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Homecomingby Kate MortonA laid-off London journalist returns home to Sydney where she discovers a link between her family and an infamous 1959 crime.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Womenby Lisa SeeSent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
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The Rachel Incidentby Caroline O'DonoghueRoommates and best friends Rachel and James, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while Ireland is in chaos, find their fates intertwined with a married professor, with whom Rachel falls in love, and his glamorous, well-connected bourgeois wife through a series of secrets and compromises.
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. SutantoWhen she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police—but not before swiping a flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinEmbarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance, and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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The Couple at Number 9by Claire DouglasWhen, while renovating her grandmother Rose's cottage, she uncovers the remains of two bodies, pregnant Saffron Cutler must protect Rose who suffers from Alzheimer's from a murder inquiry, plunging her life in danger as she tries to piece together what Rose knows.
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Hesterby Laurie Lico AlbaneseArriving in Salem from Scotland in the early 1800s, Isobel, left penniless and alone by her husband in a strange country, is instantly drawn to Nathaniel Hawthorne, and as they grow closer and closer, they are a muse and a dark storyteller, the enchanter and the enchanted.
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The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banksby Shauna RobinsonBanned from selling anything written this century, bookstore manager Maggie Banks, to keep the business afloat, starts an underground book club that unexpectedly unearths a town secret that could upend everything, forcing her to choose between the books that formed a small town's history or the stories poised to change it all.
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The It Girl by Ruth WareAfter John Neville, the man convicted of killing her best friend April 10 years earlier, dies in prison, expectant mother Hannah Jones, after new evidence surfaces proving his innocence, reconnects with old friends to solve the mystery of April's death and realizes they all have something to hide—including a murder.
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The Sunshine Girlsby Molly FaderForging an unlikely bond when they first meet in nursing school in 1967 Iowa, roommates BettyKay and Kitty are forced apart when tragedy strikes, sending them down separate paths, but against all odds, their decades-long friendship sees them through life's trials and tribulations until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.
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Remarkably Bright Creaturesby Shelby Van PeltAfter her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on Puget Sound.
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The Measureby Nikki ErlickWhen every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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The Woman in the Libraryby Sulari GentillIn the Boston Public Library, on lockdown after a threat is identified, four strangers sitting at the same table pass the time in conversation--and it just so happens that one of them is a murderer, but which one?
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The Diamond Eyeby Kate QuinnKnown as Lady Death--a lethal hunter of Nazis--Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
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This Time Tomorrow by Emma StraubWhen Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance.
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The Maidby Nita ProseWhen she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.
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The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin HarmelRaised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe after being kidnapped, a young German woman in 1941 vows to teach a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror how to survive in the forest until she is betrayed as her past and present collide.
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A History of Wild Placesby Shea ErnshawAn expert at locating missing people is asked to find the vanished, well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books and is led to Pastoral, a reclusive community founded in the 1970s that many believed to only be a legend.
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The Reading Listby Sara Nisha AdamsWorking at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
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Cloud Cuckoo Landby Anthony DoerrFollows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.
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Death at Greenwayby Lori Rader-DayAfter a mistake at a London hospital leads to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, Bridey Kelly moves to Greenway House, the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie, and investigates when a body washes ashore.
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Beasts of a Little Landby Juhea KimAfter her desperate family sells her to a courtesan school, Jade befriends JungHo, an orphan boy begging on the streets of Seoul, and must decide to pursue her dreams or risk everything in the fight for independence.
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We Begin at the End by Chris WhitakerA guilt-ridden police chief and a tough-as-nails woman who was forced to support her family as a girl work together to protect loved ones when the latter’s father is released after 30 years in prison.
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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerSecretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
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The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahonInvestigating an estranged sibling’s suspicious drowning at their grandmother’s estate, a social worker connects the tragedy to the unsolved case of a housewife who in 1929 allegedly succumbed to the consequences of a wish-granting spring.
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margotby Marianne CroninDetermined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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The Wife Upstairs by Rachel HawkinsSupplementing her modest income by stealing small valuables from her gated-community clients, a broke dog-walker endeavors to win the heart of a wealthy bachelor before learning his late wife’s own rags-to-riches story.
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The Lions of Fifth Avenueby Fiona DavisA New York Public Library superintendent’s wife reevaluates her priorities upon joining a woman’s suffrage group in 1913, decades before her granddaughter’s efforts to save an exhibit expose tragic family secrets.
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Home Before Darkby Riley SagerTwenty-five years after her father published a wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family’s rushed exit from a haunted Victorian estate, naysayer Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations, only to make a number of disturbing discoveries.
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This Tender Landby William Kent KruegerFleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a summer marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA celebration of the endless variety of life in the mythical village of Macondo chronicles the story of the Buendía family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of the small South American town.
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The Mothersby Brit BennettIn a contemporary black community, 17-year-old Nadia Turner mourns the suicide of her mother, leading her to take up with the local's pastor's son; but when she gets pregnant, the pregnancy and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
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The Island of Sea Womenby Lisa SeeThe ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik LarsonPresents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat, and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret AtwoodIn an imaginative, multi-layered novel, Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, Laura, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, a wealthy industrialist whose body is found aboard a sailboat, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.
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The Family Upstairs by Lisa JewellDiscovering the identity of her birth parents and her inheritance of a valuable mansion, 25-year-old Libby makes horrifying discoveries about the massacre and disappearances of her biological family.
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Disappearing Earth by Julia PhillipsThe shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension.
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Caleb's Crossingby Geraldine BrooksForging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata MasseyA debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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Washington Black by Esi EdugyanUnexpectedly chosen to be a family manservant, an 11-year-old Barbados sugar-plantation slave is initiated into a world of technology and dignity before a devastating betrayal propels him throughout the world in search of his true self.
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The Dovekeepersby Alice HoffmanA tale inspired by the massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.
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Writers & Loversby Lily King The story of a former child golf prodigy-turned-unemployed writer whose determination to live a creative life is complicated by her relationships with two very different men.
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastleby Stuart Turton Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse, in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem.
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