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Fiction A to Z January 2025 |
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Hold strong : a novel by Robert DugoniSam Carlson faces unimaginable brutality as a POW on the infamous Arisan Maru. His girlfriend, Sarah, works as a Washington codebreaker, unknowingly aids a mission targeting his ship, testing their love and courage amid World War II.
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| The Voyage Home by Pat BarkerThe Trojan War is over. Forced to be Agamemnon's concubine, Cassandra, along with her servant Ritsa (who often narrates), is taken by the victors to Mycenae, where Agamemnon's wife awaits his return with murder in her heart. |
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| No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz BorgoIn this dystopian novel and in an unnamed country, a plague causing amnesia and death wreaks havoc. There are very few places to bury the bodies. Determined to find a final resting place for her infant twin sons, Angustias connects with a woman running an illegal cemetery on land owned by a cartel leader, who's not happy with these events. |
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Holmes is missing by James PattersonHolmes, Marple & Poe Investigations face a challenging string of child abductions that forces them to solve the case without their brilliant leader, Brendan Holmes, in the second novel of the series following Holmes, Marple & Poe.
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Good dirt : a novel by Charmaine WilkersonEbby Freeman's life unravels when her brother is killed and a centuries-old family heirloom is shattered. Years later, while fleeing a public breakup, she uncovers how that lost, shattered jar may hold secrets to her future.
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The last room on the left by Leah KonenKerry, a struggling writer with a crumbling life, takes a caretaker job at a remote Catskills motel to finish her book, but when a snowstorm traps her with a frozen corpse, she must unravel a deadly game of survival or risk losing her mind and her life.
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The Unexpected Diva by Tiffany L. WarrenBorn into slavery and raised in Philadelphia's Quaker community, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's life is upended when her adoptive mother dies, but a chance performance launches her into fame as “the Black Swan,” a celebrated yet controversial opera singer navigating the dangers of 19th-century America and beyond.
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Books You May Have Missed
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| Wandering Stars by Tommy OrangeThis haunting follow-up to There There spans centuries, following Jude Star, who survives the horrors of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and imprisonment in Florida, as well as his descendants, who endure the Carlisle Indian School, addiction, PTSD, and more. |
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| Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz WilliamsThe lives of Mallory in modern-day New England and unhappily married British diplomat's wife Hannah in 1950s Cairo, Egypt, connect in this moving dual-timeline novel. Mallory's 13-year-old son needs a kidney transplant, so she reaches out to the famous singer who doesn't know he's a father. Meanwhile, her sister digs into their mother's adoption history. |
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Table for two : fictions by Amor TowlesThe best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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| A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia WilliamsAgainst her wealthy family's wishes, floral designer Ricki Wilde opens a flower shop in Harlem and befriends jazz musician Ezra "Breeze" Walker, a man who's fallen out of time. Light speculative elements and dual timelines add intrigue to this sweeping romance. |
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