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Portrait of a thief : a novel
by Grace D. Li
A Chinese American art history major at Harvard, Will Chen is
offered a (very illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless treasures
China lost centuries ago. He assembles a team of fellow students, chosen for their skills and loyalty, to help him on his mission—and
make history.
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Summer Island
by Shelley Noble
When reporter Phoebe Adams loses her job and her fiancé on the
same day, it never occurs to her that she’ll also have to support her mother, Ruth, through her divorce from Phoebe’s father after 35
years of marriage. They both need a safe haven, and Phoebe knows
just the place—Summer Island where Grandma Alice still rules the
roost from the big New England beach house Phoebe and Ruth
once called home.
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Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone transgression
by Joshua Hood
A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal, in a latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum.
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The summer getaway
by Susan Mallery
Robyn jumps at the chance to visit her beloved aunt to escape
her life. While spending time with the woman who is like a
mother to her, Robyn sees herself, and the people she loves
most with a bit more clarity, pushing her to take chances she
hadn't dreamed of before.
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Sea of Tranquility : a novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hired to investigate the black-skied Night City, Detective
Gaspery-Jacques Roberts discovers an anomaly in the North
American Wilderness, where he encounters a strange group
of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary that could disrupt the timeline of the universe.
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The memory librarian : and other
stories of dirty computer
by Janelle Monâae
In a totalitarian world where thoughts as a means of
self-conception are controlled or erased by a select few,
where your life is dictated by those who feel they have the
right to decide your fate, Jane 57821 remembers and
breaks free.
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Nobody gets out alive : stories
by Leigh Newman
Set in the author's home state of Alaska, this brilliant collection
centers around women struggling to survive not just grizzly bears
and charging moose but the raw, exhausting legacy of their
marriages and families.
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True biz : a novel
by Sara Noviâc
Taking readers into a residential school for the deaf, this
coming-of-age novel follows three people: a rebellious transfer
student, the school's golden boy, and the head-mistress. They
each deal with personal and political crises. They find their
lives inextricable from one another, and changed forever.
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When we cease to understand the world
by Benjamín Labatut
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about
the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.
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The Missing Piece
by John T. Lescroart
When Paul Riley, who served 11 years for the rape and murder of
his girlfriend, is released, he soon turns up murdered and master attorney Dismas Hardy hires PI Abe Glitsky to find the truth, which causes him to question his own moral compass.
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The Club
by Ellery Lloyd
Everyone's dying to join....The Home Group is a glamorous collection
of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich
and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites,
far from the prying eyes of fans and the media.
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House of sky and breath
by Sarah J. Maas
After saving Crescent City, Bryce, Hunt and their friends get pulled
into the rebels’ plans to chip away at the Asteri’s power, in the
second novel of the series following House of Earth and Blood.
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Bombshell
by Sarah MacLean
No stranger to scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot embraces her bad
reputation and continues luring men from Mayfair ballrooms for
late night escapades but finds herself pining for what she can’t
seem to have—her brother’s best friend.
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The darkest place
by Phillip Margolin
After a pro bono case upends her life, defense attorney Robin
Lockwood retreats home to Elk Grove where she defends a
surrogate accused of kidnapping the baby she carried for another
couple—a case that may result in unexpected, deadly consequences.
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The lightning rod : A Zig & Nola Novel
by Brad Meltzer
Mortician “Zig” Zigarowski, while working on the body of a
successful military man, discovers something he was never
meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to
find military artist Nola Brown—a search that reveals one of
the U.S. government’s most intensely guarded secrets.
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The fell
by Sarah Moss
In the middle of a two-week mandatory quarantine period,
Kate secretly slips out of her house for a walk on the moors,
but what was supposed to be a quick outing turns into a fight
for survival when she falls, injured and unable to move.
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The Tobacco Wives
by Adele Myers
In 1947 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker
for Bright Leaf’s most influential women—the wives of powerful
tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to
survive.
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Ocean state
by Stewart O'Nan
This compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in
Rhode Island and the terrible things love makes us do is told
through the alternating perspectives of four women at the heart
of the murder of a high school student.
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Vagabonds!
by Eloghosa Osunde
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of
vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives.
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Think of me
by Frances Liardet
In 1974, 10 years after his wife’s death, James, needing a change
of scenery, moves into a new house in the beautiful English village
of Upton where the discovery of scarf is the catalyst for unlocking
new revelations about his past, which gives him purpose and a
second chance at love.
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The boy with a bird in his chest : a novel
by Emme Lund
Fleeing to Washington to hide in plain sight with his family, Owen
Tanner, who has a bird in his chest, feels joy and acceptance,
despite living in a constant state of fear, in a community that
embraces him for who he is.
