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Love by the Book
by Jessica George
When Simone and Remy bump into each other (literally) in a bookstore, it isn’t exactly soulmates at first sight. Simone is guarded and prickly, Remy is insecure and heartbroken, and each woman is harboring a secret. And yet they might just be the missing piece the other has been searching for―if only they can let each other in.
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Last One Out
by Jane Harper
Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers
of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned, with just a handful of residents clinging onto what remains. After years of scorning those who left the Ridge behind as it fell into ruin, Ro never imagined she'd
become one of them. But everything changed when she lost her son. Five years ago, Sam vanished while visiting during a break from college, leaving behind a rental car with his belongings inside. Sam had loved Carralon Ridge, and had been working on an oral history of the town to preserve its legacy before it vanished altogether. It wasn't long after his disappearance that the rest of the family began to crumble away too.
But when Ro returns to Carralon Ridge to be with her husband and daughter on the anniversary of Sam's disappearance, she begins to suspect that something important was overlooked in his case. Because while nothing can stop Carralon Ridge from dying, someone seems to want to make sure that its secrets die with it.
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Mothers and Other Strangers
by Corey Ann Haydu
When Sydney and Mae meet on the playground as toddlers, it seems
like kismet. Even their very different mothers--the Type-A Beth Ann and the free-spirited Joni--agree the girls are made for each other, and it's not long before even the mothers become inseparable. Then a falling
out draws them apart, and decades later, the loneliness still lingers for the newly pregnant Sydney. Adrift in the absence of her closest friend, Sydney has been drawn into a Multi-Level Marketing scheme, exacerbated by the demands of her inflexible mother, Beth Ann, whose constant scrutiny seems reserved only for her daughter. Across the city, Mae is stunned to find herself single, pregnant, and still haunted by
the loss of her mercurial late mother, Joni, whose mysterious death
holds as many unanswered questions as Mae does herself. When
Sydney and Mae find themselves back in one another's lives, each with
a baby girl on the horizon, it once again seems like destiny. But the two women will soon discover that it's not destiny that has drawn them together this time, but a devastating secret at the center of their
orbits--a truth that finally will bind them or shatter them, for good.
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No Friend to This House
by Natalie Haynes
Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey
is filled with danger, for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death.
Medea--priestess, witch, and daughter of a brutal king--has the power
to save the life of a stranger. Will she betray her family and her home, and what will she demand in return? Medea and Jason seize their one chance of a life together, as the gods intend. But their love is steeped
in vengeance from the beginning, and no one--not even those closest
to them--will be safe. Based on the classic tragedy by Euripides, this is Medea as you've never seen her before.
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The Story of the Forest
by Linda Grant
It's 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks--an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come. Intending to save her from further corruption,
and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family's life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England. There the threat of a different war looms large. When WWI hits, Jossel is sent to the front, where he keeps a severely wounded soldier in his unit alive
'til morning by telling him tales--including that his sister Mina will marry him if he survives. The soldier lives and asks for Mina's hand, their marriage uniting two growing trade dynasties. But over time Mina and Jossel will learn that not everyone in their family has survived the wars and pogroms, even as they and their offspring struggle to build new
lives in Liverpool in the midst of ever-shifting discriminations.
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Hell's Heart
by Alexis Hall
They are monsters, legends, gods. They are our prey. Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by fuel I mean the cerebrospinal fluid of gargantuan, quasi-psychic space monsters. I
joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid. Instead, I followed a captain chasing abominations in the skies of
Jupiter. We battled the Mobius Beast itself, there in the red eye of the world. Spoiler: we lost.
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Almost Life
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacre-Coeur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning university at home in England. Laure is studying for her PhD at the Sorbonne, drinking and smoking far too much, and sleeping with a married woman. The moment the two women meet, the spark is undeniable, but their encounter turns into far more than a summer of love. It is the beginning of a relationship that will define their lives and every decision they have yet to make. Erica and Laure's love story
spans decades, marriage, children, secret trysts, and the agonizing changes--both personal and political--that might mean they can be together, after all. But when life brings them within touching distance again, will they be brave enough to seize a future together?
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Lady Tremaine: Reese's Book Club Pick (a Novel)
by Rachel Hochhauser
MEET LADY TREMAINE in this spellbinding reimagining of Cinderella, as told by its iconic evil stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go for her children.
