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Red dress in black and white
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Elliot Ackerman
The author of Waiting for Eden presents a timely novel set in the course of a single day in Istanbul that depicts how an American woman’s efforts to leave her influential Turkish husband become complicated by political corruption.
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The angel of the crows
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Katherine Addison
In an alternate-world 1880s London populated by supernatural and human beings, an angel triggers chaos by falling in his resolve to end the murder spree of Jack the Ripper. By the award-winning author of The Goblin Emperor.
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Our riches
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Kaouther Adimi
"Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto "by the young, for the young," discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often compared to the legendary bookseller Sylvia Beach) carried forward Les Vraies Richesses as a cultural hub of Algiers. Our Riches interweaves Charlot's story with that of another twenty-year-old, Ryad (dispatched in 2017 to empty the old shop and repaint it). Ryad's no booklover, but old Abdallah, the bookshop's self-appointed, nearly illiterate guardian, opens the young man's mind. Cutting brilliantly from Charlot to Ryad, from the 1930s to current times, from WWII to the bloody 1961 Free Algeria demonstrations in Paris, Adimi delicately packs a monumental history of intense political drama into her swift and poignant novel. But most of all, it's a hymn to the book and to the love of books"
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Privilege : a novel
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Mary Adkins
A marginalized scholarship student, a biracial member of an elite circle of scholars and coffee-house worker trying to pay her way through school find themselves on opposing sides in a politically charged sexual assault case.
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The Summer Set
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Aimee Agresti
Relegated back into obscurity by age discrimination, a former Hollywood A-list star returns to the theater where she got her start and reconnects with her director former flame before a celebrity rival threatens their summer production.
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Conventionally yours
by
Annabeth Albert
Stuck together on a cross-country road trip to the biggest fan convention of their lives, rivals Conrad and Alden find their goals to win an upcoming tournament challenged by their unexpected feelings for each other.
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Afterlife
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Julia Alvarez
Reeling from her beloved husband’s sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen.
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Hello, summer
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Mary Kay Andrews
When the dream job she has pursued all her adult life suddenly disappears, an ambitious journalist returns to her family’s small-town newspaper before witnessing a car accident that ends the life of a local war hero.
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Enter the aardvark
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Jessica Anthony
Sent a mysterious stuffed aardvark while planning his reelection campaign, a millennial Congressman unsuccessfully works to prevent the artifact from destroying his career before discovering his ties to a Victorian England taxidermist.
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Dragman : a novel
by
Steven Appleby
"August Crimp can fly, but only when he wears women's clothes. Soaring above a gorgeous, lush vista of London, he is Dragman, catching falling persons, lost souls, and the odd stranded cat. After he's rejected by the superhero establishment, where maskedmen chase endorsement deals rather than criminals, August quietly packs up his dress and cosmetics and retreats to normalcy - a wife and son who know nothing of his exploits or inclinations. When a technological innovation allows people to sell their souls, they do so in droves, turning empty, cruel, and hopeless, driven to throw themselves off planes. August is terrified of being outed, but feels compelled to bring back Dragman when Cherry, his young neighbor, begs him to save her parents. Can Dragman take down the forces behind this dreadful new black market? Can August embrace Dragman and step out of the shadows? The debut graphic novel from British cartoon phenomenon Steven Appleby, Dragman is at once a work of artistic brilliance, sly wit, and poignant humanity, a meditation on identity, morality, and desire, delivered with levity and grace"
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The Immortals of Tehran
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Ali Araghi
Learning the story of a centuries-old family curse upon his father’s death, young Ahmad struggles to protect his loved ones through decades of famine, loss and political turmoil before unexpected life changes converge at the height of the Iranian Revolution.
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Conjure women : a novel
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Afia Atakora
A midwife and conjurer of curses reflects on her life before and after the Civil War, her relationships with the families she serves and the secrets she has learned about a plantation owner’s daughter. A first novel.
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The Florios of Sicily : a novel
by
Stefania Auci
Captures the many lives of Italy’s greatest family, the Florios, from their humble origins as Sicilian shopkeepers to their dominance as titans of industry.
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A Strange Country
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Muriel Barbery
Approached by a magnetic stranger while stationed at Castillo, two Spanish army officers abandon their post to cross an invisible bridge to a hidden land of music and wonder where the fate of the world is being decided.
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Safe : a novel
by
S. K. Barnett
Miraculously returning home after escaping the kidnappers who stole her in early childhood 12 years earlier, Jenny navigates difficult questions by her parents and older brother while struggling to avoid ongoing threats to her safety.
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Don't turn around : a novel
by
Jessica Barry
Cait and Rebecca, each with secrets to protect, find their lives in danger while on a desolate road in the New Mexico dessert and must learn to trust one another in this follow up to Freefall.
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Providence
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Max Barry
A four-person crew aboard Earth’s first warship prepares to defend the planet from hostile aliens only to find their communications disrupted by a sudden and devastatingly real space battle. By the author of Jennifer Government.
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A thousand moons : a novel
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Sebastian Barry
Raised by unconventional adoptive parents on a Tennessee farm, an orphaned Lakota child pursues a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. By the award-wining author of Days Without End.
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Little family : A Novel
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Ishmael Beah
Struggling to replace the homes they have lost in their conflict-scarred homeland, five young people improvise a home together in an abandoned airplane before an irresistible opportunity tests their bond. By the best-selling author of A Long Way Gone.
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The index of self-destructive acts : a novel
by
Christopher R Beha
"The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A sports statistician, data journalist, and newly minted media celebrity who correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election, Sam's familiar with predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, things turn complicated. Sam's editor sends him to profile disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle. To most readers, Doyle is a liberal lion turned neocon Iraq war apologist, but to Sam he is above all the author of the great works of baseball lore that sparked Sam's childhood love of the game-books he now views as childish myth-making to be crushed with his empirical hammer. But Doyle proves something else in person: charming, intelligent, and more convincing than Sam could have expected. Then there is his daughter, Margo, to whom Sam becomes desperately attracted-just as his wife, Lucy, arrives from Wisconsin. The lives of these characters are entwined with those of the rest of the Doyle family-Frank's wife, Kit, whose investment bank collapsed during the financial crisis; his son, Eddie, an Army veteran just returned from his second combat tour; and Eddie's best childhood friend, hedge funder Justin Price. While the end of the world might not be arriving, Beha's characters are each headed for apocalypses of their own making"
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Stranger in the lake
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Kimberly Belle
A newly married woman questions her husband’s involvement with a woman murdered in the lake behind their home and how it connects the unsolved case that shook the town decades before. By the best-selling author of The Marriage Lie.
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The vanishing half
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Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Shorefall : a novel
by
Robert Jackson Bennett
A sequel to Foundryside finds Sancia and her allies fighting the city’s robber barons before a legendary hierophant reappears and launches a campaign to destroy Tevanne. By the award-winning author of the Divine Cities trilogy.
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Game of dog bones
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Laurien Berenson
Working as a judge at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden on a bitterly cold February day, Aunt Peg is targeted with suspicion when an ousted poodle club member is found murdered.
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Parakeet
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Marie-Helene Bertino
Visited by a bird she believes to be the spirit of her late grandmother days before her wedding, a bride receives a warning not to get married and embarks on a frantic search for her long-lost brother.
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Three hours in Paris
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Cara Black
A suspenseful historical tale based on the mystery of Hitler’s abrupt departure from newly occupied 1940 Paris follows the mission of a British intelligence markswoman who, while trying to assassinate the Führer, discovers that she has been set up.
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The red lotus : a novel
by
Chris Bohjalian
Falling in love with a wounded former patient and accompanying him on a cycling trip to Vietnam, an emergency-room doctor uncovers a bizarre series of deceptions that culminate in her boyfriend’s unexplained disappearance. By the author of Midwives.
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The split
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S. J. Bolton
"No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won't give up until he finds her. But a doctor delving into the background of Felicity and Freddie's relationship, back in Cambridge, learns that Felicity has been on the edge for a long time. Heading to South Georgia himself to try and get to her first is the only way he can think of to help her. Tense, gripping and with a twist you won't see coming, Sharon Bolton is back in an explosive new standalone thriller about a woman on the run"
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Stealing thunder
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Alina Boyden
A trans girl who is a sought-after dancer in the desert city of Bikampur catches the attention of the dragon-riding prince, but must carefully guard her true identity as the former crown prince of the Sultanate of Nizam.
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Summer longing
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Jamie Brenner
When a baby girl is abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth Cooperman, new to Provincetown, turns to her neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community as alliances are made, relationships are tested and secrets are uncovered..
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The clutter corpse
by
Simon Brett
Stumbling upon a murdered body in a cluttered flat, professional home organizer Ellen Curtis begins to doubt suspicions that are targeting the victim's escaped prisoner son before uncovering disturbing links between the crime and her own past.
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Smoke bitten
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Patricia Briggs
Centuries after the banishment of the fae allows magical creatures to run wild, a violent escaped shape-shifter is pursued by a were-coyote and her pack of protective half-humans. By the best-selling author of Storm Cursed.
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Sad Janet : a novel
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Lucie Britsch
"This dark-comedic novel is about a woman, Janet, who wears a cloak of gloomy realism, until one summer when she learns of a new pill that offers even confirmed cynics a short-term taste of happiness. Her family stages an intervention, her boyfriend leaves her, and she decides to take the pill to get through the Christmas holiday. What follows is life-changing for all concerned, in ways no one expected"
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Devolution : a firsthand account of the Rainier sasquatch massacre
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Max Brooks
A modern retelling of the Bigfoot legend is presented as a gripping journal by a woman from a high-tech Pacific Northwest community who becomes cut off from civilization by a volcanic eruption before witnessing the flight of starving humanoid beings.
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The Essence of Perfection
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Nita Brooks
When pop superstar Nicola King enlists an elite and sought-after fragrance maker to design her a new scent, a list of very personal information is accidentally put on social media, resulting in some surprising results.
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Pretty things : a novel
by
Janelle Brown
To save her mother, a con artist who hustled to give her a decent childhood, Nina must run her most audacious, dangerous scam yet that involves a privileged young heiress as they both try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play.
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Furmidable foes
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Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her pet sleuths investigate hidden enemies in their effort to expose a scam involving an upmarket organic grocery store that is selling substandard produce. By the author of the "Sister" Jane series. Illustrations.
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You let me in
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Camilla Bruce
After notorious recluse and eccentric best-selling author Cassandra Tipp disappears, and his assumed dead, she leaves behind her massive fortune and one final manuscript, which plunges the town into her deepest, darkest secrets.
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Starling days
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Moving his mentally ill classicist wife from New York to London in the aftermath of a harrowing setback, Oscar finds the limits of their bond tested by his wife’s complicated new friendship. By the author of Harmless Like You.
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Tranquility Falls
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T. Davis Bunn
Embracing a sober and responsible life after a devastating accident, a former financial analyst and news anchor becomes the unexpected guardian of his emotionally withdrawn teenage niece at the same time he bonds with a fragile single mother.
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Shiner
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Amy Jo Burns
Growing up in a cloistered mountain cabin cut off from everyone in the outside world except her mother's best friend, a fanatical snake handler's daughter risks everything to defy her father and pursue a different future.
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The finders
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Jeffrey B. Burton
After losing his beloved springer spaniel, Mace Reid, who specializes in human remains detection, adopts a new cadaver dog trainee, a rescue dog named Vira with a mysterious past, who helps him find a serial killer.
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Stone cross
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Marc Cameron
Investigating a series of death threats against a federal judge in a rural Alaskan community, Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter and his partner, Lola Teariki, find the case complicated by suspicious local disappearances and deaths.
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Sin Eater
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Megan Campisi
Sentenced to become a Sin Eater for the crime of stealing bread, a 14-year-old orphan in 16th-century England becomes ensnared in a deadly royal plot that helps her discover the power of her subjugated position.
