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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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All the Ruined Men: Stories
by Bill Glose
A collection of linked short stories that show veterans struggling for normalcy as they deal with flashbacks, both mental and physical injuries, ruined relationships, loss of faith, confusion and disillusionment.
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All This Could Be Different
by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Follows a young Indian American woman who is grappling with graduating into a recession, working a grueling entry-level corporate job and trying to date Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just beyond her grasp.
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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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Amy Among the Serial Killers
by Jincy Willett
A retired writing instructor receives a call from a former student who has gotten involved in a murder investigation that reunites the entire class in the third novel of the series following Amy Falls Down.
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Benevolence
by Julie Janson
A young Darug girl is sent to the Parramatta Native School after White settlers begin to arrive and claim the continent for the British Empire and flees searching for a safe place in an increasingly unfamiliar world.
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Black Hamptons
by Carl Weber
Tensions arise between old money and new money when a parcel of land comes up for sale at an exclusive vacation community for affluent African Americans at the end of Long Island, New York.
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Carrie Soto Is Back
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record at the 1994 US Open in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Malibu Rising.
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The Challenge
by Danielle Steel
When their children go missing, a group of parents, desperate to hear word that they've been found, a media frenzy ensures, heightening tensions and testing some already fragile relationships, forcing them all to reconsider what they once held dear.
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The Codebreaker's Secret
by Sara Ackerman
In this dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder and romance, set in both 1943 Honolulu and 1965 Muana Kea Beach Hotel, follows two women cryptanalysts working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating the disappearance of a high-profile guest during the hotel's grand opening.
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Delphi
by Clare Pollard
A classics academic immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies becomes obsessed with predicting the future through chiromancy, zoomancy and oenomancy after the COVID-19 lockdown magnifies her imploding marriage and increasingly unreachable young son.
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Diary of a Void
by Emi Yagi
Ms. Shibata starts a new job in Tokyo where, as the only woman, she is forced to do all the menial tasks, until she decides to fake a pregnancy that results in her coworkers treating her like a queen.
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Elizabeth Finch
by Julian Barnes
After taking a class, Culture and Civilization, with the commanding, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch, Neil develops an obsessive, intellectual crush on her in a novel of platonic, unrequited love by the Booker award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.
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Haven
by Emma Donoghue
Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands of birds.
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A History of Present Illness
by Anna Deforest
A young student doctor discovers the long hours and heartbreaking work at the hospital begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the traumas she's tried to flee from her past.
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The House of Fortune
by Jessie Burton
In this spellbinding stand-alone companion novel to The Miniaturist set in 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt, on her 18th birthday, which marks the day her mother died, receives a parcel containing a miniature figure of her secret lover, which changes her fate forever.
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How To Fall Out of Love Madly
by Jana Casale
A woman settling into a comfortable domesticity with her male roommate after their third roommate leaves is stunned, and vows to hold onto him no matter what, when he brings home the gorgeous girlfriend he's never mentioned.
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The Hundred Waters
by Lauren Acampora
When Gabriel, a young artist-environmentalist arrives in the affluent town of Nearwater, Connecticut, former model and photographer Louisa Rader, who is trying to vitalize the provincial local art center, and her preteen daughter are pulled under his spell, with consequences that disrupt the Rader's world forever.
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The Last Karankawas
by Kimberly Garza
Imagining a life elsewhere, undefined by her family's history, Carly Castillo, in a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families in Galveston, Texas, finds everything changed by the arrival of Hurricane Ike, which forces each resident to decide whether to hunker down or abandon their hard-won homes.
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The Last of the Seven
by Steven Hartov
A German Jew and soldier seeking revenge for the deaths of his family, a young lieutenant is brought to recover in Sicily where he is recruited by a British major to join the newly formed X Troop, all lost boys driven not by patriotism but by vengeance.
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The Last White Man
by Mohsin Hamid
As people across the land awaken in new incarnations, Anders, whose skin turns dark, confides only in Oona, an old friend turned new lover, deciding to use this as chance at a kind of rebirth, in this novel of transcendence over bigotry, fear and anger.
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The Lost Ticket
by Freya Sampson
Arriving in London, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly Frank who has been riding the bus for 60 years, hoping to find a girl he met in 1962, and decides to help him search, finding her tightly controlled world expanding as she opens her heart to new friendships and romance.
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Mademoiselle Revolution
by Zoe Sivak
Fleeing from Haiti to Paris in 1791, Sylvie de Rosiers quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with revolutionaries Robespierre and his mistress, Cornľie Duplay, and must decide whether to be an accomplice or risking losing her head as the Reign of Terror descends.
