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New Adult Fiction - Authors A - F
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The cemetery of untold stories : a novel
by Julia Alvarez
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life. However, they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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A calamity of souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life. Set against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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The familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. This plunges her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur. A place in which she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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The garden : a novel
by Clare Beams
In 1948, pregnant Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages, stays with a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. While there, she discovers a long-forgotten garden, a place imbued with its own powers. She makes a desperate bid to harness the garden's power despite the consequences.
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers : a novel
by Samuel Burr
20-something Clayton Summer, was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists. The esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away. She has bestows her final puzzle on him. He embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.
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Rough trade
by Katrina Marie Carrasco
When two murders are linked to the opium trade, Alma Rosales scrambles to keep lawmen away from her operation. However, she becomes distracted by the appearance her first love, Bess Spencer, while deciding how far she'll go to protect her business when there could be a spy in her inner circle.
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Clear : a novel
by Carys Davies
An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
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I cheerfully refuse : a novel
by Leif Enger
In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior. He is seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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The hunter
by Tana French
Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from Chicago PD, has moved to Ireland. He has built a relationship with Lena and is gradually turning teenager Trey Reddy into a good kid. One day, however, Trey's long-absent father reappears with an English millionaire and a get-rich-quick scheme. Trey wants revenge.
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The limits
by Nell Freudenberger
Sent to New York to stay with her father, an overworked surgeon, and his new wife, 15-year-old Pia, rebels against her stepmother when COVID sends them into near total isolation. She finds her life colliding with 16-year-old Athyna, who's caring for a toddler full time, as they spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
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2054 : a novel
by Elliot Ackerman
Set 20 years after the events of the New York Times best-selling 2034 the fate of American democracy is threatened by tech visionary in the Amazon rainforest who uses a breakthrough in AI to assassinate the president.
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Fangirl down : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Once golf's fastest rising star, Wells Whitaker's career craters before his eyes, despite the ongoing support of a beautiful redhead who always cheers him on from the sidelines, who he eventually invites to be his new caddy.
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American spirits
by Russell Banks
Three interlocking tales about the locals in a rural New York town, including two criminals who kidnap an elderly couple to blackmail their grandson, and a man who is hounded on social media after selling his property to a stranger.
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The divorcees
by Rowan Beaird
A novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch" explores the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future.
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The atlas complex
by Olivie Blake
Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
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The princess of Las Vegas : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator lives in the Buckingham Palace Casino with her own musical cabaret. She finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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Victim : a novel
by Andrew Boryga
After college graduation, hustler from a family of hustlers, Javi Perez writes a viral essay embellishing his life story. This lands him a gig at a legendary magazine. However, when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
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Tell
by Jonathan Buckley
A novel of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide.
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The hearing test : a novel
by Eliza Barry Callahan
Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year. it is a year filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters. All the while she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Good half gone
by Tarryn Fisher
After witnessing her twin sister get kidnapped years prior, Iris Walsh decides to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane where she believes the perpetrator is being held and discovers something even more sinister going on.
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat. Meanwhile, Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, take s refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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The Atlas Maneuver
by Steve Berry
Retired Justice Department operative. Cotton Malone unwittingly becomes caught in a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA. A war that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust and a legendary treasure worth billions. Malone must stop cryptocurrency from being weaponized to attack the world's financial systems.
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Mercury
by Amy Jo Burns
Arriving in Mercury, Pennsylvania, in 1990, gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner Marley West marries one of the Joseph brothers. She tries to lead this family of roofers to stability in this hardworking, blue-collar town by helping them escape their unwieldy father's shadow.
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Here in Avalon
by Tara Isabella Burton
Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances.
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The Turtle House : a novel
by Amanda Churchill
It is 1999 in Texas. When her grandmother Mineko moves in with Lia Cope they connect with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry. When Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Nobody's angel
by Jack Clark
With two serial killers stalking the streets—one targeting prostitutes and one targeting cabbies, Chicago hack Eddie Miles takes the violence personally, especially when he witness one of the killers in action.
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Redwood court : fiction
by DâeLana R. A. Dameron
Mika Tabor, the baby of the family, learns important lessons from the people who raise her. Her hardworking parents, her older sister, her retired grandparents and the community on Redwood Court are committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.
