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The News from Dublin: Stories
by Colm Toibin
From Colm Toibin, one of the world's best living literary writers, comes
a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America--about the complexities of
family, longing, loss, and love. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. Toibin's stories are rich with the
complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives. His characters, whether
navigating the aftermath of war, or forbidden love, or the desires of a
girl in Catalan, or the quiet struggles mundane life, are rendered with illuminating, unforgettable empathy and insight.
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Served Him Right
by Lisa Unger
Ana Blacksmith has gathered her closest friends and sister, Vera, for a brunch to celebrate her recent breakup from her boyfriend, Paul. But when shocking news about Paul arrives, all eyes are on Ana, the angry ex with a bad reputation. Suspicions only intensify when Ana's best friend falls deathly ill after the brunch. But Ana is not the only one who had a score to settle with Paul. As the investigation unfolds, rumors of a secret network that uses ancient methods to obtain justice begin to emerge. Vengeance is sweet, but it can also be deadly. Ana and Vera
are determined to find the truth before Ana takes the fall and their own long-buried history comes to light.
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I Give You My Silence
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Both a send-up of parochial idealism and a love song to the culture of
his homeland, Mario Vargas Llosa’s I Give You My Silence is the final novel of the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner, whose enduring works captured a changing Latin America. His tragic hero Toño, a man whose love for a democratic, proletarian music is at odds with the culture and politics of a modern Peru scarred by violence, is the writer’s last statement on the revelatory, maddening, and irrepressible belief in the transformative power of art.
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I Came Back for You
by Kate White
Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree's life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four
girls. But not Melanie. At first, Bree and her ex-husband don't buy a
word of it, until inconsistencies about the crime emerge. So does the dreadful feeling that the monster who shattered Bree's family isn't lying. The only way she can get to the truth is to power through the trauma and return to the town in upstate New York where Melanie's life came
to a brutal end. Bree will do anything to find justice for her daughter
and finish this nightmare forever. Instead, it's just beginning. Not only could the real killer still be in their midst, but as Bree begins to dig through Melanie's past, what she discovers calls into question
everything she has believed--about the crime and about Melanie
herself.
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The Final Score - Six Short Novels
by Don Winslow
The multi-million-dollar casino heist is impossible--it can't be done. That's what makes it irresistible to a legendary robber facing the rest of his life in prison for his Final Score. An ambitious, hard-working college-bound teenager has a side job delivering illegal booze to The Sunday
List until a crooked cop, a seductive customer, and a fake guru threaten to end his dreams. Two wise guys tell each other a True Story over breakfast at a diner. It's all bullshit and laughs until someone else has
to pick up the check. An otherwise honest patrolman has to make an excruciating choice between his loyalty to the job and his love for a ne'er-do-well cousin in The North Wing. The entitled, substance-
addicted movie star that surfer/PI Boone Daniels and his crew are hired to babysit in The Lunch Break is a problem. She also has a problem--someone wants her dead. Finally, the one terrible, momentary mistake that a devoted family man makes sends him to prison and on a
Collision course between the man he wants to be and the killer he's forced to become to survive.
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The Future Saints
by Ashley Winstead
When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they’re bombing
at a dive bar in their hometown. Since the tragic death of their
manager, the band has been in a downward spiral and Theo has been dispatched to coax a new—and successful—album out of them, or else let them go. Immediately, Theo is struck by Hannah, the group’s impetuous lead singer, who’s gone off script by debuting a whole new sound, replacing their California pop with gut-wrenching rock. When
this new music goes viral, striking an unexpected chord with fans, Theo puts his career on the line to give the Saints one last shot at success with a new tour, new record, and new start. The Future Saints’s big break is here—if only they can survive it.
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The Violin Maker's Secret
by Evie Woods
On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust
in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport. Unknown to anyone,
hidden among the clutter, is a very special object that can change the fortunes of those who possess it – a violin of rare beauty and power.
Now, as if by chance, it has fallen into the hands of three strangers:
baggage claim agent Devlin, retired teacher Walter, and appraiser Gabrielle. They have nothing in common, but can these three unlikely guardians unlock the secrets of the violin?
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Crux
by Gabriel Tallent
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape the hopelessness of their lives and chase a different future - through rock climbing.
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How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
by Shailee Thompson
When Jamie Prescott and her best friend, Laurie, attend a speed-dating event, Jamie expects to meet a roster of mediocre men and indulge in some street food afterwards. She doesn't expect one of her dates to have his throat slit at their table during a blackout. After the lights
come back on and there are more bodies on the floor, it becomes clear that dating can be a very dangerous pastime. Armed with makeshift weapons and Jamie's extensive knowledge of how to survive a slasher, the remaining speed daters try to find an exit while the killer adds to their body count. As the night progresses and Jamie comes face-to-
mask with the murderer, she begins to suspect they are committing the slayings to woo one of the daters and turn them into a real-life Final Girl.
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Cold Zero: A Thriller
by Brad Thor
Hemisphere Airlines Flight 777--the most advanced jetliner ever built--disappears without a trace over the North Pole. Crippled by sabotage, it crash-lands on the ice, stranding the surviving passengers in a
wasteland of frigid cold and chaos. Hidden inside the wreckage is the prototype for a revolutionary piece of technology that could upend the balance of world power. Now Washington, Moscow, and Beijing are racing to be the first on scene to retrieve it--at any cost. Trapped in the middle of the world's most dangerous flashpoint are CIA operative
Kasey Sheridan and former fighter pilot turned first officer, Brett Sharpe. Hunted by enemy forces, they must spirit both the device and its
creator across the ice to safety--before rival superpowers turn the Arctic into a war zone.
