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A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder.

With a number of hit titles and a highly anticipated movie tie-in, celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is at the top of her game. Fans around the world adore her. But on the final night of her latest book tour, one face in the crowd makes the author collapse. And by the next morning, she’s lying dead in a pool of blood.

Columbia’s death shocks the world and leaves Darian, her daughter and publicist, reeling. The police have nothing to go on―at first. But then details emerge, pointing to the author’s illicit past. Turns out many people had motive to kill Columbia. And with a hungry reporter and frustrated cop on the trail, her secrets won’t stay buried long. But how many lives will they shatter as the truth comes out?

Misery Hates Company by Elizabeth Hobbs

Miss Marigold Manners may be steeped in the etiquette of her old-money Boston family, but she is also an accomplished, modern woman and an avid student of archaeology who can handle any situation with poise. When the death of her parents leaves her too destitute to pursue her academic career and she receives a letter from a distant relative on Great Misery Island, Marigold decides she must do what any person of superior sense and greater-than-average curiosity would: she mounts her trusty bicycle and heads up the craggy, fog-shrouded coast of New England for a date with fate.

Marigold arrives at Hatchet Farm, a moldering, gothic pile of a house inhabited by relatives so mired in the sins of the past, they have no future. She sets out to modernize the recluses with a brisk, ruthless efficiency, but her well-intentioned plans to manage their lives lead to malice—and murder. Marigold spies a body floating in the stormy waters surrounding the island, and her suspicions immediately turn to her hostile, weapon-wielding relatives when one of the local girls turns up missing. And she might not be the only one.

When another dead body is found in the garden of the estate, Marigold finds herself accused. She must enlist the help of an eccentric, colorful cast of friends and found family to save herself—and everything she holds dear. As secrets are uncovered and lies exposed, the question of “who done it?” turns into “who didn’t do it?” and Marigold must face a truth that shatters her steely poise and shakes her very sense of self.

I Think I Was Murdered by Colleen Coble

Just a year ago, Katrina Berg was at the pinnacle of her career. She was a rising star in the AI chatbot start-up everyone was talking about, married with an adoring husband, and had more money than she knew how to spend. Then her world combusted. Her husband, Jason, was killed in a fiery car crash. Her CEO was indicted, and, as the company's legal counsel, Katrina faces tough questions as the Feds take over and lock her out of her office. The final blow is the passing of her beloved grandmother.

Her most prized possession is the beta prototype for a new, ultra-sophisticated chatbot loaded onto her phone. The contents of Jason's email, social media backups, pictures, and every bit of data she could find were loaded into the bot, and Katrina has "talked" to him every day for the past six months. She has been amazed at how well it works. Even the syntax and words the bot uses sound like Jason. Sometimes, she imagines he isn't really dead and is right there beside her. She knows it's slowing her grief recovery, but she can't stop pretending.

On a particularly bad day, she taps out: Tell me something I don't know. The cursor blinks for several moments and seems frozen before the reply flashes quickly onto the screen: I think I was murdered.

Distraught, Katrina returns to her cozy Norwegian-flavored hometown in the Northern California redwoods and enlists the help of Seb Wallace, local restaurateur and longtime acquaintance, to try to parse out the truth of what really happened. They must navigate the complicated paths of grief, family dynamics, and second chances, as well as the complex questions of how much control technology has. And staying alive long enough to do that is far more difficult than either of them dreamed.

The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams

There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists.

The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors’ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don’t quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious.

Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death?

The Sunflower House by Adriana Allegri

In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina’s family hides a terrifying secret—her birth mother was Jewish, making her a Mischling.

One fateful night after losing everyone she loves, Allina is forced into service as a nurse at a state-run baby factory called Hochland Home. There, she becomes both witness and participant to the horrors of Heinrich Himmler’s ruthless eugenics program.

The Sunflower House is a meticulously-researched debut historical novel from Adriana Allegri that uncovers the notorious Lebensborn Program of Nazi Germany. Women of “pure” blood stayed in Lebensborn homes for the sole purpose of perpetuating the Aryan population, giving birth to thousands of babies who were adopted out to “good” Nazi families. Allina must keep her Jewish identity a secret in order to survive, but when she discovers the neglect occurring within the home, she’s determined not only to save herself, but also the children in her care.

A tale of one woman’s determination to resist and survive, The Sunflower House is also a love story. When Allina meets Karl, a high-ranking SS officer with secrets of his own, the two must decide how much they are willing to share with each other—and how much they can stand to risk as they join forces to save as many children as they can. The threads of this poignant and heartrending novel weave a tale of loss and love, friendship and betrayal, and the secrets we bury in order to save ourselves.

