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Learned by heart
by Emma Donoghue
Based on a true story and a five-million-word secret journal, this extraordinary work of fiction follows an orphaned heiress, banished from India to England, and a brilliant, troublesome tomboy who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in 1805 York where they fall secretly, deeply and dangerous in love. Simultaneous.
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Knockout
by Sarah MacLean
One of the Hell's Belles—a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London, Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other. Original.
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Duke seeks bride
by Christy Carlyle
The Duchess of Waverly's personal secretary, Miss Aurelia Graves, mistaken for her employer until Alexander Fennessey learns the truth, agrees to let others think she's the duchess for a fortnight, while making it clear she has no interest in marrying him, until the tables turn, and he wants to marry her. Original.
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The breakaway : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
While leading a group bike trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, 34-year-old Abby Stern, newly engaged, encounters Sebastian, the one-night stand she never thought she'd see again, and, determined to keep him at arm's length over the next two weeks, finds her certainties about herself and the nature of love challenged. Simultaneous.
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Mother-daughter murder night : a novel
by Nina Simon
When her teenage granddaughter Jack happens upon a dead body while kayaking near their bungalow and becomes a suspect in the investigation, high-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon sets out to find the true murderer, uncovering a dangerous web of lies lurking beneath the surface of their sleepy coastal town.
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Enchanted to meet you
by Meg Cabot
Chic boutique owner and witch Jess is asked to help mentor a local teen who might be the Chosen One in the first novel of a new series by the best-selling author of The Princess Diaries series. 30,000 first printing.
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The September house
by Carissa Orlando
Determined to stay in her dream home—a haunted Victorian in which, every September, the walls drip blood, Margaret, when her husband leaves abruptly, finds every attempt made at finding him causes the hauntings to grow more harrowing because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.
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The fraud
by Zadie Smith
In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the “Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he's really who he says he is or if he's a fraud.
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The circumference of the world
by Lavie Tidhar
"Delia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn't supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. Oskar Lens, a science fiction-obsessed mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, will stop at nothing to find the novel. After Delia's husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer. The infamous novel Lode Stars was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartley's novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system. But is any of Lode Stars real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?"
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Evil eye : a novel
by Etaf Rum
The acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents.
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The Longmire defense
by Craig Johnson
Investigating a crime that goes back to his grandfather's time in Wyoming, Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absaroka County, recalling clues and motives from his past, questions the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West.
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Bessie
by Linda Kass
Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie.
Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, who, in 1945 at age twenty-one, remarkably rises to become one of the most famous women in America. This intimate fictional portrait reveals the transformation of the nearly six-foot-tall, self-deprecating yet talented preteen into an exemplar of beauty, a peripheral quality in her world, where success is measured by intellectual attainment. Yet it is the focus on her beauty, and the secular world of pageantry, that she must choose to escape her roots and fulfill her fierce desire to achieve and become someone for whom great things happen.
Bessie is a tender study of a bold young woman living at a precarious moment in our cultural history as she searches for love and acceptance, eager to make her mark on the world.
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The girl in the eagle's talons
by Karin Smirnoff
Named guardian to her niece, whose mother has disappeared, Lisbeth Salander, while keeping the remarkably gifted teenager safe, comes to Mikael Blomkvist's aid when rumors about the man his daughter is about to marry lead to violence, plunging them both into a world of conspiracy and betrayal in the ice-bound wilderness.
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The ascent
by Stefan Hertmans
In 1979, Stefan Hertmans, obsessed with a rundown townhouse in Ghent, discovers the previous owner was a former SS officer and sets out to tell the story of the house and the people who lived in it and passed through it, reimaging a family in a historical moment of great upheaval. Illustrations.
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Letters from my sister : a novel
by Valerie Fraser Luesse
"Sisters Emmy and Callie have no secrets between them until a mysterious accident robs one of a crucial memory and sparks troubling visions. Only through letters they exchange while painfully separated do the sisters reveal hidden truths leading back to a fateful springtime day--and a chilling September night--that changed them both forever"
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Holly : a novel
by Stephen King
Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
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Happiness falls : a novel
by Angie Kim
Mia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father.
