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Activities of Daily Living
by Lisa Chen
How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties in this moving debut on the
interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time.
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The Apartment on Calle Uruguay
by Zachary Lazar
When Christopher, a blocked painter, meets Ana, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York, a complicated romance develops that brings reveals their buried history, in this haunting novel set against the backdrops of America in chaos and Mexico.
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At Least You Have Your Health
by Madi Sinha
Behind the chic veneer of a wellness clinic lies a dangerous secret, in this compelling novel hat deftly handles various themes such as the commodification of wellness and women in healthcare through relatable characters and smart dialogue.
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Atomic Anna
by Rachel Barenbaum
During the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, a renowned nuclear scientist is thrust through time to 1992 where her estranged daughter uses her dying breath to ask her mother to go back through time and prevent the disaster.
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Bluebird
by Genevieve Graham
A dazzling novel set during the Great War and postwar Prohibition about a young nurse, a soldier, and a family secret that binds them together for generations to come.
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The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
Told through lives of multiple characters, this electrifying, deeply moving novel, spanning 10 years, follows “Own Your Unconscious,” a new technology that allows access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for success to the memories of others.
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The Caretakers
by Amanda Bestor-siegal
Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, this novel is told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family—a dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving from a talented new writer.
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The Children on the Hill
by Jennifer McMahon
When Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, arrives in Vermont, where a kidnapping and monster sighting has sent the town into a frenzy, she is determined to hunt it down because it could be her very own sister.
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Four Treasures of the Sky
by Jenny Zhang
A Chinese girl struggles to find her place in the 1880s American West after being kidnapped and smuggled, working at a calligraphy school and a San Francisco brothel as anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country.
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Girls of Flight City
by Lorraine Heath
Jessie, Lovelace, a talented female pilot in 1941 Texas discovers that her small-town, civilian flight school is secretly training British pilots for the RAF and fights to become an instructor.
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The Good Left Undone
by Adriana Trigiani
This richly woven tapestry of three generations of women faced with impossible choices follows Matelda, the family’s matriarch, as she, facing the end of her life, must decide what is worth fighting for and when to let go.
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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
by Noor Naga
An Egyptian American woman visiting her parents’ homeland begins a dark romance with an unemployed photographer who is addicted to cocaine and living in a rooftop shack in Cairo in a novel about identity politics.
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Kaikeyi
by Vaishnavi Patel
The only princess of the kingdom of Kekaya discovers she possesses magic when she revisits the ancient texts she used to read with her banished mother and transforms herself into a warrior to make a better world for other women.
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Last Dance on the Starlight Pier
by Sarah Bird
In 1932 Galveston, Evie Grace Devlin, escaping a dark past in vaudeville and becoming a good person, is swept up into the alien world of dance marathons, which thrusts her into the spotlight where the promise of a family, a purpose and even love wait in the wings.
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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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Let's Not Do That Again
by Grant Ginder
When her daughter Greta makes headlines as an extremist protestor in Paris, Nancy Harrison, running for Senate, must find Greta to save her campaign before it’s too late.
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Life Sentences
by Billy O’Callaghan
This moving portrait of life in Ireland follows 16-year-old Nancy Martin, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine as she embarks on an affair with a handsome gardener, setting off a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations.
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Like a House on Fire
by Lauren McBrayer
Returning to her career at Jager + Brandt, Merit forms a true friendship with Jane, a brilliant and beautiful Danish architect who sees Merit for exactly who she is, and wonders if Jane is the love of her life, not the husband she’s been married to for 23 years.
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Little Foxes Took Up Matches
by Katya Kazbek
After suffering horrific abuse from his cousin who has returned broken from war, Mitya embarks on a journey across underground post-Soviet Moscow where he hopes to find a place to belong. His experiences are interlaced with a retelling of a foundational Russian fairy tale, Koschei the Deathless, offering an element of fantasy to the brutal realities of Mitya's everyday life.
