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The homewreckers : a novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
Hattie gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a
male lead who may be a love interest, or may be the ultimate antagonist. It's a question of who will flip, and who will flop, and
will Hattie ever get her happily-ever-after.
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Book of night
by Holly Black
In a world where shadows have feelings and memories and
can be altered, a low-level con artist/bartender is pitted against doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves and her
own sister while trying to keep out of trouble.
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The Lioness
by Christopher A. Bohjalian
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet
and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the
New York Times best-selling author of The Flight Attendant.
"The best possible combination of Hemingway and Agatha Christie
in a gorgeously written story about the landscape and risks of
Africa, whose edge-of-your-seat plot makes it impossible to put
down.” (Jodi Picoult, number one New York Times best-selling
author of Wish You Were Here).
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The Hacienda
by Isabel Canas
In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the
execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solórzano's
proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country
estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his
first wife's death.
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So much blue : a novel
by Percival Everett
Unable move on from an affair he had with a young watercolorist
10 years ago, Kevin Pace, who is working on a painting he won’t
let anyone see, finds events of his past intersecting with the present
as he struggles to justify the sacrifices he made for his art and the secrets he kept from his wife. By the author of Erasure and
I Am Not Sidney Poitier.
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The return of Faraz Ali
by Aamina Ahmad
When his powerful father installs him as head of the Mohalia police station, charging him with covering up the violent death of a child prostitute, Faraz, for the first time in his career, defies orders as he chases down the truth in Lahore's notorious red-light district.
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Love Marriage
by Monica Ali
In training to be a doctor, and engaged to upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother is a famous feminist, 26-year-old Yasmin Ghorami, as the wedding quickly approaches, finds her relationship upended by misunderstandings, infidelities, long-buried-secrets
and the truth about her parents supposed "love marriage."
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Atomic Anna
by Rachel Barenbaum
During the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, a renowned nuclear
scientist is thrust through time to 1992 where her estranged
daughter uses her dying breath to ask her mother to go back
through time and prevent the disaster.
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Homesickness : stories
by Colin Barrett
When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins was published, it swept
up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality
and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now,in a blistering
follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and darkly
funny style.
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The Caretakers
by Amanda Bestor-siegal
In 2015 Paris, a young au pair is arrested after the sudden death
of her young charge and finds herself caught in the middle of
turbulent dynamics of her host family's household, in this novel
told from six women's point of view, all of whom know the truth.
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Heartbroke: stories
by Chelsea Bieker
A collection of short stories set in California from the author of
Godshot include the tales of a woman stealing a baby from a
shelter, a phone-sex operator who meets a lavender-eyed cowboy,
and teenagers playing a dangerous online game.
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Dream town
by David Baldacci
World War II veteran and private investigator Aloysius Archer
becomes enmeshed in a lethal, extended web of murder and
deceit in 1953 Los Angeles in the third novel of the series following
A Gambling Man.
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The Atlas Six
by Olivie Blake
Chosen to compete for five spots within The Alexandrian Society,
the protectors and benefactors of the world’s greatest source of knowledge, six powerful, young magicians must decide how much
they are willing to sacrifice to win one of the coveted spots.
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Flint and mirror
by John Crowley
Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, has pledged love and fealty to
Elizabeth the Great, has his loyalty split when the ancient peoples
of Ireland rise to win back their lands and their way of life.
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The candy house: a novel
by Jennifer Egan
Told through lives of multiple characters, this electrifying, deeply
moving novel, spanning 10 years, follows "Own Your Unconscious,"
a new technology that allows access to every memory you've ever
had, and to share every memory in exchange for success to the memories of others.
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Telephone : a novel
by Percival Everett
Geologist/paleobiologist Zach Wells receives a mysterious note
in a jacket he ordered off eBay, prompting him to set off from
Colorado to Mexico on a rescue mission. By the author of Erasure.
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The Spanish love deception : a novel
by Elena Armas
Catalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiraled out of control. Enter Aaron Blackford--her tall, handsome, condescending colleague--who surprisingly offers to step in. She'd rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option.
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Woman on Fire
by Lisa Barr
Tasked with locating a painting called Women on Fire stolen by the
Nazis more than 75 years earlier, rising young journalist Jules Roth
teams up with the artist’s grandson to find it before a cunning
gallerist, who gets everything she wants, does.
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Hook, Line, and Sinker
by Tessa Bailey
In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man.
