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Incidents Around the House
by Josh Malerman
An 8-year-old girl in the Bronx fights to keep her troubled family together as they offer the only protection against a malevolent spirit she calls “Other Mommy” and who grows stronger and asks her daily for entrance into her heart.
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The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night
by Lauren Farnsworth
To meet new people, five not-yet-friends answer an ad seeking members of a bar trivia team, the Red Hot Quizzy Peppers, and are swept up in the buzz of winning and friendship, which gives them a shot at making the London Pub Quiz League's Grand Final.
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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, and 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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Sandwich
by Catherine Newman
While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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Summer Fridays
by Suzanne Rindell
During the summer of 1999, as her fiancé spends long hours at work with Kendra, an all-too-close female colleague, 20-something Sawyer becomes friends with Kendra's boyfriend, Nick, and together they spend Fridays exploring NYC together, and as real feelings develop, they wonder what will happen when summer is over.
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The Unwedding
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Recent divorcee Ellery Wainwright, while staying at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, finding the place beautiful, yet unsettling, especially when a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has something horrific in store for them all.
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The Glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier
From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
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Birding with Benefits
by Sarah T. Dubb
Seeking adventure and putting herself first, a divorced woman fakes a romance with a quiet birdwatcher for a contest, but amidst Arizona hikes and undeniable chemistry, they must decide if their connection is for keeps or for the birds.
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A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
A newlywed becomes suspicious of her husband after finding a blood streak on the back of a shirt he wore to a conference and discovers a disturbing pattern of unsolved murders in all the cities he's visited. 100,000 first printing.
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A Cyclist’s Guide to Crime & Croissants
by Ann Claire
An American expat who left Chicago to run a French bicycling tour company feels pressured to show her visiting hometown friends a good time but must investigate and save her dream business when one of her guests turns up dead.
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Call It What You Want
by Alissa DeRogatis
Hopeless romantic Sloane Hart, jaded by her parents' divorce and focused on her writing dreams, moves to New York where she grapples with an undeniable connection to her mysterious upstairs neighbor, Ethan Brady, who struggles with commitment.
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Baby X
by Kira Peikoff
In a world where any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder—or the craziest stalker.
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Nice Work, Nora November
by Julia London
Once clinically dead after a terrible accident she doesn't remember, Nora November, after waking up from a coma, creates a reverse bucket list that includes cooking, quitting her job and bringing her grandpa's garden back to life — one that leads her to a reckoning with the truth she almost hid from herself.
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The Pecan Children
by Quinn Connor
Refusing to let go of the land her family has been rooted to for generations, Lil Clearwater and her sister Sasha finds things taking a dark turn as phantom fires light up the night and troubling local folklore is revealed to be true, forcing them to confront the ghosts of their pasts.
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A Nest of Vipers
by Harini Nagendra
Kaveri and Ramu investigate Indian street magic in 1922 Bangalore where they uncover a potential threat to the visiting Prince of Wales amidst cries for India's independence, in the third novel of the series following Murder Under a Red Moon.
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The Poisons We Drink
by Bethany Baptiste
When her mother is murdered, Venus, who brews illegal love potions to support her family, is offered the chance to punish her mother's killer in exchange for brewing poisonous potions to enslave D.C.'s most influential politicians and soon finds the line between magic and power blurring. Simultaneous eBook.
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When She Was Me
by Marlee Bush
Twin sisters Cassie and Lenora are inseparable. Ever since that night, they've been on their own, and that's how they like it. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, the twins manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true crime junkies. The peace and quiet is almost enough to make them forget what happened all those years ago. Almost. Until a teenage girl camping at the neighboring cabin goes missing, and the memories come rushing back. As the crime becomes ever more recognizable, each sister suspects the other knows more than she's letting on. Trapped in the isolating, claustrophobic wilderness, Cassie and Lenora must piece together the truth of what happened-and the sinister truth lurking in their own pasts-before it's too late.
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The Assasin of Venice
by Alyssa Palombo
One of Venice's famous courtesans, Valentina, beautiful, cultured, deadly, seduces and kills men the Council of Ten orders her to, but when she's ordered to kill a fellow assassin?—?and the man she loves, she must uncover the Council of Ten's dark agenda, with the help of her fellow courtesans, to save him.
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Earls Trip
by Jenny Holiday
Three Regency-era Earls on an annual bachelors' weekend find their trip hijacked by a friend begging for help with a family scandal, a runaway bride and a tempting proposal from a childhood friend who had sworn off marriage.
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