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Check This Out New Fiction for January |
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The Children's Train by Viola ArdoneA tale based on true events follows the experiences of a boy in post-World War II Italy, who joins thousands of other children from the south to live with adoptive families in the less-desperate north.
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie BenedictClaiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war-hero husband. By the author of The Other Einstein.
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If I Disappear by Eliza Jane BrazierWhen her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman sets out to investigate and plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession.
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The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick"Nightmares are creeping through the city of dreams... Renata Viraudax is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadezra -- the city of dreams -- with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house and secure her fortune and her sister's future. But as she's drawn into the elite world of House Traementis, she realizes her masquerade is just one of many surrounding her. And as corrupt magic begins to weave its way through Nadezra, the poisonous feuds of its aristocrats and the shadowy dangers of its impoverished underbelly become tangled -- with Ren at their heart"
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We Could Be Heroes by Mike ChenTwo superpowered individuals who have lost all memory of their real identities use their respective powers to commit or fight crime before teaming up together to stop the mad scientist behind a devastating medical conspiracy.
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Spin by Patricia Daniels CornwellCaptain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance.
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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick DaltonCadie returns to her childhood home to confront her estranged best friend and the dark secret they both share and must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the land she loves.
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The Other Mother by Matthew DicksA teenage boy copes with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light.
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Before the Ruins by Victoria GoslingA multilayered debut by the founder of The Reader Berlin finds a woman forced to confront a haunting summer from the past shaped by a stolen diamond necklace, a man on the run and a devastating betrayal.
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A Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesAn award-winning retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil-keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict.
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Georgana's Secret by Arlem HawksHaving spent her early life at sea in the guise of her father’s cabin boy, a young woman falls in love with a Royal Navy lieutenant who challenges her pessimism about finding a respectable husband.
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Shipped by Angie HockmanThe Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this witty, clever, and swoonworthy novel following a workaholic marketing manager who is forced to go on a cruise with her arch-nemesis when they’re up for the same promotion.
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The Sea Gate by Jane JohnsonMourning her late mother, Rebecca sets out for Cornwall to help an elderly cousin save her beloved home and discovers attic treasures, a mysterious tunnel from the cellar to the sea and long-buried secrets.
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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa JohnsonBorn on a plantation, but set apart from the others by her mother’s position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at 18 and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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The Lost Boys by Faye KellermanDetectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son’s biological mother upends Decker’s home life.
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The Last Garden in England by Julia KellyFrom the author of the international best-seller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special garden.
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All the Colors of Night by Jayne Ann KrentzA sequel to The Vanishing finds a young man with rare crystal-energy abilities partnering with a disgraced paranormal artifacts finder to track down a mysterious relic that may be tied to a parent’s sudden coma.
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People Like Her by Ellery LloydA successful media influencer’s morally questionable relationship with the truth exposes deep psychological cracks in her marriage at the same time her family is targeted by a violently obsessed fan.
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Pianos and Flowers : brief encounters of the romantic kind by Alexander McCall SmithAn anthology of 14 stories by the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series imagines the rich lives and loves behind everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photograph archives.
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The City of Tears by Kate MosseA continuation of the story that began with The Burning Chambers is set in Paris, London and Amsterdam and follows the failed efforts of a royal marriage to end a decade-long religious conflict. By the best-selling author of Labyrinth.
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The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'DonnellA Victorian-inspired supernatural mystery by the award-winning author of The Maker of Swans follows the experiences of a Cambridge dropout and his savvy detective partner, who connect a paramour’s disappearance to a bizarre suicide.
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Remote Control by Nnedi OkoraforWhen an alien artifact turns her into Death’s adopted daughter, Sankofa, with her name being the only tie to her family and her past, searches for answers as cities fall in her wake.
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The Russian by James PattersonInvestigating a trio of horrifying murders in three major U.S. cities against a backdrop of his impending nuptials, Detective Michael Bennett risks getting caught in a deadly trap set by a particularly elusive killer.
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The Scorpion's Tail by Douglas J. PrestonA sequel to Old Bones finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious 16th-century gold cross.
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Our Darkest Night by Jennifer RobsonHiding from the Nazis in the guise of a Christian farmer’s wife, a Jewish woman is met with suspicion by a Nazi official who harbors a vendetta against the former seminary student posing as her husband.
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Neighbors by Danielle SteelOpening her home to neighbors in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, a reclusive woman inadvertently triggers events that reveal secrets, divide relationships and forge new bonds among strangers.
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The Narrowboat Summer by Anne YoungsonAbandoning their previous lives, two friends agree to drive a third friend’s narrowboat through the canals of England while she awaits a life-saving operation, drawing them all together to forge a new path forward.
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