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New Fiction - November 2021
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The After Party
by A. C. Arthur
Three Black women who occasionally sit at the same lunch table at work are thrown together and become fast friends when their male colleague is murdered.
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Anticipation
by Melodie Winawer
From the author of the historical epic The Scribe of Siena comes a novel set in the crumbling city of Mystras, Greece, in which a scientist's vacation with her young son quickly turns into a fight for their lives after they cross paths with a man out of time.
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As Dawn Breaks
by Kate Breslin
To escape an arranged marriage in 1918 England, a munitions worker assumes the identity of a friend who died in an explosion and flees to Scotland, but her deception may backfire when RAF Captain Alex Baird is ordered to surveil her for suspected sabotage.
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Burntcoat
by Sarah Hall
Isolated in her large studio while a virus spreads through England, a celebrated sculptor and her new lover discover themselves forever transformed by the fears and dangers of the outside world.
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Carry the Dog
by Stephanie Gangi
The subject of a series of disturbing and provocative photographs from the 1960s must decide whether to answer to art museums and Hollywood to be compensated for her childhood trauma or leave it locked away forever.
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The Christmas Promise
by Richard Paul Evans
A heartwarming new novel in which love and faith help restore the true magic of Christmas for the people we care for most.
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Doctors and Friends
by Kimmery Martin
Three long-time friends from medical school reunite for a much-needed vacation in Spain just as a deadly outbreak of a fast-moving virus throws the world into chaos and changes their careers and life trajectories forever.
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The Easy Life in Kamusari
by Shion Miura
A withdrawn boy from Yokohama comes of age after his parents enroll him in a forestry training program in a remote mountain village. Stripped of his cellphone and other modern conveniences, Yuki Hirano initially feels trapped, but awakens to deep values he never encountered in the big city.
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The Family
by Naomi Krupitsky
Pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations and fight to preserve their complex but life-sustaining friendship, Sofia Colicchio and Antonia Russo, two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, find their loyalty tested on one fateful night.
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The First Christmas
by Stephen Mitchell
Readers of every background will be enchanted by this startlingly beautiful reimagining of the nativity story that imagines Mary and Joseph experiencing the angelic message as a young Jewish woman and man living in the year 4 BCE might have experienced it, with terror, dismay and ultimately exhilaration.
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Five Tuesdays in Winter
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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Flying Angels
by Danielle Steel
After her brother is wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Audrey and her best friend Lizzie enlist in the army as flight nurses.
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Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
by Janet Evanovich
Unsure if he is her partner or her competition, Stephanie Plum and Oswald Wednesday try to hunt down a master cyber criminal in Trenton.
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
Jamie and Claire reunite after the Jacobite Rising but worry that their grown family, finally together, will be torn apart by the American Revolution in the latest addition of the popular series.
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The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak
A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author.
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Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
by Klara Hveberg
A woman who has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people moves to Oslo to attend university and becomes the subject of fascination by a brilliant professor who includes her the book he's writing.
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Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories
by John Edgar Wideman
A treasured American writer pens another stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell.
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The Making of Incarnation
by Tom McCarthy
Weaving a set of stories inspired by Lillian Gilbreth, the time-and-motion studies pioneer, the author peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience.
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A Man of Honor
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill faces an uncertain future in rural County Kerry and heads to England in search of a better life in the prequel to A Woman of Substance.
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A Net for Small Fishes
by Lucy Jago
The unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex strikes up an unlikely friendship with the newly-widowed, but talented, Anne Turner and the pair hatch a desperate plan to change their fortunes by navigating the dangerous Jacobean court.
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Never
by Ken Follett
Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country’s first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful counties that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
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New York, My Village
by Uwem Akpan
Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship, Ekong Odousoro is exposed to white culture superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, until he learns, through the help of his true allies at work and his neighbors, that there is still hope in sharing our stories.
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O Beautiful
by Jung Yun
A forty-something former model trying to reinvent herself, Elinor Hanson is offered a chance to write for a prestigious magazine that forces her to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America.
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Our Country Friends
by Gary Shteyngart
When a group of old friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic, they end up spending 6 months in isolation during which old betrayals emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most.
