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2 a.m. in Little America
by Ken Kalfus
In a future where sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, Ron Patterson begins to imagine a stable life for himself, but when political divisions become resurgent, he is suddenly on dangerous and uncertain ground.
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Adult Assembly Required
by Abbi Waxman
Moving to Los Angeles to escape memories of an awful accident, Laura Costello finds herself homeless in a fire, taken in by a rogue bookseller running a lovely but illegal boardinghouse, and tasked with rescuing a losing trivia team.
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All the Lovers in the Night
by Mieko Kawakami
A freelance editor in Tokyo finds the strength to change her drab, lonely existence only to have episodes from her past drag her back into old habits. A Summer Reads pick by Publishers Weekly.
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Bitter Orange Tree
by Jokha Alharthi
A young Omani woman attempting to assimilate in Britain reflects on the relationships that have been central to her life, in the new novel from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author.
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Bloomsbury Girls
by Natalie Jenner
Presents a story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world.
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The Cherry Robbers
by Sarai Walker
A feminist gothic novel about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up.
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The Colony
by Audrey Magee
A novel examining the long, complicit aftermath of colonialism, told through the summer of 1979 and a remote island in the west of Ireland, one of the last places where people speak everyday Irish, and two men who come to experience it.
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Companion Piece
by Ali Smith
The award-winning author continues exploring the subjective experience of time and questioning the nature of it while focusing a keen eye on #MeToo, Brexit, the refugee crisis and a global pandemic.
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Elektra
by Jennifer Saint
A spellbinding reimagining of the story of one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines and three women, Clytemnestra, Cassandra and Elektra, tangled in an ancient curse.
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Evening Hero
by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
When the rural Minnesota hospital where he is a practicing obstetrician closes, a Korean immigrant confronts the life he built after the war and the assumptions he made about the so-called American Dream.
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The Foundling
by Ann Leary
In 1927, 18-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate when she begs Mary to help her escape, forcing Mary to make a terrible choice.
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Holding Her Breath
by Eimear Ryan
Three sisters who grew up in their family's jewelry empire become estranged after a falling out over a publicity stunt involving a diamond engagement ring called the Electric Rose.
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How to Be Eaten
by Maria Adelmann
Classic female fairy tale characters, including Little Red Riding Hood and Gretel, are reimagined into modern women who meet in a basement support group to process their traumas and realize they have more in common than they ever supposed.
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The Immortal King Rao
by Vauhini Vara
Athena King, with climate change raging, sets out to convince the world's Shareholders that saving the planet requires a radical act of communion in a debut novel that rewrites the history of big tech into a mythic immigrant story of dystopian proportions.
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The Last Summer
by Karen Swan
The fascinating history of the Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda is at the center of this first book in a new series, set in 1930 when time on the island is ticking away before the remaining inhabitants are evacuated to the mainland.
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The Latecomer
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot comes the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth.
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The Lawless Land
by Boyd Morrison
In the summer of 1351, ex-communicated English knight Gerard Fox roams across Europe looking for work as a man-at-arms when he rescues Lady Isabel of Kentworth who's fleeing a hated fiancé. The two join forces, only to learn secrets about each other in a series of well-timed twists.
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The Lioness
by Christopher A. Bohjalian
In 1964, Hollywood royalty Katie Barstow and her new husband, along with her glittering entourage, arrive for their luxury African safari, but are instead taken hostage by Russian mercenaries, in this blistering story of fame, race, love, and death.
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The Lost Summers of Newport
by Beatriz Williams
Historical fiction novel of money and secrets set among the famous mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, from the Gilded Age to the present day, from a bestselling author trio.
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Love Marriage
by Monica Ali
In training to be a doctor, and engaged to upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother is a famous feminist, 26-year-old Yasmin Ghorami, as the wedding quickly approaches, finds her relationship upended by misunderstandings, infidelities, long-buried-secrets and the truth about her parents supposed "love marriage."
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Mid-Air: Two Novellas
by Victoria Shorr
Victoria Shorr's remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status.
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The Moments Between Dreams
by Judith F. Brenner
1940. Carol misses red flags about Joe’s need for control before she marries him and trouble escalates after their daughter Ellie is paralyzed by the polio virus and Joe returns from WWII. A captivating story of a housewife who conforms to the rulebook of society until pushed too far.
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The Perfect Golden Circle
by Benjamin Myers
In 1989 rural England during summertime, two very different men undertake an extraordinary project, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns, but when their work attracts media and the authorities, they must race to finish the most stunning and original crop circle ever conceived.
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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
by Alison Espach
Sally, during the summer before eighth grade, watches her older sister fall in love with local basketball star Billy Barnes, who mans a poolside concession stand until tragedy leaves Sally’s life forever intertwined with his. A wry coming-of-age story that looks at the ways the people we love the most continue to shape our lives long after they're gone.
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An Olive Grove in Ends
by Moses Mckenzie
Attempting to escape Ends, Bristol and make a better life for himself and Shona, his grade-school love, Sayon Hughes temporarily deals drugs alongside his cousin until a deadly altercation with a rival drug dealer upends his plans.
