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New Adult Fiction Authors T - Z
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Margo's got money troubles : a novel
by Rufi Thorpe
Margo, who is the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler. When an affair leads to an unexpected pregnancy, she finds herself on her own with an infant. In desperate need of cash, she starts an OnlyFans account that turns her into a runaway success. This soon comes with a high price.
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The Entire Sky
by Joe Wilkins
Trying to make it on his own as a runaway, troubled teenager Justin is taken in by the Bouchard family. He finds unexpected kinship with the aging rancher and his daughter, finally finding a place to call home until his past threatens to catch up with him.
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The coin : a novel
by Yasmin Zaher
A young Palestinian woman begins to teach at a school for underprivileged boys in New York. Her eccentric methods cross boundaries, and she gets caught up in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. In order to gain control over her body and mind, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, while drawing her students into her obsessions.
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Devil is fine
by John Vercher
The narrator inherits a former plantation from his estranged white grandfather. This forces a grieving biracial man to confront his family's dark past and his own identity, in the new novel from the author of Three-Fifths.
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All the colors of the dark : a novel
by Chris Whitaker
After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping. This ignites a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
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Husbands & lovers : a novel
by Beatriz Williams
Two women, separated by decades and continents share an exotic family heirloom. They search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Summer Wives.
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Heavenbreaker
by Sara Wolf
The illegitimate daughter of a commoner and a duke, Synali von Hauteclare, survives an attack by an assassin hired by her father. She plans her revenge by riding and fighting on a giant robot.
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Stuart Woods' Smolder
by Brett Battles
Stone Barrington is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother's paintings. He must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.
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Familiaris
by David Wroblewski
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, mysterious and enchanting, Familiaris takes readers on an unforgettable journey from the halls of a small-town automobile factory, through an epic midwestern firestorm and an ambitious WWII dog-training program, and far back into mankind’s ancient past.
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Cinema love : a novel
by Jiaming Tang
Old Second and Bao Mei emigrate to New York City's Chinatown, where they reminisce about their secret past in a rural Chinese cinema that taught them to navigate forbidden love, societal pressures and an uncertain future.
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Long Island : a novel
by Colm Tâoibâin
In 1976 Lindenhurst, Long Island, Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s with no one to rely on in this still-new country, discovers her husband got a woman pregnant. What's more, the woman's husband refuses to raise the child. Ellis feels the need to decide what she will do and not do in this unexpected situation.
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The last murder at the end of the world : a novel
by Stuart Turton
On an isolated island where 122 villagers and three scientists live in peaceful harmony, one of the scientists is found brutally murdered. This triggers a security system, giving the islanders only 107 hours to solve the murder or be smothered by the fog that destroyed the planet.
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One perfect couple
by Ruth Ware
Lyla and Nico land on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize. They are starring in the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple. They find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
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The winner : a novel
by Teddy Wayne
Spending the summer in a glamorous gated community near Cape Cod, Conor, a tennis instructor, tumbles into a secret erotic affair with a divorcee twice his age. Simultaneously, he falls for a girl he meets on a beach. Torn between these two women, he makes a final, irreversible mistake.
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The last time she saw him : a novel
by Kate White
When her ex-fiancé is found dead from a gunshot wound while at their friend's Connecticut country house, Kiki is determined to prove it was murder, not suicide. To get the police to take her seriously she searches for the missing link. She uncovers something far more sinister than she had ever imagined.
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The foxglove king
by Hannah Whitten
Thrust into the Sainted King's court, a debauched and opulent society, Lore, who has a secret power to raise the dead, tangles in politics, religion and forbidden romance. She attempts to find out who is responsible for wiping out entire villages on the outskirts of the country.
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The hemlock queen
by Hannah Whitten
The glittering and dangerous world of the Sainted King's royal court is upended when Prince Bastian seizes control, and a mysterious dark force begins to take over.
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How to read a book : a novel
by Monica Wood
How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.
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Colton Gentry's Third Act
by Jeff Zentner
A grieving country star, haunted by tragedy and bad bourbon- based decisions, finds redemption and rediscovers himself in his Kentucky hometown while working alongside his high school sweetheart amidst flashbacks to their musical past.
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Table for two : fictions
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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A short walk through a wide world : a novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Aubry is cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion. She flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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Butter : a novel of food and murder
by Asako Yuzuki
After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins corresponding with a gourmet cook convicted of killing multiple lonely businessmen. She notices herself slowly beginning to change after each meal she eats.
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The new couple in 5b
by Lisa Unger
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
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Help wanted : a novel
by Adelle Waldman
A group of misfit, big-box store employees working the overnight shift in a small upstate New York town vie for the stability, salary and possibility of a new job when their store manager announces he is leaving.
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Burma sahib : a novel
by Paul Theroux
An Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma. This forces him to navigate social , racial and class politics in the new novel by the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast.
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The cleaner : a novel
by Brandi Wells
Every night, she cleans. On the fourth floor of an unnamed office in an unnamed city, the night cleaner comes and does what she does best--sorts out the messes of the daytime employees. None of them know her, but she knows everything about them.
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Ours
by Phillip B. Williams
Sweeping through 1830s Arkansas to rescue enslaved people, Saint, a fearsome conjuror, creates a town magically concealed from outsiders. They name the town Ours. However, over time, as the town becomes vulnerable to intruders, some people wonder whether the community's safety might by yet another form of bondage.
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A love song for Ricki Wilde : a novel
by Tia Williams
Leaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop, just as the Harlem Renaissance swirls around her, in the new novel from the author of Seven Days in June. 150,000 first printing.
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Praiseworthy
by Alexis Wright
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. Praiseworthy is an epic which pushes allegory and language to their limit; a unique masterpiece that bends time and reality, opening new literary vistas; a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage; and a fable for the end of days.
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Unsouled
by Will Wight
If everyone's magic comes from their soul, what happens if you don't have a soul? Sacred artists follow a thousand Paths to power, using their souls to control the forces of the natural world.
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