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Proud sorrows
by James R. Benn
In 1944 Norfolk, England, U.S. Army Captain Billy Boyle investigates a crashed German bomber with the corpse of a British officer in the pilot seat, putting his ex-Boston cop instincts to the test as he searches for a killer among the citizens of this idyllic English country village.
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Death by a thousand sips
by Gretchen Rue
Discovering a dead body at an estate sale, witch Phoebe Winchester, when rumors of her involvement force her to take action, uses a dash of magic, a pinch of sleuthing skills and a spoonful of friendship to keep Raven Creek safe from a killer.
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Do you remember being born? : a novel
by Sean Michaels
An aging, successful but poor poet laureate considers a lucrative invitation from the Tech Company to come to California and co-author a poem with their AI poetry bot named Charlotte and weighs “selling out” with a financially comfortable future.
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The land of lost things
by John Connolly
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
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The Spanish diplomat's secret
by Nev March
While on a transatlantic voyage to England in 1894, Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji when the body of a fellow soldier is discovered, must navigate the high-society world of the luxury liner's first-class passengers to learn why one man's life came to a murderous end.
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Bright lights, big Christmas : a novel
by Mary Kay Andrews
Freshly single and unemployed, Kerry agrees to help her brother sell Christmas trees in New York and make a new start in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Santa Suit. Simultaneous.
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Wound : a novel
by Oksana Vasëiìakina
While on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother's ashes, a young lesbian poet reflects on her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening and carefully documents her grief and interrogates her past.
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The heirloom
by Beverly Lewis
"Clara Bender believes a visit to Hickory Hollow may help her find direction after her father remarries. While restoring an heirloom quilt with her great-aunt Ella Mae Zook, the two form a warm bond. When Clara's life is again upended by an unexpected incident and a young Amish man, will she find where her heart belongs?"
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Devil makes three
by Ben Fountain
Forced to abandon his beachfront scuba business after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, an American expat teams up with his best friend to uncover legendary shipwrecks off the southern coast, running afoul of arms-traffickers and the CIA. 100,000 first printing.
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Idlewild : a novel
by James Frankie Thomas
"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive, and obsessed with Fay. The two of them bond fiercely and spend all their waking hours giddily parsing their environment for homoerotic subtext. Then, during rehearsals for the fall play, they notice two sexually ambiguous boys who are potential candidates for their exclusive Invert Society. The pairs become mirrors of one another and drive each other to make choices that they'll regret for the rest of their lives. Looking back on these events as adults, the estranged Fay and Nell trace that fateful school year, recalling backstage theater department intrigue, antiwar demonstrations, smutty fanfic written over AIM, a shared dial-up connection-and the spectacular cascade of mistakes, miscommunications, and betrayals that would ultimately tear the two of them apart"
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Love of my lives
by Yamile Saied Mâendez
While on a business trip to Puerto Rico where she can finally scatter her beloved abuela's ashes on the beach, Madi Ramírez, feeling like there's something missing between her and her fiancé, finally finds what she's looking for when fate leads her to her true soulmate. Original.
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Christmas at the lake : a novel
by Anita Hughes
Left at the altar, Rebecca Huntley decides to go their honeymoon alone to the cozy Christmas Cove Inn on the shores of Lake Tahoe where the magic of the season—and a series of misunderstandings—leads her to Mr. Right. Original.
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Trading places
by Emily Duvall
"From the outside looking in, socialite Lexi North's life looks decadently perfect, right down to her diamond-dusted nails. But you know what they say about glass houses... When one night goes horribly wrong-with the whole world watching-she's challenged to swap lives with the salty, albeit gorgeous, man she rear-ends with her car. For mechanic Evan Bailey, life is definitely not a party. There's no "daddy's credit card" for fixing up his family's auto shop, raising his too-precocious-for-anyone's-good niece, and getting his accounts from deep in the red to black. Which is precisely when opportunity-and celebutante Lexi North-smashes into his life. But what should have been an easy bet gets a whole lot harder with the inexplicably hot chemistry between them. Now the only way for either of them to get what they want is to go for broke..."
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Mrs. Claus and the trouble with turkeys
by Liz Ireland
"At Castle Kringle, the elves are excitedly arranging their first ever Thanksgiving day feast. April's husband, Nick--the real Santa--has some misgivings, since it's tough to get ready for Christmas when everyone is obsessed with helium balloons and pie recipes. Chaos erupts when Gobbles, the live turkey imported for the castle feast, is bird-napped. That crime is quickly overshadowed at a pre-Thanksgiving potluck when Nick's cousin, Elspeth, face-plants into her mashed potatoes--dead. Someone poisoned Elspeth, and April believes Constable Crinkle is hauling the wrong suspect off to jail. An ominous message, written in what seems to be blood and urging April to stop investigating, only convinces her more. But who's really to blame? Where is Gobbles the turkey? And can April solve a double helping of mystery in time for everyone to sit down to a non-deadly dinner together?"