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The bezzle
by Cory Doctorow
Martin Hench is a self-employed forensic accountant. He stumbles upon the ultra-wealthy's newest mark—California's Department of Corrections. Martin discovers that they will stop at nothing to extract money from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy.
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How to dance : a novel
by Jason B. Dutton
Nick Freeman works hard as the star of the weekly karaoke night at his bar, hoping his singing talent...will distract from his cerebral palsy. When Hayley Burke notices Nick's reaction to her dancing, she urges him to acknowledge his passion and try a few moves himself. Nick tries to fight his attraction to Hayley, believing she deserves a dance partner who can really move.
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The trouble with you : a novel
by Ellen Feldman
Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II, when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant.
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The Wharton plot : a novel
by Mariah Fredericks
In 1911 New York City, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, becomes obsessed with solving the crime. Especially since his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
An alcoholic, addict and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Good material : a novel
by Dolly Alderton
After a bad breakup, Andy desperately tries solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship with Jen in order to win her back, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Everything I Know About Love.
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Interesting facts about space
by Emily R. Austin
A woman obsessed with space and true crime podcasts begins a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of their absent father and begins to become increasingly paranoid that someone is following her.
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Always remember
by Mary Balogh
The suspicious gossip about the bastard son of the Earl of Stratton, who embarks on a friendship with Lady Jennifer. Lady Jennifer has been left unable to walk by a childhood illness, in the third novel of the series following Remember Me.
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Beautyland
by Marie-Helene Bertino
A woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth and was born with knowledge of a faraway planet is encouraged by a friend to share what she knows, in the new novel from the author of Parakeet.
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The waters : a novel
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, 11-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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Ilium
by Lea Carpenter
A young woman unwittingly finds herself plunged into the world of international espionage when she becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special operation coordinated by the CIA and Mossad.
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The storm we made : a novel
by Vanessa Chan
It is 1945 in Malaya. When her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II. She finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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Argylle
by Elly Conway
A CIA spymaster, Frances Coffey, must prevent a Russian magnate from restoring his nation to greatness and setting in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the edge of war and chaos.
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First lie wins : a novel
by Ashley Elston
A woman with many faces and identities, Evie Porter, covertly moves from job to job for her unknown employer. That is until her latest mark, Ryan Summer gets under her skin and makes her envision a different sort of life.
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You dreamed of empires
by Alvaro Enrigue
Enrigue brings to life Tenochtitlan at its height and reimagines its destiny. The author of Sudden Death takes us back to 1519 where conquistador Hernan Cortes meets emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages and two possible futures.
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Emily Wilde's map of the Otherlands: a novel
by Heather Fawcett
A professor and expert in faerie folklore sets out to map the realms of their world. Emily is still not ready to accept a marriage proposal from Wendell Bambleby, in the second novel of the series following Emily Wild's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
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Family family : a novel
by Laurie Frankel
An actress who makes a film about adoption starts a media storm after admitting to a journalist that it's a bad movie and that she gave up a baby for adoption during her senior year.
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The ex-mas holidays
by Zoe Allison
Maya runs into Sam, the boy who broke her heart, at a holiday party, where he's serving drinks naked. Maya is now working alongside him at his daytime job as a ski instructor in the Scottish Highlands, where she discovers that being stuck together is melting both their icy hearts.
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A December to remember : a novel
by Jenny Bayliss
Unexpectedly reunited at the reading of their eccentric father's will, estranged half-sisters Maggie, Simone and Star discover they must compete in a series of wacky challenges to access their inheritance. This results in hilarious goose chases, community chaos and one heart-warming winter solstice celebration.
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The wonder of it all
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Returning from The Great War a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental, James Falconer is determined to make amends to his daughter, Leonie. She is now a grown woman who wants nothing to do with him. He feels he must work toward healing his body, soul and family.
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The serpent & the wings of night : a Crowns of Nyaxia novel
by Carissa Broadbent
The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya, to become something more than prey, enters a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself and, to survive, forms an alliance with a mysterious rival to whom she is oddly drawn.
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Welcome home, stranger : a novel
by Kate Christensen
Summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death, environmental journalist Rachel, who has shunned her family for years, must come to terms with her past. She must face the sorrow she has long buried and the ghost of the mother who made her the woman she is.
