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New! Adult Fiction Staff Picks
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The Weaver and the Witch Queen
by Genevieve Gornichec
Bound by a blood oath to help one another always, Oddny, her sister, Signy, and their friend Gunnhild find their way back to each other and are tested in ways they could never have foreseen, in a novel of Viking Age history and myth.
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Bad, Bad Seymour Brown
by Susan Isaacs
Corie Geller and her retired NYPD detective father investigate after the only surviving victim of a cold-case arson experiences another attempt on her life in the new novel by the author of Takes One to Know One.
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The Turtle House: A Novel
by Amanda Churchill
In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and 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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We Are a Haunting: A Novel
by Tyriek White
We Are a Haunting is a debut, coming-of-age novel that mixes magical realism and the Southern Gothic and follows three generations of East New Yorkers struggling to maintain a connection to their history.
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Ours
by Phillip B. Williams
Sweeping through 1830s Arkansas to rescue enslaved people, Saint, a fearsome conjuror, creates a town magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours, but, over time, as the town becomes vulnerable to intruders, some people wonder whether the community's safety might by yet another form of bondage.
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The Berlin Letters
by Katherine Reay
Discovering a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead, CIA codebreaker Luisa Voekler learns the truth about her grandfather's work and her father's identity, and with a rudimentary plan and hope, journeys to Berlin to free her father from an East German prison.
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Cursed Bread: A Novel
by Sophie Mackintosh
Told from the perspective of the baker's wife, recounts the true story of the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit which experienced an unsolved, mass poisoning after World War II thought to be caused by spoiled bread or government testing.
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8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster: A Novel
by Mirinae Lee
Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the 'trickster'...throughout the course of these interconnected chapters she is a slave, an escape artist, a murderer, a terrorist, a spy, a lover, and a mother--a woman who must often choose the unthinkable to survive war and conquest in Korea.
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Great Expectations: A Novel
by Vinson Cunningham
A young Black man and father considers questions of history, art, race, religion and parenthood while coming to terms with his identity after accepting a job working on an Illinois senator's campaign to be the first Black president.
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