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The Air You Breathe
by Frances de Pontes Peebles
An orphaned kitchen maid and the reckless daughter of a sugar baron embark on a volatile friendship marked by their ambitions to escape, their changing fortunes and unexpected fame.
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An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten
Follows a feisty, eighty-eight-year-old woman who lives a solitary existence, but finds herself at the center of several adventures and misadventures.
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Ethic
by Ashley Antionette
In this explosive spin-off to Ashley Antoinette's, Moth to a Flame, you will fall in love with Ezra Okafor aka Ethic as he gambles on love and in the streets, in hopes that this time he will win.
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Gingerbread
by Helen Oyeyemi
The award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird draws on the classic fairy-tale element of gingerbread in the story of a British family whose surprising legacy and secret past are tied to a favorite recipe.
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A Princess in Theory : Reluctant Royals
by Alyssa Cole
Mistaken by his betrothed as a pauper instead of a prince, Prince Thabiso, the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, decides to keep his real identity a secret as he experiences life and love with Naledi Smith—until the truth comes out, which changes everything. First book in this exciting new romance series.
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A Ladder to the Sky
by John Boyne
An aspiring writer meets a celebrated novelist in a hotel in 1988 and uses the man's long-held secret. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
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Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
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Sugar Run
by Mesha Maren
Released after serving 18 years for manslaughter, Jodi McCarty finds her efforts to track down a friend and move on with the woman she loves challenged by the insular values of their rural West Virginia community.
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The Sun is a Compass : A 4,000-mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
by Caroline Van Hemert
Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where her husband and she tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections and discoveries about animal survival.
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Vox
by Christina Dalcher
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
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