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Darling girls
by Sally Hepworth
Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.
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Butter : a novel of food and murder
by Asako Yuzuki
After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins corresponding with a gourmet cook convicted of killing multiple lonely businessmen and notices herself slowly beginning to change after each meal she eats.
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A Volga tale
by Guzel§ ëIìAkhina
Expelled from his village along the Volga for falling in love with the student he was tutoring, Jakob is forced to raise his daughter alone in a secluded deep-woods hamlet and makes up fairy tales to keep her entertained.
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City in ruins : a novel
by Don Winslow
A Las Vegas casino mogul with a spotty past must fight for the life he created and everything he holds dear after old enemies surface, in the third novel of the series following City of Dreams.
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The house of broken bricks : a novel
by Fiona Williams
A Londoner transported from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, Tess, as she and her husband settle in, finds the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins—one who presents as black and the other as white—stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging.
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Undiscovered
by Gabriela Wiener
Blending fact and fiction in this stunning story of love, desire, heritage and racism, an award-winning Peruvian journalist and international writer, while visiting the museum that houses her great-great-grandfather's collection, makes shocking discoveries that lead her on a quest to confront the inheritance of identity itself.
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A short walk through a wide world : a novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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Crooked plow
by Itamar Vieira Junior
Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. Heralded as a masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is at once fantastic and realist, covering themes of family, spirituality, and political struggle.
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Pour One for the Devil : A Gothic Novella
by Jr. Van Alst, Theodore C.
When Dr. Van Vierlans receives an invitation from Mrs. Elizabeth Van der Horst to give a lecture at her island mansion off the coast of South Carolina, he doesn't think twice. There’s a generous honorarium, and he relishes the chance to revisit the Sea Islands, where he once studied the Gullah language. The lavish house he arrives at is strangely out of time. No other historians appear, nor does an audience, as he passes the time chatting in Gullah with the household servants. Just when his suspicions become difficult to ignore, Mrs. Van der Horst plies him with a sumptuous feast that distracts him from her true motives–which may prove more sinister than anything he’s prepared to imagine.
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The gathering : a novel
by C. J. Tudor
When a boy is found with all the blood drained from his body, Detective Barbara Atkins must determine if a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs, is responsible, or if she's dealing with a twisted psychopath as she uncovers secrets darker than she ever could've imagined.
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Table for two : fictions
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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The summer we started over : a novel
by Nancy Thayer
Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father's increased eccentricities; her sister's resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.
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Divided island
by Daniela Tarazona
A narrative and poetic experience in which body, memory and delirium clash to recompose the world and, therefore, the identity of the self. Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for an encephalogram, which will diagnose her cerebral dysrhythmia, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind and follows the trail of her suicidal other half. The focus of this non-linear novel is not the sequence of events, but the writing used to describe those events in brief chapters and fragments. Divided Island is a fractal novel, best read as a poetic experience; the text's importance lies not in the plot but in how its language is crafted into a collection of scenes, moments, memories, dreams, and images the gradually coalesce into the story of a life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and describing the world, guided by dysrhythmia.
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Worry : a novel
by Alexandra Tanner
Two siblings-turned-roommates navigate an absurd world on the verge of calamity.
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The good, the bad, and the aunties
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
While in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her family, newlywed Meddy Chan, when a former beau of Second Aunt crashes the party, is unwittingly drawn into a decades-long war between Jakarta's most powerful business factions along with her Aunties and must come with a plan to save them all.
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Only the brave : a novel
by Danielle Steel
During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy where she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
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Mater 2-10
by Hwang Sok-Yong
In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account of a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that reflects the blood, sweat, and tears shed by modern industrial labourers, and a culmination of Hwang’s career — a masterpiece thirty years in the making.
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There's going to be trouble : a novel
by Jen Silverman
Fleeing to a teaching position in Paris, Minnow falls for Charles, a young Frenchman whose activism has placed him at odds with his powerful family, but when she's pulled in a daring protect, he and his friends are planning, she unknowingly repeats a secret tragedy from her family's past.
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The dead guy next door
by Lucy Score
The prime suspect in the murder of her neighbor, Riley Thorn, possibly clairvoyant, teams up with PI Nick Santiago to figure out who pulled the trigger, while keeping the detectives at bay and dealing with a stranger claiming he has been sent to help her hone her psychic gifts.
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Toxic prey
by John Sandford
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
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Bless your heart
by Lindy Ryan
The Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in their Southeast Texas town, discover generations of calm ending as the dead begin to rise again forcing them to once again fight the Strigoi, the original vampires.
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Sweetness in the skin : a novel
by Ishi Robinson
To free herself from her dysfunctional family in Kingston, Jamaica, and join her beloved aunt in Paris, 13-year-old Pumkin Patterson turns her passion for baking into a way to raise money for her French exam, but when word gets out, she stands to lose everything she's worked so hard for.
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The Paris novel
by Ruth Reichl
Resigning herself to honor her mother's last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who's who of the 1980's Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.
