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Fiction Finds February 2021
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The once and future witches
by Alix E. Harrow
In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
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Hidden in plain sight
by Jeffrey Archer
A sequel to Nothing Ventured finds a newly promoted Detective Sergeant William Warwick reassigned to a vice squad, where his efforts to apprehend a notorious South London drug dealer pits him against enemies old and new.
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Before she knew him : a novel
by Peter Swanson
Finding some peace in her new life in a house outside of Boston, Hen's calm begins to dissipate after she meets a new neighbor and spots an object in his home that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder case that has been an obsession for Hen.
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The circus : a novel
by Jonas Karlsson
An obsessive baker finds his quiet life upended when he goes to the circus with a childhood friend who disappears after volunteering to participate in a magician’s act. By the author of The Invoice.
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Buzz kill
by David Sosnowski
Pandora Lynch lives in Alaska with her single dad, an online therapist for Silicon Valley's brightest and squirreliest. Homeschooled by computer and a self-taught hacker, Pandora is about to enter high school to learn how to be normal. That's the plan at least. NorCal runaway George Jedson is a hacker too--one who leaves the systems he attacks working better than before. After being scooped up by a social media giant, will George go legit--or pull off the biggest hack ever? Not even his therapist knows for sure, but maybe the headshrinker's daughter... After meeting in cyberspace, the two young hackers combine their passions to conceive a brainchild named BUZZ. Can this baby AI learn to behave, or will it be like its parents and think outside the box?
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Aphasia
by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Worrying that his fugitive sister’s increasing instability will upend a precarious custody agreement, a Colombian immigrant consults American literature while reflecting on his mother’s complicated heritage and his ex-wife’s idyllic past in the Czech Republic.
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Ask again, yes : a novel
by Mary Beth Keane
When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation. By the author of Fever.
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We are all the same in the dark : a novel
by Julia Heaberlin
The discovery of an unknown girl found by the side of the road a decade after an unsolved disappearance compels a young police officer's investigation into dangerous local and personal secrets. By the best-selling author of Black-Eyed Susans.
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Apartment : a novel
by Teddy Wayne
A man who offers a rent-free bedroom in his illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized NYC apartment and the working-class Midwestern Columbia student who takes it develop a friendship that eventually clashes over politics, socioeconomic identity and privilege in 1996.
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It is wood, it is stone : a novel
by Gabriella Burnham
Accompanying her husband on a year professorship in Sô Paulo, an anxious American woman exasperates her socially conscious maid before the women are unexpectedly bonded by an encounter with a beguiling artist. A first novel.
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How much of these hills is gold
by C Pam Zhang
Two orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals. A first novel.
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Leave the world behind : a novel
by Rumaan Alam
Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe. 100,000 first printing.
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Tokyo Ueno Station
by Miri Yū
Haunting the park near Tokyo’s Uneo Station, the ghost of a man whose life eerily paralleled the Emperor’s reflects on the milestones that impacted his existence, from his homelessness and the 2011 tsunami to the 1964 and 2020 Olympics.
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Fifty words for rain : a novel
by Asha Lemmie
Abandoned by a mother who instructs her never to fight or ask questions, an illegitimate child of mixed heritage in 1948 Kyoto forges a powerful bond with her older half-brother against the wishes of their formidable grandparents. A first novel.
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The Black cathedral
by Marcial Gala
After the Stuart family moves to Cienfuegos, Cuba, Arturo Stuart—a charismatic, visionary preacher—discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen in Cuba, and to make of Cienfuegos a new Jerusalem
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