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The grim reader
by
Kate Carlisle
When Dharma’s first annual Book Fair is marred by murder — one predicted by both of their moms — book-restoration expert Brooklyn and her new husband Derek must catch a spineless killer.
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Savage son : a thriller
by
Jack Carr
While a woman flees for her life in Siberia and a traitorous CIA officer goes into hiding within the Russian mafia, James Reece slowly recovers from brain surgery, unaware that he has been targeted by dangerous adversaries.
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Black Sun Rising
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Mathew Carr
When a famous scientist is killed in bombing attack in 1909 Barcelona, private detective Harry Lawton teams up with a young anarchist and a crime reporter to investigate a series of deaths linked to a blood-drinking animal.
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Sunrise on Half Moon Bay
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Robyn Carr
A contemporary woman navigates her journey from a devoted parental caregiver to a person capable of embracing her own joy in the face of hardship. By the best-selling author of the Virgin River series.
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Star wars, the rise of Skywalker
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Rae Carson
Written with Lucasfilm guidance and additional scenes, an epic conclusion to the Skywalker saga expands the story of the highly anticipated movie, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. By the award-winning author of the Gold Seer trilogy.
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If I had your face : a novel
by
Frances Cha
In Seoul, South Korea, four young women make their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies and K-pop fan mania. A first novel.
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Seven years of darkness
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Yu-jŏng Chŏng
After a young girl is found dead in a reservoir in a remote South Korean village, her father and two security guards discover that each have something to hide as they try to uncover what happened.
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The empire of gold
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S. A. Chakraborty
In the final installment in the critically acclaimed trilogy, Nahri and Ali are determined to save both their city and their loved ones, but when Ali seeks support in his mother’s homeland, he makes a discovery that threatens not only his relationship with Nahri, but his very faith.
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Days of distraction : a novel
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Alexandra Chang
A marginalized Silicon Valley staff writer moves with her boyfriend to a quiet upstate New York town where she confronts the challenges of their interracial relationship and the questions it raises about her heritage. A first novel.
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The library of legends : a novel
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Janie Chang
Set in 1937 China, as Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University, entrusted with a priceless treasure, must navigate a world of danger, betrayal and love to keep a 500-year-old collection of myths and legends safe.
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Fifty-two stories : 1883-1898
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck! These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by aremarkable range of characters who came from all parts of Russia, all walks of life, and who, taken together, democratized the short story. Included here are a number never-before-translated stories, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Here is a collection that promises profound delight"
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Cho Nam-Joo
A U.S. release of a feminist best-seller from Korea follows the experiences of a millennial from Seoul who suddenly manifests the bizarre symptom of being able to flawlessly impersonate and then become any woman, alive or dead.
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Mimi Lee gets a clue
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Jennifer J. Chow
Owner of a pet grooming business, Mimi Lee, after the local breeder she exposed for mistreating Chihuahuas is murdered, must clear her name with the help of her talking cat, Marshmallow, who is the only one who can get her out of this mess.
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The second home
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Christina Clancy
Inheriting their family’s Cape Cod summer home years after long-term estrangement, two sisters are reunited by a man with a legitimate claim to the property who would set the record straight. A first novel.
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The Indigo Ghosts
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Alys Clare
In 1604, when his old naval captain asks him to investigate his crew’s mass hallucinations of mysterious blue-skinned ghosts, former ship’s surgeon-turned-country physician Gabriel Taverner uncovers a terrifying tale of treachery, dark magic, unimaginable cruelty and murder.
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The last flight : a novel
by
Julie Clark
Working for months on a plan to escape her secretly violent husband, Claire impulsively swaps airline tickets with a stranger also on the run before a fateful accident compels her to assume the other’s identity.
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Final judgment
by
Marcia Clark
After falling for an ambitious entrepreneur, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman is challenged to prove her lover innocent of murder when his alibi and past are thrown into question
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The death of Jesus : A Novel
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J. M. Coetzee
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Childhood of Jesus finds a curious David organizing a soccer team under a local orphanage director who succumbs to a mysterious illness. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace.
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The vows we break
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Briana Cole
After a disastrous, failed marriage, Kimera Davis attempts to pick up the pieces of her life and despite her scandalized family is considering giving her ex another chance and in this sequel to The Wives We Play.
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The wives we play
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Briana Cole
A woman who exclusively only dates married men, because she likes that there are no strings attached, begins to have stronger feelings about a man she's seeing and must explore her expectations about love, lust and monogamy.
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500 miles from you : a novel
by
Jenny Colgan
A London nurse suffering PTSD is transferred to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, switching places with an Army veteran who feels like a fish out of water in the city, uniting the pair in an email friendship.
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Where have all the boys gone? : a novel
by
Jenny Colgan
A woman facing dim prospects finding love in London, where there are 25,000 more women than men moves to the Scottish Highlands only to find more challenges in a town filled with men.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend : a novel
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Jenny Colgan
After her father decides she should make her own way, a pampered London socialite must learn to live among the common folk. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop on the Corner.
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A deadly inside scoop
by
Abby Collette
A recent MBA grad’s efforts to relaunch her family’s traditional ice-cream shop are complicated by the untimely murder of a con artist whose notorious rivalry with her family places her father under suspicion.
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Do no harm
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Max Allan Collins
"In Do No Harm, Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case-a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient narrative to settle scores and push political agendas? Nathan's old friend Elliot Ness calls in a favor and as Nathan digs into the case he becomes convinced of Sheppard's innocence. But Nate can't prove it and has to let the case drop. The road to justice is sometimes a long one. Heller's given another chance yearslater and this time he's determined to free the man...even if it brings his own death a bit closer"
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Fair warning
by
Michael Connelly
When a woman with whom he shared a one-night stand is found brutally murdered, veteran reporter Jack McEvoy tracks a serial killer who has been operating under the radar. By the best-selling author of The Poet.
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How to bury your brother
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Lindsey Rogers Cook
Discovering an undisclosed autopsy report and letters written by her late runaway brother, Alice visits her brother’s closest friends, lovers and enemies to uncover dark family secrets. A first novel.
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Wrath of Poseidon
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Clive Cussler
A latest entry in the best-selling series that includes, The Oracle, continues the high-risk exploits of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. Co-written by the co-author of the Dirk Pitt Adventures
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Holding out for Christmas
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Janet Dailey
A demure kindergarten teacher with dreams of Nashville stardom makes a difficult choice when she reunites with a smitten and wildly attractive rancher during an annual western-themed Christmas ball that launches a holiday season of romance and promise.
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Master class
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Christina Dalcher
Transferring from an elite post to the state boarding school where her daughter has been placed, a teacher is horrified to discover that the students are secretly being put to work as child laborers and subjected to involuntary lab experiments.
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I'd give anything : a novel
by
Marisa De los Santos
Losing her firefighter father in a school tragedy, Ginny hides what she knows about the incident for decades before a scandal involving her husband threatens to destroy everything. By the best-selling author of Love Walked In.
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Are snakes necessary?
by
Brian De Palma
From the director of Scarface and Dressed to Kill comes a female revenge story. When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should’ve known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator’s fixer. He’s already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman—how hard could this new one turn out to be?
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The goodbye man
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Jeffery Deaver
A sequel to The Never Game finds Colter Shaw investigating a mysterious organization in Washington State that is either a therapeutic healing colony or a dangerous cult under the sway of a charismatic leader
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A week at the shore
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Barbara Delinsky
Returning to her family's Rhode Island beach home after a 20-year estrangement, a real estate photographer navigates painful family secrets that test her bonds with her sisters, while her 13-year-old daughter pursues desperately wanted family ties.
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The lost diary of Venice : a novel
by
Margaux DeRoux
Navigating her attraction to a married customer who has brought her a 16th- century treatise, a book restorer uncovers the story of a forbidden romance between a courtesan and a Renaissance artist who is losing his sight. A first novel.
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The marriage game
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Sara Desai
Set up by traditional-minded parents who would arrange her marriage, a first-generation Indian-American immigrant is chaperoned on dates by a successful family friend who has reservations about how his sister’s arranged marriage turned out.
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The living days
by
Ananda Devi
"This disquieting novel of post-9/11 London is a dissection of racism, aging, and the perturbing nature of desire" -- Provided by publisher
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The business of lovers : A Novel
by
Eric Jerome Dickey
While a father struggles to reconnect with his estranged son and spiteful ex, his bodyguard brother is invited by three women escorts to consider a job as a male prostitute. By the NAACP Image Award-winning author of A Wanted Woman.
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Things you would know if you grew up around here : a novel
by
Nancy Wayson Dinan
Returning from a family wedding to find her friend missing during the 2015 Memorial Day floods in Texas, 18-year-old Boyd joins a neighbor in a search that is complicated by the opening of a dangerous back-roads fissure
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One last lie
by
Paul Doiron
When his beloved mentor disappears amid the discovery of an antique badge, Mike Bowditch investigates the presumed death of an undercover warden before the cold case is upended by dangerous secrets and a daughter’s return.
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The Sweeney sisters : a novel
by
Lian Dolan
When Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney find out they have a sister they never new they had, it throws their father's literary legacy, and their own lives, into upheaval.
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Exciting times : a novel
by
Naoise Dolan
Millennial Irish expat Ava becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer. A first novel.
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Vagablonde : a novel
by
Anna Dorn
To further her music career, Prue Van Teesen quits her job, goes off her meds and joins a collective of musicians and artists who share her aesthetic sensibilities and lust for escapism where she finds herself torn between creativity and success.
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Love
by
Roddy Doyle
Attending his father’s deathbed in hospice, a man reconnects with a drinking buddy from his Dublin youth while reflecting on a long-ago love, his wife’s role in upending his life and the truth about his departure from Ireland.
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A mosaic of wings
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Kimberly Duffy
"In 1885, determined to uphold her father's legacy, Nora Shipley joins an entomology research expedition to India. In this spellbinding new land, Nora is torn between saving a young Indian girl and saving her career, and between what she's always thoughtshe wanted and the man she's come to love"
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Schrödinger's dog
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Martin Dumont
When his beloved son, who is his whole world, takes ill, single father Yanis, faced with the reality of his son’s numbered days, struggles to invent a life his son won’t have time to live.
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Race the sands : a novel
by
Sarah Beth Durst
A pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster-racing champions.
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You Can Go Home Now
by
Michael Elias
Queens cop Nina Karim is on the hunt for a killer while battling violent secrets of her own. By the author of The Last Conquistador.
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The voyage of the Morning Light : a novel
by
Marina Endicott
"From a critically acclaimed and beloved storyteller comes a sweeping novel set aboard the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912. Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world. At the heart of The Voyage of the Morning Light is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions-which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her-about what is forgivable and what is right. Inspired by a true story, Marina Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay's examination of the idea of "difference"-between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Voyage of the Morning Light is a breathtaking novel by a writer who has an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own"
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Crush the king
by
Jennifer Estep
After surviving another assassination attempt, a fierce gladiator queen plots an attack during a popular sporting event, but instead faces an unexpected magical threat. By a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author.
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Telephone
by
Percival L. 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 Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season
by
Molly Fader
Three generations of women who come together at the family orchard to face secrets from the past and learn to believe in the power of hope and forgiveness.
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The poison flood
by
Jordan Farmer
Ghostwriting songs from an isolated rural church, the hunchbacked son of a West Virginia hill preacher is discovered by a fan who embroils him in a case involving a local chemical spill and an untimely murder.
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The spinster diaries : a novel
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Gina Fattore
"Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she's a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel. A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit-as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It's an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person's life can reach out across the centuries to touch another's"
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Daughter of the Reich : a novel
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Louise Fein
Questioning her dutiful support of her Nazi father in the wake of her growing attraction to a longtime Jewish friend, Hetty embarks on a secret affair that is challenged by rising anti-Semitism. A first novel.
