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New Fiction - February 2022 |
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Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother’s life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake “when the time is right.”
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Black Cloud Rising
by David Wright Falade
Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, must prove that his troops in the African Brigade are skilled and trustworthy as they raid the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers in the fall of 1863.
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The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
by Emme Lund
Fleeing to Washington to hide in plain sight with his family, Owen Tanner, who has a bird in his chest, feels joy and acceptance, despite living in a constant state of fear, in a community that embraces him for who he is.
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The Bright Side Running Club
by Josie Lloyd
Determined not to be defined by the C-word, Keira, after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis, joins a running group with three other women undergoing treatment who unexpectedly gives her the hope she so desperately needs.
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Cold Enough for Snow
by Jessica Au
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo where they walk, share meals and visit galleries. All the while, they talk, but who is really speaking? Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others.
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The Family Chao
by Lan Samantha Chang
When Big Leo, the owner of Fine Chao restaurant is found dead—presumed murdered—his three sons are reunited and fall under suspicion of the town and police, and must reckon with the legacy of their father’s outsized appetites and own future survival.
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Free Love
by Tessa Hadley
What starts as a novel portraying the dissolution of a family in 1960s England becomes a sensuous depiction of the giddy headiness of rediscovered love for 40-year-old former housewife Phyllis Fischer. Think The Graduate told from Mrs. Robinson’s point of view.
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How to Find Your Way Home
by Katy Regan
Although inseparable as children learning to love nature and birds while growing up on Convey Island, Emily hasn’t seen her brother Stephen in 15 years until he shows up at her house, homeless and in need of help.
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The Lady of Galway Manor
by Jennifer Deibel
In 1920 Galway, amid the Irish War of Independence, the daughter of a British landlord becomes an apprentice jeweler to the descendent of the creator of the famed Claddagh ring. As the two learn to work together and see each other in a new light, they start to uncover the true meaning of love, loyalty, and friendship.
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The Last Grand Duchess
by Bryn Turnbull
The end of the Romanov dynasty as experienced from the vantage point of Olga Nikolaevna, oldest daughter of last czar Nicholas, is told in a way that feels both inspired and truthful.
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
by Kim Fu
Twelve unforgettable tales blur the boundaries of the real and fantastic as the author offers original visions of modern life and surprising insights into human nature.
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Life Without Children
by Roddy Doyle
The Booker Prize-winning author, through 10 short stories, paints a portrait of our strange times and how living under lockdown changes each of us in different ways.
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Love & Saffron
by Kim Fay
When 27-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter—as well as a gift of saffron—to 59-year-old food writer Imogen Fortier, so begins an enduring friendship that sustains them through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy and the unexpected in their own lives.
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
by Allison Pataki
The epic reimagining of the extraordinary life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress who lived and loved on a grand scale, reveals the heartbreak she endured as a wife four times over in vastly different, dramatic marriages.
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The Next Ship Home
by Heather Webb
Meeting on Ellis Island in 1902, two women band together to hold America to its promise.
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Other People's Clothes
by Calla Henkel
When they snap up an apartment owned by well-known thriller writer Beatrice Becks, exchange students Zoe and Hailey, convinced that Beatrice intends to use their lives as an inspiration for her next novel, craft main-character-worthy personas, finally gaining the notoriety they’ve been craving, but at a high price.
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The Pages
by Hugo Hamilton
Dramatically illuminating the connections between past and present by looking at censorship, oppression, and violence, this gripping novel follows Lena Knecht as she, accompanied by an old copy of Rebellion, searches for clues to the hand-drawn map on its last page.
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Pollak's Arm
by Hans Von Trotha
As the Holocaust reaches Rome, a Vatican envoy is sent to persuade Jewish art dealer, Ludwig Pollak, to take refuge within the papal premises. But Pollak is in no hurry to leave his home and Pollak’s visitor is obliged to listen as he recounts his life story.
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Pure Colour
by Sheila Heti
With the world coming apart at the seams, Mira, when her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her, becomes a leaf on a tree, but being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, forcing her to decide whether or not to return to a human world.