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Thank you for sharing : a novel
by Rachel Runya Katz
When they are forced to work together, former childhood friends-turned-enemies Liyah Cohen-Jackson and Daniel Rosenberg must confront their pasts to save their careers while trying to ignore their growing feelings for each other. Original.
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Death and the sisters
by Heather Redmond
"London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and more reserved than the boisterous Jane, Mary's imagination is keen, and she longs for real-world adventures. One evening, an opportunity arrives in the form of a dinner guest, Percy Bysshe Shelley. At twenty-one, Shelley is already a renowned poet and radical. Mary finds their visitor handsome and compelling, but it is later that evening, after the party has broken up, that events take a truly intriguing turn. When Mary comes downstairs in search of a book, she finds instead a man face down on the floor-with a knife in his back. The dead man, it seems, was a former classmate of Shelley's, and had lately become a personal and professional rival. What was he doing in the Godwins' home? Mary, Jane, and Shelley are all drawn to learn the truth behind the tragedy, especially as each discovery seems to hint at a tangled web that includes many in Shelley's closest circle. But as the attraction between Mary and the married poet intensifies, it sparks a rivalry between the sisters, even as it kindles the creative fire within . . ."
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Judgement prey
by John Sandford
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to solve another challenging case in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. Simultaneous.
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Obsession
by Stuart Woods
Brought in to recover a young Croatian billionaire's wife, who was kidnapped while her husband was making a deal with Centurion Studios, Teddy Fay quickly comes to realize dark forces are at play, while dealing with an obsessive fan with deadly intentions who weasels his way onto the film set. Simultaneous.
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The leftover woman : a novel
by Jean Kwok
Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
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The prospectors : a novel
by Ariel Djanikian
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
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Christmas in Painted Pony Creek
by Linda Lael Miller
When Tessa Stafford and her daughter arrive in Painted Pony Creek, Texas, cowboy Jessie McKettrick, who always wanted a family of his own, is immediately smitten, but when her past threatens their newfound future, he won't let the family he's come to love go without a fight.
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Wreck the halls : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything—the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
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The hexologists
by Josiah Bancroft
"The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake-going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven-the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent antiroyalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people. Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next"
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Family meal
by Bryan Washington
Haunted by the ghost of Kai, the love of his life, Cam returns to his hometown of Houston where he reconnects with his former best friend, TJ, and his family's bakery and wonders if they can find a way back to being okay again.
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A holly jolly ever after
by Julie Murphy
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex, in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute. 100,000 first printing.
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The navigating fox
by Christopher Rowe
"Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus is offered the chance to redeem himself: he will need to lead a motley, fractious team-both human and animal-all the way to the gates of Hell"
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Starling house
by Alix E. Harrow
Determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper, Opal, when she gets the chance to step inside the Starling House, the estate of the 19th-century author of her favorite book, and make some extra cash, finds things taking a sinister turn.
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A nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel
by KJ Charles
Unexpectedly becoming the Earl of Oxney, Major Rufus d'Aumesty must contend with his odd family in a remote Norman manor while fighting other title claimants, in the second novel of the series following The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen. Original.
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Wildfire : a novel
by Hannah Grace
After a passionate one-night stand, Russ and Aurora are stunned when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors and must learn to peacefully coexist while trying to deny the attraction that lingers between them. Original.
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Beirut station : two lives of a spy
by Paul Vidich
A Lebanese-American CIA agent befriends the grandson of a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist by becoming his English tutor in order to stop the planned assassination of the U.S. secretary of state, in the new novel by the author of The Mercenary.
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Kiss and spell
by Celestine Martin
While trying to get her magic back, self-proclaimed Jersey Shore witch Ursula Caraway agrees to help Prince Xavier Alder find The One before Midsummer and break the Faerie Queen's curse but finds their mutual (and inconvenient) attraction getting in the way. Original.
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Company : stories
by Shannon Sanders
Told in 13 stories, this multigenerational saga follows an African-American family and their friends as they navigate the challenges and joys of life—from the 1960s to the 2000s, from Atlantic City to Washington D.C. 40,000 first printing.
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Second act : a novel
by Danielle Steel
Out of a job and humiliated, Andy Westfield, the head of a prestigious movie studio, flees to a tiny, forgotten coastal town in England where he hires a former journalist to help get his affairs in order and in a surprising turn of events, finds a miracle that could change both their lives. Simultaneous.
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Lazy City
by Rachel Connolly
Back home after abruptly leaving graduate school in London, Erin numbly teeters through the shock of losing her best friend to an accident she doesn't want to talk about--especially with her mother. But it's easy to slip into the rhythms of Belfast, the lazy city; she takes an au pair job and bookends her days with early morning runs along the Lagan and hazy afters at a bar her old friend tends. In quick succession, she meets an American man who is looking to get lost, and falls back in with the local boy who both comforts and confounds her. But it is her unlikely, secretive relationship with faith that offers a different kind of sanctuary. Wandering into empty churches, gazing with mascara-smudged eyes at the stained-glass windows, Erin finally, gingerly, confronts herself.
