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We're moving! You may wish to suspend your holds or change the pick-up library on your holds to Batavia, or a neighboring SWAN library for future items, since the Library will be closed a few weeks while we move to our temporary location. Library staff will be happy to do this for you, or show you how to manage your holds online. At any time, you can find the New Fiction and New Nonfiction lists on our website.
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Across the Way
by Mary Monroe
Tensions between the bootlegging Hamiltons and the respectable Watson families in Depression-era Alabama reach a boiling point that leads to lies, deceit and violence, in the finale of the Neighbors series.
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Actress
by Anne Enright
When her Irish-theater-legend mother succumbs to alcohol and instability, Norah draws on her experiences of surviving a crime and growing up in the wings of her mother’s career to rediscover herself as a wife, mother and writer.
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The Animals at Lockwood Manor
by Jane Healey
When a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.
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Barn 8
by Deb Olin Unferth
Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night in this whimsical heist story.
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Beheld
by TaraShea Nesbit
The best-selling author retraces the story of the Pilgrims from the perspectives of the rebel Billington family, whose disputes with Puritan neighbors under the influence of a newcomer escalate into Plymouth’s first murder.
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Blackwood
by Michael Farris Smith
In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods.
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The City We Became
by N. K. Jemisin
This first book of an exciting new series by a Hugo Award-winning author takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City, where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars.
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Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon
A novel based on the real-life story of socialite-spy Nancy Wake features the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII.
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Coming Up for Air
by Sarah Leipciger
Set in Paris in 1899, Norway in the 1950s, and the Ottawa Valley in Canada in 2017, three lives intertwine in poignant and surprising ways in this richly textured historical novel based on the death mask of L’Inconnue de la Seine.
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Days of Distraction
by Alexandra Chang
A marginalized Silicon Valley staff writer moves with her boyfriend to a quiet upstate New York town where she confronts the challenges of their interracial relationship and the questions it raises about her heritage.
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Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.
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The Everlasting
by Katy Simpson Smith
Traces the lives of four individuals from different times in Roman history, from an early Christian child martyr and a medieval monk on crypt duty to a Medici princess of Moorish descent and a contemporary field biologist.
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The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning author of Station Eleven presents a tale of crisis and survival in the hidden landscapes of homeless campgrounds, luxury hotels, private clubs and federal prisons, where a massive Ponzi scheme is tied to a woman’s disappearance at sea.
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A Good Neighborhood
by Therese Fowler
The single mother of a mixed-race college student and a thriving business owner with a troubled daughter clash over a historic oak tree on their property line and the blossoming romance between their children.
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In Five Years
by Rebecca Serle
An ambitious young lawyer on the brink of having it all disregards a vivid dream about how different her life will be in five years, before meeting the man in her vision nearly five years later.
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It's Not All Downhill from Here
by Terry McMillan
Confident that her best days are still ahead, a successful businesswoman relies on close friends and her resourcefulness when an unexpected loss turns her world upside down.
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The Land Beyond the Sea
by Sharon Kay Penman
The young ruler of 12th-century Jerusalem finds his efforts to protect his people complicated by his lifelong struggles with leprosy, threats against his power and a limited number of trustworthy advisors.
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Lost at Sea
by Erica Boyce
After her father, a local fisherman, is lost at sea, Ella becomes convinced that he is still alive and vows to find him, even as hidden secrets are revealed that affect many members of the small, coastal community.
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The Mirror & the Light
by Hilary Mantel
A tale inspired by the final years of Thomas Cromwell describes how after the execution of Anne Boleyn and childbed death of Queen Jane, the former blacksmith’s son orchestrates a desperate plot to fortify England and save his own life.
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The Mountains Sing
by Phan Que Mai Nguyn
Years after a family is forced by Vietnam’s Communist Land Reforms to abandon their farm, a granddaughter comes of age as her loved ones depart for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
A historical novel based on the life of the author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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The Numbers Game
by Danielle Steel
Setting aside her dreams to raise a family, Eileen reevaluates her sacrifices in the wake of her husband’s affair with a famous actress’s daughter, who discovers that she needs to find herself before committing to someone else.
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On the Corner of Hope and Main
by Beverly Jenkins
When the mayor of historic Henry Adams, Kansas, decides it’s time to step down, a former marine and his wife battle each other for the position, putting their teenage son squarely in the middle.
