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The god of the woods
by Liz Moore
In 1975, when a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp's owners has disappeared just like her brother 14 years earlier, a panicked search begins as the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.
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The night of Baba Yaga
by Akira åOtani
In 1979 Tokyo, Yoriko Shindo, bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, an 18-year-old yakuza princess, finds herself far more invested in Shoko's well-being than she ever expected, and surrounded by bloodthirsty and trigger-happy men, wonders if there could ever be a different life for two women like them.
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Concerning the future of souls : 99 stories of Azrael
by Joy Williams
A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist follows up Ninety-Nine Stories of God with a collection of short stories that connect ordinary people to legendary figures and each one's experience with the varying fate of the soul.
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The cliffs
by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Harvard archivist, returning to Maine after a terrible mistake, Jane is hired to research the history of a Victorian house and the women who lived there, uncovering a story of lost lovers, romantic longing, shattering loss and the long shadow of colonialism that is even older than Maine itself.
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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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Broiler
by Eli Cranor
The award-winning author of Don't Know Tough returns with a story of two families?—?one white, one Mexican American?—?who come together in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant. chicken processing plant.
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Just for the summer
by Abby Jimenez
With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other. Original.
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You like it darker
by Stephen King
Delving into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal, the legendary storyteller and expert in short fiction presents this exhilarating collection of 12 tales, many never-before-published, about fate, mortality, luck and the folds in reality where anything can happen.
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Funny story
by Emily Henry
After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.
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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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All fours : a novel
by Miranda July
Ditching her California life for the open road, a restless, semi-famous artist leaves her husband, child and career and reinvents herself in a motel room, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and what it means to be alive and free.
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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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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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I was a teenage slasher
by Stephen Graham Jones
A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Only Good Indians. Simultaneous.
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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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Banal Nightmare
by Halle Butler
The author of The New Me returns with the story of a young woman who ends her long-term relationship and moves back to her Midwestern hometown where he is forced to confront the demons of her past. the demons of her past.
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The lost boy of Santa Chionia
by Juliet Grames
In 1960 Calabria, 27-year-old American Francesca Loftfield, tasked with opening a nursery school in an isolated mountain village, is drawn into the mystery surrounding the identity of a recently discovered human skeleton, forcing her to choose between her charitable mission and her future happiness, between truth and survival.
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Ne'er duke well
by Alexandra Vasti
The newly inherited Duke of Stanhope must become respectable to gain custody of his half siblings and turns to Lady Selina Ravenscroft, society's most proper debutante save for one tiny secret, for help in finding a suitable wife, but things don't go as planned when the chemistry between them proves impossible to resist. Original.
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Slow Dance
by Rainbow Rowell
Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend's wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.
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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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What have you done?
by Shari Lapena
When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.
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