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The fox wife : a novel
by Yangsze Choo
In 1908 Manchuria, Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the identity of a dead courtesan, while a secretive woman named Snow, seeking vengeance for her lost child, navigates the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits to find a murderer.
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The boy who cried bear
by Kelley Armstrong
In a well-hidden refuge for those who need to disappear, Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, when the town's youngest resident claims a bear with human eyes is stalking a hiking party and then a dead body turns up, must find out what they're up against.
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Red string theory : a novel
by Lauren Kung Jessen
Artist Rooney Gao, who believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate, meets Mr. Right in Jack Liu and must convince this reluctant skeptic to embrace his destiny. Original.
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Finlay Donovan rolls the dice
by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, arrive in Atlantic City and must find the location of Vero's kidnapped crush and a stolen car.
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The partner plot
by Kristina Forest
When successful celebrity stylist Violet Greene and her high school boyfriend Xavier Wright wake up married after hooking up in Vegas, they decide both their careers could benefit from the marriage, but instead get an unexpected second shot at happily ever after. Original.
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Library for the war-wounded : a novel
by Monika Helfer
Inspired by the author's family history, this beautifully written story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the war-wounded and became obsessed with the home's unlikely and remarkable library.
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Exordia
by Seth Dickinson
A disaffected office worker has an unearthly close encounter and joins a team of civilians, soldiers and scientists to investigate a mysterious other-worldly broadcast in the new novel from the author of the Baru Cormorant novels. 125,000 first printing.
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Accidentally his : a designing debutantes novel
by Sabrina Jeffries
Rafe Wolfford courts Lady Verity as a ruse to discover whether she or anyone else in her party planning company is leaking information to the French, in the third novel of the series following What Happens in the Ballroom. Simultaneous.
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The resemblance
by Lauren Nossett
When a University of Georgia fraternity brother is struck dead by an oncoming car driven by someone who looked identical to him, Detective Marlitt Kaplan uncovers chilling secrets as she explores the interconnected Greek system, discovering just how far these brotherhoods will go to protect their own.
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Lone women : a novel
by Victor LaValle
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the“lone women” taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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Dead silence
by S. A. Barnes
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
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Night flight to Paris
by Cara Black
In 1942, American markswoman and former spy Kate Rees is pulled out of retirement by her former handler who sends her to Paris on a dangerous three-pronged mission?—?one that requires her to take the shot that just might win?—?or lose?—?World War II.
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Locust lane
by Stephen Amidon
When three teenagers??Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history; Jack, the popular kid with a mean streak; and Christopher an outsider desperate to fit in??become suspects in the murder of a fellow student, their parents will do anything to protect them, even at the others' expense.
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Age of vice
by Deepti Kapoor
After a speeding car kills five people late at night in New Delhi, the driver, a shell-shocked servant is unable to explain the series of strange events that lead to the crime.
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A spell of good things
by Ayobami Adebayo
The lives of two Nigerians, Eniola, who spends his days running small errands and begging and Wuraola, an exhausted young doctor from a wealthy family, are intertwined when sudden violence shatters them both.
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Time's undoing : a novel
by Cheryl A. Head
Searching for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather decades ago, Meghan Mackenzie, the youngest reporter at the Detroit Free Press, spurred by the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, travels to Birmingham where she uncovers secrets that put her own life in danger.
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Saturnalia : a novel
by Stephanie Feldman
During the Saturnalia carnival, Nina, a former member of Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club who ekes out a living by telling fortunes, is drawn back into the Club's wild solstice masquerade at the behest of a friend where she becomes the custodian of a horrifying secret and the target of a mysterious hunter.
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A brief history of living forever
by Jaroslav Kalfar
In a 2030 America led by an isolationist authoritarian government, a star biotech scientist trying to discover the key to immortality becomes a whistleblower when she uncovers alarming activity in the wastelands of what was once Florida.
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The spear cuts through water
by Simon Jimenez
When an ancient god escapes her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors, she, along with a guard broken by a guilt-stricken past and an outcast fighting for his future, embarks on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedomand end the Moon Throne forever. Maps.
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The god of endings
by Jakki Holland
A lonely artist heading an elite fine arts school for children in 1984, Collette LeSange, an immortal beauty who has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache, finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home and her own mysteriously growing hunger.
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The women could fly : a novel
by Megan Giddings
Fourteen years after her mother's disappearance, Josephine, with her future in doubt in a world where women are closely monitored, is offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will and leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.
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The terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, Destry is dedicated to terraforming the planet Sask-E until she discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, and as she uncovers more about their past, she starts to question the mission she's devoted her life to.
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Goliath
by Tochi Onyebuchi
After those with the means to do so leave Earth in a mass exodus to the space colonies in the 2050s, those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure and try to find purpose.
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The foxglove king
by Hannah Whitten
Thrust into the Sainted King's court, a debauched and opulent society, Lore, who has a secret power to raise the dead, tangles in politics, religion and forbidden romance as she attempts to find out who is responsible for wiping out entire villages on the outskirts of the country.
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Last seen in Lapaz
by Kwei Quartey
While searching for Ngozi, the missing daughter of her boss's old friend, PI Emma Djan is led to Accra where she stumbles upon a murder and a network of sex traffickers across West Africa, and, to save Ngozi from suffering the same fate, goes deep undercover.
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Invisible sun
by Charles Stross
Two versions of the United States fight it out in a deadly arms race straddling twin universes as Miriam Bernstein secretly helps an exiled American princess in the final novel of the trilogy following Dark State.
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Gone like yesterday : a novel
by Janelle M. Williams
Zahra, a young black woman who can hear the voices of her ancestors singing to her through moths, teams up with Sammie, an outspoken Trini-American teenager who can also hear them, as the pair search for Zahra's missing brother.
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City under one roof
by Iris Yamashita
Detective Cara Kennedy investigates a murder in a small Alaskan town after a local teen discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore, teaming up with a town police officer as bad weather approaches.
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