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The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
In a novel set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, three widows' lives and fates become intertwined.
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The Wide Circumference of Love : a Novel
by Marita Golden
A respected family court judge who has spent her life making tough calls, Diane Tate must make the toughest one yet in her own life when her 68-year-old husband is diagnosed with early onset dementia and, along with her children, must reexamine her connection to the man he once was—and learn to love the man he has become.
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It Happens All the Time : a Novel
by Amy Hatvany
Returning home for the summer after graduating college and becoming engaged, a young woman lets her fears about early marriage lead her to drink too much and kiss a longtime best friend who has always secretly hoped they could share more, a slip that changes their lives in permanent ways. By the author of Best Kept Secret.
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Our Short History
by Lauren Grodstein
After finding out she is dying, a single mom contacts her ex, who left her alone rather than be a father, and is shocked to discover that he is suddenly excited to meet the child he never knew.
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The One Inside
by Sam Shepard
An evocative first work of long fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright traces the experiences of a man who is overwhelmed by memories of his early years, marked by filmmaking, his late father, war and a haunting affair.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The Song Rising
by Samantha Shannon
A latest installment in the best-selling series that began with The Bone Season finds a clairvoyant underworld queen forging a tentative alliance with the Ranthem only to have her rule threatened by catastrophically powerful technology.
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A Conjuring of Light
by V. E. Schwab
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes A Gathering of Shadows traces the rise and fall of kingdoms throughout the Maresh Empire, where a fraught balance of magic endangers both heroes and foes. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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The Stars are Legion
by Kameron Hurley
In an attempt to achieve peace, Anat, the leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, who has a unique ability, to her rival, while her sister Zan assembles a band of cast-off warriors to rescue Jayd, but their mission does not go as well. By a Hugo Award winner.
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The Final Day
by William R Forstchen
An entry in the series that includes the best-selling One Second After continues the story of America's efforts to rebuild in the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse that wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation and violence.
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Amberlough
by Lara Elena Donnelly
A mission gone wrong that has triggered political fires throughout Amberlough City finds gay double agent Cyril DePaul scheming to protect his smuggler lover, Aristide Makricosta, throughout the rise of a fascist government coup. A first novel.
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The Night Bird
by Brian Freeman
Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences, so when a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco—during which seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks—Frost looks for a connection that leads him to controversial psychiatrist Francesca Stein.
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The Cutaway : A Thriller
by Christina Kovac
A young television producer lands in a deadly, tangled web of corruption and cover-up in Washington, D.C., when she investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer. A first novel.
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A Twist of the Knife : a Novel
by Becky Masterman
Traveling back to her Florida hometown when her former partner asks for her help with a case that is not going well, ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn turns skeptical when she learns that her former colleague would save an innocent man on death row. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Fear the Darkness.
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Lola : a Novel
by Melissa Scrivner Love
Hiding her role as the true leader of a small gang in South Central Los Angeles, Lola pretends to be the submissive girlfriend of the gang's purported boss while her intelligence and leadership are increasingly tested by high-stakes betrayals and escalating violence between rival drug cartels. A first novel.
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My Darling Detective
by Howard A Norman
When her future mother-in-law shocks the art world by destroying a master work of photography, police detective Martha Crauchet conducts the ensuing interrogation against a backdrop of her fiancé's shocking discovery about his father. By the award-winning author of The Northern Lights.
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