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New Fiction - September 2021
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Assembly
by Natasha Brown
Brown’s provocative and lyrical debut follows a nameless heroine, a third-generation Jamaican immigrant in Britain, who seems to have it all, but is navigating racism and sexism at her job while she contends with a breast cancer diagnosis.
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The Bad Immigrant
by Sefi Atta
Storyteller Atta uses the voice of a male protagonist, Lukmon, to peel away nuanced layers and expose the realities of migration from Nigeria to the USA, such as the strains of adjustment and the stifling pressure to conform without loss of identity.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
Four young people pair up, break up, have wild flirtations and worry about their friendships and the world they live in while pondering their eroding youth.
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Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
Astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife.
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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
by Jayne Allen
After learning she might not be able to have children, a 33-year-old black woman planning to “have it all,” watches her dreams dissolve and must rely on her two best friends to get through.
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A Bright Young Thing
by Brianne Moore
In 1931 England, Astra Davies—after her parents die, leaving her with mountain of debt—must make her own way and embarks on a journey that tests her brains, wit and mettle as never before.
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Catch Us When We Fall
by Juliette Fay
On her own since eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person she'd ever known. But now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared, and pregnant in this book about second chances and the power of hope
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
by Wole Soyinka
Duyole Pitan-Payne realizes that someone is trying to stop him from assuming a prestigious job in the United Nations after discovering that a wily entrepreneur is stealing body parts from a Nigerian hospital for use in rituals.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
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The Collector's Daughter
by Gill Paul
In 1922, after Lady Evelyn Herbert and her father discover the burial place of Tutankhamun, a series of tragic events leaves her world a darker, sadder place, and 50 years later, she is forced to relive what really happened in the tomb when an Egyptian academic starts asking questions.
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Fault Lines
by Emily Itami
A bored, frustrated Japanese housewife begins living two lives when she meets a successful restaurateur and rediscovers the freedom and the electric pulse of her beloved Tokyo and realizes that she has to make a choice.
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The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
by Josh Ritter
Filled with heart, humor and magic, this lyrical novel about the last days of the lumberjacks is told by of one of the greatest lumberjacks of all who recounts tales rife with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging in the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho.
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He Gets That From Me
by Jacqueline Friedland
In this thoughtful and gripping family tale, a young woman serves as a surrogate mother for a gay couple in hopes of changing her own life for the better, only to discover ten years later that she accidentally gave away her own biological child.
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In All Good Faith
by Liza Nash Taylor
In the summer of 1932, most Americans are coming to realize that the financial crash was only the beginning of hard times in this story of two women’s unlikely success during the Great Depression.
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In the Field
by Rachel Pastan
A novel inspired by the life of the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983, follows Kate Croft who attends college in 1920 and, confused by her own sexuality, finds refuge in the rationality of biology and genetics.
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Inseparable
by Simone de Beauvoir
An unpublished novel from the author of the feminist classic The Second Sex describes the intense friendship of Sylvie and Andrée, who meet at a Parisian day school and explore life together in post-World-War One France.
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I Was Never the First Lady
by Wendy Guerra
A Cuban woman who was abandoned as a child by her mother who left to join the revolution begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family after winning a scholarship to study in Russia.
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L.A. Weather
by María Amparo Escandón
Follows the Los Angeles-based Alvardo family as they take critical looks at their internal and external relationships while struggling with a fierce local drought, impending evacuations, secrets, deception, betrayal and making some tough decisions.
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Lean Fall Stand
by Jon McGregor
After a catastrophic Antarctic expedition, Robert Wright is so distressed he becomes unable to communicate the truth and must learn a whole new way to be in the world.
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The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet
by Maureen Gibbon
In the final stages of his life, Manet, suffering from the complications of syphilis, writes down his daily impressions, reflections and memories as he holds court in Paris in his studio where he meets a mysterious muse who becomes his final masterpiece.
