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New eBooks from Libby, by OverDrive
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The Familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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Funny Story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
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Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation.
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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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The Princess of Las Vegas
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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The Rule Book
by Sarah Adams
Representing famous NFL tight end Derek Pender, her college ex-boyfriend, agent Nora MacKenzie, when he tries to make her life miserable, sets in motion a scheme of her own, but when a wild night in Vegas leads to marriage, their rule book goes out the window.
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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 Red Address Book
by Sofia Lundberg
Living alone in her Stockholm apartment, a ninety-six-year-old woman reminisces through the pages of a long-kept address book before starting to write down stories from her past, unlocking family secrets in unexpectedly beneficial ways
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Memory Piece
by Lisa Ko
Moving from the predigital 1980s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, a novel of friendship, art and ambition follows three lifelong friends as they strive for meaningful lives in a world that turned out to be radically different from the one they were promised.
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Finding Margaret Fuller
by Allison Pataki
An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller-America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post.
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The Berlin letters
by Katherine Reay
Discovering a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead, CIA codebreaker Luisa Voekler learns the truth about her grandfather's work and her father's identity, and with a rudimentary plan and hope, journeys to Berlin to free her father from an East German prison.
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Good Half Gone
by Tarryn Fisher
After witnessing her twin sister get kidnapped years prior, Iris Walsh decides to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane where she believes the perpetrator is being held and discovers something even more sinister going on.
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Unruly Figures
by Valorie C. Clark
A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society-in science, politics, art, and more-transformative. By the author and host of the popular Unruly Figures Substack newsletter and podcast.
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The Girls We Sent Away
by Meagan Church
In 1960s North Carolina, when Lorraine, the darling girl-next-door, becomes pregnant, her parents send her away to a maternity home, where she must decide if she has the agency and power to fight to keep her baby or if she must submit to the rules of the society she once admired.
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Secrets of the Octopus
by Sy Montgomery
A new book—written by the author of the international best-seller The Soul of an Octopus and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography—brings readers closer than ever to these elusive creatures.
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The Woman With No Name
by Audrey Blake
When her house bombed and she has nothing left, Yvonne Rudellat prepares to take her own life but fate intervenes, offering her the opportunity to train as a Special Operative Executive where she vows to set Europe ablaze and clear the way for the women who come after.
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The Other Side of Disappearing
by Kate Clayborn
Accompanying her sister on a search for their mother, who ran off with an accomplished con man years earlier, Jess, as they make their way across the country, unraveling the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why, discovers a willingness to expand beyond the walls she's so carefully built.
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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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Just for the Summer
by Melody Carlson
A manager at a Seattle boutique hotel and a woman who runs her grandfather's fishing lodge in western Washington decide to swap jobs for the summer and discover that there is more to happiness than just changing the scenery.
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New eBooks from Boundless
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Age of Revolutions
by Fareed Zakaria
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.
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A Point of Beauty
by Crown
This collection of true stories about finding beauty in life's transitions is curated by The Moth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling and features contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Lin-Manuel Miranda and many more.
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The Lost Book of Bonn
by Brianna Labuskes
In 1946 Germany, librarian Emmy Clarke, while cataloging literature plundered by the Nazis, finds a poetry collection which leads her to two sisters, a horrific betrayal and an extraordinary protest of hundreds of brave women who did what so few others dared to do under the Third Reich—they said no.
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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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The Angel of Indian Lake
by Stephen Graham Jones
Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
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Fervor
by Toby Lloyd
A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.
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Everyone Is Watching
by Heather Gudenkauf
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening.
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Ghost Town Living
by Brent Underwood
The owner of Cerro Gordo, a ghost mining town established in 1865 recalls how he managed to bring the town back to life through hard work and pushing himself beyond what he thought he was capable of.
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James
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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The Morningside
by Téa Obreht
Settling at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City, Silvia, struggling with her new reality, becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse and is determined to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past.
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