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Want to try a read-alike while waiting on that hold list for The Maze by Nelson DeMille? Check out the titles below!

Never Tell by Lisa Gardner
REASON: These books are suspenseful, intricately plotted, and fast-paced, and they have the genre "thrillers and suspense." The subjects are "former detectives," "women detectives," and "women murder victims."

Gone to Dust by Matt Goldman
REASON: These books are irreverent and witty, and they have the genre "thrillers and suspense"; the subjects "former detectives," "women detectives," and "women murder victims"; and have characters that are snarky.

The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva (available now on audiobook and eBook)
REASON: These "Gabriel Allon novels" are perfect for fans of "John Corey novels". Check out the first book in the series.

Looking for some read-alikes while you’re waiting on that long hold list for books written by Colleen Hoover? Here are some read-alikes to hold you over while you wait:

eBooks:

The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot.
REASON TO TRY IT: K.A. Tucker and Colleen Hoover are both authors of contemporary romance and new adult fiction, and are known for their steamy stories with heartwrenching twists. Their conflicted characters fall in love hard, but not without major obstacles.

If You Stay by Courtney Cole
Pax Tate is a bad-boy with a bad attitude to match. But he's got his reasons. And then he meets sweet, beautiful Mila Hill, who is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart.
REASON TO TRY IT: Courtney Cole and Colleen Hoover write new adult fiction filled with high drama, relationship dilemmas, and secrets. Both create flawed characters dealing with serious issues in their lives as they resolve romantic and familial relationships.

Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino
A love story about a “missed connection” that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.
REASON TO TRY IT: Renee Carlino and Colleen Hoover both write moving tales of love and loss. Their stories often center on imperfect but likeable people who make difficult choices in the name of love.

Books in Print:

God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie Debartolo
Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, even though a fortune teller once told her 12-year-old self that her one true love would die young and leave her all alone. Everyone said she was a fraud.
REASON TO TRY IT: Colleen Hoover professes to being a fan of Tiffanie Debartolo. Readers who enjoyed Debartolo's romances will find more flawed characters and dangerous matches in the work of Hoover.
(Also available in eBook and Audiobook format)

For fans of Verity:

Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward
In this explosive and twisted psychological thriller, a beautiful marriage turns beautifully bad.
REASON TO TRY IT: Like Verity, this book is disturbing and violent, and has themes of "unreliable narrator" and "toxic relationship."
(Also available in eBook and Audiobook format)

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Amber wakes up in a hospital. She doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it.
REASON TO TRY IT: Similar to Verity, this psychological suspense features an unreliable narrator/injured woman in a toxic relationship whose dark secrets come to light through her writing.
(Also available in eBook and Audiobook format)

With many of us working from home due to the coronavirus outbreak, there is potentially more time to read. What's on your reading list?

What genre scares you the most? A page-turning suspense? An adrenaline induced thriller? The unease of a murder mystery? Or a supernatural horror? It's the perfect time to come to the library and find your next great read!

As we say goodbye to Summer 2019 what were some of your most memorable reads? Who knows maybe your answer will be someone else's next great read!

Looking for some read-alikes while you’re waiting on that long hold list for The President is Missing, By Bill Clinton and James Patterson? Here are some thrillers, mysteries, and non-fiction to hold you over while you wait.

Fiction:
The President’s Daughter, By Jack Higgins
The president of the United States enlists the aid of ex-IRA enforcer-turned-security expert Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson, head of an elite, secret White House group, to find his kidnapped daughter, the result of a twenty-year-old affair with a lovely French woman.

Murder in the Lincoln White House, By Colleen Gleason
When a man is found stabbed to death only yards away from Abraham Lincoln during the inaugural ball, the president dispatches his assistant, and former frontier scout, Adam Quinn, to investigate.

The President’s Assassin, By Brian Haig
The chief of staff is dead, and the President is supposed to be next. With just three days to prevent the assassination of the President, military lawyer Sean Drummond races the clock in the high stakes countdown of his career.

Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth, By Jennifer Chiaverini
One of the world’s most notorious villains is portrayed in an understanding light throughout this compelling novel. Booth takes shape, with far more definition than the dark and sketchy impression most people have, through the lives of four women who loved him: his mother, his sister, his great love, and the owner of the boardinghouse where Booth and his fellow conspirators met.