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Out of the Embers
by Amanda Cabot
When a fire destroys the orphanage where she worked, Evelyn Radcliffe flees to the Texas Hill Country with an orphan in tow and a killer in pursuit. Will a rugged horse rancher hold the key to her future-and her past?
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The Operator
by Gretchen Berg
A 1950s Ohio switchboard operator who eavesdrops on her neighbors’ conversations uncovers unexpected secrets when she decides to investigate a malicious rumor that threatens to upend her carefully ordered life.
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Privilege
by Mary Adkins
A marginalized scholarship student, a biracial member of an elite circle of scholars and coffee-house worker trying to pay her way through school find themselves on opposing sides in a politically charged sexual assault case.
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These Ghosts Are Family
by Maisy Card
A man on his deathbed reveals that he stole another man’s identity decades earlier, traces the family’s history from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem, and reconnects with the firstborn daughter he never knew.
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And They Called It Camelot
by Stephanie Thornton
Using her charm and intelligence to carve a place for herself among the men of history, Jackie Kennedy is forced to reassemble the fragments of her life after her husband’s assassination.
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Valentine
by Elizabeth Wetmore
An astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime and other hardships on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s
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We Ride upon Sticks
by Quan Barry
Nearly three centuries after their coastal community’s witch trials, the women athletes of the 1989 Danvers Falcons hockey team combine individual and collective talents with 1980s iconography to storm their way to the state finals.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
A follow-up to the award-winning Euphoria follows the story of a former child golf prodigy-turned-unemployed writer whose determination to live a creative life is complicated by her relationships with two very different men.
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Before Familiar Woods
by Ian Pisarcik
In the wake of the murder of three boys and the disappearance of their fathers, a woman and a war veteran uncover devastating secrets in the backwoods town of North Falls, Vermont.
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The Boy from the Woods
by Harlan Coben
A man with a past shrouded in mystery searches desperately for a missing teenage girl whose disappearance is triggering disastrous consequences throughout her community and the world.
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The Bramble and the Rose
by Tom Bouman
Investigating the suspicious death of another detective, Officer Henry Farrell finds himself set up for a nephew’s disappearance and an ex’s murder.
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City of Margins
by William Boyle
The lives of several lost souls intersect in gritty 1990s south Brooklyn, from a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands to the grieving mother of a suicide victim.
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A Conspiracy of Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan struggles to identify a faceless murder victim in possession of her cell number, a mystery that is entangled with a decade-old missing-child case.
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Credible Threat
by Judith A. Jance
Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises try to save an archbishop from a would-be killer who has been sending sinister death threats.
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Cross Her Heart
by Melinda Leigh
When her sister Erin is murdered and Erin’s husband goes missing, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert vows to uncover the secrets of her sister’s life and death but when the danger hits close to home, her own family is caught in a death grip.
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Death in Avignon
by Serena Kent
A sequel to Death in Provence finds amateur sleuth Penelope Kite’s budding relationship with the mayor of St. Merlot thrown into turmoil by the suspicious death of a controversial expat painter.
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A Death in Chelsea
by Lynn Brittney
A secret team of amateur female detectives investigate after a notorious society gossip queen is believed to have committed suicide in her room, but her family suspects foul play.
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Devoted
by Dean R. Koontz
A child who has not spoken since his father’s death befriends a dog who understands his wordless communications, which are complicated by the boy’s conviction that evil is targeting his family.
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Do No Harm
by Max Allan Collins
Nathan Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case, in which a young doctor, after being startled from sleep and discovering his wife brutally murdered, claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife; but the evidence points to otherwise.
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Eight Perfect Murders
by Peter Swanson
Years after establishing a literary career through his compilation of the mystery genre’s most unsolvable classics, an unsuspecting bookseller is tapped by the FBI for help solving murders that eerily mimic the books on his list.
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The Final Deception
by Heather Graham
In a series finale, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan navigates unnerving ties to an escaped killer in the wake of an outbreak of violent murders that FBI agent Craig Frasier believes may be the work of a copycat.
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A Forgotten Murder
by Jude Deveraux
Gathering at a British country estate for a festive murder-mystery weekend, a retired romance novelist and her old friends tackle a 25-year-old unsolved case that is complicated by the discovery of a murdered jewel thief.
