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I don't remember the title but it was blue August 2022
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The kindest lie : a novel
by Nancy Johnson
Needing to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption years earlier, an Ivy League-educated Black engineer uncovers devastating family secrets before her bond with a young white misfit scandalizes her racially torn community. 100,000 first printing.
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Dial A for Aunties
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Accidentally causing the death of a blind date, Meddy is persuaded by her meddlesome Chinese-Indonesian mother and aunts to dispose of the body, which upends a billionaire’s wedding and Meddy’s reunion with a former flame.
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Portrait of a thief : a novel
by Grace D. Li
A Chinese American art history major at Harvard, Will Chen is offered a (very illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless treasures China lost centuries ago and assembles a team of fellow students, chosen for their skills and loyalty, to help him on his missionand make history.
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While we were dating
by Jasmine Guillory
Featuring Ben Stephens, Theo’s brother from The Wedding Party, this charming and hilarious newRomance finds Ben and a famous actress struggling to keep their working relationship strictly professional. Original.
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The swimmers
by Julie Otsuka
When a crack appears in the pool, a fellowship of swimmers who take comfort in their laps are cast out, including Alice, who, slowly losing her memory, is reunited too late with her estranged daughter, in this intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss.
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Memphis : a novel
by Tara M. Stringfellow
Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her familys legacy.
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Beautiful world, where are you
by Sally Rooney
"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the worldthey live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?"
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Lightning in a mirror
by Jayne Ann Krentz
When her speed dating experiment leads her to Harlan Rancourt, who—long believed dead—needs her help locating a legendary lab, psychic investigator Olivia LeClair must use her unique gift to get them to the top-secret lab before innocent people die.
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Go tell the bees that I am gone : a novel
by Diana Gabaldon
Jamie and Claire reunite after the Jacobite Rising but worry that their grown family, finally together, will be torn apart by the American Revolution in the latest addition of the popular series following Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. Maps.
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Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
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The good wife of Bath : a (mostly) true story
by Karen Brooks
In 1364 England, one of literature’s most unforgettable characters—Chaucer’s Wife of Bath—tells her story in her own words as she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune fighting to control her own life. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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The final strife : a novel
by Saara El-Arifi
"Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded ruling classes' tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes. Anoor has been told she's nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire. But dust always rises in a storm. Hassa moves through the world unseen by upper classes, so she knows what it means to be invisible. But invisibility has its uses: It can hide the most dangerous of secrets, secrets that can reignite a revolution. As the Empire begins a set of trials of combat and skill designed to find its new leaders, the stage is set for blood to flow, power to shift, and cities to burn"
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A lady for a duke
by Alexis J. Hall
Presumed dead, Viola Carroll takes the opportunity to live freely despite losing her wealth, title and closest companion, unaware of the shattering impact she had on her closest companion, in the new novel from the author of Boyfriend Material. Original.
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The one hundred years of Lenni and Margot : a novel
by Marianne Cronin
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived. 25,000 first printing.
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Unlikely animals : a novel
by Annie Hartnett
Emma Starling, a natural-born healer who lost her way, and her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain injury, team up to find Emmas former best friend from high school who has gone missing, setting in motion a miracle the town needs. Illustrations. Maps.
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