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The Burning Library
by Gilly MacMillan
When Dr. Anya Brown garners international attention for her
translation of the cryptic Folio 9, she is handpicked by Diana
Cornish, a professor and high-ranking member of the Fellowship,
to join the exclusive Institute of Manuscript Studies in St. Andrews. Unbeknownst to Anya she's been recruited at great personal
danger to translate ancient texts that the Fellowship believes
critical to their mission.
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Blood of Hercules Collector's Edition
by Jasmine Mas
I'm just a girl. And it turns out, I'm Hercules. I'm struggling to
survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from
twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth,
rule over all. A shy-stammering foster child with nothing, I keep
my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school.
At least, I try to.
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Bonds of Hercules (Deluxe Limited Edition)
by Jasmine Mas
Men are fighting over me. Mysteries are unfolding left and right.
And I've had enough. Everybody better beware because I'm
fighting in the Gladiator Competition and seizing my power.
Things are about to get very messy. For Sparta.
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The Silver Book
by Olivia Laing
It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young
English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo
Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible
for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati
is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellini's Casanova. A young apprentice is just what he needs. He sweeps Nicholas to Rome
and introduces him to the looking-glass world of Cinecittâa, the
studio where Casanova's Venice will be ingeniously assembled.
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The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories
and Essays
by Harper Lee
A posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and
previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a
fresh perspective on the literary mind of Harper Lee.
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Flat Earth
by Anika Jade Levy
Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of
cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. In an act
of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app.
Meanwhile, her best friend, Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy Southern family, drops out of grad school,
gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature documentary. Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast
of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, pushing her to
make a series of devastating decisions.
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False Witness
by Phillip Margolin
A lawyer who was set-up, imprisoned, and disbarred, only to be vindicated and reinstated, is determined to find out who set her
up and cover their tracks with a trail of dead bodies Defense
Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force
and the District Attorney's office while getting her client exonerated
in court. But in doing so, she put a target on her back and she
was set-up on fake drug charge, imprisoned and disbarred until
the conspiracy unraveled and her innocence was proven.
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Blood Like Ours
by Stuart Neville
In this chilling follow-up to Blood Like Mine by Stephen King's
true heir (Will Dean), one mother faces the ultimate supernatural
horror: the monster she must become to protect her child. El Paso, Texas: Rebecca Carter awoke on a morgue table with only two
desires: to find her daughter, Moonflower; and to sate her
gnawing hunger. Rebecca sets out on a desperate quest, fighting
her murderous craving for blood, and pursued by a vengeful
FBI agent.
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Bog Queen
by Anna North
In the gorgeous new novel by the New York Times bestselling
author of Outlawed, a strangely well-preserved Iron Age body
turns up in an English bog, and the American forensic anthropologist
on the case is thrust into an absorbing, complex mystery.
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Picket Line : The Lost Novella
by Elmore Leonard
This never-before-published gem from a master storyteller
describes an unprecedented farmers' movement in Trinity,
Texas; the complex cast of Chicanos, Anglos, and migrants
that impact the union; and the careful balance of passion,
patience, and pure, stupid guts that it takes to hold the line.
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All That We See or Seem
by Ken Liu
"Orphan hacker" Julia Z is pulled from digital obscurity when a
lawyer's artist wife, a dream-weaving oneirofex kidnapped by
criminals, is needed for her unique skills to retrieve stolen
dreams from a dangerous virtual underworld.
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A ferry merry Christmas : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
Separated for Christmas, siblings Avery and Reed Bond each
find unexpected romance amidst travel delays: Avery meets
a charming sailor on a stalled ferry, while Reed connects with
a coworker, proving that even unexpected detours can lead
to love.
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A guardian and a thief
by Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata, India, which has been ravaged by
climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking to
protect their children must battle each other.
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The Intruder
by Freida Mcfadden
In the middle of a storm, a girl appears on Casey's doorstep,
obviously in need of help, but soon things take a violent turn.
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Wreck : a novel
by Catherine Newman
In Western Massachusetts, Rocky juggles family life with her
husband, adult children and aging father, until her fixation on
a local accident and an ominous medical concern stirs up
anxieties that threaten to upend her fragile sense of normalcy.
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Will there ever be another you
by Patricia Lockwood
As a mysterious illness warps her memory and perception during
a global pandemic, a grieving young woman struggles to care for
her family while questioning her identity, her past and whether her fractured mind might offer a strange kind of freedom.
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Assistant to the villain
by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
"ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting
staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In
General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits. With [an] ailing
family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important,
it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn's most infamous
Villain results in a job offer--naturally, she says yes.
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Apprentice to the villain
by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Happy working as the assistant to The Villain, Evie Sage notices something strange happening with the kingdom's magic and must protect their lair in Rennedawn in the second novel of the series.
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Accomplice to the villain
by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
The sunshine assistant to an evil villain has an unexpected romance
with her boss. Being evil-adjacent was never pat of the five-year
plan. But, then again....neither was falling for The Villain.
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan
In a future drowned by climate disaster, solitary scholar Thomas
Metcalfe uncovers a trail to a lost 2014 poem that once stirred
scandal, unraveling a century-old mystery of love, betrayal and
artistic legacy in a world longing for what it has lost.
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The whistler
by Nick Medina
After a ghost-hunting accident leaves Henry Hotard paralyzed,
he returns to his reservation and begins experiencing terrifying
visions tied to a Native superstition, forcing him to confront buried trauma and the consequences of breaking sacred taboos.
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Automatic noodle
by Annalee Newitz
From an acclaimed sci-fi author comes a cozy near-future novella
about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own restaurant.
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The gossip columnist's daughter
by Peter Orner
Struggling with writer's block and a fractured family, Jed
Rosenthal becomes obsessed with the decades-old, unresolved
death of Cookie Kupcinet, hoping that uncovering the truth behind
her mysterious end will help him understand his own family's
unraveling.
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