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The flames
by Sophie Haydock
Set in the extravagant, Bohemian art world of early 20th century Vienna, the electrifying untold story of the four women who posed for and inspired the groundbreaking erotic art of controversial painter Egon Schiele.
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How I'll kill you
by Ren DeStefano
A set of identical triplets have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, but soon the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark.
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A manual for how to love us : stories
by Erin Slaughter
A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief--offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world.
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Fulgentius
by César Aira
In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though of exactly one play) and in every city he pacifies, he stages a grand production of his farcical tragedy (written at the tender age of twelve) about a man who becomes a famous general only to be murdered "at the hands of shadowy foreigners." Curiously, what he had imagined as a child turns out to be the story of his life, almost. As the playwright-turned-general broods obsessively about his only work, the magnificent Lupine Legion-"a city in movement" of 6,000 men, an invincible corps of seasoned fighters wearing their signature wolfskin caps-kills, burns, pillages, and loots their way to victory. But what does victory mean?
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Daughters of Nantucket
by Julie Gerstenblatt
Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence--and the challenges that go with it. Eliza Macy is struggling to conceal her financial trouble as she waits for her whaling captain husband to return from a voyage. In desperation, she turns against her progressive ideals and targets Meg Wright, a pregnant free Black woman trying to relocate her store to Main Street. Meanwhile, astronomer Maria Mitchell loves running Nantucket's Atheneum and spending her nights observing the stars, yet she fears revealing the secret wishes of her heart. On a sweltering July night, a massive fire breaks out in town, quickly kindled by the densely packed wooden buildings. With everything they possess now threatened, these three very different women are forced to reevaluate their priorities and decide what to save, what to let go and what kind of life to rebuild from the ashes of the past,
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Angeline
by Anna Quinn
After surviving a tragedy that killed her entire family, sixteen-year-old Meg joins a cloistered convent, believing it is her life's work to pray full time for the suffering of others. Taking the name Sister Angeline, she spends her days and nights in silence, moving from one prayerful hour to the next. She prays for the hardships of others, the sick and poor, the loved ones she lost, and her own atonement. When the Archdiocese of Chicago runs out of money to keep the convent open, she is torn from her carefully constructed life and sent to a progressive convent on a rocky island in the Pacific Northwest. There, at the Light of the Sea, five radical feminist nuns have their own vision of faithful service. They do not follow canonical law, they do not live a cloistered life, and they believe in using their voices for change. As Sister Angeline struggles to adapt to her new home, she must navigate her grief, fears, and confusions, while being drawn into the lives of a child in crisis, an angry teen, an EMT suffering survivor's guilt, and the parish priest who is losing his congregation to the Sisters' all-inclusive Sunday masses. Through all of this, something seems to have awakened in her, a healing power she has not experienced in years that could be her saving grace, or her downfall. In Angeline, novelist Anna Quinn explores the complexity of our past selves and the discovery of our present truth; the enduring imprints left by our losses, forgiveness and acceptance, and why we believe what we believe. Affecting and beautifully told, Angeline is both poignant and startling and will touch the hearts of anyone who has ever asked themselves: When your foundations crumble and you've lost yourself, how do you find the strength to go on? Do you follow your heart or the rules?
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Good for you : a novel
by Camille Pagán
Aly Jackson has waited her whole life to become editor in chief of All Good magazine. But six months into the job, she overhears her coworkers belittling her. Aly's clapback? A very public, career-jeopardizing meltdown. To undo the mess, she agrees to a monthlong unpaid leave. Reluctant but determined to turn misfortune into opportunity, Aly retreats to the Lake Michigan beach house her brother, Luke, left to her when he died nearly a year earlier. Except when Aly arrives, she discovers Luke's slacker best friend, Wyatt, inherited the place, too. Wyatt is unkempt, unmotivated, and totally uninterested in Aly's desire to sell. Yet as battle lines are drawn, Aly wonders whether she and this wild card have more than Luke in common. But is she willing to swap her lifelong dreams for a shot at healing her broken heart?
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Night angels : a novel
by Weina Dai Randel
In 1938, Dr. Ho Fengshan, consul general of China posted in Vienna whose instructions are to maintain amicable relations with the Third Reich, risks his life, along with his American wife, to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis before World War II explodes.
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Go as a river
by Shelley Read
A 1940s teenager running her family's peach farm in Colorado meets a young man with a mysterious past and feels an instant connection but must flee to a small shack in the wilderness after tragedy strikes. 200,000 first printing.
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Murder at an Irish bakery : An Enchanting Irish Mystery
by Carlene O'Connor
When a reality baking show results in the death of a contestant who is found facedown in her signature pie, Garda Siobhan O'Sullivan, to catch a killer with a sweet tooth, must sift through the clues to discover if this was a deadly rivalry or if other motives were mixed in.
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Goodnight from Paris : a novel
by Jane Healey
Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone. Befriended by seasoned wartime journalist Dorothy Thompson and urged on by political operative Jean Fraysse, Drue broadcasts radio programs to the United States. Her duty: shake America from its apathy. As Drue and Jean fall under suspicion, Hitler sends his own message: when Drue's adopted country is conquered, she will be executed. In a Paris that is no longer safe, Drue's political passion is ignited.
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Murder Visits a French Village
by Susan C. Shea
Ariel Shepard is devastated by the sudden loss of her husband, but nothing could have prepared her for inheriting the rundown French château they'd visited on their honeymoon four years ago. With finances tight she has no choice but to swap her Manhattan apartment and city lifestyle for a renovation project in a peaceful French village. When Ariel hires an expert to help her uncover the legacy of her beautiful ruin, life only becomes more complicated. Christiane, the historian, is found dead in the moat, and although the local police aren't suspicious, Ariel is. She joins two other ex-pats, Pippa and Katherine, to investigate, but with plenty of workmen - and errant tools - around the château, many people had the means, but who had the motive? Why would anyone want to kill a historian? Ariel begins to suspect that her French village life will be anything but peaceful! Can she solve the suspicious murder and make her château in Burgundy the perfect new home?
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Women are the fiercest creatures
by Andrea Dunlop
Three women - Anna, the ex-wife of the charming, manipulative tech wunderkind Jake Sarnoff; Samanta, Jake's college girlfriend; and Jessica, Jake's much younger new wife - find their lives entangled as long-held secrets are forced to the surface, threatening to destroy their families. 75,000 first printing.
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Before I sleep
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
DCI Bill Slider tries to determine what happened to a mature, sensible woman who left her West London house for her weekly pottery class and never returned in the latest novel of the long-running series following Dying Fall.
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In farm's way : a farm to table mystery
by Amanda Flower
Organic farmer Shiloh Bellamy gets tangled up in the murder of an ice fishing contestant and must wade through the town's fishy characters to lure the killer to the surface while dealing with her struggling family farm.
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Don't Back Down
by Sharon Sala
Army veteran Cameron Pope arrives back in Jubilee, Kentucky, for the first time in years. He barely has time to catch his breath when he becomes embroiled in a race of life or death for his little niece and a deadly hunt for the human traffickers who are destroying the peace of his mountain town. When he's reunited with Rusty Caldwell--a woman from his past he's never stopped thinking about--he wants to believe they can finally be together. But Rusty belongs to one of the rich families in Jubilee--the same rich folks who scorn the rural families living on the surrounding mountainside. Cameron and Rusty will have to find a way to end the feuding and take down the human trafficking ring if they're to have any chance at happiness.
