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NEW Adult Fiction Purchased in July

· All The Little Ways—Laura Lekkos  Liz and Victoria meet in a parenting class, both feeling out of place amongst the younger women who seem to have it all figured out. Their bond is a lifeline as they navigate their pregnancies and grapple with impending motherhood. 

· Back Track—Marc Cameron 1977,  the theft of millions in diamonds leaves two guards dead, one outlaw taken out and  Pink sentenced to life. The diamonds were never recovered. And Pinky never forgot that heist gone violently wrong. 2026.  Pinky is released and vows revenge as he searches for the stolen gems. 

· Buyer Beware—Catherine Howard. Two women’s shattered lives crash together around a house whose secrets could bury them both.

· Country People—Daniel Mason. A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind.

· Desert Heist—Alex Dekker. A     former Green Beret and aspiring archaeologist's expedition to uncover an ancient    civilization turns deadly.

· The Forty-Year Grudge—Liza Tully PI Aubrey Merritt reconnects with sorority sisters and brings her personal assistant Olivia along to help with her bags. When a sister is murdered, all eyes turn to the World's Greatest Detective to solve the case. It's going to take both Aubrey and Olivia to cut through the knot of old hurts and current grievances to find the killer.

· Guest Cottage—Lori Foster

· It Could Have Been Her-Lisa Jewell

· Last Night Was Killer-Mary Lowry

· Let’s Not Go Overboard—Erica Hendry. A story about a definitely dead girl, a possibly dead girl & a living girl.

· Little Wonder—Sophie Keller

· Love You More—Emily Giffin. Billie has the perfect life. Her medical practice thriving. She’s accepted Dean's marriage proposal. Then Billie's phone rings. It's her high school sweetheart calling. His news is urgent and everything changes. As Billie boards a plane, her past comes rushing back : the love she and Mick shared and the choices that shaped them.

· Meet Me In Paris—Kristin Harmel

· The Mistake—Elle Kennedy

· Mr. Yay—Emily Jane

· Murder at the Spirit Lounge—Jess Kidd. Detective Rideout is lured in by a medium’s messages from the afterlife. When a reading goes disastrously wrong, Dolores loses her life and the sitters at the séance are victims of supernatural deaths.  Nora  chases a ghostly serial killer.

· Off Campus series—Elle Kennedy

1. The Deal

2. The Mistake

3. The Score

4. The Goal

5. The Legacy

· One Golden Summer-Carley Fortune

· Our Perfect Storm—Carley Fortune

· Parisian Heist—Jo Piazza

· People Watching In The Desert—Cali Adeline. Sonny lost her loving but troubled mother at a young age and was raised by a grandmother whose parenting  vacillated between indifferent and cruel.  Sonny comes into a large sum of money, she finds herself at Sanctuary Resort & Spa.  Forced proximity introduces her to eccentric guests and yet, Sonny still feels most at peace when people watching. When a freak accident threatens to end the peace, a twist causes fantasy and reality to blur.

· Perfect Life—Meredith Lavender

· Reasons To Be Loved By You—Hannah Brown

· Retro—Jessica Goldstein

· Romance Revival-Christina Lauren

· Romantic Hero—Kirsty Greenwood

· Rules For Aging and Larceny—Julia London. Frances, active and agile into her 70s, longs to feel busy again. It's been decades she and her girl gang pulled a heist.

· Sanctuary series—Colleen Coble     Paradise Alden will do anything to uncover the truth of her parents' murder--even work with the man who once broke her heart.

1.  Ambush

2.  Prowl

3.  Conspiracy

· Sea Of Charms—Sarah Beth Durst

· Social Animals—Camille Perri

· Songs of the Dead: The Strata Wars: -Brandon Sanderson. Jack is shot dead by an assassin painted in corpse makeup. When he wakes up on the street, somehow alive, he finds himself in a London where an ancient league of necromancers are   entering a civil war to rewrite history to favor the near-forgotten dead.

· Spy Keeper of Marseille—Roseanna White. 1941,  after her husband is killed, Zelie hopes to help free her country from the Nazi regime by joining the Resistance. She is soon one of the most trusted operatives and when their leader is imprisoned, she takes command, hiding her identity from all but a few.

· Story Keeper—Kelly Rimmer

· Sweet Spot—Kemper Donovan

· Teach The Torches To Burn—Christina Dodd

· A Thief’s Folly—Jeanne M. Dams

· Things We Never Say-Elizabeth Strout Artie is a man with a secret. He teaches history to high school students, correcting their casual ignorance, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He spends his free time sailing or with his family and plans the event that will forever change the world he inhabits.

· Valet—J. P. Lacrampe. When Grayson he  learns his sister  plans to sell the family robotics company to a tech conglomerate, he panics. It's not just the family business at stake, it's all the technology their dad invented over the years. He steals the flash drive with his father's most important work stored on it and plans a corporate takeover. If only he knew what that meant.

· Vera Stein Is Fine—Julie Murphy. Vera spent her adult years taking care of her dying mother and her movie star boss's ego. Now, houseless and jobless, shoe goes to her grandmother's retirement facility for Hollywood actors, forgotten scream queens and heartthrobs of the past. Vera falls into a job as the activities coordinator and under the spell of a smart-mouthed doctor...

· Wash-Ashores—Hannah McKinnon A woman fights to hold together the one place that's always felt like home with the people who have become like family.

· When You Loved Me-Beatriz Williams Local legend insists that a pirate buried his treasure beneath the Cooper estate. When widowed Lucy returns to grieve her father, she discovers the property is mired in debt she cannot repay.  As Lucy reconstructs her father's final days, she uncovers his research about the wounded pirate who took refuge on Winthrop Island in 1717. A shocking  event reveals that someone will do whatever it takes to claim the plunder.

· Whiskey Woods-William Johnstone. A whiskey distilling family tries to keep their business out of the hands of a rival.

· Whisper Creek—Allison Brennan

· Wisdom Corner—David Heska.  Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation but returns to the job after a murder. To make matters worse, a street gang from a neighboring reservation want to expand into Rosebud and a shady politician will stop at nothing to gain power.

· Year of Marvelous Ways—Sarah  Winman. Marvelous has lived alone most of her life on the Cornish coast waiting for something, but she's not sure what. Francis Drake, a young soldier, agrees to deliver a a fallen comrade’s letter to his father. But Francis's journey doesn't go as planned. Marvelous comes to his aid when he washes ashore and an unlikely friendship grows between these two solitary souls.