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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction June 2024
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The glassmaker by Tracy ChevalierFrom the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure. From the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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This summer will be different by Carley FortuneWhen her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her to Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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Same As It Ever Was by Claire LombardoFinally, at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a handle on things, but a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenage daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.
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The road to the country : a novel by Chigozie ObiomaIn 1960s Nigeria, when his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle sets out on an impossible rescue mission, which becomes a journey of atonement that will see him forced to fight a war he hardly understands while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer.
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Bear by Julia PhillipsTrapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.
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Fire exit : a novel by Morgan TaltyConsumed by a long-held secret about his daughter across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, Charles Lamosway grapples with his past, a lost love, and the burdens of family as he searches for redemption.
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Shelterwood : a novel by Lisa WingateIn 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
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Red Sky Mourning by Jack CarrWhen three seemingly disconnected events are about to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has seen, Navy SEAL sniper James Reece, to save America, must reconnect to a quantum computer called "Alice" who is positioned to act as either the county's greatest savior or its worst enemy.
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The next Mrs. Parrish : a novel by Liv ConstantineWith her husband Jackson getting out of prison and an enemy from the past looking for revenge, prominent socialite Amber Patterson Parrish and Jackson's ex-wife Daphne become unlikely allies, but when all is said and done, they'll have to fight for everything they have left in this zero-sum game.
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The nature of disappearing : a novel by Kimi Cunningham GrantA fishing and hunting guide in Idaho's endless woods, Emlyn agrees to use her tracking skills when her ex-boyfriend asks for help finding Janessa, her former best friend, and as they press deeper into the wilderness, she suspects a darker truth, and that Janessa isn't the only one in danger.
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Shanghai by Joseph KanonAfter escaping the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamor and squalor exist side-by-side, and as he tries to navigate through his uncle's world in the city's fabled nightlife, he tries to stay one step ahead of murder and outrun his own past.
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Farewell, Amethystine by Walter MosleyLos Angeles detective Easy Rawlins investigates when the ex-husband of his ex-lover, Amethystine Stoller, turns up dead and his only friend at the LAPD goes into hiding, in the 16th novel of the series following Blood Grove.
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Middle of the night : a novel by Riley SagerReturning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance, Ethan, plagued by strange occurrences, sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to a mysterious institute where clandestine research is performed.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Tidal creatures by Seanan McGuireWhen someone starts killing the moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal behind these attacks -- control of the Impossible City of itself.
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Service model by Adrian TchaikovskyWhen a domesticated robot alters its programming, murdering their owner, they flee into a wider world they never knew existed, discovering the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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