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Recitatif
by Toni Morrison
In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
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Red Burning Sky
by Tom Young
In 1944, Lieutenant Drew Cariton, desperate for redemption after three failed air missions, joins a secretive and dangerous mission to evacuate hundreds of stranded airmen in the volatile region of Yugoslavia while avoiding detection by the Germans.
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Shaped by the Waves
by Christina Suzann Nelson
Cassie George has stayed away from her small hometown ever since her unplanned pregnancy. But when she hears that her aunt suffered a stroke and has been hiding a Parkinson's diagnosis, she must return. Greeted by a mysterious package, Cassie will discover that who she thought she was, and who she wants to become, are all about to change.
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The Swimmers
by Julie Otsuka
When a crack appears in the pool, a fellowship of swimmers who take comfort in their laps are cast out, including Alice, who, slowly losing her memory, is reunited too late with her estranged daughter, in this intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss.
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Think of Me
by Frances Liardet
In 1974, 10 years after his wife’s death, James, needing a change of scenery, moves into a new house in the beautiful English village of Upton where the discovery of scarf is the catalyst for unlocking new revelations about his past, which gives him purpose and a second chance at love.
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Until Leaves Fall in Paris
by Sarah Sundin
When the Nazis march into Paris, an American woman uses her bookstore to aid the resistance, while a businessman chooses to sell his products to Germany--and send vital information home to the US. Can they work together for the higher good, or will it cost them everything they love?
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A Very Nice Girl
by Imogen Crimp
Anna, an ambitious young opera singer meets Max, an older, charismatic financier while signing at an expensive jazz club and must decide between her dedication to her craft and their intense, demanding and all-consuming affair.
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Vladimir
by Julia May Jonas
With her husband Vladimir under investigation for inappropriate relationships with his former students, a popular English professor finds their extra-marital pursuits taking a toll on their relationship, while a married young novelist becomes dangerously obsessed with Vladimir, threatening to blow their life wide open.
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What the Fireflies Knew
by Kai Harris
Told from the perspective of almost 11-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB), this coming-of-age novel follows KB as she is sent to live with her estranged grandfather where she, as everything and everyone changes around her, is forced to carve out a different identity for herself and find her own voice.
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When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
by Quan Barry
Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama across windswept Mongolia, young monk Chulun and his estranged identical twin, Mun, who can hear each other’s thoughts, traverse through this land, making a journey where faith, love and brotherhood haunts them.
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Wildcat
by Amelia Morris
When she discovers that her best friend Regina may not be a friend at all, new mother, aspiring writer and former shop girl, Leanne, while trying to undermine Regina, forms an unexpected friendship with a lauded writer who offers her something new.
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The Wind Whistling in the Cranes
by Lídia Jorge
Set in the 1990s, this incredible saga tells the story of the landlords and tenants of a derelict canning factory in southern Portugal where the death of the previous owner and their fear of political and financial ruin sets off a series of events that threatens to uproot the lives of everyone involved.
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Abandoned in Death
by J. D. Robb
Homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates after a woman’s body is found on a city playground bench holding a sign reading “bad mommy” in the newest novel of the long-running series.
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The Berlin Exchange
by Joseph Kanon
In 1963 Berlin, Martin Keller, a captured physicist and American who spied for the KGB, is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin where he needs to know who arranged for his release and why.
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The Cage
by Bonnie Kistler
Two professional women—colleagues at an international fashion conglomerate—enter an elevator together ... but only one is alive when they reach the ground floor.
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A Dark, Divided Self
by A. J. Cross
The badly decomposed remains of a young woman are identified as a university student who disappeared three years earlier, drawing criminologist Will Traynor into the hunt for a twisted serial killer in a twisty story leading to a shock ending guaranteed to blindside even the most experienced thriller reader.
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Dark Horse
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
A former government assassin helps a South Texas drug kingpin, a man who does bad things for good reasons, after a vicious cartel kidnaps his 18 year-old-daughter, in the seventh novel of the series.