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The Perishing
by Natashia Deón
During Prohibition, Lou, the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times—and possibly immortal—must recover the memory of her past and make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her, just as new forces rise to threaten the existence of those around her.
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The Postmistress of Paris
by Meg Waite Clayton
As German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, an American heiress joins the resistance and becomes known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding and uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety.
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Protector: A Novel of Ancient Greece
by Conn Iggulden
As the Persians once again return to reconquer the Greeks, Themistocles, the hero of Salamis, risks everything—his honor, friendships and his life—to protect his country.
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The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her, but one lapse in judgement puts keeping her child in jeopardy.
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The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich
The award-winning author presents an unusual novel in which a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer.
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Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
In a small Irish town in 1985, coal merchant and family man, Bill Furlong, while delivering an order to the local convent, makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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Still Life
by Sarah Winman
In 1944 Tuscany, as Allied troops advance, a young English soldier has a chance encounter with a middle-aged art historian with whom he finds a kindred spirit and who sets him off on a course of events that will shape his life for the next four decades.
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The Stranger in the Lifeboat
by Mitch Albom
After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord, in an inspiring novel.
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The Teller of Secrets
by Bisi Adjapon
A young Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana, Esi Agyekum, as she navigates her burgeoning womanhood, tries to reconcile her own ideals and dreams with society’s many double standards that limit her and other women.
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Tenderness
by Alison MacLeod
A Booker Prize-longlisted author brilliantly recreates the origins of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and boldly reimagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer.
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Trust
by Domenico Starnone
After sharing their shameful secrets with one another, Teresa and Pietro break up, going their separate ways, but Pietro finds Teresa standing at the crossroads of every major moment of his life and wonders if it is he who seeks her out.
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The Way We Weren't
by Phoebe Fox
An unlikely friendship between a septuagenarian and a younger woman becomes a story of the unexpected blooming of hope against the longest odds as they each decide whether to face up to the past they've been running from, and find a way to move forward with the people they care about most.
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The Wedding Party
by Liu Xinwu
Set at a pivotal point after the turmoil of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Liu Xinwu's tale weaves together a rich tapestry of characters, intertwined lives, and stories within stories, all packed into a Beijing courtyard on a single day that manages to be both perfectly normal and utterly extraordinary at the same time.
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White on White
by Aysegül Savas
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes and rents an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband, but one day Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio.
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Win Me Something
by Kyle Lucia Wu
Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. But when she begins working for a wealthy white family as a nanny Willa starts asking what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.
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Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
With everything perfectly on track, Diana O’Toole finds things going off the rails when she is quarantined during her dream vacation in the Galapagos due to a virus, forcing her to reevaluate herself and her life when she makes a connection with a local family.
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The Writer's Cats
by Muriel Barbery
The French author offers this utterly charming tale of a writer at work surrounded by her four beloved cats, who believe they are not simply companions, but writing assistants. The poetic prose and enchanting illustrations are an irresistible combination.
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All Her Little Secrets
by Wanda M. Morris
The lone black female corporate attorney in midtown Manhattan discovers her white boss, and lover, dead with a gunshot wound to his head, and must deal with office suspicions and gossip when she is promoted as his successor.
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Arctic Sea
by David Poyer
Admiral Dan Lenson tries to set up a U.S. Navy base on the North Slope of Alaska and Blair Titus runs Jim Yangerhans’s campaign for president in the latest addition to the series.
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Autopsy
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
New chief medical examiner and forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta is given a highly classified case involving two scientists who were found dead on a private space laboratory.
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The Bloodless Boy
by Robert J. Lloyd
When they are asked to investigate the discovery of a young boy drained of his blood, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge and his assistant, walk into a political hornet’s nest as they try to find the truth.
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A Counterfeit Suitor
by Darcie Wilde
While discreetly investigating a client’s prospective son-in-law, Rosalind discovers that her father, Sir Reginald Thorne, a drunkard and a forger, has been murdered by a vicious scoundrel.
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The Cry of the Hangman
by Susanna Calkins
London, 1667. Printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion is horrified when Magistrate Hargrave is viciously attacked during a break-in. The puzzling case is just the start of a series of dark, bizarre crimes. Lucy’s determined to get justice for her much-loved former master, but someone is determined to stop her – whatever it takes.
