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Popular FictionJuly - August 2025 |
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The Winds from Further West by Alexander McCall Smith"A dazzling and uplifting novel of new beginnings and endless possibilities, in which a slew of personal and professional disasters cause a young researcher to upend his seemingly stable life in Edinburgh and move to a remote island off the Scottish coast"
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Typewriter Beach : a novel by Meg Waite Clayton1950s Hollywood-in the days of scaremongering about an America "riddled with communists and homosexuals"-Typewriter Beach is the unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star.
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Something to Look Forward To : Fictions by Fannie FlaggFannie Flagg once said that what the world needs now is a good laugh. And that is what she gives us in these thirty warmhearted, often hilarious, always surprising stories about Americans finding clever ways of dealing with the curveballs life throws at us.
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Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure by Rhys BowenEllie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora impulsively head for the South of France.
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Under the Stars : a novel by Beatriz WilliamsWhen a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on a luxury steamship two centuries earlier.
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Vera, or Faith : a novel by Gary ShteyngartThe Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds.
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That Last Carolina Summerby Karen WhiteAs a child, Phoebe developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe moves as far from her family as possible.
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These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean"From New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms is a razor-sharp, wildly sexy novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning . . . and the one week that threatens to tear them apart"
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Spectacular Thingsby Beck Dorey-SteinThe Lowe girls are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: The responsible and academically minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young, while Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom.
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The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley GelfusoA WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the "time space," a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until an affair with an American CIA agent as a young woman changes the course of her life.
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The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie WisemanIn rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin.
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Beautiful Nights : a novel by Nina George"A respected professor begins a secret affair with her son's girlfriend one summer on the Brittany coast in this intense, poetic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop"--
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Daikon : a novel by Samuel Jay HawleyWorld War II, three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific-not two-and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this strange new device.
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The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn SkyeFor fans of Matt Haig and Clare Pooley, an enchanting novel about a pair of long-lost childhood friends who find themselves magically linked through origami flowers as adults—from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Hundred Loves of Juliet.
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A Dog in Georgia by Lauren GrodsteinIn this beautiful story of connection and self-reflection, a missing dog in Georgia sets Amy Webb on an adventure away from her tumultuous marriage and lack-luster personal life and towards a journey of self-discovery and joy.
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A New New Me by Helen OyeyemiKinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There’s a Kinga for every day: On Mondays, you can catch Kinga-A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga-E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath.
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Fonseca by Jessica Francis KaneThe story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting
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Culpability by Bruce W. HolsingerWhen the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, Charlie is in the driver's seat with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of AI, is absorbed in her work.
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Dominion : a novel by Addie E. Citchens"A novel with a big cast, Dominion explores the lies and complicity of a Baptist church and the family that leads it-a philandering minister, a pill-popping first lady, and a favorite son whose fall will expose them all"
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Bring the House Down : a novel by Charlotte RuncieAlex Lyons always has his mind made up by the time the curtain comes down at a performance--the show either deserves a five-star rave or a one-star pan. Anything in between is meaningless.
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The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon KurtzmanAn historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author's own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of war In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
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I Know How This Ends by Holly Smale If you knew how your life would turn out, what would you change now? The second brilliantly uplifting and page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse.
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L.a. Women by Ella BermanAfter a steady descent from literary stardom, Lane Warren is back. She’s secured a new book deal based off the life of her sometime friend and, more often, rival Gala Margolis. Lane’s only problem is that notorious free spirit Gala has been missing for months.
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Powerless by Harry TurtledoveWhen does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small shop in Los Angeles, the breaking point comes when he is asked to display a meaningless propaganda poster in his shop window.
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The Peculiar Gift of July : a novel by Ashley ReamWhen fourteen-year-old July arrives in the isolated island town of Ebey's End, her uncanny ability to sense what people need begins quietly transforming the community, forcing its residents--and herself--to confront unexpected truths about their lives
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The Elements by John BoyneFrom bestselling author John Boyne, a gripping and profound exploration of guilt, blame, trauma, and the human capacity for redemption.
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