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When we were birds : a novel
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
In Trinidad, Yejide, who has the power to guide the city’s souls
into the afterlife, and Darwin, a grave digger going against his
mother’s wishes never to interact with the dead, meet at an
ancient cemetery where fate beckons them both.
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How strange a season
by Megan Mayhew Bergman
A collection of short stories that feature women dealing with
problematic inheritances, including a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an
abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston.
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Glory
by Noviolet Bulawayo
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist
We Need New Names comes a novel that chronicles the fall
of an oppressive regime, and the chaotic, kinetic potential for
real liberation that rises in its wake.
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Beautiful little fools : a novel
by Jillian Cantor
After the events of The Great Gatsby, West Egg police officers
discover a diamond hair pin near the millionaire’s pool putting three women under suspicion for the murder of Jay Gatsby and mechanic George Wilson.
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Disorientation
by Elaine Hsieh Chou
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites
eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus.
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The match
by Harlan Coben
When a DNA match on an online ancestry database leads him
to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after
an epic fall from grace, WIlde must figure out if his cousin is linked
to a cunning conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
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Groundskeeping
by Lee Cole
An aspiring writer, Owen, moves in with his Trump-supporting uncle
and grandfather in Kentucky where he takes a job as a groundskeeper where he falls for Alma, a liberal, Bosnian immigrant in the days
leading up to the 2016 election.
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The night shift
by Alex Finlay
When four teenage girls are attacked at an ice cream shop in
Linden, New Jersey, and only one makes it out alive, which is
similar to a case in 1999, an FBI agent must delve into the secrets
of both crime, which stirs up memories of teen love and lies.
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Booth : a novel
by Karen Joy Fowler
Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters
that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean
actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out.
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Lease on love : a novel
by Falon Ballard
When, after one drink too many, she mixes up a dating app with
a roommate-finding app, Sadie ends up renting a room in Jack
Thomas’s brownstone where she, while pursuing her floristry side
hustle, realizes she has found a home with this man who is her polar opposite.
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When I'm gone, look for me in the East
by Quan Barry
Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama across windswept Mongolia, young monk Chulun and his estranged identical twin, Mun, who can hear each other’s thoughts, traverse through this land,
making a journey where faith, love and brotherhood haunts them.
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City of incurable women
by Maud Casey
These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and
re-imagined, poignantly restore the humanity to the 19th century
female psychiatric patients confined in Paris's Salpêtrière hospital
and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist
Jean-Martin Charcot and his male students.
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The family Chao : a novel
by Lan Samantha Chang
When Big Leo, the owner of Fine Chao restaurant is found dead—presumed murdered—his three sons are reunited and fall under suspicion of the town and police, and must reckon with the legacy
of their father’s outsized appetites and own future survival.
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Life without children : stories
by Roddy Doyle
The Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,
through 10 short stories, paints a portrait of our strange times
and how living under lockdown changes each of us in different
ways.
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A history of wild places : a novel
by Shea Ernshaw
An expert at locating missing people is asked to find the vanished,
well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books and is led to Pastoral, a reclusive community found in the 1970s that many
believed to only be a legend.
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The Paris apartment : a novel
by Lucy Foley
Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he
has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life,
realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape
her past, it’s his future hanging in the balance.
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Violeta : a novel
by Isabel Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American
homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most
important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a
letter to someone she loves above all others.
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Brown girls : a novel
by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Four friends, all young women of color, reconcile their immigrant backgrounds that require them to be obedient, dutiful daughters,
with the freedoms of American culture while growing up in a
vibrant community in Queens, New York.
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Her hidden genius : a novel
by Marie Benedict
Tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists
to map the structure of DNA.
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Good rich people
by Eliza Jane Brazier
A wealthy couple who invite successful entrepreneurs to live in
their guesthouse and then conspire to ruin their life for sport meet
their match when Demi, a woman who took over another person’s identity, moves in.
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The last house on the street
by Diane Chamberlain
Recently widowed, architect Kayla Carter moves into her new home
in Round Hill where she is faced with threatening notes and a
neighbor who is harboring long-buried secrets about the dark
history of the land on which her house was built.
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The school for good mothers : a novel
by Jessamine Chan
After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet,
Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will
determine if she is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution
that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion.
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Light Years from Home
by Mike Chen
When their brother who has been missing for years, suddenly
returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their
differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army
who are in fast pursuit.
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Devil house
by John Darnielle
A novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling. Devil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet,
a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines
daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime,
writing, memory, and artistic obsession.
