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New Adult Fiction - Authors L - O
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All we were promised : a novel
by Ashton Lattimore
A former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia, where she plays servant to her white-passing father. She befriends a young abolitionist and risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.
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A game of lies
by Clare Mackintosh
Detective Ffion Morgan must untangle alibis and uncover what happened when a reality show in the Welsh mountains turns into a deadly game of truth or dare after one of the participants is murdered.
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One by one
by Freida McFadden
Forced to hike to their hotel after their minivan breaks down, a group of friends finds themselves hopelessly lost in the woods. Soon they are each struck down mysteriously one by one, making them wonder if an animal is hunting them—of if the hunter is one of them.
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Indian burial ground
by Nick Medina
When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspects something sinister is stalking their tribal lands. She relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets, horror and what might be the key to determining Roddy's true cause of death.
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Daughter of mine : a novel
by Megan Miranda
Hazel returns to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home. There she discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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A kind of madness : stories
by Uche Okonkwo
Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness, but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness.
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Sun of blood and ruin
by Mariely Lares
In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera. She uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule. She is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
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Fruit of the dead : a novel
by Rachel Lyon
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
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The inmate
by Freida McFadden
Brooke Sullivan is a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-security prison. She has already broken the rules due to her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates, because her testimony put him there and he will never forget.
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Parasol against the axe
by Helen Oyeyemi
In Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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The road from Belhaven
by Margot Livesey
Lizzie Craig, who lives in late-nineteenth-century Scotland is gifted with the ability to see into the future. She is courted by Louis. However, when she follows him from Belhaven Farm to Glasgow, she learns the limits of his devotion. This forces her to make a terrible mistake until her second sight allows her a second chance.
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To cage a god
by Elizabeth May
Bound to brutal deities and granted forbidden power no commoner has held in a millennia, sisters and living weapons Galina and Sera must end the cruel reign of a royal family possessed by destructive gods, which forces them both to make impossible choices to overthrow an empire.
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The teacher
by Freida McFadden
Addie becomes a pariah at Caseham High School after having an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. She is desperate to keep the truth hidden. Meanwhile Evie, horrified to find Addie in her class, is keeping something from her husband. Each will learn just how far someone will go to keep them silent.
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Wandering stars
by Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There.
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How we named the stars : a novel
by Andrâes N. Ordorica
Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andrâes N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead. It is a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are--and who you could be, if only the world would let you.
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The lies you wrote
by Brianna Labuskes
Paired up with forensic psychologist Callum Kilkenny to investigate the double murder of a married couple in a small Washington town, brilliant FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto discovers a link to a decades-old crime that leaves her vulnerable to a deadly twist she never saw coming.
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The book of fire : a novel
by Christy Lefteri
After a wildfire consumes their home in present-day Greece, Irini makes a split-second decision that will haunt her forever. Her husband Tasso, unable to paint due to the burns on his hands, finds hope for the future in his young daughter.
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Prophet song
by Paul Lynch
Ireland is caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. Scientist and mother-of-four, Eilish Stack watches as the life she knows, and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes. She must decide how far she'll go to save her family and what—or who—she is willing to leave behind.
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House of flame and shadow
by Sarah J. Maas
Stranded in a strange new world, Bryce Quinlan must rely on all her wits to get back to her family and friends in Midgard, in the third novel of the series following House of Sky and Breath.
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Picasso's lovers
by Jeanne Mackin
In the 1950s, aspiring journalist Alana Olson seeks out one of the women in Picasso's life, who paints a vibrant, yet tragic, picture of his once-vibrant social circle. This forces Alana to contend with her own reality in the male-dominated world of art journalism and the rising threat to civil rights in America.
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Lilith : a novel
by Nikki Marmery
Banished forever from Paradise for refusing to submit to Adam's will, Lilith is endowed with wisdom from the Tree of Knowledge. She finds her quest for justice driving her through history where she finally understands what must be done to correct the wrong done to women—and all humankind—at the beginning of time.
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The vacation : a novel
by John Marrs
On the shores of Venice Beach, eight strangers, staying in a rundown backpackers hostel, are all running from something, and have secrets they're more than willing to kill for.
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No one can know
by Kate Alice Marshall
Mother-to-be Emma Palmer has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect, returns to the house where her parents were murdered. She is reunited with her estranged sisters, who will do anything to keep the past buried.
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My friends : a novel
by Hisham Matar
Attending the University of Edinburgh, Benghazi transplant Khaled forms a powerful friendship with the author whose short story changed his life. This forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.
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You only call when you're in trouble: a novel
by Stephen McCauley
Tom is an architect ready to put himself first while trying to keep his needy family at bay. He finds himself answering their demands when his sister and niece need his help. All of this sets him on a journey that changes everyone's life and demonstrates the beauty or dysfunction of the ties that bind families together.
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The fury
by Alex Michaelides
Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. On her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, who are concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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The weekend retreat : a novel
by Tara Laskowski
The Van Ness siblings, heirs to a vast copper fortune gather at their opulent winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. They find themselves engulfed in old tensions. As they partake in this time-honored tradition, the weekend takes a dramatic turn, pushing them to the edge in a scenario that becomes a weekend to die for.
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The frozen river : a novel
by Ariel Lawhon
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town. When her diary lands at the center of the scandal it threatens to tear both her family and her community apart.
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The wildest sun : a novel
by Asha Lemmie
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York's Harlem. Then she must go to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
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The fourth rule : a novel
by Jeffry P. Lindsay
When the Cobra, a shadowy figure of international crime, plans the biggest heist the world has ever seen, only cunning and clever Riley Wolfe, the ultimate thief, can stop him.
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A river of golden bones
by A. K. Mulford
When her twin sister Briar falls victim to an evil sorceress, Calla must step out of the shadows to save her, her kingdom and her own legacy, embarking on a quest across the realm that opens up a whole world she never knew existed, making her wonder: who could she be if she dared to try?
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Maybe next time : a novel
by Cesca Major
In this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel a stressed woman must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate.
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Betrayal
by Phillip Margolin
A former MMA fighter-turned-lawyer must defend the opponent who ended her career a decade ago when she is accused of a quadruple murder, in the seventh novel of the series following Murder at Black Oaks.
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A power unbound
by Freya Marske
Swearing off magic in the wake of his twin sister's death, Jack is lured back in with the threat of a dangerous ritual in the third and final novel of the trilogy following A Restless Truth.
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A holly jolly ever after
by Julie Murphy
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex, in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute.
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The wake-up call
by Beth O'Leary
Hotel receptionists and enemies, Izzy and Lucas, find a collection of old wedding rings. They compete to return them to their owners as a way to save the hotel and their jobs. However, they find their bitter rivalry turning into something much more complicated.
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North woods : a novel
by Daniel Mason
Exploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and to one another across time, language and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of an extraordinary succession of inhabitants.
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The coworker
by Freida McFadden
Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised.
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Never lie
by Freida McFadden
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.
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The bee sting
by Paul Murray
Avoiding the fact that his once-lucrative car business is going under, Dickie Barnes struggles to be a good person while his family falls apart. He wonders if a single moment of bad luck can change the direction of a life and if there's still time to find a happy ending.
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