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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.
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What We Lose : a Novel
by Zinzi Clemmons
Raised in America, the multiracial daughter of a mother from Johannesburg struggles with her mother's terminal cancer and her own need to find love and a place to belong, quests shaped by losses, changes in her sense of identity and unexpected motherhood. A first novel.
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Flesh and Bone and Water : a Novel
by Luiza Sauma
A successful surgeon in London deals with the accidental death of his mother 30 years prior during his childhood in Brazil through recurring dreams and a mysterious letter from the daughter of his family’s former maid.
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Spoonbenders
by Daryl Gregory
A generations-spanning family of psychics, blessed and burdened by their abilities, is challenged to use their powers collectively to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia and a skeptic bent on discrediting them.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The Half-Drowned King : a Novel
by Linnea Hartsuyker
Betrayed by his usurping stepfather during his return trip to his ancestral lands, a young warrior resolves to exact revenge and claim the woman he loves at the side of a strong Norse fighter rumored to be a prophesied king.
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The Alexander Inheritance
by Eric Flint
Catapulted 2,000 years into the past by a latest cosmic force, the crew and passengers of a cruise ship struggle to survive in Egypt during the war-torn years of the Ptolemaic era.
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The Song of the Orphans
by Daniel Price
Saved by powerful, fearsome beings after the earth is destroyed, two sisters find themselves in a strange new place where the fabric of time is manipulated by household appliances, in a follow-up to The Flight of the Silvers.
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Kangaroo Too
by Curtis C. Chen
In a sequel to Waypoint Kangaroo, secret agent Kangaroo, after his spacecraft is wrecked by a mining robot, must find out who is behind the sabotage, while trying to clear his personal physician’s name of murder and stop a crooked scheme that threatens to ruin approximately one million Moon vacations.
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Tomorrow's Kin
by Nancy Kress
A debut entry in a trilogy based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday's Kin follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
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The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
In the wake of a woman's horrifying discovery of human remains along a scenic tidal estuary, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a second-rate boarding school near the English Channel reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher. By the best-selling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood.
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The Boy Who Saw
by Simon Toyne
Possessing no clues to his identity save a tailored jacket with his name stitched on a label, an amnesiac journeys to France in search of the jacket's tailor, only to be implicated in a hate crime targeting the survivors of a notorious Nazi death camp.
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The Painted Queen
by Elizabeth Peters
When a stranger bursts into her elegant Cairo hotel suite and dies from injuries sustained during an interrupted assassination attempt on her life, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts while navigating the murderous activities of master-of-disguise, Sethos.
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See What I Have Done
by Sarah Schmidt
A reimagining of the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case profiles a volatile and loveless Borden home where the events surrounding the shocking murders of the parents are presented from the viewpoints of Lizzie, her elder sister, their housemaid and an enigmatic stranger. A first novel.
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Yesterday
by Felicia Yap
A tale set in a stratified world where classes are divided by their members' ability to recall one or two days of memory follows a rare mixed marriage that is shattered by the secrets and murder of the husband's mistress, a situation that is further complicated by the perpetually erased memories of both investigator and suspect.
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