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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed July
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The Startup Wife
by Tahmima Anam
A brilliant coder, Asha is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones, who, after they are married, pushes her to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia where she creates a new algorithm that brings about sudden fame that could tear them apart.
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Appleseed : a novel
by Matt Bell
Two supernatural brothers who plant an apple orchard in eighteenth-century Ohio reel from the unforeseen circumstances after climate change ravages the earth and centuries later leaves the company they founded unfairly owning all the world’s resources .
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Fierce little thing
by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Five estranged friends receive threatening letters demanding their return to a former cult or the terrible thing they did as teenagers will be revealed, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Bittersweet.
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Shoulder season
by Christina Clancy
After the death of her parents, 19-year-old Sherri Taylor, in the winter of 1981, becomes a Playboy bunny, getting her education in the joys of sisterhood, the thrill of financial independence, the magic of first love and the heady effects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
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What Strange Paradise
by Omar El Akkad
Looking at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, this dramatic story follows Vñna who comes to the rescue of a 9-year-old Syrian boy who has washed up on the shores of her small island and is determined to do whatever it takes to save him.
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The woman from Uruguay
by Pedro Mairal
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his 40s, finds the one thing that keeps him going is the woman from Uruguay whom he met at a conference and has been longing to see ever since.
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Island Queen
by Vanessa Riley
A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself her mother and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier and planter.
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The freedom race
by Lucinda Roy
Bred and raised in captivity on one of the plantations in the Homestead Territories of the Disunited States, Ji-Ji Lottermule, who unknowingly holds the key to breaking the grip of the Territories, must unravel the very real voices of the dead to free them all.
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Wayward
by Dana Spiotta
In 2016, 52-year-old Samantha Raymond, as her life begins to unravel, flees her suburban existence — and her family — as she struggles with how to be a wife, a mother and a daughter in a country that is coming apart at the seams.
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Together We Will Go
by J. Michael Straczynski
Placing an ad for a road trip like no other, Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer, surrounds himself with other disheartened souls who have also decided that this will be their final journey until complications to the initial plan arise as they get closer to their destination.
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Bath haus : a thriller
by P. J. Vernon
Finally sober and with his life back on track, Oliver Park visits a gay bathhouse in a moment of weakness and races home to his partner, bruised and barely escaping with his life, to begin a web of ongoing lies.
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All the little hopes
by Leah Weiss
A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up meet the murky shadows of World War II.
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Seven days in June : a novel
by Tia Williams
Running into reclusive author Shane Hall at a literary event, bestselling erotica writer Eva Mercy, over the next seven days, reconnects with this man who broke her heart 20 years earlier until he disappears again, leaving more questions than answers.
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