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The downstairs neighbor
by Helen Cooper
A suburban London community is thrown into turmoil when the horrifying disappearance of a teen from a loving family reveals long-kept local secrets, including a murder and another unsolved missing-child case.
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Finlay Donovan is killing it
by Elle Cosimano
When struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan is mistaken for a contract killer, she inadvertently accepts the offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet, discovering that crime in real life is a lot harder than fiction.
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Girls with bright futures : a novel
by Tracy Dobmeier
Locked in competition for a single admittance into Stanford, the mothers of three prep-school students confront their worst nightmares and doubts about each other’s true characters when their daughter applicants are violently targeted.
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Burnt sugar
by Avni Doshi
"In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter".
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The witch's heart
by Genevieve Gornichec
A subversive reimagining of Norse mythology traces the experiences of a banished witch whose unexpected passionate relationship with the trickster Loki produces three remarkable offspring before her family is targeted by wrathful gods.
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All girls
by Emily Layden
Nine young women embark on personal and scholarly journeys of self-discovery at a prestigious New England prep school, where their evolving voices are shaped by a scandal that the administration would cover up. A first novel.
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Winter's orbit
by Everina Maxwell
After being forced by his Emperor grandfather into a marriage of convenience to unite their planets, Prince Kiem discovers that his intended, Count Jainan, is a suspect in his late husband’s death despite it being ruled an accident.
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Dark horses : a novel
by Susan Mihalic
In a debut novel, a teenage girl’s struggles to reclaim her life from her abusive father.
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Let's get back to the party
by Zak Salih
Reconnecting with a childhood friend in the weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling, an art history teacher observes the contrast between his own closeted youth and the open relationships of a younger generation.
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We can only save ourselves : a novel
by Alison Wisdom
Abandoning her life of popularity and high achievement to follow a magnetic stranger, a cheerleader embarks on an initially intoxicating journey of enlightenment that illuminates the cult-like qualities of suburbia.
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On fragile waves
by E. Lily Yu
Growing up on their parents’ mythical stories about the opportunities of Australia, a girl and her brother travel from war-torn Pakistan through temporary homes in Indonesia and Nauru, before government indifference challenges their dreams.
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