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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed February
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Fireheart Tiger
by Aliette De Bodard
Sent away to Ephteria as a child hostage, Thanh returns to her mother’s imperial court as a diplomat where she is reunited with her first love and has to make some dangerous decisions.
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The mission house : a novel
by Carys Davies
Taking refuge in a mission house in a remote hill town in India, an Englishman fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life bonds with a Padre’s daughter against a backdrop of escalating religious tensions.
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Send for me
by Lauren Fox
A baker’s daughter and her husband flee to America amid increasingly violent anti-Semitism in pre-World War II Germany two generations before her granddaughter learns the astonishing story of their heritage and losses. By the author of Days of Awe.
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The echo wife
by Sarah Gailey
A precarious arrangement between a man, his wife and his wife’s clone explodes in a violent confrontation that forces the two women to figure out a creative way to stay out of prison.
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The love proof : a novel
by Madeleine Henry
Inspired by her connect to her first love, Sophie, a physics prodigy, is determined to prove that true loves belong together in all realties, in this unusual love story about lasting connection, time and intuition.
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No one is talking about this
by Patricia Lockwood
Elevated to prominence for her social-media posts, a woman begins suffering from existential anxieties while learning the languages, customs and fears of her fans throughout the world, before an urgent text from home transforms her virtual perspectives.
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The nature of fragile things
by Susan Meissner
Moving to early 20th-century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail-order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.
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Make up break up
by Lily Menon
When Hudson Craft, her much-despised rival – and her summer fling – moves into the office next to hers, Annika, who believes he stole her idea, soon discovers that everything she thought about him is completely wrong.
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When twilight breaks
by Sarah Sundin
"Two Americans meet in 1938 in the heart of Nazi Germany. Their efforts to expose oppression attract unwanted attention, pulling them deeper into danger as the world marches toward war".
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We run the tides : a novel
by Vendela Vida
The disappearance of a teen in the aftermath of a dispute about something that was or was not witnessed exposes dark community secrets. By the award-winning author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name.
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We begin at the end
by Chris Whitaker
A guilt-ridden police chief and a tough-as-nails woman who was forced to support her family as a girl work together to protect loved ones when the latter’s father is released after 30 years in prison.
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Lola on fire : a novel
by Rio Youers
Blackmailed by a witness after robbing a convenience store, a desperate man is forced to commit a burglary before realizing that a young woman and he have been rendered pawns in an organized crime dispute.
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