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Argylle
by Elly Conway
A CIA spymaster, Frances Coffey, must prevent a Russian magnate from restoring his nation to greatness and setting in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the edge of war and chaos.
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street
by Avery Cunningham
In 1921 Chicago, Nelly Sawyer, the daughter of the “wealthiest Negro in America,” works undercover to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate with the help of Jay Shorey, the low-level manager of the city's swankiest speakeasy, who introduces her to a whole new world.
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Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust
by Mike Lupica
When the beautiful wife of a brilliant scientist, whose groundbreaking work with lithium has made him a billionaire, asks him to look into her husband's past due to his recent paranoia and violent behavior, Spenser makes a discovery that causes him to question his own views on morality.
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Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristán start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
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Those We Thought We Knew : a Novel
by David Joy
Returning to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to complete her graduate thesis, Toya, a young black artist, sets her sights on something bigger when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town and two horrific crimes split the county apart.
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You Dreamed of Empires
by Alvaro Enrigue
Bringing to life Tenochtitlan at its height and reimagining its destiny, the visionary author of Sudden Death takes us back to 1519 where conquistador Hernan Cortes meets emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages and two possible futures.
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Rabbit Hole
by Kate Brody
When her father takes his own life exactly 10 years after the disappearance of her older sister, Theodora “Teddy” Angstrom becomes obsessed with an amateur sleuth keen on helping her solve the case and begins to lose her moral compass as she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories.
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The Archive of Feelings
by Peter Stamm
Forty years after confessing his love to his close friend, Franziska, the narrator, when their paths cross again, wonders if he should risk the comfort of his ordered existence for a romance that might never match what he imagined.
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People Collide : a Novel
by Isle McElroy
When he and his wife Elizabeth trade bodies, and then she, living as him, disappears without a trace, Eli searches for her across Europe to America, having a no-holds-barred exploration of gender and embodied experience while wondering if this transformation is the very thing they need for their marriage to thrive.
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