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The Dark Hours
by Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Reneé Ballard, investigating a New Year’s Eve murder along with an unsolved murder, teams up Detective Harry Bosch once again when their two cases—one old and one new—intersect, while an undetected killer watches their every move.
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Death on the Shelf
by Allison Brook
Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton investigates after her best friend's cousin's flirtatious husband is found dead in a chocolate fountain at an elaborate bridal shower, in the fifth novel of the series.
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The Devil's Sea
by Dirk Cussler
Dirk Pitt discovers a 60-year-old, forgotten plane crash in the Philippe Sea while recovering a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait in the latest addition to the long running series.
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Dolphin Junction: Collected Stories
by Mick Herron
Five standalone crime fiction tales and four mystery stories featuring Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of Zo Boehm and Joe Silvermann will delight fans of thrillers, in this collection of short stories from the award-winning author of the Slough House novels.
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An Eggnog to Die for
by Amy Pershing
When she stumbles over the lifeless body of the town’s Santa Claus, professional foodie Samantha Barnes finds her plans for Christmas Eve getting complicated as she contends with her guests while trying to nab a killer.
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Fear No Evil
by James Patterson
When Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson are attacked by two rival teams of assassins in the rugged Montana wilderness in the latest addition to the popular, long-running series.
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Final Spin
by Jocko Willink
Former Navy SEAL and children’s book author Willink marks his adult fiction debut with a moving and fast-paced thriller, set within a gripping exploration into brotherhood and sacrifice by characters abandoned by the American Dream.
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Hello, Transcriber
by Hannah Morrissey
A captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.
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Her Name Is Knight
by Yasmin Angoe
A smash debut novel from rising star featuring an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family.
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The Hidden
by Melanie Golding
While investigating the brutal murder of Gregor, a seemingly single man, DS Joanna Harper discovers that her estranged daughter Ruby is somehow involved in this case that is steeped in Celtic mythology.
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The Hunger of Crows
by Richard Chiappone
Hiding out in Alaska from a ruthless billionaire military contractor who is desperate to recover a memento she acquired during a one-night stand gone wrong, Carla Merino finds an ally in Scott Crockett who comes to her rescue when professional killers track her down.
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The Last Goodnight
by Kat Martin
When he hires Ellie Bowman, a talented PI, to track down the man who murdered his estranged wife, Kade Logan finds old scandals about his wife’s many affairs resurfacing and new violence erupting leading to the discovery of another body as the killer closes in.
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Last Redemption
by Matt Coyle
Will Rick Cahill survive an insidious disease long enough to see his first-born child, or will sadistic killers murder him first? Contemporary hard-boiled PI novels don’t get any better than this.
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The Left-handed Twin
by Thomas Perry
When Jane, who helps disappear people, agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, thus begins a bloodthirsty chase through the northeast where nothing—and no one—can be trusted.
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Mercy
by David Baldacci
As the long search for her twin sister, Mercy, reaches its conclusion, FBI agent Atlee Pine, when the truth is finally revealed, will face the greatest danger yet, one that could cost her everything.
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The Midnight Lock
by Jeffery Deaver
When he is fired as a consultant for the NYPD, Lincoln Rhyme decides to risk jail to solve a case involving “the Locksmith”—a sociopathic intruder who can break through any lock or security system ever devised, terrorizing the entire city.
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The Missing Piece
by John T. Lescroart
When Paul Riley, who served 11 years for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, is released, he soon turns up murdered and master attorney Dismas Hardy hires PI Abe Glitsky to find the truth, which causes him to question his own moral compass.
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Poison
by Sally Spencer
DCI Monika Paniatowski has never forgotten her first, difficult encounter with Whitebridge businessman Jordan Gough. Nor, she thinks, has he. So when he claims he’s been receiving death threats and only she can help, she thinks he’s up to something – and makes a terrible mistake.
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Psycho by the Sea
by Lynne Truss
When a gang member disappears during a huge heist, a violent criminal with a penchant for boiling policemen’s heads escapes prison and an American researcher is found dead in Gosling’s department store, three detectives must put their heads together to solve these cases.
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A Quiet Death in Italy
by Tom Benjamin
When the body of a radical protestor is found floating in one of Bologna's underground canals, most are ready to blame the police. But when private investigator Daniel Leicester, son-in-law to the former chief of police, receives a call from the dead man's lover, he follows a trail that begins in the 1970s and leads all the way to the rotten heart of the present-day political establishment.
