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New Fiction December 2020
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Little wishes : a novel
by Michelle Adams
After failing to receive her annual gift of a crocus and a note from her first love, Elizabeth Davenport travels to London to find him and try to make up for the circumstances that forced them apart.
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Without a brew
by Ellie Alexander
Crafting regional beers for the winter season’s annual IceFest, Nitro brewer and amateur sleuth Sloan Krause rents rooms to unexpected visitors, including a sanctuary-seeking guest who goes missing after a physical altercation.
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Tsarina
by Ellen Alpsten
A narrative tale based on the true story of Peter the Great’s second wife, Catherine Alexeyevna, recounts how she used her extraordinary intelligence to escape poverty and assume her unstable husband’s responsibilities in 18th-century Russia.
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Inside story : a novel
by Martin Amis
An autobiographical novel by the author of Experience draws on his close friendship with the late philosopher Christopher Hitchens and follows their relationships and journalistic endeavors against a backdrop of 20th-century history.
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The Gift of the Magpie
by Donna Andrews
When the magpie, who has been bringing her bits of tinsel and costume jewelry, arrives with a gift that may be the clue to solving a crime, Meg finds her hopes for a relatively peaceful holiday season dashed.
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Whispering hearts
by V. C. Andrews
Disowned by her raging father for her Broadway aspirations, a talented singer leaves her English countryside home before she is confronted by harsh realities in glittering New York City. By the best-selling author of Echoes in the Walls.
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Over the woodward wall
by A. Deborah Baker
A companion to Middlegame finds two exceptional children, one precision-oriented and the other absolutely unpredictable, on an unplanned detour that finds them in a fantastical world of talking trees, sarcastic owls and dangerous magical locals.
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Daylight
by David Baldacci
When her search for her sister clashes with one of John Puller's high-stakes investigations, FBI agent Atlee Pine confronts traumatizing forces in the world of organized crime
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The twelve dates of Christmas
by Jenny Bayliss
Signing up with a dating agency during the holiday season against her better judgment, a jaded career woman endures one disastrous date after another before finding romance in an unexpected place. A first novel.
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Machine
by Elizabeth Bear
A sequel to Ancestral Night finds a thriving doctor to alien species challenged by an unknown ailment involving two ships, one ancient and one new, whose mysterious dilemma threatens an entire space station.
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Hot to trot
by M. C. Beaton
Jealously investigating an ex’s intended, Agatha Raisin crashes the wedding only to become implicated in the bride’s murder, a situation that immerses Agatha in the cutthroat equestrian world.
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The vanishing half
by 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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Little bookshop of murder
by Maggie Blackburn
Summer Merriweather, a Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop and a murder mystery that she takes upon herself to investigate
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Double agent
by Tom Bradby
MI6 agent Kate Henderson investigates information from a Russian defector, including financial trails and a horrifying video, that may offer proof that the British Prime Minister is a live agent working for Moscow in the sequel to Secret Service.
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In the Lion's Den
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A sequel to Master of His Fate finds James Lionel Falconer’s unlikely rise to the head of a prestigious London shipping company challenged by a devastating fire, a paramour’s life-changing secret and his evolving feelings for runaway Alexis Malvern.
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A Galway Epiphany
by Ken Bruen
After a hit and run, Jack Taylor finds himself in the middle of a frenzy over two children seen tending to him post-accident, who people performed a saintly miracle in the latest novel in the series following Galway Girl.
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Daughters of the wild
by Natalka Burian
Unable to remember her life before foster care, a teen who would rescue her newborn from an oppressive matriarch studies the properties of a powerful but addictive plant behind the foster family’s business. A first novel.
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Likes
by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
This new collection of short stories from the author of Madeleine is Sleeping explores contradictions in our modern times in tales about unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars and a tween’s Instagram posts.
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The harbinger II
by Jonathan Cahn
The author of the first The Harbinger novel is back again to reveal a new set of mysteries, including whether or not America is headed for the Final Judgement
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Tom Clancy : shadow of the dragon
by Marc Cameron
When a high-level mole infiltrates American Intelligence, President Jack Ryan dispatches John Clark and the Campus team to track down a missing scientist who holds critical aerospace and naval technology. By the award-winning author of the Jericho Quinn series.
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A dog's perfect Christmas
by W. Bruce Cameron
When their family suddenly faces a life-or-death crisis during the holiday season, the Goss’s find themselves brought back together by the arrival of a little lost puppy who changes everything.