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Lookout
by Christine Byl
Set in rural Montana, Lookout centers on the dual coming-of-age of a girl and her father amid the natural and cultural forces that shape their family. Lookout tells the story of the Kinzlers, a working-class family firmly rooted in Northwest Montana. Set beneath big skies and spanning four decades, Lookout is an unvarnished look at contemporary life in the rural mountain west, and the interior worlds of people who are different than their surfaces imply. Josiah and Margaret Kinzler have forged an unusual bond that honors both tenderness and solitude; their daughters, Cody and Louisa, grow up watching their parents navigate what it means to be true to yourself, and what that costs. The core of the book is a dual coming-of-age: Cody's from stoic ranch kid to a resilient woman learning to lean on others, and Josiah's as he struggles to thrive in a world that has misunderstood him. Bound by their love of the land, the Kinzlers work to bridge the gaps created by the secrets they keep from one another. Lookout brings to life a family at home in a nuanced American West, at the conjunction of the outer world with inner lives.
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Death Ride
by Nick Oldham
An unwelcome face from the past at a local fair leads Henry Christie on a white-knuckled race against time to find a missing girl. On the third day of the Kendleton Country Fair in Lancashire, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Kirkham goes missing. Retired detective superintendent Henry Christie is there as a volunteer steward, but Charlotte's sudden disappearance isn't the only thing troubling him. The man with the burger van looks familiar... for all the wrong reasons. Leonard Lennox was jailed for twelve years for abducting a young girl. Henry rescued her, unharmed, and helped put Leonard behind bars. Now he's out, with his own criminal outfit, old scores to settle, and a son who was last seen talking to Charlotte at the fair. Is history about to repeat itself? Henry is soon drawn into another hair-raising, pulse-pounding race against time, and the stakes couldn't be higher...
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The Red Widow murders
by John Dickson Carr
They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted - at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution, and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors, including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between. Now, in 1935, eight men and women join at the manor for a sinister experiment to determine the truth behind the haunting once and for all: they each draw a card, and whoever pulls the Ace of Spades must spend a night in that terrifying room. But the challenge turns fatal when the man selected for the task is found poisoned the next morning when the doors are opened. The locked room was guarded all night, so nobody could have entered or escaped; what's more, the deadly toxin could only have entered through a break in the skin, but no wounds were discovered on the body. Is this evidence, at last, of a nefarious spirit at work, or of a diabolical and ingenious killer? Only Sir Henry Merrivale, called in to take note of the night's proceedings, will be able to examine the clues and deduce the truth.
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None Of This Is Serious
by Catherine Prasifka
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. Then, at a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen. None of This Is Serious is about the uncertainty and absurdity of being alive today. It's about balancing the real world with the online, and the vulnerabilities in yourself, your relationships, your body. At its heart, this is a novel about the friendships strong enough to withstand anything.
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He said he would be late
by Justine Sullivan
The loving wife of a rising Boston banker takes a deep dive down a dangerous rabbit hole after she intercepts a text with a kissy-face emoji on her husband's phone while everyone around her becomes convinced she's losing her mind.
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Wedding of the season : a novel
by Lauren Edmondson
When her family becomes a local gossip blog's new favorite subject due to her sister's impending nuptials, Cass Coventry finds her weekend stay in Newport becoming a full summer of frenzied wedding planning and society drama that reveals one surprise after another. 50,000 first printing.
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The promise of a normal life : a novel
by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
The unnamed narrator is a fiercely observant, introverted Jewish-American girl who seems to exist in a private and separate realm. She's the child of a first-generation doctor and lawyer--whose own stories have the loud grandeur of family legend--in an America where Jews are excluded from the country club across the street. Her expectations for adulthood are often contradictory. In the changing landscape of the 1960s, she attempts to find her way through the rituals of life, her geography expanding across the country, across the ocean, and into multiple nations.
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One extra corpse
by Barbara Hambly
May, 1924. It's been seven months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful, silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted... and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she's too busy making her academic parents turn in their graves with her new job writing painfully historically inaccurate scenarios for Foremost Studios, in between wrangling their leading lady out of the arms of her army of amorous suitors. So when one of Kitty's old flames, renowned film director Ernst Zapolya, calls Emma and tells her it's imperative he meet with Kitty that morning, she's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Ernst sounds frightened. But what can have scared him so badly - and what on earth does cheerful, flighty Kitty have to do with it? Only Ernst can provide the answers, and Kitty and Emma travel to the set of his extravagant new movie to find them. But the shocking discovery they make there only raises further questions... including: will they stay alive long enough to solve the murderous puzzle?
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What Napoleon could not do
by DK Nnuro
Envious of his sister, who achieved, as their father put it, "what Napoleon could not do," by graduating law school in the U.S. and marrying a wealthy black businessman from Texas, Jacob, fighting for a visa to join his wife in Virginia, must learn from his dashed hopes to fulfill his own dreams.
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What happened to Ruthy Ramirez
by Claire Jimenez
When she spots her missing sister, Ruthy, who disappeared when she was 13, on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show, Jessica, along with her younger sister, mother, and her mother's holy roller best friend, set out on a family road trip to find the truth. 75,000 first printing.
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Philanthropists : Inspector Mislan and the executioners
by Rozlan Mohd Noor
Eight months after the assassination attempt that nearly ended his life, Inspector Mislan Latif is back on twenty-four-hour duty with his assistant, Detective Sergeant Johan Kamaruddin, when the call comes in: double murder in a house in the police district of Sentul. The two dark-skinned men were killed identically, execution-style. In the master bedroom of the rental, in plain sight on the bed, is almost three pounds of drugs, while no identifying documents, wallets, phones, and the like are to be found. No shots were heard, or the neighbors won't admit to hearing them, but someone called the killings in to notify the police. In the area, drugs are rampant and also foreign nationals, legal and illegal. If the vics were foreign, without papers, where do they start?
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Deep fake : a thriller
by Ward Larsen
The wife of a war-hero-turned-congressman becomes suspicious when her husband starts acting strange following his intervention and narrow escape from a terrorist attack that catapulted him to fame and renown and launched his bid for the presidency.
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I love it when you lie
by Kristen Bird
The Williams women don't just keep secrets... They bury them. The three Williams girls are as close as sisters can be, and they also share one special trait in common: each of them have a man in their lives that they could do without... Their sister-in-law Stephanie, an outsider, knows all the family dirt and is watching the three of them... When the woman who raised them, their beloved Gran, dies on the eve of her eightieth birthday, the Williams sisters return home to the Appalachian foothills to bury her. But their grandmother won't be the only one they'll put in a grave this weekend... because now someone has gone missing in the dark Appalachian woods. And if Gran has taught them anything, it's how to get rid of a good-for-nothin' man.
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Fractured soul : a novel
by Akira Mizubayashi
A novel of remembrance, loss and the ways in which art defies death to become the very matter of life. 40,000 first printing.
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In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me : Stories
by Courtney Sender
Populated with lovers who leave and return, with ghosts of the Holocaust and messages from the dead, Courtney Sender's debut collection speaks in a singular new voice about the longings and loneliness of contemporary love. The world of these fourteen interlocking stories is fiercely real but suffused with magic and myth, dark wit, and distinct humor. Here, ancient loss works its way deep into the psyche of modern characters, stirring their unrelenting lust for life.
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A remarkable rogue
by Anna Harrington
Coerced into working for Scepter, a band of revolutionaries determined to overthrow the government, beautiful widow Baroness Rowland turns to Captain Nathaniel Reed for help in extricating herself from this group in order to save her son.
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A Scot is not enough
by Gina Conkle
Engaging in a flirtation with Alexander Sloane to find and steal the ceremonial dagger taken from her clan by British soldiers during the Uprising of 1745, Cecelia MacDonald must place her trust in this man when their mutual enemy proves deadly. 100,000 first printing.
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In memoriam
by Alice Winn
Henry Gaunt, a student at an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside, is relieved to escape his feelings for Sidney Ellwood when he enlists to fight in World War I, but is horrified when all his classmates join him.
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Dog on Fire
by Terese Svoboda
Out of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. "Just a glimpse of him," says his sister; "every inch of him," says his guilt-filled lover. "Close your eyes," says his nephew. "What about it?" asks his father. The cupboard is filled with lime Jell-O, and there are aliens, deadly kissing, and a restless, alcoholic mother who carries a gun. "Every family is this normal," insists the narrator. "Whoever noticed my brother, with a family as normal as this?" the beleaguered sister asks. Against the smoky prairie horizon and despite his seizures, a brother builds a life. Imbued with melancholy cheer, Dog on Fire unfolds around a family's turmoil, past loves, and a mysterious death.