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Let it crow! Let it crow! Let it crow!
by Donna Andrews
Participating in a weaponsmithing competition taking place on the estate of her friend Ragnar, a retired heavy metal drummer, Meg joins a cast laden with grudges and feuds who have large weapons and forges full of fire at their disposal—what could possibly go wrong?
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The Long Form
by Kate Briggs
Kate Brigg's debut novel--the follow-up to her acclaimed This Little Art --is the story of a young mother, Helen, awake with her baby. Together they are moving through a morning routine that is in one sense entirely ordinary--resting, feeding, pacing. Yet in the closeness of their rented flat, such everyday acts take on epic scope, thoughts and objects made newly alive in the light of their shared attention. Then the rhythm of their morning is interrupted: a delivery person arrives with a used copy of Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, which Helen has ordered online. She begins to read, and attention shifts. As their day unfolds, the intimate space Helen shares with her baby becomes entwined with Fielding's novel, with other books and ideas, and with questions about class and privilege, housing and caregiving, and the support structures that underlie durational forms of codependency, both social and artistic.
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My darling girl
by Jennifer McMahon
Taking in her estranged mother who only has weeks to live, Alison, with memories of her violent abuse coming back to haunt her, discovers her mother is not quite who she seems as strange things start happening, forcing her to decide how far she's willing to go to protect her family.
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Windsong Manor
by Julie Wright
Young widow Lady Eleanora Coventry, finally free from a cruel husband, is drawn to stable master Ridley Ellis, but, in a world where title and privilege mean everything, tries to deny her attraction to this handsome and kind man until a secret is revealing, changing everything. Original.
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With a kiss we die : a novel
by L. R. Dorn
When the prime suspects in a brutal double homicide offer exclusive interviews in exchange for help in proving their innocence, investigative journalist Ryanna, the host of a popular true-crime podcast, examines her subjects from multiple angles and diverse points of view to piece together a dark and horrible truth.
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Fever house : a novel
by Keith Rosson
While collecting overdue drug money in a rundown Portland, Oregon apartment complex, Hutch Holtz discovers a severed hand in the client's refrigerator and quickly realizes the body part induces uncontrollable madness and violence and sets catastrophic forces into motion.
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Tomb sweeping : stories
by Alexandra Chang
"Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants"
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Citizen Orlov
by Jonathan Payne
"Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who answers a phone call meant for a secret agent and stumbles into a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. Recruited by the Ministry of Security, he is sent on assignment to safeguard the king. But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the alluring femme fatale Agent Zelle, is planning not to protect the king but to assassinate him. Caught in a web of plot and counterplot, confusing loyalties, and explosive betrayals, Orlov finds himself on trial for murder. Given the opportunity to clear his name, he finds that the lives of his friends, mother, and fellow citizens hang in the balance"
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A good house for children : a novel
by Kate Collins
Leaving their city apartment for the promise of more space for their children, Nick and Orla move to an antiquated Georgian mansion on the Dorset cliffs, where strange and ghostly things start to happen. 100,000 first printing.
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Save what's left
by Elizabeth Castellano
Starting over in a small beach community on the east coast, Kathleen Deane discovers this picturesque town is not what it seems but just what she needs as she finds herself in an all-out war with her neighbors who are building a huge monstrosity next to her tiny cottage.
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The vegan
by Andrew Lipstein
To save his faltering dinner party, hedge fund manager Herschel Caine concocts a prank that goes horrifically wrong, and as his perfect world starts to slip away, he clings to the moral clarity he finds in the last place he'd expect: a sudden connection with his neighbor's dog.
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The best possible experience
by Nisanth Injam
This beautifully written collection of intimate, impeccably realized accounts of people living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted by a loss of home, questions the idea of belonging.
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Skip to the end
by Molly James
After drunkenly kissing three men at her best friend's wedding, Amy Daniels, perpetually single due to her ability to see how her relationships will end, finds her perfect ending but can't remember who she kissed, and worse, what ending belongs to which person but is determined to find out. 30,000 first printing.
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The death of us : a novel
by Lori Rader-Day
When Ashley Hay's car is found 15 years after her disappearance, Liss Kehoe, who has raised Ashley's son as her own, must protect her family and keep her own secrets hidden as tensions rise in the small community—and someone will go to great lengths to keep the truth from surfacing.
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A winter in New York : a novel
by Josie Silver
Moving to New York, young chef Iris offers her services to save a struggling gelato shop in Little Italy where she finds herself falling for the owner's nephew Gio and his family until all the secrets she's been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she's been building.
