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One & Only
by Maurene Goo
Cassia Park believes in soul mates. After all, for centuries, from Korea
to Los Angeles, Park women have peered into clients' past lives to find their one true love. This magical secret is why One & Only
Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee...for everyone but Cassia. For ten years, Cass has been searching for her fated, a man named Daniel
Nam. But he's still nowhere to be found. And so, on the eve of her 40th birthday, Cass impulsively has a fling with Ellis. He's twenty-eight, indecently handsome, and not destined to be the love of her life. But she's surprised by their connection and their fling feels like something more--up to the moment he introduces her to his boss...Daniel Nam.
As she battles between fate and chance, head and heart, a family
secret is revealed that will make her question everything she's ever known.
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This Is Not about Us: Fiction
by Allegra Goodman
Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud?
In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives, their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters. A big-hearted book about the love that
binds a family across generations.
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Rules of the Heart
by Janice Hadlow
England, 1794. Now in her thirties, Lady Harriet Bessborough finds herself pursued by a much younger man. This isn't unusual in her circle, where married women often take younger lovers. No one minds much, provided they follow the rules of the game: don't embarrass your husband, maintain complete discretion at all times, and never ever make the mistake of falling in love. So when Harriet meets Lord Granville--brilliantly handsome, insistently ardent, and twelve years younger than her--she's confident she can manage their affair. Until she finds herself falling uncontrollably under his spell. She knows she should leave him but can't bring herself to do it. She loves him far too deeply now to escape the scandal that threatens to engulf her.
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Two Can Play
by Ali Hazelwood
Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game
based on her all-time favorite book series. The only problem? Her co-lead is Jesse Andrews, aka her archnemesis. Jesse has made it abundantly clear over the years that he wants nothing to do with her-and Viola has no idea why. Their bosses insist a wintery retreat is the perfect team-building exercise, but Viola can't think of anything worse. As the snow piles on, Viola discovers there's more to Jesse than she knew, and heat builds in more ways than one.
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Graceless Heart
by Isabel Ibañez
As a sculptress, Ravenna Maffei has always shaped beauty from stone, but she has a terrible secret. Desperate to save her brother, she enters
a competition hosted by Florence's most feared immortal family, revealing a dark power in a city where magic is forbidden. The Pope's war against magic is closing in, and Ravenna is no longer just a
prisoner but a prize to be claimed. Ravenna must survive the
treacherous line between a pope's obsession and the seductive
immortal who might be the end of her--or surrender her power to a
city on the brink of war.
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Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief
by T. Kingfisher
No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell
you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing,
henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would
actually agree with all this, and might throw in 'cowardly' and 'lazy,'
too, for good measure. But goblins don't go around killing people for
fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say. And when a confrontation with an evil wizard lands a troop of nine goblins deep behind enemy lines, goblin sergeant Nessilka must figure out how to keep her hapless band together and get them home in one piece.
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The Friend of the Family
by Dean Koontz
Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to
speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the
road as the golden ticket of the Museum of the Strange--until she's rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone's overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a
very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They're vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they're also warnings--
and that it's the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad
world.
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It's Not Her
by Mary Kubica
A scream shatters the silence...Courtney Gray's peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs--unharmed. With everyone hiding something, Courtney races to uncover the terrible mystery. But the closer she gets, the harder it is to know who--or what--to trust.
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The Hitch
by Sara Levine
As an antiracist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, Rose Cutler knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old
nephew, Nathan. But while she's looking after him in his parents' absence, things veer disastrously off course-Rose's Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park, and Nathan starts acting strangely: barking, overeating, talking to himself. Rose mistakes this for repressed grief over the corgi's death, but Nathan insists he isn't grieving, and
the corgi isn't dead. Her soul leaped into his body, and she's living
inside him. Now, Rose must banish the corgi from her nephew before
his parents return. The Hitch is a delightfully raucous comedy about loneliness, bad boundaries, and the ill-fated ambition of micromanaging everything and everyone around you.