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Like flies from afar : a novel
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Enrique Ferrari
Mr. Luis Machi, an unforgettably loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society, has a body in his trunk and must solve the mystery of who committed the murder.
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On a coastal breeze
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Suzanne Woods Fisher
"Everything happens for a reason, Maddie Grayson believes. But her motto gets sorely tested when the new minister parachutes into town and offers her a chance to change what happens next"--Provided by publisher
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The murder of twelve
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Jessica Fletcher
Jessica Fletcher tackles an Agatha Christie-style mystery when a sudden blizzard traps her in a hotel with hostile strangers who are barely tolerating each other during the nuptials of a bride and groom from rival families.
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Lake like a mirror
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Ho Sok Fong
"A scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control, this portrait of Malaysian society in nine stories covers themes of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures, and a theocratic government that affects their lives in disturbing ways"
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Sorry for your trouble : stories
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Richard Ford
A new short-story collection by the award-winning author of Independence Day includes the novella, "The Run of Yourself," in which a New Orleans lawyer tackles the challenges of living beyond his Irish wife's death.
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They Did Bad Things
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Lauren A. Forry
Twenty years after college, five friends are trapped inside a crumbling, secluded mansion on the Scottish isle of Doon; and must fight each other—and the unknown mastermind behind their gathering—as they confront the role they played in their former housemate’s death. By the author of Abigale Hall. 10,000 first printng.
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Summer Darlings
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Brooke Lea Foster
In the summer of 1962 on Martha’s Vineyard, a college student is forced to reckon with the dark underbelly of privilege when she becomes the nanny for a mysterious, wealthy family. A first novel.
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The Somerset girls
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Lori Foster
As Autumn and Ember work hand-in-hand to save the animal rescue property their grandparents created, they’ll see that family can be a blessing and a curse. By the New York Times best-selling author of Worth the Wait.
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Book of the little axe : a novel
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Lauren Francis-Sharma
Quietly but purposefully rebelling against the life others expect of her in late-18th-century Trinidad, Rosa loses her family's farm when her homeland transitions to British rule, before her half-Crow son finds his coming-of-age challenged by decades-old secrets.
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Pizza girl : a novel
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Jean Kyoung Frazier
Delivering pizzas in suburban Los Angeles, a pregnant teen mourning the death of her father becomes obsessed with a middle-aged stay-at-home mom who comes to depend on weekly pizza deliveries for her son’s happiness. A first novel.
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Death of an American Beauty : A Mystery
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Mariah Fredericks
In 1913, while on a break from her duties as a lady’s maid in Gilded Age New York, Jane Prescott is drawn into a murder investigation after a woman’s body is found outside of a refuge for women run by her uncle .
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Sea wife
by
Amity Gaige
From the acclaimed author of Schroder comes a novel about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives.
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Empire City : a novel
by
Matt Gallagher
Awaiting orders in an imperial America at the height of a world-changing foreign war, a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians navigates violent protests, watchdog groups and radical terrorists while a controversial general rises to power.
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After she wrote him
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Sulari Gentill
"Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward, her novel's main character, came from. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind. She will be the perfect heroine for his next book. But who isthe author and who is the creation? And as the lines start to blur, who is affected when a killer finally takes flesh? CROSSING THE LINES is a wildly inventive twist on the murder mystery filled with passion, obsession, and the emptiness left behind whenthe real world starts to fall away"
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Lakewood : a novel
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Megan Giddings
Forced to drop out of school to help support her family, Lena takes a lucrative job as a secret laboratory subject before devastating side effects make her question how much she can sacrifice. A first novel.
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The lies that bind : a novel
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Emily Giffin
Forging an unlikely connection with a stranger at a bar who warns her against resuming a dysfunctional relationship, an aspiring reporter investigates when the man goes missing on September 11, 2001. By the best-selling author of Something Borrowed.
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Death in fancy dress
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Anthony Gilbert
"The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mastermind 'The Spider,' find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey, where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing. In the chaos of celebration, Sir Ralph Feltham is discovered dead and Tony, a bewildered yet curious guest, sets out to make sense of the night's activities as well as the motives of the other benevolent-appearing partygoers. This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the frivolities of the English upper classes with the impact of the First World War"
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Shakedown : a novel
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Newt Gingrich
A sequel to Collusion finds former FBI counterintelligence agent Valerie Mayberry and ex-SEAL Brett Garrett navigating a tense alliance with Iran to uncover a threat while operating outside of official channels to pursue an elusive killer.
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Old Lovegood girls : a novel
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Gail Godwin
"From the bestselling, award-winning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between them that spans decades. When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron Hood with MerryJellicoe as roommates in 1958, she has no way of knowing the far-reaching consequences of the match. Feron, who has narrowly escaped from a dark past, instantly takes to Merry and her composed personality. Surrounded by the traditions and four-story Doric columns of Lovegood, the girls--and their friendship--begin to thrive. But underneath their fierce friendship is a stronger, stranger bond, one comprised of secrets, rivalry, and influence--with neither of them able to predict that Merry is about to lose everything she grew up taking for granted, and that their time together will be cut short. Ten years later, Feron and Merry haven't spoken since college. Life has led them into vastly different worlds. But, as Feron says, once someone is inside your "reference aura," she stays there forever. And when each woman finds herself in need of the other's essence, that spark--that remarkable affinity, unbroken by time--between them is reignited, and their lives begin to shift as a result. Luminous and literary,Old Lovegood Girls is the story of a powerful friendship between talented writers, two college friends who have formed a bond that takes them through decades of a fast-changing world, finding and losing and finding again the one friendship that defines them"
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Into darkness
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Terry Goodkind
A latest novella-length entry in the highly anticipated series set after the events of the Sword of Truth novels continues the story of Richard and Kahlan’s children. By the best-selling author of The Scribbly Man.
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The first actress : a novel of Sarah Bernhardt
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C. W. Gortner
A historical tale inspired by the life of French actress Sarah Bernhardt traces the rise of a courtesan's daughter whose rebellious style and refusal to give up her child lead her to become the most acclaimed performer of her time.
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Perfect tunes : a novel
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Emily Gould
A talented songwriter resists her daughter’s painful questions about the musician father who died before she was born and is forced to confront heartbreak when her daughter embarks on a search for her father’s family.
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The shape of family : a novel
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda
A headstrong college student from a once-ambitious family navigates an unspeakable tragedy before her search for identity leads her down a dark path that is complicated by her parents’ secrets. By the best-selling author of Secret Daughter.
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The final deception
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Heather Graham
In a series finale, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan navigates unnerving ties to an escaped killer in the wake of an outbreak of violent murders that FBI agent Craig Frasier believes may be the work of a copycat.
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The trustworthy one
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Shelley Shepard Gray
"New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray returns to the charming and evocative Walnut Creek Series with an unforgettable novel following one broken young woman whose search for peace leads her back to her hometown, where she rediscovers her faith and reconnects with those she loves most"
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The silent treatment : a novel
by
Abbie Greaves
After Maggie intentionally overdoses on sleeping pills and ends up in a coma, her estranged husband, Frank, must figure out how to explain why he had withdrawn from the world and stopped speaking to her—before he loses her forever. A first novel.
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Night train murder
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Simon R. Green
While escorting a VIP, the new head of the British Psychic Weapons Division, on the late-night train to Bath, Ishmael Jones and his partner, Penny, have just 56 minutes to solve a seemingly impossible crime before the train reaches its destination.
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Camino winds
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John Grisham
The best-selling author of Fair Warning presents a follow-up to Camino Island that finds novelist Mercer Mann’s continued efforts to find literary inspiration in the idyllic region complicated by mysterious intrigues.
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This is how I lied
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Heather Gudenkauf
A pregnant detective investigates a new piece of evidence before uncovering dangerous secrets from the cold-case murder of her best friend 25 years earlier. By the best-selling author of The Weight of Silence.
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Party of two
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Jasmine Guillory
Going against her better judgement, LA lawyer Olivia Monroe secretly starts dating a hotshot junior senator until their romance is made public and her life falls under intense media scrutiny, jeopardizing everything.
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Suncatcher : a novel
by
Romesh Gunesekera
Set in post-independence Sri Lanka, a coming-of-age novel follows young Kairo as he discovers a world of privilege through his new friend, Jay, a budding naturalist and a born rebel, and embarks on a journey of devastating consequences.
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Crash
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David Hagberg
When a small group of international business tycoons threaten to obliterate the world economy, only SEC computer expert Cindy David can stop them and teams up with a former Navy SEAL turned FBI employee to unravel the plot and save the economy from becoming the Second Great Depression
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The Lost Orphan
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Stacey Halls
In 1754 London, six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim her daughter, only to find that she has already been picked up by someone else. By a best-selling author.
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You and me and us : a novel
by
Alison Hammer
Spending a final summer at the beach together when her husband is diagnosed with terminal cancer, workaholic Alexis puts her career on hold while their daughter struggles through the bittersweet realities of first love. A first novel.
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The resolutions : a novel
by
Brady Hammes
Three accomplished, globetrotting siblings in crisis take refuge in the last place they would ever expect—back home in Chicago, with one another. A first novel.
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Happy & you know it
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Laura Hankin
Accepting a job as a playgroup musician for Park Avenue infants after her band rises to stardom without her, Claire is drawn into the glamorous world of wealthy clients who hide secrets and betrayals beneath competitive social-media stardom.
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Vagabond
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Hao Jingfang
Sent to Earth a century after the Martian war of independence, a group of young delegates becomes caught between two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with the realities of a violent Earth.
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Where the Lost Wander
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Amy Harmon
Set on Overland Trail in 1853, a young widow sets off with her family for a life out West – a journey fraught with hardship, fear, death and terrible sacrifice that leads her into the arms of a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds.
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Deep in the Alaskan woods
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Karen Harper
Relocating to Lost Lake, Alaska, to escape her toxic past, a traumatized woman unexpectedly bonds with a wilderness survival tracker whose devoted protection heals her shattered heart. By the award-winning author of Dark Angel.
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Who speaks for the damned
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C. S Harris
Drawn into the investigation of a disowned nobleman’s death amid the disappearance of a mysterious young boy, Sebastian St. Cyr pieces together clues about the boy’s identity and the victim’s high-risk decision to return home.
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A shadow intelligence
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Oliver Harris
When his fellow operative and paramour goes missing in Kazakhstan, MI6 agent Elliot Kane is drawn into a maelstrom of private agencies, state deception and conflicting agendas in a region torn by corruption and political strife.
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American demon
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Kim Harrison
When the magical acts her friends and she committed to save the world inadvertently unleash a zombie epidemic, witch-demon Rachel Mariana Morgan considers a wrenching sacrifice in the wake of baffling murders and the arrival of a new demon.
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The return
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Rachel Harrison
When their friend returns ill and haggard from a two-year absence with no memory of what happened, a circle of women, trapped inside a hotel by bad weather, become targeted by malevolent otherworldly phenomena. A first novel.
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The earl takes a fancy
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Lorraine Heath
Despite being born out of wedlock, Fancy Trewlove, to fulfill her mother’s wish, is determined to marry into nobility until she meets an intriguing commoner who begins visiting her bookshop—and who nearly leads to her ruin with one passionate kiss.
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Love, death & rare books
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Robert Hellenga
Risking everything to keep the family bookstore in business, Gabe Johnson restarts his life in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan where he is faced with an even more difficult challenge that threatens his business as well as the fate of a rekindled romance.
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The Southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
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Grady Hendrix
When her hectic but predictable life is upended by a vicious attack by an elderly local, Patricia unexpectedly bonds with a well-read neighbor who her senile mother-in-law claims to have known herself when she was a girl.