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A lighthouse Christmas
by Jenny Hale
"When her beloved grandmother passes away, Mia Broadhurst returns to the snow-covered seaside village of Winsted Cape, North Carolina, where Grandma Ruth ran the lighthouse overlooking the golden beach. This will be Mia's first Christmas without her, and she can't bear to part with the lighthouse that has been in their family for generations. As she steps into it, childhood memories rush back to her. She can almost hear them playing tag on the steps . . . But her life is back in New York, dedicated to a busy PR firm, and she has no choice but to sell. With the snow falling, turning the grounds into a winter wonderland, Mia works with real estate agent Will Thacker. As they restore the historical building, she tries not to notice how handsome he is. After all, she's only home for Christmas, and Will's deep blue eyes, as stormy as the Atlantic Ocean, tell her he has his own heartbreak to contend with. Warmed by a crackling fire, Mia packs up Grandma Ruth's belongings with the help of her mother and sister. But waiting for them is a black-and-white photograph with a faded inscription. The mysterious message is the key to a family secret that has been hidden for decades--one that changes everything. When Mia finds out the truth, will it save the precious lighthouse and show Mia where her heart belongs? Or will it tear her from Winsted Cape--and Will--forever?"
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Scenes of the crime : a novel
by Jilly Gagnon
When she spots a woman who looks like her former close friend Vanessa Morales, who had vanished during a girls' trip years ago, Emily Fischer, putting in motion a brilliant scheme, gets the girls together under the guise of reconnecting to find out what really happened that night.
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The secret to a southern wedding
by Synithia Williams
When her mom announces she's marrying a man she only just met on a dating app, OB-GYN Dr. Imani Kemp is determined to stop the wedding but met with resistance from her potential stepfather's handsome son to whom she is irresistibly drawn, changing everything. Original.
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Liquid snakes : a novel
by Stephen Kearse
When a mysterious substance is found to have killed a high school girl, black epidemiologists Retta and Ebonee are led to a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner whose daily injections of lethal snake venom and manufacturing of designer drugs taints every person he touches, leading both women town separate paths of blame and retribution.
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Deadlock : a thriller
by James Byrne
Dez travels to Portland to help his friend Riziah Swann uncover the truth after her business journalist sister was attacked and seriously injured and her apartment was ransacked, in the second novel of the series following The Gatekeeper.
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Las madres : a novel
by Esmeralda Santiago
Returning to Puerto Rico to help her mother learn more about her early life, Marysol, along with her mother's friends “las Madres” and their daughter Graciela, finds the trip disrupted by two hurricanes and a secret that blows their lives wide open, in a novel of women's sexuality, shame, disability and love.
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Small town sins : a novel
by Ken Jaworowski
In a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, Nathan, a volunteer fireman who finds a secret stash of money; Callie, a nurse who risks her career to grant her young patient a final wish; and Andy, a recovering heroin addict who doles out vigilante justice, must face their troubled pasts—and their crimes—to have a future.
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The husband list
by Ella Quinn
Sensible Lady Madeline Vivers reconsiders her reasonable goals when Mr. Harry Stern, an ambitious man determined to make his mark in Parliament, sets his sights on her, using his power of persuasion to convince her she's his perfect match. Original.
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The island of lost girls : a novel
by Alex Marwood
Desperately searching for her seventeen-year-old daughter Gemma, Robin is led to La Kastellana, a place of sun-drenched glamor and obscene wealth, where someone is waiting for the right moment to expose the dark truth of what really happens on the island of lost girls
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Countdown
by Lynette Eason
U.S. Marshal Vince Correlli helps protect flight paramedic Raina Price who is being threatened by a stalker years after she changed her name and built a new life in the fourth novel of the series following Critical Threat. Original.
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Blade of dream
by Daniel Abraham
From the New York Times best-selling author and co-author of The Expanse comes a novel that unfolds within the walls of a single great city, over the course of one tumultuous year.
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I did it for you : a novel
by Amy Engel
Fourteen years after her older sister's murder, Greer Dunning becomes convinced that the convicted and executed killer must have had help after a copycat murder is discovered, in the new thriller from the author of The Familiar Dark.
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Witness : stories
by Jamel Brinkley
Set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, this collection of ten stories, introducing a wide range of unforgettable characters, presents portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief and the meaning of home. 75,000 first printing.
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Moscow X : a novel
by David McCloskey
Posing as a couple to target Vadim, Vladimir Putin's moneyman, CIA officers Sia and Max, as they descend further into a Russian world of luxury and violence, find their only hope may be Vadim's wife, Anna, who is playing a game of her own.
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Geneva
by Richard Armitage
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invite to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
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Nejishiki 3
by Yoshiharu Tsuge
The most critically acclaimed comic of the Japanese counterculture
Nejishiki unveils the most iconic scenes from Yoshiharu Tsuge's highly respected body of work alongside his most beloved stories. A cornerstone of Japan's legendary 1960s counterculture that galvanized avant-garde manga and comics criticism, the title story follows an injured young man as he wanders through a village of strangers in search of emotional and physical release. Other stories in this collection follow a series of weary travelers who while away sultry nights and face menacing doppelgängers. Even banal activities like afternoon strolls uncover unsavory impulses. The emotionally and erotically charged imagery collected in this third volume remains as shocking and vivid today as it did upon its debut fifty years ago.
