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The dead romantics
by Ashley Poston
Returning home to bury her beloved father, Florence Day, the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, second-guesses everything she's ever known about love stories when she is haunted by the ghost of her new editor.
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Divine rivals : a novel
by Rebecca Ross
When 18-year-old journalist Iris Winnow's personal letters fall into the hands of her rival at the paper, she forges a magical connection that follows her into the battle for her family, the fate of humankind, and love.
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
by Heather Fawcett
In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--much less get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog Shadow, and the Fair Folk to that of friends or lovers. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hransvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: the dashing and insufferably handsome Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of her research, and utterly confound and frustrate Emily. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart.
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Fleabag
Follows the life of a young woman living her life in London while trying to cope with a recent tragedy
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Knives out
When a crime novelist is murdered, everyone in his dysfunctional family becomes a suspect
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Before I do : a novel
by Sophie Cousens
On the eve of her wedding, Audrey begins questioning whether or not Josh really is “the one,” especially after his sister shows up at the rehearsal dinner with one of her exes and everything that could go wrong, does.
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Gilded Age: The complete first season When an orphaned daughter of a Union general moves to Manhattan, she becomes entangled in the social war between her aristocratic aunts and their nouveau-riche neighbors
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Meant to be : a novel
by Emily Giffin
The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1968, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But Joe III is a free spirit-and a little bit reckless. Despite his best intentions, he has trouble meeting the expectations of a nation, as well as his exacting mother, Dottie. Meanwhile, no one ever expected anything of Cate Cooper. She, too, grew up fatherless-and after her mother remarried an abusive man, she was forced to fend for herself. After being discovered by a model scout at age sixteen, Cate decides that her good looks might be her ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. Before too long, Cate's face is appearing in magazines and on billboards. Yet, she has always felt like a fraud, faking it in a world to which she's never truly belonged. When Joe and Cate unexpectedly cross paths one afternoon, their connection is instant and intense. But can their relationship survive the glare of the spotlight and the so-called Kingsley Curse? In a beautifully written novel that captures a gilded moment in American history, Emily Giffin tells the story of two young people searching for belonging and identity, as well as the answer to the question: are certain love stories meant to be?
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Nora goes off script
by Annabel Monaghan
A romance channel screenwriter, turning her disastrous marriage into the best script of her life, is shocked when the leading man, after shooting wraps, asks to stay with her for 7 days, $1,000 per day—just enough time to fall in love or just enough time to have her heart broken.
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Band of brothers
Follows the 101st Airborne as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe to the end World War II
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A god in ruins : a novel by Kate AtkinsonA companion to the best-selling Life After Life follows the experiences of Ursula's younger brother Teddy, who, throughout the decades following wartime service he never expected to survive, struggles with family life against a backdrop of a changing world.
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Real tigers
by Mick Herron
When one of their own is kidnapped by a vengeful former soldier, the“slow horses”—disgraced MI5 operatives reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing papers—find themselves back in the game when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very future of MI5 itself. By the author of the CWA Gold Dagger winner Dead Lions.
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Class mom : a novel by Laurie GelmanFrowned upon by conservative fellow PTA members for her past as a single parent, Jen reluctantly agrees to become class mom during her youngest child's kindergarten year, a role that is challenged by parent drama, hypersensitive allergies and a former flame.
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The guest list : a novel
by Lucy Foley
An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride's ruined dress and an untimely murder.
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Lifeboat 12 : based on a true story
by Susan Hood
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes
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Cultish : the language of fanaticism
by Amanda Montell
The author of Wordslut looks at how cults use language to gain power and how it has pervaded our entire culture, from notorious cults to modern startups and Instagram feeds.
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Lighthouse
Set in the late 19th century, follows two lighthouse keepers stranded on an isolated island due to a storm and gradually going insane
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The silver star : a novel
by Jeannette Walls
Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of 12, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money before an increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.
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The stranger in the woods
by Michael Finkel
Documents the true story of a man who endured an isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for twenty-seven years, and illuminates the reasons behind his solitary life
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Under a white sky : the nature of the future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.
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We were the lucky ones
by Georgia Hunter
A novel based on the true story of a Jewish-Polish family recounts how the Kurcs are scattered throughout the world by the horrors of World War II and fight respective hardships to survive, reach safety and find each other. Includes a family tree.
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Daisy Darker
by Alice Feeney
A family gathering for their matriarch's 80th birthday in her crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappearing one by one, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Rock Paper Scissors.
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My murder
by Katie Williams
Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, Lou, the victim of a serial killer, readapts to being a mother and wife but wonders how much she can really trust those around her as she sets out to figure out the circumstances of her death.
