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Glory over everything : beyond the Kitchen house
by Kathleen Grissom
A rerelease of a grassroots best-seller by the author of The Kitchen House continues the experiences of Jamie, who in 1830 after escaping slavery passes himself off as a wealthy white silversmith, only to risk everything to save a beloved servant who has been captured and sold in the South.
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Tuesday nights in 1980
by Molly Prentiss
An evocative, synesthetic art critic and an exiled Argentinian painter on the run from his country's violence are brought together by respective tragedies, a small-town beauty and a mysterious orphan boy who helps them rediscover what they have lost. A first novel.
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Lilac girls : a novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
A debut novel inspired by the life of unlikely World War II heroine Caroline Ferriday follows the experiences of a Manhattan debutante, who resolves to help upon learning of the atrocities at the Ravensbruck concentration camp; and a Catholic teen, who is swept up in the Polish resistance movement.
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Lovecraft country : a novel
by Matt Ruff
Blends multiple genres in a visceral exploration of the Jim Crow era and its legacy, tracing the story of young Army vet Atticus Turner, who in 1954 Chicago travels with his publisher uncle and childhood friend to search for his missing father only to encounter human and supernatural terrors at the estate of a descendant of slave owners.
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Johannes Cabal : the Fear Institute
by Jonathan L Howard
In their mission to eradicate fear, necromancer Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute, believing that they have discovered where fear lives, enter the Dreamlands where they become trapped in a nightmarish world of phobias.
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Daredevils
by Shawn Vestal
Caught dating a boy of another faith by her devout Mormon parents, 1970s teen Loretta is married off to a materialistic fundamentalist as a second wife and runs away with his son and a part-Native American friend to search for a cache of gold and freedom outside their strict community. A first novel.
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The best place on Earth : stories
by Ayelet Tsabari
Introducing a new voice in international fiction, an award-winning collection of stories follows characters at the crossroads of geography and faith who are all trying to find someone to believe in.
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Mothering Sunday : a romance
by Graham Swift
Sharing what she believes will be a last tryst with a longtime secret lover on the eve of his marriage, a woman reflects on the years they have spent together and her journey of self-discovery against a backdrop of 20th-century history. By the award-winning author of Waterland.
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War hawk
by James Rollins
The best-selling author of the Sigma Force series and the best-selling author of the Briggs Tanner series present a follow-up to The Kill Switch, starring Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his Belgian Malinois canine companion.
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Cold barrel zero
by Matthew Quirk
Returning from exile to win back his family and take revenge on his accusers, a disgraced Black Ops soldier plots escalating attacks on U.S. soil and is targeted by doctor and former comrade-in-arms Thomas Byrne, who struggles with his loyalties during an explosive confrontation. By the author of The 500 and The Directive.
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We love you, Charlie Freeman
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
An African-American, sign-language-fluent family is hired by a private research institute—with a shocking, secret past—to teach sign language to a chimpanzee who will live as part of their household. A first novel.
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What is not yours is not yours : stories
by Helen Oyeyemi
A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird features entries about literal and metaphorical keys that open or shut the fates of lovers, the heart of a puppeteering student and the doors of a house of locks that holds unobservable developments.
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The beautiful possible
by Amy Gottlieb
An accidental meeting of three people connected years earlier in a love triangle, a rabbi, his wife and a brilliant nonbeliever, brings back all the old desire and heartbreak but also a newfound chance at redemption. Original.
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Jane Steele : a confession
by Lyndsay Faye
Suffering at the hands of cruel family members and brutal school administrators, sensitive orphan Jane Steele murderously retaliates against her abusers and takes a job as a governess working with mysterious servants while falling in love with her employer, in a serial-killer reimagining of Jane Eyre.
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Overwatch : a thriller
by Matthew J. Betley
Awakening from a blackout after suffering a sobriety lapse, former Marine Force Reconnaissance officer Logan West is targeted by a professional mercenary with ties to a mysterious organization that is plotting attacks in the Middle East to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran.
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Rush oh! : a novel
by Shirley Barrett
In 1908, Mary Davidson, tasked with supporting her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for her five brothers and sisters after the death of their mother, must navigate through sibling rivalries and an all-consuming first love for a new crew member.
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