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Society of Lies
by Lauren Ling Brown
When her sister Naomi, about to graduate from Princeton, is found dead on campus, Maya, believing it was no accident, discovers Naomi joined the same underground society she did years ago and now every clue is leading her back to the past–and to the secrets she's kept all these years.
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An Autobiography of Skin
by Lakiesha Carr
Interconnected generations of Southern black women demonstrate how their experiences are carried inside the body when a new mother experiences a devastating postpartum depression and a daughter returns home to fight the ghosts of her past.
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The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter, Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, a chance meeting with the charismatic General Fuijwara lured Cecily into a life of espionage.
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The Turtle House
by Amanda Churchill
In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope's grandmother, Mineko, moves in and connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry. When Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
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The Husbands
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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All the Other Mothers Hate Me
by Sarah Harman
When single mom Florence Grimes' son is accused of causing the mysterious disappearance of a bully classmate, she must manage her disdain of the other moms, her own self-doubts, and unexpected truths to prove his innocence.
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Not in My Book
by Katie Holt
When romance novelist Rosie and ex-crush literary fiction writer Aiden must cowrite a novel blending genres, the reluctant duo's accidentally steamy novel provides an outlet for their attraction to each other–but will a career-changing opportunity reignite their rivalry and threaten their love story?
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The Other Valley
by Scott Alexander Howard
Set in an unnamed valley–surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time, this is a masterful, moving, literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves.
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The Peach Seed
by Anita Gail Jones
Running into his first love, whom he hasn't seen in 52 years ever since they were separated during a peaceful protest turned violent, Fletcher Dukes, who had carved her a peach seed monkey, reflects on the legacies of America's Civil Rights Movement and the far-reaching impacts of the 1800s slave trade.
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The Eyes Are the Best Part
by Monika Kim
With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation, and murder as victims accumulate around her college campus.
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Sun of Blood and Ruin
by Mariely Lares
In 16th-century New Spain, where witchcraft is punishable by death, Lady Leonora masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule. She is doomed to a short life and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
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The Funeral Cryer
by Wenyan Lu
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith–and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better.
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Death in the Air
by Ram Murali
Disgraced after being forced out of a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances, lawyer Ro Krishna seeks rejuvenation at a luxurious Indian spa, only to become entangled in a series of murders among the elite guests.
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You Know What You Did
by K. T. Nguyen
When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance. When the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
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The Night of the Storm
by Nishita Parekh
Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. And now their apartment complex is under a mandatory evacuation order. Jia's sister, Seema, has invited them to hunker down in her fancy house in Sugar Land, and despite Jia's misgivings–as Seema's husband, Vipul, has been just a little too friendly with her lately–Jia concedes it's probably the best place to keep Ishaan safe during the hurricane. When Vipul's brother and his wife show up on Seema's doorstep, too, it's a recipe for disaster. As the storm escalates, tensions rise quickly, and soon someone's dead. Was it a horrible accident or is there a murderer in their midst? With no help available until the floodwaters recede in the morning, Jia must protect her son and identify the culprit before she goes down for a crime she didn't commit–or becomes the next victim.
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I Hope This Finds You Well
by Natalie Sue
Trapped between petty revenge and a life-changing opportunity, Jolene navigates coworker drama, hidden secrets, and forbidden feelings to save her job, risking exposure of an email vendetta and the walls she's built around her heart.
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Love Can't Feed You
by Cherry Lou Sy
Queenie, her younger brother, and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the U.S. to reunite with her mother who has been working as a nurse for the past few years, in this chronicle of a Filipino-American family's struggle to rebuild their lives in Brooklyn.
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Your Presence is Mandatory
by Sasha Vasilyuk
In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman–beloved husband, grandfather, and World War II veteran–passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret. This letter forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.
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