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Looking glass : the chronicles of Alice novellas
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Christina Henry
Elizabeth’s secret ability to do magic is compromised while Alice and Hatcher stumble through a blinding snowstorm and find respite in a house that only seems empty and abandoned in the third novel of the series following Red Queen.
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Beach read
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Emily Henry
An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles.
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St. Ivo
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Joanna Hershon
Over the course of a weekend, two couples reckon with the long-hidden secrets that have shaped their families, in a novel of motherhood and friendship.
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Take a hint, Dani Brown : a novel
by
Talia Hibbert
A young woman who agrees to fake-date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.
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Always the last to know
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Kristan Higgins
When John Frost has a stroke, his family, including his two daughters – perfect Julie and free-spirited Sadie, and his wife of 50 years, are forced to confront the truth about their lives, in this new novel of about what family really means.
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28 summers : a novel
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Elin Hilderbrand
The best-selling author of Summer of ‘69 presents a tale inspired by the film, Same Time Next Year, that follows a man’s discovery of his mother’s long-term relationship with the husband of a Presidential frontrunner.
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The benefit of hindsight
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Susan Hill
Recuperating after losing his arm in a violent incident, DCS Serrailler finds his efforts to pursue more rehabilitative work complicated by a breaking-and-entering case that tests the limits of his skills and stability.
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Last Tang standing
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Lauren Ho
Reluctantly dating a man who has the approval of her traditional family, a successful lawyer on the brink of partnership is unwittingly drawn to an office rival who is anything but respectable. A first novel.
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Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel
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Ruth Hogan
After being sent to boarding school by her widowed mother, Tilly loses contact with the chosen family of misfits who lived with her in Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel, but when she returns to the hotel as an adult she discovers that her mother might not have been the cruel person that she thought she knew
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You deserve each other
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Sarah Hogle
Bored silly by her too-good-to-be-true fiancé, Naomi learns that her groom has also been feigning happiness, a discovery that triggers a battle of pranks, sabotage and emotional warfare that throws their wedding into chaos. A first novel.
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Daughters of smoke and fire : a novel
by
Ava Homa
A young Kurdish woman, Leila, desperately investigates the disappearance of her younger brother, Chia, who was involved in increasingly risky social and political activism in Tehran in an unquenchable desire for justice to honor their father’s past torture and imprisonment.
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Hidden Salem
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Kay Hooper
Investigating three disappearances amid a rise in local occult activities, Salem FBI Special Crimes Unit Grayson Sheridan searches for his missing partner, while a woman who has been enduring unexplained nightmares risks her life to rescue a stranger.
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Expectation
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Anna Hope
In a novel set in and around London, three college friends, now in their 30s, must come to terms with the gap between the lives they imagined for themselves and reality in the face of marriage, fertility struggles and loss.
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Miss Austen
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Gill Hornby
""A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." -Karen Joy Fowler For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane. Whoever looked atan elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister's reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, family of her long-dead fiancé, in search of a trove of Jane's letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid,Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister's legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra's vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane's brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane's life. With extraordinaryempathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen heroine"
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After sundown : a novel
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Linda Howard
Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude, but if anyone can chip away at her protective shell, it’s the handsome, mysterious, ex-military man who’s been hiding for two years in the wilds of Cove Mountain.
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Boys of Alabama
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Genevieve Hudson
Thriving in his new Alabama home, a sensitive German teen pursues a relationship with a pangender classmate before the realities of the postwar South challenge their perspectives on identity. A first novel by the author of Pretend We Live Here.
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The Down Days
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Ilze Hugo
After a deadly outbreak, a quarantined African city is losing its mind, with residents experiencing hallucinations and paranoia, and a fulltime corpse collector and a freelance “truthologist” named Faith must make sense of it all. A first novel.
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The Paladin
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David Ignatius
Set up to take the fall for an illegal covert ops mission targeting a hostile cyber intelligence organization, operations officer Michael Dunne emerges from a year in prison determined to bring justice to the CIA insiders who destroyed his life.
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Real men knit
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K. M. Jackson
Determined to keep his late adoptive mother’s Harlem knitting shop open, one of four brothers accepts the help of a craft-savvy businesswoman who is hiding her secret crush on him. A first novel.
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Safe house
by
Jo Jakeman
After serving prison time for providing a false alibi for her ex, Charlie Miller moves to a seaside village looking for a fresh start, but can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her.
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Say yes to the duke
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Eloisa James
Relieved by the attention of a quiet vicar at her debut ball, the plain and shy Viola Astley unexpectedly finds her reputation compromised by the Duke of Wynter who will stop at nothing to win her heart.
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The woman in the mirror
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Rebecca James
Investigating her birth family upon inheriting a centuries-old English manor, an adopted art gallery curator uncovers the story of a mid-20th-century governess who was cruelly treated by the curator’s unknown ancestors.
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Credible threat
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Judith A. Jance
Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises try to save an archbishop from a would-be killer who has been sending sinister death threats. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Joanna Brady series.
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Swimming in the dark : a novel
by
Tomasz Jedrowski
In early 1980s Poland during the violent decline of communism, two young men fall in love but eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide.
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A bond undone
by
Yong Jin
In a sequel to A Hero Born, Guo Jing must find the ancient scrolls that grant the ultimate kung fu magic. An international best-seller. Illustrations.
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The persuasion
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Iris Johansen
Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn’s artistic daughter, Jane, teams up with former flame Seth Caleb and confronts their complicated dynamic while trying to escape a brilliant psychopath. By the best-selling author of the Kendra Michaels series. Read by Elisabeth Rodgers.
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The shotgun wedding
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William W. Johnstone
Cyrus Keegan, owner of a matrimonial agency, continues delivering brides in the western territories despite the risks posed by banditos and terrain, in the second novel of the series following Have Brides, Will Travel.
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A Bad Day for Sunshine
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Darynda Jones
Challenged to prove herself when her New Mexico community becomes the center of a nationwide manhunt, police chief Sunshine Vicram is seduced by an alluring FBI agent and a sultry U.S. Marshal who test her feelings for a childhood crush.
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The fortress
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S. A. Jones
When his wife discovers his infidelities, a corner-office attorney and lothario is forced to atone for his indiscretions by staying for a year as a celibate supplicant in the woman-ruled city-state of The Fortress.
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The last human : a novel
by
Zack Jordan
Hiding her feared human identity while living among hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station, a lone survivor struggles to understand why humans were destroyed, before a bounty hunter reveals harrowing truths.
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No Going Back
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Sheena Kamal
Determined to protect her daughter from a powerful triad enforcer, Nora Watts forms an unlikely partnership with an eccentric playboy billionaire and a private investigator to uncover a shadowy criminal cabal in southeast Asia.
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Above us the Milky Way : an illuminated alphabet
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Fowzia Karimi
"A debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything and everyone beloved and familiar. Old family photographs and the author's own lush watercolor paintings inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories, stories of the war dead, and fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration and immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love and wonder amidst destruction and loss, and how to create beauty out of horror"
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Breasts and Eggs
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Mieko Kawakami
Painting a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan, a Japanese writer tells the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppression and their own uncertainties as they search for peace and a future they can finally call their own.
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Seven lies
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Elizabeth Kay
Lying to her best friend about liking her wealthy, priggish husband, Jane discovers that one lie leads to another—and to murder — in a thriller about the toxic friendships between women, obsession and the things we do for love.
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Marguerite
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Marina Kemp
A young live-in nurse forges an unlikely connection with her once-powerful elderly charge before the influential people of their village begin targeting the relationship with gossip and a scheme to get the nurse fired. A first novel.
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The book of longings : A Novel
by
Sue Monk Kidd
A first-century intellectual fights the limitations imposed on women before an encounter with an 18-year-old Jesus leads to their marriage, his dangerous public ministry and her flight to safety in Alexandria. By the author of The Invention of Wings.
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Rakes and roses
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Josi S Kilpack
After his uncle refuses to pay off his gambling debts, notorious rake Harry Stillman seeks out a loan from the infamous Lord Damion, who is actually a woman in the latest addition to the series following Daises and Devotion.
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If it bleeds : new fiction
by
Stephen King
The award-winning literary master presents a collection of four novella-length tales, complementing the title piece with the stories, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck and Rat.
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Someone like you : a novel
by
Karen Kingsbury
Shattered by the discovery that she is not the biological daughter of her parents, Maddie abruptly ends an engagement and moves away before connecting with the grieving friend of a sister and family she never knew existed.
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Hex
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Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
An expelled biology PhD candidate researches the fine line between poisons and antidotes at the side of her adored mentor before their respective dysfunctional relationships, desires and ambitions trigger ripple effects throughout a university campus.
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Supporting trans people in libraries
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Stephen G. Krueger
"Designed to provide practical information to library workers of all types, this book offers specific strategies for supporting trans people in their libraries"
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Sex and vanity : a novel
by
Kevin Kwan
When George, the man with whom she had brief fling several years earlier, unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, newly engaged Lucie Churchill is drawn to him again and spins a web of deceit in an attempt to block him from her life – and her heart.
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Grown-up pose
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Sonya Lalli
Forced by cultural expectations to marry young, an Indian-American woman upsets her tight-knit community by getting divorced and investing all of her savings in a career path against her parents’ wishes. By the author of The Matchmaker’s List.
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Broken people : a novel
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Sam Lansky
A novel about coming to grips with the past and ourselves follows recovering alcoholic Sam as he, with his sponsor’s blessing, partakes in healing ceremony involving an ancient herbal medicine administered by a shaman over the course of three days.
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The woman of a thousand names : a novel
by
Alexandra Lapierre
From the internationally best-selling author of Between Love and Honor comes a tale based on the true story of the Mata Hari of Russia, featuring a beautiful aristocrat fighting for survival during the deadly Russian Revolution.
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The honey-don't list
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Christina Lauren
Accompanying a reality-show couple on a book-signing tour, a country girl who desperately needs her job and an MIT engineer fall for each other behind the scenes while struggling to keep their employers’ rocky marriage intact.
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Code name Hélène : a novel
by
Ariel Lawhon
A novel based on the life of spy Nancy Wake follows a woman who kills a Nazi and becomes one of the most decorated women in World War II. By the New York Times best-selling author of I Was Anastasia.
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Second chance boutique : a novel
by
Louisa Leaman
The owner of a wedding dress shop finds a gorgeous 1950s couture gown and becomes entangled with the original owner’s son who is working hard to keep hidden the dark history of the garment.
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Eden
by
Tim Lebbon
From the bestselling author of The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller! In large areas of the planet, nature is no longer humanity’s friend…The Virgin Zones were established to help combat the effects of global warming. Extreme sports enthusiasts target these dangerous zones for illicit races. When one such team enters the oldest Zone, Eden, they find nature has returned to Eden in a primeval way. And here, nature is no longer humanity’s friend.
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Bubblegum : a novel
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Adam Levin
In an alternate present-day word in which the Internet doesn’t exist, one of the first owners of a popular interactive “flesh and bone” robot called Curio grapples with the outside world as he attempts to write his memoir.
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Glorious boy : a novel
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Aimee Liu
"It's 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old, Ty. They cannot, however, take Naila, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. The morning of the evacuation, both children disappear. With time running out, Shep forces Claire onto the ship while he stays behind to find their son. But just days after landing in Calcutta, Claire learns that the Japanese have taken the Andamans-and cut off all access to her missing family. In the desperate odyssey that follows, Claire, Shep, and Naila will all take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved "glorious boy.""
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Serenade for Nadia : a novel
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Zülfü Livaneli
Based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, this heartbreaking Turkish novel follows a single mother who is tasked by her employer to look after an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city who reveals the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul 60 years before.
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The Ghost Machine
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James Lovegrove
When Mal and the crew of the Firefly are hired to transport a sealed create to Badger, they all find themselves paralyzed by hallucinations of their deepest hopes and desires that cannot be distinguished from reality, causing the ship to spin wildly out of control.