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The trees grew because I bled there : collected stories
by Eric LaRocca
The Bram-Stoker finalist and master storyteller presents eight stories of literary dark fiction that explore the shadow side of love, one filled with grief, obsession and control - intimate examinations of trauma and tragedy.
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Johanna Porter is not sorry
by Sara Read
Twenty years ago, Johanna Porter was a rising star in the art world. Now she's an unknown soccer mom. When an invitation arrives for an elite gallery opening for her former lover, the great Nestor Pinedo, Johanna wants to throw it in the trash where it belongs. But with some styling help from her daughter, she makes an appearance and comes face-to-face with the woman she was before the powerful and jealous Nestor ruined her. La Rosa Blanca is a portrait of Johanna herself, young and fierce and fearless--a masterwork with a price tag to match. When she cuts it out of its frame, rolls it up and walks out, Johanna is only taking back what was stolen from her. Hiding out with La Rosa Blanca in a shack on the Chesapeake Bay, Johanna digs into the raw work of reviving her own skills while battling novice-thief paranoia, impostor syndrome and mom guilt. But Johanna doesn't just want the painting--she wants to paint again. To harness her powerful talent, she must defy everyone's expectations--most of all her own--for what a woman like her should be.
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Forget what you know
by Christina Dodd
Zoey Phoenix is almost killed in a car accident on the same day her mother disappears and must rely on her ex-husband for help in both her recovery and also searching for answers about what happened to her mother.
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Something wild & wonderful
by Anita Kelly
When he meets outgoing hiker Ben Caravalho on the Pacific Crest Trail, Alexei Lebedev falls in love on the biggest adventure of his life, but when their plans for the future are tuned upside down, he hopes they can hold on to something this wild and wonderful. 30,000 first printing.
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Standing dead
by Margaret Mizushima
When her mother and her husband disappear without a trace, Deputy Mattie Cobb, after making a grisly discovery along with her K-9 partner, receives a warning that her mother is in dire straits and, in a last-ditch effort, goes undercover into a killer's lair to save her mother - or die trying.
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Rootless : a novel
by Krystle Zara Appiah
When his wife, unable to handle the demands of motherhood and feeling the dreams she had slipping away once again, disappears, leaving their toddler son behind, Sam finds his vision for their future shattered, in this heartrending love story that explores what happens after a marriage collapses.
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The weight of air
by Kimberly Duffy
In 1911, Europe's strongest woman, Mabel MacGinnis, loses everything she's ever known and sets off for America in hopes of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. When circus aerialist Isabella Moreau's daughter suddenly appears, she is forced to face the truth of where, and in what, she derives her worth.
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The king is dead : stories
by Walter S. Tevis
Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess. This long overdue collection establishes Tevis's rightful place as a maestro of the short form, as well. Bringing together the 1981 short story collection Far From Home with a host of other previously unpublished stories from journals and magazines, this entertaining collection showcases Tevis's characteristic perceptiveness, empathy, and range.
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The dance tree : a novel
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
In a historical novel, the internationally best-selling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in 16th-century France. 40,000 first printing.
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The fun widow's book tour : a novel
by Zoe Fishman
To promote her memoir, widow Mia, to find her spark, embarks on a book tour during which she visits her three best friends and discovers if she can rewrite who she is now by revisiting who she was then, maybe she can reignite the spark for all of them. 50,000 first printing.
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Not that kind of ever after
by Luci Adams
Newly empowered after she stops looking for "the one," Bella Marble unexpectedly becomes a viral sensation when she posts a fairytale retelling of a disastrous one-night-stand under the name of @B.Enchanted and soon seeks out new fairytales to live through and share with her fans. 50,000 first printing.
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Walking practice : a novel
by Dolki Min
Stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth's gravity, a shapeshifting alien, to practice walking, hunts humans for food, but when their existence begins to unravel after failing to kill their latest meal, the alien is confronted with the psychological and physical tolls their experience on Earth has taken. 25,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Feed them silence
by Lee Mandelo
Using a neurological interface to translate animals' perceptions through her own mind, a scientist becomes obsessed with seeing the world through the eyes of a wolf, endangering her marriage and threatening her mind and body. 50,000 first printing.
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The gospel of Orla : a novel
by Eoghan Walls
In this coming-of-age story where the mysterious of faith crash full speed into the vagaries of contemporary mores, Orla and a man with an extraordinary and unique ability flee Orla's village together, journeying across the north of England.
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The Speed of Slow Changes
by Sander Santiago
Al Jefferson has people: wife, kids, father, siblings, friends. When Lucas shows up at a local polyamory party, Al knows he is ready for more. Sudden illnesses, date interruptions, and an unexpected visit prove that mixing Lucas into his already busy life isn't going to be easy.
Lucas Laverty has people too: wife, daughter, parents. And though he and Al are both looking for a boyfriend, Lucas learns they mean different things by "boyfriend." They don't see things the same way when it comes to their other relationships, either. And before Lucas can sort out his relationship with Al, he'll have to track down the father he missed out on.
If being a coach's son has taught Al anything, it's that winning the game might mean changing the play. But Lucas isn't exactly flexible, and people don't fall into neat categories. As Al and Lucas navigate the ups and downs of life, only one thing is certain: romance has never been so crowded.
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The white lady : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
A former wartime operative and trained killer, Elinor White, settling in Kent, England, keeps to herself until the powerful Mackie crime family threatens her neighbors and former wartime colleagues, who know the truth about what happened in 1944. 100,000 first printing.
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Bones under the ice
by Mary Ann Miller
Two days after a blizzard hits Field' s Crossing, Indiana, Sheriff Jhonni Laurent discovers the frozen body of a high school senior under a fifteen-foot pile of snow and ice. Murder is rare in farm country, and this death marks the beginning of Jhonni's first homicide case. Just as the investigation gets underway, Jhonni's opponent for sheriff from four years ago wages a bitter reelection battle to oust her. Then, Jhonni finds another body, and further complications arise when a century-old feud between two families reaches its breaking point. Soon, a slew of newspaper articles causes the Indiana State Election Board to doubt her credibility. Jhonni must fight to maintain her reputation, keep the small farming community together, and find the murderer at large- all while demons from her own past threaten to crush her. Can she find the killer and mend her battered spirit before it's too late?
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Too soon for adiós
by Annette Chavez Macias
No one expects to meet their father at their mother's funeral. But for Gabby Medina, that's exactly what happens. Her dad abandoned her when she was a baby, and now he's back. And he wants to give her a house. Gabby doesn't want the house--or him. But she could use the money. So Gabby agrees to take it under two conditions: First, she can sell the house whenever she wants. Second, accepting it doesn't mean she accepts him. After they strike a deal, Gabby hires a contractor in preparation for a quick sale. But as she gets to know the town and these two new men in her life, she learns more about herself than she ever dared to think possible. But is she ready to open herself up to the truth of what happened--and the promise of what could be?
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Death and Croissants
by Ian Moore
Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance. Richard remains a dazed passenger in the case until things become really serious and someone murders Ava Gardner, one of his beloved hens... and you don't mess with a fellow's hens! Death and Croissants is an unputdownable, hilarious mystery perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club.
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Island City : a novel
by Laura Adamczyk
A woman spills the story of her life to a bar full of strangers in the acerbic first novel from Laura Adamczyk, the author of the "knockout" (ELLE) story collection Hardly Children.
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A Flaw in the Design
by Nathan Oates
After his nephew is orphaned, a creative writing professor and his wife must take in seventeen-year-old Matthew and are concerned and panicked when the young man begins writing chilling stories that imagine the deaths of his parents and relatives.
