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NEW Adult Fiction 

 

· American Hagwon—Min Jin Lee. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, John and Helen Koh leave Seoul and settle in California--where  opportunities open for their children as they adjust to life in which their experience and education mean little.

· Angelhart Investigations series—Allison Brennan

1. You’ll Never find Me

2. Don’t Say  A Word

3. I’ll Be Watching You

· The Birthing Tree—Amanda Peters. A woman must confront her family's buried truths and memories of passionate love when her grandmother's death leaves her as the only guide to her community's future.

· Black Orchid—Loreth Anne White Nine elite guests board the "Black Orchid" for a maiden voyage through the Aegean Sea, but long-buried secrets surface during a catastrophic storm, leading to a devastating maritime disaster.

· Chase—Felix Francis. Accused of  selling a fake painting, Fabian is unable to prove his innocence because the police are holding the piece as evidence. Other      paintings are vandalized and his clients are threatened to stay away from his gallery.  Everything is against him. He’s determined to fight back. 

· Die Famous—Michael Koryta      Edward is the getaway driver for the Brady Gang, one of FBI's most wanted criminals with an enticing bounty set on his head. Dragging her son, Alford, and her father, Wendell, a retired railroad detective, along for the quest, Savannah embarks to find the man she once loved and the nation now fears, journeying across an America      transformed by the Great Depression.

· The Dying Light: Detective Matthew Venn novel—Ann Cleeves  DI Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death when the body of a young woman is found in the swimming pool of a luxurious holiday home. The girl’s best friend, Hannah, whose family owns the house, is missing.
When further tragedy strikes, Venn and his team begin questioning a community filled with secrets. The fact that Hannah’s father, is a rising political star with powerful enemies draws media scrutiny to the case.

· Exit Party—Emily St. John Mandel   A novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.

· Falling for Peachtree Bluff—Kristy Woodson Harvey

· The Final Target—Nora Roberts

· The French Illusion—John Grisham

· Fury In Death—J. D. Robb

· Hawk & Sparrow—Ayana Gray

· Harbinger—Geneva Lee. Arden needs to get through a ceremony, inherit her earth magic and return home. Instead, she's given a dagger and an impossible choice. Now Arden is branded an omen of war, assassins are tracking her every move. Her only chance of survival lies with the most feared man in Antares.

· Hollow Bones—Jodi Picoult

· Hollywood, Ending—John Green. Blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an examination of the insatiable attention economy. 

· The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke—Jane Green

· Most Dangerous Games—James Patterson & MrBeast

· Munich Affair—James Patterson

· Murder At The Grand Alpine Hotel: a Miss Marple Mystery-Lucy Foley. When a body is found and a blizzard cuts off escape in the Swiss Alps, only Miss Marple can connect the clues before the killer strikes again. Because it isn't a question of who has a motive, but who's next?

· The Newer World—Sebastian Barry Born into bondage, Tennyson  spends his days working the tobacco fields of a small farm, avoiding any action that might drive his pro-Confederate neighbors to the kind of unprovoked violence that killed his mother. In the wake of emancipation, a gang of   defeated rebels descend on the farm. His choice to defend it and the people within makes Tennyson a wanted man. He will not have the chance to till the ten acres he and his sister, Rosalee, were  given. 

· Our Noble Selves—Kate Atkinson When war reporter Harry returns to Britain in 1945, he takes a government-funded job that celebrates the nation's grit & ingenuity. He joins a team of misfits and eccentrics as they help to ready the Festival for launch and becomes a suspect in a French woman’s disappearance and possible murder.

· Oxford Guide To Scandal & Lies—Kate Westbury. 1951 Oxford. Ginevra, a charming debutante and Sidney, a war-weary student are recruited by MI5 after a librarian's suspicious poisoning. The       mismatched duo must look past their      differences to expose a Soviet spy before they become the next targets.

· Paper Ghosts--Sarah Addison Allen

· Mother Daughter Sister Stranger—Hank Phillippi Ryan. Survivors of a  plane crash that killed their parents, sisters Eliza  & Bea share a bond. On the 11th  anniversary of the tragedy, Bea fails to pick-up her daughter from a sleepover. Eliza fears the worst. But did Bea plan her own disappearance? Eliza  is the only one who can protect her niece from the horrifying legacy of her family's sinister history.

· Ruthless—Danielle Steel

· Secret Book of Flora Lea—Patti Callahan Henry. London 1939: Hazel and 5-year-old Flora are evacuated from their home to a rural village to escape the horrors of war.  Hazel creates a fairy tale about a magical land called Whisperwood. Flora vanishes while playing near the river.  20 years later, Hazel’s life is turned upside down when she receives a package with an illustrated book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. Could this book hold the secrets to Flora's disappearance?

· Sophie, Standing There-Meg Mason

· The Story She Left Behind—Patti Callahan Henry 1927: Clara's magical childhood shatters when her mother, a  renowned author, disappears.

· Thoroughbreds: the Academy #2—Elin Hilderbrand 

· Until She Dies—Kendra Elliot

· Under Story—Chloe Benjamin. At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel washes dishes for a living.  She tells no one why she left her career or why her marriage ended. But even in this remote outpost, Laurel cannot outrun her past. When a strange illumination known as the Arc draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, Laurel watches in disbelief as her former husband walks back into her life. They both sense a possibility about the Arc's existence: its glow; the way it seems almost alive.

· Untamed Coast—Kevin Morris. After the loss of his wife, Marco drifts alone on his boat in the waters of  Alaska. Hearing a distress call on his radio, Marco searches for a missing woman near an abandoned 1930's communication outpost and uncovers fragments of a forgotten  story: a Depression-era theft, a shattered marriage & a pattern of disappearances.

· Witches of Cambridge—Alice  Hoffman

· We Chase Shadows: We Solve  Murders #2—Richard Osman