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Mimi Lee reads between the lines
by Jennifer J. Chow
A sequel to Mimi Lee Gets a Clue finds pet groomer Mimi Lee and her sassy kitty cohorts scrambling to prove her sister’s innocence in the murder of a teacher whose demise is connected to three sketchy colleagues.
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Piece of my heart
by Mary Higgins Clark
A high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling You Don’t Own Me finds the nuptials of television producer Laurie Moran and investigative host Alex Buckley nightmarishly upended by the sudden disappearance of Alex’s 7-year-old nephew.
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Ring shout : or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the end times
by P. Djèlí Clark
A dark-fantasy, historical novella from the award-winning author of The Black God’s Drums follows a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter as they fight a supernatural Ku Klux Klan in Macon, Georgia in the early 20th century.
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The archer
by Paulo Coelho
A young man seeks wisdom from a retired hunter who explains how the principles of bowhunting can help readers find the courage to take risks and embrace life’s unexpected turns. By the best-selling author of The Alchemist.
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When no one is watching : a thriller
by Alyssa Cole
Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.
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A lady's guide to mischief and mayhem
by Manda Collins
Distancing herself from London notoriety when her latest sensational article leads to a high-profile arrest, Lady Katherine clashes with a handsome detective inspector after witnessing a murder upon her arrival in the country.
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The law of innocence
by Michael Connelly
Defense attorney Mickey Haller utilizes his legal team’s resources from behind bars to organize his own defense when he is framed for murder by an unknown adversary. By the best-selling author of the Harry Bosch series.
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The dirty South
by John Connolly
A latest entry in the best-selling series by the author of A Book of Bones traces Charlie Parker’s first case, in which his efforts to bring his wife and child’s killer to justice are stymied by corruption.
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The new wilderness : a novel
by Diane Cook
A first novel by the author of Man V. Nature finds a desperate mother in a world ravaged by climate change joining a hunter-gatherer initiative to test humanity's capacity to survive in the wilderness without destroying it.
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The wind traveler : a novel
by Alonso Cueto
"Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek redemption. The Spanish edition of the novel, La viajera del viento, was published by Planeta Peru in 2016. It is the last installment in Alonso Cueto's Redención trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically, Traveler of the Wind asks if those who were forced tocommit violence can atone for their crimes"
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Marauder : a novel of the Oregon files
by Clive Cussler
Aboard the Oregon, one of the most advanced spy ships ever built, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives go up against nemeses as they prepare for yet another dangerous mission
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The Roommate
by Rosie Danan
A millennial struggling with underemployment and the dating scene accepts a childhood crush’s invitation to move cross-country before finding herself sharing a lease with a charming but perceptive stranger. A first novel.
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Plain bad heroines : a novel
by Emily M. Danforth
A highly anticipated adult debut from the award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the release of a best-selling book about an early 20th-century New England boarding school where gender-diverse students died under suspicious circumstances.
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Well-behaved Indian women
by Saumya Dave
"From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams. Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her writing "hobby." But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran's life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, but her engagement to her high school sweetheart. Nandini Mehta has strived to create an easy life for her children in America. From dealing with her husband's demanding family to the casual racism of her patients, everything Nandini has endured has been for her children's sake. It isn't until an old colleague makes her a life-changing offer that Nandini realizes she's spent so much time focusing on being the Perfect Indian Woman, she's let herself slip away. Mimi Kadakia failed her daughter, Nandini, in ways she'll never be able to fix-or forget. But with her granddaughter, she has the chance to be supportive and offer help when it's needed. As life begins to pull Nandini and Simran apart, Mimi is determined to be the bridge that keeps them connected, even as she carries her own secret burden"
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Chance of a lifetime
by Jude Deveraux
A series debut by the distinguished author of For All Time and the award-winning author of Don’t Call Me Cupcake finds a 19th-century thief atoning for misdeeds by convincing the present-day woman he loves to marry another.
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The patient
by Jasper DeWitt
A young, overconfident psychiatrist chronicles in a series of online posts his new job at a mental asylum, where he catastrophically attempts to treat a profoundly disturbed patient who has been in the hospital since early childhood.
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At night all blood is black
by David Diop
Haunted for refusing to kill an injured comrade who begged to be spared an agonizing death, a World War I Chocolat soldier from Senegal begins killing enemy soldiers as penance, earning a sinister reputation along the way.
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Attack surface
by Cory Doctorow
Working for a transnational cybersecurity firm while secretly helping high-paying troublemakers evade detection, a counterterrorism hacker is forced to acknowledge the consequences of her actions when one of her hacks puts loved ones in danger.
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Bad island
by Stanley Donwood
This starkly beautiful wordless graphic novel about the end of the world depicts the artist’s distinctive monochromatic linocut style, which achieves what words cannot convey.