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The Roxy letters : a novel
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Mary Pauline Lowry
Writing a series of letters to the hapless ex living in her spare bedroom, a chronically broke artist with a heart of gold teams up with two close friends to save their Austin community from overdevelopment.
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Robert B. Parker's Grudge match
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Mike Lupica
Reluctantly taking the case of a long-time gangster associate who will forgive a betrayal in return, private investigator Sunny Randall tracks down the man’s missing girlfriend and business partner before the murder of a witness reveals unanticipated dangers.
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Tom Clancy firing point
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Mike Maden
Narrowly escaping a Barcelona suicide bombing, Jack Ryan, Jr. investigates a victim’s last words for answers before uncovering dark secrets linked to mysterious events that may have been behind the attack. By the author of the Drone series.
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A burning
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Megha Majumdar
An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack. A first novel.
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Kairos
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Ulysse Malassagne
A couple’s rustic vacation takes a turn when a strange, glowing portal bursts from their cabin’s fireplace, spewing forth armed dragon-like creatures who kidnap the woman before fleeing back through.
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Three War Stories
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David Mamet
Three novellas from the acclaimed director and playwright span across centuries and continents and include the story of a 19th century Secret Service officer who transforms himself when taken prisoner and two ex-military men who steal a plane from Israel.
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The glass hotel
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Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning author of Station Eleven presents a tale of crisis and survival in the hidden landscapes of homeless campgrounds, luxury hotels, private clubs and federal prisons, where a massive Ponzi scheme is tied to a woman’s disappearance at sea.
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Once upon a sunset
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Tif Marcelo
Mourning her grandmother’s passing and an unexpected breakup, a doctor from a prestigious Washington, D.C. hospital travels to the Philippines to reconnect with her long-lost family only to discover herself in the process. .
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Animal spirit : stories
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Francesca Marciano
The author of The Other Language presents a story collection set primarily in the exotic locales of Rome, where violent seagulls, magical snakes, an abandoned dog and other animal characters witness the unfolding of poignant human interactions.
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The beetle
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Richard Marsh
"First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, the Haunted Library Horror Classics editionof The Beetle is a tale of revenge that takes the reader on a dark journey, one that explores the crisis of late imperial England through a fantastical and horrific lens"
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The kingdom of liars : a novel
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Nick Martell
A story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom’s despised traitor holds the truth. By the author of The Kingdom of Liars. .
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The water keeper
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Charles Martin
Tending the grounds of an island church with no parishioners, retired priest Murphy Shepherd voyages down the Intracoastal waterway to scatter a friend's ashes before agreeing to help a woman whose daughter has been abducted into the world of trafficking.
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All My Mother's Lovers : A Novel
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Ilana Masad
Shattered by revelations about the recently deceased mother who never entirely accepted her sexuality, a gay woman tracks down the men in her mother’s hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.
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Death on Tuckernuck
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Francine Mathews
Investigating a double shooting on a luxury yacht that was grounded during a hurricane three days before her wedding, Nantucket Police Detective Meredith Folger struggles to untangle a case involving false identities, missing guns and a cargo of heroin.
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And their children after them
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Nicolas Mathieu
During a heatwave in eastern France in 1992, two cousins make a fateful decision to steal a canoe to check out the other side of a famous nudist beach in this coming-of-age story by the award-winning French author.
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The choice
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Gillian McAllister
Being followed on her way home at night, Joanna turns and knocks out her pursuer, setting off two different timelines, one in which she helps him, and the other in which she ignores the bleeding man and goes home.
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The talented Mr. Varg
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Alexander McCall Smith
A sequel to The Department of Sensitive Crimes finds detective Ulf Varg and his team investigating a playboy whose blackmailing case is complicated by Ulf’s brother’s questionable politics. By the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
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A good marriage : a novel
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Kimberly McCreight
Begged for help by an old friend, an overworked lawyer investigates a suspicious death in a Brooklyn brownstone before she is confronted by a close-knit circle of parents who would protect an exclusive school.
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The house of deep water
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Jeni McFarland
Forced to return to the small Michigan hometown they fled years earlier, an over-confident mother, an ambivalent daughter and a solitary black woman find themselves navigating affairs, secrets and a local scandal with ties to the past. A first novel.
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And the killer is...
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G. A. McKevett
When a nonagenarian movie star is found murdered in her derelict 1920s mansion, private investigator Savannah Reid, Dirk and the Moonlight Magnolia gang search for answers dating back to Hollywood’s golden era. By the author of the Granny Reid mysteries.
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It's not all downhill from here : a novel
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Terry McMillan
Confident that her best days are still ahead, a successful businesswoman relies on close friends and her resourcefulness when an unexpected loss turns her world upside down. By the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale.
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An elegant woman : a novel
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Martha McPhee
A meditation on memory, history, and legacy — and an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves and what we leave out — follows four generations of women in one American family.
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Strike me down : a novel
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Mindy Mejia
Hired by a feminist athletic empire to track down a fortune in stolen prize money, a forensic accountant with a secret connection to the client is pressured to investigate, only to encounter shocking and deadly truths.
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Hurricane season
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Fernanda Melchor
"The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portraitof a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bola©ło's 2666 or Faulkner's greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence-real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a worldthat becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it"
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The Last Hunt
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Deon Meyer
Investigating a cold case involving the disappearance of a former cop, Hawks police investigator Benny Griessel and his partner, Vaughn Cupido, are embroiled in the efforts of a former revolutionary who risks his anonymity to expose government corruption.
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The imperfects
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Amy Meyerson
A family’s discovery of a priceless inheritance leads them on a pursuit for the truth that transforms their lives in unexpected ways. By the best-selling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays.
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Fearless
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Fern Michaels
Falling in love with a divorced professor she meets on a singles cruise, widow Anna Campbell accepts his proposal before uncovering disturbing facts about him and his children. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Godmothers series.
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Subduction : a novel
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Kristen Millares Young
"Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and a betrayal by her sister, in the throes of a midlife freefall, Latina anthropologist Claudia retreats from Seattle to Neah Bay, a Native American whaling village on the jagged Pacific coast. Claudia yearns to lose herself to the songs of the tribe and the secrets of her guide, a spirited hoarder named Maggie. But when, spurred by his mother's failing memory, Maggie's prodigal son Peter returns seeking answers to his father's murder, Claudia discovers in him the abandon she craves. Through the passionate and violent collision of these two outsiders, Subduction portrays not only their strange allegiance after grievous losses but also their imperfect attempts to find community on the Makah Indian Reservation"
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The sight of you
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Holly Miller
"The Light We Lost meets How to Walk Away in this romantic and page-turning American debut that poses a heartbreaking question: Would you choose love, if you knew how it would end?"
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In her shadow : a novel
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Kristin Miller
A pregnant young woman becomes obsessed with the disappearance of her lover’s wife—only to discover that she may be headed for the same fate. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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A children's bible : a novel
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Lydia Millet
Contemptuous of the equally neglectful and suffocating parents who would pass the summer in a stupor of drugs and sex, one dozen eerily mature children run away as a dangerous storm descends and subjects them to apocalyptic chaos.
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Kept animals : a novel
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Kate Milliken
Bound by a tragic accident, three very different teens at a California ranch pursue respective interests before sexual tension indelibly transforms their lives. A first novel by the award-winning author of If I’d Known You Were Coming.
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The girl from Widow Hills : a novel
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Megan Miranda
Rendered famous in childhood for her miraculous survival of a dangerous storm, a young woman changes her name and struggles to hide from the media before waking up one evening to find a corpse at her feet.
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My mother's house
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Francesca Momplaisir
Moving his family to an immigrant enclave in New York in the hopes of starting over, an emotionally damaged Haitian man succumbs to dark impulses that have dangerous ripple effects for the others living in his home.
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On Ocean Boulevard
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Mary Alice Monroe
Returning to Charleston after a 16-year absence, Cara Rutledge reconnects with family members before her second wedding is abruptly halted by a devastating illness. By the best-selling author of The Summer Guests.
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Shakespeare for squirrels : a novel
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Christopher Moore
An uproarious hardboiled mystery inspired by Shakespeare's most-performed play finds The Serpent of Venice's Pocket of Dog Snogging assuming the duties of a murdered Puck to identify hidden adversaries who have complicated an arranged marriage.
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Two truths and a lie
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Meg Mitchell Moore
From the author of The Islanders comes a warm, witty and suspenseful novel filled with small-town secrets, summer romance, big time lies and spiked seltzer.
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion. By the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow.
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The tourist attraction
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Sarah Morgenthaler
After only two weeks in Moose Springs, Alaska, Zoe Caldwell falls in love with the mountains and the wilderness and possibly also the grumpy owner of a local diner called The Tourist Trap.
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The last blue
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Isla Morley
A narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky" probes questions of identity, love and family.
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The love story of Missy Carmichael
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Beth Morrey
Reevaluating her past upon finding herself alone at age 79, Missy forges unexpected ties with two strangers and their spirited dog, discovering the power of friendship, family and self-forgiveness along the way. A first novel.
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Death in her hands : A Novel
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Ottessa Moshfegh
Discovering a note and grave while walking her dog in the woods, an elderly widow becomes obsessed with learning the victim’s story before her grip on reality is shaken by what she uncovers. By the award-winning author of McGlue.
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The last summer of Ada Bloom
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Martine Murray
"In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband Mike becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, start to surface-with devastating effect. And while teenagers Tilly and Ben are about to step out into the world, nine-year-old Ada is holding onto a childhood that might soon be lost to her. When Ada discovers an abandoned well beneath a rusting windmill, she is drawn to its darkness and danger. And when she witnesses a shocking and confusing event, the well's foreboding looms large in her mind-a driving force, pushing the family to the brink of tragedy. For each family member, it's a summer of searching-in books and trees, at parties, in relationships new and old-for the answer to one of life's most difficult questions: how to grow up? The Last Summer of Ada Bloom is an honest and tender accounting of what it means to come of age as a teen, or as an adult. With a keen eye for summer's languor and danger, and a sharp ear for the wonder, doubt, and longing in each of her character's voices, Martine Murray has written a beguiling story about the fragility of family relationships, about the secrets we keep, the power they hold to shape our lives, and about the power of love to somehow hold it all together"
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The beauty of your face : a novel
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Sahar Mustafah
Enduring the harrowing minutes of a shooting attack on her school by a radicalized assailant, a school principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants experiences flashbacks about the bigotry she faced as a child and the disappearance of an older sister.
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The poet king
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Ilana C. Myer
Investigating a mysterious weapon the self-proclaimed Poet King hides deep within the palace, Rianna, secretly schemes against him to save the nation of Tamryllin, while a civil war rages in a distant land where a former Court Poet gathers allies to return to Tamryllin in time to stop the coronation.
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The last bathing beauty
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Amy Sue Nathan
When her granddaughter comes to her with a dilemma that echoes her own heartbreak, Betty “Boop” Stern, a former beauty queen whose future was once limitless, faces the secrets of her past for both herself and the sake of her family’s future.
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River
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Shira Nayman
Fourteen-year-old Emily travels back through time and across continents to encounter her maternal forebears, from the Australian outback and the rigidly segregated South Africa to the Babylon of biblical times
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More than we remember
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Christina Suzann Nelson
"After a life-altering car accident, one night changes everything for three women. As their lives intersect, they can no longer dwell in the memory of who they've been. Can they rise from the wreck of the worst moments of their lives to become who they were meant to be?"
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Beheld : a novel
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TaraShea Nesbit
The best-selling author of The Wives of Los Alamos retraces the story of the Pilgrims from the perspectives of the rebel Billington family, whose disputes with Puritan neighbors under the influence of a newcomer escalate into Plymouth’s first murder.
