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The snow hare
by Paula Lichtarowicz
In a novel of love and consequences, a woman dreams of becoming
a doctor until World War II leads her instead into an astonishing love, and a fateful choice.
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Observer : a novel
by R. P. Lanza
In order to help her impoverished sister, Dr. Caroline
Soames-Watkins agrees to help on a mysterious project that is
aiming to go beyond curing the human body of disease. They
hope to develop a technology capable of solving the riddle of
mortality of the soul.
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We all want impossible things : a novel
by Catherine Newman
When Edith, her best friend of 42 years, succumbs to ovarian
cancer, spending her last days at a hospital near her, Ashley,
stumbling around into heartbreak, helps Edith celebrate her life
as they reminisce, hold on and try to let go.
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Three-edged sword : a novel
by Jeffry P. Lindsay
Fearless thief and master of disguise Riley Wolfe plans his biggest
heist yet, even though his list of powerful enemies grows longer
and more dangerous.
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The last party
by Clare Mackintosh
Homegrown celebrity, Rhys Lloyd is murdered after opening the
doors to his new luxury resort on New Year's Eve. Ffion Morgan,
called in to investigate, fears her deep ties to this once tranquil
village will reveal dark truths about her neighbors, friends,
family and even herself.
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The Housemaid
by Freida Mcfadden
“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her
elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the
marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.
I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own....
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Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy
This intimate portrait is told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions. This journey of grief and longing
follows 20-year-old Alicia Western. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, she contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
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Someday, maybe : a novel
by Onyi Nwabineli
After her husband, the greatest love of her life, commits suicide,
a young woman finds the strength to move on with the help of
her tight-knit Nigerian family and happy memories of the man
she'll never forget.
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Murder at Black Oaks
by Phillip Margolin
After getting a wrongful conviction overturned for retired DA
Francis Hardy, Robin Lockwood is invited to a party at Black Oaks,
his home in the Oregon mountains rumored to be cursed, and finds murder in attendance when Hardy is found dead.
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A restless truth
by Freya Marske
Maud Blyth sifts through a ship full of suspects in the open ocean after the old lady she agreed to join as a travel companion is found murdered in the second novel of the historical fantasy series following A Marvelous Light.
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The hero of this book : a novel
by Elizabeth McCracken
After her mother's death, the narrator recalls all that made
her complicated mother extraordinary. Even though she wants to
respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, the
narrator must decide whether chronicling this remarkable life is
an act of love or one of betrayal.
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The oracle of Maracoor : a novel
by Gregory Maguire
As the very fabric of reality loosens, liberating creatures of myth
and legend, Rain, Elphaba's green-skinned daughter, and her companions hunt the fabled Oracle of Maracoor. They search for guidance and soothsaying, hoping that the desperate wicked
years will promise another day.
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The passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
In 1980, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash in Pass Christian, Mississippi, discovers that the pilots flight bag, the planes
black box and the 10th passenger are missing. He becomes
submerged in a conspiracy beyond his understanding, as he is
shadowed in body and spirit by the past and the present.
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Mr. & Mrs. American Pie
by Juliet McDaniel
Newly divorced socialite Maxine Simmons plots to return from
disgrace by winning the Mrs. American Pie pageant, but to achieve
her ends she will need to assemble a convincing family from a
motley assortment of new neighbors
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Dinosaurs : a novel
by Lydia Millet
After walking from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed relationship, Gil discovers new neighbors in the glass-walled
house next-door and finds his life meshing with theirs, in the
new novel from the author of A Children's Bible.
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Illuminations : stories
by Alan Moore
Spanning forty years of work and featuring never-before-published pieces from a contemporary legend, this collection of eight stories,
full of wonder and strangeness, includes A Hypothetical Lizard, in
which two concubines in a brothel for sorcerers fall in love, with
tragic ramifications.
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The mountain in the sea
by Ray Nayler
On the remote island of Con Dao Archipelago, marine biologist
Dr. Ha Nguyen studies a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus
species that could hold the key to extra-human intelligence and
must protect them from powerful forces who want to use them
for their own nefarious means.
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Our missing hearts : a novel
by Celeste Ng
In a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after
receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother,
a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old This leads
him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of
much-needed change.
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Ithaca
by Claire North
From a multi-award-winning author comes a daring reimagining
that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the
women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men.
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The book of goose
by Yiyun Li
When her friend Fabienne passes away, Agnes is free to tell her
story of a long-ago childhood in a war-ravaged, backwater town
along the French countryside where Fabienne hatched a plan that changed everything, sending Agnes on an epic journey through
fame, fortune and terrible loss.
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All that's left unsaid : a novel
by Tracey Lien
In Cabramatta, Australia, after her younger brother is murdered
inside a restaurant while celebrating his high school graduation,
Ky Tran vows to uncover his killer despite an indifferent police force
and witnesses who claim they saw nothing.
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Bliss montage / : Stories
by Ling Ma
A collection of eight short stories from the author of
Severance includes the tales of a woman who lives with all of her
ex-boyfriends, and of a toxic relationship built around a drug that
makes you invisible.
