BINGO Blackout Books Adult Books
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The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman
by Mamen Sánchez
This fiendishly fun and charming novel follows a tightly wound Englishman, Atticus Craftsman, whose trip to Madrid to shut down a failing literary magazine takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a group of fiery women who will do anything to keep the jobs they love. A botched kidnapping and the rumored discovery of a trove of rare poetry sends Atticus on a madcap journey through Madrid and Andalucía -- a humorous, literary caper that is an altogether clever and a delightfully different read.
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The Assistants
by Camille Perri
Tina Fontana, a thirty-year-old executive assistant for a prominent media conglomerate, is excellent at her job and beloved by her boss—but after six years of making reservations and pouring drinks from bottles that cost more than her rent, her job's glamour has worn thin, but her student loan debt has not. When an expense report error gives Tina a chance to pay off her loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples.
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Beasts Made of Night
by Tochi Onyebuchi
In the walled city of Kos, corrupt mages can magically call forth sin from a sinner in the form of sin-beasts—lethal creatures spawned from feelings of guilt. Taj is the most talented of the aki, young sin-eaters indentured by the mages to slay the sin-beasts. But when Taj is called to eat a sin of a member of the royal family, he’s suddenly thrust into the center of a dark conspiracy to destroy Kos. Now Taj must fight to save the princess that he loves—and his own life.
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
by Carolyn Murnick
A true-crime memoir about two childhood friends, Carolyn and Ashley, who grew up together in rural New Jersey. The girls followed dramatically different paths after high school, with Carolyn attending college, and Ashley moving to L.A. to work as a stripper and an escort. After 22-year-old Ashley was brutally murdered, Carolyn felt compelled to investigate the party lifestyle and murder of her friend. This memoir explores the power of female friendships and pays tribute to the ones that stay with you long after they're gone.
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Lucky Boy
by Shanthi Sekaran
In this astonishing novel, Shanthi Sekaran gives voice to the devotion and anguish of motherhood through two women bound together by their love for one boy. A wrenching emotional battle ensues between an undocumented Mexican single mother, Soli, and an Indian-American chef, Kavya, who cannot have children when, during immigration detention, Soli's son is placed in the care of Kavya.
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The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
by Alex Grecian
Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They are now in Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the U.S. in the 1950s. Travis quickly learns that Bormann has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the former Nazi. Kansas State Trooper Skottie Foster is caught in the middle, and must find a way to keep peace in her district--until she realizes that Roan's mission will put her and her family in grave peril.
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What Remains of Her
by Eric Rickstad
A harrowing thriller set in rural Vermont about Jonah Baum, a professor of poetry at a local collage, who is under suspicion for the disappearance of his wife, Rebecca, and young daughter, Sally. But Sally’s best friend, Lucinda, knows it’s something else. She trusts in Sally not to just disappear, not after they’ve shared so many secrets about the woods. But she’ll never tell. No one would believe her anyway. Then Jonah finds a young girl in the woods and believes she is the reincarnation of his missing daughter who has returned to help solve the mystery.
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Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction
by Irene Gallo
Since it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program, including tales from Charlie Jane Anders, N. K. Jemisin, Leigh Bardugo, Jeff VanderMeer, Yoon Ha Lee, and others.
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