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A burning
by Megha Majumdar
An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack.
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Daughters of Smoke and Fire
by Ava Homa
A young Kurdish woman, Leila, desperately investigates the disappearance of her younger brother, Chia, who was involved in increasingly risky social and political activism in Tehran in an unquenchable desire for justice to honor their father’s past torture and imprisonment.
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The Family Gift
by Cathy Kelly
A warm and wise story from international bestseller Cathy Kelly about how it's never too late to find your place in the world. Four women, all at different stages of their life, are brought together as they overcome the challenges that life tends to throw in our way - and learn to embrace the surprises too, as each faces a second chance at happiness.
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Hello, summer
by Mary Kay Andrews
When the dream job she has pursued all her adult life suddenly disappears, an ambitious journalist returns to her family’s small-town newspaper before witnessing a car accident that ends the life of a local war hero.
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The love story of Missy Carmichael
by Beth Morrey
Reevaluating her past upon finding herself alone at age 79, Missy forges unexpected ties with two strangers and their spirited dog, discovering the power of friendship, family and self-forgiveness along the way.
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The new girl : a novel
by Harriet Walker
Devastated when her best friend loses her baby at the same time her own is born, a new mother becomes increasingly paranoid about an ambitious young temp who she believes would steal her glamorous magazine job.
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Redhead by the side of the road
by Anne Tyler
A tech expert and building superintendent finds his circumscribed routines upended by his significant other’s eviction and the appearance of teen at his doorstep who claims to be his son. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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The Roxy letters
by Mary Pauline Lowry
Writing a series of letters to the hapless ex living in her spare bedroom, a chronically broke artist with a heart of gold teams up with two close friends to save their Austin community from overdevelopment.
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The silent treatment : a novel
by Abbie Greaves
After Maggie intentionally overdoses on sleeping pills and ends up in a coma, her estranged husband, Frank, must figure out how to explain why he had withdrawn from the world and stopped speaking to her—before he loses her forever. A first novel.
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The slaughterman's daughter
by Yaniv Iczkobits
When Fanny Keismann turns ten, her father, Grodno's ritual slaughterer, gives her a knife, and she soon develops a talent for her father's trade. But in nineteenth-century Russia, ritual slaughter does not befit a wife and mother, so when it comes time to marry and raise a family, Fanny abandons her work and devotes herself to raising her five children.
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Stay Where I Can See You
by Katrina Onstad
The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven't they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She's carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children ... And when their changed circumstances place her family under threat, Gwen must wake up from her domestic slumber.
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