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The List of Suspicious Things
by Jennie Godfrey
Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since
her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life,
because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is
afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be.
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The Definitions
by Matt Greene
An elegant, haunting dystopian novel about individuals relearning
how to navigate the world after a mysterious illness strips them
of their memories. The Center is a place of rehabilitation for those afflicted by a strange illness that has swept through the population, erasing their memories and any sense of identity. But as flashes of memories--of pets, lovers, errands, and beloved music--emerge,
some students start to question the Center's strict instruction and
begin to explore different ways in which they might define
themselves. The Definitions examines the limits of language,
the power of connection, and how the human spirit can flourish
even under the most oppressive conditions.
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Call Me Ishmaelle
by Xiaolu Guo
1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast.
After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves
to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy. Nearly twenty years
later, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the
obsessive Captain Seneca. Built on the bones of Melville's classic,
Call Me Ishmaelle is a dynamic new tale, imbued with a diverse, swashbuckling crew--from a Polynesian harpooner to a Taoist
Monk-and a powerful exploration of human nature, gender, and
the nature of home.
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No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
by Sophie Hannah
The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside
out--I'm afraid there's been an incident. For Sally Lambert, those
words mean only one thing--danger. Not just for her family, but for Champ, their loyal and beloved dog. A single accusation, a
neighbor's grudge, and suddenly the Lamberts are trapped in a nightmare with no escape. Unless they make one. No one has
ever gone this far. But the Lamberts have never been quite like
any other family.
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When the Fireflies Dance
by Aisha Hassan
On the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, a large yellow moon hung low
in the sky when the men came with dogs and guns and cricket bats.
In front of his family's small hut on the edge of a looming brick kiln, Lalloo's brother was murdered. Unable to escape the memory of that horrible night, Lalloo's parents and sisters remain trapped, the kiln chimney churning black smoke into the sky as the family slave, brick
by brick, to pay off their debts. To rescue them, Lalloo must free
himself from his past and carve out his own destiny.
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Woman Down
by Colleen Hoover
Her words used to set the page on fire, but a viral backlash over
her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus,
resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded
a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way
what happens when the Internet turns on you. She retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. Then he shows
up. Detective Nathaniel Saint arrives with disturbing news, his
presence igniting a creativity in her she thought long since burned
out. Petra's words return in a rush, and her fictional cop character
begins to mirror the very real cop who's becoming her muse.
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W. E. B. Griffin Direct Action
by Jack Stewart
When the original Presidential Agent is gunned down during a
mass shooting, Pick McCoy swears a brutal revenge in this revival
of W. E. B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling series. Charley
Castillo, the original Presidential Agent is in Virginia Beach to
visit his son when two gunmen appear. Charley is able to thwart
a deadly mass shooting, but he is hit and badly injured.
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The Right to Remain: A Jack
Swyteck Novel
by James Grippando
Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck must contend with a
unique problem. His client, Elliott Stafford, indicted for murder, has
gone silent. Not just silent in asserting his Fifth Amendment right
against self-incrimination--Elliott refuses to speak. He won't talk
to the judge, his girlfriend, or even the attorney fighting for his
life. There seems to be no medical or psychological reason for his silence. He has, as Jack puts it, 'chosen to become his own worst enemy.'
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The Ferryman and His Wife
by Frode Grytten
Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the
day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past
echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many
years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to
emerge--from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry
stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and
quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions.
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Brimstone
by Callie Hart
Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs
is her name whispered on an entire court's lips, but now that
she's been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she's discovering
that a queen's life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon
her shoulders.
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The Storm
by Rachel Hawkins
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with
a thrilling new gothic suspense about a Gulf Coast beach motel
that has survived a century of hurricanes-and has also been the
site of multiple mysterious deaths.
