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New Fiction BooksSeptember 2025 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection. |
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Notes on Infinityby Austin TaylorZoe and Jack are Harvard students who find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they have discovered the cure for aging - in this different kind of love story, where the thirst for achievement consumes and the stakes are forever. |
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Ten Incarnations of Rebellionby Vaishnavi PatelIn the city of Kingston, built upon the ashes of Bombay, Kalki Divekar and her friends secretly build a resistance movement from within British rule, balancing survival and rebellion as they navigate personal losses, shifting alliances and the high stakes of fighting for their city.
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Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar by Katie YeeA Chinese American woman discovers her husband is cheating with someone named Maggie, after whom she names her newly-discovered cancerous tumor, talking to her body's new inhabitant as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing and reclamation.
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Finding Graceby Loretta RothschildBlending a page-turning moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, this is a sweeping love story that explores the price of a new beginning, how the ghosts of our past shape our future, and whether redemption can be found in the wreckage of what we have lost.
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Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben ReyesFollowing two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war, this exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past and the endurance of love relates the story of how Ana uses The Defractor, an experimental device that allows users to peek into alternate versions of their lives, to lead her and Luis on a quest through Havana and San Salvador in order to uncover the family histories they are desperate to know, eager to learn if what might have been could fix what is. |
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The Other Wife by Jackie Thomas-KennedyApproaching her forties, Zuzu has built a stable life with her wife Agnes, a steadfast and career-driven lawyer, but is haunted by the choices that have shaped her: living with her mother instead of her father in childhood, pursuing law over art and marrying Agnes while harboring complex feelings for Cash, her college best friend - in this novel that speaks to unfulfilled desires and the euphoric nostalgia that is particular to the beginning of middle age.
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Early Stories by Tennessee Williams by Tennessee WilliamsThese thirty previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest, highlight aspects of the writer's biography relative to his young adult years in St. Louis, Columbia and the Missouri Ozarks, offering insight into the relationships between the author, his family and close friends.
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Angel Down by Daniel KrausThe author of Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire, that could hold the key to ending the war - but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together.
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Spectacular Thingsby Beck Dorey-SteinIn a small Maine town, sisters Mia and Cricket grow up under the weight of their mother's hidden past, navigating ambition, loyalty and the fear of repeating generational wounds as they struggle to define their identities and futures.
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Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa OsundeOsunde poses provocative questions about what makes a family, who gets to define it, why it matters and many more, as they explore the lives and loves, hopes and fears of more than two dozen characters who are trying to define themselves in today's Nigeria.
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