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All that we never were
by Alice Kellen
After their parents are killed in a horrific car accident, two siblings, Leah and Oliver, accept an offer from a best friend to move to Australia and start over in the first novel of a new series. Original.
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Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue
by Christine Higdon
Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic that stole their only brother, are scraping by but attempting to make the most of the exciting 1920s. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is a love story -- but like all love stories, it's complicated ...
Morag is pregnant; she loves her husband. Georgina can't bear hers and dreams of getting an education. Harriet-Jean, still at home with her opium-addicted mother, is in love with a woman. Isla's pregnant too -- and in love with her sister's husband. Only one soul knows about Isla's pregnancy, and it isn't the father? When Isla resorts to a back-alley abortion and nearly dies, Llewellyn becomes hellbent on revenge, but against whom and to what end? What will it change for Isla and her sisters? For women? And where can revenge lead for a man like Llew, a police detective tangled up in running rum to Prohibition America?
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is immersed in the complex political and social realities of the 1920s and, not-so ironically, of the 2020s: love, sex, desire, police corruption, abortion, addiction, and women wanting more. Beautifully written, with a compelling cast of characters, this novel is a tender account of love that cannot be acknowledged, of loss and regret, risk and defiance, abiding friendship, and the powerful bonds of chosen family.
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Things we left behind
by Lucy Score
When enemies-to-lovers Sloane Walton, a feisty small-town librarian, and Lucian Rollins, a vengeance-seeking mogul hellbent on building an indestructible empire, are stuck at an impasse, both wanting different things, they must decide whether or not to take a chance on forever. Original.
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A second chance for yesterday
by R. A. Sinn
"Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She's been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one day at a time. As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her. Airin is charming and mysterious, and somehow knows Nev intimately well. Desperate and intrigued, Nev takes a leap of faith. A friendship born of fear slowly becomes a bond of deepest trust, and possibly love. With time running out, and the whole world of SavePoint users at stake, Nev must learn what it will take to set things right, and what it will cost"
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Her Body Among Animals
by Paola Ferrante
In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world "among animals," where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions.
A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a dark secret is haunted by dolls; a couple bound for a colony on Mars take a road trip through Texas; a girl fights to save her sister from growing a mermaid tail like their absent mother.
Magical yet human, haunted and haunting, these stories act as a surreal documentation of the mistakes in systems of the past that remain very much in the present. Ferrante investigates toxic masculinity and the devastation it enacts upon women and our planet, delving into the universal undercurrent of ecological anxiety in the face of such toxicity, and the personal experience of being a new mother concerned about the future her child will face.
Through these confrontations of the complexity of living in a woman's body, Her Body Among Animals moves us from hopelessness to a future of resilience and possibility.
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The witching tide : a novel
by Margaret Meyer
In 1645 East Anglia, Martha, a midwife, healer and servant who has not spoken in years, is caught between suspicion and betrayal when a witchfinder arrives and, in desperation, revives a wax witching doll in hope that it will bring protection, but the doll's true powers are unknowable and could reveal her secret.
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Kissing kosher
by Jean Meltzer
Going undercover at a family-owned Jewish bakery to steal their world-famous Pumpkin Spiced Babka recipe, the heir to a kosher baked-goods empire finds himself distracted from his mission by the woman working the counter and discovers the best recipes in life are the ones you bake yourself. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Roaming
by Jillian Tamaki
"Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship off-balance. Emotional tensions vibrate wildly against the resplendently illustrated backdrop of the city, capturing a spontaneous queer romance in all of its fledgling glory. Slick attention to the details of a bustling, intimidating metropolis are softened with a palette of muted pastels, as though seen through the eyes of first-time travelers. The awe, wonder, and occasional stumble along the way come to life with stunning accuracy"
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What you are looking for is in the library : a novel
by Michiko Aoyama
This tribute to the magic of libraries, friendship and community follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.
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A Volga Tale
by Guzel Yakhina
Expelled from his village along the Volga for falling in love with the student he was tutoring, Jakob is forced to raise his daughter alone in a secluded deep-woods hamlet and makes up fairy tales to keep her entertained.
