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All the Days of Summer
by Nancy Thayer
A divorced empty-nester moves into a cottage on Nantucket and is irritated when her adult son arrives with his serious girlfriend and the two women must learn to overcome their differences to achieve the future they want.
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Atalanta
by Jennifer Saint
Princess Atlanta, left to die by her parents who wanted a son, is raised by a mother bear under the protection of the goddess Artemis, in the new novel by the best-selling author of Elektra.
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The Bird Hotel
by Joyce Maynard
Deciding to restore and run a decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona in a small Central American village, Irene, a troubled yet talented artist, meets a colorful cast of characters who change her life.
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Blue Skies
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
When a social media influencer buys a Burmese python from her local pet shop, she sets in motion a series of increasingly dire events that ensnares her entire family in the new novel by the author of World's End.
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Can't I Go Instead
by Kæum-i Yi
Two women's lives and identities are intertwined—through World War II and the Korean War—revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century.
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The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living—and living well—five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Friday Black.
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The Collected Regrets of Clover
by Mikki Brammer
Feeling a stronger connection with the dying than to the living, Clover, a death doula in NYC, has no life of her own until the final wishes of a feisty old woman sends her across the country to uncover a forgotten love story—and perhaps, her own happy ending.
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The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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Dances
by Nicole Cuffy
Promoted to the principal at the New York City Ballet, Cece Cordell, a young black woman, still feels like she doesn't belong, and, despite her dream achievement, is faced with a choice that may derail her career.
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The Daydreams
by Laura Hankin
A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s-and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good.
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Deep As the Sky, Red As the Sea
by Rita Chang-Eppig
A legendary Chinese pirate queen fights to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.
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Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
by Crystal Smith Paul
After a silver screen icon dies and leaves her huge estate to three sisters, one of them discovers that the actress was really their grandmother, a black woman who had “passed” for white for over 60 years.
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Doäna Cleanwell Leaves Home
by Ana Castillo
Living literary legend Ana Castillo's groundbreaking short story collection explores the secrets that are kept within households, the behaviors borne of patriarchal privilege, and the women they impact the most.
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The Enchanted Hacienda
by J. C. Cervantes
Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
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The Garnett Girls
by Georgina Moore
While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, her daughters find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.
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Glassworks
by Olivia Wolfgang-smith
Follows several generations of a family between 1910 and 2015, from Agnes who leaves her spendthrift husband for a Bohemian naturalist glassblower to her great-granddaughter who makes cremains into glass keepsakes.
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The God of Good Looks
by Breanne Mc Ivor
Taking a job assisting the brilliant but aloof makeup artist Obadiah Cortland, a rising star in the Trinidadian beauty community, Bianca Bridge, as her ex-lover, a married government official, still wields power of her and the colleagues she's come to love, finally finds her voice to fight back.
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Gone to the Wolves
by John Wray
A trio of friends, outlier metal heads in a super-conservative Florida 1980s backwoods make a pilgrimage to L.A.’s Sunset Strip in search of a better life, and face a shocking truth after one of them disappears.
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Good Night, Irene
by Luis Alberto Urrea
After D-Day, two heroic Red Cross women, Irene Woodward and Dorothy Dunford join the Allied soldiers streaming into France where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.
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The Guest
by Emma Cline
After a misstep at a dinner party makes her no longer welcome in Long Island, Alex, gifted with the ability to navigate the desires of others, sticks around, spending the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.
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The Half Moon
by Mary Beth Keane
Longtime bartender Malcolm Gephardt realizes his dream of owning a bar, while his wife Jess, a lawyer struggling with fertility issues, wonders how to reshape her life, in a novel told over the course of one tumultuous week, laying bare the complexities of marriage, family, longing and desire.
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A History of Burning
by Janika Oza
Taken from his village in India to work on the East African Railway for the British, Pirbhai spends his life reconciling an act he committed to survive that will haunt his family's future for years to come.
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Homebodies
by Tembe Denton-Hurst
A young black woman who discovers she is being replaced at her flashy media job writes a detailed letter outlining the racism and sexism she’s endured which goes viral and launches her into the public zeitgeist.
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Hula
by Jasmin Iolani Hakes
A young daughter of the legendary Hawaiian Naupaka dynasty dreams of healing the rift in her family by competing in and winning the next Miss Aloha Hula contest and proving herself worthy of carrying on her family’s name.
