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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction August 2017
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The burning girl : a novel
by Claire Messud
Two lifelong friends find their relationship tested as their paths diverge during adolescence when one of the pair embarks on a dangerous journey. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children.
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Mrs. Fletcher : a novel
by Tom Perrotta
Struggling to adjust to her empty nest when her only child departs for college, a middle-aged divorcee receives an erotic message from a secret admirer and becomes obsessed with a fantasy porn site for women; while miles away at college, her son encounters challenges to his outmoded ideas of sex. By the best-selling author of Little Children.
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See what I have done
by Sarah Schmidt
A reimagining of the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case profiles a volatile and loveless Borden home where the events surrounding the shocking murders of the parents are presented from the viewpoints of Lizzie, her elder sister, their housemaid and an enigmatic stranger. A first novel.
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New people
by Danzy Senna
Working on her dissertation while planning her wedding to her college sweetheart as the 20th century draws to a close, Maria, a young woman from Brooklyn being featured in a documentary about mixed-heritage couples, risks the life she has worked so hard to achieve by fantasizing about a poet she barely knows.
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Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
Cruelly branded for an affair with her congressman boss, an intern and blogger changes her name and moves to a remote town in Maine with her young daughter, but when she is urged to run for public office, she is forced her to reckon with the past. By the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.
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On her majesty's frightfully secret service
by Rhys Bowen
Needing a way to get to Italy to help her pregnant friend, royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch agrees to help her cousin the queen thwart an elopement between the Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson at a house party in the Italian lake country. By the best-selling author of Crowned and Dangerous.
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Glass houses : a novel
by Louise Penny
A suspicious figure that appears on the village green on a cold November day leaves a dead body in its wake, compelling Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec to pursue an investigation that has difficult consequences. By the Edgar Award-winning author of A Great Reckoning.
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Y is for yesterday
by Sue Grafton
The penultimate installment in the best-selling series follows the release of a young rapist whom Kinsey Millhone carefully monitors in the wake of a vengeful sociopath's determination to exact revenge. By the award-winning author of W Is for Wasted.
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The saboteur
by Andrew Gross
Putting aside his personal needs to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb, in a thriller inspired by a true story. By the best-selling author of No Way Back.
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Exposed
by Lisa Scottoline
An epic battle of wills and legal strategy ensues when DiNunzio and Rosato represent opposing sides in a wrongful termination lawsuit, triggering conflict-of-interest complications that estrange the partners and force their friends and colleagues to take sides.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Devil's due
by Taylor Anderson
With his wife and crew being held hostage by the madman Kurokawa, the mysterious League and evil Dominion plotting schemes of their own and the Grik trying to build a swarm, Commander Matt Reddy faces danger on all sides as he readies the USS Walker for a rescue. By the New York Times best-selling author of Blood in the Water.
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Arabella and the battle of Venus
by David D. Levine
When her fiancé is captured by the French and sent to a POW camp on swampy Venus, swashbuckling Arabella Ashby recruits the assistance of dashing privateer Daniel Fox and secures passage to the enemy-controlled planet in the middle of a war to stage a daring rescue. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Space Magic.
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Akata witch
by Nnedi Okorafor
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer
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