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The Return of the Pharaoh
by Nicholas Meyer
In 1910, while in Egypt so that his wife can receive treatment for her tuberculosis in the dry climate, Dr. John Watson runs into Sherlock Holmes and helps him track down an Egyptologist who has disappeared under strange circumstances.
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Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
by Ace Atkins
Spenser, Hawk and a surprise trust ally must protect a rising star in national politics with a progressive agenda who is contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds of suspects, including The Minutemen, who are pushing an agenda of white supremacy and toxic masculinity.
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The Shadows of Men
by Abir Mukherjee
1923. Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge.
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Termination Shock
by Neal Stephenson
In a near-future world plagued by superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, heat waves, and deadly pandemics, one man has a big idea for reversing global warming despite the possible consequences for the planet and all of humanity.
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Vanishing Edge
by Claire Kells
Brought in as chief investigator when a party of campers go missing, 32-year-old Felicity Harland must place her trust in a Navy SEAL turned park ranger when the investigation takes them from the wilderness to the streets of Los Angeles where the grisly truth comes to light.
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The Village of Eight Graves
by Seishi Yokomizo
Set in 1950s Japan, this taut mystery from Yokomizo (1902–1981) provides an original variation on the plot of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Kosuke Kindaichi, Yokomizo’s Columbo-like sleuth, sorts through the tangled puzzle and provides a satisfying solution.
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War Women
by Martin Limón
When Overseas Observer reporter Katie Byrd Worthington lands in a Korean jail cell, Sueño and Bascom are sent to get her out and negotiate against a publication of an incriminating story about the mistreatment of women in the military that could get high-ranking officials in trouble.
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After Dark With the Duke
by Julie Anne Long
When he clashes with a scandalous, vulnerable opera diva who stands for everything he scorns, General James Duncan Blackmore finds himself willing to lay down his life for this beauty when their only chance at happiness could lead to their destruction.
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The Donut Trap
by Julie Tieu
Stuck in a rut working at her parents’ donut shop, Jasmine Tran finds help in the form of an old college crush, but when their relationship doesn’t work out, she must scheme a solution to get herself out of the donut trap once and for all.
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The Fastest Way to Fall
by Denise Williams
Assigned to review a fitness app, Britta didn't plan on falling for her personal trainer, Wes. But then again, Wes didn't plan on Britta. An emotionally resonant and thoughtful body-positive romance.
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Just Haven't Met You Yet
by Sophie Cousens
From the bestselling author comes a heartwarming and hilarious tale that asks: What if you picked up the wrong suitcase and fell head over heels for its mystery owner?
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Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships
by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
While trying to complete a bucket list of 30 things before turning 30, yacht stewardess Jo Walker must contend with a family tragedy and a new romance in this emotional novel.
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The Singles Table
by Sara Desai
Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a free-spirited lawyer who is determined to find the perfect match for the grumpy bachelor at her cousin's wedding.
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Leviathan Falls
by James S. A. Corey
Free after the fall of the Laconian Empire, 1,300 solar systems now must face an ancient enemy that prepares to annihilate all human life in the concluding book of the series.
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A Marvellous Light
by Freya Marske
Robin Blyth is accidentally named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society and is forced to contend with the beauty and danger operating beneath normal reality while uncovering what happened to his predecessor.
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Noor
by Nnedi Okorafor
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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Recorder
by Cathy Mccrumb
Donated to the Consortium before birth, the Recorder's sole purpose is to maintain and verify the records, but when she's suddenly cut off from the technology controlling her, she tastes freedom and what it means to be human. With no name or resources, the Recorder has only an infinitesimal possibility of escape.
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A Swift and Savage Tide
by Chloe Neill
Chloe Neill's bold, seafaring heroine Captain Kit Brightling sets sail for the high seas and high sorcery in the second installment of this swashbuckling fantasy series filled with adventure.
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You Sexy Thing
by Cat Rambo
To keep the dream of their restaurant The Last Chance alive, Niko Larson, former Admiral in the grand army of the Hive Mind, and her crew must survive the machinations of a sadistic pirate king.
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