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Our Picks for December, 2023
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Orbital : a novel
by Samantha Harvey
In an elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below.
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This spells love : a novel
by Kate Robb
Casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, 28-year-old Gemma Wilde wakes up in an alternate reality where her best friend Dax has no idea who she is, and, seeking to reverse the spell, soon realizes he has been The One all along. Original.
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The other mothers : a novel
by Katherine Faulkner
Searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood, Tash, welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of until two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world.
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The frozen river : a novel
by Ariel Lawhon
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
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Prophet song
by Paul Lynch
With Ireland caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack, as the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, must decide how far she'll go to save her family and what—or who—she is willing to leave behind.
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The Wages of Sin
by Harry Turtledove
With the“Wasting” (HIV) creating a mid-nineteenth-century England and London almost unrecognizable to us, Viola, extremely intelligent and growing up in a house full of medical books, can only travel to far-off places in her imagination since her actions and movements are severely restricted by both law and custom.
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The Stage Kiss
by Amelia Jones
During the nationwide tour of the hit Pride & Prejudice musical, actress Eden Blake takes to the stage with Broadway royalty Brennon Thorne, a pompous jerk she has to kiss eight shows per week, but when real passion takes a starring role, they wonder if not all showmances are doomed to fail. Original.
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On the plus side : a novel
by Jenny L. Howe
When she is secretly nominated for the next season of On the Plus Side, introvert Everly Winters, overwhelmed by how much time she'll have to spend on screen, finds an ally in cameraman Logan until their growing connection is caught on camera. Original.
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The Vacation House
by Jane Shemilt
Ten years after one terrible night in Paxos, Greece, Julie, the classic“yummy mummy” of high society, is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage, stricken with anxiety and perfectionism until she meets a therapist who gives her hope for a different future. Original.
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Two Dead Wives
by Adele Parks
Living in a small village while she recovers from illness, Stacie Jones, shielded from the outside world by her father, finds her reclusive life shattered when she is linked to a scandalous and sad case of a missing woman with a shocking secret.
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