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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
by Xochitl Gonzalez
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
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Annie Bot
by Sierra Greer
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
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Becoming Madam Secretary
by Stephanie Dray
Describes how Frances Perkins met a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt in turn-of-the-century New York and, despite initially not getting along, the pair formed a historic partnership that led them both to the White House.
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Blank
by Zibby Owens
In this hilarious debut novel, a frustrated writer faces a five-day deadline to finish the book she had to scrap after realizing it shared the same plot as a summer blockbuster from a superstar author.
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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Day One
by Abigail Dean
In the weeks following a tragic shooting in an idyllic Lake District town in England, two young people find themselves at the epicenter of a conspiracy theory in the new novel by the author of Girl A.
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Diavola
by Jennifer Thorne
Anna is going on a family vacation in Italy and dreading having to navigate the dynamics that will come with it. Her twin brother is bringing his cringey new boyfriend, her sister will inevitably tell her all she's doing wrong, and her mother will question why Anna broke up with her boyfriend, all while her father disassociates. Thank goodness for her nieces--and the homicidal ghost that lives in their Airbnb.
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Ellipses
by Vanessa Lawrence
Biracial and bisexual, Lily learns to navigate high society parties, microaggressions at work and her relationship with her girlfriend after accepting a ride home from a fashion world business titan who can advance her career and love life.
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Expiration Dates
by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together; usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.
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Finding Sophie
by Imran Mahmood
A couple whose only teenage daughter went missing become obsessed with an occupant on their block who won't break his silence and speak to them about the case, forcing the parents to reexamine their own lives and relationship.
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The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
by Claire Swinarski
Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together.
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Funny Story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
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Good Half Gone
by Tarryn Fisher
After witnessing her twin sister get kidnapped years prior, Iris Walsh decides to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane where she believes the perpetrator is being held and discovers something even more sinister going on.
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The Great Divide
by Cristina Henrâiquez
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
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The Haunting of Velkwood
by Gwendolyn Kiste
Three childhood friends miraculously survive the night when everyone in their suburban hometown turns into ghosts.
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend, who disappeared at a county fair, until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece, Annie, to solve both crimes.
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In a Not-So-Perfect World
by Neely Tubati Alexander
A Caribbean-set romp follows an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course.
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The Inheritance
by Joanna Goodman
A mother and daughter who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.
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James
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Kill for Me, Kill for You
by Steve Cavanagh
Two ordinary women make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.
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Listen for the Lie
by Amy Tintera
When Lucy's friend Savvy is murdered, anyone could be the killer, even Lucy, and soon enough a true-crime podcast comes investigating.
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Lost Man's Lane
by Scott Carson
A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown.
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The Mars House
by Natasha Pulley
A queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
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Memory Piece
by Lisa Ko
Moving from the predigital 1980s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, a novel of friendship, art and ambition follows three lifelong friends as they strive for meaningful lives in a world that turned out to be radically different from the one they were promised.
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Murder Road
by Simone St. James
In 1995, newlyweds April and Eddie, making a wrong turn, pick up an injured hitchhiker who later dies and, now suspects in a series of unexplained murders, must dig into the town's history to clear their names and discover there's something supernatural at work on that horrible stretch of road.
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Off the Air
by Christina Estes
When a controversial talk-show radio host dies under mysterious circumstances, journalist Jolene Garcia is on the case.
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One Moment
by Becky Hunter
The day she dies, Scarlett watches the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most, especially her best friend, Evie, but when she sees Evie bravely embracing a future without her, Scarlett wonders if she would go back and alter the events that changed their lives forever.
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Parasol Against the Axe
by Helen Oyeyemi
In Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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Pride and Joy
by Louisa Onomâe
Three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grapples with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back.
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The Silver Bone
by Andreæi Kurkov
A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Sleeping Giants
by Rene Denfeld
Explores sibling bonds, foster children, monsters masquerading as caretakers, terrifying secrets and the power of love to right even the most egregious wrongs.
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Those Beyond the Wall
by Micaiah Johnson
When mutilated bodies turn up, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause—a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the enter world.
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Toxic Prey
by John Sandford
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
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The Underground Library
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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The Unquiet Bones
by Loreth Anne White
When human remains are found, reopening a decades-old case, a group of friends, highly respected, affluent members of their communities, begins to fracture as homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Dr. Ella Queen get closer to the truth of what happened on an autumn night 47 years ago.
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What Happened to Nina?
by Dervla McTiernan
Two families are pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son's name.
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Worry
by Alexandra Tanner
Two siblings-turned-roommates navigate an absurd world on the verge of calamity.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Centerville Library 111 W. Spring Valley Rd Centerville, OH 45458 (937) 433-8091
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Woodbourne Library 6060 Far Hills Ave Centerville, OH 45459 (937) 435-3700
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Creativity Commons 895 Miamisburg Centerville Rd
Centerville, OH 45459 (937) 610-4425
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