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I Am Ayah: The Way Home
by Donna Hill
Shielding herself from the world behind the safety of her camera lens, photographer Ayah Fleming is pulled into the past when she returns home and uncovers the truth about her descendants with the help of a man who makes her long for a brighter future.
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The Island Villa
by Sarah Morgan
Reuniting in Corfu for their mother's fourth wedding, half-sisters Adeline and Cassie are stunned when the groom turns out to be none other than Adeline's father, whose heart was broken the first time, throwing their already fragile relationships into a tailspin.
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The King's Pleasure
by Alison Weir
Painting a stunning portrait of the idealistic monarch who expanded Parliament, founded the Royal Navy, modernized medical training and patronized the arts, this historical novel explores the private side of King Henry VIII, a passionate man in search of true love who was a legend in his own lifetime.
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The Late Americans
by Brandon Taylor
During a volatile year of self-discovery in the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, three friends, as each prepares for an uncertain future, head to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives—a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
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Late Bloomers
by Deepa Varadarajan
Thirty-six years into their dutiful but unhappy arranged marriage, an Indian couple decide to get a divorce and start new paths in life, leaving their adult children unmoored, confused and hiding secrets about their own lives.
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The Marriage Act
by John Marrs
In Britain, in the near future, the Sanctity of Marriage Act is implemented, punishing those who choose to remain single, and four couples discover how impossible relationships can be when the government uses every tool in its arsenal to ensure everyone will love, honor and obey.
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The Midnight News
by Jo Baker
Holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information during World War II, 20-year-old Charlotte Richmond, as each day brings new scenes of devastation, is consumed by suspicion and fear when she believes she's being followed, and no longer knows whom to trust, not even herself.
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Notes on Her Color
by Jennifer Neal
After her mother is hospitalized for a mental health crisis, Gabrielle, a young black and indigenous woman who has the ability to change the color of her skin, is drawn to her piano instructor who embodies everything she's missing in her life—creativity, confidence and a nurturing sense of love.
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The Old Lion
by Jeff Shaara
The New York Times bestselling author traces the remarkable life of one of the most consequential figures in the U.S. and the world at large, from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, revealing a man who shaped the foundations of the modern country and world.
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Our Hideous Progeny
by C. E. Mcgill
Determined to follow in the scientific footsteps of her great uncle Victor Frankenstein, Mary Saville and her husband, desperate to be accepted into the scientific community, construct their Creature and Mary finds herself contemplating disturbing questions and unexpected feelings for the hideous progeny she's grown to love.
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Paper Names
by Susie Luo
When an act of violence brings together a Chinese American family and a wealthy white lawyer, their lives become intertwined in ways that will change them forever, in this sweeping story of family, identity and the American experience.
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The Postcard
by Anne Berest
Fifteen years after the arrival of an anonymous postcard with the names of her maternal great-grandparents and their children—all killed at Auschwitz—Anne Berest is moved to discover who sent it and why and embarks on a journey to learn the fate of the Rabinovitch family.
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The Private Life of Spies
by Alexander McCall Smith
Half spy stories, half tales of revenge, this new collection from the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels illustrates that transparency is paramount and forgiveness is restorative, reminding us that, in the end, the high road is often the better one for all involved.
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Retrospective
by Juan Gabriel Vâasquez
In Barcelona for a retrospective of his work, Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera recalls the events that marked his family’s unusual and dramatic lives, from the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his family to Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Colombia.
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
by Patti Callahan Henry
When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed.
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Shy
by Max Porter
Escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men,” the narrator, plagued by guilt and rage, enters the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.
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Social Engagement
by Avery Carpenter Forrey
Twenty-nine-year-old Callie Holt, with her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, turns to her phone, sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong, in this darkly humorous novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class and relationships told through a social media lens.
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Summer on Sag Harbor
by Sunny Hostin
When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS —Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh—the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.
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Summer Stage
by Meg Mitchell Moore
Working together to ensure their summer production at a storied Block Island theater is a success, former aspiring playwright Amy Trevino, her daughter Sam and her brother, a well-loved Hollywood actor, must grapple with their desires for fame and fortune and discover what they really want out of life.
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Swamp Story
by Dave Barry
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the“Everglades Melon Monster,” inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
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The Three of Us
by Ore Agbaje-Williams
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day.
