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All Our Shimmering Skies
by Trent Dalton
A recently orphaned girl carrying a stone heart and a map sets off with a sharp-tongued actress and an AWOL Japanese fighter pilot to find Longcoat Bob, a sorcerer who she believes has cursed her family.
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All the Lonely People
by Mike Gayle
After lying about his perfect retirement life to his daughter in Australia, a Jamaican immigrant scrambles to make his actual life resemble the one he claimed to have when his daughter announces her intent to visit.
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The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die
by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay
In a U.S. release of a contemporary classic from Bangladesh, a woman marries into a traditional, once-powerful family before encountering the ghost of a vengeful child bride who would hide a dynasty-saving fortune.
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Bonnie Jack
by Ian Hamilton
Jack Anderson returns to an impoverished mill town in Scotland to search for his long-lost sister and gets entangled in local affairs and uncomfortable truths in a new novel from the acclaimed author.
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Brotherhood
by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
After a fundamentalist Islamist government publicly executes two young people for being in love, their mothers begin a secret correspondence to deal with their grief that leads to the publication of an underground newspaper and ultimately a rebellion.
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Build Your House Around My Body
by Violet Kupersmith
The fate of an unhappy woman who disappears in 2011 while living in Saigon is entwined with a teenager who gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation in 1986 and a woman who captures a two-headed cobra in 2009.
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China Room
by Sunjeev Sahota
In 1929 rural Punjab, Mehar and her new sisters-in-law are locked at work in the family’s “china room,” while trying to figure out which of three brothers is her new husband, setting off events that impact a descendent in 1999.
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A Cup of Silver Linings
by Karen Hawkins
A return to the beloved Dove Pond series featuring an eccentric cast of characters in a charming mix of romance, light fantastical elements, and small-town fun.
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Dear Miss Metropolitan
by Carolyn Ferrell
After being abducted by Boss Man and held captive in a dilapidated house in Queens, three rescued girls rage against a local newspaper columnist who missed their tale of horror as it unfolded right across the street.
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Everyman
by M. Shelly Conner
Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life and the father she never knew, launching a multigenerational story that spans American history.
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Featherweight
by Mick Kitson
After being sold by her Romani family as a servant to a famous bare-knuckle boxer, Bill Perry, in Industrial Revolution-era England, Annie Perry becomes determined to train and learn to fight for herself.
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Fierce Little Thing
by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Five friends are blackmailed into returning to the cult where they were raised to face their shared monstrous secret.
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The Forest of Vanishing Stars
by Kristin Harmel
Raised in the unforgiving wilderness of Eastern Europe after being kidnapped, a young German woman, in 1941, vows to teach a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror how to survive in the forest until she is betrayed as her past and present collide.
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Ghost Forest
by Pik-Shuen Fung
A Chinese immigrant learns to process her grief for the loss of her father who passed away while staying in Hong Kong to work while the rest of the family moved to Canada before the 1997 Handover to China.
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How To Find Your Way in the Dark
by Derek B. Miller
Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts.
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I Couldn't Love You More
by Esther Freud
Beginning in 1960s London, three generations of British women navigate love, sex, motherhood and societal norms—and the betrayals and lies required to navigate it all—in the new novel from the author of Hideous Kinky.
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Intimacies
by Katie M. Kitamura
Seeking a fresh start an interpreter takes a position at the International Court at The Hague and is drawn into numerous personal dramas, including her lover’s ongoing entanglement in his marriage and her friend witnessing a random act of violence.
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Island Queen
by Vanessa Riley
A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself her mother and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier and planter.
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It's Better This Way
by Debbie Macomber
Embracing her new life after a messy divorce, former interior designer Julia Jones moves to a condominium complex where she finds unexpected friendship and then love with another new resident and fellow divorcé until a dramatic revelation threatens their happiness.
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The Liability of Love
by Susan Schoenberger
In this compassionate and absorbing work, when a charismatic actor rapes Margaret Carlyle on their first date, she wants nothing more than to forget it ever happened. Instead, that one night seems to drive all her subsequent decisions until she’s forced to confront the destructive nature of secrets and the risks inherent in love.
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The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family’s past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
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Nine Lives
by Danielle Steel
On her own and feeling a sense of adventure for the first time, Maggie Kelly, facing her fears, embarks on a whirlwind trip around the globe that brings her face-to-face with the very same irresistible, thrill-seeking man she’s spent 30 years trying to forget.
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The Paper Palace
by Miranda Cowley Heller
While staying at “The Paper Palace” — the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life, 50-year-old Elle must decide between the life she has built with her husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.
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Radar Girls
by Sara Ackerman
Inspired by the real women of the Women’s Air Raid Defense, this extraordinary novel follows Daisy Wilder as she, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, enlists in a top secret program, which takes her to wartime Hawaii where she finds love, courage, strength and sisterhood.