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The queen and the knave
by Sarah M. Eden
In 1866 London, Móirín Donnelly works with Detective Constable Fitzgerald Parkington when members of the Dread Penny Society begin disappearing and has one chance to save both Fitz and her friends from a criminal mastermind but may have to sacrifice her once chance at love to do so. Original. 14,000 first printing.
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Hemlock Island
by Kelley Armstrong
After fleeing renters of her Hemlock Island vacation home report broken belongings, out of control campfires, bones, hex circles, and bloody scratches inside the guest room closet, Laney Kilpatrick and her teenage niece show up to investigate. 75,000 first printing.
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Payback in death
by J. D. Robb
While investigating the apparent suicide of a retired Internal Affairs captain, who made his career tripping up bribe takers, rule breakers and worse, homicide detective Eve Dallas follows a trail of corruption all the way to the top to expose a killer bent on revenge.
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The vaster wilds
by Lauren Groff
Escaping from a colonial settlement in the wilderness, a servant girl, with nothing but her wits, a few possessions and some faith, is tested beyond the limits of her imagination, forcing her to question her belief of everything her own civilization taught her.
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Chenneville : A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
by Paulette Jiles
After recovering from a traumatic head injury, John Chenneville discovers his beloved sister and her family were murdered during the end of the Civil War and embarks on an odyssey across the Reconstruction-era South seeking revenge. 150,000 first printing.
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Flipping boxcars : a novel
by Cedric
Struggling to get by during the Great Depression and World War II, Babe, a gambler with a heart of gold and the gift of gab, when he endangers the little security his family has, risks everything for one big score—a make-or-break scheme involving railroad boxcars. Simultaneous.
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The stranger upstairs : a novel
by Lisa Matlin
When bizarre accidents, threatening notes and unexplained footsteps in the attic confirm something is very wrong with her infamous house—the scene of a murder, Sarah finds her life—and sense of reality—spiraling out of control as she unearths the deadly legacy of Black Wood House.
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Nineteen steps : a novel
by Millie Bobby Brown
In 1942 London, as World War II rages on, Nellie Morris, embracing an exciting new life with an American airman, finds her world torn apart by an air raid with catastrophic consequences, but when it seems all hope is lost, she finds that, against all odds, love and happiness can triumph.
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Condor's fury : a novel from the NUMA files
by Graham Brown
Kurt and Joe respond to a nearby distress call while on a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean to discover a terrified and disoriented crew potentially suffering from Havana Syndrome, in the 20th addition to the series following Dark Vector.
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The raging storm
by Ann Cleeves
When the body of Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer and legend—is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, DI Matthew Venn returns home to investigate where he is faced with superstition and rumor as another body is found, placing him and his team in danger. 150,000 first printing.
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Where there was fire
by John Manuel Arias
A Costa Rican family wrestles with a deadly secret. A first novel. Includes a family tree.
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Others were emeralds : a novel
by Lang Leav
"The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late 90's and despite their parent's harrowing past, Ai and her tightknit group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable horrors suffered by their parents. But that carefree innocence is shattered in their last year of school when Ai and her friends encounter a pair of racist men whose cruel acts of intimidation spiral into senseless violence. Grappling with the magnitude of her grief at such a young age, Ai leaves Whitlam for college before her trauma has a chance to fully resolve. In her second year of college Ai suffers a mental health crisis, driving her back home to Whitlam, a place she swore never to return. There, she reconnects with those she left behind and together they are compelled to look back on the tragedy that shaped their adolescence and examine the role they may have unwittingly played"
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Not forever, but for now : a novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
Two brothers in a family of professional killers, Otto and Cecil find it hard to continue the family legacy due to a series of escaped convicts showing up at their door, a lecherous new tutor with disturbing hobbies, their mother's burgeoning opioid addiction and the disappearance of their father.
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I'm a Fan
by Sheena Patel
A commanding new voice in literature, in her debut novel, introduces us to an unnamed narrator who describes her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship, dissecting the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes surprising connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships. A first novel. Original.
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Fall of ruin and wrath
by Jennifer L Armentrout
Living hidden as a courtesan, Calista, born with an intuition that makes her of great value to the power-hungry of the world, comes to the rescue of a prince who tempts her like no other and forces her to choose: follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.
