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New fiction for January 2024
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The book of fire: a novel
by Christy Lefteri
After a wildfire consumes their home in present-day Greece, Irini makes a split-second decision that will haunt her forever, while her husband Tasso, unable to paint due to the burns on his hands, finds hope for the future in his young daughter.
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You only call when you're in trouble
by Stephen McCauley
"After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. Tom does what he always does--answers the call. And therein lies either the beauty or dysfunction, (or perhaps both) of the sometimes too tight ties that bind families together"
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Where you end: a novel
by Abbott Kahler
After awakening from a coma with no memory of who she is, Kat Bird, with her twin sister Jude helping her rebuild her memory block by block by block, making her into the person she was before, soon discovers everything is a lie.
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Two Dead Wives
by Adele Parks
Living in a small village while she recovers from illness, Stacie Jones, shielded from the outside world by her father, finds her reclusive life shattered when she is linked to a scandalous and sad case of a missing woman with a shocking secret.
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Sugar, Baby
by Celine Saintclare
Moving in with Emily, a model and sugar baby, dating rich older men for money, and the other sugar babies, mixed-race 21-year-old Agnes is drawn deeper and deeper into their world of high-paid sex work where she finds herself searching for fulfillment just as desperately as she was before.
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River East, River West
by Aube Rey Lescure
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.
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Of Hoaxes and Homicide
by Anastasia Hastings
At the behest of a heartbroken mother, sensible Violet Manville, aka Miss Hermoine, is drawn into a world of the Hermetic Order of the Children of Aed cult but soon finds herself faced with more intrigue than she can manage when she discovers murder is a member.
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Northwoods
by Amy Pease
The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America's opioid epidemic.
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The night of the storm: a novel
by Nishita Parekh
Hunkering down with her sister in her fancy house in Sugar Land, along with her brother-in-law's family, as Hurricane Harvey bears down on Houston, single mom Jia Shah and her 12-year-old son, Ishaan, finds tensions escalating along with the storm, resulting in murder.
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The night island
by Jayne Ann Krentz
When a mysterious informant disappears, Talia March, searching for a list of people like her and her friends, is forced to team up with Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man chasing the same list, when they are both targeted by a killer.
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Inverno
by Cynthia Zarin
Stretching across decades, this daring, heartbreaking story follows a woman named Caroline, waiting in Central Park during a snowstorm for her phone to ring, as past and present collide, showing how love can make and unmake a life.
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The house of last resort: a novel
by Christopher Golden
Buying an abandoned house in the remote Italian town of Becchina, American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi are drawn into a nightmare when they discover the home was owned by the Church—and learn the truth about what the priests were doing in this house for all those long years.
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Holiday country
by çInci Atrek
Spending the summer in Turkey with her family, Ada begins to imagine a different future for her mother after a mysterious man from her past returns and must come to terms with her own attraction to him.
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Hard by a great forest
by Leo Vardiashvili
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"
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The expectant detectives
by Kat Ailes
Embracing country life as they prepare for the birth of their first child, Alice and her partner Joe instead find themselves suspects in a murder investigation when a dead body is discovered at the local prenatal class and teams up with other moms-to-be to clear her name.
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The Djinn waits a hundred years
by Shubnum Khan
Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner's second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena's mysterious death.
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Diva
by Daisy Goodwin
Describes the scandalous love affaire between the legendary opera singer, Maria Callas, and the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, whose relationship ended suddenly with the shocking news that he was to marry Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Deep Freeze
by Michael C. Grumley
After surviving a bus accident, veteran Joh Reiff awakens in the hospital alive and suspicious that the doctors aren't telling him something, in the first novel of a new series by the author of the “Breakthrough” series.
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Dead in Long Beach, California
by Venita Blackburn
Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality.
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The Curse of Pietro Houdini
by Derek B. Miller
From the Dagger Award-winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult
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Confrontations
by Simone Antangana Bekono
A mixed-race teenager in the Netherlands spends months at a juvenile detention center for a violent crime that she did not commit and must come to terms with the her anger, sorrow and guilt.
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Cold victory: a novel
by Karl Marlantes
Two women in 1947 Helsinki, one American and one Russian, have their loyalties and friendship put to the test when their husbands drunkenly challenge each other to a secret cross-country ski race at an embassy party pitting freedom against communism.
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