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Booth
by Karen Joy Fowler
Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out.
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Checkout 19
by Claire-Louise Bennett
In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination.
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Chevy in the Hole
by Kelsey Ronan
Describes the love story of an interracial couple, recovering addict August “Gus” Molloy and urban farmer Monae Livingston, as told through two generations of their families living in and around Detroit.
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Chorus
by Rebecca Kauffman
Each of the seven Shaw siblings describe their own versions of the two events that altered their lives, first the untimely death of their mother and second a shocking teen pregnancy in a story of familial loss, recovery and hope.
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Count the Nights by Stars
by Michelle Shocklee
A riveting mystery/romance set at the famed Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville that shifts between timelines: in 1961, Audrey, daughter of the hotel manager, investigates the disappearance of a young immigrant woman; in 1897, an elderly resident of the hotel falls in love and stumbles upon a terrible secret on the eve of the Exposition.
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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
Known as Lady Death—a lethal hunter of Nazis—Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
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The Dickens Boy
by Thomas Keneally
The son of England’s most famous author, Edward Dickens, is sent to Australia to make something of himself—or at least fall out of the public eye—where he works hard to prove to his parents and himself that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness.
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Disorientation
by Elaine Hsieh Chou
While finishing her PhD dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou, graduate student Ingrid Yang discovers a curious note in the archives and upends her entire life trying to unravel the note’s message, ultimately making an explosive discovery.
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The Fell
by Sarah Moss
In the middle of a two-week mandatory quarantine period, Kate secretly slips out of her house for a walk on the moors, but what was supposed to be a quick outing turns into a fight for survival when she falls, injured and unable to move.
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Fencing with the King
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Amani discovers a poem on an airmail paper that slipped out of one of her father’s books, and is determined to learn more about its author, her grandmother, who arrived in Jordan during World War I.
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French Braid
by Anne Tyler
Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations.
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The Great Passion
by James Runcie
Told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew’s Passion, this meditation on grief and music follows 13-year-old Stefan Silbermann who is taken under the tutelage of Bach and drawn into Bach’s family life, escaping the cruelty of his classmates.
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Groundskeeping
by Lee Cole
An aspiring writer, Owen, moves in with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather in Kentucky where he takes a job as a groundskeeper where he falls for Alma, a liberal, Bosnian immigrant in the days leading up to the 2016 election.
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Hammer
by Joe Mungo Reed
A junior specialist at a prestigious auction house runs into a former classmate who is married to a Russian oligarch and becomes very interested in his priceless art collection and how it could transform his career.
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Home or Away
by Kathleen West
Two friends, one Olympic dream, and the choice that stood in the way. This nuanced, heartfelt novel exploring abuses of power in sports is ultimately a story about overcoming our pasts and confronting our futures.
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Mecca
by Susan Straight
When a past action 20 years ago sparks a slow-burning chain of events in the present, California Highway Patrol officer Johnny Frias is united with a colorful and complicated cast of characters he never saw coming.
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The Mozart Code
by Rachel McMillan
Infiltrating the world of relics to uncover vital information that could change the course of the mounting Cold War, Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is tasked with finding Mozart’s death mask and wonders if there is more than the composer’s legacy at stake as she hunts for the truth.
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Ocean State
by Stewart O'Nan
This compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Rhode Island and the terrible things love makes us do is told through the alternating perspectives of four women at the heart of the murder of a high school student.
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On a Night of a Thousand Stars
by Andrea Yaryura Clark
After hearing a woman’s cryptic comments to her wealthy diplomat father at their annual summer soiree, Paloma becomes curious about his past, setting in motion a chain of events that cause her to question her family and identity, but also puts her life in danger.
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One Italian Summer
by Rebecca Serle
Still reeling from her mother’s death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone, where she encounters her mother in the flesh at 30 years old and must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue.
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Peach Blossom Spring
by Melissa Fu
Settling in America years after his turbulent childhood in China, Renshu, now Henry Dao, refuses to talk to his daughter about her heritage, determined to keep her safe in this new land despite being weighed down by his history.
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Portrait of an Unknown Lady
by Maria Gainza
An art critic and auction house employee takes on the role of art world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation as she searches for a master forger in the Buenos Aires art world who has achieved legendary status.
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Promise Broken
by K’wan
Two teenage girls struggle to survive their senior year in the Brick City of Newark, where gangsters battle for power, turf, and revenge as matter-of-factly as if every round were just another day at the office.
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Run and Hide
by Pankaj Mishra
A graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Arun decides to pursue the writerly life instead of becoming financial wizards like his classmates until he is implicated in a terrible act of violence, forcing him to reckon with the person he has become.
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Scarlet in Blue
by Jennifer Murphy
A psychological novel about a mother and daughter who, after a lifetime on the run from a dark and dangerous past, land in a small Michigan town that may hold the key to ending their fugitive lifestyle.
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Scattered All Over the Earth
by Yōko Tawada
Set in a not-too-distant futuristic, dystopian world reshaped by climate change, this genre-bending novel celebrates cross-cultural friendships and the power of language.
