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Enchantress from the Stars Enchantress from the Stars Sylvia Engdahl When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one ce… OL15836010W
One true friend One true friend Joyce Hansen Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and give each other advice on… OL15856262W
Prairie Anna Prairie Anna Peggy House "Someday you will choose how to live for yourself." Most of Anna's life is decided for her -- what to study, which chores to do, when to eat and sleep. Everyone in her family works hard to survive th… OL16664279W
Wool Wool Hugh Howey,Hugh Howey They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, a spoiled and rotten world, their forefathers left behind. But this view fades over time, ruined by … OL16800608W
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Andrew Sean Greer After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. … OL16804372W
The Rogue Not Taken The Rogue Not Taken Sarah MacLean LADY SOPHIE'S SOCIETY SPLASH When she finds herself the target of very public aristocratic scorn, Sophie Talbot does what she must to escape the city and its judgment—she flees on the back of a ca… OL17339618W
The Daylight Marriage The Daylight Marriage Heidi Pitlor Hannah was the kind of woman who turned heads. Tall and graceful, naturally pretty, often impulsive, always spirited, the upper-class girl who picked, of all men, Lovell -- the introverted climate sc… OL17358793W
When the Moon Is Low When the Moon Is Low Nadia Hashimi Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their coun… OL17621475W
Past Crimes Past Crimes Glen Erik Hamilton When his estranged grandfather is shot and left for dead, an Army Ranger plunges into the criminal underworld of his youth to find a murderer . . . and uncovers a shocking family secret From the t… OL17625955W
Our town Our town Kevin McEnroe "An unseen narrator guides us through the dark fairy tale of Dorothy White, an aspiring actress who 'never quite figured how to get out of her own way.' Her perfect marriage to an equally golden acto… OL17708843W
Bird Box Bird Box Josh Malerman Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world—a… OL17857318W
One step too far One step too far Tina Seskis A woman leaves her happy family and home to reinvent herself as a completely different person, with no trace of her former self, working in a hip London ad agency, until a shocking revelation makes h… OL17867556W
As good as dead As good as dead Elizabeth Evans When Esme, the woman she betrayed twenty years ago, arrives on her doorstep, bringing with her a past she thought was buried forever, Charlotte is faced with a choice of redeeming the old friendship … OL17870824W
Moth and spark Moth and spark Anne Leonard "Prince Corin has been chosen to free the dragons from their bondage to the Empire, but dragons aren't big on directions. They have given him some of their power, but none of their knowledge. No one,… OL17872198W
The other Joseph The other Joseph Skip Horack Leading a solitary life after the disappearance of his brother, Roy Joseph receives an email from Joni, who believes Roy is her uncle and so begins his journey to find the veracity of her claim. OL17884950W
The only words that are worth remembering The only words that are worth remembering Jeffrey Rotter "A darkly comic, wildly original novel of a family in flight from the law, set in a near-future American dystopia, a tender-hearted A Clockwork Orange. In an America of the semi-distant future, human… OL17889012W
In every way In every way Nic Brown "Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament-unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mother's diagnosis with cancer, Maria's decision to … OL17896318W
Pleasured Pleasured Candace Camp From New York Times bestselling author Candace Camp comes the second delicious novel in her trilogy of Scottish historical romances, Secrets of the Loch. Damon, the earl of Mardoun, is smitten the… OL18188584W
A most inconvenient marriage A most inconvenient marriage Regina Jennings "Having fled a difficult home life, Civil War nurse Abigail Stuart feels like her only friend in the world is sweet but gravely wounded patient Jeremiah Calhoun. Fearing he won't survive, the Confede… OL19995108W
Star fall Star fall Cynthia Harrod-Eagles The post-Christmas lull is officially over.... The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in his luxurious West London home. Egerton's partner, the g… OL19996232W
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