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Disturbing the Bones
by Andrew Davis
Chicago detective Randall Jenkins returns to Cairo, Illinois, where he teams up with ambitious archaeologist Molly Moore to unravel entwined family mysteries and confront a rogue general threatening a global peace summit with a military conspiracy.
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Trouble Island
by Sharon Gwyn Short
Many miles from anywhere in Lake Erie, Trouble Island is a stop-off for gangsters. It’s home to Aurelia Escalante, posing as a maid to Rosita, wife of gangster Eddie McGee. In winter 1932, they await Eddie and his entourage, including a rival gangster Rosita believes killed their son. Aurelia, hiding from a past murder, wants to escape. But Rosita disappears, and Aurelia finds her body. An ice storm isolates the island, with more than one murderer among them. Aurelia must navigate this treacherous situation to survive.
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Dead Air
by William Elliott Hazelgrove
On Halloween Eve 1938, Orson Welles put on a radio play of 'War of the Worlds' and terrorized an uneasy American public on the brink of World War II, perpetuating the greatest hoax in history and changing media forever. This book brings to life this fateful night and follows the life and career of Welles before and after the historic broadcast.
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Core Samples
by Anna Farro Henderson
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples, exploring how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined.
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His Girl Hollywood
by Maureen Lee Lenker
Arlene finally gets her shot at directing in 1930s Hollywood, only to discover her leading man is Don, her former best friend and lost love, who now has dangerous mob ties that threaten both their film and rekindled feelings.
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Homeseeking
by Karissa Chen
Separated by war and reunited after 60 years, Haiwen and Suchi navigate decades of love, loss and survival across continents, as their shared past clashes with their hopes for a second chance at life.
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We Lived on the Horizon
by Erika Swyler
In the walled city of Bulwark, where survival is rewarded by an AI and the elite class of the Sainted rule, bio-prosthetist Saint Enita Malovis creates an artificial being named Nix, only to be drawn into a hidden conflict between the city's underclass and its controlling programs after a mysterious murder.
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I Dreamed of Falling
by Julia Dahl
When Roman Grady's longtime girlfriend Ashley is found dead in their small Hudson Valley town, his investigation into her hidden life uncovers shocking truths and hidden dangers that threaten to expose painful and deadly secrets. 75,000 first printing.
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The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
by Neko Case
Chronicles the Grammy-nominated artist's evolution from an isolated, poverty-stricken childhood in rural Washington to a revered international figure, emphasizing themes of loneliness, nature, camaraderie, and the transformative impact of music and art on personal identity amidst obstacles.
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Realm of Ice and Sky
by Buddy Levy
A National Outdoor Book Award-winning author's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship—and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.
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Mona Acts Out
by Mischa Berlinski
Feeling pressure from an upcoming role as Cleopatra, celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid runs out on her husband and in-laws on Thanksgiving morning to seek her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, beginning an overnight adventure that brings her face-to-face with her past, her creative power, and her limitations.
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Mothers and Sons
by Adam Haslett
Forty-year-old New York City asylum lawyer Peter, estranged from his mother, Ann, for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever.
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
Set in Florida in the 1970s, Grady Hendrix's newest novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft.
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We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
As Kyungha braves a treacherous snowstorm on Jeju Island to save her injured friend's pet, she unwittingly embarks on a journey that blurs reality and memory, uncovering a hidden chapter of Korean history and the enduring power of friendship amidst forgotten violence.
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Playworld
by Adam Ross
Fourteen-year-old Griffin Hurt is overwhelmed by playing Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and by Boyd Prep, but rather than vent to his family's shrink, he confesses everything to his parents' friend Naomi Shah, who falls in love with him.
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The Granddaughter
by Bernhard Schlink
Birgit and Kaspar flee East Berlin in 1964 for love and freedom, but after Birgit's death, Kaspar discovers she abandoned a child, prompting a search that leads him into the heart of a neo-Nazi settlement, where he meets a woman who might be Birgit's lost granddaughter.
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The Containment
by Michelle Adams
A legal scholar chronicles Detroit's struggle for school integration and the impact of the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley case halting Northern desegregation efforts, illuminating the roles of activists and key figures, and revealing how systemic inequalities were upheld, shaping contemporary debates on racial justice and affirmative action.
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Everything Must Go
by Dorian Lynskey
This darkly humorous cultural history explores the evolution of apocalyptic thought, examining how literature and film reflect societal anxieties, science and politics, tracing the secularization of doomsday predictions from the 19th century to today's climate crisis and technological fears.
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Black in Blues
by Imani Perry
A National Book Award winner examines the connection of the color blue to Black history, weaving together themes of hope, melancholy and personal experience to examine race in ways that transcend politics and ideology.
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A Body Made of Glass
by Caroline Crampton
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.
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Gabriel's Moon
by William Boyd
Gabriel Dax, haunted by his mother’s death in a fire, is a travel writer during the Cold War. After an assignment in the Congo, he falls under the influence of Faith Green, an MI6 handler, and becomes her reluctant spy, drawn into the world of espionage and obsession.
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Brightly Shining
by Ingvild H. Rishøi
Ten-year-old Ronja and her sister Melissa take over their father's job at a Christmas tree stand in Oslo, facing challenges and dreaming of a better life as they try to support their struggling family.
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Time of the Child
by Niall Williams
In the Advent season of 1962, Doctor Jack Troy and his daughter Ronnie, long isolated from their small Irish town of Faha, find their lives and their understanding of family and community transformed when a baby is unexpectedly left in their care.
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A Century of Tomorrows
by Glenn Adamson
An acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
by Bettany Hughes
Spellbinding, richly illustrated, and full of insight, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a journey into the indomitable ambition and creativity of the human spirit.
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Every Valley
by Charles King
The moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah.
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Brotherless Night
by V. V. Ganeshananthan
A 16-year-old Sri Lankan woman, Sashi, is hoping to become a doctor but instead watches her four beloved brothers get caught up in violent political ideologies that result in a devastating civil war.
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The Case of the Missing Maid
by Rob Osler
In 1898 Chicago, Harriet Morrow, a determined young woman hired as the first female detective at the prestigious Prescott Agency, must solve the odd disappearance of a maid from a lavish mansion, all while navigating skeptical colleagues and uncovering dangerous secrets hidden within the city's Polish community.
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The Rest is Memory
by Lily Tuck
First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel, which frames Czeslawa's story within the epic tragedy of six million Poles who perished during the German occupation.
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The Author's Guide to Murder
by Beatriz Williams
At Castle Kinloch in the Scottish Highlands, literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley is found dead under strange circumstances, leading Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh to investigate three American novelists--each with their own motives and secrets--as he uncovers connections between Presley's murder and the castle's dark history
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The Icon & the Idealist
by Stephanie Gorton
Examines the intense rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett in the early 20th century, revealing how their conflicting visions for reproductive rights and birth control access significantly influenced American women's lives and shaped the broader movement for reproductive freedom.
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