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Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
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The Unfortunates
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.
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The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Adunni, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily Henry
Best friends Alex and Poppy try to repair their relationship two years after a disastrous vacation together by planning another vacation together in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Beach Read.
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Something Wilder
by Christina Lauren
When the man who broke her heart is in her tourist group, Lily Wilder, the daughter of a notorious treasure hunter, must decide whether she'll risk her life and heart on the adventure of a lifetime when their trip goes horribly and hilariously wrong.
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It's Not All Downhill From Here
by Terry McMillan
Confident that her best days are still ahead, a successful businesswoman relies on close friends and her resourcefulness when an unexpected loss turns her world upside down. By the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale.
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The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
by Beth Morrey
Reevaluating her past upon finding herself alone at age 79, Missy forges unexpected ties with two strangers and their spirited dog, discovering the power of friendship, family, and self-forgiveness along the way.
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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
by Colleen Oakley
Arriving on Frick Island, a young ambitious journalist stumbles upon a fascinating story—an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not exist—and upends lives of this eccentric community as he tries to make a name for himself.
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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
When Julian Jessup, an eccentric, lonely artist who believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other, writes the truth about his own life in a green journal and leaves it behind, others start writing in their own truth, which leads to unexpected friendship and love.
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The Kitchen Front
by Jennifer Ryan
An indebted young widow, a freedom-seeking kitchen maid, the wife of a wealthy but unkind man, and a trained chef navigating sexism compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II.
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Dating Dr. Dil
by Nisha Sharma
Kareena dreams of having a perfect love story. That's why on the morning of her thirtieth birthday, she's decided to enter the dating arena. Prem doesn't have time for romance, which is why it's no surprise when his first meeting with Kareena goes awry. Their second encounter is worse when their on-air debate about love goes viral. Now Prem's largest community center donor is backing out because Prem's reputation as a heart-health expert is at risk. To get back in his donor's good graces, he needs to fix his image fast, and dating Kareena is his only option.
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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
by J. Ryan Stradal
In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who's having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business—the Lakeside Supper Club.
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This Time Tomorrow
by Emma Straub
When Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited. Armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance, and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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