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Jacqueline in Paris : a novel
by Ann Mah
During her college year abroad in postwar Paris, Jacqueline
Bouvier witnesses, beneath the city's glitter and luminous beauty,
the beginning of the political environment that will shape the rest
of her life and that of her future husband.
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Lessons
by Ian McEwan
With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines is haunted by lost opportunities. He
searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics,
and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that
have shaped his existence and memories.
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1989
by Val McDermid
Ten years later Allie Burns is running the northern news operation of The Sunday Globe where she covers the memorial service of Pan Am Flight 103 and stumbles upon a shocking story about HIV/AIDS, in the sequel to 1979.
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Heat 2 : a novel
by Michael Mann
Follows the formative years of homicide detective Vincent Hanna
and an elite group of criminals and crime syndicates, in the new
novel by the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and
writer-director of Heat, Collateral and Miami Vice.
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Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
by Joe Meno
Aleksandar and Isobel are siblings and former classical music
prodigies, once destined for greatness. As the only Eastern
European family growing up on their block on the far southside
of Chicago, the pair were inseparable until each was forced to
confront the absurdity of tragedy at an early age and abandon
their musical ambitions.
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Sacrificio
by Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Set in 1998 Cuba. When Renato Rafa's friend goes missing his
search takes him through various haunts in Havana, from an AIDS sanatorium to the very margins of a society they want to change.
A novel of cascading prose that captures a nation in slow collapse.
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Oath of loyalty
by Kyle Mills
When the presidents power-hungry security adviser betrays him
by leaking the true identity of his partner, Claudia Gold, Mitch Rapp, racing to neutralize the enemies conspiring against her, is faced
with the seemingly impossible task of finding and stopping a killer
whose business model is based on double-blind secrecy.
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The opera sisters : based on a true story
by Marianne Monson
In 1933 Nazi Germany, British sisters and opera lovers Ida and
Louise Cook, together with their beloved opera community,
devise a plan to personally escort Jewish refugees from Germany
to England. All of this hinges on their ability to smuggle valuables to
finance their daring, secret operation.
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Rules of engagement
by Selena Montgomery
While infiltrating a terrorist group responsible for stealing lethal environmental technology, Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a
top-secret intelligence organization, finds the most dangerous
thing of all is falling for her partner as they untangle a twisted
web of secrets and lies.
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A merry little meet cute : a novel
by Julie Murphy
A successful plus-sized adult film star agrees to star in a Christmas
movie for a squeaky-clean cable network when her childhood crush
and ex-boy band member signs on as co-star.
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Thistlefoot
by GennaRose Nethercott
The Yaga siblings are reunited when they receive a strange
inheritance, a sentient house on chicken legs called Thistlefoot.
They find themselves being hunted by the Longshadow Man, who
bears with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that
have hidden in their blood for generations.
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The golden enclaves : a novel
by Naomi Novik
In this epic conclusion to the New York Times best-selling trilogy,
the narrator, after miraculously escaping the Scholomance, must
turn right around and find a way back in to save everyone from
getting killed in the brewing enclave war on the horizon.
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The marriage portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess
Lucrezia de Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries
the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar
court where she has one duty to provide an heir fights for her very survival.
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Dark music
by David Lagercrantz
A street-smart Swedish police officer seeks help from a renowned authority on interrogation techniques to help solve the case of a murdered Afghani asylum-seeker in the new thriller from the author of The Girl in the Spiders Web.
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Heartbreaker
by Sarah MacLean
The Matchbreaker, a woman trained to help brides avoid the
altar, finds herself racing across London with the Duke of Clayborn,
who is harboring secrets of his own. This is the second novel of the
series following Bombshell.
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The very secret society of irregular
witches
by Sangu Mandanna
Breaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious
Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their
magic and, as she gets close to the Houses residents, must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know
she was looking for.
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Mercury Pictures presents : a novel
by Anthony Marra
After Americas entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate
producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting
politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying positions until a man from
her imprisoned fathers past threatens her carefully constructed
facade.
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Babysitter
by Joyce Carol Oates
The lives of three individuals, including the wife of a prominent businessman who is having an affair, a street hustler seeking to
right an injustice, and a serial killer called "Babysitter", intersect in
a Detroit suburb in the 1970s.
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On Java Road : a novel
by Lawrence Osborne
A British journalist living in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle is standing
between two cultures. As violence erupts during pro-democracy demonstrations, Adrian finds the old familiar urge to investigate
when the girlfriend, and student protestor, of one of his oldest
friends is murdered.
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The book of Gothel
by Mary McMyne
This reimagining of Rapunzel is told from the witch's perspective.
After her mother dies, young Haelewise finds the legendary tower, Gothel, where she encounters another young girl, Rika, who carries
a dark secret the Church strives to keep hidden. A secret of ancient spells and murderous nobles.
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So happy for you : a novel
by Celia Laskey
During her best friend Ellies wedding weekend, Robin, a queer
academic dubious of elaborate wedding rituals, second guesses
her decision to be Ellies maid of honor after a series of ominous occurrences lead her to believe that the bridal party is out to
get her.
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