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New Adult Fiction - Authors A - F
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Hell bent
by Leigh Bardugo
Assembling a team of dubious allies, Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to find a gateway to the underworld and rescue Darlington from purgatory, in the second novel of the series following Ninth House.
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The Mitford affair : a novel
by Marie Benedict
Diana, divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader. Her sister, Unity, follows Diana to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress. After uncovering disquieting documents, novelist Nancy Mitford, must make difficult choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany.
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Alone with you in the ether : a love story
by Olivie Blake
A doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with time travel calculations and a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy meet at the Art Institute in a new novel from the best-selling author of The Atlas Six.
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Love, Clancy : diary of a good dog
by W. Bruce Cameron
Told from the viewpoint of Clancy, a very good dog who keeps a diary, this deeply moving story follows an unforgettable cast of characters as they jointly and separately navigate the challenges of life, love and other pets, including Clancy's worst enemy.
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The shards
by Bret Easton Ellis
In 1981 Los Angeles, 17-year-old Bret and his friends at the exclusive Buckley prep school welcome new student Robert Mallory into their fold until MalloryÂ’s unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers throughout the city, takes a horrific turn.
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The faraway world : stories
by Patricia Engel
From the New York Times best-selling author of Infinite Country, this collection of 10 haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.
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Window shopping
by Tessa Bailey
Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I'm standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor.
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The light pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda, an unusual woman in a rapidly changing world, loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade by nature.
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Tom Clancy red winter
by Marc Cameron
When a possible Soviet defector offers the CIA details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum, former Marine and brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to find answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter.
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The bookshop on the corner : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
A "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village. In the village, she becomes a bookmobile driver. She rediscovers her senses of adventure and home, while searching for a happy ending of her own. By the best-selling author of Little Beach Street Baker.
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The Christmas bookshop : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
Out of a job just in time for the holidays, Carmen, with little cash and few options, is forced to move in with her "perfect" sister. She takes a job at a book store that desperately needs her help and helps her in return.
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Night shift : a novel
by Robin Cook
Laurie Montgomery's longtime friend, Dr. Sue Passero, dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage. The newly appointed chief medical examiner, Laurie asks her husband to investigate. An action which pits him against a clever and deranged killer determined to administer another lethal blow.
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Judas 62
by Charles Cumming
Master spy Lachlan Kite discovers that a mission of 30 years ago has resulted in his name being put on the JUDAS list, a record of enemies of Russia. The JUDAS list members have been targeted for assassination. Lachlan must win a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the Russian secret state to survive.
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A history of fear : a novel
by Luke Dumas
A University of Edinburgh student takes on a ghostwriting job for a mysterious stranger. He begins to suspect he is working for the devil himself in the new novel by the author of The Cabin at the End of the World.
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Astrid Parker doesn't fail
by Ashley Herring Blake
Tempers rise on a popular home improvement show when an interior designer, Astrid Parker, repeatedly bumps heads with a carpenter trying to preserve the history of her family's inn, until the tension flares into something more.
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All the broken places
by John Boyne
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age 12 and grim post-war ears in France with her mother.
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Small game : a novel
by Blair Braverman
Survivalist Mara and her four teammates are cast in a new show called Civilization. After something goes horribly wrong, they are stranded in the northern wilds and face terrifying decisions as survival becomes more than a game.
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Kiss her once for me : a novel
by Alison Cochrun
Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real. Perfect for fans of Written in the Stars and One Day in December, Kiss Her Once for Me is the queer holiday rom-com that you'll want to cozy up with next to the fire.
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Hunting time : a Colter Shaw novel
by Jeffery Deaver
A wealthy entrepreneur hires Colter Shaw to track down and protect his employee, Allison Parker, a brilliant engineer, who is on the run from her ex-husband with her teenage daughter, in the fourth novel of the series following The Never Game.
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A Christmas memory
by Richard Paul Evans
Reeling from the loss of his brother in Vietnam, Richard moves with his family from California to his grandmother's abandoned house in Utah, where he finds the holiday spirit with the help of an elderly neighbor and his dog.
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Dr. No : a novel
by Percival Everett
With the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist, a professor of mathematics, who claims to be an expert at nothing, partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing.
