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by Olivie Blake
In modern-day Manhattan ...two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal empires. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters -- each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless.
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by Simon Brett
The discovery of an appalling lapse in aristocratic behaviour sets Blotto and Twinks off to find out more about a sinister group called Aristotours - brokers between impoverished owners of stately homes and the common people, offering 'a taste of the high life' to characters such as stockbrokers, surgeons and solicitors.
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by Mike Chen
Every family has issues. Most can't blame them on extraterrestrials. The perfect combination of action, imagination and heart, this book is a touching drama about a challenge as difficult as saving the galaxy: making peace with your family...and yourself.
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by Abigail Dean
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped.
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by Claudia Durastanti
Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery.
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by Rebecca Kauffman
The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances of one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy.
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by David Koepp
A billionaire and a suburban family struggle to survive when power goes out around the globe. This brisk thriller is set a few years in the future, after the world has been through the coronavirus pandemic and thinks it's learned how to handle disaster. It hasn't.
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by Jean Hanff Korelitz
A layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth.
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by Matthew Lyons
Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn't be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah's divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to mend their broken relationship along the way. A white-knuckled horror-thriller.
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by Patrick McCabe
Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dan's mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger -- and more sinister.
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by Richard Mirabella
Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age novel follows a young man's relationship with a violent older boyfriend-and how he and his sister survive a terrible crime.
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by Leila Mottley
Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison.
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by Sarah Pearse
Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.
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by Meghan Quinn
Martin and Peggy Chance believe love should last a lifetime. With their fiftieth wedding anniversary on the horizon, they've modeled a beautiful relationship for their three grown children. But to their dismay, that lesson hasn't quite caught on -- the three siblings just can't seem to take a chance and find love in their own lives.
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by Katy Regan
Emily has been looking for the same face in every crowd for more than a decade: her brother's. She'll do anything to find him, she just never expects that one day he will walk through the door of the London housing office where she works, homeless and in need of help.
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by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz Bangkok, 1972 : Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US -- ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home.
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by Anne Tyler
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. And, as their lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.
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by Charmaine Wilkerson
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording.
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by Rio Youers
Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs. Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings.
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by E. Lily Yu
A haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut ... traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home.
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