Non-Fiction:
The President's House: A First Daughter Shares the History and Secrets of the World's Most Famous Home, By Margaret Truman
The daughter of former president Harry S. Truman reveals life in the White House, discussing the lives of its famous residents, describing various sections of the house, and offering a tour of the nation's most famous dwelling.

Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy, By Priscilla Johnson McMillan
A meticulous account of Oswald's progress toward the assassination, McMillan takes us inside Oswald's fevered mind and his manic marriage. When Marina, only a few weeks after giving birth to their second child, hears of Kennedy's death and discovers that Lee's rifle is missing from the garage where it was stored, she knows that her husband has killed the President.

Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission, By Bret Baier
January 1961. President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power--a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War.

If you’re on our waiting list for The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah, check out this list of book recommendations! These are novels of the Vietnam War, Alaska, Survivalism, and Coming-of-Age.

The Poisonwood Bible, By Barbara Kingsolver
A fierce, evangelical Baptist takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

The Mosquito Coast, By Paul Theroux
In a gripping yarn that is also a provocative critique of society, 14-year-old Charlie records what happens when his father, a disgruntled Massachusetts farmer, takes the family to the jungles of Honduras to rediscover self-reliance and ingenuity.

Educated: A Memoir, By Tara Westover
Tara was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." As a way out of this isolated existence, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her education takes her to Harvard and Cambridge, and the knowledge she learns transforms her.

Our Endless Numbered Days, By Claire Fuller
Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. Through a strange series of events, she discovers that her father lied to her and is able to find her way back home to civilization and to her mother.

A Catalog of Birds, By Laura Harrington
Billy Flynn is an attractive young man, a patriot, an artist, and nature lover. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later a wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. His wounds have crippled his ability to even hold a pencil and his hearing loss has cut him off from the natural world. Nell, a brilliant student headed for a career in science, will do all that's possible to save him.

Once Upon a Time in England, By Helen Walsh
Robbie Fitzgerald, factory worker by day and bar singer by night, meets Susheela, a Malaysian nurse, when he arrives at her hospital requiring attention after a bar brawl. Their subsequent romance, marriage, and parenthood take place against the backdrop of racist Seventies England with skinheads on the prowl taking their vicious brutality out on anyone whose complexion offends them.

The Signal Flame, By Andrew Krivák
In a small town in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef Vinich. They were three generations under one roof. Three generations, but only one branch of a scraggy tree; they are a war-haunted family in a war-torn century. The signal flame is a stirring novel about generations of men and women and the events that define them, brothers who take different paths, the old European values yielding to new world ways, and the convalescence of memory and war.

The Driest Season, By Meghan Kenny
As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Cielle endures a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father. On a balmy summer afternoon, she finds him hanging in the barn--the start of a dark secret that threatens her family's livelihood. With wisdom and grit, Kenny has fashioned a deeply affecting story of a young woman discovering loss, heartache, and--finally--hope.

If you’re on hold for An American Marriage, By Tayari Jones or already read it and are looking for a similar read, check out the list below for some book recommendations!

The Mothers, By Brit Bennett
It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. The pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.

Fates and Furies, By Lauren Groff
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.

Lila, By Marilynne Robinson
Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Now homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, Lila steps inside a small-town Iowa church, the only available shelter from the rain, and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life.

Another Brooklyn, By Jacqueline Woodson
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. But beneath the hopeful promise there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where mothers disappeared, where fathers found religion, and where madness was a mere sunset away.

The Buddha in the Attic, By Julia Otsuka
A novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as 'picture brides' nearly a century ago starting at their journey on the boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands to them as mothers raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and history.

The Mars Room, By Rachel Kushner
Romy Hall is about to serve two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside the prison is her young son, Jackson, but she has new realities to deal with inside: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living.

Someone, By Alice McDermott
The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life--her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs--from childhood to old age. Our first glimpse of Marie is as a child: a girl in glasses waiting on a Brooklyn stoop for her beloved father to come home from work. Then we watch Marie as she goes through her first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her brother's brief stint as a Catholic priest; the Second World War; her parents' deaths; and the births and lives of her children.

PBS is holding a contest for The Great American Read! The show for the contest will air on May 22 @ 8pm on PBS.

