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LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BAD GIRLS AND NASTY WOMEN
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by Kelly Regan Barnhill
1955 was the year of the Mass Dragoning - when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers turned into fiery dragons and flew away, leaving shock and destruction in their wake. Those who took to the skies are never spoken of again.
An exploration of rage, memory, and the forced limitations of girlhood.
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by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead.
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by Karma Brown
Alice Hale doesn't want to move from her tiny Manhattan apartment to a fixer-upper in the suburbs. But her husband has long wanted to move out of the city, and Alice, recently out of a job, feels like she doesn't have a reason to say no. But when Alice discovers a cookbook and letters left behind by the house's previous owner, Nellie Murdoch, she gets more inspiration than she bargained for.
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by Camilla Bruce
Belle Gunness learned a long time ago that a woman has to make her own way in this world. That's all it is. A bloody means to an end. A glorious enterprise meant to raise her from the bleak, colorless drudgery of her childhood to the life she deserves.
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by Tara Isabella Burton
Louise Wilson is penniless, but she's mastered all the tricks and shortcuts needed to survive in New York City. She dreams of making this cosmopolitan existence real. When she meets Lavinia that world is suddenly within reach, and she will do anything to keep the party going. Whatever it takes ...
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by Ren DeStefano
Sissy is supposed to find a man, make him fall in love with her, and then ... kill him. It's what her sisters have done, and now it's her turn. But the unthinkable happens. Sissy falls in love, and her sisters are ... not happy.
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by Samantha Downing
Time with your family can be tough. It is for everyone. It's even harder when you're all keeping secrets and trying to forget a memory -- a missing person, an act of revenge, the man in the black truck who won't stop following your car -- and especially when at least one of you is a killer and there's a body in the trunk
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by Layne Fargo
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise.
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by Amy Gentry
fClaire "Mac" Woods - a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference - finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved.. But her hardscrabble past and tenuous present is always worrying. What, exactly, did Mac do to get what she has today? And what will she do to keep it ...
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by L. S. Hilton
Judith Rashleigh supplements her meager art house paycheck as a call girl catering to clients with "exotic" tastes. Her day job and side hustle collide in a calamitous mess of sex, drugs, stolen art, and ... murder
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by S. L. Huang
Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice -- for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They're also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats. Lin Chong joins their ranks when keeping her head down and doing her job isn't enough to keep her away from a powerful man with a vendetta.
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by Meagan Jennett
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him ...
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by Nikki Marmery
Adam and Lilith are happy equals in the Garden of Eden. But then Adam decides, hey, no, I'm the man and the woman submits. Lilith refuses, and is banished and demonized. When Eve comes along, Lilith decides to rescue her from her. Lilith has a plan -- and a secret.
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by Sascha Rothchild
Ruby may have gotten mad enough to kill - three times, to be exact. But she's not a sociopath - she's a therapist! She loves animals, and her friends, and especially her husband, Jason. When she is accused of Jason's murder, she knows she didn't kill him, the police - and the public - don't believe her innocence.
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by Sarah Schmidt
What might have happened that sweltering August day in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts when Lizzie Borden took an ax ... (maybe? did she?)
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by Laura Sims
Margo is a really nice lady. A middle-aged librarian, always helpful and genial, and quite frankly charming. Margo loves the library, where she has turned a new page (so to speak). Where no one knows that she's actually a nurse who had an abnormally large number of patients die under her care. But then a patron dies in the library bathroom ...
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by Lucy A. Snyder
A virus spreads world-wide, transforming victims in spectacularly horrible ways. Three very different women are drawn together by circumstance, and by the virulent changes happening to and around them as the world collapses.
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by Zoje Stage
Suzette is bringing up her daughter Hanna with all the love, care, and support she herself was denied as a child. But Hanna is ... difficult. At seven, she can read and write, but refuses to talk. She is angry and aggressive, and only seems happy around her father. Is she a willful and precocious little girl, or something more ... dangerous?
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by Helene Tursten
When women become a certain age, they become ... invisible. 88 year-old Maude prefers to be seen as a helpless, frail, little old lady. She can get away with so much more that way.
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by Stephanie Wrobel
For the first eighteen years of her life no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold Watts. Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar. After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes.
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