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Lost and Found in Paris
by Lian Dolan
A thinking woman’s ultimate escapist adventure in Paris, told with wit and a touch of intrigue.
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Lucky Turtle
by Bill Roorbach
While at a reform camp in Montana. 16-year-old privileged while girl Cindra Zoeller escapes into the wilderness with her lover and they must both suffer the consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together – and circumstances shaped by skin color.
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Marrying the Ketchups
by Jennifer Close
When Bud, the founder of JP Sullivan’s, drops dead, everyone in the Sullivan family finds themselves doubting all they hold dear, in this unputdownable comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried love that feeds them.
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The Mayfair Bookshop
by Eliza Knight
Starting her dream job at the legendary Heywood Hill Bookshop in London, book curator Lucy St. Clair discovers that her history is intertwined with that of Nancy Mitford and finds her life forever changed my this little bookshop just as Nancy did many years ago.
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Memphis
by Tara M. Stringfellow
Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family’s legacy.
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The Return of Faraz Ali
by Aamina Ahmad
When his powerful father installs him as head of the Mohalia police station, charging him with covering up the violent death of a child prostitute, Faraz, for the first time in his career, defies orders as he chases down the truth in Lahore’s notorious red-light district.
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School Days
by Jonathan Galassi
When the Leverett School’s headmaster asks him to help investigate an abuse charge, English teacher Sam Brandt, a former student, embarks on a quest to get to the heart of Leverett where his assumptions about his own life are shaken. From a critically acclaimed writer and publisher.
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Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
Hired to investigate the black-skied Night City, Detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts discovers an anomaly in the North American Wilderness where he encounters a strange group of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary that could disrupt the timeline of the universe.
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Seven Steeples
by Sara Baume
In this beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature, a couple move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs where they, as the seasons pass, come to understand more about the small world around them.
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Shadows of Berlin
by David R. Gillham
In 1955, Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother’s legacy, arrives in New York City as part of the wave of Jewish displaced persons and is unable to live a “normal” life until she confronts the survivor’s guilt that weighs down on her.
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The Sign for Home
by Blair Fell
Arlo Dilly, DeafBlind, a Jehovah’s Witness and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle, sets out, with his gay interpreter and his wildly inappropriate Belgian best friend, to find the love of life, who he thought he lost forever but has come to learn otherwise.
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The Sturgeon's Heart
by Amy E. Casey
Three people in the same northern city of Duluth, Minnesota, are vanishing in different ways: Howard Wright finds his skin turning transparent. Sarah Turnsfield is living under an assumed identity, on the run from her past as a meteoric scientific prodigy. Jo Breckmier seeks a new start in Duluth after a bitter divorce. When they meet, each will discover how long they can hide.
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Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young Black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.
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Theatre of Marvels
by Lianne Dillsworth
With her success riding on her ability to keep real identity secret, Zillah, aka The Great Amazonia, “a savage queen from darkest Africa,” finds her planning upended when she is torn between two men – a mysterious Black gentleman and her boss’s friend who offers her the world.
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True Biz
by Sara Novic
Taking readers into a residential school for the deaf, this coming-of-age novel follows three people – a rebellious transfer student, the school’s golden boy and the headmistress – as they each deal with personal and political crises and find their lives inextricable from one another – and changed forever.
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Unlikely Animals
by Annie Hartnett
Emma Starling, a natural-born healer who lost her way, and her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain injury, team up to find Emma’s former best friend from high school who has gone missing, setting in motion a miracle the town needs.
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Young Mungo
by Douglas Stuart
In Glasgow, Mungo and James, who should be enemies due to their religious beliefs, fall in love, dreaming of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him to protect them both from the danger their relationship brings.
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Welcome to the Neighborhood
by Lisa Roe
What lengths will a mother go to protect what's most important? Ginny Miller's re-marriage is a great opportunity to move with her quirky eleven year-old daughter to an upscale New Jersey suburb-but reality in the Real Housewives of NJ town isn't everything she hoped it would be.
