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Beyond the point : a novel
by Claire Gibson
Three West Point cadets—including a nationally ranked point guard, an Army general's faith-driven granddaughter and a rebellious homecoming queen—embark on bond-forging military careers on the eve of the September 11 attacks.
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California girls
by Susan Mallery
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo.
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The farm : a novel
by Joanne Ramos
Ensconced within a Hudson Valley luxury retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.
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Flowers over the inferno
by Ilaria Tuti
"Ilaria Tuti's thriller debut explores a remote community in northern Italy--a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts. In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate.
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The last
by Hanna Jameson
Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we left it. Love you. But as he's waiting in the lobby of the L'Hotel Sixieme in Switzerland after an academic conference, still mulling over how to respond to his wife, he receives a string of horrifying push notifications. Washington, DC has been hit with a nuclear bomb, then New York, then London, and finally Berlin. That's all he knows before news outlets and social media goes black.
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Machines like me : a novel
by Ian McEwan
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Atonement presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle.
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The mister
by E. L James
After he inherits his family’s noble title, wealth and estates, Maxim Trevelyan must fight his desire for an enigmatic woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous past. By the best-selling author of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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| Normal People by Sally RooneyThe surprising (and secret) relationship between a wealthy high school outcast and a popular (but poor) athlete, and what happens when they go off to college. Set in Ireland and covering powerful themes of class and power, this novel offers complex characters and well-crafted dialogue.
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The seven or eight deaths of Stella Fortuna : a novel
by Juliet Grames
Believed cursed in her rugged Italian village, a tough, intelligent teen protects her younger sister during World War II, enduring challenges that transform her views about survival and independence.
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The Spanish Promise
by Karen Swan
One of Spain's richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Who is she and what hold does she have over him? Charlotte Fairfax is asked to travel to the troubled family's home in Spain to get to the bottom of the mysterious bequest. It's the week before her wedding but she is confident she has time - there's only one reason an older man leaves his money to a beautiful woman, isn't there?
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Spring
by Ali Smith
The Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and Winter presents a highly anticipated third entry in a celebrated series of stand-alone, metaphorically interconnected novels.
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Supermarket
by Bobby Hall
Arriving to work at the supermarket to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to crumble as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed.
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Twitch Force
by Michael Redhill
This is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential mystery, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: ideas that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear. Twitch Force is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada's bravest and most original poets.
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The unlikely adventures of the Shergill sisters : a novel
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Making an obligatory pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out their mother's final rites, three estranged British-Punjabi sisters make unexpected discoveries about why their mother was forced to leave India.
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A wonderful stroke of luck : a novel
by Ann Beattie
A man who attended a prestigious New England boarding school has his life turned upside down by the reappearance in his life of an enigmatic and brilliant but difficult former teacher that makes him question everything he knows.
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