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The Making of Her
by Bernadette Jiwa
In 1996 Dublin, when Joan Egan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter whom she gave up for adoption, asking for a life-or-death favor, she, grappling with guilt, must confront her crumbling marriage and simmering tensions with her other daughter to keep her family together before it is too late.
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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
by Jamie Ford
The New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.
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A Map for the Missing
by Belinda Huijuan Tang
A Chinese mathematician living in America returns to China after receiving word that his estranged father has vanished from his village and reunites with a childhood friend he left behind as the pair search and grapple with their pasts.
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Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
by Akil Kumarasamy
Alternating between the narrator's present life and the passages of a translated manuscript detailing the dawn of a new existence, a young woman, struggling to survive in a violent and fractured near future, is forced to question her own moral compass and sense of goodness.
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Mercury Pictures Presents
by Anthony Marra
After Americas entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned fathers past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Mika In Real Life
by Emiko Jean
Getting to know Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption 16 years ago, 35-year-old Mika Suzuki finds unexpected love with Penny's widowed father and finally has a chance to have the life and family she's always wanted until her deceptions catch up with her.
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Mother in the Dark
by Kayla Maiuri
When she receives a shattering call that threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard for, Anna must confront her tumultuous past dealing with her mercurial mother and the darkness that constantly threatened to consume her.
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Mount Chicago
by Adam Levin
After a one-in-10-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago, a Jewish comedian, his biggest fan and the city's mayor struggle to move forward while the world literally crumbles out from under them.
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My Government Means to Kill Me
by Rasheed Newson
In the 1980s, Trey Singleton III, a young gay black man, leaves his life of wealth and privilege behind, running away to NYC where he meets a cast of characters that changes his life as he navigates personal and political choices during the AIDS crisis.
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Perish
by LaToya Watkins
This sweeping family saga about a Black Texan family, which spans decades and is told in alternate chapters, follows four members of the Turner clan as they, called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother, must decide who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the cross of blame.
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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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The Rabbit Hutch
by Tess Gunty
Set in the post-industrial Midwest, this story of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, follows Blandine, who lives with three other teens in a run-down apartment building known as the Rabbit Hutch, as she embarks on a quest for transcendence that culminates in a shocking act of violence.
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Rules at the School by the Sea
by Jenny Colgan
Engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Maggie Adair, a teacher at Downey House the sea in Cornwall, must stop thinking about her colleague at the boys school down the road, while her boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, must confront a scandalous secret she thought she'd buried forever.
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Sister Friends Forever
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
This powerful story of friendship follows four best friends who, leading very different lives, come together each month to discuss their hopes and dreams.
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Smells Like Tween Spirit
by Laurie Gelman
Drawn into the somewhat-terrifying new social dynamics of wrestling moms, Jen Dixon, armed with her sense of humor, between school events and teaching spin classes, becomes immersed in sports mom competitiveness and middle-school drama while dealing with Max's newfound misogynistic behavior.
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The Thread Collectors
by Shaunna J. Edwards
In 1863, a young black woman, who embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army, crosses paths with a Jewish seamstress who helps her discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us.
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When We Were Bright and Beautiful
by Jillian Medoff
When her brother, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Cassie Quinn, as reporters converge on her family's Upper East Side landmark building, vows to prove his innocence, which means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world.
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Where the Sky Begins
by Rhys Bowen
In 1940 London, during World War II, Josie, with nothing left and nowhere to go, ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host of the survivors of the Blitz, and convinces her to open a tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again.
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Alias Emma
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 world's most-surveilled cities.
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All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers
Twenty years after a fellow 6-year-old was abducted and murdered, Margot returns to Wakarusa, Indiana, and is shocked when another child similarly goes missing, in the debut novel from the host of the popular true crime podcast, Crime Junky.
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Babysitter
by Joyce Carol Oates
The lives of three individuals, including the wife of a prominent businessman who is having an affair, a street hustler seeking to right an injustice and a serial killer called Babysitter, intersect in a Detroit suburb in the 1970s.
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Bark to the Future
by Spencer Quinn
When dog Chet and his human, Bernie Little, run into a homeless panhandler who turns out to be an old classmate, they investigate his past, in the 13th novel of the series following It's a Wonderful Woof.
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The Blame Game
by Sandie Jones
A psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi, after her clients file goes missing, 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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The Couple at Number 9
by Claire Douglas
When, while renovating her grandmother Roses cottage, she uncovers the remains of two bodies, pregnant Saffron Cutler must protect Rose who suffers from Alzheimer's from a murder inquiry, plunging her life in danger as she tries to piece together what Rose knows.