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When We Fell Apart
by Soon Wiley
In Seoul, Korea, Min-devastated by the suicide of his girlfriend- throws himself into finding out why she wanted to die, and the more he learns, the more he realizes he never really knew her at all.
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Wingwalkers
by Taylor Brown
Part epic adventure, part love story, this novel intricately weaves together the adventures of a vagabond couple who survive the Great Depression by performing death-defying aerial stunts from town to town, with the life of the author (and thwarted fighter pilot) William Faulkner.
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A Woman of Endurance
by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
A novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.
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Bitter Roots
by Ellen Crosby
On the evening of their wedding, vineyard owner Lucie and winemaker Quinn discover the murdered body of a nursery employee who sold them diseased plants for the ceremony and investigate.
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City on Fire
by Don Winslow
A mid-1980s longshoreman who does occasional stints for the Irish crime syndicate becomes embroiled in a conflict between rival factions in the first book of a new series. [original pub date 9/21]
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Cleopatra's Dagger
by Carole Lawrence
New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald. When she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park, the macabre discovery leads them to investigate New York City's darkest shadows.
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Death of the Black Widow
by James Patterson
A case from his very first night on the job, where a woman bludgeoned her kidnapper and then vanished, still haunts a Detroit detective years later and he discovers he is not alone in his search.
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Dream Town
by David Baldacci
World War II veteran and private investigator Aloysius Archer becomes enmeshed in a lethal, extended web of murder and deceit in 1953 Los Angeles in the third novel of the series.
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Fierce Poison
by Will Thomas
Following the death of client in his own office, Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker investigates a poisoner on the loose in 1893 London in the latest addition to the series.
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Hot Time
by W. H. Flint
New York, August 1896. A “hot wave” has settled on the city leaving tempers short while the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring in this atmospheric crime thriller set featuring Theodore Roosevelt as an ambitious police commissioner.
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I'll Be You
by Janelle Brown
An identical twin and former child TV star reassesses the complicated bond with her estranged sister after their panicked father says she stopped answering her phone and has checked into a mysterious spa in Ojai that might be a cult.
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Insomnia
by Sarah Pinborough
With her fortieth birthday approaching – the same time her mother went insane, Emma Averell is unable to sleep, and loses time during the day, symptoms her mother showed, leading her to wonder if the madness is in her blood or is she slowly beginning to lose her mind.
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The Investigator
by John Sandford
Working with Homeland Security in Texas to investigate the thefts of crude oil, Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious daughter of Lucas Davenport, is pitted against a militia group as the case quickly turns deadly.
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Kingdom of Bones
by James Rollins
When an unknown force begins rendering humans apathetic while nearby plants and animals begin evolving at exponential rates, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force scramble to halt the spread and uncover its natural or malevolent origins. [Original pub date in 2021]
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The Lifeguards
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Three mothers, who have raised their kids together for 15 years, Whitney, Annette and Liza find the perfect world they have so painstakingly created shattered by the unthinkable when a secret their three boys – all lifeguards – have been keeping is revealed.
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Murder on Madison Square
by Victoria Thompson
When Alfred Bing, whose wife wanted Frank to manufacture evidence so she could end their marriage, winds up dead, pinned beneath one the wheels of his very own motorcar, the former policeman and his wife find nothing is what it seems as they search for the truth.
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Murder Most Vile
by Eric Brown
London. April, 1957. PI Donald Langham is approached by Vernon Lombard to find his missing son. But there's more to Christopher Lombard's disappearance than meets the eye, and the apparently simple case becomes far more alarming.
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Nobody but Us
by Laure Van Rensburg
When Ellie, a brilliant NYU grade student, and her boyfriend, a wealthy and privileged professor, are stranded together during a romantic getaway, they realize that neither of them is quite who they say they are – and that one of them won’t escape the weekend alive.
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One Last Chance
by Jeffrey Siger
When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances.
