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Popular FictionMarch 2024
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Table for Two : Fictions by Amor TowlesThe 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 viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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Finding Margaret Fuller : a novel 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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James : a novel by Percival EverettDescribes 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 ObrehtSettling 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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The Divorcées by Rowan BeairdA novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch" explores the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future.
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Double Lives by Mary MonroeDepression-era, Southern identical twin sisters decide to switch places when one is being stifled in a passionless marriage and the other is heartbroken over losing her true love, in the fourth novel of the series following Love, Honor, Betray.
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The Cemetery of Untold stories : a novel by Julia AlvarezInheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves.
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Annie Bot by Sierra GreerLooks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
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Memory Piece by Lisa KoMoving 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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Headshot by Rita BullwinkelEight teenage girl boxers from different backgrounds travel to Reno, Nevada, to compete against each other in a tournament to be named the best in the country, in a series of raw, intense face-offs.
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Pride and Joy : a novel by Louisa OnomâeThree generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grapples with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back.
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All We Were Promised : a novel by Ashton LattimoreA former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia where she plays servant to her white-passing father and befriends a young abolitionist and risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.
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The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo PiazzaInheriting a plot of land in Sicily, along with a bombshell family secret—her great-grandmother Serafina didn't die of illness but was murdered—Sara Marsala races all over the picturesque Italian countryside to solve a mystery and learn the real story of Serafina, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.
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Piglet : a novel by Lottie HazellA new novel explores women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all.
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Pelican Girls : a novel by Julia MalyeCaptures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory.
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All Our Yesterdays : a novel of Lady Macbeth by Joel H. MorrisA novel set 10 years before the events in Shakespeare's classic play follows the life of Lady Macbeth who was married to the violent, sadistic Mormaer of Moray at age 15 and relied on her wits to survive with her young son.
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A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya GowdaThis latest novel from the New York Times best-selling author explores how the aftermath of the arrest of a young sibling in a close-knit Indian-American family exposes both their close ties and fractures.
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The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha AdamsTwo warring London neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden.
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas WesterbekeCursed with immortality at nine, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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The Husbands by Holly GramazioWhen 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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Queens of London : a novel by Heather WebbIn 1925 London, brilliant criminal mastermind Alice Diamond, the queen of an all-girl gang, must outwit and outsmart Britain's first female policewoman who is determined to prove herself by putting Alice out of business—permanently.
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The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara DonatiIn 1857, young midwife Carrie Ballentyne travels west to the New Mexico Territory for a nursing position, but while helping women give birth in Sante Fe, she discovers her employer is keeping secrets and must ferret out the truth to save his young daughter whom she's come to love.
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel BurrRaised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists, 20-something Clayton Summer, when the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away, bestowing her final puzzle on him, embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth.
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Mania : a novel by Lionel ShriverSet in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a subversive novel by the New York Times best-selling author looks at a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars.
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The Limits by Nell FreudenbergerSent to New York to stay with her father, 15-year-old Pia, rebelling against her stepmother when COVID sends them into near total isolation, finds her life colliding with 16-year-old Athyna, who's caring for a toddler full time, as they spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy SchaffertParis bookshop owner Yorick, joining a secret society of other Titanic ticket holders who didn't board the ship, forms a book club where they can grapple with their good fortune and anxieties through discussions of literature, but when one of them dies, he wonders what fate has in store.
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The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona WilliamsSet in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family.
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I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif EngerIn a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna LabuskesIn 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 a 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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