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The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
by Chase Pletts
In this entertaining and thought-provoking debut, farmer Eldon Quint, who lives on the frontier with his two young sons, is pursued by a gang of armed men who have confused him him for his identical twin brother, Clayton, aka the outlaw Jack Foss.
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The Magician
by Colm Tóibín
An intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of writer Thomas Mann, a man profoundly flawed and unforgettable, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff
Cast out of the royal court, seventeen-year-old Marie de France, born the last in a long line of women warriors, is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey where she vows to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects.
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Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes
by Alexa Martin
With her life a total disaster, Instagram star Jude Andrews and her best friend, Lauren Turner, a single mother, decide to move in together, and soon realize that their new townhouse can only hold so much baggage.
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A Most Clever Girl
by Stephanie Thornton
A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States.
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No Words
by Meg Cabot
Arriving on Little Bridge Island for a speaking engagement, best-selling children’s author Jo Wright comes face-to-face with her nemesis, writer Will Price, who, much to her surprise, wants to make amends and prove to her that he is a changed man—until disaster strikes.
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Out of Love
by Hazel Hayes
After five years together, an Irishwoman and an Englishman break up in this gorgeously told story of heartbreak and recovery that still leaves the reader feeling hopeful about love.
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Palmares
by Gayl Jones
In a world impacted by greed, conquest and colonial desire, Almeyda, a Black slave girl who, after a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares is destroyed, embarks on a life-altering journey across Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle.
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The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery
by Amanda Cox
For decades, three generations of women of Old Depot Grocery have been keeping secrets from each other. When Sarah returns home with hopes of running the store, the long-buried past will be brought into the light and threaten not only to destroy the family business but sever the family ties.
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See Jane Snap
by Bethany Crandell
Jane Osborne seems to have a perfect life—successful surgeon husband, well-adjusted twelve-year-old daughter, fulfilling volunteer work, great relationships—but it's all a lie, and one day it becomes too much.
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A Single Rose
by Muriel Barbery
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.
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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
In a village of 400 souls, which becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, the light of the Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore the mystery of life. Winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize.
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The Wish
by Nicholas Sparks
A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
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The Wish Book Christmas
by Lynn Austin
Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America with their five-year-old sons. But when the 1951 Sears Wish Book arrives and the boys start obsessing over every toy in it, Audrey and Eve realize they must first teach them the true significance of the holiday.
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The War for Gloria
by Atticus Lish
From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life comes a tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy’s struggle to become a man.
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Be My Ghost
by Carol J. Perry
Maureen Doherty—the smart protagonist of this exceptional paranormal cozy launch - has just lost her job in Boston when she receives a letter informing her she has inherited the century-old, and reportedly haunted, Haven House Inn in Florida.
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Chapter and Curse
by Elizabeth Penney
Arriving in Cambridge, England to help run the family bookshop, librarian Molly Kimball must sift through secrets past and present to untangle a web of blackmail, deceit and murder as she tries to keep the struggling shop afloat after a literary event ends in murder.
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The Dark Remains: Laidlaw's First Case
by William McIlvanney
In this crime prequel, two crime writers team up for the first ever case of D.I. Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective who is standing in the midst of gangs, organized crime bosses, crooked politicians, corrupt police and innocent battlers caught in the crossfire.
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Daughter of the Morning Star
by Craig Johnson
After a Native high school basketball star whose sister disappeared begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long, Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear investigate.
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Death of a Red-Hot Rancher
by Mimi Granger
When her aunt is implicated in the murder of a swoon-worthy rancher, romance bookshop owner Lizzie Hale must leaf through a lengthy list of lovers to solve this crime of passion.
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Enemy at the Gates
by Kyle Mills
CIA operative Mitch Rapp accepts a job protecting the world’s first trillionaire, but also uses him as bait to catch a traitor with access to government secrets in the latest addition to the series.
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Farewell Blues
by Maggie Robinson
Murder hits all too close to home for Lady Adelaide Compton in Robinson’s sparkling fourth and final paranormal mystery set in 1920s England.
