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New Fiction BooksNovember 2020
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The wonder boy of Whistle Stopby Fannie FlaggTaking a final visit to the ghost town where his mother Ruth’s Whistle Stop Café made its famous fried green tomatoes, Bud Threadgoode discovers new friends and surprises about the community’s women while triggering unexpected changes in his daughters’ lives.
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Missionaries by Phil KlayThe National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment examines the globalization of violence through the interconnected stories of a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, a foreign correspondent, a Colombian officer and a militia lieutenant who navigate the realities of modern warfare.
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Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa UngerBefriending a stranger in an accompanying seat when their commuter train stalls, Selena confesses a personal grievance before her life is upended by her nanny’s disappearance and growing fractures in her marriage.
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Love your lifeby Sophie KinsellaDiscarding her dating app to enjoy a post-breakup anonymous writers’ retreat in coastal Italy, Ava shares an idyllic love affair with a fellow romantic before their return to London forces them to acknowledge their true identities.
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The talented Miss Farwellby Emily Gray TedroweA seemingly unassuming and sensible community treasurer uses embezzled funds to finance a spiraling art habit that immerses her in the identity of a wealthy collector and renders her increasingly indebted to her unsuspecting neighbors.
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Shelter in placeby David LeavittUnsuccessfully challenging her influential friends in New York to perform an online search for tips on how to assassinate Donald Trump, a salon hostess impulsively purchases a grand-if-dilapidated apartment in Venice, triggering an unexpected affair.
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Dear child by Romy HausmannThis English-language release of an international best-seller follows the experiences of a kidnapping victim who struggles to escape her abductor and prove her identity to doubting relatives 14 years after her disappearance.
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Daughters of the wild by Natalka BurianUnable to remember her life before foster care, a teen who would rescue her newborn from an oppressive matriarch studies the properties of a powerful but addictive plant behind the foster family’s business.
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Jane in love by Rachel GivneySearching for a radical solution to a lifetime of spinsterhood, Jane Austen is accidentally transported 200 years into the future onto a Hollywood film set of Northanger Abbey.
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Remember me : a Spanish Civil War novel by Mario EscobarA tale of loss and resistance based on Spain’s Children of Morelia history finds the three Alcalde children of 1934 Madrid sent to faraway Mexico when their parents align themselves against the fascist regime of General Franco.
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The girl in the mirrorby Rose CarlyleTaking her successful identical twin’s place in the aftermath of a suspicious accident, cynical Iris endeavors to conceive a child with her twin’s unknowing husband to secure a multi-million-dollar inheritance.
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Three little truths by Eithne ShortallA strong woman regaining her footing, a shy aspiring mom and a former “it” girl whose life has been upended by an unscrupulous ex find unexpected friendship and chances to start over in a Dublin community.
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Goodnight beautifulby Aimee MolloyEavesdropping on the therapy sessions her husband conducts for clients in a downstairs office, a lonely young bride finds her life and marriage turned upside down when her husband goes missing after welcoming a sophisticated new patient.
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All stirred upby Brianne MooreA tale inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion follows the efforts of a woman to save her family’s struggling eatery in the face of her ex-boyfriend and celebrity chef who would open a competing restaurant.
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The paper daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. MooreBased on true events, Moore follows the story of one of many young Chinese women who traveled to 19th century San Francisco for an arranged marriage but were sold into prostitution -- and the pioneering advocate who helped them.
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Never turn back by Christopher SwannYears after his struggling parents are murdered in a house invasion, a successful teacher struggles to keep a deathbed promise to care for his brilliant but troubled sister before false accusations trigger a reckoning with the past.
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Make them cryby Smith HendersonInvited to Mexico to learn a high-ranking cartel member’s invaluable secret, a DEA agent with a talent for interrogation uncovers a criminal conspiracy that throws her entire understanding of justice and duty into question.
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Daughter of Black Lake
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Growing up on an iron-age settlement far from the reach of Roman conquerors, a young woman who envisions a life of peace draws on the power of an extraordinary gift to save her community from famine and invaders.
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In a holidaze by Christina LaurenFinding herself caught in a time loop that has her repeating the same disastrous family Christmas in a snowy Utah cabin, Mae endures one hilarious setback after another to break the cycle and find true love under the mistletoe.
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To tell you the truthby Gilly MacmillanThe disappearance of her fawningly dependent husband catapults a best-selling mystery writer into dark memories about a brother who went missing under suspicious circumstances 30 years earlier - by the best-selling author of What She Knew.
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