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New eAudiobooks from Libby, by OverDrive
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Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend, who disappeared at a county fair, until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece, Annie, to solve both crimes.
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How to End a Love Story
by Yulin Kuang
A best-selling author with writer's block heads to L.A. for the film adaptation of her book where she must collaborate with a screenwriter who was involved in the tragic accident that bound them together 13 years prior.
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James
by Percival Everett
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.
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The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
by Alexia Casale
After killing her husband—a truly terrible man, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group of women who have come together to heal the damage their husbands have done—and to work out a plan to get rid of the bodies and get away with it.
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Table for Two
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
While in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her family, newlywed Meddy Chan, when a former beau of Second Aunt crashes the party, is unwittingly drawn into a decades-long war between Jakarta's most powerful business factions along with her Aunties and must come with a plan to save them all.
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Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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New eAudiobooks from Hoopla
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The Bordeaux Book Club
by Gillian Harvey
A gorgeously escapist read from the bestselling author of A Year at the French Farmhouse, perfect for fans of Veronica Henry, Jo Thomas and Fiona Valpy.
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The Laughter Effect
by Ros Ben-Moshe
Drawing on research from around the world, practice and wisdom from humor and laughter therapy, and positive psychology and neuroscience, Ben-Moshe shows you how to use the energy of laughter and joy to counter stress hormones and stimulate a daily dose of positive wellbeing with "happy hormones."
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Far From Here
by Taylor Stark
After 48 hours, the chances of finding a missing person diminish drastically, and FBI Agent Mary Cage and her task force race to find victims that others can’t—before they’re lost forever. When a kidnapper traps victims in unusual ways, FBI Agent Mary Cage must find and stop him. Thrust into a harrowing race against time, can Mary decode his cryptic pattern and save the victims in time?
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Women of Good Fortune
by Sophie Wan
At a high-society Shanghai wedding, the reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own personal motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day.
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Meditation for Beginners
by Darren Cox
This book is designed to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the practice of meditation, and to guide you through the basics of developing your own meditation practice.
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Guns of the Vigilantes
by William W. Johnstone
After seeing an entire family murdered, and with the eldest daughter missing, young deputy Dan Caine throws away his badge, forms a vigilante team and goes after the killers because come hell or high water, justice will be served.
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New eAudiobooks from Boundless
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
by Damilare Kuku
The anti-rom-com collection features 12 outrageous, bold and humorous stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Kill for Me, Kill for You
by Steve Cavanagh
Two ordinary women make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.
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Like Happiness
by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Explores the complexities of gender, power, race and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer.
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
by Xochitl Gonzalez
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
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There's Always This Year
by Hanif Abdurraqib
One of our culture's most insightful critics and most of all, an Ohioan, reflects on the golden era of basketball during the 1990s and explores what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation and the very notion of role models.
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The Underground Library
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but soon tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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The Husbands
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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Headshot
by Rita Bullwinkel
Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors’ pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win.
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All the World Beside
by Garrard Conley
In 18th century Cana, Massachusetts, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield, a pillar of the local community, develops a passionate relationship with physician Arthur Lyman and their families must deal with secrets, lies and judgements at the start of the Great Awakening.
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The Mystery Writer
by Sulari Gentill
When he is accused of murdering his sister Theo's literary mentor and lover, Gus, after Theo disappears, leaving behind clues in the form of a story, soon discovers that in order to protect the carefully constructed deceit, Theo, and everyone who ever looked for her, must die.
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