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The Day He Left
by Frederick Weisel
When a middle school teacher disappears, setting in motion a chain of events that are seemingly linked to a local heroin smuggling operation, Santa Rosa’s Violent Crimes investigations team must connect the dots in case where everyone is a suspect.
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A Deadly Bone to Pick
by Peggy Rothschild
When Molly Madison, former PI and dog-wrangler extraordinaire, stumbles upon a murder in her new hometown, she must track down a killer to save the day.
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Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
by M. C Beaton
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth’s wedding plans with Constable Dorothy McIver are suddenly at risk when a murder is uncovered in the Scottish town of Lochdubh.
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Deep Sleep
by Steven Konkoly
Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray and his longtime friend and former Marine Marnie Young become involved in a high-stakes cross-country chase while looking into claims made by his deceased and disgraced CIA-agent mother that she was preventing a national catastrophe.
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Diablo Mesa
by Douglas Preston
Responding to the promise of a hefty donation from a wealthy, eccentric billionaire with space travel ambitions, the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute excavates the site of the 1947 Roswell incident and immediately uncovers two unknown murder victims.
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Fake
by Erica Katz
A novel set in the high-stakes world of art forgery moves across the globe, from the trendy art galleries of Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to the high-flying international art fairs of Hong Kong.
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A Fine Madness
by Alan Judd
A captivating espionage novel that explores the life of theatrical genius--and spy--Christopher Marlowe, whose violent death remains one of the most fascinating mysteries of the Elizabethan Age.
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Four Thousand Days
by M. J. Trow
Introducing turn-of-the-century archaeologist-sleuth Dr. Margaret Murray of University College, London. When the body of one of her students is discovered in her rented room shortly after attending one of her lectures, Dr Murray is disinclined to accept the official verdict of suicide and determines to find out how the girl really died.
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A Game of Fear
by Charles Todd
Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates when the lady at a grand manor claims she witnessed a violent murder, but no blood or body can be found.
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The Goodbye Coast
by Joe Ide
Against his better judgment, Detective Philip Marlowe takes on two missing persons cases, while grappling with his troubled and confounding relationship with is father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective.
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The Harbor
by Katrine Engberg
When a 15-year-old boy goes missing, leaving behind a strange note, detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner become trapped in a web of lies that could prevent the boy from ever being found.
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Live, Local, and Dead
by Nikki Knight
Between DJing her all-request love song show and shuttling her tween daughter to and from school, radio station owner Jaye Jordan must clear her name in the murder of a raving talk show host she recently fired in this nifty series kickoff.
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Murder on an Irish Farm
by Carlene O'Connor
Putting their wedding on hold due to the discovery of a human skeleton at a farmhouse near the church, garda Siobhán and Macdara must solve a 50-year-old cold case of a missing groom, which heats up when a fresh corpse appears.
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Our American Friend
by Anna Pitoniak
When mysterious First Lady Lara Caine asks her to write her official biography, former White House correspondent Sofie Morse is wary when Lara starts sharing sensitive information, which draws her into a game of cat-and-mouse with explosive consequences.
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The Paris Apartment
by Lucy Foley
Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it’s his future hanging in the balance.
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Put Out to Pasture
by Amanda Flower
When her best friend Kristy Brewer is accused of murdering her philandering husband, organic farmer Shiloh Bellamy must dig up the dirt on the real killer to save Kristy from prison.
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The Secret in the Wall
by Ann Parker
The year 1882 launches Inez Stannert—sleuth, card shark, musician, saloon owner, and helper of ambitious women—on another adventure based on true events and replete with rich period detail, that’s a delight to read.
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Sierra Six
by Mark Greaney
When he sees a ghost from the past—a terrorist leader who was taken out years ago during his very first mission as a junior member of a CIA action team—the Gray Man is not one to leave a job unfinished or a blood debt unpaid.
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The Silent Sisters
by Robert Dugoni
When two of the seven sisters – American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades—cut off all communication with their handlers, Charles Jenkins, despite being on a Russian kill list, returns to the country where he must track them down—or die trying.