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Lost on me
by Veronica Raimo
Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the center of their attention, our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood home. Peering through tiny windows while cramped in her family coven, Vero periodically attempts to strike out but is no match for her mother’s relentless tracking methods and masterful guilt trips. Vero’s every venture outside their Rome apartment ends in her being unceremoniously returned home. It’s no wonder that she becomes a writer – and a liar – inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity. Spikey and clever, Vero delights in her own devious schemes. As she guides us through her failed attempts at emancipation, her discovery of sex and fixations with unwitting men, and ultimately her contentious relationship with reality, she also brings alive Rome from the 1980’s through the early 2000’s. With restless intelligence and covert tenderness, Lost on Me takes on the uncertain enterprise of becoming a woman.
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Extinction : a novel
by Douglas J. Preston
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.
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The murder inn
by James Patterson
The owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.
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One last word : a novel
by Suzanne Park
The founder of the One Last Word app, which allows you to send messages to whomever you want after you pass, Sara Chae, when she accidentally sends her final words to the important people in her life, including her former crush, with whom she now works, finds her life turned upside down.
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Dayspring
by Anthony Oliveira
A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre—at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia.
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Oracle
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
When she and her friend, Emma, discover the impossible: the wreck of an 18th-century ship stranded in a flower field, and Emma enters the hatch and is never seen again, Luca helps Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, unravel the mystery, coming face-to-face with an open doorway to the apocalypse.
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A kind of madness : stories
by Uche Okonkwo
In ten vivid, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo’s extraordinary debut asks: why are the people and places we hold closest so often the ones that drive us to madness?
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Tourist season
by Brenda Novak
Trapped alone in her fiancé's family‘cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé.
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You know what you did : a novel
by K. T. Nguyen
When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
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Daughter of mine : a novel
by Megan Miranda
Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.
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A botanical daughter
by Noah Medlock
Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut. A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences.
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Indian burial ground
by Nick Medina
When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspecting something sinister is stalking their tribal lands, relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets, horror and what might be the key to determining Roddy's true cause of death.
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Women! In! Peril! : stories
by Jessie Ren Marshall
Balancing humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness, toxic relationships, parenting and divorce, Asian and Asian American identity and more, this ferociously feminist debut short story collection from an award-winning playwright doubles as a sharp social commentary.
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A game of lies
by Clare Mackintosh
Detective Ffion Morgan must untangle alibis and uncover what happened when a reality show in the Welsh mountains turns into a deadly game of truth or dare after one of the participants is murdered.
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Thorn tree
by Max Ludington
A legendary artist, Daniel, now in his late 60s, strikes up a friendship with his neighbor's father, Jack, who stays at his daughter's house to watch his grandson Dean while she's filming, but when Dean takes to visiting Daniel's cottage, he realizes Jack is not the harmless grandparent he pretends to be.
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A step past darkness
by Vera Kurian
Twenty years after a group of misfit kids working on a capstone project in 1995 uncovered sinister secrets within their local mines, one of them turns up dead sending the others racing back to finish what they started.
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She's not sorry
by Mary Kubica
Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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How to end a love story : a novel
by Yulin Kuang
A best-selling author with writer's block heads to L.A. for the film adaptation of her book where she must collaborate with a screenwriter who was involved in the tragic accident that bound them together 13 years prior.
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While we were burning
by Sara Koffi
Hiring a personal assistant named Brianna to distract her from her obsession with her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth doesn't realize Brianna has her own agenda—to find out why the police killed her young Black son—and immerses herself in Elizabeth's life where the answers to her questions lie.
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Relative strangers
by A. H. Kim
Korean-American sisters Eleanor and Amelia Bae-Wood support their newly widowed mother when they are caught up in a court battle with someone claiming to be their late father's first-born child and only son—secret love child from his Korean youth—who's fighting for everything they have.
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The stone home : a novel
by Crystal Hana Kim
Inspired by real events, told through alternating timelines and two intimate perspectives, this hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story, capturing a shameful period of South Korean history, explores the legacy of violence and the psychology of power, while highlighting extraordinary acts of devotion and friendship that can arise in the darkness.
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Just for the summer
by Abby Jimenez
With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
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The alternatives
by Caoilinn Hughes
The four Flattery sisters—all single, all with PhDs—lead disparate, distanced lives until their oldest sister, a geologist, disappears, and together for the first time in years, they search the Irish countryside for a sister who doesn't want to be found, while confronting old wounds and a desperately uncertain future.
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Old flames and new fortunes : a novel
by Sarah Hogle
Using the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives, flora fortunist Romina Tempest, when her shop's potential financier shares news of his wedding, must fake-date her colleague to score an invite, which leads to an unexpected—and unwanted—reunion with the man who broke her heart.
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The prospects : a novel
by KT Hoffman
The first openly trans player in professional baseball, Gene, when his current rival, Luis, comes back to the team, finds the tension between them turning into the visceral, terrifying desire he's never allowed himself and must reconcile the minor-league-sized life he once found fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis makes feel possible.
