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The Bromance Book Club
by Lyssa Kay Adams ROM ADA
To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source — a secret romance-reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.
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An Unnecessary Woman
by Rabih Alameddine F ALA
An obsessive introvert in Beirut, eschewed by her family and neighbors for her divorced status and lack of religious reverence, quietly translates favorite books into Arabic while struggling with her aging body until an unthinkable disaster threatens what little life remains to her.
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood F ATW
In the aftermath of the second World War and her sister's suicide, Iris witnesses an unlikely series of events that are interwoven with the sci-fi tale of a pair of anonymous lovers and the death of Iris' industrialist husband.
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Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders
by Julianna Baggott F BAG
Gathering around the deathbed of their matriarch, a reclusive famous author who may have written a final manuscript, three generations of women share respective secrets that have shaped their lives and loves.
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
by Katarina Bivald F BIV
A Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.
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Book of Colours
by Robyn Cadwallader F CAD
In early fourteenth-century England, Lady Mathilda Fitzjohn commissions an illuminated book of hours to promote her family's rise in wealth and position. Cadwallader presents much detail on the processes of illumination, which adds interest to this story of well-meaning people struggling to create beauty in an often ugly and difficult world.
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Buried in Books
by Kate Carlisle M CAR
Book restoration expert Brooklyn finds her surprise bridal shower complicated by the arrival of her two feuding former besties, the discovery of a rare book forgery and an untimely murder.
#12 in the Bibliophile Mystery series.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon F CHA
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
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The Bookshop on the Corner
by Jenny Colgan ROM COL
A "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her senses of adventure and home while searching for a happy ending of her own.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai F DAI
At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young boys are sent to the country for "reeducation" at a remote mountain village, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translations.
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The Little Paris Bookshop
by Nina George F GEO
Prescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef.
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The Library of the Unwritten
by A. J. Hackwith FAN HAC
Assigned to watch the restless characters of books left unfinished by their authors, a head librarian of Hell’s neutral Unwritten Wing tracks an escaped Hero before an angel attack reveals the existence of a powerful literary weapon.
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Beach Read
by Emily Henry F HEN
An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each others’ styles.
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Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz M HOR
Ignoring the troubling behavior of an eccentric crime writer with whom she has worked for years, editor Susan Ryeland is dismayed when a subplot hidden in the author's latest manuscript reveals a real-world murder.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King F KIN
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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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern F MOR
Discovering a mysterious book of prisoner tales, a Vermont graduate student recognizes a story from his own life before following clues to a magical underground library that is being targeted for destruction.
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield F SET
Having spent six decades creating a series of alternate lives designed to bring her fame and fortune while hiding the truth about her tragic past, reclusive and enigmatic Vida Winter finds herself torn by young Margaret Lea's simple request for the truth about her own birth.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan F SLO
After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
by Michael Zapata F ZAP
Decades after a 1929 Dominican immigrant writer passes away believing her final manuscript was destroyed, a Chicago lawyer discovers the book and endeavors to learn the woman’s remarkable story against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin F ZEV
When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.
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