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• American Spy

  Wilkinson, Lauren, 1984-

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  In 1986, a young black woman working in an old boys' club, Marie Mitchell's FBI career has stalled out and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. Given the opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beekeeper's Apprentice

  King, Laurie R.,

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  A chance meeting with a Sussex beekeeper turns into a pivotal, personal transformation when fifteen-year-old Mary Russell discovers that the beekeeper is the reclusive, retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who soon takes on the role of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Little Lies

  Moriarty, Liane,

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  Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

  Haddon, Mark

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  Sometimes profound characters come in unassuming packages. In this instance, it is Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old autistic savant with a passion for primary numbers and a paralyzing fear of anything that happens outside of his daily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disappearing Earth

  Phillips, Julia,

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  In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-

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  Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happiness Falls

  Kim, Angie, 1969-

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  We didn't call the police right away. When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand-but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Must Betray You

  Sepetys, Ruta,

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  In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ice Ghosts

  the Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

  Watson, Paul, 1959-

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  A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Where War Lives, and expedition member, describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Inuit knowledge helped solve the mystery of the lost Franklin expedition of 1845.

• Idaho

  Ruskovich, Emily,

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  A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Luminaries

  a Novel

  Catton, Eleanor, 1985-

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  Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 to seek his fortune in the goldfields, Walter Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

• The Majesties

  Tsao, Tiffany,

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  Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella's poisoning of their whole clan. Can Gwendolyn, at last, confront the carefully buried mysteries in their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  a Savannah Story

  Berendt, John, 1939-

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  Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Monster of Florence

  [a True Story]

  Preston, Douglas J.

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  New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.

• My Sister, the Serial Killer

  Braithwaite, Oyinkan,

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  Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mystery

  a Seduction, a Strategy, a Solution

  Lehrer, Jonah,

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  Drawing on the fields of psychology, neuroscience and anthropology, a New York Times best-selling author unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, shedding new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Patron Saints of Nothing

  Ribay, Randy,

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  When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

• Rebecca

  Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989

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  The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter finds it difficult and frightening to live in the shadow of her predecessor, a situation that is exacerbated by her husband's moodiness, and the presence of sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.