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The only one left : a novel
by Riley Sager
In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family's massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
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Old enough : a novel
by Haley Jakobson
When her best friend from childhood gets engaged, college sophomore Savannah Henry is pulled back into a history she had just barely begun to heal from while falling in love with Wes, a sweet, nonbinary classmate.
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Lucky dogs : a novel
by Helen Schulman
In this passionate exploration of love, betrayal and survival, two women, both victims of male violence, and both warriors, meet in line at an ice cream kiosk on the Ile de la Cité, each thinking they know who they are dealing with, but both are very, very wrong.
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Holding pattern
by Jenny Xie
Searching for direction after a humiliating breakup, a young woman returns to her Oakland home and finds herself planning her own mother's wedding to a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur.
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Loot
by Tania James
Set in 18th-century India, England and France, this sweeping novel follows gifted woodcarver Abbas who embarks on a perilous journey to retrieve the giant wooden tiger he created for Tipu Sultan from an estate in the English countryside, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered art.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The surviving sky
by Kritika H. Rao
"High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply...Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist wife, they are a method to suppress non-architects. Their marriage is thorny and fraught--yet when a jungle expedition goes terribly wrong, jeopardizing their careers, Ahilya and Iravan must work together to save their reputations. But as their city begins to plummet, their discoveries threaten not only their marriage, but their entire civilization"
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Eventide, Water City
by Chris McKinney
A stay-at-home dad and part-time bounty hunter must travel to the moon and back when a familiar face returns to exact revenge on all of humanity, in the second volume of the trilogy following Midnight, Water City.
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Maddalena and the dark
by Julia Fine
In 1717 Venice, 15-year-old Luisa, studying violin at the Ospedale della Pietà, and Maddalena, trying to escape her family, are drawn together by a dangerous wager and enter the decadent world outside the Pietà's walls, forcing them to decide what they truly want—and what they'll do to get it.
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House of Odysseus
by Claire North
With her husband, Odysseus, failing to return from war in Troy, the delicate peace queen Penelope maintains is shattered when Orestes, King of Mycenae returns with his sister Elektra in the sequel to Ithaca.
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The road to Roswell : a novel
by Connie Willis
On the way to her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding, level-headed Francie is abducted by an alien, along with a charming con man, a casino-addicted little old lady, a Western-loving retiree and a UFO-chasing nutjob, discovers the alien is in trouble and she's the only one who can help.
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The mistress of Bhatia House
by Sujata Massey
Taking a young ayah, who, suffering from burns, put herself in harm's way only to be accused of a crime she didn't commit, as a client, Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry finds this complex investigation linked to a new women's hospital specializing in maternal issues, which puts her own family in danger.
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Code of the hills
by Chris Offutt
Retiring from the army, Mick Hardin is back in Kentucky to help his sister, Linda, the sheriff of Rocksalt, in investigating the murder of a mechanic at the local racetrack, in the third novel of the series following Shifty's Boys.
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The last ranger : a novel
by Peter Heller
While investigating the background of a local poacher, Officer Ren Hopper, an enforcement ranger at Yellowstone National Park, discovers a frightening conspiracy, in this masterful portrait of the American West where greed, love, family and community play out amidst the stunning beauty of the natural world.
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A newlywed's guide to fortune and murder
by Dianne Freeman
Accepting an assignment from the dowager Viscountess Wingate, Frances notices that the once-formidable aristocrat has grown shockingly frail and believes someone is poisoning her, in the sixth novel of the series following A Bride's Guide to Marriage and Murder.
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Before she finds me : a novel
by Heather Chavez
A newly-pregnant trained assassin wonders why her husband broke the rules and took a hit job at a college without telling her and also questions why a particular woman in the crowd responded differently than everyone else.
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