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Ghosts of the Missing
by Kathleen Donohoe
Moving into a writer’s retreat in her hometown after failing to make it as an artist, Adair bonds with writer-in-residence Ciaran, who would solve the disappearance of his sister, Adair’s childhood best friend.
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Mercy House: a novel
by Alena Dillon
Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they've built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are forbidden by the Catholic Church.
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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
A young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism.
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Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms.
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Postscript
by Cecelia Ahern
A long-awaited sequel to the best-selling PS, I Love You finds Holly reluctantly agreeing to let her sister tell Gerry’s story on her podcast, before terminally ill listeners reach out for help writing their own missives.
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Saint X
by Alexis Schaitkin
When a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with one of the men originally suspected of killing her sister, Claire, hoping to gain his trust and learn the truth, forms an unlikely attachment with this man whose life is forever marked by the same tragedy.
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These Ghosts are Family: a novel
by Maisy Card
A man on his deathbed reveals that he stole another man’s identity decades earlier, traces the family’s history from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem and reconnects with the firstborn daughter he never knew.
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Amnesty: a novel
by Aravind Adiga
A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client.
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The Lucky One
by Lori Rader-Day
A volunteer for a website called The Doe Pages to help reunite families with their missing loved ones, Alice, who was kidnapped as a child, stumbles upon a post by her own kidnapper and races against time to find him before he hurts someone else.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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