<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for audience:"adult" contentclass:"FICTION" formatcode:(BK OR PAPERBACK )]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for audience:"adult" contentclass:"FICTION" formatcode:(BK OR PAPERBACK )]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/lvccld/rss/search?query=audience%3A%22adult%22%20contentclass%3A%22FICTION%22%20formatcode%3A%28BK%20OR%20PAPERBACK%20%29&amp;searchType=bl&amp;custom_edit=false&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=New%20Fiction&amp;page=2&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:29:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Ransom]]></title><description><![CDATA["Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon searches for the missing wife of a British billionaire in [this] tale of greed, corruption, and betrayal"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3071540</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3071540</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Silva, Daniel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3071540134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063384224/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The True Meaning of Love]]></title><description><![CDATA["February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment, Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country. With their home under siege, Tatyanna tries to make her way to safety in Poland. Also joining the refugees is Yulya, who is torn between getting her young children across the border and staying at the side of her husband, Symon, and her elderly parents, Petro and Oxana, who refuse to abandon their home. As millions flee, Vlad and Symon join a volunteer civilians' unit to fight. Even elderly citizens like Petro and Oxana are given AK-47s, though soon starvation becomes as much of a threat as the encroaching troops. Sasha, an obstetrician, and Anton, a surgeon, who are secretly lovers, stay behind to treat the never-ending waves of wounded. When the Russians bomb hospitals, the heroic couple find themselves delivering babies in bomb shelters. Through the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, Yulya, Symon, Sasha, and Anton--each struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity--Danielle Steel tells a gripping and deeply moving story of regular people surviving as war rages around them"-- Front jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3082509</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3082509</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steel, Danielle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3082509134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593973141/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holly]]></title><description><![CDATA["Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight, and must face some of her most depraved adversaries yet. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her own mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be taking time off. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are smart, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outhink and outmaneuver this brilliant and twisted pair in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2626321</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2626321</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Stephen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2626321134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668016138/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Secrets We Hide]]></title><description><![CDATA["The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter and the Will Trent Series. 1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors. When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead. Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town. And it's up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth..."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3083775</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3083775</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Slaughter, Karin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3083775134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A North Falls Thriller</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063458789/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Hagwon]]></title><description><![CDATA["Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children--Bo, DH, and Mido--find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California--where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experiences and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security. In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repurcussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice--for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers--is a kind of prayer"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091911</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091911</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee, Min Jin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3091911134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538752036/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood, Ending]]></title><description><![CDATA["#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. . .For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they've both been waiting for. They're on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives -- in exciting, but also terrifying, ways. John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol's life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve." -- Publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091939</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091939</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Green, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3091939134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525426073/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exit Party]]></title><description><![CDATA["Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party's host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change"-- Front book flap.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091457</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091457</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mandel, Emily St. John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3091457134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593321461/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Love Hypothesis]]></title><description><![CDATA["When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2378600</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2378600</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hazelwood, Ali]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2378600134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593336823/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Payback in Death]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Captain. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty cops away during his forty-seven years in Internal Affairs. It could very well be payback--and she will not rest until the case is closed"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2626330</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2626330</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robb, J. D.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2626330134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250284099/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Changes Everything]]></title><description><![CDATA["Julia is the blissful mother of a toddler, happily married to Gianluca and living in their restored villa in Tuscany - when she gets a phone call from her best friend Courtney, who tells her the shocking news that Courtney's grandmother has been shot to death, evidently the victim of a burglary at her Pennsylvania farm. The police believe the murder was a random home invasion, but Courtney, considering the remoteness of her grandmother's farm, is doubtful. Julia agrees to help Courtney unearth the truth. But in a mining town where the land and its residents are simmering with strain and tension, solving Courtney's grandmother's murder may turn attention on the two friends in a very deadly way ..."