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The Infamous Gilberts
by Angela Tomaski
The Remains of the Day meets The Royal Tenenbaums in this darkly funny debut novel about a wealthy, eccentric family in decline and the secrets held within the walls of their crumbling country manor. Thornwalk, a once-stately English manor, is on the brink of transformation. Its keys are being handed over to a luxury hotelier who will undertake a complete renovation--but in doing so, what will they erase? Through the keen eyes of an enigmatic neighbor, the reader is taken on a guided tour into rooms filled with secrets and memories,
each revealing the story of the five Gilbert siblings. Spanning the eve
of World War II to the early 2000s, this contemporary gothic novel weaves a rich tapestry of English country life.
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Just Watch Me
by Lior Torenberg
Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister. It's a poignant and darkly funny exploration
of grief, forgiveness, and redemption. Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She's behind on rent for her studio apartment (formerly a
walk-in closet), she's being plagued by perpetual stomach pain, and
her younger sister, Daisy, is in a coma at a hospital that wants to pull
the plug. Dell impulsively starts a 24-hour livestream under the username mademoiselle.
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Superfan
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she
discovers a boy band called HOURglass and the online forums that worship them. She especially loves Halo, whose sharp edges feel somehow familiar. After a brief romance goes painfully awry, Minnie pours everything into her new fandom, clinging to each livestream and bonding with other fans online. But when a scandal threatens to
expose Halo to harm, Minnie decides that she is the only one who can save him. Except Halo's secret is darker than anything the tabloids
could imagine. Dazzling, entrancing, and deeply heartfelt, Superfan is about fandom in all its magic and its terror, and the extreme lengths to which we go to rid ourselves of loneliness
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House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk
Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a
part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the
past. When the narrator moves into the area, she discovers
everyone--and everything--has its own story. With the help of
Marta, her enigmatic neighbor, the narrator accumulates these
stories, tracing the history of Nowa Ruda from the founding
of the town to the lives of its saints, from the caller who wins
the radio quiz every day to the tale of the man who causes
international tension when he dies on the border, one leg on
the Polish side, the other on the Czech side.
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Fallen Gods
by Rachel Van Dyken
The Gods aren't dead--they're only sleeping, locked in mortal
bodies, scattered across the world, waiting for the right spark
to wake them. And my father is the most ruthless of them all.
He raised me to obey. To bleed. To be his blade when the time
came. Now he's sending me to Endir University, a place filled
with ancient bloodlines and deadly secrets, to steal back Mjolnir,
the hammer of legend.
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Galapagos
by Fátima Vélez
Lorenzo is a painter who doesn't paint. He spends his days
watching Jeanne Moreau films, luxuriating in his partner Juan
B's bed, and swapping letters with his lovers. Then, one day, his
nail falls off. Then another nail, then all of them. Thus begins a
journey of decomposition that carries him from Colombia to Paris,
from Paris to the French countryside, and on a final journey to the Galapagos Archipelago.
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Palaver
by Bryan Washington
The story of a mother and a son, estranged for ten years,
reconnecting in the son's chosen city of Tokyo in the weeks leading
up to Christmas.
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Stuart Woods' Blown Away
by Brett Battles
Teddy Fay whisks away to join Peter and Hattie Barrington in
Palm Springs. But his hope for a relaxing vacation vanishes when
he attends a prominent actor's annual birthday party, where he witnesses a heated squabble between two women, only for one
of them to turn up dead the next day. Teddy investigates who
might be lurking in the shadows and uncovers a web of intrigue
involving a sinister plan to take over a cutting-edge energy company.
If he doesn't act fast, valuable secrets risk falling into the wrong
hands, but more importantly, innocent lives could be in jeopardy.
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Fallen City
by Adrienne Young
Luca Matius has one purpose: to carry on the family name,
maintaining its presence in the Forum once his powerful and cruel
uncle dies. But his noviceship with the city's Philosopher places him
in the middle of a catastrophe that will alter the destiny of his people. Maris Casperia was raised amidst the strategic maneuvers of the
Citadel's inner workings, and she knows what her future holds--
a lifetime of service to a corrupt city.
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The Second Chance Cinema
by Thea Weiss
At the end of a cobblestone alley, shrouded by fog and empty storefronts, lies a glittering magical cinema, with 'The Story of
You' presented on the marquee. Ellie and Drake, a newly engaged couple, stumble upon it while walking around their city late one
night. Ellie, a dreamer who has made a career of writing about
nearly forgotten businesses, is immediately intrigued. Tickets in
hand, they make their way into the deserted red-velvet auditorium
and to their great surprise, see projected before them memories
from their respective pasts.
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The Lady on Esplanade
by Karen White
People and secrets from the past threaten to disrupt Nola
Trenholm's new life in New Orleans in the third novel of the
Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen
White. Nola is ready to focus on starting over in the Big Easy.
She wants to get back to work on the renovations of her Creole
cottage, and she is eager to launch a new murder-house-flipping business with contractor, closet psychic, and part-time nemesis
Beau Ryan.
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