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How the multiverse got its revenge
by K. Eason
A sequel to How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse finds space pirate Rory Thorne and her crew tracing an abandoned ship to vicious advanced alien tech and a sentient floral plant designed to be a massive biological weapon.
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The gentleman and the thief
by Sarah M. Eden
A sequel to The Lady and the Highwayman follows the unlikely romance between Hollis Darby, who writes penny-dreadful novels to support his family; and Ana Newport, a music teacher and secret cat burglar.
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Remember me : a Spanish Civil War novel
by Mario Escobar
A tale of loss and resistance based on Spain’s Children of Morelia history finds the three Alcalde children of 1934 Madrid sent to faraway Mexico when their parents align themselves against the fascist regime of General Franco.
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Fortune and glory : tantalizing twenty-seven
by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum’s struggle to choose between Joe Morelli and Ranger is upended by a search for her grandmother’s inheritance that is further complicated by two fortune-hunting enemies from the past. By the best-selling co-author of Troublemaker.
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The office of historical corrections : a novella and stories
by Danielle Evans
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self examines race, grief and apology in a history-inspired anthology that complements the title novella with the stories, “Boys Go to Jupiter” and “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain.”
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The Noel letters : from the Noel collection
by Richard Paul Evans
A latest entry in the best-selling series by the award-winning author of The Christmas Box explores themes of faith, love and redemption during an illuminating holiday season.
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Murder in season : a novel
by Jessica Fletcher
Supervising community holiday activities in Cabot Cove, Jessica Fletcher discovers two sets of bones, one recent and one ancient, before a tabloid reporter’s theories lead to a third death and revelations about a long-unsolved community mystery.
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Christmas cupcake murder
by Joanne Fluke
Firing up the Cookie Jar’s ovens to attend a lengthy holiday checklist, Hannah Swensen helps loved ones manage seasonal doldrums before she is challenged to identify a skilled antique restorer found near death outside her bakery.
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Death and the maiden
by Ariana Franklin
A long-anticipated series conclusion finds a young healer dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.
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The searcher
by Tana French
Looking to start a new life in a small Irish village, former Chicago police officer Cal Hooper comes out of retirement to help find a missing kid and uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat.
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Troubled blood
by Robert Galbraith
Written pseudonymously by the acclaimed author of the Harry Potter novels, a latest entry in the best-selling series that began with The Cuckoo’s Calling continues the high-stakes adventures of Cormoran Strike and his partner, Robin Ellacott.
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Twenty after midnight : a novel
by Daniel Galera
Reunited after years of long-held grudges and painful crushes, three friends try to come to terms with the murder of their leader and undisputed genius of their group while trying to resurrect the spirit of their youth.
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Horace & Bunwinkle
by P. J. Gardner
Forced to adapt when his person moves to a farm, an anxious Boston Terrier resists the adoring company of an impossibly cute potbellied pig newcomer who becomes his unlikely partner in a barnyard investigation into a series of animal disappearances. Illustrated by the artist of Wordy Birdy.
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The sacrifice of darkness
by Roxane Gay
"Follow one woman's powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. As she challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival she'll find that no matter the darkness, there remains sources of hope that can pierce the veil"
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Booked for death
by Victoria Gilbert
Charlotte Reed, the heir to a recently renovated book-themed B&B, finds herself wrongly implicated in the murder of a rare book dealer who claimed the inn was built with stolen funds
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The Butchers Blessing
by Ruth Gilligan
A modern tale inspired by Irish folklore traces the experiences of a butcher’s family that is shaped by loneliness, faith, young love, a difficult promise, fading cultural practices and a photographer’s image of an unspeakably violent murder.
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Jane in Love
by Rachel Givney
Searching for a radical solution to a lifetime of spinsterhood, Jane Austen is accidentally transported 200 years into the future onto a Hollywood film set of Northanger Abbey. A first novel.
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Absence of mercy
by S. M. Goodwin
Forced by his father’s political connections to relocate to pre-Civil War New York, a former Crimean War hero teams up with a misfit detective to investigate a philanthropist’s murder and wrongful charges targeting an innocent woman. A first novel.
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Dark tides : a novel
by Philippa Gregory
A sequel to Tidelands finds 17th-century London warehouse owner Alinor reuniting with a man from her past while reaching out to her brother in war-torn New England for proof of her son’s survival.
