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Hidden Gems: Fiction Books You Might Have Missed January
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All that we carried : a novel
by Erin Bartels
"Estranged sisters embark on a hiking trip on the tenth anniversary of their parents' deaths in an attempt to reconnect. In the wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula they'll face their deepest fears, question their most dearly held beliefs, and begin to see that perhaps the best way to move forward is the one way they had never considered."
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The children's blizzard : a novel
by Melanie Benjamin
The best-selling author of The Aviator’s Wife draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.
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One night two souls went walking
by Ellen Cooney
“I believe in expecting light. That’s my job.” A hospital chaplain offers compassion to her patients over the course of one eventful night shift, and finds some for herself, too. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.
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The Hare
by Melanie Finn
Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother, a 1980s art student has an affair with a worldly con man before finding herself abandoned and struggling for survival in a cabin with her young daughter.
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The heiress : the revelations of Anne de Bourgh
by Molly Greeley
A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen’s mysterious character depicts a rejected young heiress who fights a life-long addiction before discovering health and passion in the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam.
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The charmed wife
by Olga Grushin
Thirteen years after marrying Prince Charming and having two children, a dissatisfied Cinderella sneaks out to obtain the services of a witch known to provide love potions to disgruntled housewives, but instead of rekindled romance, she wants her husband dead.
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Crosshairs
by Catherine Hernandez
The author of Scarborough presents a dystopian tale set in a near-future world where a queer Black performer and his allies fight an oppressive regime that is incarcerating the LGBTQ+ community, people of color and the disabled.
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The Sea Gate
by Jane Johnson
Mourning her late mother, Rebecca sets out for Cornwall to help an elderly cousin save her beloved home and discovers attic treasures, a mysterious tunnel from the cellar to the sea and long-buried secrets.
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The Yellow Wife
by Sadeqa Johnson
Born on a plantation, but set apart from the others by her mother’s position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at 18 and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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The last garden in England
by Julia Kelly
Given the opportunity of a lifetime to restore an admired designer’s famed historic gardens, Emma uncovers long-hidden secrets about her role model and three women who lived on the property during World War II.
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To cook a bear
by Mikael Niemi
Becoming Laestadius’s faithful son and disciple in 1852 Sweden, runaway Jussi works with the famous pastor to track down a killer who is targeting maids, unaware of the evil closing in on them.
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