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New FictionSeptember 2016
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All is not forgotten
by Wendy Walker
Given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of a violent assault that occurred after a party, young Jenny struggles with difficult emotional memories that linger months later, an event that reveals vulnerabilities in her family as her father becomes obsessed with revenge and her mother descends into denial.
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The last days of night : a novel
by Graham Moore
When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals and deception. By the best-selling author of The Sherlockian.
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Good as gone
by Amy Gentry
When a woman appears on her family's doorstep claiming to be her long-lost daughter, kidnapped at the age of 13, Anna Whitaker has nagging doubts, and turns to a private eye for help.
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Underground airlines
by Ben H Winters
A tale set in a modern America where the Civil War never happened and the country has forged a dubious agreement with four states that still enforce slavery follows the experiences of a talented black bounty hunter who makes discoveries about his mysterious past while infiltrating an abolitionist group to catch a high-profile runaway.
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The one man
by Andrew Gross
When a World War II physics professor with information vital to Allied forces is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, intelligence officer Nathan Blum is sent undercover to infiltrate Auschwitz and bring the professor to safety. By the best-selling author of The Dark Tide.
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The adventurist
by J. Bradford Hipps
A middle aged employee at a software company is haunted by the death of his mother and seeks solace in the arms of a colleague, complicating life with his corporate rival, his family and his existing lover.
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Watching Edie
by Camilla Way
Losing sight of her youthful dreams in the face of real-world disappointments, Edie, a single waitress, is overwhelmed by the responsibilities of her new baby before a person from her past begins stalking her with obsessive intentions. By the author of The Dead of Summer.
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The city baker's guide to country living
by Louise Miller
A pastry chef for an exclusive Boston dinner club loses her job in the wake of a disastrous fire and escapes to her best friend's Vermont hometown, where her mouthwatering desserts give way to a new job, a blue-ribbon competition, a potential relationship and new understandings about belonging.
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The glorious heresies : a novel
by Lisa McInerney
A first novel by an award-winning blogger explores salvation, shape and the legacy of Ireland's 20th-century attitudes toward sex and family as it is reflected in the lives of a teen drug dealer, his alcoholic father, a prostitute who feigns a religious conversion, an exiled murderer and her gangster son.
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Exposure
by Helen Dunmore
A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon's wife, Lily, resolves to protect their family, only to be devastatingly exposed. By the award-winning author of The Siege.
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Cooking for Picasso : a novel
by Camille Aubray
A tale inspired by a little-known interlude follows the 1936 culinary affair between a reclusive Picasso at a crossroads in his life and a rebellious teen from the French Riviera, a relationship that shapes the life of the girl's granddaughter in New York more than half a century later. Reading-group guide available.
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Harmony : a novel
by Carolyn Parkhurst
A tale told from the alternating perspectives of a desperate mother and her socially incompetent, genius daughter recounts how, after several school expulsions, their family moves to a spiritual compound under the leadership of a charismatic guru where they encounter nightmarish realities. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Dogs of Babel.
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Miss Jane : a novel
by Brad Watson
A tale inspired by the story of the author's great-aunt explores the life of a woman in early 20th-century rural Mississippi whose genital birth defect prevents her marriageability as she endures the hardships of farm life, observes the erotic qualities of nature and shares a relationship with a boy who loves but is forced to leave her. By the award-winning author of The Heaven of Mercury.
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Valley of the moon : a novel
by Melanie Gideon
Stumbling across an idyllic community in the Sonoma valley that is astonishingly stuck in the first decade of the 20th century, single mom Lux struggles to balance the cultural differences of the present-day world where she is raising her son with the generations-older lifestyle of a man to whom she is drawn. By the best-selling author of Wife 22.
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The book that matters most
by Ann Hood
Joining a reading group in the wake of a failed marriage, Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood that helped her through past difficulties, while her troubled daughter, Maggie, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man in Paris. Reading-group guide available. By the author of The Obituary Writer and The Knitting Circle.
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Cleopatra's shadows : a novel
by Emily Holleman
Reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister. Reading-group guide available.
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