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Fiction A to Z December 2021
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Benita Renee Jenkins : Diva Secret Agent
by Lorisa Bates
Benita Renee Jenkins has everything going for her--a great job, loving family, loads of friends, and the hope of one day becoming a crime scene investigator. However, things change when she unknowingly crosses paths with Miguel Perkins, a hot secret agent working for a clandestine agency created to throw the book at the most untouchable of bad guys. . When Benita is set up for a crime she didn't commit, Perkins gives her a choice: go to jail or come work for him. She knows she must give up her old life to keep the ones she loves safe. With combat training and a full-fledged makeover, this former hairstylist turned secret agent plans to take down the bad guys one thug at a time.
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Dava Shastri's last day : a novel
by Kirthana Ramisetti
After receiving a brain cancer diagnosis at 70, one of the world’s richest women tells her children that she wants to announce her death early so that she can read her obituaries, which ultimately reveal devastating secrets.
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The delivery
by Peter Mendelsund
A delivery boy fights to escape his indentured servitude to a company that sends undocumented refugees to bring wealthy people their dinners by earning 5-star reviews and impressing the aloof, but cute, dispatcher.
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The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales
by Emily Brewes
When he meets a talking dog while picking through trash heaps in Toronto’s abandoned subway tunnels, Jesse Vanderchuck and his new friend Doggo embark on a fool’s errand to find Jesse’s little sister, who fled the Underground, or die trying.
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The Family Way
by Christopher Diraddo
The year Paul turns forty, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to him. But for a gay man of a certain age, making a family still means finding your own way through a world with few ready answers. The eighteen-month journey reveals many insights about Paul's past and present, from his strained relationship to his father, his overprotective relationship with his partner Michael, and the many friends around him whom he considers his family.
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It's been a pleasure, Noni Black
by Claire Christian
After her 10-year relationship ends, Noni Blake sets off for Europe on a quest aimed at prioritizing her own wants and desires in this new novel by the author of Beautiful Mess.
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The Listeners
by Jordan Tannahill
One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claire's life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group of people who also perceive the sound. What starts out as a kind of neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something much more extreme, with far-reaching, devastating consequences.
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Little pieces of me : a novel
by Alison Hammer
Investigating DNA revelations that say her father is a man she never met, Paige learns about her mother's past as a straitlaced university student who had a one-night stand with the campus golden boy.
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The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton
by Eleanor Ray
A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it’s easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys — one of whom has a collection of his own.
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No one is talking about this : a novel
by Patricia Lockwood
Elevated to prominence for her social-media posts, a woman begins suffering from existential anxieties while learning the languages, customs and fears of her fans throughout the world, before an urgent text from home transforms her virtual perspectives.
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The prairie chicken dance tour
by Dawn Dumont
The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour is loosely based -- like, hospital-gown loose -- on the true story of a group of Indigenous dancers who left Saskatchewan and toured through Europe in the 1970s. Dawn Dumont brings her signature razor-sharp wit and impeccable comedic timing to this hilarious, warm, and wildly entertaining novel.
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The sentence : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents this unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer.
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Wish you were here : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local family.
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The woman in the purple skirt : a novel
by Natsuko Imamura
Exploring envy, loneliness, power dynamics and the vulnerability of unmarried women, this novel of suspense follows the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan as she becomes dangerously obsessed with the Woman in the Purple Skirt, whom she befriends in an attempt to get close to her.
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