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Daisy Darker
by Alice Feeney
A family gathering for their matriarchs 80th birthday in her crumbling, gothic house on a tiny island begin disappearing one by one, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Rock Paper Scissors.
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A Dark and Stormy Tea
by Laura Childs
After witnessing the murder of her friend Lois daughter, tea shop owner and amateur sleuth Theodosia Browning investigates and is surprised when so many suspects turn up, in the latest addition to the long-running series, following Twisted Tea Christmas.
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Dark Music
by David Lagercrantz
A street-smart Swedish police officer seeks help from a renowned authority on interrogation techniques to help solve the case of a murdered Afghani asylum-seeker in the new thriller from the author of The Girl in the Spiders Web.
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Die Around Sundown
by Mark Pryor
In German-occupied Paris of 1940, Henri Lefort has five days to solve a murder of a solider in the Louvre and during his investigation he encounters Pablo Picasso among a group of artist who know more than they will divulge.
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Dirt Creek
by Hayley Scrivenor
Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels investigates the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl from a small town in rural Australia, who was last seen with a strange man by a school friend who refuses to speak to the police.
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The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell
In this sequel to the best-selling The Family Upstairs, two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion 30 years ago.
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Firestorm
by Taylor Moore
A powerful energy consortium begins an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy special agent Garrett Kohl's Texas ranch and his family's way of life in the new novel from the author of Down Range.
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Fox Creek
by William Kent Krueger
Cork O'Conner tries to find his wife who had accompanied a mysterious stranger on a visit the ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux before a group of mercenaries can, in the latest novel of the series following Desolation Mountain.
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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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Girl, Forgotten
by Karin Slaughter
Forty years after Emily Vaughn was murdered on her prom night, U.S. Marshal Andrea Oliver picks up the cold case to find justice in the follow-up to the New York Times best-selling novel Pieces of Her.
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Heat 2
by Michael Mann
Follows the formative years of homicide detective Vincent Hanna and an elite group of criminals and crime syndicates, in the new novel by the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral and Miami Vice.
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The Housekeeper
by Joy Fielding
Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinson's, successful real estate agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audrey's condition rapidly worsens.
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The Ink Black Heart
by Robert Galbraith
This sixth novel in the highly acclaimed, internationally best-selling series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in yet another case filled with twists and turns.
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Long Gone
by Joanna Schaffhausen
Chicago detective Annalisa Vega has nothing left to lose as she investigates the bizarre murder of a fellow detective whose ties to a killer in plain sight forces her to risk everything to reveal the truth.
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The Lost Kings
by Tyrell Johnson
Jamie, keeping her demons at bay by drinking too much, sleeping with a married man and speaking to a therapist she doesn't respect, must finally confront her father after 20 years, desperate to find out what happened that night long ago and why she was the one left behind.
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Murder at Beacon Rock
by Alyssa Maxwell
During an exclusive meeting of the New York Yacht Club at Beacon Rock, which she is attending with her fiancé, reporter Emma Cross discovers a woman's body floating in the water, and she, when all signs point to murder, must sort through a who's who of Newport's elite.
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Murder in Westminster
by Vanessa Riley
When she stumbles upon the body of her neighbor Stapleton Henderson's wife, Lady Abigail Worthing, expecting to be under suspicion due to her skin color and her mother's notorious past, teams up with Henderson and together they dive into the treacherous waters of London's high society to find the truth.
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Peg and Rose Solve a Murder
by Laurien Berenson
Polar opposites and bridge partners, 60-something former nun Rose and her sister-in-law Peg, who knows how to push all of Rose's buttons, are drawn into a mystery they must work together to solve when the bridge club's most accomplished player is murdered, and they fall under suspicion.
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Round Up the Usual Peacocks
by Donna Andrews
While dealing with wedding plans and demanding out-of-town guests, Meg Langslow must help her nephew when a member of his true-crime podcast has a brush with death by tracking down three relatively local cold cases so she can figure who wants them silenced forever.
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Stay Awake
by Megan Goldin
Liv Reese, waking up holding a bloodstained knife and her hands covered in scribbled messages, remembers nothing from the past two years and goes on the run for a crime she doesn't remember committing, followed by someone who will do anything to stop her from remembering permanently.
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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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A Tidy Ending
by Joanna Cannon
A British housewife living in a quiet neighborhood becomes obsessed with the former resident of her new house and her seemingly envious lifestyle while her husband starts acting suspicious and young women in town start to go missing.