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A lover's discourse
by Xiaolu Guo
"A Chinese woman moves to London to start a new life. She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, and will their love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is a love story told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows us how this couple navigate communication and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humor, this intimate and tender novel asks what it means to make a home and a life in a new land"
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One of our own
by Jane Haddam
A former FBI agent and police consultant investigates after a body falls out of the back of a van speeding through his Philadelphia neighborhood in the latest addition to the long-running series following Fighting Chance.
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A Garland of Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends find their Christmas cheer turning to fear when strange accidents befall them during holiday festivities and are determined to catch the wrong-doers, who deserve nothing but coal in their stockings this year.
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Boyfriend material
by Alexis J. Hall
Fabricating a respectable relationship with a man with whom he shares nothing in common when his rock-star father’s comeback leads to unwanted attention, Luc stages publicity-friendly dates that become complicated by all-too-real feelings.
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The saints of salvation
by Peter F. Hamilton
The survivors of a human race under attack by hostile aliens who would claim the planet for an apocalyptic deity orchestrate a defensive strategy millennia in the making, in a conclusion to the trilogy that began with Salvation
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The cookbook club : a novel of food and friendship
by Elizabeth M. Harbison
"MUST LOVE BUTTER: The Cookbook Club is now open to members. Foodies come join us! No diets! No skipping dessert! Margo Everson sees the call out for the cookbook club and knows she's found her people. Recently dumped by her self-absorbed husband, who frankly isn't much of a loss, she has little to show for her marriage but his 'parting gift'-a dilapidated old farm house-and a collection of well-loved cookbooks. Aja Alexander just hopes her new-found friends won't notice that that every time she looks at food, she gets queasy. It's hard hiding a pregnancy, especially one she can't bring herself to share with her wealthy boyfriend and his snooty mother. Trista Walker left the cutthroat world of the law behind and decided her fate was to open a restaurant...not the most secure choice ever. But there she could she indulge her passion for creating delectable meals and make money at the same time. The women bond immediately, but it's not all popovers with melted brie and blackberry jam. Margo's farm house is about to fall down around her ears; Trista's restaurant needs a makeover and rat-removal fast; and as for Aja, just how long can you hide a baby bump anyway? In this delightful novel, these women form bonds that go beyond a love grilled garlic and soy sauce shrimp. Because what is more important in life than friendship...and food?"
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After all I've done : a novel
by Mina Hardy
Experiencing recurring nightmares of an accident she cannot remember, Diana bonds with newcomer Cole before her unraveling memories force her to make an unthinkable choice. By the author of the Quarry series.
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The book of lost names
by Kristin Harmel
The best-selling author of The Winemaker’s Wife draws on true events in the story of a Polish graduate student in World War II who uses her forgery talents to help hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis.
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The traitor's pawn
by Lisa Harris
"An FBI agent joins the search for a missing senator-and encounters a woman he was once in love with. Full of complicated pasts and people desperate to hold on to the present, this novel delivers a masterful story of redemption and revenge"
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V2 : a novel of World War II
by Robert Harris
A World War II German rocket engineer under orders to launch V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland and an actress-turned-English Intelligence officer who would neutralize the bombings land on opposite sides in a desperate hunt for a saboteur.
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The Transatlantic Book Club
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Setting up a transatlantic Skype book club to stay in touch with her recently widowed grandmother on Ireland’s Finfarran Peninsula, Cassie uncovers tragic family secrets that reveal unexpected truths about her grandmother’s marriage.
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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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Spellbreaker
by Charlie N. Holmberg
Born with illegal spell-breaking powers in a world where corrupt wizards advance the causes of the wealthy, Elise supports underground resistance efforts before striking an unlikely bargain with a elite magical student.
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Moonflower murders
by Anthony Horowitz
"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after policefind blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, the third book in his detective series, on the hotel. Cecily Treherne, the daughter of the hotel owner, read the book and believes the truth of Stefan's innocence is found in its pages. But now...she has disappeared. Conway's former editor Susan Ryeland leaves her own hotel in Crete and travels to Suffolk to investigate the murder and Treherne's disappearance"
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Autumn skies
by Denise Hunter
A conclusion to the series that began with Lake Season and Carolina Breeze finds a Bluebell Inn outfitter working as a mountain guide for a recuperating secret service agent who would come to terms with a life-changing loss.
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You Betrayed Me
by Lisa Jackson
Waking up in a small hospital with no memory of what happened, playboy James Cahill gradually recalls that his girlfriend had just discovered his affair before going missing. By the best-selling author of Liar, Liar.