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A good happy girl : a novel
by Marissa Higgins
In this debut novel, a young professional woman with a self-destructive streak pursues an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple who intrigue her with their ever-increasing sexual and emotional intensity.
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Funny story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
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Myrrh
by Polly Hall
Myrrh, who has a goblin inside her, a voice that tells her all the things she's done wrong, desperately searches for her birthparents on the South coast of England, while Cayenne, when her husband pushes her further out of his life, makes a decision that sends her into a terrible spiral.
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The evolution of Annabel Craig : a novel
by Lisa Grunwald
When John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution at the local high school in 1925, Annabel Hayes, with her marriage already strained, questions both her beliefs and her vows to her attorney husband when he joins the team defending Scopes.
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The reaper follows
by Heather Graham
Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate a series of murders linked to conspiracy theorists and doomsday cults.
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Grey dog
by Elliott Gish
In 1901, Ada Byrd accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge where she sees a future in the small farming community, but when she witnesses strange and grisly phenomena, which both beckon and repel her, her grip on reality loosens and she wonders if the real horror is her.
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The details : a novel
by Ia Genberg
Bedridden with a high fever, a woman revisits a novel from her past, one that evokes scenes of events and people she cannot forget, in this powerful novel book built around four portraits that raises profound questions about the nature of relationships and how we tell our stories.
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Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
An unforgettably compelling masterpiece that tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after.
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I cheerfully refuse : a novel
by Leif Enger
In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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First lie wins : a novel
by Ashley Elston
A woman with many faces and identities, Evie Porter, covertly moves from job to job for her unknown employer until her latest mark, Ryan Summer gets under her skin and makes her envision a different sort of life.
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Late bloomer : a novel
by Mazey Eddings
After winning the lottery, Opal buys a failing flower farm in North Carolina to start her painting business, but when Pepper Smith claims she's the rightful owner of the farm and refuses to move out, they strike up a cohabitation agreement that, despite their constant bickering, turns into something more.
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The kiss countdown
by Etta Easton
When an infuriating encounter leads to fake relationship, struggling risk-averse event planner Amerie Price poses as astronaut Vincent Rogers' girlfriend for the three months leading up to his mission but doesn't plan on his gravitational pull and must decide if she'll settle for the safe life—or shoot for the stars.
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Clear : a novel
by Carys Davies
An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
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Weird black girls : stories
by Elwin Cotman
This irresistibly unnerving collection of seven character-driven stories, written to challenge, incite and entertain, reveals truths about the human experience—friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror and fantasy.
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One of us knows : a thriller
by Alyssa Cole
A resident caretaker of a historic home, Kenetria, diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, finds their newfound life disrupted by a group of strangers, including the man who destroyed her life, and when he turns up dead, they must prove their innocence or risking losing their future—and their life.
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Here we go again : a novel
by Alison Cochrun
Two former best friends, Logan and Rosemary, who went ten years without talking to each other, reunite when their beloved former English teacher and mentor tells them of his dying wish for a cross-country road trip.
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The house on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
After the tragic death of her parents, Carmen Acosta arrives at Maribrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister and her husband on Biscayne Bay, and soon discovers beneath its glittering façade lies a treacherous legacy and must unravel Maribrisa's secrets to stop history from repeating itself.
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The museum of lost quilts
by Jennifer Chiaverini
While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, instead researches the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society, discovering its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.
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Village weavers : a novel
by Myriam J. A. Chancy
In 1940s Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi, two girls with an unbreakable bond, are torn apart by a deathbed revelation, and over the decades, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship, until they are brought together one last time to reckon with and—perhaps—forgive the past.
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers : a novel
by Samuel Burr
Raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists, 20-something Clayton Summer, when the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away, bestowing her final puzzle on him, embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.
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Bad animals : a novel
by Sarah Braunstein
A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name.
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Simpatía
by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Simpatía is a suspenseful novel with unexpected twists and turns about the agony of Venezuela and the collapse of Chavismo.
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Hangman
by Maya Binyam
After living in the United States for over 20 years, a man returns to his home in sub-Saharan Africa and doesn't recognize anything or anyone and begins a quest to find his brother, who is dying.
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Truly, madly, deeply : a novel
by Alexandria Bellefleur
Signing on to record a podcast sharing relationship advice, best-selling romance novelist Truly Livingston finds herself bickering with a cynical divorce lawyer and walks out, but when he tracks her down, asking for a fresh start, they go from enemies to something else entirely.
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A calamity of souls
by David Baldacci
In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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The cemetery of untold stories : a novel
by Julia Alvarez
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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The twilight garden : a novel
by Sara Nisha Adams
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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The rule book : a novel
by Sarah Adams
Representing famous NFL tight end Derek Pender, her college ex-boyfriend, agent Nora MacKenzie, when he tries to make her life miserable, sets in motion a scheme of her own, but when a wild night in Vegas leads to marriage, their rule book goes out the window.
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Begin again : a novel
by Helly Acton
A woman who dies in a freak kebob accident on a first date is given the chance to revisit key moments of her life to see if different choices lead to the fulfillment she was missing.
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