HARDCOVER FICTION
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ECHOES IN DEATH by J. D. Robb Lt. Eve Dallas of the N.Y.P.D. investigates a fatal home invasion. By Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. THE WHISTLER by John Grisham A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.
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NEVER NEVER by James Patterson and Candice Fox Harriet Blue, a Sydney sex crimes detective, is sent to the outback (the never never) to investigate the disappearance of a mine worker. The first in a new series. RIGHT BEHIND YOU by Lisa Gardner The former F.B.I. profiler Pierce Quincy and his partner, Rainie Conner, foster a girl whose older brother murdered their drunken father. Now, eight years later, he has killed again. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead A slave girl heads toward freedom on the network, envisioned as actual tracks and tunnels. TWO BY TWO by Nicholas Sparks A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a THE GIRL BEFORE by J P Delaney A sadistic architect builds a modern house that controls its (young, female) inhabitants in this psychological thriller, soon to be a major motion picture. MY NOT SO PERFECT LIFE by Sophie Kinsella A young woman fired from her job in London is forced to reconsider the meaning of success. UNIVERSAL HARVESTER by John Darnielle A mystery/thriller set in Iowa. HIDDEN FIGURES by Margot Lee Shetterly The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie. 8. THE UNDOING PROJECT by Michael Lewis How the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process. TEARS WE CANNOT STOP by Michael Eric Dyson A frank and searing discussion of race.