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Small world : a novel
by Jonathan Evison
In this epic historical novel set in multiple time periods,
present-day travelers on a train and their ancestors more than
a century before are brought together by the history they share
against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush and the development of the Continental Railroad.
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Greenwich Park
by Katherine Faulkner
Helen innocently befriends Rachel at a prenatal class despite the woman’s unbecoming behavior and has no idea her new friend has ulterior motives and is on a vindictive mission to ruin the lives of her extended family.
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A man of honor
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill faces an uncertain future in rural County Kerry and heads to England in search or a
better life, in the prequel to the New York Times best-selling
A Woman of Substance.
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A Tryst of Fate
by Piers Anthony
A tween alien cuttlefish and her demon boyfriend must complete one more mission to ensure their future happiness, but are stymied when
his human host is murdered the night before their wedding in an alternate timeline.
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Mercy
by David Baldacci
As the long search for her twin sister, Mercy, reaches its conclusion,
FBI agent Atlee Pine, when the truth is finally revealed, will face the greatest danger yet, one that could cost her everything.
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Someone perfect : A Friend of the
Westcotts Novel
by Mary Balogh
When she accompanies her friend Maria to Everleigh Park, where
Maria must stay with her half-brother, whom she loathes, Lady
Estelle Lamarr, as family secrets unravel around her, must stay
away from this dark, dour man who believes she is his perfect match.
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The last shadow
by Orson Scott Card
As three sapient species live peacefully together on one planet,
the children of Ender and Bean must solve the great problem of
the deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions.
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The Postmistress of Paris
by Meg Waite Clayton
As German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, an
American heiress joins the resistance and becomes known as
the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in
hiding and uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and
deliver them to safety.
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Truth of the divine : a novel
by Lindsay Ellis
Caught up in the madness near the alien crash site, reporter
Kaveh Mazandarani sees more than he is meant to and forms a
special bond with Cora that neither of them could have predicted, launching them into an interstellar battle that will decide the fate
of humankind.
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The sentence : a novel
by Louise Erdrich
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents
an unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in
Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020
by the store’s most annoying customer.
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Never
by Ken Follett
Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear
campaigns, Pauline Green, the country’s first women president,
is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful
counties that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those
with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
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Over my dead body : a novel
by Jeffrey Archer
At the heart of three murder investigations—one in London involving
a cold case, one in Geneva involving a millionaire art collector and one
in New York involving a wealthy dynasty, Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick must catch the killers before it’s too late.
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The republic of false truths
by 'Alā' Aswānī
In 2011 Cairo, as tensions are rising in the city, the lives of
several individuals collide — a new generation who finds a voice
and love across class divides as the revolution gains strength.
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Inseparable :
a never-before-published novel
by Simone de Beauvoir
An unpublished novel from the author of the feminist classic
The Second Sex describes the intense friendship of Sylvie and
Andrée, who meet at a Parisian day school and explore life
together in post-World War I France.
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Better off dead
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher doesn't back down and doesn't hesitate to teach
someone a lesson when a shadowy crew picks a fight with the
former US Army military police major in the latest novel of the
series following The Sentinel.
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Nice girls : a novel
by Catherine Dang
Returning home after being kicked out of college, Mary becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a rising social media star—
and her former best friend. As hatred consumes her, she discovers
a link to another missing person opens up old wounds.
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Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space,
from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover
resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by
the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
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Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
As Christmas 1971 approaches, the Hildebrand family of New
Prospect, Illinois deals increasing points of crisis including a stale marriage, the draft and their son's sexual orientation in the first
novel in a new trilogy from the author of Purity.
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Fierce little thing
by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Five estranged friends receive threatening letters demanding their
return to a former cult or the terrible thing they did as teenagers
will be revealed, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Bittersweet.
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Late city : a novel
by Robert Olen Butler
A 115-year-old man lies on his deathbed as the 2016 election results arrive, and revisits his life in a story of love, fatherhood, and the American century, from a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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An impossible promise
by Jude Deveraux
Although they were lovers in the past, Liam O’Conner and Cora
McLeod are just roommates in the present as they try to follow the angels’ commands, in the second novel of the series following An Impossible Promise.
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Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space,
from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover
resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by
the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes
by Joshua Ferris
With help from his storyteller son, Charlie Barnes, a lifelong
schemer and eternal romantic who would like out of his present circumstances, is granted a second act and, at last, through an
act of selflessness and love, becomes the man his son always
knew he could be.
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