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The Exphoria code
by Antony Johnston
"Brigitte Sharp is a brilliant but haunted young MI6 hacker who has been deskbound and in therapy for three years after her first field mission in Syria went disastrously wrong. Despite her boss's encouragement, Bridge isn't ready to go back in the field. But now one of her best friends has been murdered, and Bridge believes his death is connected to strange "ASCII art" posts appearing on the internet that carry encrypted hidden messages. On decoding the messages, she discovers evidence of a mole inside a top-secret Anglo-French military drone project--an enemy who may also be her friend's killer. Her MI6 bosses force her back into the field, sending her undercover in France to find and expose the mole. But the truth behind the Exphoria code is worse than anyone imagined, and soon Bridge is on the run, desperate and alone, as a terrorist plot unfolds and threatens everything she has left to live for. Drawing on cutting edge technology and modern global threats, Brigitte Sharp is a highly credible female spy in a truly original and contemporary story"
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Bury the Hatchet
by William W. Johnstone
Hiding out in Blackstone, Wyoming, Buck Trammel finds his luck running out when his past catches up with him in the form of a Pinkerton with a grudge and the ruthless gang he has been trying to evade.
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The only good Indians : a novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
Four American Indian men, who shared a disturbing event during their youth, are hunted down years later by an entity bent on revenge that forces them to revisit the culture and traditions they left behind.
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No Presents Please : Mumbai Stories
by Jayant Kaikini
An eclectic mix of short stories set in Mumbai focus on the different experiences of those in the vibrant city, including a bachelor who receives a strange wedding proposal and a young girl who tries to comfort her father.
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Love your life : a novel
by Sophie Kinsella
Discarding her dating app to enjoy a post-breakup anonymous writers’ retreat in coastal Italy, Ava shares an idyllic love affair with a fellow romantic before their return to London forces them to acknowledge their true identities.
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To be a man : stories
by Nicole Krauss
The National Book Award finalist and best-selling author of The History of Love explores contemporary gender realities in a latest collection of short fiction that traces the experiences of diverse characters at respective stages of life.
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The burning god
by R. F. Kuang
A trilogy conclusion finds an abandoned Rin returning to her home village, where with the Southern Army and millions of dedicated supporters she prepares for an ultimate battle against the Dragon Republic and other anti-shamanic enemies.
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In a holidaze
by Christina Lauren
One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones.
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Joker : killer smile
by Jeff Lemire
"Everyone knows The Joker doesn't have the most promising history with psychotherapists. In fact, no one's even been able to diagnose him. But that doesn't matter to Dr. Ben Arnell; he's determined to be the one to unravel this unknowable mind. And there's no way The Joker could ever get through the therapeutic walls Ben has built around himself. Right?"--Provided by publisher
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Fifty Words for Rain : A Novel
by Asha Lemmie
Abandoned by a mother who instructs her never to fight or ask questions, an illegitimate child of mixed heritage in 1948 Kyoto forges a powerful bond with her older half-brother against the wishes of their formidable grandparents. A first novel.
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The secret of you and me
by Melissa Lenhardt
This queer love story is an tale of second chances for two women who were torn apart in their youth by prejudice and hate and rediscover the thrill and devastation that love can cause when an unexpected tragedy brings them back together.
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The hour of the star
by Clarice Lispector
"The devastating final work by Brazil's greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabéa-a typist who lives in the slums of Rio-underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet inwardly free"
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To hold up the sky
by Cixin Liu
The Hugo Award-winning author of Supernova Era presents a collection of speculative science-fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.
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Ruthie Fear
by Maxim Loskutoff
A reimagining of the American West through a lens of manifest destiny, mass shootings and environmental destruction follows a Montana valley child’s violent upbringing in the natural world and her witness to the destruction of her mountain community.
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Too much lip : a novel
by Melissa Lucashenko
Sneaking back to Bundjalung country to attend her father’s deathbed, an outspoken, queer First Nations Australian woman confronts the ghosts of her ancestors to prevent her family’s spiritual home from being turned into a prison.
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Ink
by Jonathan Maberry
"From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a standalone supernatural thriller Ink, about a memory thief who feeds on the most precious of dreams. Tattoo-artist Patty Cakes has her dead daughter's face tattooed on the back of her hand.Day by day it begins to fade, taking with it all of Patty's memories of her daughter. All she's left with the certain knowledge she has forgotten her lost child. The awareness of that loss is tearing her apart. Monk Addison is a private investigator whose skin is covered with the tattooed faces of murder victims. He is a predator who hunts for killers, and the ghosts of all of those dead people haunt his life. Some of those faces have begun to fade, too, destroying the very souls of the dead. All throughthe town of Pine Deep people are having their most precious memories stolen. The monster seems to target the lonely, the disenfranchised, the people who need memories to anchor them to this world. Something is out there. Something cruel and evil is feeding on the memories, erasing them from the hearts and minds of people like Patty and Monk and others. ink is the story of a few lonely, damaged people hunting for a memory thief. When all you have are memories, there is no greater horror than forgetting"
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Coming of age with the support of the women in her Ugandan village, a girl struggling with abandonment seeks answers at the side of a local witch who shares stories about their culture’s heritage of female strength.