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Murder at the Mena House
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Erica Ruth Neubauer
Determined to avoid her meddling aunt’s matchmaking efforts during a trip to 1926 Egypt, independent American widow Jane Wunderly falls unexpectedly for a roguish banker, only to be implicated in the murder of a socialite rival.
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A tender thing
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Emily Neuberger
Running away to New York City for an open-call Broadway audition, an aspiring musical actress lands a major role in a controversial new production that tests the cultural boundaries of the late 1950s. A first novel.
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Fracture
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Andrés Neuman
An aging executive at a Japanese electronics company and atomic bomb survivor becomes unnerved after an earthquake and tsunami hits Tokyo in March 2011 and triggers the Fukushima nuclear disaster, forcing him to make the biggest decision of his life.
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The mountains sing : a novel
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Phan Quáð¿ Mai Nguyá»…n
Years after a family is forced by Vietnam’s Communist Land Reforms to abandon their farm, a granddaughter comes of age as her loved ones depart for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. A first English-language translation.
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Starborn & Godsons
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Larry Niven
"Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the necessities for life. They would survive. They would not survive as a spacefaring people. What they were losing faster than they knew was the ability to get to space. But unbeknownst to the planet-bound humans, something was moving out there in the stars, decelerating at a rate impossible for a natural object. And its destination was Avalon. The most probable origin was Earth's Solar System. This is a novel of first contact-between the human Starborn and the self-named Godsons who followed on, between the first generation of Avalon born humans and their descendants, and between humans and the almost ineffably alien species native to their new world..."
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Last couple standing : a novel
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Matthew Norman
Determined not to end up like their divorced friends, Jessica and Mitch outline careful rules for an open marriage before finding themselves in way over their heads. By the author of Domestic Violets.
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One perfect summer
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Brenda Novak
Discovering the existence of two siblings in the wake of a DNA test that was supposed to be a joke, Serenity meets her mysterious sisters before her search for answers becomes complicated by divorce and romantic politics.
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Night. Sleep. Death. The stars. : a novel
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Joyce Carol Oates
An intimate exploration of race, class warfare and healing by the award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys follows the unexpected reactions of a wife and her adult children to a powerful patriarch’s death.
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The promise
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Silvina Ocampo
"A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity"
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Shadowplay
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Joseph O'Connor
A historical novel featuring Bram Stoker is set during the golden age of West End theater in a London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper.
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Unyielding hope
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Janette Oke
A companion to the Hallmark TV series, When Hope Calls, finds Lillian Walsh reuniting with a long-lost sister whose oversized dreams challenge Lillian’s own plans. By the authors of the Return to the Canadian West series.
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Island affair
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Priscilla Oliveras
A social-media influencer in recovery from an eating disorder enlists the aid of a firefighter and dive captain to play the part of her boyfriend after her actual one is a no-show for a family vacation in Key West.
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Bakhita : a novel of the Saint of Sudan
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V©♭ronique Olmi
"Inspired by the true story of a former slave who became a saint, this poignant novel explores how a human being can survive the obliteration of her identity, and how kindness and generosity can be born out of profound trauma. She recalls little of her childhood, not even her own name. She was barely seven years old when she was snatched by slave raiders from her village in the Darfur region of southern Sudan. In a cruel twist, they gave her the name that she will carry for the rest of her life: Bakhita,"the Lucky One" in Arabic. Sold and resold along the slave trade routes, Bakhita endures years of unspeakable abuse and terror. At age thirteen, at last, her life takes a turn when the Italian consul in Khartoum purchases her. A few years later, as chaosengulfs the capital, the consul returns to Italy, taking Bakhita with him. In this new land, another long and arduous journey begins--one that leads her onto a spiritual path for which she is still revered today. With rich, evocative language, V©♭roniqueOlmi immerses the reader in Bakhita's world--her unfathomable resilience, her stubborn desire to live, and her ability to turn toward the pain of others in spite of the terrible sufferings that she too must endure"
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Quotients
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Tracy O'Neill
Jeremy, a former intelligence operative and, Alexandra, a high-powered businesswoman hope to find a quiet home together but struggle against big data, online journalists, dodgy security professionals and paranoia after her missing brother suddenly returns.
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Echo on the bay
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Masatsugu Ono
"Tells the story of a small fishing village in Japan-with the untreated wounds of the town's history in the foreground"
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The full scoop
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Jill Orr
Obsessed with uncovering the secret that led to her grandfather’s murder years before and that just took another life in Tuttle Corner, young journalist Riley Ellison struggles with how far she’s willing to go to get answers.
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Dead land
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Sara Paretsky
Dragged by her impetuous goddaughter into a legal battle over a clandestine deal that is threatening community land, V. I. Warshawski uncovers a developer scheme that ends the life of the young man her goddaughter is dating
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Love & other crimes : stories
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Sara Paretsky
A New York Times best-selling author offers a collection of thrilling crime and detective short stories, many featuring legendary detective V.I. Warshawski—including a brand-new V.I. story.
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The dilemma
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B. A. Paris
Organizing a lavish birthday party after decades of hardship, a woman hiding a secret about a daughter who cannot attend is forced to confront a devastating truth when her husband arranges a surprise.
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Execution
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S. J. Parris
When spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham decides not to interfere in a Catholic nobleman’s assassination plot that has the potential to condemn Mary Queen of Scots, heretic-turned-spy Giordano Bruno goes undercover to prevent the murder of Elizabeth I.
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A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
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H. G. Parry
An alternate-world tale of revolution and wonder follows necromancer Robespierre’s revolutionary outcry and weather mage Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave revolt before newly elected Prime Minister William Pitt considers the legalization of magic for commoners.
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The trouble with hating you
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Sajni Patel
Fleeing a dinner party when she is set up with a lawyer, a biochemical engineer is surprised to encounter the same man a week later when he arrives to help her struggling company. A first novel.
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The secrets of love story bridge
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Phaedra Patrick
A single father’s brave act of saving a woman’s life sparks an unexpected journey that helps him find a second chance at love. By the award-winning author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper.
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Hush
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James Patterson
An imprisoned ex-cop seeking justice for her brother’s murder is offered her freedom in exchange for helping the Deputy Police Commissioner who put her away rescue his missing daughter and grandchild. Co-written by the award-winning author of Kiss the Girls. Read by Kathryn Hartman.
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Revenge
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James Patterson
Investigating the suspicious suicide of a young woman whose family once employed him as a bodyguard, former SAS soldier David Shelley makes unsettling discoveries that are complicated by the victim’s father’s thirst for revenge.
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Texas outlaw
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James Patterson
Receiving unwanted attention when his country-singer girlfriend writes a hit song about his heroism, Texas Ranger Rory Yates relocates to a tiny municipality where he investigates the suspicious death of a corrupt councilwoman.
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The 20th victim
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James Patterson
Investigating three simultaneous murders in Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, SFPC sergeant Lindsay Boxer identifies an unsettling link between the victims before the killer's escalating shootings galvanize the country.
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The voter file
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David Pepper
Investigating a grad student’s claims about an impossible election result, disgraced reporter Jack Sharpe uncovers the activities of voter database hackers before finding himself questioning the country he loves and the president he admires. By the author of The Wingman.
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One fatal flaw
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Anne Perry
Teaming up with brilliant scientist Miriam fford Croft to prove the innocence of a murder suspect, lawyer Daniel Pitt rules the case an accident before his client is found dead in the same manner, bringing Miriam’s test methods into question.
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After me comes the flood : a novel
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Sarah Perry
A U.S. debut by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent follows the experiences of a bookshop owner who finds himself in a dilapidated house among strangers who all claim to know him.
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Sleepovers
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Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
"Hailed by Lauren Groff as "fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be," and written with "incantatory crispness," Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South, full of cemeteries, soybean fields, fishing holes, and Duck Thru gas stations. We meet a runaway teen, a mattress salesman, feral kittens, an elderly bachelorette wearing a horsehair locket, and a little girl named after Shania Twain. Here, time and memory circle above Phillips' characters like vultures and angels, as they navigate the only landscape they've ever known. Corn reaches for rain, deer run blindly, and no matter how hungry or hurt, some forgotten hymn is always remembered. "The literary love child of Carson McCullers and John the Baptist, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips' imagination is profoundly original and private," writes Rebecca Lee. Sleepovers marks the debut of a fearless new voice in fiction"
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Dance away with me : a novel
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Seeking refuge in a Tennessee mountain town to recover from heartbreak, a young widow and midwife bonds with an enigmatic artist, a helpless infant and a passel of curious teens in a small and suspicious community.
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Before familiar woods : a novel
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Ian Pisarcik
In the wake of the murder of three boys and the disappearance of their fathers, a woman and a war veteran uncover devastating secrets in the backwoods town of North Falls, Vermont.
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The unsuitable : a novel
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Molly Pohlig
When Victorian woman Iseult Wince, who believes her deceased mother lives in a scar in her neck, meets a man whose medical treatments have turned his neck silver, a volatile courtship ensues.
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The OK end of funny town : stories
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Mark Polanzak
"Fantastical award-winning short stories that use humor, curiosity, and new twists on familiar situations to explore the boundaries of human connection"
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The sisters Grimm : a novel
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Menna van Praag
Searching for each other after years of separation, five half-sisters, the daughters of a demon who would corrupt humanity, use their elemental powers to prepare for a gladiatorial match against their father’s soldiers.
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How the penguins saved Veronica
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Hazel Prior
Determined to find a worthy cause where she can dedicate her millions, octogenarian Veronica rediscovers love, family and connection while bonding with an unknown grandson and infiltrating a scientific team on behalf of endangered penguins in Antarctica.
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The stolen gold affair
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Bill Pronzini
While Quincannon goes undercover to investigate a string of gold thefts in a lucrative mine, his bride-to-be, Sabina, tackles an audacious real-estate scam and an abusive young man’s villainous secret. By the award-winning author of The Bughouse Affair.
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Flight risk
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Cara C. Putman
"ECPA bestseller Cara Putman returns with a fast-paced romantic suspense that is ripped from the headlines"
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Hold Your Breath, China
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Xiaolong Qiu
Chief Inspector Chen is pulled off of a serial killer case after a high-ranking member of the Communist Party asks him to infiltrate a group of environmental activists in the latest novel of the series following Becoming Inspector Chen.
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Line of Sight
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James Queally
This debut novel from an award-winning crime reporter follows a former crime reporter-turned-private investigator who, for the first time in his life, finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he comes into possession of a controversial, inflammatory video of police brutality.
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Close up
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Amanda Quick
Protecting a crime-scene photographer who has identified elusive details connecting a string of murders, reclusive investigator Nick Sundridge uses his own uncanny talents to tie the killer to 1930s Hollywood society. By the best-selling author of the Arcane Society series.
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First comes scandal
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Julia Quinn
In a prequel to the best-selling series, medical student and earl’s son Nicholas Rokesby embarks on an unorthodox courtship to convince his next-door neighbor, financially troubled Georgiana Bridgerton, to accept his proposal to a marriage of convenience.
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Only the river : a novel
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Anne Raeff
Fleeing to Nicaragua from wartime Vienna, Pepa learns to love her new jungle home and its inhabitants, including local boy Guillermo, who she tries to keep in touch with after moving to New York as Sandinista revolutionary fervor quickly spreads.
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Of literature and lattes
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Katherine Reay
"In the small town of Winsome, Illinois, two people discover the confusing, complex, and beautiful nature of friendship"
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Passage west : a novel
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Rishi Reddi
Follows a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history. A first novel.
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Ask me anything
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P. Z. Reizin
Struggling with limited prospects in the years after her father’s abandonment, Daisy uses smart devices to organize care for her aging mother, unaware that the devices are secretly working to transform her family’s happiness.
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Good citizens need not fear
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Maria Reva
A collection of nine intertwined stories that take place in the years leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union includes the tale of a recluse who sells contraband LPs and a cleft-lipped orphan who crashes a beauty pageant. Illustrations.