Tsuge's stories push boundaries, abruptly crossing the threshold of conventional storytelling. Unassuming protagonists venture further into eerie symbolism against a shadowy, perceptibly dreamlike landscape easily mistaken for the real world. The angst that pervades postwar Japanese society threatens to devour his characters and their pastoral sensibilities as each protagonist's wanderlust turns surreal.
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A little luck
by Claudia Piäneiro
"A woman returns home to confront the past, a family, and the reverberations of a death that she had abandoned decades before"
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In the lobby of the dream hotel : a novel
by Genevieve Plunkett
When her husband has her committed to a psychiatric hospital, Portia, a married young mother with bipolar disorder who is in love with another man, finds her sense of reality tested, which exposes the truths about her marriage, her affair and her most vulnerable hopes and desires.
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The Holy Days of Gregorio Pasos
by Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya
As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is eighteen and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is estranged, and his poor goalkeeping has just cost his soccer team their most important game of the season. As a graduation present, Gregorio's defiant uncle Nico takes him to Colombia, where he is introduced to old friends, family memories, and a culture ailing after years of conflict and colonization. When they return, Gregorio follows in his uncle's footsteps and pursues employment at an art museum in Washington, D.C., where he moves into the basement of a townhouse owned by Magdalena, a Basque exile he befriends. As the year wends on and anti-immigrant rhetoric reaches an apex, Gregorio notes the disparities in his community while struggling to define his own identity and direction. Gregorio joins his friend Raúl's soccer team, resuming his role as goalkeeper, seeking purpose and redemption.
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Have yourself a deadly little Christmas
by Vicki Delany
A gift shop owner in Rudolph, New York, America's Christmas Town, investigates after rivalries in a musical production of A Christmas Carol result in murder, in the sixth novel of the series following Dying in a Winter Wonderland.
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Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories
by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
A short story collection follows contemporary native Hawaiian and Japanese women through tales including an encounter with a wild pig on a haunted highway and an elderly widow who sees her dead lover in a giant flower. 100,000 first printing.
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You've been served
by Kristen Alicia
"It's the Magic 8 Ball's fault. All of it. One teeny little question, and suddenly Simone Alexander is chucking her whole life out the window. So long, being a chef in California--it's time for law school. In Michigan. Where there's actual winter. And law school's nothing like the romantic comedies said it was. Simone is tragically underprepared. Hell, she's already behind before classes have even begun, and her hard-as-nails Contracts professor is giving her no mercy. Then there's Silas Whitman, her tall and annoyingly cute neighbor. Off campus, Silas is incredible. Kissable, even. In class, he is one thousand percent the obnoxious kiss-ass. But Simone's given up everything to be a lawyer. The competition is fierce and she has a hateful professor gunning for her to fail, but she's not about to let little things like sleep, or love, stop her from kicking law school ass..."
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Death Valley : a novel
by Melissa Broder
Seeking respite from her father and husband suffering simultaneous illnesses, a young woman visits the California high desert and encounters a strange, towering cactus with a door in it, in the new novel by the author of Milk Fed.
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What never happened : a thriller
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Relocating to her Catalina Island home, obituary writer Coco Weber, with a number of elderly folks dying on the island, draws connections between a serial killer's crimes and her own family tragedy while someone watching her every move is hell-bent on finally putting her past to rest. Simultaneous.
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Ladyhoppers
by Sarah Thérèse Pelletier
When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional adventure. Charlie knows her calling is a weighty one, but she trusts her mentor's orders: Travel to another dimension, fix the tear, and get home to do it all over again.
But when she gets stuck on an alternate Earth, she has to turn to the most unexpected of allies: a younger, more eccentric, more infamous version of the brilliant mind that sent her on her mission. This version of Vera Baum is as much socialite as scientist, who seems to embrace the notion that curiosity killed the cat, in the way that means she's determined to use up all nine of her lives blasting through a kaleidoscope of genre-bending realities. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, especially when they're pursued by reality-eating parasites and a biomechanical hound hellbent on killing Vera
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Mobility : a novel
by Lydia Kiesling
Following Bunny Glen, an American teenager in 1998 Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family, from adolescence to middle age, this geopolitical exploration and domestic coming-of-age novel is a propulsive and challenging story about class, power, politics and desire told through the life of one woman. 150,000 first printing.
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Lowdown road
by Scott Von Doviak
"It's the summer of '74... Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump SnakeRiver Canyon on a rocket-powered motorcycle. But with a vengeful sheriff on their tail and the revered and feared marijuana kingpin of Central Texas out to get his stash back, Chuck and Dean are in for the ride of their lives - if they can make it out alive..."
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Rumors of her death : a novel
by J. M. Donellan
Garnering the wrath of an underworld boss, Archie Leach, an American living in Australia, must agree to an exorbitant “payment plan” while forming a reluctant friendship with his neighbor who has also spun a web of deception that may get them both killed. Original.