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Box Hill : a story of low self-esteem
by Adam Mars-Jones
A young man experiences his first gay love when he meets a glamorous, older, handsome, leather-clad biker in the cruisy section of Box Hill in 1970s London in this book that won the 2019 Fitacarraldo Editions Novel Prize.
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Still life
by Val McDermid
DCI Karen Pirie is drawn into a murder investigation involving a historic disappearance, art forgery and secret identities, while dealing with the release of the man responsible for the death of the love of her life from prison.
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The house of deep water
by 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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Head wounds
by Michael McGarrity
A series conclusion finds Clayton Istee, son of Kevin Kerney, investigating a double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel that he connects to a casino theft and a DEA cover-up. By the best-selling author of the American West Trilogy.
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Snowball's Christmas
by Kristen McKanagh
Spending her first Christmas at Miss Tilly's Victorian B&B, a little white kitten orchestrates a match between the B&B's ambitious chef and the proprietor's photographer nephew, who would sell the property and have Miss Tilly retire
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His Only Wife
by Peace Adzo Medie
Enduring a life of minimal prospects among her uncles many wives, a young seamstress relocates to Accra when she is married in absentia to a wealthy man whose family would separate him from the woman he loves.
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Monogamy
by Sue Miller
Derailed by the sudden passing of her husband of 30 years, an artist on the brink of a gallery opening struggles to pick up the pieces of her life before discovering harrowing evidence of her husband’s affair.
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Total power
by Kyle Mills
When an ISIS plot devastates America’s power grid, Mitch Rapp and his CIA team race to find the responsible cyberterrorists to prevent the nation from succumbing to total collapse. By the best-selling author of Red War.
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The paper daughters of Chinatown
by Heather B. Moore
Based on true events, follows the story of one of many young, Chinese women who traveled to 19th century San Francisco for an arranged marriage, but were sold into prostitution, and the pioneering advocate who helped them.
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Mexican Gothic
by 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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Earthlings : a novel
by Sayaka Murata
Pursued by childhood traumas and the feeling of not fitting in with her family, Natsuki decides to flee the "baby factory" of society for good in search of answers about the universe
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The kingdom
by Jo Nesbø
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
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The last interview
by Eshkol Nevo
A writer on the edge of a breakdown tries to answer some emailed interview questions, but finds he can’t answer in his usual, measured way and instead tells the truth in the internationally best-selling author of Three Floors Up.
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Hamnet : a novel of the plague
by Maggie O'Farrell
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusualgifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"
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Love & other crimes : stories
by 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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Deadly Cross
by James Patterson
Investigating the assassination of the vice president’s wife, Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to uncover clues from the victim’s early life. By the best-selling author of Criss Cross.
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A Christmas resolution : a novel
by Anne Perry
A new girlfriend’s credibility is brought into question when she raises suspicions about a close friend’s fiancé, compelling a smitten Detective John Hooper to uncover the truth. By the best-selling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series.
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The midnight bargain
by C. L. Polk
The award-winning author of Witchmark presents a romantic fantasy set in a magical Regency England, where a sorceress must balance magic-ending familial duty with her ambition to become her world’s first great sorceress.
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You will never know : a novel of suspense
by S. A. Prentiss
A woman’s carefully rebuilt life is upended by a local murder that casts suspicion on her daughter and stepson amid revelations of her husband’s failing business and a private investigator’s inquiries into the death of her first husband.
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The Egyptian cross mystery
by Ellery Queen
""Crucifixion on Christmas Day." That's what the newspapers report when a small-town schoolteacher is discovered dead, beheaded, and tied to a T-shaped cross on December 25th. It's a murder bizarre enough to pique Ellery Queen's interest - and intriguingenough to lure him to the West Virginia village where it occurred to take a closer look. But when he arrives, Queen is met with too few clues and too little evidence to produce a satisfactory verdict, even for a master sleuth such as himself, and so returns home to New York defeated.The yuletide gore is a distant memory when the next such murder occurs, identical in every way, but now the location has moved to Long Island. When Ellery Queen learns that the sun-worshipping nudist cult he encountered down south has made the same relocation, it becomes clear that the group and the killings must be intertwined. But then several more crucifixion murders follow, drawing Queen deeper into a tangled and eerie puzzle unlike anything he's encountered before. It will take all of his powers of deduction to uncover the killer"
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Sugar, smoke, song : a novel
by Reema Rajbanshi
"Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin, a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend's lover, and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires. Told through semi-experimental play with nonlinear plots, plural narrators, and hybrid prose, these stories embody the experiences of Asian American women carrying histories both unseen and cyclically lived"
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Black Bottom saints : a novel
by Alice Randall
A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books while reflecting on his encounters with legendary black artists from the Great Depression through the post-World War II years.
