The Immortalists

By Chloe Benjamin

It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.  The Gold children–four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness–sneak out to hear their fortunes.  Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in 80’s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy;  eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9-11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.  The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next.

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A Time of Love and Tartan

By Alexander McCall Smith

FBI agent Michael Gallagher never dreamed that his job would bring him back to his hometown of Harmony Harbor.  Or that one of his best leads would be the woman he once loved.  He regrets the way they ended, and he’d do anything to make things right with her now.  But first he needs to regain her trust…Shay Angel wants to leave the past behind her.  And that includes Michael Gallagher, the only man she ever let close enough to break her heart.  But she needs his help to find her uncle and clear his name.  She won’t hesitate to risk everything to save her family, but will she dare to risk her heart all over again?

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House of Secrets

By V.C. Andrews

Ever since Fern could remember, she and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family.  She may have been a servant, but Fern developed a friendship with Dr. Davenport’s son, Ryder and was allowed free range of the estate.  Dr. Davenport’s wife cannot break the mysterious bond between Ryder and Fern.  When Ryder invites Fern to join his friends at prom, there’s nothing Mrs. Davenport can do to stop them nor can she continue to guard the secret that haunts the women of Wyndemere–but there’s nothing she won’t try.  After all, reputation is everything.

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Still Me

By Jo Jo Moyes

Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles.  She is thrown into the world of the superrich and before she knows what’s happening, Lou is mixing in New York High society, where she meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past.  In  Still Me, Lou tries to keep the two sides of her world together, and when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself Who is Louisa Clark?  And how do you reconcile a heart that lives in two places.

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The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place

By Alan Bradley

In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days.  For a needed escape, Dogger the loyal family servant suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters.  As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water.  She clamps down on the object and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish.  If anything could take Flavia’s mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder, although this one may lead the young sleuth to an early grave.

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Dark in Death

By J.D. Robb

On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square.  To Chanel’s best friend, who had just slipped out of the theatre for a moment to take a call, it felt unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen.  But Chanel’s blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.

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Jefferson’s Daughters

By Catherine Kerrison

The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters–two white and free, one black and enslaved–and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America.

 

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Fall From Grace

By Danielle Steel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything–her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom.

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The Wizard and the Prophet

By Charles C. Mann

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493–an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow’s world.

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