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FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION, AND MYSTERY
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Twice / Mitch Albom
Young Alfie Logan can rewind any moment for a do-over — but must accept the results of his second try — and having navigated through adolescence and finding seemingly lasting love with Gianna, he must confront an impossible choice when his power unravels during a casino arrest.
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Gone Before Goodbye / Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon
When disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
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The Proving Ground / Michael Connelly
The Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.
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The Tin Men / Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille
Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are sent to the isolated Camp Hayden to investigate a major’s death amid secret war games pitting Rangers against autonomous weapons, where the truth is obscured amidst desert isolation, internal rivalries and hidden agendas.
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Boleyn Traitor / Philippa Gregory
The author of The Other Boleyn Girl returns to the court of Henry VIII with a novel about the high cost of loyalty, love and betrayal.
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The Widow / John Grisham
Already struggling at work and at home, rural Virginia attorney Simon Latch finds himself accused of her murder after he secures wealthy widow Eleanor Barnett’s secret inheritance only to see her fortunes unravel in the wake of a car crash.
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The Everlasting / Alix Harrow
A moving and genre-defying adventure through time – as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic-historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the truths hidden beneath the greatest legend ever told.
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King Sorrow / Joe Hill
Blackmailed into stealing rare books, Arthur’s friends summon a dragon to save him, only to strike a deadly bargain that binds them to a terrifying choice: offer a yearly sacrifice or face King Sorrow’s wrath themselves.
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The Gun Man Jackson Swagger / Stephen Hunter
A classic Western—gunfights, horses, saloons and looming above, the ominous presence of the railroad—about a Civil War veteran investigating the dark reality of a prosperous ranch.
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The Wayfinder / Adam Johnson
A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people’s queen.
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My Beloved / Jan Karon
Father Tim’s love letter to wife Cynthia goes missing and circulates among his neighbors; Harley gets an important letter of his own; a broken heart teaches Old Mayor Esther a lesson; and thanks to Lace and Dooley, readers get what they’ve been waiting for: Sadie.
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Coyote Hills / Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman
Now a private investigator, former Alameda County coroner Clay Edison takes a perplexing case of a wealthy couple’s son found dead in San Francisco Bay. -
The Land of Sweet Forever / Harper Lee
Spanning her early short stories and later nonfiction, this collection reveals the iconic author’s evolving voice and sharp insights into childhood, creativity, justice and Southern identity, offering a fuller portrait beyond her two landmark novels.
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Red City / Marie Lu
A dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles.
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A Guardian and a Thief / Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata, India, which has been ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.
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Wreck / Catherine Newman
In Western Massachusetts, Rocky juggles family life with her husband, adult children and aging father, until her fixation on a local accident and an ominous medical concern stirs up anxieties that threaten to upend her fragile sense of normalcy.
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Bog Queen / Anna North
The story of an anthropologist’s monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off over the fate of the land that holds us.
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The Black Wolf / Louise Penny
Weeks after foiling an attack in Montréal and arresting the so-called Black Wolf, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, confined by his injuries to Three Pines, quietly leads a covert investigation with agents Beauvoir and Lacoste, fearing the conspiracy he uncovered is only a deliberate misdirection.
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Shadow Ticket / Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, private eye Hicks McTaggart searches for a Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, but he’s shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner to Hungary; before he finds her he will be entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal and outlaw motorcyclists.
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Remain / Nicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan
After his sister’s death and his treatment at a psychiatric facility, New York architect Tate moves to a Cape bed-and-breakfast, where he has an immediate connection with Wren, but hate and greed fester below the surface of Wren’s life, and Tate must unearth the truth about her past.
SHC: 9/2025