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White fox : a novel
by Owen Matthews
In 1963, in a desolate Russian penal colony, when a violent revolt breaks out, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin, a disgraced KGB agent, finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy.
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The golden spoon : a novel
by Jessa Maxwell
During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as "America's Grandmother," finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
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Red London : a novel
by Alma Katsu
CIA agent Lyndsey Duncan's newest asset might just be her long-needed confidante - or her greatest betrayal.
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Tina, mafia soldier
by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Notorious for her cruelty and reckless disregard for societal expectations, gender-bending mafiosa Tina, after her latest crimes are published, becomes the subject of a writer, leading to obsession and violence until their first, and last, explosive meeting.
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Old God's time
by Sebastian Barry
When two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one that has haunted him for years, recently retired policeman Tom Kettle finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.
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The dig : a novel
by Anne Burt
When her brother mysteriously disappears, Sarajevo-born lawyer Antonia King returns home to Thebes, Minnesota, where she unearths years of secrets and lies, leading to shocking revelations about her adoptive family - and the truth behind her biological mother's death, forever altering her life.
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The mimicking of known successes
by Malka Older
When her former girlfriend, the enigmatic Investigator Mossa, arrives on Valdegord, needing her help with her latest investigation, Pleiti, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems, joins her on a twisting path where not only the future of Earth is at stake, but also their futures together. 60,000 first printing.
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Mr. & Mrs. Witch : a novel
by Gwenda Bond
When their secret identities are revealed on their wedding day, powerful witch Savannah Wilde and her witch-hunter husband-to-be are tasked to take the other out until they are forced to team up to stop a plot to take down both their agencies - and to survive. 50,000 first printing.
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Off the map
by Trish Doller
When fate throws together worldwide adventurer Carla Black, who doesn't do love - or stay in one place too long, and modern-day cartographer Eamon Sullivan, they find a simple drive across Ireland becoming complicated by chemistry-filled detours, unexpected feelings and the possibility of something more. 50,000 first printing.
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Old babes in the wood : stories
by Margaret Atwood
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents this stunning collection of short stories that showcase both her creativity and her humanity as she explores family relationships, marriage, loss and memory and what it means to spend a life together.
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The curator : a novel
by Owen King
Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
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Künstlers in paradise
by Cathleen Schine
In this powerful novel of stories hand down and handed on, and those held close to the heart, Julian Künstler, during the 2020 pandemic, is trapped in Venice, California, with his glamorous, eccentric 93-year-old grandmother who shares her experiences upon arriving in the US after escaping Nazi Germany. 125,000 first printing.
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You never know : a novel of domestic suspense
by Connie Briscoe
After someone breaks into her home and tries to assault her, Alexis Roberts, who is hearing impaired, believes the intruder is her husband, who, after she made a horrifying discovery, disappeared without a trace, and finds herself trapped in a nightmare of fear and uncertainty. 50,000 first printing.
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The love scribe
by Amy Meyerson
While trying to harness her extraordinary gift - the ability to make others fall in love, Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her most challenging assignment yet - one that forces her to confront her own guarded heart. 50,000 first printing.
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Sell us the rope : a novel
by Stephen May
Revealing the intense manipulation, the keen ambition and the daring that reshaped Russia into the Soviet Union, this inventive novel set in 1907 follows 27-year-old Stalin as he forges alliances while struggling to break free from his impoverished, violent past to become one of the world's most infamous dictators. 40,000 first printing.
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The flowers of buffoonery
by Osamu Dazai
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba--the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age--is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other laugh. While No Longer Human delves into the darkest corners of human consciousness, The Flowers of Buffoonery pokes fun at these same emotions: the follies and hardships of youth, of love, and of self-hatred and depression. A glimpse into the lives of a group of outsiders in prewar Japan, The Flowers of Buffoonery is a darkly humorous and fresh addition to Osamu Dazai's masterful and intoxicating oeuvre.
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Thirst for salt : a novel
by Madelaine Lucas
In an isolated Australian coastal town, a young woman finds the stability she's been seeking in a local man almost twenty years her senior until she witnesses something she doesn't fully understand, which causes her to question everything - about him, herself and the life she has and the one she wants.
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At sea
by Emma Fedor
Becoming pregnant after a summer fling with a man who claims he can breathe underwater as part of an experimental Special Forces unit, Cara is desolate and questioning everything she believes when Brendan takes their son and vanishes.
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Take what you need
by Idra Novey
An award-winning writer presents a novel with two determined, unforgettable female voices.
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Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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Our best intentions : a novel
by Vibhuti Jain
Caught in the middle of a criminal investigation after finding her classmate stabbed and bleeding, Angie, an introverted teenager, must navigate conflicting narratives while her father attempts to shield her and protect his hard-earned efforts to assimilate, which overshadows his ability to see right from wrong. 100,000 first printing.
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All that is hidden
by Rhys Bowen
Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is shocked when her husband tells her they are moving to Fifth Avenue and that he's running for sheriff, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Wild Irish Rose. 60,000 first printing.
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Red queen
by Juan Gómez-Jurado
After a personal trauma, Antonia Scott, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary, refuses to continue her work until she is drawn into a macabre, ritualistic murder investigation by a desperate police officer with his own agenda. 100,000 first printing.
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The last Russian doll
by Kristen Loesch
A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.
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Night flight to Paris
by Cara Black
In 1942, American markswoman and former spy Kate Rees is pulled out of retirement by her former handler who sends her to Paris on a dangerous three-pronged mission - one that requires her to take the shot that just might win - or lose - World War II.
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What have we done
by Alex Finlay
The survivors of Savior House, an abusive group home for wayward teens, are forced to come together when someone one starts killing them one by one - a reunion none of them asked for or wanted, but one that may be the only way to save all their lives. 75,000 first printing.
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All that is mine I carry with me : a novel
by William Landay
When the remains of their mother's body are discovered twenty years after she went missing, three siblings must decide whether or not to believe their criminal defense attorney father is guilty of the murder or stand by him.
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The Gospel according to the new world
by Maryse Condé
One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: 'A miracle!' Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal?
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The portrait of a duchess
by Scarlett Peckham
When she must wed due to a stipulation in her inheritance, Cornelia, an activist painter of radicals and harlots who wants to fund the cause of women's rights, is forced to reveal a secret: she's already wed to a man she hasn't seen for 20 years. 100,000 first printing.
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The last beekeeper
by Julie Carrick Dalton
Returning to her childhood home, Sasha Severn, the daughter of the infamous Last Beekeeper, sees a honeybee, presumed extinct, which she believes is connected to her incarcerated father's missing research - a discovery that could threaten the lives of those around her - or save them all. 75,000 first printing.
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Weyward : a novel
by Emilia Hart
Told over five centuries through three connected women, this riveting novel follows Kate, in 2019, as she seeks refuge in Weyward Cottage; Altha, in 1619, as she uses her powers to maintain her freedom; and Violet, in 1942, as she searches for the truth about her mother's death. 250,000 first printing.
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A witch's guide to fake dating a demon
by Sarah Hawley
Mariel Spark knows not to trust a demon, especially one that wants her soul, but what's a witch to do when he won't leave her side--and she kind of doesn't want him to? Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. When a spell to summon flour goes very wrong, Mariel finds herself staring down a demon--one she inadvertently summoned for a soul bargain. Ozroth the Ruthless is a legend among demons. Powerful and merciless, he drives hard bargains to collect mortal souls. But his reputation has suffered ever since a bargain went awry--if he can strike a bargain with Mariel, he will earn back his deadly reputation. Ozroth can't leave Mariel's side until they complete a bargain, which she refuses to do (turns out some humans are attached to their souls). But the witch is funny. And curvy. And disgustingly yet endearingly cheerful. Becoming awkward roommates quickly escalates when Mariel, terrified to confess the inadvertent summoning to her mother, blurts out that she's dating Ozroth. As Ozroth and Mariel struggle with their opposing goals and maintaining a fake relationship, real attraction blooms between them. But Ozroth has a limited amount of time to strike the deal, and if Mariel gives up her soul, she'll lose all her emotions--including love--which will only spell disaster for them both.
