Shroud for a Nightingale
by P.D. James
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The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed.

Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

WAR
by Sebastian Junger
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Sebastian Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat—the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley.

Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.

The Dreadnought Court Complete Series Boxed Set
by A.T. Michaels and Michael Anderle
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Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Josephine Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn’t exist. Something massive. Something waiting. The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts.

In a world where the Meridian Corporation controls life through elevator licenses and oxygen quotas, one woman holds the key to a weapon that fires only when the law allows. Someone buried this warship for a reason. Someone powerful enough to rewrite history itself.

The Collector
by Daniel Silva
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In this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a search for a stolen Vermeer masterpiece and uncovers a conspiracy that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

The Samuel Paradox
by John Westley Turnbull
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Arthur Hale only wanted a little help around the house. Devoted to his family and hell-bent on making the most of retirement, Arthur impulsively buys Samuel, an advanced domestic robot designed to serve, obey and make life easier. His grandson is delighted. His wife is considerably less certain.

At first, Samuel is everything they were promised. But as he observes the Hale family, something unexpected begins to happen. He learns more than his programming requires. He develops his own understanding of loyalty, justice—and right and wrong.

I’ll Be Awesome Tomorrow
by Marian Sandmaier
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From the time she was eight years old, Marian Sandmaier was fixated on one shining goal—to make herself perfect. She had no interest in tweaks or enhancements: Her ambition was to achieve a full-on personality transplant, exchanging an awkward, uncertain girl for a young goddess who was wildly charming and totally immune to rejection.

Over the next fifteen years, Sandmaier’s ceaseless efforts to hold herself to this impossible standard led to a destructive intimate relationship and an ever-deepening sense of failure. She would be perfect, damn it—or die trying.

Going Back
by Peter Robinson
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In the novella “Going Back,” never before published in the United States, Banks returns home for a family reunion, only to find it taking a decidedly sinister turn.

In “Like a Virgin,” written especially for this volume, Banks revisits the period in his life and the terrible crime that led him to leave London for Eastvale. And in between, the disparate motives that move us to harm one another, from love and jealousy to greed and despair, are all explored with fascinating depth.

D: Heavy Water
by Neal Stephenson
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Europe, 1934. British journalist Owen Crisp-Upjohn is dispatched to Moscow, where his assignments quickly escalate from cultural reporting to international espionage. Before long, Owen finds himself pulled into the orbit of the enigmatic Earl of Suffolk, a maverick aristocrat, and Aurora, a curiously compelling woman with a shadowy past rooted in Soviet intelligence.

Their mission soon becomes clear: secure the earth’s only supply of deuterium—”heavy water”—before it falls into Nazi hands. The high-stakes pursuit takes them from London’s plush drawing rooms to Barcelona, ravaged by the Spanish Civil War; from far-flung Soviet aerodromes to the perilous, icy landscapes of occupied Norway.

He Who Does Not Exist
by Victoria W Thomson
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God allows the devil to temporarily make a few demons mortal.

The devil does this to improve those demons at getting souls and to select a lead soul catcher, an elite position in Hell. The demons, while on earth are mortal, meeting on a college campus, and explaining the deadly sins. Each demon is the embodiment of a deadly sin and most want to be lead soul catcher.

An angel points out the risk of making demons mortal, even for a short time; while a demon never gets the choice, a mortal can choose salvation.

Island Extraction
by Stacy Angell Curtis
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Lena Ashworth arrived at a billionaire’s island estate with a fake name and a desperate prayer, determined to rescue a cousin who doesn’t realize she needs saving.

Lena has not heard from her cousin Cassidy in a week, and the silence is deafening. Convinced that Cassidy’s charming billionaire boyfriend is hiding something dangerous, Lena flies to a remote Caribbean island under a false name, posing as a dog-sitter to gain access to his sprawling estate. What she finds is Cassidy missing, a suspicious house manager, a stolen cache of jewels, and Nash Stone, an undercover security agent who is as protective as he is impossible to ignore. Lena has learned not to trust anyone, but with Cassidy’s life on the line, she may not have a choice…

Fat Tuesday
by Sandra Brown
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Burke Basile is a cop with nothing left to lose. Haunted by his partner’s death, the end of his marriage, and the destruction of his career, he targets his nemesis, a flamboyant attorney who helps killers evade justice. Burke’s shocking revenge centers around kidnapping Remy, the lawyer’s trophy wife.

But Burke hasn’t planned on the scorching desire he’ll feel for this desperate woman, who rose from the slums of New Orleans to marry a man she can never love.

The Back Bedroom
by Gregg Olsen
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In 1976, in the sealed back bedroom of a home in Washington state, authorities found the decomposing body of three-year-old Davey Weilbacher, beaten to death nearly two months prior.

Beyond that bedroom door was self-proclaimed prophet Leon Cunningham, who convinced his sheltered cult of family and friends—including Davey’s lost young mother—that the boy was possessed by the Devil. Exorcism was the only way to save him, leading to a ritualistic campaign of abuse, control, unimaginable violence, and murder.

Under Cover of Chaos
by Liz Wanic and Rebekah Wanic
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When young women are found dead in the capital of the Central African Republic, United Nations official Stella Fairmont is reminded of the unsolved disappearance of a friend. As she investigates, she uncovers what may be a chilling pattern-similar deaths in another UN location.

The deeper she digs, the more twisted the view becomes, and Stella finds herself up against a system built on compromise where accountability is often an illusion. When the truth gets blurred and personal histories can be hidden, the only way to survive is to trust her instincts.

When the Bough Breaks
by Jonathan Kellerman
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Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.

It’s child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware’s job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody’s memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl’s mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past.

The Wizards of Wall Street
by John Brooks
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For decades, author and New Yorker staff writer John Brooks was renowned for his keen intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and uniquely engaging approach to the dramas and personalities of the financial and business worlds. With a style of prose that “turns potentially eye-glazing topics . . . into rollicking narratives,” Brooks proved that even the bottom line can be moving, hilarious, and infuriating all at once (Slate).

Here are three of his most fascinating works, which still resonate today.

Fire Weather
by John Vaillant
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In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.

Fire has been a partner in our evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains.

The Painting
by Sheila Myers
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When Petula Kerslake returns to her childhood home in the Catskill Mountains, she discovers that the family painting hanging above the library mantel-long suspected to be valuable-is actually worth a staggering fortune. But the Fleming Foundation, which inherited the historic mansion and its contents, immediately moves to auction off the Sarah Cole masterpiece, citing fiduciary responsibility.

Determined to keep the painting in the family and community where it belongs, Petula and her siblings must navigate a web of family secrets, legal battles, and small-town politics.

48 Hours
by William R. Forstchen
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In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a “Carrington Event” that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world’s electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off.

Will the world’s population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?