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Razorblade Tears
by S. A. Cosby
When his son Isiah and his white husband, Derek, are murdered, ex-con Ike Randolph bands together with Derek’s father, another ex-con, to rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys while confronting their own prejudices about each other and their own sons.
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The Rules of Arrangement
by Anisha Bhatia
Just as she receives a job offer in New York City, 26-year-old Zoya Sahni is introduced to the Holy Grail of suitors in Mumbai and must choose between duty and her dreams.
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A Shock
by Keith Ridgway
A group of Londoners wrestle with intimacy, trust and memory in this slippery rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters and knockout punch of an ending.
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A Song Everlasting
by Ha Jin
Yao Tan, a popular singer, is placed on a government blacklist and can never return to China after performing at a private gig sponsored by a supporter of Taiwan’s secession in the new novel from the award-winning author.
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The Temple House Vanishing
by Rachel Donohue
Attending the Temple House School, Louisa, a brilliant new student, forms a fierce bond with an outlier and student provocateur, but their relationship is soon torn apart by a charismatic art teacher that leads to the unthinkable.
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To Walk Alone in the Crowd
by Antonio Muñoz Molina
The premise is deceptively simple: A walker armed with pencil and pad jots down what he overhears or glimpses in ads, billboards, and newspaper headlines. This combination memoir, essay, travelogue, and work of fiction results in a collage of ideas and digressive ramblings.
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Virtue
by Hermione Hoby
Taking an internship in New York City at an elite but fading magazine, Luca becomes enamored with a prominent artist and her filmmaker husband and is swept up into their world, seduced by the mirage of glamor, which has terrible consequences.
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The War Nurse
by Tracey Enerson Wood
Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced nurses arrive in WWI France to find chaos and 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500. Based on a true story, Julia must confront an unthinkable choice as medical resources are overwhelmed - to challenge her profession or let the people she loves die in her arms.
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Wayward
by Dana Spiotta
In 2016, 52-year-old Samantha Raymond, as her life begins to unravel, flees her suburban existence — and her family — as she struggles with how to be a wife, a mother and a daughter in a country that is coming apart at the seams.
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What Strange Paradise
by Omar El Akkad
Looking at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, this dramatic story follows Vñna who comes to the rescue of a nine-year-old Syrian boy who has washed up on the shores of her small island and is determined to do whatever it takes to save him.
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When We Were Young
by Richard Roper
In order to find their way back to the truth and to their friendship, two long-lost friends honor a promise they made years ago to walk all 184 miles of the Thames Path.
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The Woman from Uruguay
by Pedro Mairal
From acclaimed Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a single day.
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A Woman of Intelligence
by Karin Tanabe
A former translator at the United Nations who has become a bored 1950s housewife is asked to join the FBI as an informant after a man from her past has become a high-level Soviet spy.
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The Women's March
by Jennifer Chiaverini
Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote in 1913.
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An Ambush of Widows
by Jeff Abbott
Two widows form an uneasy alliance after their husbands, who didn’t know each other, are discovered violently murdered together in Austin.
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The Bone Code
by Kathy Reichs
The twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan offers an absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put.
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Butcher Pen Road
by Kris Lackey
A body found dead in a creek marks the beginning of a complex case for Chickasaw Lighthorse Police Sgt. Bill Maytubby in a story laced with humor and featuring unorthodox, believable detectives
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The Cellist
by Daniel Silva
After the fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire, art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is led to a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth as well as to secret channels of money and influence that threaten the very stability of the global order.
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Choose Me
by Tess Gerritsen
Detective Frankie Loomis uncovers a cache of sordid secrets while investigating the death of a brilliant, young woman who plunged off her apartment’s balcony while having a secret affair with an English professor who seems to be hiding information.
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A Comedy of Terrors
by Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia joins forces with her husband to uncover the criminal gangs who are going to war over nuts being sold for Saturnalia in the ninth novel of the series.
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Death at the Crystal Palace
by Jennifer Ashley
Young cook Kat Holloway escorts home a wealthy, high society London widow who is convinced her whole family is trying to kill her in the fifth novel of the series.
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Dog Eat Dog
by David Rosenfelt
A lawyer who founded a dog rescue agrees to defend a passerby who intervened when he saw a man mistreating his pug, despite the man being wanted for murder in the latest novel of the series.
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Dogged by Death
by Laura Scott
After losing her fiancé, her clinic and all her savings, veterinarian Ally Winter moves back to Willow Bluff, Wisconsin and becomes accidentally involved when a sleazy lawyer is murdered in his home office with his Boxer the only witness.
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Embassy wife
by Katie Crouch
This sharp and funny political thriller, follows two women abroad searching for the truth about their husbands-and their country
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The Grandmother Plot
by Caroline B. Cooney
When an elderly woman is murdered in the nursing home where his grandmother resides, Freddy, who leads a life of little responsibility, is pressured by his sisters to find her a new place to live while dealing with a side hustle that could turn out to be deadly.