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The Good Death
by S. D. Sykes
England, November 1370. A heinous killer is at work, but because all of the missing women come from impoverished families without influence, nobody seems to care until Oswald de Lacy, Lord of Somershill Manor, vows to find the killer himself.
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Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist in the new novel from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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The Heron's Cry
by Ann Cleeves
While looking into the murder of Dr. Nigel Yeo, who was investigating the suicide of a young man who was a member of chilling online group, Detective Matthew Venn must wade through the lies at the heart of his community.
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Her Perfect Life
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Lily Atwood, a beloved television reporter with fame, fortune, Emmy awards and a young daughter is spooked when the anonymous source who feeds her tips begins suddenly giving her inside information about her own life.
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The Ice Coven
by Max Seeck
Finnish investigator Jessica Niemi is back in a terrifying new novel. When the murder of a woman and the disappearance of two famous Instagram influencers are tied to a sinister cult, Niiemi works tirelessly to solve it until her past comes back with a vengeance.
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The Jailhouse Lawyer
by James Patterson
When a young lawyer takes on a judge who is destroying her hometown, she ends up in jail where she learns the deadly truth about why the jail is so crowded and why so few prisoners are released.
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The Killing Kind
by Jane Casey
The stalker of barrister Ingrid Lewis now claims that he is the only person who can protect her from a new threat.
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Left for Dead
by Sean Parnell
Back in action as a special operative for the Program, Eric Steele investigates the theft of a very dangerous, new Chinese bioweapon.
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All These Ashes
by James Queally
In Queally’s outstanding sequel, PI Russell Avery, a former reporter who once covered the police beat for a Newark, N.J., newspaper, agrees to look into a cold case for a police lieutenant.
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The Man Who Died Twice
by Richard Osman
When an old friend, who has been accused of stealing millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds, desperately needs help, Elizabeth and her friends go up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
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Marked Man
by Archer Mayor
While Joe Gunther looks into the mafia-related murders linked to the death of a local philanthropist and millionaire, PI Sally Kravitz teams up with a reporter to expose the truth behind this tangled and expanding web duplicity, greed and obsession.
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The Missing Hours
by Julia Dahl
A standalone novel from an award-winning author confronts the aftermath of a campus rape and the lengths that some will go to keep the truth hidden.
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Miss Kopp Investigates
by Amy Stewart
Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways.
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Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
by Andrea Penrose
While preparing for their upcoming nuptials, Lady Charlotte Sloane and the Earl of Wrexford are drawn into a murder investigation involving a momentous medical discovery that someone will kill for.
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Never Saw Me Coming
by Vera Kurian
While taking part in an unusual clinical study that brings together someone of the most dangerous minds, Chloe Sevre, a freshman honor student – and diagnosed psychopath with an IQ of 135, goes from hunter to prey when one of the participants is murdered.
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Nice Girls
by Catherine Dang
Returning home after being kicked out of college, Mary becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a rising social media star—and her former best friend—and, as hatred consumes her, discovers a link to another missing person opens up old wounds.
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The Night She Disappeared
by Lisa Jewell
One year after a young woman and her boyfriend disappear on a massive country estate, a writer stumbles upon a mysterious note that could be the key to finding out what happened to the missing young couple.
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A Prince and a Spy
by Rory Clements
A Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich -and the British Monarchy- in this vivid and twisty new spy thriller.
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Rizzio
by Denise Mina
In this radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history, the best-selling author revisits the brutal murder of David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, telling the infamous story as it was never told before.
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Road of Bones
by James R. Benn
In 1944, with tensions running high between American and Russian allies, Billy Boyle is sent to the USSR to investigate the murder of two intelligence agents, and, when the case quickly spirals out of control, he is aided a daring regiment of young Soviet women.
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Rock Paper Scissors
by Alice Feeney
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget. Think you know the person you married? Think again.
