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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed October 2021
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Witch please
by Ann Aguirre
A fully modern witch who keeps her heart protected, Danica Waterhouse meets her match in Titus Winnaker, who’s been cursed to be alone, and wonders if she can find love with an old-fashioned mundane who refuses to settle for anything less than forever.
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Light from uncommon stars
by Ryka Aoki
To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence.
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The ballad of Laurel Springs
by Janet Beard
While searching for a subject for her fifth-grade history project, 10-year-old Grace discovers that her family’s tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by violence immortalized in folksongs.
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The killing kind
by Jane Casey
Barrister Ingrid Lewis must decide whether or not John Webster, whom she defended against a stalking charge—and who then turned on her—is friend or foe when he claims he is the only one who can protect her from a killer.
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Chasing the boogeyman : a novel
by Richard T. Chizmar
A recent college graduate writes a personal account of the terrifying events occurring in his small town where a serial killer has set up shop, unaware that it will continue to haunt him for years.
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Nothing but blackened teeth
by Cassandra Khaw
A Heian-era mansion resting on the bonds of a bride, the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding, find a night of revelry turning into a bloody nightmare.
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Five Tuesdays in winter : stories
by Lily King
A collection of short stories from the best-selling author of Writers & Lovers explores desire, heartache, loss and love in tales about a neglected teenage boy befriended by housesitting college students and a booksellers unspoken love for his employee.
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Empire of the vampire
by Jay Kristoff
The last living member of the Silver Order, a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending humanity from vampires, stands alone to fight and tell his story in a world where the sun hasn’t risen in 27 years.
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Reprieve : a novel
by James Han Mattson
When a contestant is murdered in the final cell of the Quigley House—a full-contact haunted escape room, those who were present on that fateful night must come to terms with how their beliefs and actions may have contributed to this horrifying act of violence.
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Three sisters
by Heather Morris
After surviving years of imprisonment in Auschwitz, three Slovakian sisters travel to Israel where the battle for freedom takes on new forms as they face the ghosts of their past and secrets they have kept from each other to find true peace and happiness.
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The great glorious goddamn of it all : a novel
by Josh Ritter
Filled with heart, humor and magic, this lyrical, sweeping novel about the last days of the lumberjacks is told by of one of the greatest lumberjacks of all who recounts tales rife with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging in the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho.
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No one will miss her : a novel
by Kat Rosenfield
When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries—and ultimately became deadly.
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The survivors : a novel
by Alex Schulman
To finally face what really happened that summer day long ago, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where an unspeakable accident forever altered their family and find a dangerous new current vibrating between them, testing their loyalty.
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The days of Afrekete
by Asali Solomon
As Liselle Belmont prepares for a dinner party, she questions her marriage and her choices, while across town, Selena finds her memories of Liselle shifting her path in life, in this deeply human examination of two women coming back to themselves at midlife.
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The death of Jane Lawrence
by Caitlin Starling
Embarking on a marriage of convenience with bold, courageous surgeon Augustine Lawrence in post-war England, practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield instead finds a terrified, paranoid man who cannot tell reality from a nightmare and realizes something is deeply wrong with this man she is bound to.
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Fight night
by Miriam Toews
Given a writing assignment after being expelled, Swiv discovers that her mother and grandmother have been fighting their whole lives for joy and independence, in a new novel from the best-selling author of Women Talking.
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When two feathers fell from the sky
by Margaret Verble
After disaster strikes during one of her shows, Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries with the help of an eclectic cast of characters.
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The last house on Needless Street
by Catriona Ward
When a neighbor moves in next door, a family of three—a teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, a man with memory loss and a house cat who reads the bible—are terrified that the unspeakable secret that binds them together will be exposed.
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Harrow : a novel
by Joy Williams
With her mother missing and her boarding school closed, Khristen searches the post-apocalyptic landscape until she reaches a “resort” on the shores of a putrid lake in the author’s first novel since The Quick and the Dead.
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Monster in the middle
by Tiphanie Yanique
Exploring desire and identity, religion and class, passion and obligation, this novel follows a Black American musician and a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean whose newfound romance is influenced by family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing.
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