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New Adult Fiction - Authors A - F
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This great hemisphere : a novel
by Mateo Askaripour
The world she has fought so hard to build after the disappearance of her older brother comes crashing down when authorities claim that he is not only alive and well. He's also the main suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive of the Northwestern Hemisphere.
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Navola
by Paolo Bacigalupi
In Navola, a city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, Davico di Regulai must demonstrate his mastery of Navolese diplomacy as he prepares to take the reins of power from his father. His fate depends on what lies buried in the heart of his adopted sister.
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The au pair affair : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
26-year-old aspiring marine biologist Tallulah jumps at the opportunity to be a live-in nanny for hockey veteran and newly single dad, Burgess. Helping her tween charge fit in also helps Burgess get back on the dating scene. When boundaries are crossed, they find their hearts on thin ice.
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Long Island compromise : a novel
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
In denial that they're all still affected by their wealthy businessman father's kidnapping back in 1980, the Fletcher siblings hover at the delicate precipice of another kind of survival. They must face desperate questions about how much their family's wealth has played a part in both their successes and failures.
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Quickly, while they still have horses : stories
by Jan Carson
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses offer a fresh, irreverent look at life in post-conflict Northern Ireland. From first loves to strained relationships, the thrills and terrors of growing up to the dangers and challenges of parenthood, Carson infuses all her stories with empathy, dark wit, and a surreal edge.
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Things don't break on their own : a novel
by Sarah Easter Collins
Willa's life has been defined by her sister's disappearance. She sees fragments of her sister everywhere. When she attends a dinner party thrown by her first love she discovers that's not about to change tonight.
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Flashpoint
by Catherine Coulter
As a deadly conspiracy unfolds, FBI agent Dillon Savich races to protect a witness from an attack and help a psychic child search for his missing father in the latest novel of the series following Reckoning.
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Death on the Tiber
by Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia investigates a vicious underworld gang after a British tourist is found strangled and dumped in the Tiber in first century Rome, in the 12th novel of the series following Fatal Legacy.
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This summer will be different
by Carley Fortune
Lucy's best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding. Lucy follows her to Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and to help her resist the one man she's never been able to. However, his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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Red star falling
by Steve Berry
Luke Daniels searches for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, rare manuscripts that contain the key to ending a looming threat orbiting 200 miles above the earth. Luke must find them before others, both inside and outside of Russia, unleash the destructive potential of the Red Star program.
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The ashes & the star-cursed king: a crowns of Nyaxia novel
by Carissa Broadbent
A prisoner in her own kingdom, Oraya is grieving the only family she ever had. She comes to realize that she cannot trust anyone until Raihn, a Turned king, offers her a secret alliance. That is her only chance at reclaiming her kingdom and exacting revenge on the love who betrayed her.
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The cautious traveller's guide to the Wastelands
by Sarah Brooks
The Trans-Siberian Express takes a new set of passengers across the Wastelands, home to miraculous and terrifying creatures. However, the rules of the magical landscape change and the travelers must trust each other as the wildness outside threatens to consume them all.
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Rednecks
by Taylor Brown
Dramatizing the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, this powerful story of rebellion against oppression follows a Black WWI veteran and coal miner as he leads a miners' revolt and a Lebanese American doctor who risks his life and career to treat the sick and wounded miners.
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The rom-commers
by Katherine Center
Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arrives in LA. She discovers he's a jerk who doesn't even believe in love. Refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
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Swift River
by Essie Chambers
Diamond Newberry is the only Black person in all Swift River in 1987. After her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she receives a letter from a relative she's never met. Through this letter, she is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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The glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier
From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers. They live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss. Through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
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The unwedding
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
while staying at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, recent divorcee Ellery Wainwright finds the place beautiful, yet unsettling. It becomes especially so when a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has something horrific in store for them all.
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The next Mrs. Parrish : a novel
by Liv Constantine
Prominent socialite Amber Patterson Parris' husband Jackson is getting out of prison. However, an enemy from her past emerges looking for revenge. Amber, Jackson and Jackson's ex-wife Daphne become unlikely allies. When all is said and done, they'll have to fight for everything they have left in this zero-sum game.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
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Parade
by Rachel Cusk
A new novel follows G, an artist whose life contains many lives.
