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The Jane Austen Project
by Kathleen Flynn
Arriving in 1815 London, two time travelers from a technologically advanced future, a disaster-relief doctor and an actor-turned-scholar posing as wealthy West Indies planters, infiltrate Jane Austen’s inner circle to recover a suspected unpublished novel, but when a special friendship forms between them all, they must make a tough choice.
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The breakdown
by B. A. Paris
Unable to forget a murder she witnessed when she was where she was not supposed to be, Cass struggles with an increasingly compromised memory before she begins receiving silent, sinister phone calls. By the best-selling author of Behind Closed Doors.
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Watch me disappear : a novel
by Janelle Brown
When a woman goes missing during a hike in California's Desolation Wilderness, her devastated family is forced to come to terms with her secretive nature. By the best-selling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.
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The weight of ink
by Rachel Kadish
An ailing historian with a fondness for Jewish history reviews 17th century documents discovered during a renovation in Amsterdam, and learns the story of an emigrant who worked as a scribe for a blind rabbi just before the onslaught of the plague.
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Goodbye, vitamin : a novel
by Rachel Khong
Struggling with disillusionment in the aftermath of a broken engagement, Ruth moves back home with her parents to discover that her professor father's erratic memory loss and her mother's eccentricity are manifesting in near-comical ways that help Ruth transform her grief. A first novel.
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The windfall : a novel
by Diksha Basu
Moving to a wealthy community after the lucrative sale of their website, Mr. And Mrs. Jha, formerly of East Delhi, struggle with cultural changes while their son, studying in America, pursues romance and wonders how his parents' new status will affect his life choices.
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Goodnight from London : a novel
by Jennifer Robson
An ambitious American journalist determined to start a new life an ocean away from her past relocates to London in 1940 to report on World War II, only to lose everything and find herself dependent on strangers during the horrors of the Blitz. 30,000 first printing.
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A house among the trees
by Julia Glass
When a revered children's book author dies accidentally and leaves everything to his trusted assistant, the assistant reflects on their long bond and the complicated aspects of her late employer's life and final wishes. By the National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes.
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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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I found you : a novel
by Lisa Jewell
A lonely single mom who offers shelter to an amnesiac man and a young bride who is told that her missing husband never existed struggle to make sense of their transforming worlds and connection to a sister and brother whose lives were shattered by secrets more than two decades earlier. By the best-selling author of The Third Wife.
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Undertow
by Elizabeth Heathcote
Marrying a man in the shadow of the late mistress who ended his first marriage, Carmen stumbles on evidence that her husband may not have told her everything about his affair and begins to wonder in the face of disturbing realizations that she may not want to know the truth. Original.
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The epiphany machine
by David Burr Gerrard
The author of Short Century reimagines an alternate-history New York from the 1960s to the near future marked by a salon host's innovation of an "epiphany machine" that places text tattoos on its users' forearms that make revelatory statements of fortune and consequence.
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Hum if you don't know the words
by Bianca Marais
Growing up parallel but very different lives built on apartheid in 1970s Johannesburg, a white girl from a secure family and a Xhosa widow in a rural village meet by chance in the wake of The Soweto Uprising, during which the girl's parents are killed and the widow's daughter goes missing. A first novel.
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The café by the sea : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
Returning to her family's Scottish island town in the aftermath of her mother's death, a London girl-about-town opens a café when she discovers that her father and brothers are not quite up to the task of running the family farm. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop on the Corner.
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