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The Heathens
by Ace Atkins
When her mother is murdered, 16-year-old juvenile delinquent TJ Byrd places her trust in Tibbehah County Sheriff Quinn Colson to find the real killer while trying to elude a U.S. Marshal who believes she is responsible for her mother’s death.
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The Heretic's Mark
by S. W. Perry
Set in 1594, British author Perry’s superlative fourth Jackdaw mystery finds London physician Nicholas Shelby accused of being part of a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth.
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A Hex for Danger
by Esme Addison
Herbal apothecary store owner Aleksandra Daniels investigates the death of a local artist in Bellamy Bay after her best friend, Celeste, is implicated in the crime in the second novel of the series.
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The Hollywood Spy
by Susan Elia MacNeal
In 1943 Los Angeles, American-born secret agent and British spy Maggie Hope comes to the aid of her old flame after his fiancé is murdered, and soon discovers that things aren’t always the way they appear in movies.
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An Irish Hostage
by Charles Todd
British World War I nurse Bess Crawford travels to Ireland for her best friend’s wedding and unravels a dark, deceptive plot when the bridegroom goes missing in the latest addition to the series.
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Island of Thieves
by Glen Erik Hamilton
Hired to evaluate the safety precautions around an art collection, Van Shaw finds himself the prime suspect after a dead body is found on the estate in the sixth novel of the series.
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Just One Look
by Lindsay Cameron
After taking a thankless job as a temp at a law firm, Cassie Woodson begins reading the personal emails between a partner and his enchanting wife and becomes so obsessed with the pair, she plots to take her place.
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The Lost Girls
by Jessica Chiarella
To find the truth about her sister’s disappearance 20 years earlier, Marti Reese, the host of a true crime podcast, teams up with a woman who, fighting to overturn her brother’s murder conviction, believes there is a link between the two cases.
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The Man with the Silver Saab
by Alexander McCall Smith
In the delightful new mystery featuring Malmo’s Department of Sensitive Crimes, Detective Ulf Varg, deals with a new case involving a noted art historian who consults Varg after a series of attacks.
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M, King's Bodyguard
by Niall Leonard
Based on a true story, this fast-paced thriller follows the head of Britain’s Special Branch, William Melville, as he, in January of 1901, after the aged Queen dies, uncovers a conspiracy to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany at her funeral, pitting him against his most dangerous foe yet.
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Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapeña
When their parents are brutally murdered the night after Easter dinner, three siblings, who stand to inherit millions, are devastated but also wonder if one of them is capable of murder or if a stranger was responsible for tearing this not-so-happy family apart.
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One Half Truth
by Eva Dolan
When the police are called to the report of a late-night shooting, they expect it to be drugs or gang-related. Instead they find the beginning of a tense and twisty investigation into the murder of a budding young journalist.
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The Other Passenger
by Louise Candlish
An unputdownable page-turner about a commuter who becomes a suspect in his friend's mysterious disappearance.
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The Parting Glass
by Lissa Marie Redmond
While on Injured on Duty leave, Cold Case Detective Lauren Riley is hired as a private investigator to travel to Ireland to locate a stolen Picasso painting that disappeared twenty years earlier during a bitter divorce between a suspected mob boss and his wife
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Razorblade Tears
by S. A. Cosby
When his son Isiah and his white husband, Derek, are murdered, ex-con Ike Randolph bands together with Derek’s father, another ex-con, to rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys while confronting their own prejudices about each other and their own sons.
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Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Treachery
by Brian Freeman
A lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone, Jason Bourne engages in a cat-and-mouse game with Lennon across the British countryside in an attempt to prevent another assassination — a mission that calls into question everything he thought he knew about the past.
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Runner
by Tracy Clark
While searching for 15-year-old Ramona, who has run away from her foster home, Chicago homicide cop-turned PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can’t find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
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The Shadow
by James Patterson
Awakening in a world both unknown and disturbingly familiar, Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, must once again go up against his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan, and prove that he is not only a super crime-fighter, but an icon.
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Silence in the Library
by Katharine Schellman
Regency widow Lily Adler must earn the trust of her father to help her solve the murder of an old family friend who had secrets worth killing for – and who had family with a lot to gain from his death.
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Silver Tears
by Camilla Läckberg
In this riveting novel of seduction, deceit and female power, three generations of women, who have survived in hiding from the men who sought to destroy them, find that secrets always end in tears.
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Sleeping Bear
by Connor Sullivan
Regaining consciousness in a Russian prison, Army veteran Cassie Gale finds herself trapped in a system designed to ensure that no one ever escapes alive, while her father races against to rescue her as ties to his past life, one full of secrets, threaten to surface.