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A daughter of fair Verona
by Christina Dodd
The eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find her arranged groom-to-be a more suitable bride.
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Little rot
by Akwaeke Emezi
When a sex party brutally upends the lives of three old friends, they are sucked into the underbelly of a corrupt Nigerian underworld. They look for a way out of the trouble they've instigated amidst power, sexual violence, murder and betrayal, testing how far they'll go to save each other—or themselves.
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Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos, an unforgettably compelling masterpiece, tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans.
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Mrs. Quinn's rise to fame : a novel
by Olivia Ford
after 59 years of marriage, Jenny becomes a contestant on a British baking show. She has decided to do something for herself. She delights in her new-found independence, but finds the show unearthing memories buried decades ago—and a secret that could be a recipe for disaster.
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Malas
by Marcela Fuentes
When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral. Their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and at a curse that reverberates across generations. One woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
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Forget me never
by Susan Wittig Albert
Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, "Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim's Storyboard," which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now, she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs-someone who isn't the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she's out jogging early one morning.
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The ministry of time
by Kaliane Bradley
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams to work on a top secret project. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time-travel is feasible for the human body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
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The devil's fortress
by Dale Brown
The slightest error could be fatal for all of them--and, ultimately, for millions of Americans. With the clock ticking, and dangers mounting on all sides, it's up to Flynn and the others to finish Voronin before it's too late. In this all-or-nothing battle, victory is the only acceptable outcome--no matter how high the cost!
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The museum of lost quilts
by Jennifer Chiaverini
While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts decides instead to research the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society. She discovers its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.
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Act of defiance
by Brian Andrews
When U.S. intelligence reports there's something going on in Russia, President Jack Ryan and his youngest daughter, Katie, determine the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine. The race is on to find its location and decide if it poses a threat to the continental U.S.
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Think twice
by Harlan Coben
When his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, his longtime friend and colleague, search for answers. However, the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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The instruments of darkness
by John Connolly
In Maine, Collen Cark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her own child. Everyone, ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, and ordinary folk, has an opinion on the case. Most believe she is guilty.
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Voices of Rome : four stories of Ancient Rome
by Lindsey Davis
Four pivotal events, fact and fiction. Four stories which allow Davis's much-loved characters new space and the opportunity to take personal roles in tense situations, with moving results. They face villainy, tragedy, accident, confusion and fear - but each story is told with the wry humour, and underpinned by human wisdom, courage and love.
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Red side story
by Jasper Fforde
In a society strictly regulated by one's limited color perception, 20-year-old Eddie Russet, out on the fringes of Red Sector West, is framed for murder. To save himself and Jane Grey, with whom he has an illegal relationship, he must negotiate the narrow boundaries of the Rules to find a loophole.
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This summer will be different
by Carley Fortune
Lucy's best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding. Lucy follows her to Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and to help her resist the one man she's never been able to. However, his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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The cemetery of untold stories : a novel
by Julia Alvarez
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life. However, they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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A calamity of souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life. Set against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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The familiar
by Leigh Bardugo
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. This plunges her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur. A place in which she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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The garden : a novel
by Clare Beams
In 1948, pregnant Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages, stays with a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. While there, she discovers a long-forgotten garden, a place imbued with its own powers. She makes a desperate bid to harness the garden's power despite the consequences.
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers : a novel
by Samuel Burr
20-something Clayton Summer, was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists. The esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away. She has bestows her final puzzle on him. He embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.
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Rough trade
by Katrina Marie Carrasco
When two murders are linked to the opium trade, Alma Rosales scrambles to keep lawmen away from her operation. However, she becomes distracted by the appearance her first love, Bess Spencer, while deciding how far she'll go to protect her business when there could be a spy in her inner circle.
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Sharpe's command : Richard Sharpe and the bridge at Almaraz, May 1812
by Bernard Cornwell
Sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside in the early 19th century, far behind enemy lines, the formidable Captain Sharpe and his group of men, with their cunning and courage to rely on, must stop two French armies from meeting on the Almaraz bridge.
