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New Fiction - October 2021
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The Book of Magic
by Alice Hoffman
In this conclusion of the spellbinding Practical Magic series, a frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they discover secrets hidden from them in matters of both magic and love.
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The Book of Mother
by Violaine Huisman
In this beautifully written, critically acclaimed debut novel, when their Maman returns from being hospitalized for a breakdown, Violaine and her sister find their home turning into an emotional landmine due to Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries.
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And the Bridge Is Love
by David Biro
In this heartfelt novel, three older women from Brooklyn form an unlikely friendship, meeting under the Verrazzano Bridge every week for twenty years until they begin to reflect on what they want to do with their remaining time.
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The Butler
by Danielle Steel
Taking a job working for Olivia, a woman who is trying to get her life together, butler Joachim, as his life falls apart, unexpectedly reaches a place with Olivia where the past doesn’t matter and only what they are living now is true.
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Christmas by the Book
by Anne Marie Ryan
In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere.
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Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
As Christmas 1971 approaches, the Hildebrand family of New Prospect, Illinois deals increasing points of crisis including a stale marriage, the draft and their son's sexual orientation in the first novel in a new trilogy.
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The Days of Afrekete
by Asali Solomon
As Liselle Belmont prepares for a dinner party, she questions her marriage and her choices, while across town, Selena finds her memories of Liselle shifting her path in life, A tender, surprising novel about two Philadelphia women at midlife who rediscover themselves.
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Empty Wardrobes
by Maria Judite de Carvalho
This previously untranslated classic of Portuguese literature, originally published in 1966, introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and under-appreciated woman writer with a tightly plotted and highly entertaining read.
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Fight Night
by Miriam Toews
As she fulfills an assignment by writing to her absent father, nine-year-old Swiv discovers that her mother and grandmother have been fighting their whole lives for joy and independence in this tender novel about three generations of women.
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A Flicker of Light
by Katie Powner
Widower Mitch Jensen is at a loss with how to handle his mother's odd, forgetful behaviors, as well as his daughter's sudden return home and unexpected life choices. Little does he know Grandma June has long been keeping a secret about her past-but if she doesn't tell the truth about it someone she loves will suffer, and the lives of three generations will never be the same.
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Forgiving Paris
by Karen Kingsbury
A woman who made a life-altering mistake in Paris twenty-four years ago is given a chance at redemption even though she never forgave herself.
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I Will Die in a Foreign Land
by Kalani Pickhart
Follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives become intertwined and are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests triggered by President Yanukovych’s choosing to align with Russia instead of the European Union in 2014.
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
In June of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson, released after serving 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car and have hatched a different plan for Emmett’s future.
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
by Nathaniel Ian Miller
A novel set in the decades between the two World Wars offers the story of a man who banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything.
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Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
by Annabel Abbs
The brilliant real-life story of the unconventional Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and how cookbooks are still written around the world.
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Mr. Beethoven
by Paul Griffiths
A witty historical fantasy of the German composer that is not only an affectionate portrait of an unusual man, but a fascinating picture of the United States in its early years, and an improvisation, as virtuosic as it is delicate, on an historical theme.
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My Monticello
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Disparate characters fight to survive racism in America in this irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella.
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Monster in the Middle
by Tiphanie Yanique
Exploring desire and identity, religion and class, passion and obligation, this novel follows a Black American musician and a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean whose newfound romance is influenced by family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing.
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North
by Brad Kessler
The lives of three people—a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, a young Somali refugee and an Afghan war veteran seeking to make peace with his past—unexpectedly intersect, in this powerfully moving novel.
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Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
The iconic heroine of My Name is Lucy Barton recounts her complicated, compassionate relationship with William, her first husband—and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidant—and the lives they eventually built with other people.
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Once Upon a Wardrobe
by Patti Callahan Henry
From the best-selling author comes another story inspired by C. S. Lewis’s ability to change the world and captivate hearts—including those of a terminally ill boy and his logic-driven sister.
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The Prince of the Skies
by Antonio Iturbe
The fictionalized story of famed author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his friends, aviators who changed the history of civil aviation.
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Sankofa
by Chibundu Onuzo
When Anna, wondering who she really is, discovers that the African father she never knew is still alive, she embarks on a journey to a small nation in West Africa where she searches for her family’s hidden roots.
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The Secret of Snow
by Viola Shipman
When she learns she is being replaced by an AI meteorologist, So-Cal meteorologist Sonny Dunes returns home to Michigan where she, while reacclimating to the weather change, must confront her past and unwelcome memories.
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The Survivors
by Alex Schulman
To finally face what really happened that summer day long ago, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where an unspeakable accident forever altered their family and find a dangerous new current vibrating between them, testing their loyalty.
