don is the prime suspect, and soon he’s being chased across Europe to escape a secret society that will do anything to get their hands on the ankh.

Harris, the presumed patriarch of his large extended family in both England and Pakistan, has unexpectedly received a “small fortune” from his divorce settlement with an English woman: £53,000. As a devout Muslim, Harris views this sum as a “burden of riches” that he must unload on someone else as quickly as possible, but deciding which relative to give it to proves to be a burden of its own.

Archaeologist Lina Taylor has devoted her life to studying ancient Mayan artifacts, but the professor’s structured, studious life spins out of control when some valuable and important Mayan artifacts go missing. Lina is recruited to recover the missing pieces, which, she discovers, may be being used by fanatics determined to create chaos and usher in annihilation.

The night before her flight, Hazel’s boyfriend gave her a free pass if she ever met rock star Finn Schiller, her idol. She never would have thought the very next day the rock god would be sitting next to her on the plane. Now, when fantasy becomes real attraction, Hazel must decide what she wants.

DARK MAGICis a genre-bending supernatural thriller from national bestselling novelist and real-life magician James Swain.

A young woman falls for the husband of her older sister during one short-lived summer in the idyllic Swedish countryside, only to learn that he is as threatening as he is charismatic.

When his wife and child leave him, Ellis Hock journeys back to Malawi on the remote Lower River, an area he hasn’t returned to since his years with the Peace Corps. But when he arrives, he finds that poverty and apathy have transformed the village he once so idealized.

In this riveting narrative, nothing is as it seems. Early reviewers are praising the novel, calling it, “…the greatest bank heist novel since THE GETAWAY and THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE---perhaps the greatest ever”---Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of IMPACT.

The story of the Hastings family --- their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks --- captured in a series of individual moments that follow four generations of the family between the First World War and the present.

The intriguing story of Bob Massie, who contracted HIV during a blood transfusion to treat his hemophilia. Because he never contracted AIDS, he offered himself for medical study, the findings of which ushered in a whole new era of HIV research.

In a French courtroom, Gladys Eysenach is on trial for shooting dead her much-younger lover. As witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past, recalling a series of events that reveal the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

When the head of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announces that the winner of a cricket tournament will travel to Pakistan to train and play at an international level, Rukhsana develops a plan to win. After all, the tournament is the only escape for her brother and young cousins, facing the corrupting influences of the Taliban, and Rukhsana herself, who the terrifying minister seeks to marry.

Embarking on his eighth adventure, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire's daughter, Cady, is getting married to the brother of his undersheriff, Victoria Moretti. When he sets out to find a new site for the nuptials on the Cheyenne Reservation, the scouting expedition ends in horror as he witnesses a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior’s majestic cliffs.

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this novel by Peter Carey.

Most people know Jennifer as the optimistic and forward-looking founder and director of a successful event planning company, Save the Date, not the victim of an almost fatal attack. Now, in I NEVER PROMISED YOU A GOODIE BAG, Jennifer speaks out about the horrific attack, and how, though not without challenges, she regained her footing.

A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.

Nora Keane’s carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she --- along with the rest of the world --- learns that her husband, a prominent Massachusetts attorney general, has been cheating on her. Heartbroken and humiliated, Nora packs up her daughters and takes refuge with her maternal aunt on Burke’s Island in Main, a place where superstition and magic are carried on the ocean winds.

The author of Friday Night Lights journeys across the country and intro the psyche of his son and traveling companion, where he finds not only the remarkable skills and debilities known as savantism, but a host of admirable qualities.

A young Wall Street analyst, Kate Wilson learned to rely on logic and cynicism. So why does she fall so desperately in love with Julian Laurence, a billionaire with a mysterious past? What she doesn't know is that he has been waiting for her... the enchanting woman who emerged from the shadows of the Great War to save his life.