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The Last Wild Horses
by Maja Lunde
A novel set both in the distant past and the dystopian future
explores extinction and survival, family and hope.
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Perpetual West : a novel
by Mesha Maren
When her husband, who, unbeknownst to her, has fallen in love with
a lucha libra fighter, goes missing, Elana can’t determine whether he
left of his own accord or was kidnapped, forcing her to face who she really is.
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The swimmers
by Julie Otsuka
When a crack appears in the pool, a fellowship of swimmers who
take comfort in their laps are cast out, including Alice, who, slowly
losing her memory, is reunited too late with her estranged daughter,
in this intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss.
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We are the Brennans
by Tracey Lange
Returning to the east coast to recover from a drunk driving accident
she caused, 29-year-old Sunday Brennan must protect her family
from a man from her past who brings her family’s pub business to
the brink of financial ruin.
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The accomplice : a novel
by Lisa Lutz
Owen and his best friend Luna, who have been inextricably linked
for years—and who share a deadly secret, feel the walls quickly
closing in around them when Owen’s wife is murdered, unleashing
a torrent of secrets from the past.
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A marvellous light
by Freya Marske
Robin Blyth is accidentally named the civil service liaison to a
hidden magical society and is forced to contend with the beauty
and danger operating beneath normal reality while uncovering
what happened to his predecessor.
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Wahala : a novel
by Nikki May
When charismatic Isobel explodes into their close-knit group,
at first seemingly bringing out the best in each woman, Boo,
Simi and Ronke, three Anglo-Nigerian best friends, find their
close friendship starting to crack as this lethally glamorous
woman wreaks havoc on their lives.
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Where the drowned girls go
by Seanan McGuire
When Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate,
a different prophecy, Eleanor West transfers her to another school
where things are run very differently—and not all doors are welcoming.
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Across the green grass fields
by Seanan McGuire
A stand-alone entry in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series
finds Regan passing through a mysterious doorway before entering
a fantastical world of magical equines who expect humans to step
up as heroes.
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The Good Son
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
When her son is released from prison after serving time for the
negligent homicide of his girlfriend, Thea is committed to helping
him make amends until attempts on their lives are made, leading her to believe that those who are threatening them have something to hide.
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How high we go in the dark : a novel
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Spanning hundreds of years, a cast of intricately linked characters struggle with the Arctic Plague, an ancient illness accidentally
unleashed by researchers investigating the melting permafrost in
2030, which forces humanity to continually reinvent itself to survive.
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Hello, Transcriber
by Hannah Morrissey
A female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.
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The war for Gloria
by Atticus Lish
When his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS, 15-year-old Corey
Glotz is determined to be the hero she needs especially when his estranged father, a charismatic and cruel man, re-enters the picture bringing with him a violence that is beyond imagining.
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The memoirs of Stockholm Sven
by Nathaniel Ian Miller
In 1916, disfigured after a polar bear attack, Sven Ormson leads
a solitary life, testing himself against the elements in Svalbard,
until an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, drawing him into a
family of fellow castoffs that determines the rest of his life.
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Silverview
by John Le Carré
Giving up his high-powered career to run a bookshop in a small
English seaside town, Julian Lawndsley finds his life upended by
Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the
edge of town, who is rather too interested in the inner workings of
his modest new enterprise.
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The brides of Maracoor : a novel
by Gregory Maguire
In this new series, 25 years after Wicked first debuted, Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island, is taken
in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices.
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Three sisters
by Heather Morris
After surviving years of imprisonment in Auschwitz, three
Slovakian sisters travel to Israel where the battle for freedom takes
on new forms as they face the ghosts of their past and secrets they
have kept from each other to find true peace and happiness.
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Night music
by Jojo Moyes
After her husband dies, leaving her with a mountain of debt,
classical violinist Isabel Delancey and her children are forced to
move to a now- dilapidated manor she inherited in the English countryside where she fights to make her house a home as
passions and lives collide.
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Velvet was the night
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1970s Mexico City, Maite, a secretary with a penchant for romance novels, searches for her missing neighbor, Leonora, a beautiful art student. This search leads her to an eccentric gangster who longs
to escape his own life, and together, they set out to discover the dangerous truth.
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Count the ways : a novel
by Joyce Maynard
The New York Times bestselling author tells the story of Eleanor and Cam. Their marriage is shattered by tragedy and infidelity. During the decades that follow, they make surprising discoveries and decisions that bring them together, and tear them apart.
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The council of animals
by Nick McDonell
In a world ravaged by illness and climate change where very few humans are left, a group of animals debate and vote on whether
to help the remaining humans—or to kill and eat them.
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