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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed November
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A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem
by Manda Collins
Distancing herself from London notoriety when her latest sensational article leads to a high-profile arrest, Lady Katherine clashes with a handsome detective inspector after witnessing a murder upon her arrival in the country.
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At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop
Haunted for refusing to kill an injured comrade who begged to be spared an agonizing death, a World War I Chocolat soldier from Senegal begins killing enemy soldiers as penance, earning a sinister reputation along the way.
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The office of historical corrections : a novella and stories
by Danielle Evans
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self examines race, grief and apology in a history-inspired anthology that complements the title novella with the stories, “Boys Go to Jupiter” and “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain.”
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Boneset & Feathers
by Gwendolyn Kiste
Boneset & Feathers is a novel of witchy folk horror by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste, in which a young woman must re-ignite her magic against the threat of the dreaded witchfinders.
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Shelter in place : a novel
by David Leavitt
Unsuccessfully challenging her influential friends in New York to perform an online search for tips on how to assassinate Donald Trump, a salon hostess impulsively purchases a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, triggering an unexpected affair.
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A Million Aunties
by Alecia McKenzie
After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother’s homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some peace and tranquility. He plans to spend his time painting in solitude and coming to terms with his recent loss and his fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated “family,” with their own startling stories, including a love triangle. The people he meets help him to heal, even as he supports them in unexpected ways, through his art.
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Earthlings : a novel
by Sayaka Murata
"As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to Natsuki that he is an extraterrestrial, and Natsuki starts to wonder if she might be an alien too. Later, as a married woman, Natsuki feels forced to fit in to a society she deems a "baby factory" but wonders if there is more to the world than the mundane reality everyone else seems to accept. The answers are out there, and Natsuki has the power to find them.
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The midnight bargain
by C. L. Polk
The award-winning author of Witchmark presents a romantic fantasy set in a magical Regency England, where a sorceress must balance magic-ending familial duty with her ambition to become her world’s first great sorceress.
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