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Fiction A to Z August 2017
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The half-drowned king : a novel
by Linnea Hartsuyker
Betrayed by his usurping stepfather during his return trip to his ancestral lands, a young warrior resolves to exact revenge and claim the woman he loves at the side of a strong Norse fighter rumored to be a prophesied king.
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The talented Ribkins
by Ladee Hubbard
A wildly inventive novel tells the story of Johnny Ribkins, a 72-year-old African-American antiques dealer and patriarch of a gifted family, the members of which sometimes stumble in their efforts to succeed in life.
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Goodbye, vitamin : a novel
by Rachel Khong
Struggling with disillusionment in the aftermath of a broken engagement, Ruth moves back home with her parents to discover that her professor father's erratic memory loss and her mother's eccentricity are manifesting in near-comical ways that help Ruth transform her grief.
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The Bedlam stacks
by Natasha Pulley
A tale of magical landscapes and impossible quests in 19th-century Peru follows the experiences of a disabled former East India Company smuggler who reluctantly accepts a treacherous mission to fetch quinine from a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon.
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The readymade thief
by Augustus Rose
Reluctantly accepting refuge in a cooperative home for homeless kids after taking the fall for a rich friend, Lee discovers that the too-good-to-be-true charity establishment is a front for a secret society of fanatics that are behind the disappearances of street teens.
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Exposed
by Lisa Scottoline
An epic battle of wills and legal strategy ensues when DiNunzio and Rosato represent opposing sides in a wrongful termination lawsuit, triggering conflict-of-interest complications that estrange the partners and force their friends and colleagues to take sides.
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New people
by Danzy Senna
Working on her dissertation while planning her wedding to her college sweetheart as the 20th century draws to a close, Maria, a young woman from Brooklyn being featured in a documentary about mixed-heritage couples, risks the life she has worked so hard to achieve by fantasizing about a poet she barely knows.
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| The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo by Ian StanselSet in modern-day Marin, in northern California, it opens as Silas Van Loy has killed his brother, saddled up his horse, and begun making his escape. The relationship between the two brothers -- antagonistic, resentful, and competitive -- unfolds through flashbacks as Silas flees, with his sister-in-law in hot pursuit, intent on revenge. |
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The Blinds
by Adam Sternbergh
Helping maintain an uneasy peace in a rural Texas community of criminal misfits who were given a chance at a new life after having their memories altered, sheriff Calvin Cooper struggles with personal secrets in the wake of a suicide and murder.
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If the creek don't rise : a novel
by Leah Weiss
One of innumerable women in a North Carolina mountain town facing a bleak future with a dangerous alcoholic husband, Sadie considers a different life when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for the entire community.
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| The Devil and Webster by Jean Hanff KorelitzNaomi Roth is the first woman president of an elite progressive college; her first major challenge had been a transitioning transgender student living in a women-only dorm, so this year's protest against a denial of tenure seems easy enough to handle at first. But that's before a charming student activist steps up to take the lead in pushing things ever further. |
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The last good girl
by Allison Leotta
Investigating the disappearance of a college freshman who had recently accused a powerful politician's son of rape, prosecutor Anna Curtis works desperately to find the young woman alive under escalating threats by the suspect's supporters.
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The underwriting
by Michelle Miller
Heading an investment team to organize a popular dating app's IPO in just two months, a rising Wall Street maverick confronts Silicon Valley politics only to have the transition threatened by the murder of a Stanford student.
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The black hour
by Lori Rader-Day
Recovering from being shot by a student she'd never met, Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, desperate to know why she was targeted, gets some investigative help from her teaching assistant and together they must live through the darkest hours of their lives to find the truth.
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