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The Twelve Books of Christmas
by Kate Carlisle
Arriving in Loch Ness, Scotland, to attend the New Year's Day wedding of their dearest friends, Brooklyn Wainwright and Derek Stone discover that a murderer is in attendance and must catch the culprit, who may also have stolen 12 rare books, before their friends' bright and happy future turns deadly.
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The Vulnerables
by Sigrid Nunez
This story about modern life and connection with others, including an adrift member of Gen Z and a feisty parrot named Eureka, reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of kindness can offer healing and hope.
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Beyond the Door of No Return
by David Diop
Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal's oral traditions, this fantastical story traces the obsession of a renowned botanist who, while on a research expedition in West Africa, becomes obsessed with finding a young woman of noble birth rumored to be the revenant.
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Hold My Girl: a Novel
by Charlene Carr
After trying to conceive for seven years, a woman gives birth to an IVF miracle child, but her life crumbles when she discovers her egg was accidentally switched with another client's, whose pregnancy ended in a stillbirth.
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Blood Sisters
by Vanessa Lillie
Returning to her Oklahoma hometown when her sister goes missing, an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker, digs into the case, uncovering a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades and must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face.
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Dead Man's Wake
by Paul Doiron
Game Warden Mike Bowditch and his fiancée Stacey Stevens witness a boat accident on the eve of their engagement party that reveals a mysterious double murder, in the 14th novel of the series following Hatchet Island.
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Blackouts: a Novel
by Justin Torres
A young man tends to the dying soul of a person he knew only briefly and the pair trade stories as they wait for the end, in the new novel from the author of We the Animals. Winner of this year's National Book Award!
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Idlewild: a Novel
by James Frankie Thomas
Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship.
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The World of Pondside
by Mary Helen Stefaniak
With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, wheelchair-bound resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home's residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past--or even create new ones.
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