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Fiction A to Z February 2019
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Recent and Upcoming Releases |
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American Spy: A Novel
by Lauren Wilkinson
A Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African Communist president she secretly admires and comes to love, in a story inspired by true events.
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Blood Orange
by Harriet Tyce
A young lawyer's idyllic family life and blossoming career is upended by a murder case involving a questionable confession and the lawyer's toxic affair with a manipulative senior partner.
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The Burning Island
by Hester Young
A journalist who would ignore her psychic intuition in favor of hard facts flees unwanted attention to Hawaii, where a local's disappearance forces her to embrace her gift, despite the danger.
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Leading Men
by Christopher Castellani
A life-changing encounter among Tennessee Williams, his lover Frank Merlo and a taciturn Swedish beauty at a 1953 Truman Capote party culminates in deathbed revelations about Williams's final play a decade later.
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Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
Traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents.
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Open Carry
by Marc Cameron
Skilled tracker U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter must leave his comfort zone in the Florida swamplands to investigate the murder of a Tlingit Indian girl in the wilds of southeast Alaska.
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Otherwise Engaged
by Lindsey J. Palmer
After her fiancé authors a sensational and best-selling novel loosely based on his torrid love affair with his ex-girlfriend, Molly's paranoia that she will come back and try to rekindle their romance sends her into a downward spiral.
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The Secret of Clouds
by Alyson Richman
An English teacher with haunting childhood memories gains perspective and inspiration while tutoring a young Ukrainian immigrant whose serious health issues prevent him from taking any day for granted.
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The Syndicate
by Guy Bolton
The hotly anticipated sequel to The Pictures. Guy Bolton’s unforgettable 1930s Hollywood fixer Jonathan Craine is thrust into the dark underbelly of the LA mafia, only to discover more secrets and lies.
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Vacuum in the Dark
by Jen Beagin
A young house cleaner in New Mexico balances a bad, junkie boyfriend with a bad, unstable boyfriend who happens to be married to one of her clients as she embarks on an eccentric journey of self-discovery and redemption.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Hillside Public Library 155 Lakeville Rd New Hyde Park, New York 11040 (516) 355-7850 hillsidelibrary.info |
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