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One-Shot Harry
by Gary Phillips
In 1963 Los Angeles, African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram is now a news photographer. When an old army buddy’s death is ruled an accident, Ingram discovers his photographs tell a different story, compelling him to play detective in the hope of finding something resembling justice for a friend.
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Pay Dirt Road
by Samantha Jayne Allen
Lured into the family business – a private investigation firm – by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Annie McIntyre, while looking into the disappearance of waitress, finds herself identifying with the victim in increasing, unsettling ways and must confront her own past to survive this case.
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Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
A Chinese American art history major at Harvard, Will Chen is offered a (very illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless treasures China lost centuries ago and assembles a team of fellow students, chosen for their skills and loyalty, to help him on his mission—and make history.
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Redemption
by Michael Lawson
Convicted of insider trading, Jamison Maddox reluctantly accepts a mysterious job that soon takes an ominous twist, sending him on the run from powerful and deadly forces.
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The Sacred Bridge
by Anne Hillerman
Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge, investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
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The Sweet Goodbye
by Ron Corbett
The feds have already lost one agent investigating why a small, family-run lumber company has more than 200 million unaccountable dollars on their books. Now Danny Barrett must chase after the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness to put an end to this deadly operation. First in a thrilling new series.
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The Vanishing Type
by Ellery Adams
Bookstore owner Nora Pennington helps Deputy Andrews plan a wedding proposal for his intended bride, Hester, and suddenly notices that all her shop's copies of The Scarlet Letter have been vandalized.
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When the Corn Grows Waist High
by Jeremy Scott
In the early '80s, a priest who is also the elected sheriff of a Dny Indiana farm town, must juggle his two professions, as well as the FBI, as he fights to help solve a string of murders that have shaken the sleepy community to its core.
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The World of Pondside
by Mary Helen Stefaniak
Robert Kallman, beloved resident of Pondside Manor care facility who struggles with ALS, creates a virtual reality game so addictive that when Kallman unexpectedly dies, a group of residents and staff band together to both reboot the game and determine whether Kallman’s death was murder or suicide.
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The Younger Wife
by Sally Hepworth
When their father decides to divorce their mother, who, in a care facility for dementia, cannot speak for herself, so he can marry his young girlfriend Heather, sisters Tully and Rachel must find the truth about their family’s secrets, Heather and who their father really is.
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Funny You Should Ask
by Elissa Sussman
Hired to write a profile on the movie star who is her number one celebrity crush, a writer has a whirlwind weekend with the actor and is still questioned about it ten years later despite her own successful career.
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Just the Two of Us
by Jo Wilde
A couple on the brink of divorce after 35 years of marriage gets a second chance to rediscover their love now that a pandemic lockdown has forced them to spend more time together.
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Fool Me Once
by Ashley Winstead
Old sparks rekindle when a communications director at a women-run electric car company discovers she must work with her ex, a policy expert with the Texas governor’s office, on a new clean energy bill.
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Part of Your World
by Abby Jimenez
ER doctor Alexis Montgomery’s world is turned upside down by a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s 10 years younger, and as their short-term flings turns into a relationship, she must choose between her ultra-wealthy parents and true love.
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Sea Glass Cottage
by Irene Hannon
Christi Reece arrived in Hope Harbor reeling from a series of setbacks and desperate for help, but Jack Colby wants nothing to do with the woman who betrayed him-until a turn of events finds him needing her help.
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Fevered Star
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Living avatars, Serapio and Naranpa, fight to stay human in the face of changes that will transform the great city of Tova as tense alliances form and far-away enemies gather in the second novel of the series.
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Flint and Mirror
by John Crowley
Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, has pledged love and fealty to Elizabeth the Great, has his loyalty split when the ancient peoples of Ireland rise to win back their lands and their way of life.
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Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.
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One Foot in the Fade
by Luke Arnold
When an angel falls to Earth in a city that lost its magic, Fetch, working alongside necromancers, genies and shadowy secret societies, searches for answers—a quest that leaves a mark on his body, his soul and the fate of the world.
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