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Patience Is a Subtle Thief
by Abi Ishola-Ayodeji
Embarking on a desperate search to find her mother, who was banished from their compound in Nigeria years ago, Patience, insecure, uncertain and longing to be loved, unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin who draws into a world of crime where she must pay a steep price. An immersive debut from a fresh new voice in fiction.
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Rainbow Rainbow
by Lydia Conklin
Capturing both the dark and lovable sides of the human experience, a collection of humurous and heartrending stories follows queer, trans and gender-nonconforming characters as they seek love and connection.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
After her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
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The Summer Place
by Jennifer Weiner
At her stepdaughter’s marriage to her pandemic boyfriend during the last gathering at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod, Sarah is faced with various misunderstandings and secrets, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.
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This Time Tomorrow
by Emma Straub
When Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance.
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Trust
by Hernán Díaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930’s New York City.
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Vigil Harbor
by Julia Glass
After two visitors arrive in historic Vigil Harbor, one a stranded traveler and the other a widow seeking clues about a past lover who is linked to him, renowned architect Austin Kepner discovers their hidden motives when an incident endangers lives with dramatic repercussions for the entire town.
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We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies
by Tsering Yangzom Lama
Told through the lives of four people over fifty years, this novel provides a nuanced, moving portrait of the little-known world of Tibetan exiles.
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When the Meadow Blooms
by Ann H. Gabhart
Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring?
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When Women Were Dragons
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
After the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when thousands of women, including her beloved Aunt Marla, transformed into dragons, left a trail fiery destruction and took to the skies, young Alex Green must face the consequences of this event as she learns to accept people as they really are.
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Yerba Buena
by Nina LaCour
When much sought-after bartender Sara Foster meets Emilie Dubois at the Yerba Buena restaurant, their connection is instant, but the damage they both carry, and the choices they made, keep pulling them apart.
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At the Quiet Edge
by Victoria Helen Stone
Trying to rebuild her life in Kansas without her fugitive ex-husband, Lily Brown is thrust into a killer’s crosshairs when her tween son breaks into a storage unit and finds photos and news clippings about five long-missing girls.
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Bad Actors
by Mick Herron
The former head of MI5 investigates the disappearance of a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office by forecasting how policy is likely to be received by the electorate, while in MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community.
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The Bangalore Detectives Club
by Harini Nagendra
When headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry a handsome young doctor, she's resigned to a quiet life. But that changes when a party turns into a murder scene and a vulnerable woman is connected to the crime. Kaveri launches a private investigation and soon finds that sleuthing in a sari isn't hard when you have a talent for mathematics, a head for logic, and a doctor for a husband.
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Dangerous Consequences
by Claire Booth
Sheriff Hank Worth is charged by Dr Maggie McClearly, his wife, with investigating a spate of elderly tourists falling ill in Branson, Missouri. Meanwhile, Chief Deputy Sheila Turley fights discontent and sabotage within the department, all while solving the brutal murder of a former antagonist of the team in a series that deserves a wide audience.
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The Dark Flood
by Deon Meyer
In the wake of their unauthorized pursuit of state corruption in South Africa’s halls of power, Benny Griessel and Vaughn Caputo are demoted from the elite Hawks police unit and assigned to investigate the disappearance of a brilliant college student, which exposes a traitor in their department.
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Death in a Blackout
by Jessica Ellicott
The first in a brand-new WWII historical mystery series introduces WPC Billie Harkness - a female police officer who risks her life to protect the home front in the British coastal city of Hull.
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Deep Water
by Emma Bamford
Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a Captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.
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Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
by James Lee Burke
A novelist honoring his late daughter's memory by saving two young men ravaged by the opioid crisis is drawn into a network of crime until the ghost of his daughter helps him fight back.
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The Favor
by Nora Murphy
Even though they’ve never met, Leah and McKenna lead parallel lives, trapped in marriages where their “perfect” husbands are not what they seem, and Leah, deciding to keep an eye out for McKenna, intervenes one night, irrevocably changing both of their lives in this debut novel of domestic suspense.
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Goering's Gold
by Richard O'Rawe
Stumbling on a piece of Nazi memorabilia once owned by Goering, bank robber Ructions O'Hare looks into rumors that plundered Nazi gold might actually be hidden in Northern Ireland and races to find it before his adversaries.
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Hidden Pictures
by Jason Rekulak
Hired as nanny in an affluent New Jersey suburb, Mallory enjoys the stability of the job and bonds with Teddy, a sweet, five-year-old boy who is never without his sketchbook until his drawings suddenly become increasingly sinister.
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The Island
by Adrian McKinty
In a new thriller, a family that just wanted a nice vacation finds themselves running for their lives.
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Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
by Misha Popp
The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which are delivered to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking, she’ll be out of the pie pan and into the oven.