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Ethics

B1025 .M35 2023 An introduction to Mesoamerican philosophy / Alexus McLeod

BF241 .G682 2023 Visual thinking : the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions / Temple Grandin ; with Betsy Lerner

BF469 .P36 2024 Learning near and far with birds / Ursula Pang

BF575.A86 L48 2011 Attached: the new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find--and keep--love / Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel Heller, M.A.

BF575.S75 L33 2020 The mind-body stress reset: somatic practices to reduce overwhelm and increase well-being / Rebekkah LaDyne, MS, SEP

BF637.C45 C78 2022 Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high / Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory print & online

BF637.C45 D858 2024 Supercommunicators : how to unlock the secret language of connection / Charles Duhigg

BF698.35.O57 V37 2024 Practical optimism : the art, science, and practice of exceptional well-being / Sue Varma, MD

BF724.3.S86 T66 2023 Stress less : a teen's guide to a calm chill life / Michael A. Tompkins

BJ1498 .H385 2020 Do nothing: how to break away from overworking, overdoing, and underliving / Celeste Headlee

BL795.W65 H39 2020 Pandora's jar: women in the Greek myths / Natalie Haynes

BR526 .M29 2022 The everyday crusade: Christian nationalism in American politics / Eric L. McDaniel, Irfan Nooruddin, Allyson F. Shortle

D: World History

D639.W7 G569 2024 Women and the First World War / Susan R Grayzel

D804.195 .P6713 2023 Nakam : the Holocaust survivors who sought full-scale revenge / Dina Porat

D805.5.A96 F754 2022b The escape artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland

DA520 .M674 2022 The time traveler's guide to Regency Britain : a handbook for visitors to 1789-1830 / Ian Mortimer

DS134.72.M44 W45 2024 The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust / Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa

E & F: American History & Western Hemisphere

E185.615 .D535 2023 Lies about Black people : how to combat racist stereotypes and why it matters / Omekongo Dibinga

E185.86 .P336 2017 Spare the kids : why whupping children won't save Black America / Stacey Patton, PhD

E302.5 .R67 2024 The pursuit of happiness : how classical writers on virtue inspired the lives of the founders and defined America / Jeffrey Rosen

E77.5 .W55 2023 Project 562 : changing the way we see Native America / Matika Wilbur

E814 .A54 2024 When Harry met Pablo : Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War politics of modern art / Matthew Algeo

E893 .S65 2024 Respect and loathing in American democracy : polarization, moralization, and the undermining of equality / Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

F1419.A84 L85 2024 The first Asians in the Americas : a transpacific history / Diego Javier Luis

F264.C4 .H65 2023 Fourth ward Charlotte : a neighborhood history / Cameron Holtz

F704.T92 L84 2023 Built from the fire : the epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street : one hundred years in the neighborhood that refused to be erased / Victor Luckerson

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

GN476.7 .S76 2024 Challenge to civilization : Indigenous wisdom and the future / Blair Stonechild

GT736 .D38 2019 Dress in the age of Jane Austen : Regency fashion / Hilary Davidson

GV1029 .R55145 2024 The formula : how rogues, geniuses, and speed freaks reengineered F1 into the world's fastest-growing sport / Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

GV1061.5 .G35 2021 Galloway's running 5k/10k : training for runners and walkers / Jeff Galloway

GV865.M493 S67 2023 Contenders : two Native baseball players, one World Series / written by Traci Sorell

GV964.S53 M39 2024 Changing the course : how Charlie Sifford and Stanley Mosk integrated the PGA / Peter May

H: Social Sciences: Business, Economics, Sociology

HB501 .B614 2024 Vulture capitalism : corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom / Grace Blakeley

HD30.2 .W5636 2024 We can't talk about that at work! : how to talk about race, religion, politics, and other polarizing topics / Mary-Frances Winters and Mareisha N. Reese print & online

HD30.3 .D495 2021 Digital body language : how to build trust & connection, no matter the distance / Erica Dhawan

HD30.3 .G68 2013 Real influence : persuade without pushing and gain without giving in / Mark Goulston and John Ullmen ; foreword by Keith Ferrazzi

HD7255 .A78 2024 You're hired! : practical strategies for guiding individuals with autism spectrum disorder to competitive employment / Patricia S. Arter, Tammy B.H. Brown, Jennifer Barna

HD9000.5 .T7354 2023 Transforming food systems under climate change through innovation / edited by Bruce M. Campbell, Philip Thornton, Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Dhanush Dinesh, Andreea Cristina Nowak