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A Time Outside This Time
by Amitava Kumar
Attending a prestigious artist retreat, a professor and author finds himself inspired, rather than distracted, by the president raging online, a deadly pandemic and the stressful, twenty-four-hour news cycle and writes a novel about the imagined being mistaken as fact.
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We Are Not Like Them
by Christine Pride
The lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, is severely tested when one woman’s husband, a police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager, while the other woman, a reporter, covers this career-making story.
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What Storm, What Thunder
by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Set in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, this novel is a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
by Margaret Verble
Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel. Set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries.
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2 Sisters Detective Agency
by James Patterson
After discovering that her estranged father became a private eye, attorney Rhonda Bird teams up with her half sister to run the agency.
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All That Is Secret
by Patricia Raybon
In the winter of 1923, Professor Annalee Spain—a daring but overworked theologian at a small Chicago Bible college—receives a cryptic telegram calling her home to Denver to solve the mystery of the murder of her beloved but estranged father, using her literary hero Sherlock Holmes as inspiration.
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The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
In 1973, the crew of NASA’s Apollo 18 collide with Russian astronauts on the lunar surface far beyond the reach of law or rescue, in this high-stakes debut thriller by the best-selling author and astronaut.
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April in Spain
by John Banville
While on vacation off the Spanish coast, a Dublin pathologist catches a glimpse of a young woman he believes was murdered years ago and summons Detective St. John Strafford to investigate before someone can finish the job.
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As the Wicked Watch
by Tamron Hall
After moving from Texas to Chicago, a crime reporter becomes frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women in the first novel of a new series from the Emmy Award-winning journalist.
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Better Off Dead
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher doesn't back down and doesn't hesitate to teach someone a lesson when a shadowy crew picks a fight with the former U.S. Army military police major in the latest in the series.
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The Corpse Flower
by Anne Mette Hancock
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is drawn into a nightmare when she begins receiving letter from a woman police believe is a killer, forcing her to revisit the darkest parts of her own past to confront someone she swore she’d never see again.
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Damascus Station
by David McCloskey
A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer.
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Death at Greenway
by Lori Rader-Day
After a mistake at a London hospital leads to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, Bridey Kelly moves to Greenway House, the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie and investigates when a body washes ashore.
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Diamond and the Eye
by Peter Lovesey
Dealing with the forced assistance of a Philip Marlowe-wannabe private eye, detective Peter Diamond investigates after a Bath antiques dealer disappears and a dead body is discovered in his store in the latest novel of the series
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Down the Hatch
by M. C. Beaton
Private detective Agatha Raisin discovers a distressed elderly couple standing over the body of a local gardener and notoriously heavy drinker and investigates.
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A Dreadful Destiny
by Rosemary Rowe
Glevum, Britain, 149 CE. Freed slave Libertus, now a Roman citizen and town councilor, is tasked with another difficult mission by his patron, Marcus in the latest in this excellent historical mystery series.
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An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
by Helene Tursten
Six interlocking stories describe a series of unfortunate incidents in the life of 88-year-old Maud, shedding light on the present day when detectives show up after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment.
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Gated Prey
by Lee Goldberg
While on a sting operation in a gated, luxury enclave in Calabasas, detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, successfully catch home invaders but have unanswered questions.
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Grave Reservations
by Cherie Priest
A psychic with scattershot, inconsistent abilities, Leda Foley, joins forces with a Seattle PD detective, Grady Merritt, whom she accidentally saved from a doomed flight, to solve a cold case and catch a killer.
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I Am Not Who You Think I Am
by Eric Rickstad
In this exceptional thriller, Wayland Maynard is eight years old when he sees his father kill himself and finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am. Eight years later, Wayland makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and others in his town want to keep buried.
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Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder
by Qui Xiaolong
Chen Cao has been removed from his chief inspector role, but that doesn’t stop him investigating a ‘private kitchen’ murder that has similarities to a historic case involving the famous Judge Dee.
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The Judge's List
by John Grisham
While on the hunt for a serial killer, Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, discovers that a man hiding behind the black robe may not only taking bribes but may be taking lives.
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Just Thieves
by Gregory Galloway
Rick and Frank are recovering addicts and accomplished house thieves who only steal according to order, hired by a mysterious handler. The jobs run routinely until they’re tasked with taking a seemingly worthless trophy: an object that generates interest and obsession out of proportion to its apparent value.
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Last Girl Ghosted
by Lisa Unger
Believing she had found true love on a dating app, a young woman is shocked when her lover intentionally disappears and she discovers many other girls who also thought they were in love with the same man.
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A Line to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
Invited to an exclusive literary festival on an island off the English coast, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the death of a local grandee in the latest novel of the series.
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Mercy Creek
by M. E. Browning
A young Colorado girl’s disappearance raises agonizing questions for her estranged parents and for Detective Jo Wyatt who swings into action even though most of her superiors are convinced that the girl has just wandered off.
