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Fiction A to Z February 2026 |
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| Sheer by Vanessa LawrenceIn 2015 New York, 40-something beauty mogul Maxine Thomas has been suspended after a transgression. As she awaits her fate from the board, she ponders her past, including her 1980s childhood in the New Jersey suburbs and growing her business in college and beyond. This compelling tale provides a revealing look at the beauty industry, ambition, and secrets. |
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Ace Atkins
It's 1985, what will soon become known as "The Year of the Spy," and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. "Gary" isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He's just a kid into BMX and MTV.
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Needle Lake
by Justine Champine
Two cousins on very different sides of teen girlhood spend a winter together that changes both of their lives forever.
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| Scavengers by Kathleen BolandAfter losing her New York finance job, lonely Bea Macon visits her estranged free-spirited mom, Christy, who's a member of an internet forum devoted to finding a hidden treasure. With an online boyfriend and a plan, Christy heads to the desert and Bea tags along. This character-driven debut novel explores mother-daughter relationships and has an evocative Utah setting and romantic elements. |
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The Memory Gardener: Magic Blooms in This Cozy Novel
by Meg Donohue
Lucy Barnes is a gardener with an uncanny ability to know exactly which scent among her flowers will illuminate to a person a key from their past that might change their future. Sadly, after a tragedy ten years ago, she no longer uses her gift and has fled her hometown. But six months after her mother's death, Lucy awakens to find her mother's unmistakable scent drifting over her, and she knows that she is being called home. And when a mysterious note leads her to take a job as the gardener at the Oceanview Home, a senior-living residence, Lucy finds herself wondering if there is more to her gift--and her mother's past--than she ever knew.
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The List of Suspicious Things
by Jennie Godfrey
A 12-year-old girl determines to unmask a serial killer in this extravagantly ambitious story of small-town Britain in 1979.
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What Boys Learn
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
When two teenage girls from the same tony high school are separately found dead during the same weekend, their school counselor Abby questions whether they could have died by suicide or if a sinister killer is in the community.
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Stuart Woods' Blown Away
by Brett Battles
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another thrilling Hollywood adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Teddy Fay whisks away to join Peter and Hattie Barrington in Palm Springs. But his hope for a relaxing vacation vanishes when he attends a prominent actor's annual birthday party, where he witnesses a heated squabble between two women, only for one of them to turn up dead the next day. Teddy investigates who might be lurking in the shadows and uncovers a web of intrigue involving a sinister plan to take over a cutting-edge energy company. If he doesn't act fast, valuable secrets risk falling into the wrong hands, but more importantly innocent lives could be in jeopardy.
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The Birdwatcher
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
When her childhood best friend is accused of committing double murder, a fashion reporter tests her skills as an investigative journalist in hopes of discovering what really happened.
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The Burning Library
by Gilly MacMillan
Two rival organizations of women, the Fellowship of the Larks and the Order of the Katherines, have been searching for a powerful artifact and will stop at nothing to acquire it.
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