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3071546</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3071546</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scottoline, Lisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3071546134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538770030/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fruit Fly]]></title><description><![CDATA["A washed-up author will stop at nothing to claw her way back to relevancy--even if it means appropriating a young gay man's tragic story. Mallory Maddox is buried under seven years of writer's block. With her status as a literary sensation fizzling, she'll do anything she can to resurrect her career. Inspiration needs to strike--and fast. Enter Leo. He's a struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He's vulnerable. He's enigmatic. He's exactly what Mallory has been looking for. Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. The world needs Leo's story right now, and Mallory believes she deserves to tell it. Really, it's her story--she's the one who wrote it, after all. But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide how far she will go to pen the perfect story"-- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3098868</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3098868</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Silver, Josh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3098868134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798892426367/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incidents Around the House]]></title><description><![CDATA["A horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls "Other Mommy." To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: "Can I go inside your heart?" When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay. Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents' marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel. But Other Mommy needs an answer. Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2725222</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2725222</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Malerman, Josh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2725222134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593723128/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Chase Shadows]]></title><description><![CDATA["At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man. Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to take on their first proper case. So what if their new client seems to have his own reasons for avoiding the police? All they need to do is uncover whoever left the note, and then find them. Simple. But once they start digging, the suspects keep piling up: there's Sweden's most-wanted criminal, a canny ex-wife, and a fierce business rival--yet the murderer keeps evading them. And as the trio chase a villain through the shadows, danger travels closer to home.... Between Italy and Palm Springs, via Barcelona and Steve's village pub, can the team catch an elusive killer who knows EXACTLY where to hide?"-- Front book flap.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091520</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3091520</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Osman, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3091520134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217060399/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divorce]]></title><description><![CDATA["Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They get married and start a family. Buy a house. Build a life. Then boy forces girl out of the house, retains the services of all the best family lawyers in town, starts dating a 20-year-old, and files for divorce. It's a tale as old as time. Naomi knows she should accept her fate, move into a dingy one-bedroom, and try and land a job (since Jeremy drained their joint accounts). But Naomi won't settle for anything but a happy ending. Instead, she finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed over Veronica, her husband's new girlfriend. But soon, Naomi loses her grip on the situation -- and starts to build a body count, unearthing more from the past than she ever could have bargained for. But it's worth it, if it means keeping her perfect family, right?"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3069535</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3069535</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McFadden, Freida]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3069535134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781464282768/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[26 Beauties]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Women's Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties: young women missing in San Francisco. SFPD's Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women's Murder Club's party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas's help in locating his missing daughter. And she's not the only one. Lindsay's been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park. What if all these cases are connected? The answers lie with the 26 Beauties on the run and in the wind.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3045494</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3045494</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3045494134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316569804/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pirate Queen]]></title><description><![CDATA["Grace O'Malley was born to be at sea. Raised alongside her brother by their father, chief of the clan O'Malley, Grace learns early that her dreams of the open water are not compatible with the life she's expected to lead as the daughter of a noble family. And when her father marries her to the wrong man, a neighboring chief named Donhal, Grace's world shifts for the worse. Undaunted, Grace raises a family without abandoning her passion, aiding her hot-tempered husband in his campaigns against rival tribes. Eventually ousted from her husband's land in the wake of his death, Grace returns to her childhood home and begins her career as a pirate in earnest, claiming new territories and finding deeper love, only to see her livelihood threatened by English incursions into Ireland, and her family endangered in an attempt to check her power. Tenderly observed and fiercely written, Ariel Lawhon's gripping latest action-packed novel channels the natural beauty of sixteenth-century Ireland alongside the brutality of the period as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine and defender of her people, who truly earned the title 'the Pirate Queen of Ireland'"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3085101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3085101</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lawhon, Ariel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3085101134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385550345/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Disappearers]]></title><description><![CDATA["On a day in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1988, eight men come together to begin rehearsals for a play. Though they are strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: They are gay in a country that wants nothing to do with them. One night the men are savagely attacked and one of them is killed. As the survivors heal, each man finds that he must confront the bigotry and homophobia that the attack laid bare. Some of the men try to ignore what the murder unearthed. Some embrace their rage. Others simply vanish into thin air. All of them are forever scarred by what happened. In The Disappearers, Marlon James has written the powerful and unflinching story of the men who must grapple with the hatred, alienation, and shame they face in a world that refuses to accept them. By turns epic and intimate, violent and forgiving, this is above all a deeply human story of acceptance and insight as only Marlon James can tell it"-- Book jacket.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3084778</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3084778</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[James, Marlon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3084778134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593717202/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Book Made Me Think of You]]></title><description><![CDATA["Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart... When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there's a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn't come as more of a shock. Partly because she can't remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago.... When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the kind (and adorably bookish) bookshop owner, explains the gift--twelve carefully chosen books from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him. Her monthly trips to the bookstore--and heartfelt conversations with Alfie--give Tilly the comfort she craves and the courage to set out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to vlog her journey, her story becomes more than her own. With help from Alfie, her budding new following and her friends and family, can Tilly's year of books show her how to love again?"