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Northern England, 2010. After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house near the Scottish border, where she hopes to find a fresh start and heal from her loss. Berlin, 1938. Audrey James is weeks away from graduating from a prestigious music school in Berlin, where she’s been living with her best friend, Ilse Kaplan. As war looms, Ilse’s family disappears and high-ranking Nazi officers confiscate the house. In desperation, Audrey becomes their housekeeper while Ilse is forced into hiding in the attic. 

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Though she's long been a part of the revolution, Katniss hasn't known it. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must become the rebels' Mockingjay - no matter what the cost.

Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Twenty years later, Doris' twin sister Lara is determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. She dumps the entire investigative file on every true crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead. As the nation maneuvers the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris’s harrowing past might just get them buried instead.

California, 2011: Nicole Forbes is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the 1980s. The same day, her daughter goes missing and the school claims her aunt picked her up, but she doesn’t have an aunt. London, 1986: Sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with hot band Secret Oktober and harbors an intense crush on the leading man, Ben Edwards. But when Ben discovers her older sister Nicole singing at a local bar one night, he's drawn to her, setting in motion a collision course that could tear their family apart.

When Olive Porter's off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly seeks out NPS special investigator Noah Turner, her ex and the only person she both trusts implicitly and not at all. When Olive shows up looking like a million bucks, Noah has to do a gut and heart check. Because nope, no matter what, he can't fall for her again, the woman who once blew up his entire life and never looked back. 

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Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north to Alaska. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni has little choice but to go along. But as winter approaches and darkness descends, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own.

Cashing Out is your roadmap to financial freedom despite the broken system. You don’t have to sacrifice your time and mental health to maximize income. Instead, financial experts Julien and Kiersten Saunders show how to design a life that allows you to enjoy the little things now while setting yourself up for future financial security. 

Bruce Cable, infamous owner of Bay Books, tells writer Mercer Man that he has stumbled upon an incredible story perfect for her next novel. The story is about Dark Isle, a sliver of a barrier island settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago. Their last descendant is elderly Lovely Jackson, who loves her birthplace. But Tidal Breeze, a huge, ruthless corporate developer, wants to build a resort and casino on the island, which Lovely knows, deep down, is rightfully hers. Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns Dark Isle, taking on Tidal Breeze Corporation. The deep secrets of Dark Isle's past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present.
 

As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. Amanda lives well, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher, who turns out to be married. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old boyfriend from her days at NYU twenty years ago. Providing counsel and support is her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc. When someone breaks into Amanda's apartment on the Left Bank, it’s all too clear she is in real danger. But from whom?

When a levee collapses in Hinowah, a small town in Northern California, Colter Shaw is brought on by his sister, Dorion, a disaster response specialist, to help locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive. But after a surprise attack along the river obstructs Colter's urgent search, the siblings are forced to consider a new reality: Is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes, or is someone sabotaging it? Colter and Dorion must race against a ticking clock to uncover the truth and save the citizens before the village washes out completely, destroying everything and everyone in its path.

Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives--Brendan Holmes, "the brain," Margaret Marple, "the eyes," and Auguste Poe, the "muscle"--with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation. But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs' legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes's absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster. Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that's been lost.

Rhonda and Barbara "Baby" Bird are half-sisters--and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they're accused of being PIs who can't tell a client from a killer. The Bird sisters share a late father, but not much else...except their willingness to fight for the underdog and the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together.

 

NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She's covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment's floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. "This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?"
 

After barely surviving the Blitz, fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has been evacuated away from her home for nearly five years, but when she returns, neither of her parents are there. Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his bookshop, The Book Keep. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.

Sami Kierce, a young college grad, wakes up one morning covered in blood with a knife in his hand. Next to him is the dead body of his girlfriend, Anna. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who's working off his debts by teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school when he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom: Anna. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day.

In Violet Sorrengail's second year at Basgiath War College, the real training begins. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.