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Landscapes : a novel
by Christine Lai
While in the English countryside to archive what remains of an estate's once notable collection, Penelope, when her partner's abusive brother returns, finds herself unable to suppress the past, and clings to art as a means of understanding, of survival and of reckoning.
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Where peace is lost : a novel
by Valerie Valdes
At the edge an isolated star system, Kel Gardavros, once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy, finds her past intruding in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine that is suddenly reactivated, primed to kill every sentient creature on the planet. Original.
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Good women
by Halle Hill
"In twelve stories, Good Women follows the lives of Black women through Appalachia and the Deep South, examining what forces shape their realities and what force they carry with them. A darkly funny and deeply human collection, Hill observes how place, blood-ties, generational trauma, desperation, obsessions, and boundaries (or lack thereof) all influence how people navigate their worlds-in the most intimate and most coincidental of relationships. A woman on the Greyhound bus barreling toward a Florida retirement community prepares to lie to her online boyfriend's mother; a teenager joins Weight Watchers at church as her father's illness overwhelms their home; a young woman working at the state fair considers revenge against a man who's harmed her mother. As these women wrestle with what they need, with what they want, Hill captures what's mundane in moments of absurdity and what isn't in painfully ordinary moments, and how any moment could be life changing"
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Dayswork : a novel
by Chris Bachelder
Obsessed with sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville during the pandemic, a woman finds her days' work extending outward to an orbiting cast of Melvillean questers and fanatics, as well as to biographers and writers, which ultimately becomes a midlife reckoning with her own marriage and ambition.
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Herc
by Phoenicia Rogerson
This queer, revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules is actually the story of everyone else—his friends, enemies, wives, children, lovers, rivals gods and victims, giving voice the to silenced characters in the classic Hercules myth.
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Dearborn : stories
by Ghassan Zeineddine
"Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions heighten within a close-knit group of couples when a mysterious man begins to frequent the local gym pool, dressed in Speedos printed with nostalgic images of Lebanon. And a failed stage actor attempts to drive a young Lebanese man with ambitions of becoming a Hollywood action hero to LA, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have other plans. By turns wildly funny, incisive, and deeply moving, Dearborn introduces readers to an arresting new voice in contemporary fiction and invites us all to consider what it means to be part of a place and community, and how it is that we help one another survive"
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The sight : a novel
by Melanie Golding
"As a child, Faith acquired the ability to see when and how people would die--a "gift" she neither wanted nor could get rid of. After foreseeing a family tragedy and being ostracized, Faith learns to control her visions, and returns to perform in her family's traveling carnival. But when an unruly customer attacks her, she has a vision in full view of a crowd. She is banned from the carnival she loves--and loses her only source of income to support her dying mother. Desperate to support her mother and with only one friend standing by her, she sees no reason to continue hiding her ability and goes to dangerous lengths to earn money. But when she sees herself in a man's future death, Faith must face her own fears of her powers and tune into her gift to fight against a future that would ruin her life--and end someone else's"
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The Last Election
by Andrew Yang
THE LAST ELECTION is a unique political thriller about an outlandish yet frighteningly possible - even probable - scenario in America's near future, during the crucial 2024 presidential election. Though it is fiction, it is a wake-up call to a country tearing itself apart. The story focuses on two characters: Mikey Ricci, a political operative who has lost faith in traditional structures following the bitter races of 2016 and 2020; and Martha Kass, the anonymous tip supervisor of the New York Times. In 2023, Ricci becomes the campaign manager of a third-party candidate who runs on a popular, centrist platform and whose frank and honest manner stands in stark contrast to the candidates of the two major parties. Ricci faces off against the massive machinery of both political parties, as well as their invested media and dark money supporters - the source of true power in America. Even so, the candidate's message begins to gain ground.
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The long game : a novel
by Elena Armas
When an altercation with a team mascot gets her sent to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina where she's tasked with turning around the struggling local soccer team, disgraced soccer exec Adalyn Reyes butts heads with a goalkeeping prodigy who's set on running her out of town. Original.
