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Lost Ark Dreaming
by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
After the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the survivors live inside partially submerged, kilometers-high towers where the rich rule from the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level until the dead, reawakened by ancient power, seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself
by Onyi Nwabineli
After growing up with her life being chronicled and monetized by her entrepreneurial step-mother, Anuri escapes as a young adult but vows to fight the cycle of abuse and save her younger sister from a similar fate.
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A Study in Drowning
by Ava Reid
Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces - both mortal and magical - that threatens to consume them both.
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Farewell, Amethystine: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
by Walter Mosley
Los Angeles detective Easy Rawlins investigates when the ex-husband of his ex-lover, Amethystine Stoller, turns up dead and his only friend at the LAPD goes into hiding, in the 16th novel of the series following Blood Grove.
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One Last Summer
by Kate Spencer
Arriving at Pine Lake Camp for a much-needed escape, Clara runs into Mack, her old camp nemesis and constant competitor, and when one wildly passionate night turns into many more, she must decide if the life she's always wanted is the life that makes her feel truly alive.
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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
by Sara B. Franklin
Based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers and years of research, this tribute to a legendary editor reveals the audacious woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century - including Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Anne Frank and Julia Child - changing culture mores and expectations along the way.
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Brownstone
by Samuel Teer
Left alone with her Guatemalan father for the summer while her mom goes on a once-in-a-lifetime trip without her, Almudena struggles to adjust to this new reality by getting to know the residents of his Latin American neighborhood while helping his dad fix his broken-down brownstone - and their relationship.
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Crook Manifesto: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan.
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Night Will Find You
by Julia Heaberlin
An astrophysicist and reluctant psychic Vivvy Bouchet, agreeing to help the police with a high-profile cold case of a kidnapped girl, becomes the target of a conspiracy theorist podcast and fights back with bother her scientific mind and her inexplicable gifts to find a child who haunts her.
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Open Throat
by Henry Hoke
Narrated by a queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion living under the Hollywood sign, this fever dream of a novel follows the lion's experiences in Los Angeles where they are forced to face down the ultimate question - do they want to eat a person, or become one?
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This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter
While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge's manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying - lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves.
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Hum
by Helen Phillips
After losing her job to artificial intelligence, May, in a city populated by intelligent robots called “hums,” takes her family on a three-night respite to the Botanical Garden, a rare green refuge, where her children come under threat and she is forced to trust a hum to save them.
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