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New Fiction BooksSeptember 2020
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Ariaby Nazanine HozarAbandoned as an infant in a corrupt and divided Iran, Aria is raised by three mother figures of disparate class levels and temperaments and with secrets of their own: one who abuses her, one who adopts her, and one whose role in her life is initially mysterious. At university, Aria is drawn ever further from her poverty-stricken past, until the 1979 revolution brings her various worlds violently together again.
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Final cut by S. J. WatsonThe award-winning author of Before I Go to Sleep explores themes of memory and identity in the story of a documentary filmmaker who investigates the disappearance of a girl from the quiet fishing village of Blackwood Bay - an ordinary place, home to ordinary people that was formerly a buzzing seaside destination, but now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, is a ghost town and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary.
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When these mountains burn by David JoyA vigilante who would save his addict son, a disabled thief confronting irresistible temptation and a frustrated DEA agent find redemption and opportunity in an unlikely partnership - by the award-winning author of Where All Light Tends to Go.
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Good dogs don't make it to the South Poleby Hans Olav ThyvoldThyvold spins a darkly comedic and heartwarming tale of aging, friendship and death, told from the perspective of a grumpy mutt who bonds with his late master's widow during walks to the library, before their home is threatened by impatient relatives - inspired by the dogs of Roald Amundsen.
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The tunnel by Abraham B Yehoshua"From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father - an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project"
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We are all the same in the dark by Julia HeaberlinThe discovery of an unknown girl found by the side of the road a decade after an unsolved disappearance compels a young police officer's investigation into dangerous local and personal secrets - by the best-selling author of Black-Eyed Susans.
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Playing nice by JP DelaneyInformed by a stranger that his son was switched at birth with another baby, Pete struggles to adjust to the needs of two families before an investigation unearths disturbing questions about the hospital and the night the exchange occurred.
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Bonnieby Christina SchwarzA reimagining of the life of Bonnie Parker traces the experiences of a young woman from a desolate region of Depression-era Texas whose consuming love for Clyde Barrow culminates in a violent and ultimately fatal crime spree.
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The island childby Molly AitkenGrowing up longing to escape the wind-blasted coastal Ireland home where her prospects were limited to those of a hardscrabble wife and mother, Oona is challenged to reevaluate the tumultuous circumstances that separated her from her daughter.
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Bottled goods by Sophie Van LlewynAlina and Liviu, a young married couple in 1970s Romania, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, find themselves under suspicion and surveillance after one of their siblings defects.
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Hieroglyphicsby Jill McCorkleBonding over the mutual losses of their parents in childhood, a couple is determined to leave a history for their own children as they sift through family records while obsessing over a possible childhood home before uncovering troubling memories.
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The stone girlby Dirk WittenbornRaised in the shadow of a depraved club for internationally powerful, super-wealthy men, a famous art restorer who was victimized at the club as a teen is drawn into a legal battle involving another survivor and her own mother.
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Impersonation by Heidi PitlorProfessional ghostwriter and single mother Allie Lang gets more than she bargained for when she is hired to write a biography for Lana Breban—a powerhouse lawyer, economist and advocate for women’s rights with designs on elected office. As a writer for hire, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves?
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The woman in red by Diana GiovinazzoForced into early marriage in 19th-century Brazil, Anita is swept into an affair with mercenary resistance leader Giuseppe Garibaldi before joining the violent decade-long effort to liberate Southern Brazil from Portugal.
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The ten thousand doors of January by Alix E. HarrowA woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past - a book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger.
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Winter counts by David Heska Wanbli WeidenA vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions. Weiden's series launch sheds much-needed light on the legal and societal barriers facing Native Americans while also delivering a suspenseful thriller that builds to a bloody climax.
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The last great road bum by Héctor TobarA novel inspired by true events follows the experiences of an Illinois adventurer who gives his life to fight beside other activists in 1960s El Salvador - by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Deep Down Dark. The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly live - a fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could create.
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The safe placeby Anna DownesLosing her job and agent on the same miserable day, Emily accepts a nanny position on a remote French estate before discovering that her employer, a successful CEO, and his wife are hiding dangerous secrets. And if Emily doesn't play along, the beautiful place they call home might turn out to be a prison from which none of them will ever escape in a deliciously sinister suspense novel that will also have you longing for wine-soaked summer days in a French villa by the sea.
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American follies by Norman LockWhen her baby is kidnapped by the Klan, a former stenographer to Henry James is aided on a rescue mission by suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - in a savage yet farcical adventure story exploring the roots of America's women's rights movement as well as the depths of our nation's violent and shameful history of prejudice.
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Love by Roddy DoyleAttending his father’s deathbed in hospice, a man reconnects with a drinking buddy from his Dublin youth while reflecting on a long-ago love, his wife’s role in upending his life and the truth about his departure from Ireland - as much a hymn to the Dublin of old as a delightfully comic yet moving portrait of what it means to try to put into words the many forms that love can take.
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