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To Die Beautiful
by Buzzy Jackson
A shy 19-year-old law student living in Nazi-occupied Holland, Hannie Schaft, driven by love and moral outrage, joins the Dutch Resistance movement, and as she’s drawn into a web of plots, disguises and assassinations, she becomes known as “the Girl with Red Hair”—a true threat—and a target.
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The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro
by Viola Ardone
From the international bestselling author of The Children's Train comes a heartrending coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries-old tradition to win the right to control her own life.
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The Wedding Planner
by Danielle Steel
Signing up for several lavish affairs, in addition to her mother's next marriage and her twin sister's modest ceremony, wildly successful wedding planner Faith Ferguson grapples with private quarrels, unplanned pregnancies, family scandals, dark secrets and almost cancelled ceremonies, proving that there is more than one path to happily ever after.
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The Wishing Game
by Meg Shaffer
Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life.
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Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers just how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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The 23rd Midnight
by James Patterson
When an obsessed maniac turns serial killer Evan Burkes' true-crime story into a playbook, adding some of his own gruesome touches, Detective Lindsay Boxer, who put Burke in jail, tracks this elusive suspect, who is determined to put an end to the Murder Club.
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Bad, Bad Seymour Brown
by Susan Isaacs
Corie Geller and her retired NYPD detective father investigate after the only surviving victim of a cold-case arson experiences another attempt on her life in the new novel by the author of Takes One to Know One.
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Bad Summer People
by Emma Rosenblum
Two Fire Island queen bees and their single friend who meant to spend summertime relaxing and gossiping discover a body face down off the side of the boardwalk and in addition to uncovering the murderer also reveal infidelity and backstabbing.
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Beware the Woman
by Megan Abbott
A pregnant woman undergoes a health scare that brings up whispered conversations about her husband's complicated family history and long dead mother in the new novel from the award-winning author of Give Me Your Hand.
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The Body in the Web
by Katherine Hall Page
Adjusting to life in quarantine as the pandemic spreads in 2020, amateur detective Faith Fairchild, when scandal breaks out during a town hall Zoom meeting as damaging images are displayed on everyone's screens, which results in murder, journeys deep into the dark web to find the truth.
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Broken Light
by Joanne Harris
Bernie Moon, tired, menopausal and feeling invisible is shocked when a murder in a local park unlocks childhood memories that reveal a talent that she has hidden all her adult life, in the new novel by the author of Chocolat.
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Central Park West
by James Comey
A federal prosecutor, Nora Carleton, enters into a high-stakes investigation involving conspiracy, corruption and danger when a mobster she is trying to convict offers information about an assassination in the first crime novel from the former director of the FBI.
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The Chateau
by Jaclyn Goldis
Invited to Provence to visit the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, Darcy, Séraphine's granddaughter, and her three friends, returning to the estate after 20 years, are plunged into a nightmare when Séraphine is brutally murdered and they are stalked by a faceless killer who pits them against each other.
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Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1422
by T. J. Newman
When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time runs out.
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The Ferryman
by Justin Cronin
A ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process—and, when necessary, enforcing it—Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.
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Fire with Fire
by Candice Fox
After the investigation into their daughter’s disappearance yields no results, two desperate parents take the LAPD forensic lab hostage while an undercover cop and a fired police officer race against time to find the missing girl.
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Fixit
by Joe Ide
Homicide detective Winnie Hando tries to stop Isaiah Quintabe from conducting his own investigation after his first love is kidnapped by a professional hitman in the sixth novel of the series following Smoke.
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The Girl by the Bridge
by Arnaldur Indriðason
While still looking for his father's killer, retired Detective Konrad̀, a retired policeman whose reputation precedes him, agrees to investigate the disappearance of a young woman known for drug smuggling and faces his biggest and darkest challenge yet.
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A Good Family
by Matt Goldman
A woman already suspicious that her husband is up to something is further incensed when he allows an old friend harboring a dark secret to live with them in the new novel from the author of the Nils Shapiro series.
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The House on Prytania
by Karen White
When Beau Ryan asks her for a favor that threatens to stall her hard-won recovery, Nola Trenholm, torn between helping him and protecting herself, realizes until it's almost too late why ghosts are haunting her house, throwing her and Beau together to fight a common enemy.
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Identity
by Nora Roberts
A woman discovers her apartment broken into and her roommate dead after meeting a cold-hearted con artist at the bar where she works.
