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| The Regrets by Amy BonnaffonsStarring: recently deceased Thomas, who must remain on Earth for 90 days due to a bureaucratic error; Rachel, still alive but perpetually unlucky in love.
What happens: Despite being forbidden from interacting with the living, Thomas falls in love with Rachel, and the feeling is mutual.
Why you might like it: The surreal set-up creates a humorous, one-of-a-kind romantic comedy. |
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| Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel BumpWhat it's about: the coming of age of young Claude McKay Love, raised by his civil rights activist grandmother and her gay best friend on Chicago's South Side.
Why you might like it: Told in short vignettes and very much focused on themes of racial injustice, this debut offers sharp humor, clever dialogue, and a relatable protagonist in awkward, uncomfortable Claude.
Reviewers say: Debut author Gabriel Bump "delivers a singular sense of growing up black that will resonate with readers" (Library Journal). |
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| When We Were Vikings by Andrew MacDonaldFeaturing: Zelda, a 21-year-old whose fetal alcohol syndrome limits her in some ways but whose interest in Vikings leads her to strive for independence and help her caretaker brother.
For fans of: Benjamin Ludwig's Ginny Moon, Monica Woods' The One-in-a-Million Boy, or Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
Reviewers say: "An engaging, inclusive debut" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| The Authenticity Project by Clare PooleyWhat it's about: the connections made between strangers in a London neighborhood as they make deeply personal entries in a little green notebook.
For fans of: warmhearted tales of strangers coming together over shared experiences and honest conversations, like Anne Youngson's Meet Me at the Museum or Erica Bauermeister's The School of Essential Ingredients. |
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Liars' Legacy
by Taylor Stevens
A brother and sister pair of trained assassins and spies suspect a Russian trap when they travel to Berlin to meet their father for the first time, in the second novel in the series following Liars’ Paradox.
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The Coldest Warrior
by Paul Vidich
When the release of the Rockefeller Commission report implicates the CIA in the death of a bioweapons scientist decades earlier, agent Jack Gabriel confronts a life-threatening cover-up at the highest levels of government. By the author of The Good Assassin.
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The Wife and the Widow
by Christian White
On an eerie island town in the middle of winter, two women join forces to uncover the secret life of one’s dead husband and the guilt of the other’s in the new novel from the author of The Nowhere Child.
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Salt River
by Randy Wayne White
When his reckless bachelor friend reveals that he has fathered numerous children through sperm-bank donations, Doc Ford races to prevent his friend’s past misdeeds from turning deadly during an impromptu family reunion. By the best-selling author of Mangrove Lightning.
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