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The Lindbergh nanny : a novel
by Mariah Fredericks
In 1932 New Jersey, Lindbergh nanny Betty Gow, after toddler Charles Lindbergh Jr. is kidnapped, becomes a suspect in the eyes of both the media and public, and must find the truth in order to clear her name and find justice for the child she loves.
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Jackal : a novel
by Erin E. Adams
A Black woman returning to her Rust Belt hometown for a wedding uncovers a sinister pattern of black girls going missing from the area. Then her friend's daughter disappears from the reception, leaving behind only a bloody piece of fabric.
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Long shadows
by David Baldacci
The latest edge-of-your-seat thriller in the #1New York Times best-selling series.
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The singularities
by John Banville
Released from prison, a man with a borrowed name arrives at the estate of his youth where he must vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family, who are descendants of a world-famous scientist. At the same time he must answer a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request.
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The atlas paradox
by Olivie Blake
This is the electrifying sequel to the viral sensation, The Atlas Six. The members of a secret society, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way. Each must each pick a side; preserve the world or destroy it.
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Ghost Town
by Kevin Chen
Fleeing the oppression of his village in Berlin to find acceptance as a gay man, Chen Tien-Hong, the only son of a traditional Taiwanese family, returns home after 10 years and a prison sentence to find his family gone.
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No plan B : a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child
Witnessing a woman pushed to her death in front of a bus, Jack Reacher, following the killer on foot, is unaware that this is part of a secret conspiracy with many moving parts with no room for error and any threats will be permanently removed, including Reacher.
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The furies : two Charlie Parker novels
by John Connolly
When murder and mayhem arrive in Portland, Maine, Charlie Parker is faced with two connected crimes involving the enigmatic sisters Strange, new clients who are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined as the city shuts down in the face of a global pandemic.
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Before I do
by Sophie Cousens
On the eve of her wedding, Audrey begins questioning whether or not Josh really is the one, especially after his sister shows up at the rehearsal dinner with one of Audrey's exes and everything that could go wrong.
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The maze : a John Corey novel
by Nelson DeMille
Former NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey is called out of retirement by his former lover to investigate a serial killer targeting prostitutes. As he digs deeper into the killings, which have garnered national attention, he discovers that there are sinister forces at work that don't want this case solved.
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Thief of fate
by Jude Deveraux
After changing the course of history when he stole Cora McLeod from her destined soulmate, Finley Walsh, in 1844, Liam O'Conner, desperately trying to make amends, has three months to restore the balance by reuniting Cora and Finn or pay the ultimate price.
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The favor
by Nicci French
When she agrees to pick up an ex-boyfriend at the train station, Jude is shocked when the police show up instead of him. Realizing she knows nothing about the man he is, Jude becomes entangled in his life as she tries to uncover the truth.
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Next in line
by Jeffrey Archer
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, William Warwick and Ross Hogan return in an explosive adventure that will take them to the very heart of power.
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Shrines of gaiety : a novel
by Kate Atkinson
In London after the Great War, Nellie Carter, the notorious and ruthless queen of a dazzling, seductive and corrupt new world in the clubs of Soho, finds her success breeding enemies as she faces threats from without and within, revealing the dark underbelly beneath Soho's gaiety.
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Elizabeth Finch : a novel
by Julian Barnes
After taking a class, Culture and Civilization, with the commanding, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch, Neil develops an obsessive, intellectual crush on her in this novel of platonic, unrequited love by the Booker award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.
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The Deceptions
by Jill Bialosky
Seeking answers to the paradoxes of love, desire and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a narrator, as secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, is forced to choose between reality and myth to free herself.
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I Walk Between the Raindrops : Stories
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The best-selling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In presents a collection of new short stories filled with biting satire, resonant wit and boundless, irrepressible imagination.
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The house in the orchard
by Elizabeth Brooks
In 1945, war widow Peggy, inheriting Orchard House from her husband's Aunt Maude, arrives to find a rambling property shrouded by dark mysteries, and finding Maude's teenage diary, searches for answers in these pages that reveal corrupted innocence and a violent tragedy bringing the past to the present.