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Black flag
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David Ricciardi
When two American ships are captured by Somali pirates, CIA agent Jake Keller goes undercover as a rival to lure out the gang’s mastermind, an unconventional plan that is complicated by Keller’s growing feeling for a Greek shipping heiress.
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Barcelona days
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Daniel Riley
Trapped in Barcelona after a volcanic eruption, Americans Whitney and Will, a seemingly perfect couple, make new friends who test the boundaries of their relationship.
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The black swan of Paris
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Karen Robards
A celebrated singer in World War II occupied France joins the Resistance to save her estranged family from being killed in a German prison. By the award-winning author of The Fifth Doctrine.
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Beachside beginnings
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Sheila Roberts
Hair stylist Moira Wellman flees her abusive boyfriend, ending up in the beachside town of Moonlight Harbor where she helps the town women find new confidence in their looks while finding herself drawn to a handsome police officer.
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The boyfriend project
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Farrah Rochon
When a live tweet of a horrific date reveals the unscrupulous dealings of an internet catfisher, three duped women make a pact to invest in themselves for six months, prompting one to pursue a dream career.
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An Heiress to Remember
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Maya Rodale
Returning home a divorcée, scandalized heiress Beatrice Goodwin, seizing control of the family business, tries to deny her attraction to her business rival as they both duel to become the finest store in Gilded Age Manhattan.
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Little wonders : a novel
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Kate Rorick
A seemingly perfect mom becomes Internet-famous after her epic meltdown video goes viral and she is forced to team up with the posting culprit in a fight against the other moms at Little Wonders Preschool.
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Eliza starts a rumor
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Jane L. Rosen
Clinging to the community bulletin board she created 15 years earlier, a suburban housewife struggling with agoraphobia engages in fabricated gossip to keep the site more interesting before community member lives are upended by personal setbacks.
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The K team
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David Rosenfelt
"In David Rosenfelt's newest series - a spinoff of the much beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries - Andy's wife forms an investigative team with a former detective and his German shepherd partner. Andy Carpenter's wife, Laurie, was a cop, a good one. Now she helps out on Andy's cases while also raising Ricky, their son. But she's been chafing to jump back into investigating on her own, and when her former partner and his German shepherd K-9 partner come to her with a proposal, she's in. From the author of thebestselling Andy Carpenter mysteries comes a spectacular new series with a K-9 main character"
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Miss Julia knows a thing or two
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Ann B Ross
Miss Julia’s efforts to help a friend escape unemployment are complicated by her husband’s mysterious illness and the abrupt appearance of a suspicious grandchild she has never met on her doorstep. By the author of Etta Mae’s Worst Bad-Luck Day.
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Home Before Dark
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Riley Sager
Twenty-five years after her father published a wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family’s rushed exit from a haunted Victorian estate, naysayer Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations, only to make a number of disturbing discoveries.
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Masked prey
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John Sandford
When a Senator’s daughter discovers that an unknown extremist has been posting politician kid photos online beside vicious but legal ideological rants, Lucas Davenport is summoned by influential Washington leaders to prevent dangerous attacks on their children.
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The last Emperox
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John Scalzi
This thrilling conclusion to the best-selling Interdependency series follows Emperox Grayland II as she fights a desperate final battle for her crown and empire while striving to save her citizens from eternal intergalactic isolation.
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The dominant animal : stories
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Kathryn Scanlan
A visionary young literary artist presents this adventurous, unsettling debut collection in which she moves from expansive moods to unease and violence – and also from deliberate and generative ambiguity to shocking, revelatory exactitude.
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Who rescued who
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Victoria Schade
When the discovery of an abandoned puppy leads to an extended stay in England, Elizabeth Barnes, while settling an unexpected inheritance, is drawn into a tight-knit community of new friends and, along the way, makes some life choices that bring about much-needed change and a possible romance.
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Saint X
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Alexis Schaitkin
When a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with one of the men originally suspected of killing her sister, Claire, hoping to gain his trust and learn the truth, forms an unlikely attachment with this man whose life is forever marked by the same tragedy.
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The body in the garden : a Lily Adler mystery
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Katharine Schellman
Recently widowed and returning to 1815 London society, Lily Adler overhears a desperate young main attempting blackmail at a ball, only to be shot dead moments later, and vows to investigate after the magistrate is bribed to drop the case.
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The daughters of Erietown : a novel
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Connie Schultz
A first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Life Happens explores the impact of forfeited dreams, long-kept secrets and evolving gender roles on a small family throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
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This Terrible Beauty
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Katrin Schumann
After World War II, an East German woman must make a terrible choice when her older bureaucrat husband joins a dangerous, secret police force. By the best-selling author of The Forgotten Hours.
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Little eyes : A Novel
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Samanta Schweblin
A metaphorical tale depicts a complex and relatable world where connections with people from all walks of life engage in internet encounters that lead to unexpected love, transformative adventure and unimaginable terror. By the award-winning author of Fever Dream.
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Lost river
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J. Todd Scott
In a small Kentucky town devastated by the opioid epidemic, a young medic, a DEA agent and a former police chief are brought together after the murder of an entire local crime family and each have their loyalties tested.
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Ghosts of Harvard : a novel
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Francesca Scottoline Serritella
"Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life, and while her choice to walk the same path threatens tobreak her family apart, she is driven to know why Eric killed himself. As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure that comes with being at Harvard, she begins to investigate her brother's life on campus. What was it that caused Eric to spiral into an irretrievable madness--the paranoia, the delusions, the illusory enemies--after he had been doing so well? Soon, her prying turns up clues that grow increasingly sinister. And then, as her suspicions mount, Cady begins to hear voices herself: three ghoststhat walked the hallowed halls of Harvard, each from a different era of American history. That's when the panic sets in. Does she share Eric's illness, or are these voices real? And if she listens to these ghosts, will they lead to her brother--and the truth--or will they lead her down a path of her own destruction?"
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To wake the giant : a novel of Pearl Harbor
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Jeff Shaara
The best-selling author of The Frozen Hours draws on extensive research and unprecedented access to the Pearl Harbor memorial and museum archives in a high-suspense, historically accurate thriller inspired by the 1941 attack.
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The summer deal : a novel
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Jill Shalvis
Returning to her Wildstone hometown in the aftermath of a latest heartbreak, Brynn discovers that her tough but chronically ill rival, Kinsey, is actually her half-sister, before agreeing to a summertime relationship with a childhood crush.
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Private Lies
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Muna Shehadi
A compelling read of family secrets, romance, and self-discovery, perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley and Santa Montefiore.
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The heirloom garden
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Viola Shipman
Moving to Grand Haven with her traumatized veteran husband, Abby bonds with her reclusive next-door neighbor over a shared love of flowers that they cultivate together, discovering hope and healing along the way.
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The motion of the body through space : a novel
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Lionel Shriver
Deciding in the face of an ignominious early retirement to enter a triathlon, a once-sedentary narcissist embarks on an obsessive fitness regime while his surgery-debilitated wife is treated with contempt by his sexy personal trainer.
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Alpha night
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Nalini Singh
Alpha wolf Selenka doesn’t believe in mating bonds at first sight until she meets a broken Arrow, Ethan, as violence erupts at unprecedented symposium. By the author of Wolf Rain.
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Rodham : a novel
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Curtis Sittenfeld
A novel of what-might-have-been follows Hillary Rodham as she takes a different path, blazing her own trail — one that unfolds in public as well as in private — and one that crosses paths again and again with Bill Clinton.
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Ghosting : A Love Story
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Tash Skilton
Dumped by his fiancée, Miles is couch-surfing across New York City, has set up shop at a café and no longer believes in love—until chill L.A. transplant Zoey walks into his life.
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Bonds of brass
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Emily Skrutskie
A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that he’s secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.
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The book of second chances
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Katherine Slee
The shut-in granddaughter of a beloved children’s author discovers a secret diary and unique trail of clues leading through London, Paris and Verona to revelations about her grandmother’s past and a possible lost manuscript.
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Take me apart
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Sara Sligar
A young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity, in a novel of psychological suspense. A first novel.
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Man of my time
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Dalia Sofer
From the best-selling author of The Septembers of Shiraz comes the story of an Iranian man reckoning with his capacity for love and evil.
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The book of V. : a novel
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Anna Solomon
A modern family woman grappling with sexual and intellectual desires, a Watergate-era political wife confronting a life-changing choice and an independent-minded sacrifice to an ancient Persian king combine to explore enduring women's realities that have not changed for millennia.
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Apsara engine
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Bishakh Som
"In trans illustrator Bishakh Som's debut work of fiction, questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity are explored over the course of eight speculative and graphic short stories"
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Almond : a novel
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Wŏn-p'yŏng Son
A teenager born with a brain condition that makes it difficult to feel emotions has his world shattered when he loses his devoted mother and grandmother and finds himself in a surprising friendship with the school bully.
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Daddy's girls : a novel
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Danielle Steel
Inheriting a California ranch upon their single father’s sudden death, three sisters evaluate their very different childhoods while uncovering paradigm-shifting secrets about their father’s identity that strengthen their bond with each other. By the best-selling author of The Wedding Dress.
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The wedding dress : a novel
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Danielle Steel
A treasured wedding gown made in 1928 Paris is handed down through four generations of women in a family shaped by the San Francisco social scene, two world wars, the Civil Rights era and the rise of Silicon Valley.
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Exile music : A Novel
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Jennifer Steil
The daughter of respected Jewish music artists finds her culturally rich life in 1938 Vienna shattered by the Nazi invasion and a devastating secret that threatens her efforts to start over in a Bolivian Andes refugee community.
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Self care : a novel
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Leigh Stein
The CEO of a woman’s wellness start up must deal innumerable stresses, including her COO having tweeted something terrible about the president’s daughter while their top influencer, a former reality show contestant, becomes embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal.
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Remain silent
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Susie Steiner
Juggling unexpected domestic disputes to achieve a work-life balance, a middle-aged mother of two and part-time employee of the Cambridgeshire cold cases department tackles the most dangerous assignment of her career in the hanging death of a Lithuanian immigrant.
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The Glass Magician
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Caroline Stevermer
After surviving a stage magic trick that goes horribly wrong, Thalia Cutler discovers she can shapeshift and plans to make inroads with the members of New York’s high society in the early 1900s.
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Die next
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Jonathan Stone
A teenager finds himself trapped in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with a professional hit man after the man next to him at a coffee shop accidentally picked up the wrong phone.
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Problem Child : A Jane Doe Thriller
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Victoria Helen Stone
When Kayla, her deeply troubled 16-year-old niece, goes missing, Jane Doe is the only one that knows what Kayla is capable of and, drawn into her dark world, is the only one who can save her from herself.
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The Sunday potluck club
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Melissa Storm
After becoming friends in the cancer ward of an Anchorage hospital, Bridget and Amy support each other and other women who have lost loved ones through sharing Sunday dinner in the first novel of a new series.
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Misconduct of the Heart
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Cordelia Strube
A recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of a small chain restaurant, Stevie battles against corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen, while dealing with the colorful cast of characters, including her eccentric family, a blind geriatric dog and a 5-year-old who landed on her doorstep.
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Dark August : a novel
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Katie Tallo
A young woman haunted by her tragic past returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she ever could have imagined.
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The lightness : a novel
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Emily Temple
One year after her father leaves home for a meditation retreat and never returns, Olivia, yearning to make sense of his departure and to escape her overbearing mother, runs away and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. A first novel.
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Girls of summer : a novel
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Nancy Thayer
Skeptical about their mother’s Nantucket romance with a younger man, siblings Juliet and Theo navigate their own tangled relationships involving an idealistic environmentalist and a girl fighting the trauma of a school tragedy. By the best-selling author of Island Girls.
