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Afterlives
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A young man returns home years after being kidnapped to find his parents gone and his sister basically a slave in a multi-generational saga set during the colonization of east Africa that won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The wedding plot
by Paula Munier
During the four-day wedding extravaganza of her grandmother and her longtime beau, Mercy and Elvis, while trying to find the inns missing spa director, discover a dead body instead, and they, with families and festivities under threat, must save the bride and groom before death do they part.
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The War Girls: A WW2 Novel of Sisterhood and Survival
by V. S. Alexander
During one of the darkest periods of World War II, two Jewish sisters and a family friend living on the Aryan side of the Warsaw Ghetto form a trio called The War Girls who fight to rescue their loved ones, finding courage through sisterhood to keep hope alive.
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Ugly love: a novel
by Colleen Hoover
After Tate Collins and airline pilot Miles Archer agree to a no-strings attached relationship, they both have trouble sticking to the plan
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Portrait of an unknown woman
by Daniel Silva
In this thrilling story of deception in the world of international fine art, restorer and spy Gabriel Allon scours Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a 17th-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions.
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Look closer
by David Ellis
When the murder of a beautiful socialite in a nearby suburb blows up their lives, Simon and Vicky, a normal, well-respected, wealthy Chicago couple, find their secrets and lies having devastating consequences as it comes to light that one of them may be a killer.
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Kaleidoscope: a novel
by Cecily Wong
Riley Brighton, always eclipsed by her older sister, leaves her biracial Chinese American family after a calamity rocks their world and sets off across the globe in search of answers about the people she thought she knew best.
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The earthspinner: a novel
by Anuradha Roy
Moving between England and India, this intricate, wrenching novel about the transformative ways of loving and living in an increasingly uncertain world follows Elango, a potter who is guided by an astral, indefinable voice to create his life's work while driving him to a forbidden relationship.
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Any other family
by Eleanor Brown
Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Weird Sisters.
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Till death do us part
by John Dickson Carr
Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair-following a very strange reaction to his predictions-Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner. That night the enigmatic fortune teller-and chief accuser-is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large.
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Shutter
by Ramona Emerson
A forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force, Rita Todacheene, who sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues the other investigators overlook, is caught in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque's most dangerous cartels when a furious ghost sets her on a path of vengeance.
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The ruins
by Phoebe Wynne
Arriving in France to purchase the Chateau des Sẗes despite shocking memories of one buyer, one who is equally haunted by this jewel of the Cote dAzur.
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Properties of Thirst
by Marianne Wiggins
Set against the background of World War II, this novel about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream follows rancher Rocky Rhodes as he is faced with a threat greater than the LA Water Corporation he's battled for years.The building of a Japanese-American internment camp next to his ranch.
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My government means to kill me
by Rasheed Newson
A fierce queer coming-of-age story follows the personal and political awakening of a young gay black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of Narcos.
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Moth: a novel
by Melody Razak
In 1946 Delhi, during the split of Pakistan from India, 14-year-old Alma, soon to be married, finds her family torn apart when her grandmother, determined to protect the family's honor at any cost, interferes with the engagement.
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Gangland
by Chuck Hogan
Nicky Passero, associate of Chicago crime boss Tony Accardo, is tasked with tracking down and returning items taken during a jewelry heist by whatever means necessary, an undertaking made more complicated by his being an FBI informant.
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Find Him
by Jake Hinkson
A pregnant teenager and her black sheep uncle search for her missing boyfriend and father of her child through the criminal underworld of the Arkansas/Tennessee border, in the new novel from the author of Dry Country.
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The blame game
by Sandie Jones
After her clients file goes missing, Naomi, a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, wonders if her own dark past is coming back to haunt her and if her clients aren't the only ones in danger.
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Amy & Lan
by Sadie Jones
Amy and Lan grow up in a seemingly perfect, pastoral life on a 78-acre English farm, but discover the adults have secrets, in the new novel by the author of the acclaimed, best-selling novel The Uninvited Guests.
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Alias Emma: a novel
by Ava Glass
A brand-new secret agent, Emma Makepeace, is tasked with having only 12 hours to bring the son of Russian dissidents into protective custody while avoiding the assassins looking for him in one of the worlds most-surveilled cities.
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