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Three fires
by Denise Mina
Reimaging the “Bonfire of the Vanities” through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
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Beyond the door of no return
by David Diop
Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal's oral traditions, this fantastical story traces the obsession of a renowned botanist who, while on a research expedition in West Africa, becomes obsessed with finding a young woman of noble birth rumored to be the revenant.
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The brink
by Jamie Fewery
"Dan and Anya Moorcroft have decided to get a divorce. Together, they've done it all. Two kids, three owned houses, four rented flats, fifty-something holidays, and one affair apiece. Now, after fifteen years together (nine of them married) they're on the brink. But as they go through couples' mediation, revisiting and rediscovering their shared history in sessions surrounded by lawyers and paperwork, are they about to find something that's worth saving? Or are they going to reaffirm their decision to end things for good? Each section of the book is a focus area for the divorce mediation process: sex, home, money, family, us. Through this, the novel explores how marriage is built on bonds between people and the experiences they share. It goes back in time to reveal Dan and Anya's past, and then returns to the present day as they work out their future"
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Matchmaker
by Cam Marshall
The complete collection of cartoonist Cam Marshall's joyful queer slice-of-life webcomic! Best friends Mason and Kimmy live through their early twenties in the early '20s, navigating a global pandemic and terrifying job market alongside making friends, dating, and playing way too many video games. But when shy and nervous Mason can't find a boyfriend, it's up to Kimmy to play matchmaker! Who will it be? The cute boy down the hall with the Sailor Moon mask? A mysterious stranger from the dating profile that Kimmy masterminded? Or maybe the angsty barista from the neighbourhood coffee shop? A stubbornly hopeful and funny comic about the bonds between queer and trans friends, the families we make, and the happiness we find in each other.
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An unforgiving place
by Claire Kells
In a remote corner of Alaska, Investigative Services Bureau agent Felicity Harland squares off against a mysterious cult leader with potentially deadly motives, in a thrilling outdoor adventure.
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Fling
by Joseph Murray
"At once heartfelt and hilarious, this story of a fateful--and faithful--affair reminds us that sometimes, what we're looking for might just be closer than we think . . . Tara and Colin were instant soulmates. But after six years of marriage and many failed IVF attempts, Tara feels unloved and unsexy, while Colin believes his best days are behind him. Neither Tara nor Colin is the cheating type, but they're both desperate to shake things up. It seems the relationship is over--until they each secretly download a controversial new dating app, Fling, where married people can find discreet, anonymous affairs online. The rules: no tell-tale photos, no real names, and absolutely no distinguishing details. Soon, Colin and Tara are each sent 100% perfect-match profiles, dream partners--but is true love too good to be real? "
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Tokyo Time
by Dawn Farnham
In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives-one a Eurasian, caught between two worlds, and the other, a pacifist Japanese escaping dark and tragic secrets at home-are thrown together to solve a high-profile murder and come to terms with each other under the yoke of a brutal and corrupt military regime.
Eurasian homicide detective, Martin Bach, has survived the war and the surrender: now all he has to do is survive the occupation. The Brits are locked up and his new boss at the CID is the ex-police chief of Nagasaki, enigmatic Kano Hayashi, installed by the new regime. Despite being complete strangers, the two men team up to solve the vicious murder of the young trophy wife of a wealthy old friend of the Marquis Fujimoto, Civilian Governor of Malaya-and the Emperor of Japan's brother-in-law. The case naturally captivates the public. So, the Japanese military administration, desperate to win the hearts and minds of the local population, demands that justice at least be seen to be done...and quickly.
To find the elusive killer, Bach and Hayashi must confront their own dark secrets, grapple with the brutal iniquities and indignities of occupation, and learn to work together while struggling to maintain their own rigorous moral codes in a world where morality is trumped by survival...and where their own lives are very much at stake.
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Until I met you
by Amber Rose Gill
Unexpected single, free-spirited travel blogger Samantha arrives in Tobago where she meets Roman, a disillusioned corporate businessman, and as romance blossoms between them, secrets are revealed that put their new relationship in jeopardy. Original.
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You, bleeding childhood
by Michele Mari
"Raised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made for positively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow up beastly--or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to haunt his every adult thought"
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The coworker
by Freida McFadden
"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything... Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim? But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill"
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Big Ugly
by Ellice Weaver
Mel isn't going anywhere - except to work every day. But when she offers the spare room in her apartment to her struggling brother, everything she loves and hates about wanting to live up to the expectations of her family becomes part of her every day again. It turns out that even as adults, living with your sibling brings back the dynamics of tween rivalries. As Mel tries to rebalance things with her brother, she navigates how to offer help to someone who doesn't want to need it. Renowned illustrator Ellice Weaver brings her crisp artwork to the graphic novel form in this powerful story of contemporary life.
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Blood lines : a novel
by Nelson DeMille
Reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of CID Special Agent Harry Vance, an accomplished counterterrorism agent, Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are immersed in many conflicts and contradictions of modern Germany as they discover Vance's murder is a prelude to a much more sinister event. Simultaneous.
