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New Adult Fiction - Authors L - O
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne shadow
by Brian Freeman
When he meets a woman who recognizes him as David Webb, Bourne is forced to confront the dangerous ghosts of a past he doesn't event remember.
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Liars : a novel
by Sarah Manguso
Writer Jane marries filmmaker John Bridges, who wants the same things she does, to be in love and live a successful, creative life. She finds herself becoming subsumed by his ambitions, whims and ego. Suddenly, her career flourishes. This causes him to leave her, giving her a much-needed opportunity to live life her way.
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The god of the woods
by Liz Moore
It is 1975 and a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp's owners has disappeared, shockingly just like her brother 14 years earlier. A panicked search begins as the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.
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Sandwich : a novel
by Catherine Newman
Rocky is sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. She relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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You are here : a novel
by David Nicholls
Michael and Marnie are brought together by a persistent mutual friend. They are complete opposites except for the fact they're both recovering from heartbreak. On a ten-day hike, neither of them can think of anything worse until they find exactly what they've been looking for. It may be each other.
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Tangled up in you
by Christina Lauren
Raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her 22 years, Ren, who has never held an iPhone or engaged in social media, attends Corona College where she's partnered with Fitz, a handsome, rich player, for a simple assignment, which unexpectedly throws both their lives off course.
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Craft : stories I wrote for the devil
by Ananda Lima
A collection of short stories as told by a Brazilian-American writer who slept with the devil at a Halloween party in 1999. She spends the rest of her life describing to him beautiful and impossible things.
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The wren in the Holly Library
by K. A. Linde
Street thief, Kierse is trapped in the library of an old Brownstone with a monster filled with terrible power and darkness. Instead of killing her, the monster offers her a job. Kierse gets a glimpse into who she really is, which could be something far worse than a monster.
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Same as it ever was : a novel
by Claire Lombardo
Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things. A surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.
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The housemaid is watching
by Freida McFadden
The New York Times best-selling author presents another addictive psychological thriller. The Housemaid now with a family of her own, moves to the suburbs, leaving her dark secrets behind. She soon finds this seemingly perfect neighborhood the most dangerous place of all.
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Lula Dean's little library of banned books: a novel
by Kirsten Miller
Lula Dean is trying to rid public libraries of “pornographic” books. So, she starts her own lending library in front of her home. Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly. Lindsay is secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in “wholesome” dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
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Summer romance
by Annabel Monaghan
A professional organizer whose own life is a mess, newly single mom Ali Morris meets a man who looks at her like she's a version of herself she hasn't been in a long while. Ali decides there's no harm in a little summer romance—or is there?
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The road to the country : a novel
by Chigozie Obioma
In 1960s Nigeria, Kunle's younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war. Kunle sets out on an impossible rescue mission, which becomes a journey of atonement that will see him forced to fight a war he hardly understands while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer.
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The paradise problem
by Christina Lauren
Liam Weston, the uptight heir of a grocery chain finds that his 100-million-dollar inheritance comes with a catch. He must be happily married for five years. He turns to his secret not- so-ex-wife Anna Green, a feisty, foul-mouthed artist, to fake their relationship and convince his one-percenter parents they're in love.
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This strange eventful history : a novel
by Claire Messud
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades. It begins with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them. It ends with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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Shanghailanders
by Juli Min
Starting in 2040 and going backwards to 2014, this brilliantly constructed exploration of marriage, relationships and the layered experience of time, follows the Yangs, a cosmopolitan Shanghai family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter and through the eyes of those closest to them.
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Oye : a novel
by Melissa Mogollon
Luciana is the baby of her large Colombian American family. When her eccentric grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, Luciana finds her wild demands, unpredictable antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction. It all puts Luciana on center stage, facing down adulthood—and rising to the occasion.
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America del Norte
by Nicolâs Medina Mora
A member of the Mexican elite, with a degree from Yale and an American girlfriend, struggles under the Trump administration's war against immigrants and must confront life as a person of color in a polarized country.
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Hunted
by Abir Mukherjee
Two parents searching for their lost children are on the run together, while trying to stop an unknown organization's conspiracy to bring down America, in the new novel by the author of A Rising Man.
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Within arm's reach : a novel
by Ann Napolitano
The unforgettable story of three generations of an Irish American family, Within Arm's Reach is another rich and deeply satisfying novel from the author who captured the many dimensions of grief in Dear Edward and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood in Hello Beautiful.
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Butcher: father of modern gyno-psychiatry
by Joyce Carol Oates
A disgraced doctor's quest for surgical renown in 19th-century America leads him down a horrifying path of experimentation on marginalized women at a New Jersey asylum. His obsession with a young Irish indentured servant brings about his ultimate destruction.
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Whale fall
by Elizabeth O'Connor
In 1938, when a dead whale washes up on the shores of a remote Welsh island, Manod sees this as a sign of things to come. She is drawn to two English ethnographers who are studying their cultures. She is reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued.
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All we were promised : a novel
by Ashton Lattimore
A former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia, where she plays servant to her white-passing father. She befriends a young abolitionist and risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.
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A game of lies
by Clare Mackintosh
Detective Ffion Morgan must untangle alibis and uncover what happened when a reality show in the Welsh mountains turns into a deadly game of truth or dare after one of the participants is murdered.
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One by one
by Freida McFadden
Forced to hike to their hotel after their minivan breaks down, a group of friends finds themselves hopelessly lost in the woods. Soon they are each struck down mysteriously one by one, making them wonder if an animal is hunting them—of if the hunter is one of them.
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Indian burial ground
by Nick Medina
When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspects something sinister is stalking their tribal lands. She relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets, horror and what might be the key to determining Roddy's true cause of death.
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Daughter of mine : a novel
by Megan Miranda
Hazel returns to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home. There she discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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A kind of madness : stories
by Uche Okonkwo
Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness, but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness.
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Sun of blood and ruin
by Mariely Lares
In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera. She uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule. She is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
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Fruit of the dead : a novel
by Rachel Lyon
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
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The inmate
by Freida McFadden
Brooke Sullivan is a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-security prison. She has already broken the rules due to her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates, because her testimony put him there and he will never forget.
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Parasol against the axe
by Helen Oyeyemi
In Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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The road from Belhaven
by Margot Livesey
Lizzie Craig, who lives in late-nineteenth-century Scotland is gifted with the ability to see into the future. She is courted by Louis. However, when she follows him from Belhaven Farm to Glasgow, she learns the limits of his devotion. This forces her to make a terrible mistake until her second sight allows her a second chance.
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To cage a god
by Elizabeth May
Bound to brutal deities and granted forbidden power no commoner has held in a millennia, sisters and living weapons Galina and Sera must end the cruel reign of a royal family possessed by destructive gods, which forces them both to make impossible choices to overthrow an empire.
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The teacher
by Freida McFadden
Addie becomes a pariah at Caseham High School after having an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. She is desperate to keep the truth hidden. Meanwhile Evie, horrified to find Addie in her class, is keeping something from her husband. Each will learn just how far someone will go to keep them silent.
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Wandering stars
by Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There.
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How we named the stars : a novel
by Andrâes N. Ordorica
Equal parts tender and triumphant, Andrâes N. Ordorica's How We Named the Stars is a debut novel of love, heartache, redemption, and learning to honor the dead. It is a story of finding the strength to figure out who you are--and who you could be, if only the world would let you.
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