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The dance of the dolls
by Lucy Ashe
"Sadler's Wells, 1933. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match identical twin Clara's charm. As rehearsals intensify for the ballet Coppelia, the girls feel increasingly like they are being watched. And, as infatuation turns to obsession, everything begins to unravel"
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23 1/2 lies : thrillers
by James Patterson
The world's best-selling author presents three thrilling novellas including one about an ex-Texas-Ranger and a starving artist who agree to expose a client's cheating wife in the latest addition to the long-running series following 23rd Midnight. Simultaneous.
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The duke's best friend
by Jane Ashford
Henry Deeping and Kate Meacham seem to clash every time they meet, but soon they agree to an exchange—Henry will serve as Kate's escort to important events to which she is no longer invited, Kate will introduce him to the important people she knows so well. Original.
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My rogue to ruin
by Erica Ridley
To expose a forger, Marjorie Wynchester finds the clues leading her to Lord Adrian Webb, a roguish scoundrel of the first order who sets out to win her affections to avoid the law—or so she thinks. Original.
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The Sky Vault
by Benjamin Percy
The third book in Percy's innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investigation of a mysterious weather phenomena in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a government secret buried since WWII.
The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes...but only for a minute.
When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the community will be changed forever. Chuck Bridges, a local DJ and conspiracy theorist, was on board and later reported dead to his family, but not before proclaiming that something inside the clouds was speaking to him. Now his son, Theo, must chase down answers to the mystery his father unlocked. He'll find himself at odds with Sophie Chen, an agent with a shadowy employer desperate to secure the black box from the airplane, as well as Rolf Wagner, a widowed sheriff investigating a series of increasingly strange and unsettling reports. And then there is Joanna Straub, a contractor reconstructing a top-secret government lab active during WWII and shuttered deep within the nearby White Mountains.
The answer to the comet's origin is about to be unveiled, and its impact on Earth is more treacherous and sublime than humanity could imagine.
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A royal Christmas : a Christmas novella
by Melody Carlson
Discovering she's a direct descendant of King Maximillian V, the ruler of a small Eastern European principality, law student Adelaide Smith arrives on Montovia during Christmas break where she is drawn into family mysteries, royal jealousies and a chance at her own happily ever after.
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Amazing Grace Adams
by Fran Littlewood
Grace Adams, a once-amazing woman who is now 45, stalled, perimenopausal and losing it, leaves her car in the middle of traffic and sets out to win back her estranged teen daughter on her 16th birthday. 300,000 first printing.
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The summer skies : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course. 30,000 first printing.
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Ladies of the lake
by Cathy Gohlke
"When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The "Ladies of the Lake," as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy, the closest of the friends. Before the dawn of World War I upends their world and casts baseless suspicion onto the German American man they both love. Before a terrible explosion in Halifax Harbor rips the sisterhood irrevocably apart. Seventeen years later, Rosaline Murray receives an unsuspecting telephone call from Dorothy, now headmistress of Lakeside, inviting her to attend the graduation of a new generation of girls, including Rosaline's beloved daughter. With that call, Rosaline is drawn into a past she'd determined to put behind her"
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Café Unfiltered
by Jean-philippe Blondel
A novel celebrating a magical setting of both encounter and anonymity. At a classic cafe in the French provinces, Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the bestselling The 6:41 to Paris, presents a moving fresco of intertwined destinies portrayed with humor, insight and tenderness. In less than twenty-four hours, a medley of characters resumes normal life patterns after a long disruption from Covid - a mother and son in heated conversation, a man and his childhood friend with whom he covertly fell in love, and a woman who crosses paths with the ex who abandoned her in Australia seventeen years earlier. The cafe's customers, waiters, and owners past and present, examine the threads of their existence, exposing the reader to their inner selves, their failed dreams and how they envisage moving forward in the uncertain future that awaits us all.
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The forgotten bookshop in Paris
by Daisy Wood
Paris, 1940: War is closing in on the city of love. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear. Everything except his last beacon of hope: his beloved bookshop, La Page Cachée. But when a young woman and her child knock on his door one night and beg for refuge, he knows his only option is to risk it all once more to save a life... Modern day: Juliette and her husband have finally made it to France on the romantic getaway of her dreams - but as the days pass, all she discovers is quite how far they've grown apart. She's craving a new adventure, so when she happens across a tiny, abandoned shop with a for-sale sign in the window, it feels fated. And she's about to learn that the forgotten bookshop hides a lot more than meets the eye...