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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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Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land in the new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.
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Maybe next time : a novel
by Cesca Major
One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate.
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The lost English girl
by Julia Kelly
During World War II, Viv Byrne, with her husband serving in the Royal Air Force, discovers the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn't immune from the horrors of war, and it is only years later, with his help, that she learns what it will take to put their family back together again.
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Two sherpas
by Sebastián MartÃnez Daniell
A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of Julius Caesar.
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Jamie MacGillivray : the renegade's journey
by John Sayles
After cheating the hangman twice, Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements. 75,000 first printing.
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Stolen kiss
by Spencer Greene
Annabelle Nelson, at a dive bar in her hometown after her life in New York City falls apart, is searching for the courage to face her family when she meets a beautiful stranger. Their chemistry is instant, and they share a stolen kiss. What could be the harm? They're never going to see each other again. But when Anna arrives at her parents' house, she comes face-to-face with the woman she kissed, Louise Tanner, her brother's new girlfriend. Louise is exhausted from a long semester of medical school and is rethinking the distracted promise she made to visit her boyfriend's family. Spilling her heart to a gorgeous woman in a bar was a completely uncharacteristic move, not to mention their parting kiss. She didn't think it would hurt anyone. But when she sees Anna again, Louise finds it hard to suppress her growing feelings. Anna and Louise try to forget their stolen kiss but struggle to resist their attraction.
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The panacea project
by Catherine Devore Johnson
Calla Hammond has always been a loner-a product of the foster system and avoided by others because of a skin condition. When doctors discover her immune system holds the key to curing cancer, she struggles to advance lifesaving research in a world that sees her only as a means to an end. Yet along the way, Calla gains the one thing she has always longed for: a chosen family. When a group of unscrupulous people join forces to sell Calla's blood to the highest bidder, she digs deep to find the strength to retake control of her life, her body, and her story.
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Atomic family : a novel
by Ciera Horton McElroy
A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie covertly joins an anti-nuclear movement led by angry housewives-and his father, Dean, must decide what to do with the damning secrets he's uncovered at the nuclear plant. When tragedy strikes, the Porter family must learn to confront their fears-of the world and of each other.
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The secret lives of country gentlemen
by KJ Charles
Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping Regency romance of smugglers, adventure, mystery, and life-changing love from celebrated author KJ Charles. Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming man in a London molly house, he falls head over heels-until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar... Joss Doomsday has run the Doomsday smuggling clan since he was a boy. When the new baronet-his old lover-agrees to testify against Joss's sister, Joss acts fast to stop him. Their reunion is anything but happy, yet after the dust settles, neither can stay away. Soon, all Joss and Gareth want is the chance to be together. But the bleak, bare Marsh holds deadly secrets. And when Gareth finds himself threatened from every side, the gentleman and the smuggler must trust one another not just with their hearts, but with their lives.
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Anatomy of a meet cute
by Addie Woolridge
Sparks fly when an ob-gyn butts heads with a doctor at her new hospital in this delightfully charming romance about bad timing, good friends, and fresh starts.
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Too wrong to be right : a novel
by Melonie Johnson
A swoony, slow-burn rom-com, Melonie Johnson's Too Wrong to Be Right features a true romantic on a mission to find her happily ever after. After her latest jerk of a boyfriend dumps her (and ditches her with his pet hedgehog), florist Kat Kowalski is done chasing after Mr. Wrong. With her two best friends moving on to more serious relationships, she's ready to stop repeating the same mistakes that are leaving her stuck in the single lane. Armed with a list of qualities for her perfect Mr. Right, Kat swears off dating until she finds him. Then in a meet-disaster involving a corpse and a salty cockatoo, she stumbles across Mick O'Sullivan at his family's funeral home. Their immediate chemistry warns Kat to keep things platonic; after all, following her heart never worked out in the past, and this time she's determined to listen to her head. But can Kat and Mick be just friends? As she gets to know him better, the lines blur, and Kat starts to wonder if she's gotten it wrong and Mick is exactly who she's been looking for..
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New selected stories
by Thomas Mann
Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann's best stories--including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a century. A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer--"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius. The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow" (in its first new translation since 1936)--a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life--is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the "Bigs" and "Littles" of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks--a sensation when it was first published. "Death in Venice" (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story--included here as "Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull." "Louisey"--a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art--rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.
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The daughters of Madurai : a novel
by Rajasree Variyar
The Daughters of Madurai is both a page-turning mystery and a heartrending story of the fraught family dynamics and desperate choices that face a young mother in India. Spanning 1990s South India and present-day Australia, the novel follows Janani, a mother who will do anything to save her unborn daughter, and Nila, a young woman who embarks on a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
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Ana takes Manhattan
by Lissette Decos
A reality TV producer who orchestrates extravagant marriage proposals decides to start directing her own life and living with no regrets and discovers that just makes things messier until she just listens to her heart. 30,000 first printing.
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Muckross Abbey : and other stories
by Sabina Murray
Taking us from the haunted sites from a West Australian convent to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod, these ten multilayered gothic tales follow painters, writers, historians and nuns all confronting the supernatural in epically eerie ways.
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Bear
by Staffan Gnosspelius
Bear, Staffan Gnosspelius's debut book, is a gorgeous visual meditation on depression. In this deeply affecting, wordless picture book for adults, a bear is maddeningly afflicted with a cone that covers his head and that he is unable to take off. He furiously stomps and yells and tears at the cone, he implores the skies and fate for relief, he is drawn to dark and wild and scary places. The depths of his sadness feel like a defeat. It's a battle he wages until he's mentally and physically exhausted. Then, one day, Bear hears notes of music, the humming of a friendly hare. The hare hovers nearby, concerned, sometimes driven away by Bear's frustration and anger, more often staying close and gently offering support. The author began drawing a bear with a cone on his head as a way to make sense of how a person close to him was suffering from mental illness. The resulting book is both an emotional gut punch and a warm embrace, recognizable immediately to anyone who has ever suffered or loved someone who has suffered in similar dark places. In other words, all of us.
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Storm watch
by C. J. Box
After finding the frozen and mutilated body of a man killed near the location of a mysterious high-tech structure, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds his investigation obstructed by federal agents, extremists and the governor and must find a way around them to stop the oncoming storm of peril.
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Wilderness tales : forty stories of the North American wild
by Diana Fuss
Featuring the works of Wallace Stegner, Annie Proulx, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, L Frank Baum, William Faulkner and Ray Bradbury, this masterful collection of short stories about North American outdoor life - both classic and contemporary - summons our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.
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A most intriguing lady : a novel
by Sarah Ferguson
Deliberately cultivating a mousey persona to fly under society's radar, Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott teams up with Colonel Walter Trefusis to solve crimes in Victorian London, in the new novel by the Duchess of York. 150,000 first printing.
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The woman who climbed trees : a novel
by Smriti Ravindra
Weaving together ghost stories, myths and song, this haunting novel follows a young bride as she leaves her life in India behind to move to Nepal with her new husband and his family, examining the loss she experiences as she gives up one home to become part of another. 30,000 first printing.
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Users : a novel
by Colin Winnette
Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes the target of user outrage, and starts receiving a series of anonymous death threats. Typed notes sealed in envelopes with no postage or return address, these persistent threats push Miles into a paranoid panic, blurring his own sense of reality, catalyzing the collapse of his career, his marriage, and his relationship with his children.
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A sinister revenge : a Veronica Speedwell mystery
by Deanna Raybourn
After receiving a cryptic, but threatening letter, Lord Templeton-Vane invites Veronica and her beau, Stoker, to a dinner party to help lure out the criminal, in the eighth novel of the series.