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Clear : a novel
by Carys Davies
An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
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I cheerfully refuse : a novel
by Leif Enger
In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior. He is seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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Erasure
by Percival L. Everett
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
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The hunter
by Tana French
Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from Chicago PD, has moved to Ireland. He has built a relationship with Lena and is gradually turning teenager Trey Reddy into a good kid. One day, however, Trey's long-absent father reappears with an English millionaire and a get-rich-quick scheme. Trey wants revenge.
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The limits
by Nell Freudenberger
Sent to New York to stay with her father, an overworked surgeon, and his new wife, 15-year-old Pia, rebels against her stepmother when COVID sends them into near total isolation. She finds her life colliding with 16-year-old Athyna, who's caring for a toddler full time, as they spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
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2054 : a novel
by Elliot Ackerman
Set 20 years after the events of the New York Times best-selling 2034 the fate of American democracy is threatened by tech visionary in the Amazon rainforest who uses a breakthrough in AI to assassinate the president.
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Fangirl down : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Once golf's fastest rising star, Wells Whitaker's career craters before his eyes, despite the ongoing support of a beautiful redhead who always cheers him on from the sidelines, who he eventually invites to be his new caddy.
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American spirits
by Russell Banks
Three interlocking tales about the locals in a rural New York town, including two criminals who kidnap an elderly couple to blackmail their grandson, and a man who is hounded on social media after selling his property to a stranger.
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The divorcees
by Rowan Beaird
A novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch" explores the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future.
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The atlas complex
by Olivie Blake
Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
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The princess of Las Vegas : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator lives in the Buckingham Palace Casino with her own musical cabaret. She finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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Victim : a novel
by Andrew Boryga
After college graduation, hustler from a family of hustlers, Javi Perez writes a viral essay embellishing his life story. This lands him a gig at a legendary magazine. However, when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
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Tell
by Jonathan Buckley
A novel of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide.
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The hearing test : a novel
by Eliza Barry Callahan
Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year. it is a year filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters. All the while she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Good half gone
by Tarryn Fisher
After witnessing her twin sister get kidnapped years prior, Iris Walsh decides to intern at a hospital for the criminally insane where she believes the perpetrator is being held and discovers something even more sinister going on.
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat. Meanwhile, Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, take s refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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The Atlas Maneuver
by Steve Berry
Retired Justice Department operative. Cotton Malone unwittingly becomes caught in a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA. A war that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust and a legendary treasure worth billions. Malone must stop cryptocurrency from being weaponized to attack the world's financial systems.
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Mercury
by Amy Jo Burns
Arriving in Mercury, Pennsylvania, in 1990, gorgeous teenager and perpetual loner Marley West marries one of the Joseph brothers. She tries to lead this family of roofers to stability in this hardworking, blue-collar town by helping them escape their unwieldy father's shadow.
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Here in Avalon
by Tara Isabella Burton
Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances.
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The Turtle House : a novel
by Amanda Churchill
It is 1999 in Texas. When her grandmother Mineko moves in with Lia Cope they connect with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry. When Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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Nobody's angel
by Jack Clark
With two serial killers stalking the streets—one targeting prostitutes and one targeting cabbies, Chicago hack Eddie Miles takes the violence personally, especially when he witness one of the killers in action.
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Redwood court : fiction
by DâeLana R. A. Dameron
Mika Tabor, the baby of the family, learns important lessons from the people who raise her. Her hardworking parents, her older sister, her retired grandparents and the community on Redwood Court are committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall.
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The bezzle
by Cory Doctorow
Martin Hench is a self-employed forensic accountant. He stumbles upon the ultra-wealthy's newest mark—California's Department of Corrections. Martin discovers that they will stop at nothing to extract money from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy.
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How to dance : a novel
by Jason B. Dutton
Nick Freeman works hard as the star of the weekly karaoke night at his bar, hoping his singing talent...will distract from his cerebral palsy. When Hayley Burke notices Nick's reaction to her dancing, she urges him to acknowledge his passion and try a few moves himself. Nick tries to fight his attraction to Hayley, believing she deserves a dance partner who can really move.
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The trouble with you : a novel
by Ellen Feldman
Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II, when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant.
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The Wharton plot : a novel
by Mariah Fredericks
In 1911 New York City, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, becomes obsessed with solving the crime. Especially since his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
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