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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit April 2024
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New and Upcoming Releases
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Begin Again
by Helly Acton
A woman who dies in a freak kebob accident on a first date is given the chance to revisit key moments of her life to see if different choices lead to the fulfillment she was missing.
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Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
by Abbi Waxman
Discovering that her once-famous, believed-to-be-dead father is alive, an antisocial scientist who studies sea snails is thrust into the spotlight.
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Crow Talk
by Eileen Garvin
The story of the unlikely friendship between a lonely ornithologist and an Irish musician working to save an injured crow in the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
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The Funeral Cryer
by Wenyan Lu
Accepting the mundane realities of her life, the Funeral Cryer, avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job, when things could not be bleaker, takes a leap of faith that changes everything for the better.
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A Good Happy Girl
by Marissa Higgins
In this debut novel, a young professional woman with a self-destructive streak pursues an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple who intrigue her with their ever-increasing sexual and emotional intensity.
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A Great Country
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
This latest novel from the New York Times best-selling author explores how the aftermath of the arrest of a young sibling in a close-knit Indian-American family exposes both their close ties and fractures.
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Habitations
by Sheila Sundar
Still reeling from her sister's death, Vega Gopalan flees South India to attend graduate school in New York and must navigate academia, first love, a green card marriage, the isolation of immigrant suburbs and single motherhood.
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The House of Broken Bricks
by Fiona Williams
A Londoner transported from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, Tess, as she and her husband settle in, finds the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins—one who presents as black and the other as white—stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging.
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The House on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
After the tragic death of her parents, Carmen Acosta arrives at Maribrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister and her husband on Biscayne Bay, and soon discovers beneath its glittering façade lies a treacherous legacy and must unravel Maribrisa's secrets to stop history from repeating itself.
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The Husbands
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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Missing White Woman
by Kellye Garrett
A woman thinks she's waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.
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The Mother Act
by Heidi Reimer
A talented actress in her own right, Jude, at the premiere of her mother's latest play, comes face-to-face with the woman who chose fame over her and as their intertwined stories unfolds, these two women wonder if they can ever really understand each other.
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The Other Side of Disappearing
by Kate Clayborn
Accompanying her sister on a search for their mother, who ran off with an accomplished con man years earlier, Jess, as they make their way across the country, unraveling the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why, discovers a willingness to expand beyond the walls she's so carefully built.
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Out of Office
by A. H. Cunningham
Taking a break from her demanding job, Genevieve Raymond, staying in Panama at a small hostel, has a summer fling with its owner Adrián Nicolas and as the end of her vacation draws near, Adrian offers her an opportunity to follow her heart even if it means risking everything.
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Real Americans
by Rachel Khong
In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who can't shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father—journey that raises more questions than provides answers.
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Relative Strangers
by A. H. Kim
Korean-American sisters Eleanor and Amelia Bae-Wood support their newly widowed mother when they are caught up in a court battle with someone claiming to be their late father's first-born child and only son—secret love child from his Korean youth—who's fighting for everything they have. Original.
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The Stone Home
by Crystal Hana Kim
Inspired by real events, told through alternating timelines and two intimate perspectives, this hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story, capturing a shameful period of South Korean history, explores the legacy of violence and the psychology of power, while highlighting extraordinary acts of devotion and friendship that can arise in the darkness.
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The Summer We Started Over
by Nancy Thayer
Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father's increased eccentricities; her sister's resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.
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Thieving Sun
by Monica Datta
Grieving the composer who was the love of her youth, a woman meditates on the fantastical circumstances of her birth, her years studying sculpture and the future she dares to envision.
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Tourist Season
by Brenda Novak
Trapped alone in her fiancé's family cottage as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé.
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The Twilight Garden
by Sara Nisha Adams
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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