They have a list of 100 books that will be part of the contest. Here is a link to the website to check it out: http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american...

How many of these books have you read?

If you're on hold for Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, you may want to look at some of these books in the meantime or check them out if you just want some recommendations.

Orphan Train, By Christina Kline
Between 1854 and 1929, thousands of orphans were regularly sent from the east coast to western farmlands. 17-year-old Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian in her home to keep out of juvenile hall, but Molly soon discovers that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they appear.

The Nightingale, By Kristin Hannah
Two sisters rebel against the German occupation of France in World War II. Vianne and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions. This is an emotionally gripping novel that will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very end.

The Crazyladies of Pearl Street, by Trevanian
Set in Albany in the 1930s, little Jean-Luc and his sister are left with only a mother as their con artist father abandoned them. They end up living in a neighborhood full of “crazyladies” in the heart of the Irish Slums as this novel traces them through the Great Depression and World War II.

Necessary Lies, By Diane Chamberlain
After losing her parents, 15-year-old Ivy Hart is left to take care of her grandmother, sister, and nephew as tenants of a small tobacco farm. Jane Forrester takes a position as the county’s newest social worker and soon must decide whether to take drastic action to help her clients or risk losing the battle against everything she believes is wrong. This story traces these two young woman, seemingly worlds apart, but both haunted by tragedy.

The Cider House Rules, By John Irving
Set in rural Maine during the pre-WWII and post-war era, this coming-of-age story traces Homer Wells, an orphan, who grows up in an orphanage founded by Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and abortionist. Homer spends his childhood “being of use” as a medical assistant to Dr. Larch and after never being adopted, leaves the orphanage to live his own life and utilizes the skills he learned from Dr. Larch.

Coal River, By Ellen Marie Wiseman
Orphaned and penniless, Emma Malloy is treated like a servant by her relatives working for free at their storefront. Emma sees the miner families of the village struggling to survive and begins to steal food for the families, leaving it at their doorsteps and marking their bills as paid. Coal River is an honest portrait of resilience in the face of hardship and of the simple acts of courage that can change everything.

The Language of Flowers, By Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Discovering the symbolic meanings of flowers while languishing in the foster-care system, eighteen-year-old Victoria is hired by a florist when her talent for helping others through flowers is discovered, a situation that leads her to confront a painful secret from her past.

Vanishing Acts, By Jodi Picoult
Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Delia now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.

Comment below if you want some more recommendations or if you want to tell us how you liked (or disliked) these books!

Here's some similar titles to Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn if you want some more suspense in your life or if you're still on our waiting list to get it!

The Breakdown, by B.A. Paris
Cass is having a hard time putting out of her mind the crime she saw that night in the woods on the way home, and she can't stop the nagging guilt that she could have done something, or the feeling that someone is watching her...

The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
Lo is a travel writer who has been given an assignment to go on an intimate tropical cruise, which couldn't be more relaxing until she witnesses a woman thrown overboard...but all guests are accounted for, so Lo desperately tries to get someone to believe her that something is horribly wrong.

The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
Every day Rachel passes by the same couple breakfasting on their porch while she is on the commuter train to work. Every day its the same, until the day Rachel witnesses something shocking and everything changes.

Her Every Fear, by Peter Swanson
Kate has always been a little panicky ever since her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her life. Kate's cousin suggests to her that they swap apartments temporarily, which Kate agrees to hoping the change will help her overcome her fear, until she discovers the next door neighbor has been murdered.

The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena
Anne and Marco Conti have the perfect life until one day while one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. What ensues is a nerve-racking unraveling of a family.

Perfect Nightmare, by John Saul
What seems like a group of disconnected missing people are actually entangled in the web of an obsessed madman. If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.

Don't You Cry, by Mary Kubica
A young woman goes missing from her apartment without a trace meanwhile a young man is enthralled by a mysterious woman is far more dark and sinister than she may appear.

Almost Missed You, by Jessica Strawser
Violet and Finn are happily married with a little boy and go on a family vacation when all of a sudden Finn picks up and leaves the hotel room with their son and doesn't come back. Violet is forced to confront the fact that she never knew her husband as her world comes crumbling down around her.

Read these already? Comment below and ask for some more recommendations!