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Before I Forget
by Tory Henwood Hoen
A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the
role of memory in holding us back--and in moving us forward,
for fans of The Collected Regrets of Clover and Maame.
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The Book of Luke
by Lovell Holder
For fans of Survivor and Less, this fast-paced debut novel
shines an unflinching light on the drama of reality TV when a
gay man returns to the cut-throat show he won in his youth
after his adult life begins to unravel.
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The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu
by Mindy Hung
Leeann Wu's hands have started glowing at the most inconvenient
times, and the single mother and midwife doesn't know why. Could
it be perimenopause? A hallucination brought on by a lack of sleep?
On top of that concerning development, her daughter is off to
university in a few months, her tenuous relationship with her
ob-gyn mother is in peril of cracking, and she's attracted the
attention of a younger man who sees far more than she's
comfortable with.
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The Strength of the Few
by James Islington
This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many, one
of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels-follows Vis
as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could unravel history
across alternate dimensions.
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Snake-Eater
by T. Kingfisher
With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper
by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt's house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. The scorpions and spiders
are better than what she left behind. Because in Quartz Creek,
there's a strange beauty to everything, from the landscape to new friends, and more blue sky than Selena's ever seen. But something
lurks beneath the surface--like the desert gods and spirits lingering outside Selena's house at night, keeping watch. Mostly benevolent,
says her neighbor Grandma Billy. That doesn't ease the prickly sense
that one of them watches too closely and wants something from
Selena she can't begin to imagine.
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The School of Night
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man
who wants it all, Kristian Hadeland, has moved to London to study photography. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore him. But when he meets Hans, an
eccentric Dutch artist, the future he yearns for becomes possible--as
long as he is willing to sacrifice everything and stop at nothing. In a thrilling twist on Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Karl Ove Knausgaard masterfully spins a cautionary tale about the lengths
that we will go to achieve success--and how far we are willing to fall.
The School of Night is an indelible tale about dark temptations and
moral depravity, and what we forget when we bargain with the devil.
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The Shop on Hidden Lane
by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Harpers have been known to offer their psychic talents for
less-than-legal purposes, and the powerful Wells clan has a
reputation for playing both sides of the street. But for all the years
of history and distrust between them, there is a mysterious pact
binding the two. They share the responsibility for protecting a long-buried and very dangerous secret. Sophy Harper and Luke Wells
are shocked to learn that her aunt and his uncle have been
sleeping together--and now they are both missing.
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Coldwire
by Chloe Gong
A dystopian story following a young soldier who is framed for a
political assassination and must team up with her country's most
wanted terrorist to clear her name.
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Best Offer Wins
by Marisa Kashino
Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian, and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby,
and whole life back on track, Margo becomes obsessed with buying
the house before it's publicly listed and the masses descend. A
little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary.
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I, Medusa
by Ayana Gray
From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a
new kind of villain origin story, reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents--both gods, albeit minor ones--she dreams of leaving her
family's island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the
eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an
esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance
to see the world beyond her home.
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The White Hot
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge
is to hide away in a locked bathroom, her ears plugged into an
ambient soundscape, and a mantra on her lips: dead inside. That
is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic
rage she calls the white hot, a voice inside her tells her to
just--walk away. She wanders to a bus station and asks for a
ticket to the furthest destination; she tells the clerk to make
it one-way.
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Queen Esther
by John Irving
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House
Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr.
Wilbur Larch takes in Esther--a Viennese-born Jew whose life is
shaped by anti-Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905.
Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won't be
easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won't find
any family who'll adopt her.
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Ginster
by Siegfried Kracauer
Frst published in 1928, has as much to say about what it means
to live under the sulking great powers and blood-imbrued satrapies
of today as it does about the inflamed self-righteousness of late
imperial Germany. In Ginster, as in Greek tragedy, massacre occurs offstage, arriving only as news, but the everyday horror of a society engineered for the continual production of violence is not to be
denied.
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