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The other princess : a novel of Queen Victoria's goddaughter
by Denny S. Bryce
"A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria's court and adapting to life in Victorian England--based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. With a brilliant mind and a fierce will to survive, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a kidnapped African princess, is rescued from enslavement at seven years old and presented to Queen Victoria as a "gift." To the Queen, the girl is an exotic trophy to be trotted out for the entertainment of the royal court and to showcase Victoria's magnanimity. Sarah charms most of the people she meets, even those who would cast her aside. Her keen intelligence and her aptitude for languages and musical composition helps Sarah navigate the Victorian era as an outsider given insider privileges. But embedded in Sarah's past is her destiny. Haunted by visions of destruction and decapitations, she desperately seeks a place, a home she will never run from, never fear, a refuge from nightmares and memories of death. From West Africa to Windsor Castle to Sierra Leone, to St. James's Palace, and the Lagos Colony, Sarah juggles the power and pitfalls of a royal upbringing as she battles racism and systematic oppression on her way to living a life worthy of a Yoruba princess. Based on the real life of Queen Victoria's Black goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta's story is a sweeping saga of an African princess in Victorian England and West Africa, as she searches for a home, family, love, and identity"
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The bell in the fog
by Lev AC Rosen
A new historical mystery asks the question: once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them?
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Roman stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated from Italian into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this masterful collection of nine short stories has Rome, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical, as the protagonist, not the setting.
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The defector : a novel
by Chris Hadfield
In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
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Brainwyrms
by Alison Rumfitt
After surviving a hate crime at her gender identity workplace, a trans woman, Frankie, meets Vanya at a queer kink club and spirals into increasingly destructive behaviors ultimately uncovering her involvement in a sinister conspiracy. Original. 60,000 first printing.
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Love interest : a novel
by Clare Gilmore
Forced to work on a project with the board chairman's son, handsome, Harvard-educated Alex Hyun, 24-year-old finance expert Casey Maitland finds her animosity toward him turning into attraction as they are drawn to each other again, but messy secrets and corporate intrigue threaten to keep them apart. Original.
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Christmas at the Shelter Inn
by RaeAnne Thayne
Pregnant and on bed rest, McKenna calls her sister Natalie, who fled Shelter Springs, Idaho, after family tragedies took their toll, pleading for help running the Shelter Inn during the busy upcoming Christmas season. 10,000 first printing.
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'Twas the bite before christmas
by David Rosenfelt
When one of the Tara Foundation's best foster volunteers, Derek Moore, is arrested for murder during the annual Christmas party, lawyer Andy Carpenter, believing in Derek's innocence, discovers he's in the witness protection program and vows to clear his name and catch a killer before this case goes to the dogs. Simultaneous.
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My Cousin Skinny
by E. J. Copperman
A dream of a wedding turns into a bloody nightmare for LA family lawyer Sandy Moss's cousin Skinny in the latest instalment of the critically acclaimed Jersey Girl Legal mystery series. Sandy might have to take on her trickiest case yet!An uncomfortable weekend awaits LA family lawyer Sandy Moss when she makes her way to her hometown in New Jersey for the wedding of her cousin Stephanie, sweetly nicknamed Skinny. Uncomfortable, because Sandy is not really looking forward to seeing her family, but at least her boyfriend, Hollywood movie star Patrick McNabb, is by her side. However, if Sandy thought a weekend with her criticising mother and aggravating sister was bad, she definitely wasn't prepared for the rehearsal event at the wedding venue! When Skinny enters the room, all eyes are on her and her beautiful party dress . . . covered in blood, with a knife in her hand. Skinny says she didn't do it. But with dozens of wedding guests witnessing her dramatic entrance, the question of who killed the corpse in the kitchen seems an easy one to answer - and an equally easy court case to lose. Reluctantly agreeing to represent her cousin, Sandy sets to work. But how can she save Skinny when she's not at all sure she's innocent . . . and when Skinny seems oddly determined to put herself in jail?
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The scandalous confessions of Lydia Bennet, witch
by Melinda Taub
This lively retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, as told from the perspective of Lydia, the much-maligned youngest Bennet sister, is filled with enchantment, intrigue and boundless magic as she comes to learn that, for a witch, promises have power.
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My work
by Olga Ravn
"After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms-fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters-to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature"
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Better hate than never
by Chloe Liese
Making a rare visit home, Katerina Wilmot finds her and Christopher Petruchio's fiery animosity rekindled into a raging inferno until a drunken night leads to a confession and an impassioned kiss, forcing them to decide if it's truly better to hate than to never risk their hearts. Original.
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Love at 350 degrees : a novel
by Lisa Peers
Competing in the American Bake-o-Rama TV competition, chemistry teacher Tori Moore, an avid home baker, falls in love with notoriously ruthless celebrity judge Kendra Campbell and wonders if their blossoming relationship is the real thing or if it's a recipe for disaster. Original.