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Magpie
by Elizabeth Day
When their new lodger, Kate, becomes obsessed with her, her husband and the baby they are desperately trying to conceive, Marisa must find out who Kate really is before she loses everything she’s worked so hard to create.
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Midnight Dunes
by Laura Griffin
When the shocking discovery of a murdered woman’s body disturbs the tranquility of tourist season, the police detective in charge of the puzzling case must work alongside the new filmmaker in town to pursue every lead in this romantic thriller.
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Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder
by Catherine Lloyd
Compelled by circumstance to accept the post of lady’s companion to a wealthy widow, Lady Caroline Morton soon finds her duties entail investigating a murder in the first installment of a brand new Regency-set series.
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Murder on the Spanish Seas
by Wendy Church
Profane, introverted and frequently inebriated, Jessie O’Hara accepts the gift of a luxury cruise around the Iberian Peninsula on which she, with her near-photographic memory, uncovers a possible terrorist plot in the works and must avoid going overboard while trying to expose the culprits.
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The Murder of Mr. Wickham
by Claudia Gray
Featuring Jane Austen’s leading literary characters, this mystery follows two young guests at a house party where they attempt to solve the murder of Mr. Wickham, a con-artist with a slew of enemies, before the wrong person hangs for the crime.
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Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
On Ischia, an island in the Gulf of Naples, Nonna Maria, who knows everyone's business, helps a recently engaged woman disappear while she investigates the true nature of the woman's betrothed since the local police Captain is occupied with the death of a tour boat captain.
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Overboard
by Sara Paretsky
In a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, detective V.I. Warshawski must elude Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters as she tries to find a missing girl who is the key witness to a nefarious conspiracy, which makes Warshawski a target as well.
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Poison Lilies
by Katie Tallo
Running from a mistake she cannot undo, August Monet ends up in one of Ottawa’s oldest neighborhoods where she meets her reclusive elderly neighbor Poppy and finds her growing curiosity taking a deadly turn when the discovery of a body is linked to Poppy’s influential family.
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The Rabbit Factor
by Antti Tuomainen
An insurance mathematician’s carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park with a whole host of problems - and a giant plastic rabbit. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author
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Razzmatazz
by Christopher Moore
1947 San Francisco, bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin is tasked by club owner Jimmy Vasco to find out who is killing the city’s drag kings, while Eddie “Moo Shoes” Shu seeks to save his uncle’s opium den from Squid Kid Tang in the outrageous sequel to Noir.
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Renovated to Death
by Frank Anthony Polito
Just as they are about to start filming the renovation of twin brothers Terry and Tom Cash’s local Tudor, real-life domestic partners and stars of a new reality TV show Peter and JP discover Tom Cash dead and must chip away at the clues to catch a killer
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The Shadow of Memory
by Connie Berry
In addition to planning her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton, while appraising a 15th-century painting at the Netherfield Sanatorium, makes a shocking connection between a 60-year-old murder and long-buried secrets.
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Two Nights in Lisbon
by Chris Pavone
Waking up in Lisbon alone, her husband gone with no warning, no note, not answering his phone, Ariel Price realizes she knows very little about her new, much younger husband, and discovers just how far she'll go when everything is on the line.
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Book Lovers
by Emily Henry
Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn't, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
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A Caribbean Heiress in Paris
by Adriana Herrera
Three best friends at the 1889 World’s Fair have goals: going to the most scandalous places in Paris, kissing disreputable men and absolutely not falling in love in the first novel of a new series.
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A Lady for a Duke
by Alexis J. Hall
Presumed dead, Viola Carroll takes the opportunity to live freely despite losing her wealth, title and friends, unaware of the shattering impact she had on her closest companion.
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A Proposal They Can't Refuse
by Natalie Cana
Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef and Liam, an Irish American whiskey distiller are blackmailed by their grandfathers, best friends since boyhood, into getting married or risk losing the building that houses both their businesses.
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
by Akwaeke Emezi
Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love.
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Book of Night
by Holly Black
In a world where shadows have feelings and memories and can be altered, a low-level con artist/bartender is pitted against doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves and her own sister while trying to keep out of trouble.
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The Change
by Kirsten Miller
Three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers are put on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
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Cold As Hell
by Rhett C. Bruno
Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley’s sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banish them from the mortal realm for good. The Witcher meets The Dresden Files in this weird Western series
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Friend of the Devil
by Stephen Lloyd
A substance-abusing war veteran working as an insurance investigator visits an elite New England boarding school to find an invaluable, stolen manuscript and soon discovers students are vanishing from campus.
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A Rip Through Time
by Kelley Armstrong
While visiting her dying grandmother in Edinburgh, a homicide detective out on a jog is beaten unconscious and wakes up in the body of a housemaid, left for dead in the exact same spot in 1869.
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The Stardust Thief
by Chelsea Abdullah
A hunter and seller of illegal magic, Loulie al-Nazari, after saving the life of a cowardly prince, is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp, drawing her into a world where nothing is what it seems and where she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
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Under Fortunate Stars
by Ren Hutchings
Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue—until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be from 152 years in the future.
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