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Marvelous : a novel
by Molly Greeley
Set in the French royal court of Catherine de Medici during the Renaissance, this novel follows Pedro Gonsalvus, an unusual man who, delivered by a slave broker into France's royal court, becomes the favorite of the queen who is determined to find him a bride. 30,000 first printing.
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Time's undoing : a novel
by Cheryl A. Head
Searching for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather decades ago, Meghan Mackenzie, the youngest reporter at the Detroit Free Press, spurred by the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, travels to Birmingham where she uncovers secrets that put her own life in danger.
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Pineapple Street : a novel
by Jenny Jackson
A novel of family, love and class follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan. A first novel.
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The neighbor favor
by Kristina Forest
Enlisting the help of her new neighbor to find a date for her sister's wedding, not realizing he is her favorite fantasy author - the very same one who ghosted her months ago - aspiring children's book author Lily Greene finds this simple favor between them becoming anything but.
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Now you see us : a novel
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
When a Filipina maid is arrested for murdering her female employer, three Filipina other domestic workers - Corazon, Donita and Angel - are shocked into action, using their moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened - and exposing the secrets of Singapore's elite along the way. 75,000 first printing.
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Artfully yours
by Joanna Lowell
Raised by her art-forger brother, Nina Finch would rather be baking instead of painting and accepts a job in the household of London's most discerning art critic, who knows the paintings are fakes, but not that she painted them.
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So shall you reap
by Donna Leon
Assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant, Commissario Guido Brunetti must rely on gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim, and as parts of the puzzle come together, a connection to his own youthful past turns out to be the final piece.
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Liar city
by Allie Therin
An empath discovers the butchered bodies of three victims and agrees to work with a shadowy government agent in the first novel of a new series by the author of the "Magic in Manhattan" series. 25,000 first printing.
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Lemon curd killer
by Laura Childs
When murder takes center stage during Charleston Fashion Week, tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning, implored by the victim's daughter to help find the killer, enters a world of backstabbing business partners, crazed clothing designers, angry film producers and drug deals.
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The kind worth saving : a novel
by Peter Swanson
When a troubled woman from his past wants proof her husband is cheating, this simple case of infidelity turns into a murder investigation, forcing PI Henry Kimball to go back to one of the worst days of his life to uncover the truth. 100,000 first printing.
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Heart sutra : a novel
by Lianke Yan
At a national Beijing center for religious training, the institute's two youngest disciples, Yahui, a Buddhist nun, and Gu Mingzheng, a Daoist priest, become friends and possibly more as they uncover the corruption seeping into the foundation of the institute.
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The farewell tour : a novel
by Stephanie Clifford
In 1980, country music singer Lillian Waters hits the road for her nationwide farewell tour, during which she recalls the hard choices she's made and how they shaped her life, and when she reaches her last stop, she finally confronts a betrayal from her past to move forward. 100,000 first printing.
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The god of endings
by Jakki Holland
A lonely artist heading an elite fine arts school for children in 1984, Collette LeSange, an immortal beauty who has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache, finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home and her own mysteriously growing hunger. 200,000 first printing.
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1794 : the city between the bridges : a novel
by Niklas Natt och Dag
In 1794 Stockholm, Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman, investigates the death of Eric Three Roses' beautiful wife on their wedding night at the behest of the girl's mother, who is desperate for justice.
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Device free weekend
by Sean Doolittle
Six college friends invited to a retreat on a private island awaken to discover their host has disappeared along with all connection to the mainland except for a single touchscreen tablet inviting them to "Unlock me!" 30,000 first printing.
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Bitter medicine
by Mia Tsai
As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre magical calligrapher at the fairy temp agency. Nevertheless, she challenges herself by covertly outfitting Luc, her client and crush, with high-powered glyphs. Half-elf Luc, the agency's top security expert, has his own secret: he's responsible for a curse laid from an old assignment. To heal them, he'll need to perform his job duties with unrelenting excellence and earn time off from his tyrannical boss. When Elle saves Luc's life, they begin a dangerous collaboration, but their chemistry blooms. Happiness, for once, is an option for them both. But Elle is loyal to her family, and Luc is bound by his true name. To win freedom from duty, they must make unexpected sacrifices.
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Worthy opponents : a novel
by Danielle Steel
The CEO of the most respected and luxurious department store in NYC, Spencer Brooke goes up against Mike Weston, a wealthy investor who threatens to take over, but when bad luck strikes and she is backed into a corner, she must decide what's best for the family business.
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Black candle women : a novel
by Diane Marie Brown
Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter. 150,000 first printing.
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Before the storm
by James D. Shipman
In 1948 Berlin, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the U.S. Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate a store vandalized with swastikas and helps two Jewish Holocaust survivors track down a Nazi nuclear scientist whose knowledge may determine the course of countless wars to come.
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Sing, Nightingale
by Marie Helene Poitras
When the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a once-enchanting estate, quietly falling into darkness and ruin, and at the heart of it, a father, one of a long line of fathers who have flourished at the expense of those around them. The silence seems peaceful, but lurking under it is a deep malevolence, scores of ugly and violent secrets kept by cast-off mistresses and abandoned daughters. Ever-greedy, the father brings in Aliénor, a woman who promises to make the lands give even more of themselves; the plants will flourish, the animals will multiply, each feast will be more sumptuous than the last. The father thinks the stage is set to satisfy his every desire, but Aliénor will bring a new script, one in which the hunters are hunted and a new reign will begin.
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A small sacrifice for an enormous happiness : stories
by Jai Chakrabarti
A closeted gay man seeks to have a child with his lover's wife and a mystical agent is sent by a mother to help her son's domestic troubles in collection of short stories. 20,000 first printing.
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A half-baked murder
by Emily George
After a scathing food review and a messy breakup, a formally trained pastry chef returns home to California to launch a cannabis bakery with her quirky Aunt Dawn, in the first novel of a new series. 25,000 first printing.
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Eye Brother Horn
by Bridget Pitt
A Zulu foundling and a white missionary's child raised as brothers in a world intent on making them enemies. A sweeping tale of identity, kinship, and atonement, set in 1870s South Africa, a decade of ruthless colonial aggression against the nation's indigenous people.
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Paris requiem
by Chris Lloyd
Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in, but must work under. When an old friend--and an old flame--reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves. The notion of justice itself quickly becomes as dangerous, blurred, and confused as the war itself. And Eddie's morale compass, ever on unreliable foundations, will be questioned again and again as the ravages of the German occupation steadily attempt to grind him--and the city he loves--into submission.
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Murder in Haxford : a Pignon Scorbion mystery
by Rick Bleiweiss
A delightful day in 1910 at the Haxford Spring Fair turns horrifying and deadly when a balloonist plummets to the earth from the blue skies above. However unlikely, it's soon discovered that this unfortunate corpse was not done in by his precipitous plunge but instead from an arrow fatally lodged in his chest. Unraveling the twisted web of intrigue that took the man's life requires the expert skills of Haxford's brilliant and sartorially splendid Chief Inspector Pignon Scorbion. But the quirky detective is not alone in this task. Aiding Scorbion in his dogged pursuit of truth and justice are his carefully chosen deputies: six quirky and unconventional thinkers from the town who meet regularly with Scorbion in Calvin Brown's barbershop to unmask ne'er-do-wells and solve local crimes. Since his move to the charming village, the enigmatic detective has also realized his growing dependence upon its bookshop's owner. Lovely and quick-witted Thelma Smith not only helps Pignon with his criminal cases, but she seems well on her way to unlocking the mysteries of his heart. Not everyone in Haxford is so cooperative. Faustin Hardcastle from the Gazette is bound and determined to ruin the town's new officer of the law with slanderous news reports of failure and misconduct. And other residents of the picture-perfect village do not welcome the inspector's inquiring eye and expert nose for trouble. When they engage in decidedly unquaint activities like gambling, revenge, forgery, and loan sharking, it falls to Pignon Scorbion to reveal their deceit and criminal misdeeds-all in a good day's work. Once done, he and Thelma can then thoroughly enjoy a delicious dinner at the Bridgehouse Inn.