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Murder at Mallowan Hall
by Colleen Cambridge
Phyllida Bright, housekeeper and amateur sleuth, discovers a body in the library—and a mystery to baffle even her famous employer.
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The Nameless Ones
by John Connolly
When four of his fellow assassins are murdered by Serbian war criminals, Louis arrives in Europe to find and punish five killers before they can vanish into this air—there is just one problem—the sixth.
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The Neighbor's Secret
by L. Alison Heller
When late-night acts of vandalism target the women of book club in increasingly violent and personal ways, they will be forced to decide how far to go to keep their secrets.
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No One Will Miss Her
by Kat Rosenfield
When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries—and ultimately became deadly.
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Over My Dead Body
by Jeffrey Archer
At the heart of three murder investigations—one in London involving a cold case, one in Geneva involving a millionaire art collector and one in New York involving a wealthy dynasty, Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick must catch the killers before it’s too late.
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Repentance
by Eloísa Díaz
When he gets one last chance at redemption, Inspector Joaquín Alzada is forced to confront one of the darkest periods in Argentinian history when a dead body is found behind the morgue and a woman from one of the city’s wealthiest families goes missing.
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Reprieve
by James Han Mattson
When a contestant is murdered in the final cell of the Quigley House—a full-contact haunted escape room, those who were present on that fateful night must come to terms with how their beliefs and actions may have contributed to this horrifying act of violence.
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Silverview
by John Le Carré
Giving up his high-powered career to run a bookshop in a small English seaside town, Julian Lawndsley finds his life upended by Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, who is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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State of Terror
by Louise Penny
A passionate young foreign service officer, a dedicated journalist, and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state must team up to defeat an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs.
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The Unheard
by Nicci French
When her young daughter returns from her ex’s house with a violent crayon drawing and the words “He did kill her,” Tess searches for the truth, which sets off an explosive chain of events where more than one life may be at stake.
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When Christmas Comes
by Andrew Klavan
After a confession of murder, a sleuthing English teacher will need a Christmas miracle to prove a condemned man innocent
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The Christmas Bookshop
by Jenny Colgan
When she is out of a job just in time for the holidays, Carmen, with little cash and few options, is forced to move in with her perfect sister where she takes a job at a book store that desperately needs her help—and helps her in return.
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Dear Santa
by Debbie Macomber
Feeling low after her boyfriend cheated on her, Lindy Carmichael heads home to Wenatchee, Washington for Christmas where her mother encourages her to write a grown-up letter to Santa which ultimately brings her hope and joy.
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Duke, Actually
by Jenny Holiday
Under pressure by his family to marry, a playboy baron becomes determined to befriend a no-nonsense, but single professor he met at a wedding, for friendship and distraction.
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A Holly Jolly Diwali
by Sonya Lalli
One type-A data analyst discovers her free-spirited side on an impulsive journey from bustling Mumbai to the gorgeous beaches of Goa and finds love waiting for her on Christmas morning.
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Payback's a Witch
by Lana Harper
Returning home to the magical town of Thistle Grove after a self-imposed exile, witch Emmy Harlow runs into badass Talia Avramov, who just broke up with Emmy’s crush Gareth and wants revenge, and Emmy finds herself drawn to Talia instead of Gareth when she agrees to help.
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A Season for Second Chances
by Jenny Bayliss
A charmingly quirky seaside town offers a recently separated restauranteur a fresh start and possibly a new lease on love.
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The Death of Jane Lawrence
by Caitlin Starling
Embarking on a marriage of convenience with bold, courageous surgeon Augustine Lawrence in post-war England, unassuming Jane Shoringfield instead finds a terrified, paranoid man who cannot tell reality from a nightmare and realizes something is deeply wrong with this man she is bound to.
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Far from the Light of Heaven
by Tade Thompson
Michelle Campion, first mate on the colony ship Ragtime, discovers that some of the one-thousand cryogenically sleeping people on board will never wake up and calls on Rasheed Fin, an investigator, to find the person responsible.
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Isolate
by L. E. Modesitt
A security specialist and isolate who is immune to the projections of empaths investigates when his employer falls under suspicion in the mysterious death of a respected political leader, resulting in a deadly struggle for control of the government.
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The Cabinet
by Un-su Kim
A harried office worker finds his job looking after cabinet 13, which houses files on “symptomers”—humans who strange abilities and experiences may mark the emergence of a new species—a huge headache, in this funny and fantastical novel.
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
by Cassandra Khaw
A gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.
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Where They Wait
by Scott Carson
Out-of-work war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a job writing a profile for a new mindfulness app called Clarity, which becomes more disturbing by the minute, especially when he discovers that no one with Clarity has any interest in his article—only in him.
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