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The second husband : a novel
by Kate White
Starting a new life with Tom, a loving widower who makes her feel safe again, Emma, when a police detective shows up asking questions about her first husband's unsolved murder, learns a shocking truth about her second husband that calls everything into question.
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The wives
by Tarryn Fisher
A woman in a voluntarily bigamous marriage befriends one of her husband's other wives by chance, only to discover that the gentle husband she knows may be abusing his other families.
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Little souls
by Sandra Dallas
In 1918 Colorado, as the Spanish Influenza runs rampant, sisters Helen and Lutie, after their tenant dies, must care for her daughter, which leads to murder, placing them both in danger from the ensuing investigation and the flu.
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The perfume collector : a novel
by Kathleen Tessaro
After receiving a large inheritance from a complete stranger, London socialite and newlywed Grace Monroe searches for the identity of her mysterious benefactor and uncovers the story of a unique woman who inspired one of Paris' greatest perfumers, which transforms her own life.
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The recipe box : a novel with recipes
by Viola Shipman
When her efforts to pursue a professional culinary life away from her family's northern Michigan orchard end in disappointment, Sam spends a summer working for the family pie shop and begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history and her passion for food as she prepares beloved ancestral recipes. By the best-selling author of The Charm Bracelet.
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The art forger : a novel by Barbara A. ShapiroAn artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery
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Everything I never told you by Celeste NgA first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio.
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Waiting for Tom Hanks
by Kerry Winfrey
Annie Cassidy, a rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn't always go according to a script, in a delightfully charming and funny novel.
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The best strangers in the world : stories from a life spent listening
by Ari Shapiro
The award-winning cohost of NPR's All Things Considered presents this stirring memoir-in-essays in which he seeks ways to help people listen to one another; to find connection and commonality with those who seem different; and to remind us that we are all human.
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The great alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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Great circle
by Maggie Shipstead
A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves's disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates— and their dreams— become intertwined.
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The guest room : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
When the bachelor party her husband is hosting goes murderously wrong, Kristin finds her life spiraling into a nightmare of accusations, shame and betrayal while a girl hired to provide entertainment at the party flees for her life from murderous gangsters.
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She lies in wait : a novel
by Gytha Lodge
The discovery of the body of a teen who went missing in the woods 30 years earlier reopens a cold case for a local police officer, who makes contact with six people from his past to uncover what happened.
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Stardust
A man decides to give a falling star to his girlfriend, but discovers that the star is human and that he must save her from a witch
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Things we do in the dark
by Jennifer Hillier
Accused of murdering her celebrity husband, Paris Peralta must stop the only person who knows her dark secret from destroying the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
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In five years : a novel
by Rebecca Serle
An ambitious young lawyer on the brink of having it all disregards a vivid dream about how different her life will be in five years, before meeting the man in her vision nearly five years later.
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Night road
by Kristin Hannah
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident that rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later. By the best-selling author of Winter Garden.
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Force of nature
by Jane Harper
When one member of a five-woman team of co-workers goes missing during a corporate retreat, federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower and major contributor to his latest case. By the best-selling author of The Dry.
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Redemption road
by John Hart
In a town on the brink and on a road with no mercy, a boy with a gun waits for the man who killed his mother, a detective finally confronts her troubled past, a good cop walks free after serving 13 years in prison and the unthinkable happens on the altar of an abandoned church. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Last Child.
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Our little racket
by Angelica Baker
When an investment banker is accused of malfeasance in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, four women, including friends and family members, begin questioning their shifting roles in their personal and community lives.
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Stoned : jewelry, obsession, and how desire shapes the world
by Aja Raden
An account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history shares insights into the role of precious gemstones in triggering cultural movements, political dynasties and wars while exploring how jewels reflect darker aspects of human nature.
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The surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one that can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again.
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I never promised you a rose garden
by Joanne Greenberg
Joanne Greenberg's semiautobiographical novel, originally published under the pen name Hannah Green, stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrait of mental illness.
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Lighthousekeeping
by Jeanette Winterson
Taken in by the enigmatic blind keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, an orphaned Silver listens as the aged man recounts stories that center around a nineteenth-century clergyman who lived a paradoxical life while experiencing unfulfilled passions, displacement, and betrayal.
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer.
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A study in drowning
by Ava Reid
Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces — both mortal and magical — that threatens to consume them both.
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This will be funny someday
by Katie Henry
Sixteen-year-old Izzy, has stumbled across her dream of doing stand-up comedy, but hiding it from family and friends is causing her many untruths to quickly unravel.
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2034 : a novel of the next world war
by Elliot Ackerman
Two former military officers and award-winning authors present a near-future geopolitical thriller that depicts a naval clash between America and Asia in the South China Sea of 2034. Co-written by the National Book Award-nominated author of Waiting for Eden.
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