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Dog days forever : a novel
by Shannon Richard
Years after Caroline Buchanan suddenly ended her engagement to Max Abbott, she is unwillingly reunited with him when he returns to their North Carolina hometown, but after taking in an abandoned puppy who opens her heart, Caroline wonders if she could also learn to love Max again.
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Never seduce a duke
by Vivienne Lorret
Mistaken for a notorious thief known for seducing men to distraction while on holiday, Margaret Stredwick, longing for adventure, eagerly plays along until she returns to her ordinary life, soon discovering that her grand flirtation with the Duke of Merleton won't be secret for long. 80,000 first printing.
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The London Séance Society
by Sarah Penner
In 1873, Lenna Wickes accompanies acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire to England where they team up with London's exclusive Seance Society to solve a high-profile murder and soon suspect they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves. 200,000 first printing.
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A country you can leave
by Asale Angel-Ajani
A young woman navigates what it means to be the Black, biracial daughter of a fiery, Russian mother when the pair find themselves homeless again and at a mobile home park in the California desert. 50,000 first printing.
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The queen of Dirt Island
by Donal Ryan
This triumphant story of four generations of women and the fierce devotion that binds them together follows the Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, whose lives are touched by betrayal and loyalty, isolation and togetherness, and transgression, forgiveness, desire and love.
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River spirit : a novel
by Leila Aboulela
Told through the voices of seven men and women whose fates grow inextricably linked, this breathtaking new novel, set during the Mahdist War in 19th-century Sudan, is a story of people who - against the odds and for a brief time - gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge and sacrifice.
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It ends at midnight : a novel
by Harriet Tyce
Murder stalks a group of people as a terminally ill woman aims to renew her vows with her partner - and settles other affairs.
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Mothered : a novel
by Zoje Stage
Grace isn't exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They've never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space--especially now that she's stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. But living with Mother isn't for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon after Jackie moves in. Old wounds fester; new ones open. Grace starts having nightmares about her disabled twin sister, who died when they were kids. When Jackie makes an earth-shattering accusation against her, Grace sees it as an act of revenge, and it sends her spiraling into a sleep-deprived madness. As the walls close in, the ghosts of Grace's past collide with a new but familiar threat: Mom.
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Arch-conspirator
by Veronica Roth
Feeling uncontrollable rage toward her militant uncle Kreon who is rising to claim her father's vacant throne, Antigone and her siblings, welcomed into his mansion, become captives as well as guests, but her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable - and neither is he. 200,000 first printing.
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The numbers
by Nick Pirog
Ex-homicide detective Thomas Prescott joins an emergency task force to track down a serial killer who carves three-digit numbers into his victims, and uncovers a link to an illegal street lottery known as the Numbers.
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Wyoming Wild
by Sarah M. Eden
Hearts collide when a sheriff's daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father.
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Iron curtain : a love story : a novel
by Vesna Goldsworthy
Abounding in exquisite narrative irony, this compulsively readable retelling of the Medea myth is an unexpected East-meets-West love story and a masterful meditation on the true nature of freedom. Milena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jason, a confident British poet, Milena is appalled by his political naivety and his poor choice of footwear. Still, they fall into bed together, and before long Milena is secretly planning to escape to Britain. When she does, 1980s London defies her privileged expectations. The rented flat is grim and the food is disgusting but she is with the man she loves and there are no hidden cameras to record her every move. To her surprise, however, Milena discovers that Jason's idea of freedom hurts even more. With sharp wit and tender precision, Vesna Goldsworthy unpicks the failures of family and state. Iron Curtain is a sly, elegant human drama that challenges the myths we tell ourselves.
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Lovely girls : a thriller
by Margot Hunt
After the sudden death of her husband, Kate Turner is looking for a fresh start for herself and her teenage daughter, Alex. They relocate to the beachside town of Shoreham, Florida, where all is not as sunny as it seems. Although Kate makes fast friends with a trio of fellow moms, their daughters take an instant dislike to Alex, who attempts to document their bullying in her video diary. Kate brushes off Alex's concerns-until she receives a series of chilling warnings about the clique of moms from other parents and neighbors. As it becomes harder for her to ignore the malicious undercurrent she senses among her new friends, Kate grows increasingly unsure of who to believe-and who to trust. As small-town gossip weaves a harrowing web of jealousy, deceit, and betrayal, Kate and Alex discover that whether you're in or out, the status quo can turn on you deadly fast.
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The Blood of Patriots and Traitors
by James A. Scott
Former CIA Russia expert Max Geller is recovering from an intense mission while lying low in Australia, enjoying his sudden wealth in the company of his new girlfriend. But his beachy bliss is short-lived when Max, while relaxing by the ocean, is ambushed by the CIA.
He soon learns that his girlfriend, Vanessa, is being used as blackmail by his former CIA boss, Rodney, to convince Max to go to Moscow. His mission? Smuggle out a defector with knowledge of a secret Kremlin war plan. Max is wanted by the Russians, so the defector could be bait to lure him into the hands of his old enemy, FSB Colonel Zabluda. But it's either Max or Vanessa who must go, so Max takes the bait and heads off.
When Max is spotted in Moscow, Zabluda launches a manhunt, pursuing him and the defector across country lines. Max and the defector race to evade countless attacks and attempts at capture as they escape to the United States.
Will they make it in time? And what happens when the defector reveals crucial information that indicates U.S. democracy could be in peril? Max must figure out a way to avoid capture and halt imminent attacks--before it's too late.
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Cowboy wild : Her Wayward Cowboy
by Maisey Yates
When relationship-shy horse wrangler Elsie Garrett, who knows nothing about men, asks him to teach her how to flirt, cowboy Hunter McCloud, who has always looked out for her, finds himself playing with fire as the desire between them threatens to burn out of control. 400,000 first printing.
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Evil flowers : stories
by Gunnhild Øyehaug
A new short story collection from international literary star Gunnhild Øyehaug.
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The maid of Ballymacool : a novel
by Jennifer Deibel
The only home Brianna Kelly has ever known is Ballymacool Boarding School, but when the son of local gentry arrives at the school to deal with his unruly niece, an unexpected discovery uncovers the truth about her past--and the key to her future.
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Harmony of lies
by Brian Feehan
In a world of angels and demons, Alice, finally home after being forced away for 17 years, must let go of Owen who is headed to the Golden City with his crew of musicians where he must stop a series of brutal deaths by doing the impossible one more time.
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The Meister of Decimen City
by Brenna Raney
No one cares that you cured cancer if you also cloned a horde of dinosaurs and let them rampage down the street. Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can't go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It's been two weeks since her genetically engineered dinosaurs rampaged through town--a good streak for her--but the peace is broken when actual villain Last Dance sets his sights on Decimen. And he wants Rex's help. Before Rex can say "I didn't do it," superheroes who've dragged her to jail on her worst days are crowding her lab to conscript her into quasi-herodom.
Rex would rather stay out of it and deal with the dinosaurs that keep calling her Mom, but she can't ignore that she was somewhat responsible for Last Dance's villainy. She'd kept a very disorganized lab. And he was such a nosy brother. She failed to help him back then, but maybe if she stops him now--and keeps the heroes fooled--she can finally set things right.
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Homestead
by Melinda Moustakis
From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Flannery O'Connor Award comes a debut novel set in 1950s Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders.
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Maybe she'll stay : a novel
by Robyn Lucas
After three disastrous marriages, a series of bad dates, and a tumultuous relationship with an emotionally abusive mother, psychology professor Nancy Jewel is through with love and commitment. Romantic or familial, the notion is a waste of her time. Content with being alone, she's starting to feel normal-ish when she learns her father, incarcerated in Georgia, has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Nancy is determined to get him a compassionate release, even if it means returning home and reaching out for help from the last attorney she wants to see: her recent ex. Back in her estranged mother's orbit, and dealing with the fear of losing her father, Nancy wrestles with the ghosts of her toxic childhood and her reconnection with a failed bid at love. When an unexpected career challenge pushes Nancy to the edge, her impulse is to run. What other choice does she have? Face life head-on, and maybe, for once, stay.