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Independence Square
by Martin Cruz Smith
While dealing with his Parkinson's disease diagnosis, Russian detective Arkady Renko agrees to search for an acquaintance's missing daughter whom he discovers was an anti-Putin activist, as the country's leaders begin to plot an invasion of Ukraine.
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Killing Me
by Michelle Gagnon
After escaping a serial killer, Amber Jamison ends up at a seedy motel in Las Vegas where she teams up with a noir-obsessed manager and a sex worker to fend off the world’s most prolific killer despite the odds being stacked against her.
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Killing Moon
by Jo Nesbo
Fired from the force and drinking heavily, Harry Hole agrees to assist the police in an investigation about two missing women who were only connected by attending the same party, in the latest novel of the series following Knife.
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The Libyan Diversion
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Seeking to clear his name in a bombing gone wrong, CIA operative Marcus Ryker, with his closest ally inside the White House no longer able to help him, races against time to stop a Libyan terrorist group from launching a retaliatory strike against the U.S.
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The Lie Maker
by Linwood Barclay
Recruited by the U.S. Marshals to create false histories for people in witness protection, like his father, writer Jack Givins uses this opportunity to find his dad—a man who has done terrible things and made deadly enemies who wouldn't think twice about using his own son against him.
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A Line in the Sand
by Kevin Powers
A former interpreter in Iraq who lost his wife and child in an assassination attempt discovers a dead body on the beach in Virginia and believes it is connected to his past.
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The Lock-Up
by John Banville
In 1950s Dublin, renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI John Strafford investigate the murder of a young history scholar with the help of her journalist sister, and as they close in on the killer, their personal lives put the case, and the lives of everyone involved, in danger.
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Murder on Mustang Beach
by Alicia Bessette
When the murder of a newlywed is linked to her soon-to-be-boyfriend Toby Dodge, amateur sleuth and bookseller Callie Padget decides to investigate, uncovering startling secrets surrounding both the crime and a pregnant mare in dire circumstances whose anticipated foal is a symbol of summery hope for locals and visitors alike.
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The New Mother
by Nora Murphy
New mother Natalie Fanning, left mostly alone with her newborn son, has no one to help her until her neighbor Paul provides the lifeline she needs, but she soon discovers it's no coincidence he befriended her as she becomes a pawn in his twisted game.
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The Night Flowers
by Sara Herchenroether
In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. With only fragments from case files and a witness who doesn't want to remember, this unlikely duo is determined—no matter the cost—to uncover the truth behind the murders.
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Nonna Maria and the Case of the Stolen Necklace
by Lorenzo Carcaterra
When her goddaughter is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from a wealthy woman, Nonna Maria sets out to clear her name, which draws her into the murder of a mysterious woman, forcing her to string together the clues before death comes for Ischia again.
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Not alone
by Sarah K. Jackson
When she discovers there's life beyond their familiar flat, Katie and her young son, in a world ravaged by an environmental disaster, encounter an altered world, full of new dangers, other survivors and many surprises that push her to the brink and put her son in danger.
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Only the Dead
by Jack Carr
On a mission generations in the making, former Navy SEAL James Reece, as a secret cabal of global elites prepares to assume control of the U.S., picks up his tomahawk and sniper rifle, showing his enemies that no one is out of range as he blows a global conspiracy wide open.
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The Peacock and the Sparrow
by I. S. Berry
Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, world-weary CIA spy Shane Collins is ready to return home until he meets a beautiful and enigmatic artist, but before he can win her love, he is caught in the crosshairs of a revolution and must use his skills to navigate a bloody uprising.
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Playing it Safe
by Ashley Weaver
Ellie McDonnell and Major Ramsey investigate a counterfeiting operation supplying German spies with fraudulent British currency to use in their operations and become locked in a battle of wits and a race against time with an unknown and deadly adversary to avert disastrous consequences for England—and for their lives.
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The Poisoner's Ring
by Kelley Armstrong
In 1869 Edinburgh, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson, adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland as an undertaker's assistant to Dr. Duncan Gray, investigates the case of a serial poisoner targeting men, and all signs point to the grieving widows, the latest of which is Gray's older sister.
