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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him, to save him....
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"Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city...
3) The women
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New Releases—February 6, 2024
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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"For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window ‘I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.’ So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living...
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Most Anticipated Mystery, Thriller, & Horror—Spring 2024
New Releases—March 5, 2024
NYT - Audio Fiction
New Releases—March 5, 2024
NYT - Audio Fiction
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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"A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in...
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"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
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When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie's best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie's support. It is Annie's daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all,...
10) The ghost orchid
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Alex Delaware novels volume 39
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"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention's a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once...
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BCR Los Angeles
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[2023]
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"Shooter Jennings And The Werewolves Of La Do Zevon by Shooter Jennings - 3x GRAMMY Award-winner Shooter Jennings celebratess the late, great Warren Zevon. "I just wanted to challenge myself. I've been touring and playing piano with Brandie Carlile for two years in her band," Jennings explained of his new Zevon-centric project, in conversation with Rolling Stone. "And I'd really like to woodshed at the piano so much more. I'd been teaching myself...
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Sony Music
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[2023]
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NOW That's What I Call Music! celebrates its 25th anniversary in the US in 2023 after debuting in 1998. This release features 16 holiday favorites from superstars across all ages, including Camila Cabello, Carrie Underwood, Pentatonix, Bing Crosby, Nat 'King' Cole, and Justin Bieber.
14) Christmas
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Masterworks
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[2023]
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Cello sensation Hauser celebrates his lifelong affection for the music of the Christmas season in an all-new album of favorite carols and songs, sumptuously arranged for orchestra and choir to feature his inimitable cello artistry. The music of Christmas was a beloved part of Hauser's childhood and family life in his native Croatia. Sharing that with the world has been one of his dreams. It's the essential Christmas album for everyone's season, capturing...
15) Continuance
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Mack Avenue
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[2023]
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Pianist/composer Joey Alexander's seventh album is the story of a critically acclaimed artist at the peak of his creativity, not only as a bandleader but as a celebrated composer. At twenty-years-old, Alexander has gathered his touring band consisting of Kris Funn (bass) and John Davis (drums) to translate their unique improvisation on the stage to the studio with the help of trumpeter Theo Croker.
17) Set it off
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Motown Records
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[2023]
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Offset returns with his sophomore solo album, which includes the single Fan and Jealousy, his hit collaboration with his wife Cardi B. There are also appearances from Travis Scott, Future, and more.
18) Sociopath
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Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn't understand. She suspected it was because she didn't feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn't like the way that "nothing" felt. She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure...
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"Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing--and least understood--people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical preacher, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday...
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Mercury Records
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[2023]
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Global superstar Post Malone holds the record for most RIAA Diamond-certified singles in history. The Diamond Collection is a compilation of his top hits to date, including Congratulations; Sunflower with Swae Lee; White Iverson; and more.
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