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Rich People Problems : a Novel
by Kevin Kwan
Rushing to the deathbed of his grandmother, Nicholas Young encounters a massive clan eager to claim a share of the family fortune, win the hearts of loved ones, destroy each other's reputations and outmaneuver professional rivals. By the best-selling author of Crazy Rich Asians.
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The Heirs : a Novel
by Susan Rieger
A follow-up to The Divorce Papers finds the Falkeses clan confronting instability, broken loyalties and secrets in the wake of a patriarch's death.
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Standard Deviation : a Novel
by Katherine Heiny
A first novel by the author of Single, Carefree, Mellow follows the marriage between a man and his spontaneous but exhausting second wife, a relationship that is further shaped by their Asperger's-patient child and an effort to be friends with the man's very different first wife.
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Mother Land
by Paul Theroux
An intricately detailed, darkly humorous portrait of a family both held together and torn apart by a narcissist matriarch describes how her husband and seven children navigate the woman's false outward appearances and her petty tyrannies as she ages well past 100 years old.
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A Dog's Way Home
by W. Bruce Cameron
A follow-up to the best-selling A Dog's Purpose traces the story of an adorable dog who falls instantly in love with a VA, worker only to be separated from him by rules that disallow pitbulls in their Denver community, a situation that compels the puppy to travel 400 miles back to the person she loves.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Dragon Teeth
by Michael Crichton
A recently discovered novel by the ER creator and best-selling author of Jurassic Park is set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting and follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
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Walkaway
by Cory Doctorow
Abandoning formal society to pursue a minimalist counterculture life in a near-future world wrecked by climate change, a disenchanted senior and his heiress paramour inspire a host of followers who become obsessed with cheating death in ways that turn the world upside down. By the award-winning author of Little Brother.
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The Last Iota
by Robert Kroese
Hired by a movie mogul to find rare coins lost somewhere in the Disincorporated Zone of LA, eccentric private investigator Erasmus Keane struggles to unravel the mystery while his partner, Blake, is framed for murder, which plunges them both into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of government. By the author of The Big Sheep.
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Vanguard
by Jack Campbell
When a nearby world attacks Earth, Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a former enlisted Marine, gather together weapons and a few volunteers to face down warships and armored soldiers, while Carmen Ochoa and Lochan Nakamura hope to lay the foundations for a mutual defense. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Lost Fleet series.
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The Scribe of Siena : a Novel
by Melodie Winawer
Taking an unexpected trip to a Tuscan city to settle her brother's estate, a grieving neurosurgeon discovers the journals and paintings of a 14th-century artist before finding herself transported through time to the artist's world just prior to the outbreak of a devastating plague. A first novel.
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The Long Drop
by Denise Mina
Centered around the “trial of the century” in Glasgow in 1950, the innocence and guilt of those involved is explored, starting with Peter Manuel who has been found guilty of a string of murders, starting with the Watt family, and is waiting to die by hanging.
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The Only Child
by Andrew Pyper
The award-winning author of The Demonologist reimagines the origins of gothic literature's founding masterpieces—Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula—in the story of a man who may be an actual monster, and the only woman who has a chance of finding him.
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Black Mad Wheel
by Josh Malerman
A Detroit band desperate to reclaim fame is recruited by the government to track down the source of a mysterious sound in the African desert, which they link to an ominous conspiracy and an enigmatic accident victim's remarkable recovery.
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Shadow Man : a Novel
by Alan Drew
When a serial killer begins breaking into random homes in California's quiet Rancho Santa Elena, detective Ben Wade and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt confront a long-buried secret and the tragedy of a teen's suicide in order to get ahead of the killer. By the author of Gardens of Water.
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Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love
by James Runcie
Discovering the body of a man in the Cambridgeshire woods, priest and detective Sidney Chambers immerses himself in the 1970s counterculture of psychedelic plants; while his longtime friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, investigates the disappearance of a historic religious text.
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