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
by Sindya Bhanoo
This intimate collection of stories from an O. Henry Prize winner shows us how immigrants’ paths and the paths of those they leave behind are never simple and takes us on their complicated journeys where regret, hope and triumph appear in disguise.
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Smile and Look Pretty
by Amanda Pellegrino
When four assistants to the most powerful men in the media and entertainment industries start an anonymous blog detailing their experiences, they find newfound fame and must keep their identities from being revealed while contending with what happens when you try and change the world.
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The Unsinkable Greta James
by Jennifer E. Smith
After the death of her beloved mother, failed indie singer-songwriter Greta James joins her father on a week-long Alaskan cruise, which becomes a journey of discovery for them both as they work to heal old wounds, giving her confidence she needs to move forward.
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Vagabonds!
by Eloghosa Osunde
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives.
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
by Irene Sola
Struck and killed by lightening in a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec is surrounded by the ghosts of 17th-century witches, and so begins this spellbinding novel about the human dramas that unfold against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
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When We Were Birds
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
In Trinidad, Yejide, who has the power to guide the city’s souls into the afterlife, and Darwin, a grave digger going against his mother’s wishes never to interact with the dead, meet at an ancient cemetery where fate beckons them both.
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Woman on Fire
by Lisa Barr
Tasked with locating a painting called Women on Fire stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier, rising young journalist Jules Roth teams up with the artist’s grandson to find it before a cunning gallerist, who gets everything she wants, does.
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The Wonders
by Elena Medel
Through the vivid interior worlds of two unforgettable characters, the author brings a half century of the feminist movement to life, revealing how little has really changed for women who work the night shift.
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The World Cannot Give
by Tara Isabella Burton
Arriving at St. Dunstan’s Academy in Maine, shy, sensitive Laura Stearns falls under the spell of charismatic, neurotic overachiever Virginia, who gives her purpose until the new school chaplain challenges Virginia, forcing Laura to decide how far she will let her devotion to Virginia go.
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Blackout
by Simon Scarrow
During Berlin’s brutally cold winter of 1939, a serial killer stalks the city throughout the Third Reich’s forced nightly blackouts.
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The Book of Cold Cases
by Simone St. James
When Shea Collins, who runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases, gets a chance to interview Beth Greer, an infamous woman acquitted of two cold case slayings, she senses something isn’t right and wonders if she is in the presence of a manipulative murderer.
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The Bucharest Dossier
by William Maz
Set in the late 1980s, during the Romanian Revolution, this debut spy thriller features a CIA analyst, Bill Hefflin, who’s relatively new to the job but who has something his more senior colleagues envy: an exclusive relationship with a Russian operative, code-named Boris.
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The Cartographers
by Peng Shepherd
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable—and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way.
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A Change of Circumstance
by Susan Hill
Chief police inspector Simon Serrailler investigates the death of a drug addict in a neighboring town and gets pulled into the underbelly of a sprawling drug running operation in the latest addition to the series.
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Deadly Director's Cut
by Vicki Delany
Catskills resort manager Elizabeth Grady investigates after a famously antagonistic director chooses their hotel as a shooting location and winds up poisoned at dinner.
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The Echoes
by Jess Montgomery
In 1928, when the cases of a girl who drowned and the kidnapping of her niece intertwine, Sheriff Lily Ross is faced with another murder and an abandoned baby—all linked to an amusement park creator involved in an ongoing dispute.
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The Enlightenment Project
by Lynn Hightower
In this supernatural medical thriller, renowned neurosurgeon Noah Archer works at the cutting of edge of medical science and religion, determined to help others and find answers for a childhood trauma.
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Front Page Murder
by Joyce St. Anthony
While trying to run her father’s newspaper, Irene Ingram investigates the death of one of her crime reporters who was chasing down a story about a Jewish shop owner who received a threatening message from a stranger.
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Girl in Ice
by Erica Ferencik
A linguist is called to a remote island off Greenland after her deceased twin brother’s fellow researcher discovers a young girl frozen in ice who, when unthawed, is alive and speaks a language no one understands.
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The Heights
by Louise Candlish
At the Heights, an apartment building among warehouses in London, the narrator sees the man she killed two years ago alive and well, in a thriller that will keep you guessing until the final page.
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Her Last Affair
by John Searles
In this tense and atmospheric thriller of love found and lost again, three individuals find their lives intertwined as they reconnect with their past, to deadly effect.
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Hideout
by Louisa Luna
Alice Vega and Max Caplan re-open the cold case of a cult-hero football player who disappeared from a game in 1984 after they uncover a possible connection to white supremacists.
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The Houseboat
by Dane Bahr
Set in small town Iowa in the 1960s, this impressive debut features a hypnotic blend of noir and goth, with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion.
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Like a Sister
by Kellye Garrett
When death of her half-sister Desiree, a disgraced reality TV star, is ruled an overdose, Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case and becomes determined to find justice for Desiree, even if means unraveling her family’s darkest secrets—or ending up dead herself.