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The writing retreat : a novel
by Julia Bartz
While attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-changing challenge, Alex, determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth.
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Lying beside you : a novel
by Michael Robotham
Successful psychologist and massacre survivor Cyrus Haven must cope with his brother's release from prison while investigating the murder of a man and the kidnapping of his daughter, in the third novel of the series following When She Was Good.
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The angel maker : a novel
by Alex North
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.
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Jade Is a Twisted Green
by Tanya Turton
A coming-of-age story about Jamaican Canadian identity, love, passion, chosen family and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. After the mysterious death of her twin sister, Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is without her other half. Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends while embarking on an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. We follow her as she investigates some of life's most frustrating paradoxes while holding tight to her connection with her high school friends and ex-girlfriend as a lifeline between the past and the present. Through a series of whirlwind love affairs, parties and trips abroad, our protagonist stumbles toward relinquishing the weight of her trauma as she fully comes into her own as a young Black woman and writer.
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That dangerous energy
by Aya De León
Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He's brilliant, supportive, and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors' exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love, money, and the power to make the world better. And securing her future is far more important than the attractive environmental activist she suddenly has unexpected feelings for...But once Morgan gets a glimpse of Sebastian's secret allies and confidential emails, she's stunned to find he's only talking a good game. His company is responsible for several ecological disasters, and a chance encounter makes it clear to Morgan the lengths he'll go to stay on top. To gather enough evidence to expose him, Morgan will have to rely on her quick wits and new friends to stay one step ahead of a corporate conspiracy. But as the danger comes closer, will Morgan put herself first and run--or face down the risk, even at her cost of her life?
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Lesser Islands
by Lorenza Pieri
An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio--a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways.
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Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone transgression
by Joshua Hood
A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal, in the latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum.
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The family Morfawitz
by Daniel H. Turtel
When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus--at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice--ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past--she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition knows no limits, and nothing will stand in the way of their realization of the American ideals of wealth and beauty, even if it means abandoning their son, Hezekial. Decades later, through machinations worthy of his parents, Hezekial becomes entrusted as the family's chronicler. As he sits with his aging father, transcribing a litany of Zev's sins--from serving as a kapo at Gusen, to betraying the friends who helped him, to his blood-bound commitment to Hadassah despite numerous affairs and illegitimate children--the younger Morfawitz is faced with a choice: whitewash a lifetime of cruelty, indifference, and lust, or repay his mother at last.
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The keeper of stories
by Sally Page
She can't recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her... Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. From recently widowed Fiona and her son Adam to opera-singing Geordie, the quiet bus driver Euan, and the pretentious Mrs. "YeahYeahYeah" and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs. B-a shrewd and prickly woman in her nineties-she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn't have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share. Mrs. B is no fool and knows there is more to Janice than meets the eye. What is she hiding? After all, doesn't everyone have a story to tell?
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Post after post-mortem
by E. C. R. Lorac
"Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don't try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood." The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews, and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a rare convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth-middle sister who writes "books which are just books"- decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life, while the rest of the brood scatter to the winds again. Their next return is heralded by the tragic news that Ruth has taken her life after an evening at the Surrays's hosting a set of publishers and writers, one of whom is named as Ruth's literary executor in the will she left behind. Despite some suspicions from the family, the verdict at the inquest is suicide-but when Ruth's brother Richard receives a letter from the deceased which was delayed in the post, he enlists the help of CID Robert Macdonald to investigate what could only be an ingeniously planned murder.
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The key to deceit : an Electra McDonnell novel
by Ashley Weaver
In a World War II mystery set in London, Electra McDonnell is given a new job from Major Ramsey, one which draws her into a world of espionage where she must investigate the murder of a possible spy. 40,000 first printing.
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Double the lies
by Patricia Raybon
In the cold and dangerous spring of 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain races the clock to solve the murder of a white barnstorming pilot before the clever black theologian--a target of the ruthless Colorado Klan--is framed for the crime, and before she is lured by the risky flirtations of the victim's dashing twin brother.
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The bloater
by Rosemary Tonks
Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in theory she's married, but her husband George is so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off even when he's still in the room. Luckily, she has her friends and lovers to distract her: in Min's self-lacerating, bracingly opinionated voice, life boils down to sex appeal-and of late she's being courted by an internationally renowned opera singer whom she refers to as The Bloater (a swelled, salted herring). Disgusted by and attracted to him in equal measure, her dilemma-which reaches a hysterical, hilarious pitch-is whether to sleep with him or not. Rosemary Tonks-the salt and pepper of the earth-is a writer who gets her claws into the reader with all the joy of a cat and a mouse. Vain and materialistic, tender and savage, narrated in brilliant, sparkling prose, The Bloater is the perfect snapshot of London in the 1960s.
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The house at the end of the world
by Dean R. Koontz
Alone on Jacob's Ladder island until two agents arrive in search of someone - or something - they refuse to identify, artist Katie, along with a brave young girl, finds herself in an epic and terrifying battle with a mysterious enemy that could bring about the end of the world.
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The color of family : a novel
by Jerry McGill
Paralyzed for life after a car accident, Devon Payne, over the course of a decade, visits his seven siblings now scattered across the globe, confronting the guilt and heartbreaking betrayals that followed in the wake of the tragedy and discovering to power of forgiveness to live free in the present.
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Never never
by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with the New York Times best-selling author of The Wives.
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The unfortunates : a novel
by J. K. Chukwu
A queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore, Sahara, who feels like an all-around failure, finds hope, answers and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates: the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously dying. 35,000 first printing.
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Murder at Haven's Rock
by Kelley Armstrong
Deep in the Yukon wilderness, in a place built for people to disappear where there is only one rule - stay out of the forest - Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are called in to investigate the murder of the town's construction crew members who broke it. 50,000 first printing.
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The woman with the cure
by Lynn Cullen
In 1940s and 50s America where polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb, Dr. Dorothy Horstmann, as some of the world's best minds race against each other to find a vaccine, must decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.
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Night, forgotten
by Meghan Joyce Tozer
After a sexual assault results in pregnancy, forever changing her life and marriage, Julie, unable to tell anyone or to cope with anything, must put the broken pieces of that awful night together and finally come to terms with what happened to her--and why.
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What happens next
by Christina Suzann Nelson
Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy-but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. When she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast, she uncovers desperate secrets and must face the truth before she can move forward.
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Trouble
by Katja Ivar
The third in the Hella Mauzer mystery series. Set in Finland, early summer 1953. Hella Mauzer, the first-ever woman Inspector in the Helsinki Homicide Unit, has been fired and is now a reluctant private investigator. Hella has been asked by the police to do a background check on Johannes Heikkinen, a senior member of the Finnish secret services. Heikkinen has a complicated past: a child dead just weeks after birth and a wife who died in the fire that destroyed their house a few years later. Background checks are not exactly the type of job Hella was hoping for, but she accepts it on the condition that she is given access to the files concerning the roadside death of her father in 1942. Colonel Mauzer, his wife and other family members were killed by a truck in a hit and run incident. An accident, file closed, they say. But not for Hella, whose unwelcome investigation leads to some who would prefer to see her stopped dead in her tracks.
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Your driver is waiting : a novel
by Priya Guns
For the first time ever, Damani, who drives for an app, starts dating a white girl with money, but when their romance intensifies and she finally lets her guard down, her girlfriend does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive chain of events.
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The Maltese Iguana : a novel
by Tim Dorsey
When the only witness to a CIA revenge mission gone wrong is forced to flee his home country, he arrives in the Florida Keys where he runs into the Sunshine State's most lovable serial killer, Serge A. Storms, and his convoy of hardcore partiers. 75,000 first printing.
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