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Fiction A to Z August 2024 |
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| Parade by Rachel CuskThis unconventional latest from award winner Rachel Cusk follows various artists named G: one paints his wife upside down to much acclaim, another marries and becomes a mother, and four others live equally intriguing lives. Shifting perspectives and narrators, this stylistically complex offering examines art, family, love, and gender. |
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The Memory Library
by Kate Storey
For forty-three years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves - with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella - Sally's only child - fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back.
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The Shepherd of Princes
by Mike Bonikowsky
In a ruined future where the only currency is strength, a small community fights to maintain a place for weakness. The Shepherd of Princes is a novel about what it means, and what it costs, to care for another person. It is a meditation on the gifts that those who seem to have nothing can offer their society, and of the price that is to be paid when those gifts are refused.
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The black bird oracle : a novel
by Deborah Harkness
When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their 7-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop, forging a different path, confronts her family's dark past and reckons with her desire for even greater power — if she can let go of her fear of wielding it. Book 5 in the All Souls Series.
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| The God of the Woods by Liz MooreA 13-year-old girl disappears in 1975 from the Adirondack summer camp that her wealthy parents own...just as her brother did 14 years earlier. This intricately plotted literary mystery includes various points of view as it compellingly details the searches for each of the siblings while exploring family, crime, and class. For fans of: All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers; The Last Child by John Hart. |
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| How to Age Disgracefully by Clare PooleyTo save their local London community center, a group of eclectic seniors and their empty-nester social leader team up with a 17-year-old single dad from the nursery school group in this funny, feel-good novel. Read-alikes: Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson; The Thursday Murder Club mysteries by Richard Osman. |
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The Bang-Bang sisters : a novel
by Rio Youers
Kickass bandmates who moonlight as highly skilled vigilantes, exacting justice on criminals who have escaped the system, Brea, Jessie and Flo find themselves at the mercy of a ruthless mobster who forces them to play a sadistic game that pits them against each other — and only one of them can survive.
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One wrong move
by Dani Pettrey
Making amends for his criminal past, Christian Macleod has become one of the country's top security experts. But a string of heists brings attention from Andi Forster, an insurance investigator with her own checkered past. The two of them are drawn into a dangerous game with an opponent bent on revenge, and one wrong move could be the death of them both.
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