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New Debut Novels October 2021
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In every mirror she's Black
by Lola Akinmade-Akerström
Three Black women—a CEO of a large marketing firm, a former model and a maid discover they are all unexpectedly linked to an influential, white Swedish man in the new novel by an award-winning author, speaker and photographer.
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I kissed a girl
by Jennet Alexander
"A warm, witty, and effortlessly charming LGBTQIA+ romcom with Young Adult crossover appeal. Lilah Silver is an up-and-coming actress who longs to break out from the B-rate horror flicks she's known for. When she gets the chance to star in her first leadrole, she'll need some major help from makeup artist and special effects guru Noa Birnbaum to shine brighter than all the rest. But can the major chemistry brewing over long hours spent together ever hope to survive the bright shine of the spotlight?"
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Assembly
by Natasha Brown
The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life
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A play for the end of the world : a novel
by Jai Chakrabarti
A Warsaw Ghetto survivor in 1970s New York leaves a blossoming romance to travel to India and collect the ashes of his oldest friend who died there in a small Eastern village under mysterious circumstances.
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Nice girls : a novel
by Catherine Dang
Returning home after being kicked out of college, Mary becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a rising social media star—and her former best friend—and, as hatred consumes her, discovers a link to another missing person opens up old wounds.
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The Apollo murders : a novel
by Chris Hadfield
In 1973, the crew of NASA’s Apollo 18 collide with Russian astronauts on the lunar surface far beyond the reach of law or rescue, in this high-stakes thriller unlike any other.
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As the wicked watch
by Tamron Hall
After moving from Texas to Chicago, a crime reporter becomes frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women in the first novel of a new series from the Emmy Award-winning journalist.
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The love hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood
To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn’t believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope.
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The book of mother : a novel
by Violaine Huisman
In this beautifully written, critically acclaimed debut novel, Violaine and her sister, when their Maman returns from being hospitalized for a breakdown, find their home turning into an emotional landmine due to Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries.
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Fault lines : a novel
by Emily Itami
A bored, frustrated Japanese housewife begins living two lives when she meets a successful restaurateur and rediscovers the freedom and the electric pulse of her beloved Tokyo and realizes that she has to make a choice.
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My Monticello : fiction
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
A debut novel explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging, bearing witness to this country’s legacies as unforgettable characters fight to survive in America.
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Several people are typing : a novel
by Calvin Kasulke
When his consciousness is uploaded into his company’s internal Slack channels, boosting his productivity, Gerald, who works for a PR firm, as his reality becomes more absurd, enlists the help of a co-worker to help him escape—and to find out what happened to his body.
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Never Saw Me Coming
by Vera Kurian
While taking part in an unusual clinical study that brings together some of the most dangerous minds, Chloe Sevre, a Freshman honor student—and diagnosed psychopath with an IQ of 135—goes from hunter to prey when one of the participants is murdered.
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This thing between us
by Gus Moreno
When his wife is killed, Thiago, with politicians all looking to turn her death into a symbol for their own agendas, holes up in a secluded cabin in Colorado where he cannot escape from the evil feeding on his grief and rage, determined to make its way into this world.
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Snowflake : a novel
by Louise Nealon
Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, Debbie, who was raised on a rural dairy farm, finds herself pulling away from the comfort of home until a tragic accident upends her close-knit family’s equilibrium and her next steps may no longer be hers to choose.
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The Shaadi set-up : a novel
by Lillie Vale
When Milan Rao, the man who broke her heart, walks back into her life, needing her business expertise to flip a hard-to-sell house, Rita Chitniss, as they dive deeper into work—and their pasts—begins to wonder if her mother is right that second chances are possible.
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