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Steel Fear
by Brandon Webb
Discovering that there is a serial killer onboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, disgraced Navy SEAL sniper Finn finds suspicion falling on him as a newcomer and must expose the real killer while searching for redemption.
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The Stranger Behind You
by Carol Goodman
After surviving a brutal attack, Joan Lurie, who exposed a famous newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator, moves to a highly secured apartment building where she meets a 96-year-old woman who witnessed an incident long ago that may be linked to the book she is writing.
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The Stranger in the Mirror
by Liv Constantine
Hiding the fact that she has no memory of her past from her fiancé, Addison, a survivor of a tragic accident, cannot shake the notion that she may have done something very, very bad.
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Such a Quiet Place
by Megan Miranda
When the woman implicated in the murder of a couple in their formerly idyllic and close-knit neighborhood returns to Hollow’s Edge, suspicion spreads like a virus and it soon becomes apparent to Harper Nash that not everyone told the truth about the night of the murder.
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Tender Is the Bite
by Spencer Quinn
Chet the dog and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, along with a ferret named Griffie, take on a case with no client and no crime, and yet great danger, as they face off against a powerful politician who has a lot to lose.
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The Therapist
by B. A. Paris
When a mysterious man turns up on her doorstep, claiming that a murder took place 18 months before in her new home, Alice becomes obsessed with finding the truth.
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Unthinkable
by Brad Parks
Kidnapped by the head of a powerful secret society who believes he can stop millions of people from dying, Nate Lovejoy, a self-proclaimed nobody and stay-at-home dad, must do the unthinkable to save the world.
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The Wonder Test
by Michelle Richmond
While trying to balance single motherhood with her job of solving complex counterintelligence puzzles, recently widowed FBI Agent Lina Connerly must also summon her strengths and investigative instincts when students at her son’s high school go missing and then reappear under mysterious circumstances on abandoned beaches.
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How Sweet It Is
by Dylan Newton
Event planner Kate Sweet is used to creating perfect weddings but reluctantly agrees to take on a book launch extravaganza for best-selling horror writer Drake Matthews, who turns out to be drop-dead gorgeous.
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It Happened One Summer
by Tessa Bailey
After being cut off by her wealthy step-father, a partying Hollywood “It Girl” experiences culture shock when she moves to Washington to learn some responsibility and help her sister run their late father’s dive bar.
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The Rehearsals
by Annette Christie
Megan Givens and Tom Prescott, after a disastrous rehearsal dinner they vow to call their wedding off, until they wake up the next morning stuck together in a time loop, destined to relieve the worst day of their lives.
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The Summer Sisters
by Sara Richardson
The Buchanan sisters share everything -- even ownership of their beloved Juniper Inn -- and together they will find second chances at love and happiness in this heartwarming, multi-generational novel.
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What If You & Me
by Roni Loren
Horror author and true-crime podcaster Andi Lockley has spent so long researching real-life horror stories, she's practically forgotten what dating is. But when a detective moves next door and provides new fodder for her podcast-and a sense of safety she hasn't felt in a long time-she starts to wonder if it's time to retire her trust-no-man mentality.
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The Book of Accidents
by Chuck Wendig
Haunted by their tragic pasts, Nate and Maddie Graves move back to their hometown with their son, Oliver, who becomes involved with a strange boy who has a taste for dark magic that puts them at the heart of a battle of good vs evil.
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
A real-life “final girl”— the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie — Lynette Tarkington, who survived a massacre 22 years ago, along with five other final girls, works to overcome her past until someone becomes determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.
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Half Sick of Shadows
by Laura Sebastian
Elaine, the Lady of Shalott, learns of the ancient and tragic prophecies about her and her friends on the mystical island of Avalon and tries to use outlawed magic to change the destinies of Guinevere, Lancelot, Morgana and Arthur.
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Hugo Award winner Chambers launches the Monk and Robot series with this contemplative, bite-size novel that asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
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She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother’s identity to claim another future altogether—her brother’s abandoned greatness.
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Strange Beasts of China
by Ge Yan
In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is tasked with uncovering the stories of its fabled beasts, which draws her deep within a mystery that threatens her very sense of self.
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We Have Always Been Here
by Lena Nguyen
The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
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*What is Speculative Fiction?
Speculative Fiction is a handy umbrella term for a number of different genres that you are already used to seeing at the Library and in the Forthcoming Fiction newsletter i.e. Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror. Known as the "What If?" genre, Speculative Fiction also includes other works that ask the reader to imagine (speculate) on possibilities that do not fit our current understanding of the world. Characters with supernatural/paranormal abilities, alternate history, magical realism, post-apocalyptic settings, or stories with other "non-realistic" elements are examples of the types of books that will now fit in this section. Switching to this term does not change the genre labels on our books, only gives us a better way to organize titles on display and in this newsletter so that readers of the various speculative genres can find them more easily.
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