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Fiction A to Z August 2024 |
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| The Heart in Winter by Kevin BarryIn 1891 Montana, young Irish poet Tom Rourke drinks, takes drugs, and falls for Polly Gillespie, the devout mine leader’s new bride. The lovers commit arson, steal money and a horse, and then head west...but a posse is hot on their trail. This buzzy, critically acclaimed novel “is brutal, hilarious, and fabulously entertaining" (Booklist). For fans of: lyrical Irish writers; Cormac McCarthy. |
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| Becoming Ted by Matt CainWhen his husband of 20 years cheats and leaves, Ted Ainsworth is at a loss, at first. Encouraged by his best friend Denise, who also has romantic problems, he takes chances, pursues new interests, and meets a new man. This heartwarming latest from the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle will please fans of Kinky Boots and Steven Rowley's The Guncle. |
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| Swift River by Essie ChambersIn 1987, 16-year-old Diamond Newberry is the only Black person in Swift River. Her Pop disappeared and her financially struggling white mom can’t get a death benefit until seven years have passed. With that date approaching, her mom has plans for the future, but Diamond has plans, too, and some secrets, including a job and correspondence with her dad’s aunt. Read-alikes: Alice Pung's One Hundred Days; Tiffany McDaniel's Betty. |
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| Parade by Rachel CuskThis unconventional latest from award winner Rachel Cusk follows various artists named G: one paints his wife upside down to much acclaim, another marries and becomes a mother, and four others live equally intriguing lives. Shifting perspectives and narrators, this stylistically complex offering examines art, family, love, and gender. Read-alikes: Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test; Sheila Heti's Pure Colour. |
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The au pair affair : a novel
by Tessa Bailey
Jumping at the opportunity to be a live-in nanny for hockey veteran and newly single dad, Burgess, 26-year-old aspiring marine biologist Tallulah, while helping her tween charge fit in, helps Burgess get back on the dating scene, but when boundaries are crossed, they find their hearts on thin ice. Original.
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| Four Squares by Bobby FingerThis tender character-driven novel depicts New York writer Artie Anderson in the 1990s when he turns 30, falls for a married man, and lives through the AIDS crisis, and in the 2020s, when he turns 60 and finds much-needed connections at the local center for queer seniors. This latest by the author of The Old Place is “a big-hearted and relatable read” (Kirkus Reviews). For fans of: The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran. |
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| Malas by Marcela FuentesIn 1994, high schooler Lulu, who has a strict dad and secretly sings in a punk band, befriends a glamorous older woman at her beloved abuela's funeral. Back in the 1950s, a young mother struggles after her husband's first wife curses her. This "entrancing debut" (Kirkus Reviews) is sprinkled with Spanish phrases and richly describes life in a Texas border town. Read-alike: Elba Iris Perez's The Things We Didn't Know. |
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| The God of the Woods by Liz MooreA 13-year-old girl disappears in 1975 from the Adirondack summer camp that her wealthy parents own...just as her brother did 14 years earlier. This intricately plotted literary mystery includes various points of view as it compellingly details the searches for each of the siblings while exploring family, crime, and class. For fans of: All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers; The Last Child by John Hart. |
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| How to Age Disgracefully by Clare PooleyTo save their local London community center, a group of eclectic seniors and their empty-nester social leader team up with a 17-year-old single dad from the nursery school group in this funny, feel-good novel. Read-alikes: Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson; The Thursday Murder Club mysteries by Richard Osman. |
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The night ends with fire
by K. X. Song
When her opium-addicted father plans to sell her to a violent, ill-tempered man, Mellin, with the Three Kingdoms at war, disguises herself as a boy and enlists in the army where she has visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.
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The ex vows
by Jessica Joyce
Living by her lists, especially the one about her ex, Eli Mora, after their breakup five years ago, Georgia must work with him when they have to pull off the perfect wedding for their mutual best friend. and with their chemistry as hot as ever, she's tempted to break her rules. Original.
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Evenings and weekends
by Oisâin McKenna
Pregnant and broke, Maggie struggles with a looming move home while her boyfriend, Ed tries to run from his past with her best friend Phil, who already has another, very serious boyfriend during a sweltering London summer.
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Bright objects : a novel
by Ruby Todd
A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences. A first novel.
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Same as it ever was
by Claire Lombardo
"A woman named Julia reflects on her life and marriage in the suburbs of Chicago"
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Toward eternity : a novel
by Anton Hur
Creating a living, thinking machine named Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband, Yonghun, a recipient of nanotherapy?—?robot or android cells that cure cancer and leave people virtually immortal, begins to thrive, along with other nano humans, which leads them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.
