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Busy? Try a Short Novel December 2022
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The unsinkable Greta James : a novel
by Jennifer E. Smith
After the death of her beloved mother, failed indie singer-songwriter Greta James joins her father on a week-long Alaskan cruise, which becomes a journey of discovery for them both as they work to heal old wounds, giving her confidence she needs to move forward.
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The twilight world
by Werner Herzog
In his first novel, the great filmmaker tells the extraordinary story of Hiroo Onoda, a former soldier famous for having defended a small island in the Philippines for 29 years after WWII, unaware the fighting was over.
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The stationery shop
by Marjan Kamali
"A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square"
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The reservoir
by David Duchovny
"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he, in his enforced quarantined solitude, looks back upon his life. He examines his wins, his failures, the gnawing questions-his career, his divorce, his estranged daughter-and wonders what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment across the park as if a lonely quarantined person is signaling him in Morse code. His determination to find out who this mystery woman is, this fellow quarantine damsel in distress trapped in her own Fifth Avenue tower, leads him on an epic quest that will ultimately tempt him with either delusional madness or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Is he a dying man going mad or an everyman metamorphosing into a hero? Or both? We accompany Ridley as he leaves the safety of his apartment window to save the Fifth Avenue femme fatale and descends into a dangerous, increasingly surreal world of global conspiracies, madness, and sickness of this viral time; beyond that, into the enduring mysteries of love and fatherhood; and deeper still, into the bedrock mystery of life itself. As Ridley's actions grow more and more uncharacteristic, he realizes the key to all the mysteries of now, and even all of history, seem to lie deep beneath the freezing waters of the reservoir. The Reservoir is a twisted rom-com for our distanced time, when the merest touch could kill and conspiracy theories propagate like viruses-a contemporary union of Death in Venice, Rear Window, and The Plague"
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The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer
by Janelle Monáe
In a totalitarian world where thoughtsas a means of self-conceptionare controlled or erased by a select few, and your life is dictated by those who feel they have the right to decide your fate, Jane 57821 remembers and breaks free. 200,000 first printing.
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The bruising of Qilwa
by Naseem Jamnia
"Firuz-e Jafari is fortunate enough to have immigrated to the Free Democratic City-State of Qilwa, fleeing the slaughter of other traditional Sassanian blood magic practitioners in their homeland. Despite the status of refugees in their new home, Firuz has a good job at a free healing clinic in Qilwa, working with Kofi, a kindly new employer, and mentoring Afsoneh, a troubled orphan refugee with powerful magic. But Firuz and Kofi have discovered a terrible new disease which leaves mysterious bruises on its victims. The illness is spreading quickly through Qilwa, and there are dangerous accusations of ineptly performed blood magic. In order to survive, Firuz must break a deadly cycle of prejudice, untangle sociopolitical constraints, and find a fresh start for their both their blood and found family"
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Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hired to investigate the black-skied Night City, Detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts discovers an anomaly in the North American Wilderness, where he encounters a strange group of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary that could disrupt the timeline of the universe.
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Run me to earth : a novel
by Paul Yoon
"From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos-and how their destinies are entwined across decades"
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One Italian summer : a novel
by Rebecca Serle
Still reeling from her mothers death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone, where she encounters her mother in the flesh at 30 years old and must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue. 250,000 first printing.
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Joan is okay : a novel
by Weike Wang
An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything shes encountered before.
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High times in the Low Parliament
by Kelly Robson
Sent to the Low Parliament by a temperamental fairy, scribe Lana Baker sits through endless circular arguments and must rely on an unlikely pair of friends to prevent a hung vote, which will endanger humanity. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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French braid
by Anne Tyler
Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations, in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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Escape from Yokai Land
by Charles Stross
Working with the Miyamoto Group to maintain Japans warded sites by policing traditional magical beings called yakai, Bob Howard soon finds himself running for his life, in the 11th novel of the series following The Nightmare Stacks. 25,000 first printing.
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Chorus : a novel
by Rebecca Kauffman
Each of the seven Shaw siblings describe their own versions of the two events that altered their lives, first the untimely death of their mother and second a shocking teen pregnancy in a story of familial loss, recovery and hope.
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A spindle splintered
by Alix E. Harrow
Left with a rare condition caused by an industrial accident, Zinnia Gray celebrates her 21st, and possibly last, birthday and pricks her finger on a spinning wheel at a party, in a modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty. 75,000 first printing.
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