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Robert B. Parker's Stone's Throw
by Mike Lupica
Investigating the apparent suicide of the town’s mayor, Jesse Stone, with tempers running hot in Paradise due to a fight over prime real estate, must discover in whose way the mayor was standing as the body count rises.
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The Stolen Hours
by Allen Eskens
When her latest case involving a brutal attack on a woman takes a personal turn, Lila Nash, with the suspect one step ahead of her, must race against time to outsmart a killer—and to escape the dark hold of her own past.
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The Stowaway
by James S. Murray
Two years after her deciding vote on a jury set an alleged serial killer free, Maria Fontana and her family are trapped on a transatlantic cruise on which passengers are being brutally murdered in a similar way to his ritualistic MO.
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These Toxic Things
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Honoring her client Nadia’s last wish, Mickie Lambert, who creates “digital scrapbooks,” begins curating Nadia’s peculiar objects until she begins receiving threatening messages that plunge her into a mystery involving a dormant serial killer and a sinister past that may be entwined with her own.
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We Know You Remember
by Tove Alsterdal
The past comes flooding back for police detective Eira Sjödin when Olof Hagström, who served time for raping and murdering a local girl, returns home to find his father dead under suspicious circumstances.
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When Ghosts Come Home
by Wiley Cash
When a plane crash lands at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina, Sheriff Winston Barnes begins a murder investigation that will change the course of his life and the fate of the community he has sworn to protect.
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The Yards
by A. F. Carter
In this twisty crime novel, a hotel hook up gone wrong finds a single mother suspected of murder and hiding from the local mob.
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A Lot Like Adiós
by Alexis Daria
Childhood best friends Michelle Amato and Gabe Aguilar fell out of touch at age eighteen when Gabe fled the Bronx for college in California to escape his overbearing parents. Thirteen years later, they will need to figure out who they are and how they can belong, together.
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The Inn on Sweetbriar Lane
by Jeannie Chin
In this charming opposites-attract romance, two people discover that love doesn’t always go according to plan.
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The Love Hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood
To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn’t believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope.
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On Location
by Sarah Smith
When she gets the green light to produce a series about Utah’s national parks, Alia Dunn is thrilled until she meets her newest crew member, Drew Irons, the man who ghosted her, and as tensions rise between them, so does an undeniable attraction.
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The Shaadi Set-Up
by Lillie Vale
In this witty and heartfelt rom-com debut, an Indian American woman signs herself and her boyfriend up for a matchmaking site to prove they're a perfect match, only to be paired with her ex instead.
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Witch Please
by Ann Aguirre
Practical Magic meets Gilmore Girls in a small-town romantic comedy featuring likable, well thought-out characters; an emphasis on family relationships; and strong friendships between women.
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Activation Degradation
by Marina J. Lostetter
A thrilling sci-fi adventure that raises challenging questions about artificial intelligence, sentient responsibility, and freedom through the lens of conflicted robot hero, Autonomous Maintenance System Unit Four.
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Civilizations
by Laurent Binet
The last Inca emperor, Atahualpa, uses Columbus' captured ships to sail to Europe where he discovers the Inquisition, capitalism, the printing press and warring monarchies in the new novel of revisionist history from the internationally best-selling HHhH.
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Harrow
by Joy Williams
With her mother missing and her boarding school closed, Khristen searches the post-apocalyptic landscape until she reaches a “resort” on the shores of a putrid lake. A memorable return for renowned storyteller Williams after a lengthy absence from long-form fiction.
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Light from uncommon stars
by Ryka Aoki
To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence. 150,000 first printing.
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The Nature of Middle-Earth
by J. R. R. Tolkien
The first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-Earth covers a wide range of subjects.
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No Gods, No Monsters
by Cadwell Turnbull
When creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, setting off a chain of seemingly unrelated events, people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase and protests erupt globally—until the world finds out what has frightened the monsters out of the dark.
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Under the Whispering Door
by TJ Klune
After he dies, a curious and powerful being gives Wallace one week to cross over to the land of the dead, and Wallace, who finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life, sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
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