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The Midnight Train
by Matt Haig
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No
one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind
of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . . A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
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A Violent Masterpiece
by Jordan Harper
This epic crime novel tells a story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge--and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down. Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein's monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together into something like a city. A city ready to
explode: A Hollywood pedophile is arrested, and is ready to tear down the city to get his freedom. A young woman goes missing--and men in black rubber gloves who look like cops clean out her apartment in the middle of the night. And the serial killer known as the LA Ripper is on
the loose, leaving tragic/graphic/brutal crime scenes in his wake. Three people trying to keep their heads above the dirty water will find themselves coming together to unite these strands into one enormous, unspeakable crime.
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The Island Club
by Nicola Harrison
1956: On idyllic Balboa Island, just off the California coast, life seems peaceful and welcoming. But when the lives of three women begin to unravel in shockingly different ways, an unlikely friendship--and the game of tennis--may be the only thing that can save them. Milly Kinkaid's plan to fix her crumbling marriage seems to be falling apart before it even begins. She believed that moving her young family from Hollywood to Balboa Island might entice her increasingly distant
husband to come home earlier after work. Instead, he's barely coming home at all. Society matriarch Sylvia Johnson and her husband have been pillars of their community for decades, and have just recently begun a new business venture: The Island Club, a place for members
to swim, play tennis and dine in style. But when she learns that he has been risking their financial security and putting their family's future in grave danger, she's not only poised to lose the club, but the entire community she holds dear. Meanwhile, standoffish loner Adele
Lambert's entire world is on the brink of being destroyed if the dark secrets of her past and her hidden identity is revealed. Set against the sun-drenched beaches of Balboa Island, with its prim and proper 1950s facade, The Island Club is a story of love, loneliness and the lies we tell ourselves--and what can be gained when the truth is finally revealed.
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Liberty Island
by Virginia Hume
1900: 28-year-old Anna Bradley spends summer days supervising three little girls, including her niece, Julia Demarest, on an island off the coast of Haven Point, Maine. There, the girls run free, pretending to be all the things society says they cannot: pirates and rum runners, treasure hunters and Roughriders. 1922: 29-year-old Julia Demarest was once proud of her aunt’s "Liberty Island" books. But as new, bohemian ideas take hold amongst her peers, she has come to see them as quaint, at best. In hindsight, her childhood summers on the island seem like more of an exile than a liberation, and her Boston Brahmin family―particularly her mother, Elizabeth Demarest―like relics of an unlamented past.
A sweeping saga set in the first tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, Liberty Island is an ode to mothers and daughters, love, friendship, and the ways in which women define freedom on their own terms.
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Before I Knew I Loved You
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love...In Before I Knew I Loved
You, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Cafe, with another four guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential. In this book, we meet: The girl who couldn't call
her mother, and yearns to reconnect with her. The man who waited for
a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her. The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds. The student
who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many
years before. Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed for ever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time.
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If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light
by Kim Choyeop
In If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, Korean science fiction superstar Kim Cho-yeop leads us to places we never thought we'd
reach, imagining worlds galaxies away and unfamiliar lifeforms with near-dizzying humanity. Traversing the bounds of imagination with an ethereal incisiveness, Kim Cho-yeop's stories dismantle the borders between normal and abnormal, material and abstract, earthly and otherworldly. With unforgettable inventiveness and pathos, If We
Cannot Go at the Speed of Light heralds the arrival of an essential
voice in contemporary fiction.
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The Foursome
by Christina Baker Kline
When Eng and Chang Bunker, the world-famous conjoined twins, arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity--they're a
sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they're looking for wives--and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge. Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins' fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn't so sure. When the twins' lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where
everything--including race, class, and gender--is rigidly defined. Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a
fractured nation hurtling toward war, The Foursome is both intimate
and epic: a story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. With piercing insight and emotional precision, Kline brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.
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Dead Weight
by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat's wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in
a Reykjavik night, Asta and her pet slip into Unnur's life. It's
unexpected, but welcome. Unnur likes the company, and she begins to rely on Asta in turn. But like a black cat, trouble has been tailing her
new friend, and Unnur is the only one there for Asta when things take a violent turn. The two women quickly learn: nothing tests a friendship
like blood on your hands.
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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 Night in Brooklyn
by Xochitl Gonzalez
SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She's in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother's beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility that the striving crowd of creatives holds, and moves in. No one embodies this milieu more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-
and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza's life, observed by Alicia from her
apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself. But when Alicia's wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself
increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza's precarious lives. Last Night in Brooklyn explores the dark compromise of the American
Dream for people of color living, unknowingly, in the twilight of a
cultural moment. It is a story about everything money can buy--and
the destruction of what it can't.
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A Cruise to Die for
by Heather Graham
Special Agent Chloe McMurray has been asked to do many things in the name of her job. Going undercover on a cruise ship leaving from her home port of Miami, however, is a new one. Not only that, but she's tasked with posing as the wife of her federal counterpart, Special Agent Wesley Law. Their investigation? A string of murders and suicides
across three states that seem unrelated, until they uncover a deadly technological connection. Every victim was an expert in technology and had some connection to Milestones, a megacorporation with ties to
many industries...including the cruise industry. Chloe and Wesley must successfully go undercover as tech employees on the ship hosting the ten-year anniversary of the Milestones cruise company. A tough ask when the two have never met before. They'll infiltrate the technology events, investigate their fellow passengers and try to uncover what's really going on. However, danger is never far behind. Their killer can
use tech to do the job without lifting a finger, and at sea, there's no escape if their covers are blown
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Start at the End
by Emma Grey
Audrey and Fraser tumble into a romance for the ages. After an
unlikely start, they fall deeply in love and dream of the life they'll build together--until one tragic moment upends everything. Facing the unimaginable and wrestling with guilt, they're left haunted by what ifs, each asking where they would be if fate had spun a different story.
Start at the End is an unforgettable drama of two soulmates who have
to find a way to start over when they had only just begun.
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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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Molka
by Monika Kim
Molka: an abbreviation of molrae-kamera, a sneaky camera hidden to capture covert images and videos for voyeurs. In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung's network reaches throughout the entire building. He sees every entrance. Every lobby. Every bathroom. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull up his favorite images of them and remember who holds
the real power. Until one, Dahye sets herself apart from the rest. Dahye, ever the romantic, yearns to be cherished after years of living in the shadow of her perfect older sister, who tragically drowned years ago. Only her boyfriend seems to appreciate Dahye. He's rich, handsome,
and generous--and she'd do anything to hold on to the happiness he brings her. But when a hidden camera scandal rocks the city's elites, Dahye's dreams of a fairy-tale romance twist into a grotesque
nightmare. Her boyfriend abandons her. Her parents reject her. Her grip on reality begins to shatter as visions of her dead sister suddenly
appear. And as Junyoung's interest in Dahye turns to obsession, and
the truths of their troubled lives are revealed, Dahye must go to
extreme lengths to bring the truth to light.
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The Caretaker
by Marcus Kliewer
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY: Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY. Macy Mullins can't say why the job posting grabbed her attention--it had the pull of a fisherman's lure, barbed hook and all--vaguely ominous. But after an endless string of failed job interviews, she's not exactly in the position
to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister
to provide for. Besides, it's only three days' work... Three days, cooped up in a stranger's house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness.
What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare.
An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property--and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity.
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We Burned So Bright
by Tj Klune
Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they've experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world. Now, the world is ending for real. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they've ever known will be gone. Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it's all over. On the road they meet those
who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how--impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, and new friends. And as the black hole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough. Is it enough
to burn bright if nothing comes from the ashes?
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