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Oak Flat : A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
by Lauren Redniss
Three generations of an Apache family of activists race against time in a legal and cultural battle to protect sacred land from corrupt government officials and a multinational mining corporation. By the National Book Award finalist author of Radioactive.
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The awakening
by Nora Roberts
An anxious young woman mired in student debt and working a hated job uses hidden funds to visit Ireland, where she uncovers truths about vivid dreams compelling her to embrace her destiny in a fantastical alternate world.
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The tower of fools
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Forced to flee his home, Reinmar of Bielawa, a doctor and magician, passes the beyond the city borders where he finds himself in the Tower of Fools, an asylum for the mad where he is forced to question his own sanity as he plans his escape.
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The order : a novel
by Daniel Silva
The award-winning author of The New Girl and The Other Woman presents a latest high-action thriller that pits enigmatic art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon against an international threat that tests the limits of his skills.
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The White Coat Diaries
by Madi Sinha
Struggling through the realities of her hard-won residency and cultural family expectations, a brilliant young doctor follows the example of a respected chief resident before risking everything to expose the cover-up of a fatal mistake. A first novel.
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One bright Christmas
by Katherine Spencer
"This Christmas the peaceful town of Cape Light shines extra bright. When Lauren Willoughby returns to Cape Light for the holidays, she's hardly feeling festive. Although her family views her as a sharp, successful New York attorney, she's come home to heal from a bad breakup and a career setback. While freelancing for a local law firm, Lauren meets Cole McGuire, a widower and a single father, as difficult to deal with as he is attractive. His sweet daughter Phoebe is instantly drawn to Lauren's whimsical side, and Cole's reserve is soon worn down by her straight-talking charm. Lauren knows she's falling hard for this handsome, enigmatic man and his adorable little girl, but worries that the attachment can only lead to heartache. For Phoebe's sake, Cole is committed to a quiet country life while Lauren is a city girl, determined to return to the bright lights to make her mark. Meanwhile, a movie crew has come to Cape Light, and the entire town is starstruck. Everyone except Lucy Bates, who harbors a secret about the film's star, Craig Hamilton. One magical summer long ago, they met at the village theater and fell in love. Despite their big plans and promises, Craig broke her heart. They never spoke again and she's certainly never forgiven him. Yet, for some uncanny reason, he's appeared out of the blue. Will she accept this chance to sort out their painful past? Or forever regret it? And to Lillian Warwick-Elliot's dismay, one chilly night her husband Ezra takes in a scruffy, little dog. Lillian is determined to pass the stray to "a more suitable family." But at what cost to her marriage and Ezra's devotion? With Christmas nearly here, can the good folks of Cape Light open their hearts to forgiveness and love?"
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The star-crossed sisters of Tuscany
by Lori Nelson Spielman
Visiting an octogenarian relative in Italy who declares that she will break a family curse that has prevented all second-born daughters from marrying, three second daughters embark on a journey to help their great-aunt fulfill her final wish.
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All that glitters : a novel
by Danielle Steel
When her life of privilege is upended by a terrorist attack that ends her parents’ lives, a college senior struggles to rebuild on her own terms, learning uplifting and heartbreaking life lessons throughout a series of relationships and opportunities.
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Road out of winter
by Alison Stine
An impoverished girl from a marijuana farming family is forced by another summerless year to embark on a treacherous journey through the backroads of Appalachia to find missing relatives and a new way to survive.
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Dark August : a novel
by 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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DCeased : unkillables
by Tom Taylor
"It's the end of the DC Universe as we know it. The Anti-Life virus has ravaged the Earth, turning its population-and most of its greatest heroes-into mindless, ravening zombies. The Justice League has fallen. The survivors are clinging to life. And in these dark times, only the darkest among the world's metahumans will survive! Led by Deathstroke, the world's greatest assassin, a lethal crew of villains and antiheroes has survived the initial onslaught, and they've been assembled by the immortal mastermind Vandal Savage as the unlikely guardians of the last lives on the planet. Meanwhile, the no-holds-barred antihero Red Hood-a.k.a. Jason Todd, the former Robin-has brought together a squad of crime-fighters and vigilantes, dedicated to turning back the darkness. No one expected these two groups to be the saviors of (super)humanity. But unless they all put aside their differences and fight together as one, Anti-Life will reign supreme."