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
by Gillian McAllister
After witnessing her teenage son kill a man, a mother falls asleep in despair, wakes up and it is yesterday, and wakes up again and it is the day before yesterday, getting chance after chance to stop the murder and save her son.
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Aphrodite and the Duke
by J. J. McAvoy
Back in London for her sisters society debut, Aphrodite Du Bell is intent on avoiding Evander Eagleman, the man who jilted her and broke her heart by marrying someone else years ago, but who is now an unattached widower.
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The Hookup Plan
by Farrah Rochon
When she decides to have a no-strings affair with millionaire Drew Sullivan, who happens to be her archnemesis, successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley finds their relationship turning into something more until she discovers the real reason he's back home.
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Husband Material
by Alexis J. Hall
Feeling pressured by so many people around them getting married, Luc decides that it might be time to propose to his boyfriend Oscar in the second novel of the series following Boyfriend Material.
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Love on the Brain
by Ali Hazelwood
While co-leading a NASA neuroengineering project with her archenemy Levi Ward, scientist Bee Königswasser meets her match in this brilliant man who suddenly turns into an ally when her career starts floundering, causing things to heat up between them and forcing her to make a difficult choice.
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Mr. Perfect on Paper
by Jean Meltzer
The founder of J-Mate, the world's most successful Jewish dating app, Dara Rabinowitz, when her beloved bubbe outs her list for The Perfect Jewish Husband on a TV news show, is thrust into the spotlight as she, with the help of a reporter, searches for true love.
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Quicksand
by Janet Dailey
Forced to trust Brock Tolman, the rancher who once swindled her father in a land deal, Tess Champion, working to save her family's ranch from foreclosure, tries to deny the attraction between them, especially when they are stranded together, and the truth of their relationship comes out.
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Thank You for Listening
by Julia Whelan
An audiobook narrator, former actress Sewanee Chester, after having a one-night stand with a handsome stranger in Las Vegas, returns home to narrate a romance novel and forms a connection with the anonymous author, but when his identity is finally revealed, she must risk everything for desire.
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To Catch a Raven
by Beverly Jenkins
When the Declaration of Independence is stolen by a former Confederate official, fearless grifter Raven Moreaux, forced by the government to get it back, finds both her life and heart on the line when she falls for her partner who is posing as her husband.
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The Art of Prophecy
by Wesley Chu
When the prophecy anoints the wrong hero, Jian decides to save the kingdom from a cruel immortal god-king anyway with the help of a ragtag group of allies, including a grandmaster of magical marital arts, a straight-laced warrior and a chaotic assassin.
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
by R. F. Kuang
A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties.
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The Book Eaters
by Sunyi Dean
Part of The Family, a secret line of people for whom books are food, Devon, raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories, discovers that real life doesn't always come with happy endings when her son is born with an insatiable hunger for human minds.
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Councilor
by L. E. Modesitt
A man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and surveillance of empaths, Steffan Dekkard, is appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six and immediately becomes the target of an assassination, in the second novel of the series following Isolate.
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The First Binding
by R. R. Virdi
Both a legend and a monster, Ari, an immortal hiding as a storyteller who travels a timeless road, never staying for long lest his sins and reputation find him tells the story of how he let loose the First Evil.
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Glacier's Edge
by R. A. Salvatore
Jarlaxie, the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, must escape the ice caverns and get help for his friends by pulling together a team with unimaginable power in the follow-up to Starlight Enclave.
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Other Birds
by Sarah Addison Allen
Arriving on Mallow Island, right off the coast of South Carolina, to claim her late mother's apartment, Zoey meets her eccentric and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, a lonely chef, a legendary writer and three ghosts, each with their own stories whose endings haven't been written yet.
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The Princess and the Scoundrel
by Beth Revis
Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them.
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Small Angels
by Lauren Owen
Returning home for the first time in years for her brother's wedding, Kate must reconnect with the Gonnes sisters especially Lucia, her first love, to protect the village from a menacing ghost lingering by the Small Angels church determined to destroy everything and everyone she loves.
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The Spear Cuts Through Water
by Simon Jimenez
When an ancient god escapes her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors, she, along with a guard broken by a guilt-stricken past and an outcast fighting for his future, embarks on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom and end the Moon Throne forever.
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A Taste of Gold and Iron
by Alexandra Rowland
In Arasht, a kingdom where princes can tell what substances are precious metals through touch, Kadou and his sister uncover a counterfeiting conspiracy, amounting to heresy, which could bring about his country's ruin.
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The Women Could Fly
by Megan Giddings
Fourteen years after her mother's disappearance, Josephine, with her future in doubt in a world where women are closely monitored, is offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will and leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.
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