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The house party : a novel
by Rita Cameron
When the good kids trash her newly built home just weeks before she moves in, Maja Jensen finds her marriage put to the ultimate test as the repercussions from what should've been the party of the year divides the town over questions of privilege and responsibility.
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How not to drown in a glass of water
by Angie Cruz
Forced back into the job market after losing her factory gig during the Great Recession, 50-something Cara Romero narrates the story of her life to her career counselor and confronts her darkest secrets and regrets.
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Lizzie Blake's best mistake : a novel
by Mazey Eddings
Lizzie's two-night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy, which leads her through a series of mishaps. Through both a totally platonic single bed sharing and an underground erotic baking scheme, Lizzie realizes even the biggest mistakes can have the most beautiful consequences.
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Daisy Darker
by Alice Feeney
A family gathering for their matriarch's 80th birthday in her crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappear to one by one, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Rock Paper Scissors.
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The housekeeper : a novel
by Joy Fielding
Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinsons, successful real estate agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audrey's condition rapidly worsens.
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All good people here : a novel
by Ashley Flowers
Twenty years after a fellow 6-year-old was abducted and murdered, Margot returns to Wakarusa, Indiana, and is shocked when another child similarly goes missing, in the debut novel from the host of the popular true crime podcast, Crime Junky.
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The means
by Amy Fusselman
Wealthy stay-at-home mom, Shelly Means, determined to have a summer home in the Hamptons, has a vision board, an architect and a plan, but when things go awry, she goes into beast mode to realize the house of her dreams.
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The hundred waters : a novel
by Lauren Acampora
When Gabriel, a young artist-environmentalist arrives in the affluent town of Nearwater, Connecticut, former model and photographer Louisa Rader, who is trying to vitalize the provincial local art center, and her preteen daughter are pulled under his spell, with consequences that disrupt the Rader's world forever.
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Overkill
by Sandra Brown
Eban, scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support gets an early release from prison. Brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterback and Rebecca's ex-husband to make an impossible decision for justice.
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Big Red : a novel starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
by Jerome Charyn
Rusty Redburn, a feisty but B-level gossip columnist from Kalamazoo is hired by a Columbia Pictures movie mogul to spy on the stars, in a novel of old Hollywood glamour that reimagines the careers of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles.
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The lies I tell : a novel
by Julie Clark
Determined to expose con artist Meg Williams, the woman who upended her life 10 years earlier, for who she really is, Kat Roberts begins to question her long-held assumptions as the two women grow close, leading her to wonder who Megs real target is.
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Welcome to the school by the sea
by Jenny Colgan
At Downey House, a charming English boarding school on the sea, new teacher Maggie is determined to make her mark, which jeopardizes her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, while new student Simone tries to fit in and fellow student Fliss tries to get out.
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Rules at the school by the sea
by Jenny Colgan
Engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Maggie Adair, a teacher at Downey House the sea in Cornwall, must stop thinking about her colleague at the boys school down the road, while her boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, must confront a scandalous secret she thought shed buried forever.
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The book eaters
by Sunyi Dean
"Part of The Family" is a secret line of people for whom books are food. Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesn't always come with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds.
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Haven : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands of birds.
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Stories from the tenants downstairs
by Sidik Fofana
This collection of short stories follows each tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each others lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
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The many daughters of Afong Moy: a novel
by Jamie Ford
The New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.
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Joan : a novel
by Katherine J. Chen
In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. This stunningly-researched novel is a sweeping narrative of her life, from a childhood steeped in both joy and violence, to her meteoric rise to fame at the head of the French army.
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Fellowship point : a novel
by Alice Elliott Dark
A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries to get the beautiful Maine coast, where her novels are set donated to a trust, but must first convince the shareholders, one of which is her best friend.
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Counterfeit : a novel
by Kirstin Chen
Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer and her former college roommate from Mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.
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It all comes down to this
by Therese Fowler
Three sisters, Beck, a freelance journalist; Claire, a pediatric cardiologist; and Sophie, an Instagram influencer come together to sell the family's summer cottage in Maine. This endeavor becomes complicated by an enigmatic ex-con with his own hidden past. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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