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Catherine House : a novel
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Elisabeth Thomas
A dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students and the dark truths beneath their school's promises of prestige. A first novel.
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Murder on Pleasant Avenue
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Victoria Thompson
When Gino Donatelli is wrongly implicated by the police in a brutal murder, Frank and Sarah navigate long-simmering precinct resentments to uncover the truth. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of Murder on Trinity Place.
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The knockout queen
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Rufi Thorpe
In a novel of love, violence and friendship in the California suburbs, privileged teen Bunny Lampert befriends in-the-closet rebel Michael, who lives on the other side of the tracks.
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The closer you get
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Mary Torjussen
Losing her job and moving into a rundown apartment when her lover goes missing after she leaves her husband, Ruby finds herself stalked by a malevolent stranger who threatens her life. By the author of Gone Without a Trace.
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Mum & dad
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Joanna Trollope
The efforts of three busy adult siblings to save their parents' vineyard are complicated by long-simmering resentments and differing opinions that test the strength of their bond. By the best-selling author of City of Friends
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The ancestor : a novel
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Danielle Trussoni
Inheriting a noble title, money and a castle in Italy, Alberta “Bert” Monte believes this sudden windfall is a dream come true until she arrives in Italy and unravels a dark legacy of ancestral treasures that is in her very genes.
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Flowers over the inferno
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Ilaria Tuti
"Ilaria Tuti's thriller debut explores a remote community in northern Italy--a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts. In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-sixties, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in the male-dominated Italian police force. While she's not sure she trusts the young city inspector assigned to assist her, she sees right away that this is no ordinary case: buried deep in these mountains are whispers of a dark and dangerous history, possibly tied to a group of eight-year-old children toward whom the killer seems to gravitate. As Teresa inches closer to the truth, she must also confront the possibility that her body and mind, worn down by age and illness, may fail her before the chase is over"
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The Immortal Conquistador
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Carrie Vaughn
A renegade vampire, Ricardo de Avila, who has upset the established order for over 500 years, finds his immortality long and complicated, in a book that reveals his deadly origins.
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The taste of sugar : a novel
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Marisel Vera
Relocating to the sugar plantations of Hawaii when their Caribbean farm is decimated by the Spanish-American War and the San Ciriaco Hurricane, two Puerto Ricans join thousands of fellow refugees in confronting the realities of American prosperity.
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The new girl : a novel
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Harriet Walker
Devastated when her best friend loses her baby at the same time her own is born, a new mother becomes increasingly paranoid about an ambitious young temp who she believes would steal her glamorous magazine job. A first novel.
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The shooting at Chateau Rock
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Martin Walker
When a wealthy farmer is found dead amid revelations about his disinherited family, Bruno follows leads to a Russian oligarch and a shadowy multinational conglomerate in a case involving the chief suspect’s daughter and an aging rock star.
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Lakeshire Park
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Megan Walker
Amelia Moore and Peter Wood find themselves at odds as each of them quest to have their respective unmarried sisters matched with eligible bachelor Sir Ronald when he hosts a house party, but wind up finding a match themselves.
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Now, Then, and Everywhen
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Rysa Walker
When two time-traveling CHRONOS historians cross paths during one of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century, history goes haywire and they must go up against strange forces to prevent the past from being erased forever.
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The jetsetters : a novel
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Amanda Eyre Ward
Winning the grand prize in an essay contest, a single mother reunites her estranged adult children on a 10-day cruise while confronting long-buried secrets from their dysfunctional shared past. By the best-selling author of The Same Sky.
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The sinner
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J. R. Ward
Mercenary Syn forges a passionate connection with a woman undergoing transition with no understanding of her nature, forging an unlikely alliance with Dhestroyer Butch O’Neal to stop a threat against the Omega.
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For love and country : a novel
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Candace Waters
Fleeing her wedding and her privileged lifestyle, Lottie Palmer runs away and joins the Navy WAVES program and becomes a top airplane mechanic where she impresses a handsome instructor after both are assigned to Pearl Harbor.
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To have and to hoax : a novel
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Martha Waters
After their marriage has become cold and detached, a Lady and Lord in Regency England each fake accidents and illness in an escalating game of manipulation that includes sanitariums, fake affairs and possibly a rekindled flirtation.
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I was told it would get easier
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Abbi Waxman
A freedom-seeking teen questioning her future goals and an insecure mom who would strengthen their bond embark on a college tour with a bus full of strangers only to see their carefully mapped plans devolve into off-road misadventures.
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Influence : death on the beach
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Carl Weber
When a superstar rap artist is found murdered and his Grammy-winning singing sensation wife is arrested for the crime, famed attorney Bradley Hudson and his team of lawyers navigate testimony inconsistencies and damning evidence to prove his client’s innocence.
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Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen : a novel
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Alison Weir
Traces the story of tragic fifth wife, Katheryn Howard, a teenage beauty who succumbs to the courtship of an ailing Henry VIII and tries to bear him a son while hiding a dangerous secret.
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Network Effect
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Martha Wells
When Murderbot’s human associates are captured and need its help, it must choose between inertia and drastic action, in this first, full-length standalone novel about a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction.
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The now-and-then detective
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William Wells
"Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey is living his retirement dream in Fort Myers Beach, a little town on Florida's Southwest Gulf Coast, where he owns a bar called The Drunken Parrot and resides on a houseboat named Phoenix. Jack's friend, Chicago Tribune police reporter William Stevens, writes a series of best-selling crime novels based upon Jack's career and pays Jack to edit them to make certain all the cop stuff is right. But, every now and then, life in paradise can get a bit boring, soJack agrees to help local police departments with murder investigations. When Henry Wilberforce, an 82-year-old Chicago billionaire, is murdered execution-style in his winter home in nearby Naples, Jack takes on the case. He finds that Henry had recentlybeen behaving strangely, dressing in costumes and giving away large amounts of his money randomly. Henry's wife and son are deceased. His only living relatives are a nephew, Slater Babcock, a trust-fund slacker in Santa Monica, California, and two nieces, June Dumont, who is married to a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney, and Libby Leverton, the wife of a prominent Boston real estate developer. Henry hasn't been in touch with them for many years. A prime rule of a murder investigation is to ask: Who benefits? With no other suspects in sight, Jack wonders if any one of the cousins, or all of them acting in concert, and who must assume they are their uncle's heirs, need his money badly enough to hire a hitman to stop Henry from giving away "their" money. Jack's investigation takes him to Santa Monica, Washington, and Boston, where dead-ends and false leads make The Case of the Dead Philanthropist one of the most challenging Jack Starkey has ever faced"
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Saving Ruby King
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Catherine Adel West
In the South Side of Chicago, a young woman is determined to protect her best friend and a deadly secret that threatens to undermine both of their families.
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Repo virtual
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Corey J. White
Julius Dax, online repo man and real-life thief, has been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire; but when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
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Dead on the Vine
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Elle Brooke White
Hoping to sell the unwanted family farm she has inherited, Charlotte Finn discovers a body on the property before learning that the victim may have been a relative and that one her own farmhands or neighbors may be responsible.
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Her last flight : a novel
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Beatriz Williams
Investigating the fate of a forgotten aviation pioneer, a 1947 war correspondent tracks down the pilot’s former student before learning the remarkable story of their complicated and passionate relationship. By the best-selling author of The Golden Hour.
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Reproduction
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Ian Williams
Two teenagers, one a West Indian student, the other a lazy, wealthy German, form an odd-couple relationship after their ailing mothers are assigned to the same hospital room and reconnect years later at a very inopportune time.
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The secret women : a novel
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Sheila Williams
Three new friends, women all with mothers who have recently died, find long buried secrets when they help each other sort through their mothers’ belongings. By the author of Dancing on the Edge of the Roof.
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Something to talk about
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Meryl Wilsner
When her career is threatened by a red-carpet photo that appears to have romantic undertones, a Hollywood showrunner and her female assistant are targeted by paparazzi before realizing their actual feelings for each other. A first novel.
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The book of lost friends : a novel
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Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives in this latest from the New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours.
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August
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Callan Wink
Struggling to adapt when his parents’ divorce takes him away from his father’s dairy farm, 12-year-old August flees to a Montana ranch in the wake of a violent act before uncovering dark local secrets. A first novel.
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Broken : six short novels
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Don Winslow
Drug dealers, bounty hunters, fugitives, struggling cops and lost souls rob, steal, kill, corrupt and betray their way through five intense novellas in this collection from the internationally best-selling author of The Border.
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The engineer's wife
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Tracey Enerson Wood
When her happy domestic life is turned upside-down by her husband’s work as the chief engineer on an under-construction Brooklyn Bridge, Emily Warren Roebling gradually takes over the project to advocate on behalf of worker safety. A first novel.
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The Englisch daughter : a novel
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Cindy Woodsmall
Old Order Amish wife and mother Jemima has a crises of faith when she finds out that her life savings is gone—and her husband, Roy, has a secret child with another woman. By a New York Times and Christian Booksellers Association best-selling author.
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Feels like falling : a novel
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Kristy Woodson Harvey
After losing her job, breaking up with her boyfriend and moving out with nowhere to go, Diana Harrington’s luck changes when she is offered an empty guest house by the woman who inadvertently got her fired.
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The end of October
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Lawrence Wright
Investigating dozens of mysterious deaths in an Indonesian internment camp, a World Health Organization doctor finds himself on a race to uncover the origins of a mysterious killer virus and find a cure before it decimates world populations.
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Darling rose gold
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Stephanie Wrobel
Enduring decades of serious illness as a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy before exposing her mother’s behavior, Rose Gold invites her unrepentant mother back into her life to secretly settle the score. A first novel.
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Tokyo Ueno Station
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Miri Yū
Haunting the park near Tokyo’s Uneo Station, the ghost of a man whose life eerily paralleled the Emperor’s reflects on the milestones that impacted his existence, from his homelessness and the 2011 tsunami to the 1964 and 2020 Olympics.
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The distant dead : a novel
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Heather Young
When a young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery, several members of an American small town must deal with the fallout. By the author of The Lost Girls.
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Braised pork
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An Yu
Discovering her husband’s dead body beside a pencil sketch of a mysterious figure, Jia Jia launches an odyssey across contemporary Beijing before discovering unexpected love with a jaded bartender. A first novel.
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The Narcissism of Small Differences
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Michael Zadoorian
Set against the backdrop of bottomed-out 2009 Detroit, this comedy of manners follows a couple on the cusp of 40 as they are both caught somewhere between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development.
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Queen
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Timothy Zahn
A conclusion to the space-opera trilogy that began with Pawn finds Nicole and her fellow sentients swept up in a faction war that complicates her efforts to restore freedom to the shanghaied prisoners aboard the alien ship, Fyrantha.
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Drifts : A Novel
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Kate Zambreno
Obsessed with perfecting an overdue manuscript, a writer studies the nature of time in the works of Rilke, Dürer and other masters while navigating disturbances that culminate in an intense and tender disruption. By the author of Green Girl.
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How much of these hills is gold
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C Pam Zhang
Two orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals. A first novel.
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Miss Cecily's recipes for exceptional ladies : a novel
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Vicky Zimmerman
Volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies in the wake of midlife setbacks, Kate is pushed by a sharped-tongued nonagenarian resident to follow the rather outdated advice of a 1950s cooking-oriented self-help guide.
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Deadly anniversaries : celebrating 75 years of Mystery Writers of America
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Marcia Muller
Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the founding of Mystery Writers of America with new stories from an all-star author roster of MWA Grand Masters, MWA presidents and Edgar Award winners, including Sue Grafton's final work of fiction and tales by Lee Child, Meg Gardiner and more.
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Final Cuts : New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles
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Ellen Datlow
A collection of eighteen scary stories inspired by the golden age of cinema and television, as well as new media, from today’s most popular horror writers including Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix, Laird Barron and Kelley Armstrong.
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