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A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
by Foz Meadows
Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he's ruined the diplomatic union. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy proposes that Vel marry his former intended's brother instead. Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock. With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other.
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A Guardian and a Thief
by Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata ravaged by floods and decay, Ma is preparing to leave for a new life in America with her young daughter, Mishti, and her aging father, Dadu. They're just days away from joining Ma's husband in Michigan, until Ma's purse, holding all their precious documents, is stolen. The theft shatters their hopes and alters their lives forever. The story unfolds from two perspectives: Ma's desperate struggle to recover what's lost, and Boomba's, the impoverished thief, whose act of survival sets tragedy in motion.
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The White Hot
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in a locked bathroom, until one day she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls the white hot. A voice inside her tells her to just walk away. She wanders to a bus station and goes to the threshold of a wilderness, the beginning of an accidental journey that shakes her awake, almost kills her, and brings her to the brink of an impossible choice.
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A Girl Like Us
by Anna Sophia McLoughlin
It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the famous Sterling family with a history of aristocratic titles and land holdings. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight, first as she is revealed to be the next heiress, and then as the prime suspect. She has no choice but to find and expose the truth hidden within the Sterling family and find out why Arianna chose her to take her place.
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Finding Grace
by Loretta Rothschild
Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter Chloe and her charming, handsome husband Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Yet Honor's longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it, until a shocking event changes their lives forever. Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their families' lives in ways he could never have foreseen. As the consequences of that fateful choice unfold, two women's paths become irrevocably intertwined.
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Too Old for This
by Samantha Downing
Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. When investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie's past, well, Lottie just can't have that. But getting away with murder is hard enough when you're young. And when Lottie receives another annoying knock on the door, she realizes this crime might just be the death of her...
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Of Swamp and Sea
by Mia Jay Boulton
Mercy Gray Harding's troubles all started in the swampland on the outskirts of town where a mist wolf murdered her father. She enlists a monster hunter named Jonah to put the creature down, but the plan quickly falls apart. When the incorporeal beast tries to attack Mercy, it instead possesses her, and is bound to her body and mind. Now Mercy's human and wolfish sides grapple for control, and she is haunted by the memories of both. Jonah promises to free her from the monster, and the two set off for a cure.
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Clean
by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Domestic worker Estela García moved to the big city to work, aiming to make her adored mother's life easier. She ends up with an upper-class couple, keeping the household running, everyone fed and clothed, and every mess cleaned up; she is the silent witness to the adults’ secrets, a marginalized and dehumanized member of the household. Estela’s efforts to find connection and affection are tragically doomed. While the novel is set in contemporary Santiago, Chile, it will resonate in any place where people live with the alienation of late-stage capitalism.
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The Seven Rings
by Nora Roberts
The final book of The Lost Bride trilogy; Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the ocean in a Maine village. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house, a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. To break the curse, a difficult task must be completed. Refusing to let her spirit be broken, Sonya searches each room for clues to her ancestors' hidden story, uncovering the moments of joy that existed among the sorrows.
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The Summer Love Strategy
by Ray Stoeve
Hayley always has a crush. The problem is her crushes never like her back. Her best friend, Talia, wants romance too, but rarely gets crushes, and she's tired of watching Hayley get her heart stomped on. So the two girls make a pact: They'll help each other find summer love by putting themselves in situations that always lead to romance in movies. When they finally manage to score dates, will they be able to get out of their own way and dive into the romances they deserve? Or is summer love not as far off as Hayley thought?
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Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist, Rydra Wong, is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat.
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Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time
by Jennifer Wright
Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known by the nicknames "Mamie" and "The Fun-Maker," threw the most epic parties in American history. If you were a member of New York high society in the Peak Age of Innocence Era, you had to be on Mamie Fish's guest list. Make no mistake, however: Mamie Fish's story is about so much more than partying. Fish and her friends shaped the line of history, exerting their influence on business, politics, family relationships, and social change through elaborate social gatherings in a time when women couldn't even own property.
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Nuclear War
by Annie Jacobsen
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. One of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Jacobsen explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, created the response plans, and been responsible for those decisions should they needed to have been made.
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Family of Spies
by Christine Kuehn
A propulsive story of one family's shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The Kuehns, a once-prominent Berlin family, saw the rise of the Nazis as a way out of the hard times that had befallen them. When the daughter of the family met Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels at a party, they hit it off. But Ruth had a secret-she was half Jewish-and Goebbels found out. Rather than having Ruth killed, Goebbels sent the entire Kuehn family to Hawaii to work as spies half a world away.
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The Butter Cow Lady's Christmas
by Valerie Lyon
Norma Duffield (nee Strong) Lyon became known as 'the Butter Cow Lady' after years of sculpting the Iowa State Fair's Butter Cow. Initially done in the name of dairy promotion, Duffy's sculptures gained a large following. Her appeal broadened over time, expanding to butter sculptures across the States, into Canada and into various media outlets. Quite aside from all of this, Duffy raised a family of nine children and with her husband they became National Jersey Breeders as well as recognized Master Farmers.
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