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Tremor : a novel
by Teju Cole
Masterfully exploring what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world, this startling work of realism and invention examines the passage of time and how we mark it, reckoning with human survival amidst history's brutality as well as demonstration the possibility of joy.
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People collide : a novel
by Alex McElroy
When he and his wife Elizabeth trade bodies, and then she, living as him, disappears without a trace, Eli searches for her across Europe to America, having a no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience while wondering if this transformation is the very thing they need for their marriage to thrive.
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The road to Dalton
by Shannon Bowring
In 1990 Dalton, Maine, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves a community reeling and reminds them that no one is exactly who they think they are, including Rose, a waitress at the diner who hides her bruises from her customers and her two young boys. Original.
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Becoming the boogeyman : a novel
by Richard. Chizmar
After making a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders that shook his hometown decades earlier, Rich Chizmar is terrified when the killings begin again, in the sequel to Chasing the Boogeyman. Illustrations.
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The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories
by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde
A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed--or cursed--with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by shapeshifting into a cloud. A girl reckons with the death of her father and her changing familial dynamics while slowly, mysteriously losing her physical senses.
Infused with keen insight and presented in startling prose, the stories in this dark, magnetic collection by newcomer Rebecca Hirsch Garcia invite the reader into an uncanny world out of step with reality while exploring the personal and interpersonal in a way that is undeniably, distinctly human.
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The Christmas guest : a novella
by Peter Swanson
When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
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The hive and the honey : stories
by Paul Yoon
Portraying the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, this unflinching and unforgettable collection of stories from the beloved award-winning author confront themes of identity, belonging and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.
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The Mysteries
by Bill Watterson
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate--a mysterious process in its own right.
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Night side of the river : ghost stories
by Jeanette Winterson
Combining her own supernatural encounters with spinetingling fiction, this gothic and unsettling collection of ghost stories examines grief, revenge and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
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Between the Head and the Hands
by James Chaarani
The candid story of a young man abandoned by his family and religion and left searching for identity in an unfamiliar world
When Michael Dawouk is disowned by his Muslim family for being gay, he turns his back on the religion and culture he grew up with. He is forced out onto the street, only to be taken in by a former high school teacher who offers him room and board in exchange for sex.
Michael is soon left with nothing to believe in, until he meets Wyatt, a successful Texan businessman who takes him under his wing. But what Michael can't see is that his mentor is just as lost as he is. Searching for the connection and belonging he lost when he left home, Michael immerses himself in temporary pleasures -- nights of danger, intrigue, and meaningless sex -- until he begins to crave a kinder form of love.
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The martyr
by Anthony Ryan
Spymaster and sworn protector of Lady Evadine Courlain, at odds with both the Crown and Covenant due to her visions of a demonic apocalypse, Alwyn Scribe, sent to the Duchy of Alundia to put down a rebellion, must rely on his old instincts to fight for his new cause.
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Sword catcher
by Cassandra Clare
The body double of Castellane's Prince Conor Aurelian, Kei knows he has one destiny: to die for Conor, but when he meets Lin, a physician searching for forbidden knowledge to heal her friend, they are drawn into the underworld of a criminal ruler who offers them each what they want most.
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Rumor of Evil
by Gary Braver
A 16-year-old exchange student accused of witchcraft--dark circumstances and sick rumors lead to her brutal death, a cover-up, and more murders two decades later
Detectives Kirk Lucian and Mandy Wing are charged with investigating a reported suicide of a Cambridge woman in her backyard. The death came as a shock--the woman was considered a pillar of her community and was well-liked by everyone. After further investigation, the hanging appears staged. Once Kirk and Mandy's suspicions are confirmed, they make a list of suspects.
Clues begin to connect the recent murder to the decades-old mysterious death of a beautiful 16-year-old Romany exchange student who perished when a treehouse she was sleeping in caught fire. The girl, Vadima Lupescu, had done "odd" things among her American peers that stirred up prejudices and suspicions, leading to her brutal death--and cover-up.
As Kirk and Mandy investigate the bizarre rumors--that Vadima had "gypsy powers" and put curses on those around her--they discover a cauldron of dark secrets. Will they uncover the true cause of this tangled web of deaths and horrors before it spirals out of control?
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The children's Bach : a novel
by Helen Garner
In early-1980s Melbourne, when an old friend of her husband's introduces them to a bohemian underground, unbound by routine and driven by desire, Athena Fox, a dutiful wife and mother, delves deeper into this kind of life, which threatens to tear her family apart.
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What we kept to ourselves : a novel
by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
In 1999, the Kim family, struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago find their lives further upended when the body of a stranger is found in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny and leaving them with more questions than answers about their mother's disappearance.
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Knock knock, open wide
by Neil Sharpson
Dublin college student Betty Fitzpatrick is terrified when she learns her new girlfriend Ashling is convinced a seemingly innocent children's TV show is responsible for the unspeakable horrors inflicted on her family, which opens a door between the known and unknown—one that can never be closed again.
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