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Fiction A to Z August 2017
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The almost sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
Swept off her feet by a costumed man at a comics convention, a graphic novelist discovers that she is pregnant with a biracial child and avoids telling her conventional Southern family while assisting her elderly grandmother, who has been hiding a dangerous secret linked to the Civil War.
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Armistice : the Hot War
by Harry Turtledove
A conclusion to the trilogy set in a mid-20th-century alternate universe reimagines humanity's attempts to rebuild in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war. By the Hugo Award-winning author of the War That Came Early series.
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The Cottingley secret
by Hazel Gaynor
The best-selling author of The Girl Who Came Home reimagines the early 20th-century story of cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, who became a national sensation when they claimed they photographed fairies in their garden, winning the support of novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Devil's cut
by J. R. Ward
When a son of the Baldwine family is arrested for his father's murder, the ensuing turmoil is further complicated by the family's failing bourbon business, the poor health of a motherly head cook and a shocking secret about the patriarch's demise. By the best-selling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
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Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
Less than a year after their breakup, midlist novelist Arthur Less is invited to his ex-boyfriend's wedding. Not wanting to go but lacking (so far) a compelling reason to RSVP his regrets, he accepts every other invitation that comes his way, traveling to New York, Mexico, Morocco, and other far-flung destinations. In his efforts to run away from facing the fact that he has irrevocably lost the love of his life, however, he finds other reasons to live -- though of course he's got to endure some comically wrong turns first. With a surprising narrator (you'll find out at the end who) and flawed but sympathetic characters, Less is a poignant meditation on the universal search for love and happiness.
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Mrs. Fletcher : a novel
by Tom Perrotta
Struggling to adjust to her empty nest when her only child departs for college, a middle-aged divorcee receives an erotic message from a secret admirer and becomes obsessed with a fantasy porn site for women; while miles away at college, her son encounters challenges to his outmoded ideas of sex. By the best-selling author of Little Children.
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The Reason You're Alive
by Matthew Quick
Surviving a brain tumor linked to a wartime chemical exposure, David resolves to return a stolen object to a former Native American soldier from his past as part of an effort to find closure and recover from his wife's untimely death. By the award-winning author of The Silver Linings Playbook.
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