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The Love of My Life
by Rosie Walsh
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them, but almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie.
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Murder in the Park
by Jeanne M. Dams
In 1925, widow Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life with her parents in genteel Oak Park village, Illinois, until she investigates the murder of her friend, an antiques store owner, drawing unwanted attention in this town that is no longer the safe haven it once was.
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Nine Lives
by Peter Swanson
When nine people, including FBI agent Jessica Winslow, receive a cryptic list with their names on it, they dismiss it as a joke, until bad things start happening, prompting Jessica to find the link that binds them all together to expose a murderous madman.
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Quantum Girl Theory
by Erin Kate Ryan
In 1961, when a missing poster leads Mary, a clairvoyant hustling for reward money by searching for missing girls, to a small Southern town, she is met with hostility by the local sheriff and soon discovers she can trust no one but herself.
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The Quiet People
by Paul Cleave
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch have jokingly boasted that they’d be able to outsmart the police, based on their cleverness in plotting bestselling crime fiction. So when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to show they can commit the perfect crime.
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The Recovery Agent
by Janet Evanovich
Lost something? Meet recovery agent Gabriela Rose in the launch of a new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor.
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The Resting Place
by Camilla Sten
Inheriting a house tucked away in the Swedish woods—a place of secrets—from her cruel grandmother, Eleanor, seeking the truth about her grandmother’s murder and the killer, soon regrets disturbing what rests in this place with a dark past.
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Sea Storm
by Andrew Mayne
A distress call draws rescuers Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit to a cruise ship off the coast of Fort Lauderdale that’s sinking from a mysterious explosion - kicking off a case so complex and deadly, it may be impossible to prove.
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Secret Identity
by Alex Segura
In 1975, when the comic book industry is struggling, Carmen Valdes, an assistant at Triumph Comics, finds things taking a strange turn when she helps create a new female character—a project that leads to murder and plunges her into a dangerous world of secrets and resentments.
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The Secrets We Share
by Edwin Hill
A suspense novel involves two sisters, one long-ago murder and a web of terrifying secrets.
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Under Lock & Skeleton key
by Gigi Pandian
Tempest Raj, while visiting her dad’s latest renovation project, discovers the body of her former stage double and wonders if she was the original target, and as she dives into this impossible mystery, she wonders if the Raj family curse has finally come for her.
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What Happened to the Bennetts
by Lisa Scottoline
Forced into the witness protection program after being caught in the crosshairs of a drug-trafficking organization, Jason Bennett and his family, trapped in an unfamiliar life, start falling apart at the seams until Jason takes matters into his own hands after a shocking truth is revealed.
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Beauty and the Baller
by Ilsa Madden-Mills
An NFL quarterback turned small-town coach gets sacked by a Texas beauty queen in this swoony, passionate romance.
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How to Be a Wallflower
by Eloisa James
When she buys a costume emporium, which an American financier wants to get his hands on, heiress Miss Cleopatra Lewis goes up against Jake Astor Addison and makes a deal that will let London society choose who should own the Emporium.
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Hook, Line, and Sinker
by Tessa Bailey
Bailey's steamy, friends-to-lovers romance is fast paced with plenty of humor laced throughout. The likable characters have a lot to overcome, but readers will be rooting for them.
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Kamila Knows Best
by Farah Heron
Too busy with her friends’ love lives, hardly giving thought to her own, Kamila Hussain refuses to let herself get distracted by her growing feelings for a longtime friend of the family until her secret nemesis sets her sights on him.
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Sadie on a Plate
by Amanda Elliot
A chef's journey to success leads to discovering the perfect recipe for love in this delicious romantic comedy.
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The Damage Done
by Michael Landweber
What would the world be like if everyone suddenly lost the capacity to hurt each other? Landweber pulls off a true rarity, a utopian fantasy that actually feels good.
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Drowning Practice
by Mike Meginnis
The story of a mother and daughter trying to save each other’s lives at what could be the end of the world.
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The Impossible Us
by Sarah Lotz
In this funny and poignant novel, two strangers who connect over a mis-sent email learn that their soul mate might be both as close as breath and as distant as a star when their efforts to meet in real life reveal that they're actually living in near-identical but parallel worlds.
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The Justice of Kings
by Richard Swan
Sir Konrad Vonvalt, the most feared if the Emperor’s Justice, and his protege, Helena Sedanka, investigate the murder of a provincial aristocrat and unearth a conspiracy that stretches to the very top of Imperial society.
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Maxine Justice: Galactic Attorney
by Daniel Schwabauer
This electrifying speculative legal thriller set in a corporatized near-future dystopia, hooks readers from the start with immersive worldbuilding, a feisty, determined heroine, and consistently rising stakes.
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Sweep of Stars
by Maurice Broaddus
When the old powers seek to destroy the Muungano empire and all that they’ve built, three people—leader Amachi Adisa, warrior Fela Buhari and captain Stacia Chikeke—prepare for battle while searching for the answers that could save them all.
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