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New Debut Novels September 2021
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She wouldn't change a thing
by Sarah Adlakha
When 39-year-old psychiatrist, wife and mother Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, she desperately tries to get back to her home and life, and wonders if she can change time and still keep what it’s given her.
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Radiant Fugitives
by Nawaaz Ahmed
A consultant for Kamala Harris’ attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema, nine months pregnant and estranged from the black father of her unborn son, attempts to reconcile with the family who exiled her after she came out as a lesbian.
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Silent winds, dry seas : a novel
by Vinod Busjeet
A young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean, Vishnu Bhushan battles to experience the world beyond, and cultural, political and familial turmoil that hold on to him.
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The charm offensive : a novel
by Alison Cochrun
Successful producer on the long-running reality dating show Ever After, Dev Deshpande, with his own love life in complete disarray, falls for contestant Charlie Winshaw who has better chemistry with him than any of his female co-stars.
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The Audacity of Sara Grayson
by Joani Elliott
Sara Grayson is a thirty-two-year-old greeting card writer about to land the toughest assignment of her life. Three weeks after the death of her mother--a world-famous suspense novelist--Sara learns that her mother's dying wish is for her to write the final book in her bestselling series.
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My sweet girl
by Amanda Jayatissa
When the man who knows her darkest secret is murdered, Paloma is afraid that this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago and wonders if her secret died with him—or if she is in greater danger.
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The other me
by Sarah Zachrich Jeng
When she accidentally opens a door to an alternate reality where she never pursued her dreams, free-spirited artist Kelly, now married to a man she barely knows, tries to put the pieces together, shifting reality even more, which could cost her everything.
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We are the Brennans
by Tracey Lange
Returning to the east coast to recover from a drunk driving accident she caused, 29-year-old Sunday Brennan must protect her family from a man from her past who brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin.
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Summer sons
by Lee Mandelo
When his best friend dies of an apparent suicide, Andrew uncovers lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death.
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When the reckoning comes : a novel
by LaTanya McQueen
Returning to her hometown for a plantation wedding, Mira is forced to acknowledge her history and save herself from what is to come as slaves who were tortured mercilessly roam the land seeking revenge on the descendants—the wedding guests—of those who tortured them.
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The last chance library
by Freya Sampson
When her library is threatened with closure, June Hones, to save the place and the books that mean so much to her, must make some changes to her solitary life by opening her heart to the world around her and fighting for what she believes in.
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