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3015676</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3015676</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Page, Libby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3015676134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217186990/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet Me in Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA["Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time--but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as the clock ticks down, the world opens up around them. Piper meets a cute French waiter, who might just understand her better than anyone she's ever met, and Julia meets a man at a dive bar and struggles with how to tell him the truth about her future. Rock star Jackson Quick's glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs thirty years ago, but he hasn't toured in a decade. This week, he'll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. But he wants more out of life than being defined by fame. When he meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is at his core, the ground shifts beneath his feet. Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades--including Jackson Quick's biggest hit, City of Light. But his secret is that every love song he's ever written is for a woman named Celeste, whom he loved a lifetime ago, when they were both teenagers in Paris during World War II. He has spent eighty years believing she died--but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he's on the first flight to France. Can he break through the haze of her dementia, using the songs he's written all these years, to remind her of who they once were to each other--and to tell her he came back for her? Henry's granddaughter, Melody, has just discovered that her husband of twenty years, Gilles, a French cosmetics executive, is having an affair. When she confronts him, he tearfully apologizes and begs her to forgive him. But can she? And, perhaps even more importantly, does she want to? Or is there a different kind of life out there for her if she chooses to be alone? These intertwining stories--plus several others--unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light"-- Publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3077322</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3077322</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Harmel, Kristin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3077322134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668092538/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Final Target]]></title><description><![CDATA["He showed up at Arden Bowie's debut author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile. He showered her with compliments and got her autograph. Then he came to her next event. And the one after that. Dustin was just an aspiring writer who wanted advice, Arden reassured herself. But after giving in to one of his incessant invitations and chatting with him over coffee, she discovered that ignoring her inner alarm bell had been a terrible mistake... An introvert at heart, Arden had long craved solitude--but now, after a harrowing assault, she finds herself hiding behind locked doors and startling at every sound. And her relief at his imprisonment is tempered by anxiety when Dustin's wealthy mother helps to get him a paltry five-year sentence at a psychiatric facility. Arden decides to write a new story for herself, moving to a tiny Oregon town and befriending Gideon, an ex-LAPD detective. But while she learns to thrive, Dustin remains his delusional, twisted self, as fixated as ever and now seething with anger. He still believes Arden's purpose on earth is to serve and please him. And his job is to protect her. But who will protect her from him?"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3069538</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3069538</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roberts, Nora]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3069538134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250413581/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust Fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[When her family inherits millions, Julia moves from Nebraska to New York City, where she struggles to fit in at her new elite private school and grows close to her tutor, Damion, who has his own motives and is secretly trying to uncover the truth behind her family’s inheritance, even as they begin to fall for each other.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3098317</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3098317</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Painter, Lynn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3098317134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798347100217/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocket's Red Glare]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of ex-Special Forces-turned-domestic ops is code named "Rocket's Red Glare." Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of military mercenaries. They are ex-Special Forces, combat divers, medics, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. They are decorated veterans of the U.S. military and experts in international warfare. Now U.S.-based, these operators are in training and on stand-by: until a presidential campaign is interrupted by murder. Suddenly, the plan is no longer the stuff of Mission: Impossible. Emergency operations happening not overseas but on the island of Nantucket. This national crisis is real.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3069561</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3069561</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3069561134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Thriller</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316600118/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughters of the Sun and Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her arranged marriage to a much older merchant. Petal, the big-footed daughter of peasants, has grown up hungry and with dirt between her toes. In a moment of desperation, Petal's father sells her to buy money for rice seed, and she is loaded onto a ship to the Gold Mountain: America: where she is once again sold. Moon is married to a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. She is educated, speaks fluent English, and has been endowed with a face of great beauty, yet her failed footbinding as a child has left her with a limp that lessens her value in the eyes of many. Each woman has her own desires. Dove wants to love and be loved, Petal desires freedom, and Moon seeks justice. Together they face a larger society that wishes them not one ounce of good will. Anti-Chinese sentiment is strong in Los Angeles, and this eventually leads to the Night of Horrors during which all three women are challenged in ways they could not have imagined. Brought together by hardship and heartbreak, they must use their bravery, endurance, and ability to "eat bitterness" to discover their voices, find freedom, and connect through solace and friendship. Together they are daughters of the sun and moon"--- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3070162</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C3070162</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[See, Lisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3070162134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982117054/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow]]></title><description><![CDATA["Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn't commit: murder. Simon knows he's innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer..."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2983442</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2983442</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grisham, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2983442134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385548984/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping]]></title><description><![CDATA["As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena" -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2925508</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S134C2925508</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Collins, Suzanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://lvccld.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2925508134</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781546171461/MC.GIF&amp;client=lvcclibdist&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>