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  Study in Scarlet A (Part 2: The...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

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  Phantom Orbit - A Thriller

  David Ignatius

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  A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature. 
   
  David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space. It follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare. 
   
  The years pass, and they are not kind to Volkov. After the loss of his son, a prosecutor who’d been too tough on corruption, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Volkov makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA. He writes: Satellites are your enemies, especially your own. … Hidden codes can make time stop and turn north into south. … If you are smart, you will find me. 
   
  With this timely novel, Ignatius addresses our moment of renewed interest in space exploration amid geopolitical tumult. Phantom Orbit brims with the author’s vital insights and casts Volkov as the man who, at the risk of his life, may be able to stop the Doomsday clock.

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  Cruising Cowboys - Millie's...

  Hope Callaghan

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  Millie and the crew on board Siren of the Seas have their hands full when a group of cowboys and cowgirls board their ship for an action-packed, fun-filled cruise. Andy Walker, the ship’s cruise director, is pulling out all the stops since one of the passengers, Colt Kenworth, has close ties to Majestic Cruise Lines’ CEO, Ted Danvers. 
  The cowboys are spending big bucks on lavish parties and special events including a bull riding competition. Andy has assigned Millie to oversee their events and the cruise starts out smoothly until one of the cowboys takes a hard fall after being thrown from a mechanical bull. 
  Brushing it off, the man refuses to be checked out at the medical center. Within hours he’s dead. Unfortunately, the deceased is the passenger with close ties to Ted Danvers and is also part of a powerful and wealthy family. Suspicions about why the man sustained deadly injuries soon swirl and Danvers dispatches staff from corporate to conduct an investigation of their own. 
  Rumor has it there could be a major shakeup among the officers and crew onboard Siren of the Seas if they are found negligent. For Millie, it’s a race against time to figure out if the cowboy recklessly put his life in danger or if something much more sinister is afoot.

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  Sojourn

  Amit Chaudhuri

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  An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn in the city, which seems strange, and also strangely familiar, to him. 
   
   
   
  Faqrul, a friendly Bangladeshi poet living in exile, takes him up—then disappears. The visiting writer is increasingly adrift in a city that not long ago was two cities, each cut off from the other, much as the new unified city is cut off from the divided one of the past. 
   
   
   
  To him, the new world of the twenty-first century, with its endless commodities from all over the place and no prospect of any sort of historical transformation, appears to exist in a state of amnesiac suspense. He gets involved with a woman, Birgit. He begins to miss his classes. He blacks out in the street. People are worried. 
   
   
   
  Amit Chaudhuri's Sojourn is a dramatic and disconcerting work of fiction, a book about the present as it slips into the past, a picture of a city and of a troubled mind, a historical novel about an ostensibly post-historical time, a story of haunting. Here, as in his earlier work, Chaudhuri pries open fictional form to explore questions of public and private life in ways that are both bold and subtle.

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  Shadow's Sacrifice

  Mary Stone, Lori Rhodes

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  Hush little baby, don’t say a word. 
  On the heels of receiving evidence hinting at the motive behind her father’s murder, Sheriff Rebecca West confronts a horrific crime scene. A pregnant woman has been brutally attacked in her home, her unborn baby ripped from her womb. But this is more than assault. It’s an abduction of the worst kind. 
  Now, a newborn is in the hands of a monster. 
  Determined to follow every lead, Rebecca locks down the island, launching an all-out search for the missing infant. But as the mother fights for her life, Rebecca uncovers chilling evidence of a man obsessed with the young mother. 
  He didn’t want just any baby. He wanted her baby. 
  As Rebecca races to close in on the baby’s abductor, it seems she’s chasing a ghost. Twenty-four hours later, all she has is more victims and motives she can’t decipher. But the infant’s chance of survival drops with every passing minute. The clock is ticking, and time is running out. 
  Shadow’s Sacrifice, the eighteenth installment of the Shadow Island Series, is a chilling special delivery from Mary Stone and Lori Rhodes.

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  Metal Rise - A Shadowfast Action...

  Cole Chase

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  A tech billionaire’s destructive attack on the US happens tonight—unless Shadowfast stops it. 
  The odds defy Quinn Richards and his heavy metal con artists. Captors hold Night Boy. Manjunath may be dead. A swarm of murderous auto-bots assaults Quinn, Danny, and Cooper. Cisco wants to fight back, but his only weapon is Mr. Licks, his ice cream truck. 
  As the second hand sweeps toward devastation, Brody Bach holes up in his impenetrable smart mansion. Quinn has a counterstrategy using his team’s unorthodox skills. But is it really a master plan? Or is it—as he says—“a list of shit that probably won’t happen”? 
  Manny and the Queen of Shadows will find out when they unleash their invisible army. 
  Join Quinn Richards in a race against the clock to avert global disaster, as the Shadowfast Skyhaus Thrillogy reaches its explosive climax. Fans of Mission: Impossible, The A-Team, Ocean's 11, Lee Goldberg, Jason Kasper—and all lovers of action thrillers—should not miss Cole Chase’s highly acclaimed debut.READERS PRAISE THE SHADOWFAST THRILLOGY 
  "A well-crafted thrill ride... you don't want to miss." -- Mark 
  "This story drew me in immediately. Cole Chase has created a unique—and hilarious!—cast of characters that you can’t help but root for." -- Kindle Customer 
  "It combines the techno-thriller aspect of a Mission: Impossible story with the camaraderie and humor of Guardians of the Galaxy." -- ladame 
  "I love the technology information that is mixed in and really makes the story soar." -- Barry D. 
  "Funny yet serious, light yet intense, and enjoyable all of the way through." -- bluemallard

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