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Manner of death : a novel
by Robin Cook
A pathology resident ends up on NYC chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery table days after he helped with a suicide autopsy. She discovers his death is a staged homicide. Now she launches her own investigation. This leads her to a fraudulent but highly lucrative cancer diagnostics company—and possibly her own death.
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The gentleman's gambit
by Evie Dunmore
Living for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage, deeply introverted Catriona finds herself distracted by her father's handsome young colleague. Unbeknownst to her, he is on a mission to take Oxford's ancient artefacts back to his homeland in the Middle East.
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The other mothers : a novel
by Katherine Faulkner
Tash is searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She is welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, and discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of. The two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world.
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The future : a novel
by Naomi Alderman
Martha Einkorn works for a powerful social media mogul hell- bent on controlling everything. Lai Zhen is an internet-famous survivalist. When their paths unexpectedly cross, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization.
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A fire in the flesh
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Sera is being held captive by the false King of the Gods. With the Ascension upon her, she is out of time. Meanwhile, Nyktos, who will do anything to protect the woman he loves, risks the utter destruction of the realms as he desperately tries not to Ascend as the Primal of Life.
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Secretly yours : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Professor Julian Vos returns home to his family's winery, on sabbatical from his ivy league job. He finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.
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Wreck the halls : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Melody steps out of her comfort zone with her former best friend to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve. She, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal that threatens to wreck everything; the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
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Bookshops & bonedust
by Travis Baldree
Injured while hunting for a notorious necromancer, Rackam's Ravens mercenary Viv is forced to recuperate in Murk. Her hours are spent at a beleaguered bookshop with a foul-mouthed proprietor in the prequel to Legends & Lattes.
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Iris Kelly doesn't date
by Ashley Herring Blake
After a horrible one-night stand, Iris Kelly agrees to pose as Stevie's girlfriend, which might provide her with some much- needed romantic content for her new book. As they play the part of a happy couple and lines begin to blur, she wonders who will make the first real move.
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The new naturals : a novel
by Gabriel Bump
After losing their child, a husband and wife construct a separate society, where everyone can feel loved and wanted. However, when others hear about the place and want in, it doesn't take long for problems to develop, for conflicts to surface, and for the children to crave life beyond this place.
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The general and Julia : a novel
by Jon Clinch
Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family has financial security and he some salvation, Ulysses S. Grant, riddled with cancer, journeys back in time to the crucial moments of his life as a general and twice-elected president as he reckons with his complicated legacy.
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The good part : a novel
by Sophie Cousens
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes with a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children. As she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
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Kennedy 35
by Charles Cumming
An old friend relays shocking information about a failed mission in Senegal years earlier to veteran agent Lachlan Kite. Lachlan must use all his resources to protect his former partner from a criminal network with links to international terror.
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The Corsican shadow
by Dirk Cussler
Ultimate man of action Dirk Pitt prepares to face down another challenge in the Mediterranean involving the coordination of French, Greek and Italian authorities, in the latest addition to the long-running series.
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Christmas and Other Horrors : An Anthology of Solstice Horror
by Ellen Datlow, Editor
Featuring contributions from Nadia Bulkin, Christopher Golden and Garth Nix, a Hugo Award-winning editor and horror legend assembles all-new stories of frightening festivities that celebrate the unholy, the dangerous, and the terrifying time when families and friends gather—for better and for worse.
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The watchmaker's hand
by Jeffery Deaver
While racing against time to stop a political group targeting construction sites, Rhyme and Sachs discover the Watchmaker has come to town to kill Rhyme. They must unravel a handful of plots as tightly wound as a timepiece before death and destruction rain down from above.
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The sun sets in Singapore : a novel
by Kehinde Fadipe
In Singapore, three very different women—Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned “trailing spouse” from the US—find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva who brings their worlds crashing down.
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The list : a novel
by Yomi Adegoke
A celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, Ola Olajide is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on The List. The List is an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this razor sharp exploration of the real-world impact of online life.
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Becoming the boogeyman : a novel
by Richard. Chizmar
After making a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders that shook his hometown decades earlier, Rich Chizmar is terrified when the killings begin again, in the sequel to Chasing the Boogeyman.
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Onlookers : stories
by Ann Beattie
The award-winning and beloved short story writer presents this new collection about people living in Charlottesville, Virginia. Their lives intersect in surprising ways, involving the reader in complicated questions about community, inheritance and how the present interacts with the past in a time of COVID-19 and national unrest.
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