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NEW FICTION FEBRUARY 2019
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California Girls
by Susan Mallery
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo.
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The Stranger Inside
by Laura Benedict
A woman arrives home to discover a stranger living in her house, claiming he has legally leased her property before revealing he knows a secret from her past involving the death of her sister.
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Mission Critical
by Mark Greaney
Traveling on a CIA transport plane where a mysterious man in custody is being transported for a joint CIA-MI6 interrogation, Court Gentry assumes his identity as the Gray Man operative when their group is attacked by kidnapping assassins.
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The Weight of a Piano
by Chris Cander
An immigrant from the Soviet Union and an orphaned mechanic find their lives fatefully linked across half a century of history by a German Blüthner piano.
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Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
The award-winning author of Tell Me How It Ends 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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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
by Anissa Gray
When their formidably strong-willed eldest sister is arrested, abruptly transitioning their family from respectability to disgrace, two younger sisters confront complicated dynamics in their family and identities to uncover what really happened.
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Good Riddance
by Elinor Lipman
Discarding her late mother's cherished and heavily annotated high school yearbook, Daphne is entangled in a series of absurdities when the yearbook is discovered by a busybody documentary filmmaker.
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The Moroccan Girl
by Charles Cumming
A simple assignment for MI6 during a literary festival lands a successful novelist on the trail of a revolutionary leader who is being targeted by the world's competing intelligence services.
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The Last Romantics
by Tara Conklin
A fictional poet describes the Connecticut summer when she and her siblings ran wild as the inspiration for her most iconic work.
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When You Read This
by Mary Adkins
After his friend, Iris, dies from a terminal illness at age 33, PR genius Smith Simonyi teams up with Iris’ sister, Jade, to make Iris’ final request—to get her blog posts published as a book—a reality.
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