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This Might Hurt
by Stephanie Wrobel
When she receives an email from Wisewood, an off-the-grid facility where her sister is learning to become her Maximized Self, threatening to expose her darkest secret, Natalie heads North to come clean and soon discovers that Wisewood won’t let either of them go without a fight.
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The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia, when a client disappears, breaks protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit.
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The Violin Conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb
When, right before the cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition – the Olympics of classical music, his priceless Stradivarius is stolen, with a ransom note for five million dollars in its place, Ray McMillian must piece together the clues to reclaim the violin before it’s too late.
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Vital Lies
by Daniel Pyne
Ex-black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro, while mending relationships that suffered during her years working in the shadows, helps a Canadian spy track down a Cold War spymaster until a ruthless mercenary targets her and her daughter, forcing her to confront her dark past in order to have a future.
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Asking for a Friend
by Andi Osho
Three best friends of varying ages from twenty-something to forty-something decide to solve their relationship troubles by ditching dating apps and agreeing to ask out people in real life for each other.
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Count Your Lucky Stars
by Alexandria Bellefleur
While touring a wedding venue with a friend, Margot Cooper unexpectedly runs into Olivia Grant, her childhood friend, first love, and forever the One that Got Away and the pair try to rekindle their friendship again.
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I'm So (Not) Over You
by Kosoko Jackson
Pretending to still be his ex’s current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson’s plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings.
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In Search of a Prince
by Toni Shiloh
Brielle Adebayo's simple life unravels when she discovers she is a princess in the African kingdom of Oloro Ilé and must immediately assume her royal position. Brielle comes to love the island's culture but when her political rivals force her to make a difficult choice, a wrong decision could change her life.
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Last Duke Standing
by Julia London
Falling under the tutelage of Queen Victoria, Crown Princess Justine of Wesloria, in the market for a proper husband, forms a friendship with Lord Douglas, who has been tasked with finding her a suitable match, and realizes he is the one whom she wants.
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Lease on Love
by Falon Ballard
When, after one drink too many, she mixes up a dating app with a roommate-finding app, Sadie ends up renting a room in Jack Thomas’s brownstone where she, while pursuing her floristry side hustle, realizes she has found a home with this man who is her polar opposite.
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With Love from London
by Sarah Jio
Inheriting a flat and bookshop in London from the mother who abandoned her, Valentina slowly begins to piece together her mother’s life while trying to save the bookshop from going under, with the help of its eccentric staff and some startling revelations.
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Echo
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
After a terrible accident on the Maudit, a remote mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, the survivor, Nick Grevers, discovers that he is haunted by more than the trauma of the accident.
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House of Sky and Breath
by Sarah J. Maas
After saving Crescent City, Bryce, Hunt and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans to chip away at the Asteri’s power, in the second novel of the series following House of Earth and Blood.
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Mickey7
by Edward Ashton
A disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice work Niflheim, Mickey7, who can regenerate after dying, must keep his newly arrived clone a secret from the rest of the colony as the survival of all lifeforms comes down to him.
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The Paradox Hotel
by Rob Hart
A locked-room murder mystery set at a hotel for time travelers--in which a detective must solve an impossible crime before her own grip on reality crumbles.
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A River Enchanted
by Rebecca Ross
A fantasy novel is set on the magical Isle of Cadence, where two childhood enemies must team up to discover why girls are going missing from their clan.
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Scorpica
by G. R. Macallister
A centuries-long peace is shattered when girls inexplicably stop being born, in this epic fantasy that unites the stories of women from across the queendoms, including those surrounding the generation of lastborn girls who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations to survive.
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The Thousand Eyes
by A. K. Larkwood
In this sequel to the stunning debut fantasy, The Unspoken Name, Csorwe and her mage-girlfriend make a happy, quiet life until fragments of an angry goddess awaken throughout the worlds of the Echo Maze, causing Csorwe to team up with Tai and Shuthmili to defeat an ancient enemy.
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The Violence
by Delilah S Dawson
When a mysterious illness sweeps the nation, resulting in sudden, explosive bouts of animalistic rage, Chelsea, who has been abused by her husband for years, uses the opportunity to liberate herself from him once and for all.
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