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Afternoon of a Faun
by James Lasdun
When his expat journalist friend is accused of sexual assault in a former girlfriend's memoir, a man finds himself caught between loyalty and an urgent desire to uncover the truth.
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The Ash Family
by Molly Dektar
Drawn by a mysterious stranger to a remote farming community that lives off the fertile mountain lands, a North Carolina teen is seduced by their high ideals before new friends begin to disappear.
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The Book of Dreams
by Nina George
Rendered comatose after an act of heroism, a man revisits memories of his British youth, while his ex forges an unexpected, profound friendship with the teenage son he has never known.
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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
by Micah Dean Hicks
In Swine Hill, where each person is haunted by a ghost, Jane and her family must escape after strange, inhuman beings appear in town, enraging the spirits who then convince their humans to do awful things.
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Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R Dow
When an Austin billionaire is murdered, her husband, Rafael Zhettah, the son of poor Mexican immigrants, is sent to death row, only to have DNA evidence vindicate him six years later, spurring him to take revenge on the people that ruined his life.
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The Curiosities
by Susan Gloss
A follow-up to Vintage follows the story of an art historian and nonprofit director who struggles with infertility while navigating the dramas of the artists in residence at her eccentric employer's mansion art colony.
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
by David Downing
Stumbling across the hidden diary of a boarder who had been a father figure to him half a century earlier, Walter discovers the man's life-risking undercover work as an anti-Nazi Moscow spy.
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Don't Wake Up
by Liz Lawler
Dr. Alex Taylor awakens after an assault with no physical proof of the attack and must try to convince everyone of what really happened.
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The Dragonfly Sea
by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
A young woman growing up in an isolated island off the coast of Kenya discovers friends, enemies, and her true self on a dramatic journey to the Far East.
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The Editor
by Steven Rowley
A struggling writer in 1990s New York City gets his big break from none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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The Girl He Used to Know
by Tracey Garvis Graves
A tumultuous but tender love affair between a socially awkward chess club member and a courageous, quirky girl is shattered by an unforeseen tragedy that forces them to confront respective anxieties when they reunite a decade later.
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The Gown
by Jennifer Robson
Yearning to know more about her grandmother's past, Heather travels to London to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother, that closely resembles the motifs on Queen Elizabeth II's wedding gown.
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Henry, Himself
by Stewart O'Nan
A 75-year-old retired engineer looks out on 1998 and sees a world he suspects has passed him by, and weighs his life's dreams against his regrets, in this prequel to Emily, Alone
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A Hustler's Queen
by Saundra
When her college dreams are shattered by her father's murder and a shocking family secret, Precious Cummings sheds her good-girl image and falls for a powerful L.A. drug dealer before stepping up to take over his empire.
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The Last Woman in the Forest
by Diane Les Becquets
An endangered wildlife protector on assignment in northern Alberta falls in love with her brilliant mentor before a tragic accident and disturbing inconsistencies trigger her suspicions about his possible role in four murders.
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The Magnetic Girl
by Jessica Handler
A girl in post-Civil War rural Georgia discovers that by harnessing the power of electricity she can control the thoughts and actions of others and sets out on a quest to use this power to heal her disabled baby brother.
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Mala Vida
by Marc Fernandez
A crime-solving radio reporter teams up with a former-prostitute cross dresser now working as a private eye to look into missing children who were snatched and trafficked under the Franco regime in Latin America.
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Phantoms
by Christian Kiefer
Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier's fiction.
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The Reign of the Kingfisher
by T. J. Martinson
A retired reporter, a disgraced policewoman, and a young hacktivist team up to uncover the truth when a gunman threatens to kill hostages in an unknown Chicago location unless the police admit to faking the death of the legendary Kingfisher.
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Scribe
by Alyson Carol Hagy
A tale inspired by Appalachian folk culture follows the timely story of a generous farmsteader who supports herself with her letter-writing skills to survive in a barter-and-trade migrant world torn by civil war and pandemic illness.
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The Seamstress
by Allison Pittman
1788: In a tiny French village, during the waning days of peace, cousins Renee and Laurette live a peaceful, relatively contented life as the shepherdesses under the guardianship of the respectable Emile Gagnon. When Renee is given the chance to work asa seamstress at the Palace at Versailles, their lives take two very different paths straight into the heart of the Revolution.
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The Secret of Clouds
by Alyson Richman
An English teacher with haunting childhood memories gains perspective and inspiration while tutoring a young Ukrainian immigrant whose serious health issues prevent him from taking any day for granted.
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Send Down the Rain
by Charles Martin
After her husband dies in a tragic truck accident, Allie is comforted by her childhood sweetheart, Joseph, who is still dealing with the scars he suffered in Vietnam.
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The Tinderbox
by Beverly Lewis
When Sylvia Miller finds the key to an old tinderbox of her father's, her curiosity is piqued. Shocked by the secrets it holds, Sylvia confronts her father. The truth about the tinderbox will forever change not only her own life, but also that of her family and her Amish community.
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Trouble No Man
by Brian Hart
In a near-future America where limited resources are controlled by violent separatist militias, a man undertakes a perilous bicycle journey to Alaska to return his wife's ashes to their only surviving family members.
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Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives.
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Trying
by Emily Phillips
Written by Grazia magazine's Features Director, this is a novel about a woman who is trying, and so far failing, to conceive.
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
After learning the men in the community have been drugging and attacking more than a hundred women, eight Mennonite women meet in secret to decide whether they should escape to a place outside the colony or stay in the only world they've ever known
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