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Murder on Cold Street
by Sherry Thomas
When her friend refuses to defend himself after being found in a locked room with two murder victims, Charlotte Holmes navigates baffling evidence and rumors in a case that is further complicated by Lord Ingram’s long-anticipated offer.
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King Deadpool : Hail to the King
by Kelly Thompson
"Deadpool's newest job has him going after the King of Monsters, who has claimed a new kingdom for his terrifying subjects...on Staten Island! Soon, Wade Wilson finds himself with a new role - one that leaves him neck deep in political intrigue, with major obstacles including Captain America and the monster-hunting Elsa Bloodstone in his way!"
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The devil and the dark water
by Stuart Turton
Sailing back to Amsterdam as a prisoner accused of an unknown crime, Detective Pipps relies on his faithful sidekick to help solve an onboard mystery in the new novel from the author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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Something is killing the children. Volume one
by James Tynion
"When the children of Archer's Peak, a sleepy town in the heart of America, begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories, impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see"
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The Appointment : Or, the Story of a Jewish Cook
by Katharina Volckmer
A young German woman unburdens herself to her London doctor in a stream-of-consciousness narrative that covers her family origins, the recent death of her grandfather, an overbearing mother, the medicinal use of squirrel tales and Hitler-centered sexual fantasies.
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Cobble Hill : a novel
by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Navigating private spats and embarrassing secrets in their upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, four families seek purpose and meaningful relationships until a raucous party combusts in a maelstrom of ego clashes, taboo desires and hidden cameras.
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Bitter root : Rage & Redemption Volume two, Rage & redemption
by David Walker
"Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo--hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat--the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief andtrauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must once again fight to save the world, unless their own pain and suffering transforms them into monsters as well!"
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The frightened ones : a novel
by Dm Wanns
"In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets the strange and reticent Nassim and soon the two begin a strained relationship. But when Nassim, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he gives Suleima the manuscript for his most recent novel, whose protagonist's life bears discomforting similarities to her own. Whose story is it? What is fact and what is fiction? Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman in Nassim's novel, The Frightened Ones is a probing examination oflife in Assad's Syria and the devastating effects of oppression on one's sense of identity"
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Memorial : A Novel
by Bryan Washington
A Japanese-American chef and a Black daycare teacher begin reevaluating their stale relationship in the wake of a father’s death and the arrival of an acerbic mother-in-law who becomes an unconventional roommate. By the award-winning author of Lot.
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Little scratch : a novel
by Rebecca Watson
A debut novel written in the style of a woman's thoughts on a deceptively ordinary day traces her growing perturbation of mind as she moves through a routine marked by self-doubt, impatience, philosophical development and personal neuroses.
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The valkyrie protocol
by David Weber
Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio return to their home universe of SysGov with dire news only to discover that they must branch the timeline to prevent the Plague of Justinian, one of the worst pandemics in human history.
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And dangerous to know
by Darcie Wilde
Tasked to recover a packet of letters containing highly sensitive information about the poet Lord Byron’s affair with Lady Melbourne’s unstable daughter-in-law, Rosalind finds her task complicated by the death of an unidentified woman on the Melbourne estate.
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Zoey punches the future in the dick
by David Wong
A sequel to the award-winning Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits finds Zoey declared the sudden ruler over the world’s most decadent city, where a public murder accusation leads her to suspect someone on her own team.
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The tunnel
by Abraham B Yehoshua
"From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father-an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project"
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Daredevil : end of hell
by Chip Zdarsky
"As Matt Murdock rekindles his alliance--and possibly more--with Elektra, New York Mayor Wilson Fisk works on some deadly allegiances of his own. But a war is building in Hell's Kitchen as Hammerhead makes his move, and the Owl takes his stab at the Kingpin! Matt Murdock must come to terms with what being Daredevil truly means"
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Love after the end : an anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer speculative fiction
by Joshua Whitehead
"A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories"
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Christmas card murder
by Leslie Meier
Three cozy holiday-themed novellas are set in the state of Maine and include Leslie Meier’s “Christmas Card Murder,” Lee Hollis’s “Death of a Christmas Carol” and Peggy Ehrhart’s “Death of a Christmas Card Crafter.”
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