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Gone By Midnight
by Candice Fox
Distrustful of the police, Sara Farrow turns to Crimson Lake’s unlikeliest private investigators—disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell—to help find her missing son.
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Hammer to Fall
by John Lawton
Posted in disgrace to remote northern Finland under the guise of a cultural exchange representative, 1960s MI6 spy Joe Wilderness earns money on the side as a vodka smuggler before uncovering a mining operation with possible atomic ties.
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Hide Away
by Jason Pinter
Rachel Marin was a happily married mother of two before a horrific act of violence shattered her life. Seven years later, she and her children have started over in the city of Ashby, IL. But Rachel is no ordinary grieving widow - she's transformed herself into a vigilante. A riveting plot in what seems the start of a promising series.
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Hit List
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington, former New York City cop turned Manhattan law firm rainmaker, finds himself in rather hot water in a high-suspense latest entry in the best-selling series.
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Hour of the Assassin
by Matthew Quirk
Using his elite training as a former Secret Service agent to test security around high officials, Nick implicates himself while trying to prevent a death before uncovering a decades-old conspiracy targeting the Oval Office.
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The Jerusalem Assassin
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Investigating the murders of senior American officials who were negotiating a Middle East peace agreement, Marcus Ryker and his CIA operative team uncover a chilling plot against the life of the President. By the best-selling author of The Last Jihad.
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Journey of the Pharaohs
by Clive Cussler
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew race to identify a link between an ancient Egyptian treasure, a 1927 daredevil aviator’s disappearance and the sinking of a modern fishing trawler to prevent a scheme by a cutthroat arms dealer.
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The K Team
by David Rosenfelt
A debut entry in a new spin-off series of the Andy Carpenter mysteries finds Andy’s wife, Laurie, returning to police work when she forms an investigative team with her detective ex-partner and his K-9 German Shepherd helper.
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The Last Odyssey
by James Rollins
When a medieval ship containing a clockwork gold atlas by famous Muslim inventor Ismail al-Jazari is discovered beneath Greenland’s frozen tundra, Sigma Force is challenged to prevent a regional uprising inspired by the tales of Homer.
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The Last Tourist
by Olen Steinhauer
Retired agent Milo Weaver has his hideout in the Western Sahara invaded by a young CIA analyst who questions him about suspicious deaths and the possible return of the Tourists, in the fourth novel of the series.
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Lavender Blue Murder
by Laura Childs
Attending a traditional English bird hunt, tea-maven Theodosia Browning and her sommelier, Drayton Conneley, stumble on the wounded body of their host before suspicious accidents prompt the organization of a séance to expose the culprit.
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Long Range
by C. J Box
Assisting an investigation into a fatal grizzly attack that is not what it seems, Joe Pickett becomes embroiled in the case of a prominent judge’s wife by a would-be assassin who was shooting from a confoundingly long distance.
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Man on Edge
by Humphrey Hawksley
Traveling to Moscow to meet undercover with a senior Russian officer, Carrie Walker finds herself stranded when the carefully planned operation goes awry. In grave danger, there’s only one person she can turn to for help: her former fiancé, Major Rake Ozenna, who must act fast if he is to prevent a global catastrophe
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Masquerade for Murder
by Mickey Spillane
Hard-boiled PI Mike Hammer investigates after a wealthy and well-respected man his hit by a car and his search for the hit-and-run driver leads him to a trail of strangulation murders in the latest addition to the long-running detective series.
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Murder at the Mena House
by Erica Ruth Neubauer
Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel—an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I and deadly dangers wait in the shadows.
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A Murderous Relation
by Deanna Raybourn
Tasked to prevent a royal scandal involving the prince and a brothel madam, Veronica and Stoker go undercover, only to become embroiled in the Jack the Ripper killings.
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Please See Us
by Caitlin Mullen
Two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home. An eerie and compelling psychological thriller that explores the intersection of womanhood, power, and violence.
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A Reasonable Doubt
by Phillip Margolin
When a magician linked to suspicious deaths goes missing in the middle of performing a new trick, criminal defense attorney Robin Lockwood untangles dangerous clues to identify a killer among numerous suspects.