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The Night We Met (Standard Edition)
by Abby Jimenez
In everyone's life, there's a split-second decision that can change everything. For Larissa, it came when choosing who to ride home with after a concert. That night, she had no idea she'd met the perfect man. She and Chris are great friends, co-parenting a slightly unhinged rescue Yorkie, sharing their favorite books, and judging bread (pumpernickel
for the win ). For the first time amid all her side hustles to scrape by, things finally feel easy. But she didn't choose Chris to drive her home
all those months ago--she went with his best friend, and he became
her boyfriend. All Chris wants is for Larissa to be happy. Standing by
on the sidelines is slowly killing him, but making a move would destroy someone else. How can something that feels so right be absolutely impossible?
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Sisters in Yellow
by Mieko Kawakami
Hana has nothing - she's fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive
bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon,
a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share
her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible. But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism, and her drive will be pushed to the limit . . . A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great
writers of her generation.
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A Mask the Color of the Sky
by Bassem Khandaqji
Nur, a young Palestinian refugee from a camp near Ramallah, is often mistaken for an Ashkenazi Jew. Fluent in Hebrew and with a degree in archaeology, he dreams of freedom beyond the fences of the camp--
and of writing a novel about Mary Magdalene based on the Gnostic Gospels. When he discovers an Israeli ID card in the pocket of a secondhand coat, he assumes a false identity and is hired for an archaeological dig near Megiddo. Passing as an Israeli, he moves
through a world previously off-limits, gaining insight into the lives and beliefs of those he's been taught to see as enemies. But as Nur's borrowed identity deepens, so does the rift within: between Nur, the Palestinian, and Ur, the Israeli. By exploring this internal conflict, unfolding alongside friendships and love affairs, Bassem Khandaqji
offers a meditation on the personal toll of occupation and the elusive desire to belong somewhere--fully, honestly, and without fear.
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Wolf Worm
by T. Kingfisher
Sonia Wilson is a talented scientific illustrator--but she is only able to follow her dream because of her father's reputation as a renowned scientist. Such is the lot in life for a woman in science in 1899. And
after his death, she is left without work, prospects, or hope. So when
the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast
collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use. Once there, though, she encounters dark happenings in the Carolina woods, and even
darker questions come to light, like what happened to her predecessor? Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about blood thiefs? With the aid of the housekeeper and
a local healer, Sonia discovers that Halder's entomological studies have taken him down a twisted road. His ground-breaking discoveries come with a cost--one that Halder is paying with human flesh. If Sonia can't find a way to stop the monstrosity, she may be next under the knife.
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So Old, So Young
by Grant Ginder
Five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death. For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship. But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds, and testing what we thought we knew. From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings, to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, Grant Ginder's resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the Millennial generation, and a celebration of how love can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.
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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
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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The Hard Line
by Mark Greaney
Court Gentry's family operates out of an office park in Norfolk, Virginia. Ghost Town is an off-the-books direct action team run by Matt Hanley, former CIA deputy director. They take on the jobs the Agency needs handled discreetly, and those jobs are rolling in. Somewhere at the top of the US intelligence apparatus, security experts and intelligence operations worldwide are being threatened. Key members of the US counterintelligence community are being assassinated in their own neighborhoods. With the feds compromised, it's up to Court and his team to stop the hit squads. But eliminating professional kill teams may be the least of the Gray Man's worries when he finds himself targeted
by the legendary assassin code-named Whetstone.
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Brawler: Stories
by Lauren Groff
Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region-from New England to Florida to California-these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans' dark and light angels.
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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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Antihero: An Orphan X Novel
by Gregg Hurwitz
Once a black ops assassin for the government known as Orphan X,
Evan Smoak broke with the program and went deep underground,
using his operational rules and skills to help the truly desperate with nowhere else to turn. When Luke Devine, one of the most powerful
men in the world, has a psychological crisis, Evan flies to the East Coast to help him. While there, he learns of a young woman who was kidnapped off the New York City subway, clearly in danger and in need
of aid. With no name and few clues, Evan and his team track down the missing woman, who was assaulted and abandoned. Evan offers his
help and sets out finding the young men responsible. But the woman insists that Evan abandon his usual methods: no vengeance and, in particular, no killing. Which will prove no easy feat given the mounting incoming threats from all sides.
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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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Kin
by Tayari Jones
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest
childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers
and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work.
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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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