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Normal rules don't apply : short stories
by Kate Atkinson
Startling, funny and imaginative, eleven interconnected stories, in which nothing is what it seems, are sharp observations on human nature and pack an emotional—and satisfying—punch.
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Hush Harbor : a novel
by Anise Vance
After the murder of an unarmed black teenager by the police, a resistance group takes over an abandoned housing project, calling it Hush Harbor in honor of their enslaved ancestors, but when the new mayor with ties to white supremacists tries to shut it down, they must fight for their very survival.
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Code red
by Kyle Mills
Mitch Rapp crosses into war-torn Syria at the behest of a powerful crime lord to determine who is manufacturing a highly addictive new narcotic in the latest addition to the long-running series following Oath of Loyalty.
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Kill for love : a novel
by Laura Picklesimer
Plagued by an insatiable desire to kill attractive young men, privileged Los Angeles sorority sister Tiffany, as the body count rises, deals with legal scrutiny, social media-fueled competing murders and her growing relationship with someone she thinks could be the perfect boyfriend.
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Malibu burning
by Lee Goldberg
Setting fires as a distraction to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend, master thief Danny Cole is pursued by relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe, and when they meet face-to-face in a canyon of flames, they are both pitted against an unexpected enemy.
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The secret hours
by Mick Herron
When an MI5 case file appears without explanation on the eve of Monochrome's shuttering, civil servants Griselda and Malcolm are drawn into the buried history of a classified operation in Cold War Berlin, which ended in tragedy and scandal—and whose cover-up has rewritten 30 years of Service history.
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The free people's village
by Sim Kern
"English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called "The Lab" in Houston's Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins "Save the Eighth," a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. At first, she's only focused on keeping her band together and getting closer to Red, their reckless and enigmatic lead guitarist. But working with Save the Eighth forces Maddie to reckon with the harm she has already done to the neighborhood--both as a resident of the gentrifying Lab and as a white teacher in a predominantly Black school. When police respond to Save the Eighth protests with violence, the Lab becomes the epicenter of "The Free People's Village"--an occupation that promises to be the birthplace of an anti-capitalist revolution. As the movement spreads across the U.S., Maddie dreams of a queer, liberated future with Red. But the Village is beset on all sides--by infighting, police brutality, corporate-owned media, and rising ecofascism. Maddie's found family is increasingly at risk from state violence, and she must decide if she's willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of justice"
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Main Character Energy
by Jamie Varon
To inherit her late aunt's villa in the French Riviera, Poppy Banks must finish her novel in six months, forcing her to confront her writer's block, family drama, complicated romances and self-doubt that threaten to throw her off course. Original.
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What kind of mother : a novel
by Clay McLeod Chapman
Eking out a living as a palm reader, single mother Madi Price is reconnected with her old high school flame whose infant son when missing five years ago and, after reading his palm, is haunted by strange and disturbing visions that reveal a terrifying nightmare coming for everyone she holds dear.
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You, Again
by Kate Goldbeck
Former enemies-turn-friends, Ari, a struggling comedian, and Josh, a chef planning to take the culinary world by storm, both reeling from ego-bruising breakups, find comfort in each other's company until one night, the unspoken boundaries of their platonic relationship begin to blur. Original. Index.
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A leopard-skin hat
by Anne Serre
"A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre's most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a "masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance," it is the story of an intense friendship between "the Narrator" and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders. A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the narrator's loving and anguished attachment to her. Anne Serre poignantly depicts the bewilder- ing back and forth between hope and despair involved in such a relationship, while playfully calling into question the very form of the novel. Written in the aftermath of the death of the author's little sister, A Leopard-Skin Hat is both the celebration of a tragically foreshortened life and a valedictory farewell, written in Anne Serre's signature style"
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A house for Alice : a novel
by Diana Evans
The matriarch of the Pitt family yearns to return to Nigeria to live out her final years but her trip is made more complicated by her arguing daughters and a fire that kills her estranged husband.
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