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by Stella Tillyard - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Harriet and James's interwoven stories of love and betrayal propel this novel as it moves between Regency London on the cusp of modernity --- a city in love with science, the machine, money --- and the shocking violence of war in Spain.

by Julia Scheeres - History, Nonfiction

A THOUSAND LIVES follows the experiences of five Peoples Temple members who went to Jonestown. Julia Scheeres drew from thousands of recently declassified FBI documents and audiotapes, as well as rare videos and interviews, to piece together a compelling history of the doomed camp.

by Terry Pratchett - Fantasy, Fiction

In this 38th entry to the esteemed Discworld canon, the beloved Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is taking a vacation. But this is Discworld, where nothing goes as planned --- and hilarious adventure ensues. 

by Caroline Preston - Fiction

For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau.

by Kyle Mills - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate an attack in Uganda, and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. 

by Alan S. Cowell - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby are journalists with The Paris Star, an English-language paper based in Paris. They’re faced with the death of what they hold most dear --- their careers, and, for Shelby, a woman he cannot bring himself to mention.

by Charles Frazier - Fiction, Suspense

Set in a small town in North Carolina in the early 1960s, NIGHTWOODS tells of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. Before the children, Luce was content with her quiet life amidst the Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the community around her. But the coming of her disturbed niece and nephew changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful and dangerous ways.

by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson - Nonfiction

As both an artist and an activist, Harry Belafonte has touched the lives of countless men and women. With MY SONG, he has found yet another way to entertain and inspire us.

by Mark Whitaker - Nonfiction

An award-winning journalist sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives --- and his own. 

by Austin Wright - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Susan Morrow gets drawn into the world of her ex-husband's first novel and realizes that she must confront her past.