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You had me at happy hour
by Timothy Janovsky
When uptight sommelier Julien Boire and TikTok mixologist Greg Harlow, who's everything he's not: charismatic, charming and a total player, agree to a no-strings sex pact, they enter new worlds of experimentation where nothing is off limits except a future together. Original.
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54 miles : a novel
by Leonard Pitts
Two families in mid-1960s Harlem and Alabama grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era while reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma and the question of what justice demands. Original.
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The Briar Club : a novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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The black bird oracle : a novel
by Deborah Harkness
When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their 7-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop, forging a different path, confronts her family's dark past and reckons with her desire for even greater power?—?if she can let go of her fear of wielding it.
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The conditions of unconditional love
by Alexander McCall Smith
While tapping into her stores of coolness and reserve to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute, moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own.
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The bright sword : a novel of King Arthur
by Lev Grossman
Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, a gifted young knight Collum instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin's apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance. Simultaneous.
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Midnight rooms : a novel
by Donyae Coles
In 1840 England, Orabella, the orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman with no fortune or connections, is married off to the wealthy Elias Blakersby and, whisked away to his family's estate, becomes engulfed by the house's darkness, making her question where her dreams and reality begins.
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Nicked
by M. T. Anderson
In 1087, when Tyun, a treasure hunter renowned for“liberating” holy relics from their tombs, is paid to bring the 700-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas to Bari, Italy, to cure the plague, Brother Nicephorus is ordered to be his guide and forced to commit an act of sacrilege on their journey.
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The ornithologist's field guide to love
by India Holton
When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, rival ornithologists Beth Pickering and Devon Lockley are forced to team up to have any chance of winning, in this race that results in“fowl play,” ruffled feathers and love. Original.
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Our kind of game : a novel
by Johanna Copeland
Living the life she's always wanted, Stella Parker finds her peaceful existence shattered when her neighbor claims to know things about her, forcing her to reckon with the dark secret upon which she's built her life, in this debut thriller that explores the connection between physical and psychological harm.
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Someone like us
by Dinaw Mengestu
With his marriage on the verge of collapse, journalist Mamush returns to his close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C., where a death in the family leads him on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask. Illustrations.
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Tehrangeles
by Porochista Khakpour
On the verge of landing their own reality show, Iranian American multimillionaires and L.A. royalty Ali and Homa Milani, owners of a microwaveable snack empire, and their four daughters realize their deepest secrets are about to be dragged out into the open before the cameras even roll.
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Calder country
by Janet Dailey
Making a deal to keep her smuggler father out of prison, Ruby Weaver agrees to help the Feds break up a bootlegging ring in 1920s Blue Moon, Montana, in the third novel of the series following A Calder at Heart.
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Darling girls
by Sally Hepworth
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they livedon a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild, and they thoughtthey were free. But the reach of someone with such power is long, and even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are called in by the police to tell what they know. Against their will, they are brought back to the past, and to Miss Fairchild herself. DARLING GIRLS asks the questions: what are we capable of when in a desperate place? How much can we hide the demons inside us? And can the past ever truly be buried?"
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Finding Margaret Fuller : a novel
by Allison Pataki
"Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama, and her restless soul needs new challenges and adventures. And so she charts a singular course against a backdrop of dizzying historical drama: From Boston, where she hosts a salon for studentslike Elizabeth Cady Stanton; to the editorial meetings of The Dial magazine, where she hones her pen as its co-founder; to Harvard's library, where she is the first woman permitted entry; to the gritty New York streets where she spars with Edgar Allan Poe and reports on Frederick Douglass. Margaret defies conventions time and again as an activist for women and an advocate for humanity, earning admirers and critics alike. When the legendary editor Horace Greeley offers her an assignment in Europe, Margaret again makes history as the first female foreign news correspondent, mingling with luminaries like Frâedâeric Chopin, William Wordsworth, George Sand and more. But it is in Rome that she finds a world of passion, romance, and revolution, taking a Roman count as a lover--and sparking an international scandal. Evolving yet again into the roles of mother and countess, Margaret enters the fight for Italy's unification. With a star-studded cast and sweeping, epic historical events, this is a story of an inspiring trailblazer, a woman who loved big and lived even bigger--a fierce adventurer who transcended the rigid roles ascribed to women and changed history, all on her own terms"
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Swan song
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
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