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The Red Lotus
by Chris Bohjalian
Falling in love with a wounded former patient and accompanying him on a cycling trip to Vietnam, an emergency-room doctor uncovers a bizarre series of deceptions that culminate in her boyfriend’s unexplained disappearance.
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Revolver Road
by Christi Daugherty
Crime reporter Harper McClain is back on the beat on Tybee Island, where she has been lying low since receiving a threatening phone call from “a man who knew far too much about her mother’s murder” 16 years earlier. While on the resort island, she gets drawn into the disappearance of eminent musician.
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The Safety Net
by Andrea Camilleri
Inspector Montalbano looks into the mystery of an engineer who discovers odd movies shot by his father on the same day every year between 1958 and 1963 while a middle school is threatened by armed men.
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A Shadowed Fate
by Marty Ambrose
1873, Florence. Claire Clairmont, the last survivor of the summer of 1816 Byron/Shelley circle, determines to travel to Ravenna to learn the true fate of Allegra, her daughter by Lord Byron. But Claire soon finds herself shadowed at every turn and in increasing danger. Can Claire uncover what really happened so many years ago?
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Texas Outlaw
by James Patterson
Receiving unwanted attention when his country-singer girlfriend writes a hit song about his heroism, Texas Ranger Rory Yates relocates to a tiny municipality where he investigates the suspicious death of a corrupt councilwoman.
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Trace Elements
by Donna Leon
A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, to uncover a threat to the entire region.
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Victim 2117
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The death of a seemingly random refugee in the Mediterranean Sea triggers powerful reverberations in a teen with murderous impulses, an Abu Ghraib terrorist and Department Q’s Assad, who uncovers links to a family he assumed was long dead.
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You Are Not Alone
by Greer Hendricks
A lonely misfit with a dead-end job quietly envies a circle of popular sisters who hide dangerous vengeful truths beneath a veneer of friendship, glamour and accomplishments.
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The Billionaire in Boots
by Julia London
Returning home to run the family ranch after the death of his father, Nick Prince, not happy about this turn of events, goes up against his late father’s feisty office manager, Charlotte Bailey, who makes him want to stay at the ranch—forever.
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The Honey-Don't List
by Christina Lauren
Accompanying a reality-show couple on a book-signing tour, a country girl who desperately needs her job and an MIT engineer fall for each other behind the scenes while struggling to keep their employers’ rocky marriage intact.
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In Bed with the Earl
by Christi Caldwell
To solve a mystery that's become the talk of the town, no clues run too deep for willful reporter Verity Lovelace. Not even in the sewers of London where she finds a lost heir, love and danger.
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The Magnolia Sisters
by Michelle Major
Arriving in Magnolia to claim her inheritance, which includes two half-sisters she’s never met, Avery Keller plans to leave this quirky North Carolina town ASAP until she finds the family she has always longed for and a gorgeous single dad who just could be Mr. Right.
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The Sea Glass Cottage
by RaeAnne Thayne
Returning to her northern California hometown to care for her estranged mother, an unfulfilled career woman reflects on the cycles of addiction and enabling that ended her sister’s life and orphaned her niece.
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
by Josie Silver
A woman grieving the loss of her fiancé finds herself swapping back and forth between parallel lives, including one in which her first love has survived and another involving a new person who is asking her to move on.
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Hearts of Oak
by Eddie Robson
A delightfully strange and charming science fiction adventure about town planning, cats, and the nature of complacency and reality.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
Linus Baker is a caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. Sent to a remote orphanage to report on six magical children, he soon becomes part of their unique community and realizes the unwitting harm he caused as a cog in an uncaring bureaucratic machine.
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Otaku
by Chris Kluwe
This debut novel from a former NFL player and tech enthusiast follows a young woman, who, longing to escape reality, loses herself in a virtual world where she is loved, feared, and watched by millions across the globe until she stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy.
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The Rise of Skywalker
by Rae Carson
Written with Lucasfilm guidance and additional scenes, an epic conclusion to the Skywalker saga expands the story of the highly anticipated movie, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Smoke Bitten
by Patricia Briggs
Centuries after the banishment of the fae allows magical creatures to run wild, a violent escaped shape-shifter is pursued by a were-coyote and her pack of protective half-humans.
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