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New Adult Fiction Books 4/25/2024
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The following books are new to the shelves at Kendall Young Library. To reserve an item, click on the image or title to be taken to the library's catalog. (Detailed instructions at the end of the newsletter.)
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Sylvia's second act
by Hillary Yablon
Divorcing her cheating husband, 63-year-old Sylvia and her best friend, Evie, a glamorous older widow, set up a new life in Manhattan, pawning jewelry and roughing it in tiny apartments, until Sylvia revives her decades-old wedding-planning business and realizes her entire second act is right in front of her.
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Calamity
by Constance Fay
Temperance Reed tries to keep her crew together on her beloved, but obsolete ship while facing off with Arcadio Escajeda on a scouting mission to the backwater desert planet Herschel 2. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Finlay Donovan rolls the dice
by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, arrive in Atlantic City and must find the location of Vero's kidnapped crush and a stolen car.
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Death by chocolate raspberry scone
by Sarah Graves
Passamaquoddy Bay bakers Jake and Ellie search for the remains of a skilled fisherman who vanished with a valuable gold doubloon inherited from his grandfather, in the seventh novel of the series following Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie.
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It had to be you
by Mary Higgins Clark
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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A killing on the hill : a thriller
by Robert Dugoni
In the corrupt Seattle of the Great Depression, a reporter investigates a murder that's about to become the city's hottest mystery
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Murder road
by Simone St. James
In 1995, newlyweds April and Eddie, making a wrong turn, pick up an injured hitchhiker who later dies and, now suspects in a series of unexplained murders, must dig into the town's history to clear their names and discover there's something supernatural at work on that horrible stretch of road.
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The frame-up
by Gwenda Bond
A magically gifted art forger, Dani Poissant, the daughter and former accomplice of the world's most famous art thief whom she betrayed, must assemble her estranged mother's old crew to pull off a once-in-a-lifetime heist and discovers there's far more at stake in this job than she ever realized.
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Greta & Valdin
by Rebecca K. Reilly
A gay, Maaori man living in Auckland with his sister is sent by work to Argentina, where he is forced to confront the feelings he's been trying to ignore about his ex-boyfriend who dumped him and moved to Buenos Aires.
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The peacock and the sparrow : a novel
by I. S. Berry
Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, world-weary CIA spy Shane Collins is ready to return home until he meets a beautiful and enigmatic artist, but before he can win her love, he is caught in the crosshairs of a revolution and must use his skills to navigate a bloody uprising.
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The garden : a novel
by Clare Beams
In 1948, pregnant Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages, stays with a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition, where she discovers a long-forgotten garden?—. place imbued with its own powers and pulls, making a desperate bid to harness the garden's power despite the consequences.
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The husbands : a novel
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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The familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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All items can be reserved through the Kendall Young Library catalog: - When viewing an item in the catalog, click "place hold" button.
- Enter your library card number (14 digits on the back of your card) with no spaces.
- Enter your PIN. If you don't know your PIN, try:
- Your 4-digit birth month and day (i.e. August 4 would be 0804), or
- The last 4 digits of your library card number.
- If neither of these options work, call the library at 832-9100.
- You will get a call from the library when the item is available.
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