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Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener

In this award-winning book, Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

Genre: Ghost Stories

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Elisha Cooper, Big Cat, Little Cat

A story of friendship, moving, and cats.

Genre: Picture Book

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Laban Carrick Hill, When the Beat Was Born

This award-winning children's book tells the story of DJ Kool Herc and the invention of hip-hop during the early 1970s.

Genre: Biography

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Fiction

Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Immortals

The first book in the Olympus Bound series, the gods of ancient Greece have found a new home in New York City.

Genre: Fantasy

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John Bude, The Cornish Coast Murder

Part of the British Library Crime Classics Series, this 1935 mystery novel is set in a small seaside village and involves amateur sleuths using great ingenuity to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.

Genre: Mystery

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Mary Higgins Clark, The Sleeping Beauty Killer

The third installment of the Under Suspicion series by the "Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark, and Alafair Burke. A television producer risks all to help a woman she thinks was wrongly convicted of murder.

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

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Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

Immersing himself in a technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease in 2044, teenage Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

Genre: Science Fiction

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Harlen Coben, Don't Let Go

A suburban New Jersey detective seeks answers in the death of his brother and the disappearance of his girlfriend fifteen years earlier.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Crime Mystery

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Catherine Coulter, Enigma

The 21st FBI thriller by best-selling author Catherine Coulter features a pair of married agents tracking down an international criminal.

Genre: Suspense/Spy Mystery

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Fiona Davis, The Dollhouse

Set in the lush world of New York City’s glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where in the 1950s a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side by side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success, and where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark secret buried deep within the Barbizon’s glitzy past.

Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Historical Fiction

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Margaret George, The Confessions of Young Nero

Best-selling author Margaret George explores ancient Rome and the early years of Nero, who would eventually become an infamous emperor of Rome.

Genre: Historical Fiction

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John Hart, Redemption Road

Best-selling author John Hart sets his latest crime novel in a small city in North Carolina.

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

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B.J. Hoff, Heart of the Lonely Exile

Book 2 in the Emerald Ballad Series, set during the period when the Irish were starting to arrive in New York in great numbers. Part soap opera and part social commentary, the story is told from the viewpoints of characters from different social classes.

Genre: Christian Fiction

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Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

Nobel-prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro blends British history and fantasy in this 2015 literary novel.

Genre: Literature/Fantasy/Historical Fiction

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Holly Jennings, Arena

The RAGE tournaments the Virtual Gaming League's elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a fight to the digital death. Every kill is broadcast to millions. Every player leads a life of ultimate fame, responsible only for entertaining the masses.

Genre: Science Fiction

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Joe Lansdale, Paradise Sky

On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick."

Genre: Biographical Fiction/Western/Historical Fiction

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Charlie Lovett, Lost Book of the Grail

An obsessive bibliophile and Holy Grail fanatic combs through centuries of history to uncover a long-lost secret about the medieval Barchester Cathedral library at the side of a young American charged with digitizing the library's manuscripts.

Genre: Literary Mystery

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Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

A historical legal thriller based on the "War of Currents" between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.

Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction

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Michael Morell, The Great War of Our Time

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell focuses his readable memoir on the period from 9/11 to the death of Osama bin Laden, and from al-Qa'ida to ISIS.

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Large Print Book

Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

The novel that inspired the hit TV show follows the lives of three women, each at a crossroads. The book explores "ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive."

Genre: Women's Fiction, Suspense/Thriller

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Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.

Genre: Women's Fiction

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Adam L.G. Nevill, The House of Small Shadows

An antique dealer is invited to catalogue the late M.H. Mason's wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and preserved animals. She can't believe her luck when Mason's elderly niece invites her to stay at Red House itself, where she maintains the collection until the niece exposes her to the dark message behind her uncle's 'art'."

Genre: Supernatural Horror

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Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife

A multi-generational love story spanning two continents and two World Wars as two star-crossed lovers try to find each other again.

Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction

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Scott Westerfeld & Alex Puvilland, Spill Zone

Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone.

Genre: Graphic Novel

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Kurtis J. Wiebe, Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery

Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they're in the business of killing all god's creatures for profit.

Genre: Graphic Novel

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Nonfiction

Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power

Iconic essays first published in The Atlantic magazine on U.S. politics and African Americans. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective--the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president.

Genre: U.S. Political History

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James H. Johnston, From Slave Ship to Harvard

Yarrow Mamout, the first of the family in America, was an educated Muslim from Guinea. When he was about 16 years old, in 1752, he was brought to Maryland on the slave ship Elijah. He gained his freedom forty-four years later. By then, Yarrow had become so well known in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., that he attracted the attention of the eminent American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale, who captured Yarrow’s visage in the painting that appears on the cover of the book.

Genre: Biography

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Kate Moore, The Radium Girls

The true story of the women who were exposed to disfiguring and often fatal radiation poisoning working in watch factories during the 1920s and the ensuing legal battle against the United States Radium Corporation.

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

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Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.

Genre: History of Science & Mathematics

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Children's Book

Teen/Young Adult

John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

The latest novel by the author of The Fault in Our Stars. Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.

Genre: Fiction

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Naoshi Komi, Nisekoi = False Love

In order to to keep the peace between their feuding gang families, Japanese high school students Raku Ichijou and Chioge Kirisaki agree to pretend they are in a romantic relationship.

Genre: Manga

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