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  The Secrets of Ohnita Harbor

  Patricia Crisafulli

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  "Amid a mountain of rain-soaked donations to the Ohnita Harbor Public Library rummage sale, Gabriela Domenici finds a small box that contains an odd-looking cross. The carved center turns out to be ivory, and a clue links the cross to Catherine of Siena, a medieval saint. Gabriela turns to her expertise as an authenticator of historic documents to lead the quest to discover the truth about this mysterious object. But the cross isn’t the only secret in town: first, a beloved Ohnita Harbor resident is found floating in the harbor; then, someone else is murdered on the library lawn. As Gabriela races to solve the mystery of the cross, she discerns between infatuation and what could be the start of true love. All the while, she must stay one step ahead of the danger that slowly encircles her."

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  Halfway Home

  Mary Sheldon

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  Unable to cope with the demands of her husband and mother-in-law, Maggie leaves them and Alexis, her 8-year-old daughter, behind to live a reclusive life in Paris. Told by her father that her mother never loved her, Alexis can never overcome a sense of loss and abandonment. Now, more than three decades have passed since Maggie and Alexis have had contact with each other. Though each longs for a reunion, neither of them is willing to take the first step, until a troubled teen steps into Alexis’ life and makes her long for closure with her past. 
    
  Told through a series of flashbacks, Mary Sheldon’s novel brings a deep range of emotions to these lost characters. 

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  Funeral in Berlin

  Len Deighton

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  "Deighton, Greene and John le Carré comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale." —Seattle Times 
   
   
   
  In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anony­mous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection—and fake the death—of a leading Soviet scien­tist. "A ferociously cool fable" (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city.

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  The Blood of Others

  Graham Hurley

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  The blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. 
   
  A catastrophe no headline dared admit. 
   
  Summer 1942. Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths. 
   
  George Hogan is a devout young Canadian journalist who has caught the eye of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. Now he faces an assignment that will test his faith to breaking point. 
   
  Jackie Wrenne, meanwhile, is working in Lord Louis Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters and is privy to the boldest cross-Channel raid yet conceived. 
   
  Three lives interlinked by a name and a date that no Canadian will ever forget: Dieppe, 19 August 1942. At dawn, over six thousand men storm ashore on heavily defended French beaches. Barely hours later, less than half will make it back alive... 
   
  From highly acclaimed thriller author GRAHAM HURLEY, the blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris. 
   
  Praise for the author: 'A penetrating, compelling, and skilfully vivid slice of historical fiction' LOVEREADING 
   
  'Historical fiction of a high order' THE TIMES 
   
  'Tense, absorbing and faultlessly plotted' SUNDAY TIMES 
   
  'Beautifully constructed... This is one of Hurley's finest' DAILY MAIL 
   
  'Capable and understated characterization' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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  Lightning Falls - A Weeping...

  J.W.G. Wise

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  At the intersection of small-town life and cosmic horror lies Lightning Falls …Jenny Berger returns home to a town she can barely remember. Haunted by the loss of those closest to her, tormented by betrayal, and hounded by regret, Jenny hopes to find a quiet place to call home and a community to call her own. Adrift in a crowd of familiar strangers, Jenny must not only navigate the horrors of her past, but those that lie below the surface of the little village of Lightning Falls. When a boy goes missing, Jenny thinks that perhaps she’s found both purpose and community, but her new connections are threatened when her past rears its head.The first novel by horror writer J.W.G. Wise (Weeping Cedars, Samite, Wrought of Amber, Shards of Amber), Lightning Falls is an epic horror story that both focuses on a tiny community in Wallowa County, Oregon and spans three centuries, three continents, and worlds uncharted.Set in the Weeping Cedars Universe, Lightning Falls is a stand-alone epic horror novel that invites readers into a web of terror that connects books, short stories, and podcasts. The mysteries are so deep and the terrors so complex, that readers will want to dive back in immediately after finishing Lightning Falls.

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  The Flying Scotsman Sings

  Debbie Wastling

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  This witty, caustic yet compassionate novel explores the meeting of two unlikely young people in 1923: Amos Bell, the train driver of the Flying Scotsman train, and an opera singer, Madame Neil-Gregory.  This is a true story. 
  Their Northern erratic love story takes place in cities around Britain, as Alice Neil-Gregory (her birth name) builds her career as a coloratura, eventually singing dressed as Elizabeth 1 for George V at the new Wembley Park in London. The couple struggles with changes in society after World War 1,  and try to embrace becoming ‘Bright Young Things’ in a world of jazz music, silent movies, and women’s emancipation. These people break with the conventions of their working class parents, but the burning question, which keeps the reader wanting more, is ‘Will Alice ever marry Amos?’

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