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Fiction A to Z August 2024 |
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Smothermoss
by Alisa Alering
In turns both terrifying and otherworldly, author Alisa Alering opens the door to the hidden world of Smothermoss—a mountain that sighs, monsters made of ink, rabbits both dead and alive, and ropes that just won't come undone. Unsettling, propulsive, and wonderfully atmospheric, Alering's stunning debut novel renegotiates what is seen and unseen, what is real and what is haunted.
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Fangirl Down
by Tessa Bailey
A professional golfer with a bad-boy reputation quits in a heated blaze but reconsiders his decision after his biggest fan, a gorgeous redhead, offers to caddy for him in exchange for splitting tournament prize money.
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Coexistence
by Billy-Ray Belcourt
A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Coexistence is a testament to Belcourt's mastery of and playfulness in any literary form.
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Sleeping Giants
by Rene Denfeld
A novel by the author of The Child Finder explores sibling bonds, foster children, monsters masquerading as caretakers, terrifying secrets and the power of love to right even the most egregious wrongs.
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I Cheerfully Refuse
by Leif Enger
In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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Crow Talk
by Eileen Garvin
The best-selling author of The Music of Bees returns with the story of the unlikely friendship between a lonely ornithologist and an Irish musician working to save an injured crow in the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
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The Borgia Portrait
by David Hewson
While helping Lizzie Hawker look into her family inheritance, a palazzo in Dorsoduro, Arnold Clover discovers a body and with it a set of clues that might lead to the location of an erotic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia—a priceless work of art someone would kill to get their hands on.
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The Blue Maiden
by Anna Noyes
In 1825, sisters Beata and Ulrika, obsessed by Berggrund Island's dark past and their absent mother, encounter a mysterious outsider who leads them to The Blue Maiden island—the storied home of the Witches' Sabbath and Satan's realm—where they find the answers they've been searching for.
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| How To Age Disgracefully by Clare PooleyTo save their local London community center, a group of eclectic seniors and their empty-nester social leader team up with a 17-year-old single dad from the nursery school group in this funny, feel-good novel. Read-alikes: Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson; The Thursday Murder Club mysteries by Richard Osman.
Available on Libby as an eBook and eAudiobook. |
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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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