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Twice in a Lifetime
by Melissa Baron
After overworked Chicago graphic designer Isla Abbott has a breakdown following her mother’s death, she decides to relocate to a bungalow just outside of St. Louis, hoping for a fresh start. There she starts receiving mysterious texts from a man named Ewan Park, who claims to be her husband from the future reaching back in time to prevent her eventual death by suicide.
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The Catch
by Alison Fairbrother
Journalist Eleanor Adler’s life is upended when her father dies suddenly of a heart attack. With four children by three different mothers, James Adler’s attention had always been divided. But as the oldest, Ellie always had a special bond with him. Ellie expects to inherit James’ most treasured possession, a baseball that inspired him as he wrote poetry, but is shocked when she finds it’s been left to a person she doesn’t know.
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Let Him In
by William Friend
After the death of their mother, young twins Sylvie and Cassia find comfort in an imaginary friend, but their father begins to worry as things escalate. Grief and the paranormal are central to this book. This unsettling gothic read will leave readers questioning reality.
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What the Fireflies Knew
by Kai Harris
Set in 1995, Harris's debut novel is told from the perspective of Kenyatta (also called KB), a 10-year-old Black girl. After her father dies of a drug overdose and her mother seeks treatment for depression, KB and her 15-year-old sister Nia are left in the care of their grandfather for the summer. KB spends most of her time reading and occasionally playing with the white boy and girl across the street, whose racist mother has forbidden any friendship. Like her favorite book heroines, KB devises plans to heal her broken family.
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The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
As the only Black employee at Wagner Books, 26-year-old Nella Rogers has always felt alone in her workplace, trying and failing at every attempt to bring greater awareness to the publishing house where she works as an editorial assistant. When Hazel, a Black girl from Harlem, offers similar thoughts on a troublesome manuscript, it feels to Nella like a leap forward, until Hazel begins following the company line and Nella starts receiving notes threatening her to leave Wagner.
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Really Good, Actually
by Monica Heisey
Determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcee, 29-year-old Maggie—with the help of her tough-loving academic advisor, her newly divorced friend—and her group chat, barrels through her first year of singledom, searching for what truly makes her happy.
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Natural Beauty
by Ling Ling Huang
Giving up her future as a pianist to take care of her parents, an unnamed narrator starts working at a high-end beauty and wellness store in NYC, which affords her entry into a new world of privilege where she discovers that beneath the fancy creams and tinctures lies a terrible truth threatening to consume her.
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Lunar Love
by Lauren Kung Jessen
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother's matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has taken her Pó Po's traditional Chinese zodiac approach and made it about "animal attraction," her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.'s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O'Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family's legacy.
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
by Eva Jurczyk
Working in the rare books department of a large university, Liesl Weiss discovers that a priceless book has gone missing as well as the librarian. While investigating both disappearances, Liesl learns a shocking truth that shakes the very foundation on which she has built her career.
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The Golden Spoon
by Jessa Maxwell
Six bakers are selected to compete in the 10th season of Bake Week, a TV show filmed at the family estate of cookbook legend Betsy Martin who has been hosting the show and judging the baked goods of amateur bakers for 10 years. But this year, two things are different. The producers insisted on appointing a male chef known for his hard-as-nails critiques as co-host. Secondly, at least one of the contestants is not who they claim to be. When a body is found it’s clear that someone has taken the competition a little too far.
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Sisters of the Lost Nation
by Nick Medina
Anna Horn is a senior in high school who works part time cleaning the VIP suites at the casino hotel on her Louisiana reservation. But when several young women go missing from the reservation—including her sister Grace—Anna realizes that their disappearances are connected to men she’s seen going in and out of one of the suites. As she tries everything she can to find Grace, Anna is convinced that she’s being pursued by a horror from a tribal myth.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
It's 1957, and the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama has opted for self-determination over integration as a means of Black advancement. New arrival Alice Young soon falls for Raymond Campbell, who's questioning the town's precepts, a move that could get them both in trouble.
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Night Wherever We Go
by Tracey Rose Peyton
To counter financial setbacks, the owners of a Texas plantation decide to hire a stockman to impregnate the plantation's six enslaved women. The women rebel, secretly agreeing to chew cotton root clippings to prevent pregnancy. But their plan will backfire—and jeopardize them all—if any one of them bears a child.
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Self-Portrait With Nothing
by Aimee Pokwatka
Forensic anthropologist Pepper Rafferty was abandoned on a doorstep as a baby, and the consequences of that moment echo into Pepper’s present day. She’s so terrified she may have inherited an instinct to abandon people that she tries to make them abandon her first. After Pepper mysteriously inherits property from a renowned painter named Ula Frost, she follows Frost's trail to London and then Wroclaw, Poland in search of answers.
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The House in the Pines
by Ana Reyes
Seven years after the mysterious death of her best friend Aubrey, Maya comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman dies in front of the same man Aubrey did, leading her back to a New England cabin to finally uncover a truth that could change her life.
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The Bandit Queens
by Parini Shroff
Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him. He walked out on her, and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it’s a rumor that just won’t die. It turns out that being known as a “self-made” widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to marry her. It’s even been good for business. Now other women are asking for Geeta's “expertise,” making her an unwitting consultant for husband disposal. But not all of them are asking nicely.
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White Horse
by Erika T. Wurth
Urban Indian Kari James works two jobs to fund her simple lifestyle that includes heavy metal, Stephen King novels, and beer at the White Horse, her go-to Indian bar. One night, her cousin Debby produces a bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, who abandoned her as an infant. Kari wants nothing to do with it at first but reluctantly begins to wear it. Soon she is plagued by disturbing visions, causing her to question what really happened to her mother.
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