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The Quantum Solution
by Eric Lustbader
Extraordinary intelligence field agent Evan Ryder, when an elite Russian scientist and the American secretary of defense die, at the same time half a world apart, of inexplicable sudden catastrophic brain damage, she risks her life to stop a quantum war.
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Rogue Justice
by Stacey Abrams
Asked by a fellow law clerk to look into his boss's death, Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene, after another shocking murder, is led to a list of names—all judges on the FISA Court, also known as America's“secret court”—and must race the clock to stop an unprecedented national crisis.
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The Senator's Wife
by Liv Constantine
Hiring a health aide to give her the support and independence she needs after hip replacement surgery, DC philanthropist and Senator's wife Sloane Chase, as weeks go by and she becomes sicker, suspects her seemingly perfect employee is plotting to steal her husband, her reputation and even her life.
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Sing Her Down
by Ivy Pochoda
When an expected reprieve frees them both from an Arizona women's prison, Diosmary Sandoval's fixation on her former cellmate Florida Baum turns into a dangerous obsession, resulting in a deadly cat-and-mouse chase from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.
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Tell-Tale Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Looking into the disappearance of Lydia, the heiress to a large fortune who went missing seven years ago, to stop Lydia's husband from inheriting her money, Sarah Booth Delaney and Tinkie discover a link to mysterious disappearances over the years, leading them to a supposedly haunted empty grave.
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Tom Clancy Flash Point
by Don Bentley
To stop an unseen enemy from destroying the Campus, Jack Ryan Jr. is led to the South China Sea where he, after a midair collision serves as a flash point, must put the pieces of a conspiracy together to stop the world's two remaining superpowers from going to war.
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Tom Clancy's Fallout
by Jeff Rovin
The Black Wasp commandos are targeted by Chinese assassins after successfully extricating a top Beijing scientist from captivity and escorting him to the United States, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Call of Duty.
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The Twenty
by Sam Holland
When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough—but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down.
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Weapons of Opportunity
by Dale Brown
When Russian oligarch Pavel Voronin intends to unleash a new force of advanced stealth aircraft against the U.S. in order to make Moscow supreme and cement his own rise to power, Nick Flynn and his team prepare a risky counterattack deep into hostile territory where failure isn’t an option.
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Wrong Good Deed
by Caroline B Cooney
Clemmie is caught up in drama against her wishes when her neighbor Muffin drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past.
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Best Men
by Sidney Karger
Max agrees to be the man of honor at his best friend Paige's wedding where he meets her fiancé's gay brother and the pair try to ignore the spark between them while not making the wedding all about themselves.
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The Boyfriend Candidate
by Ashley Winstead
After a freak lightning storm, which interrupts her first one-night stand, shy librarian Alexis Stone is thrust into the spotlight when photographers catch her in the arms of the hotshot candidate running for governor of Texas who, to squelch rumors, demands she pretends to be his girlfriend until election day.
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The Bride Wore White
by Amanda Quick
When she is kidnapped, drugged and wakes up in a bloodstained wedding dress next to a dead man, psychic Prudence Ryland, framed for murder, knows who the real killer is and finds an unexpected ally in Jack Wingate, a crime boss's associate, who is the only one who believes her.
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Chef's Choice
by T. J. Alexander
Proud trans woman Luna O'Shea helps a trans man jump through a series of increasingly difficult hoops to inherit a huge culinary empire, in the second novel of the series following Chef's Kiss.
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The Dueling Duchess
by Minerva Spencer
A markswoman in a London circus in Regency-era England, French expat Cecile Tremblay finds a home, family and future with her fellow performers, but when her ex-lover returns, begging for her forgiveness, she will, by teaching him about honest work—and the right way to treat a woman.
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Ghostly Game
by Christine Feehan
Ghostwalker Gideon “Eagle” Carpenter discovers a woman with the ability to erase the darkness of his past and pursues her despite the forces that conspire against them in the latest addition to the series following Phantom Game.
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The Last Word
by Katy Birchall
The celebrity editor at a newspaper's glossy weekend magazine, Harper Jenkins loves her job until her boss hires her enemy, reporter Ryan, who betrayed her years ago, and as they go head-to-head in the newsroom, long-buried feelings resurface and their chemistry comes to a head.
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The Little Flower Shop
by Lori Foster
Forty-two, divorced and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
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Love Buzz
by Neely Tubati Alexander
After sparks fly with a handsome stranger, who is also from Seattle, during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, straightlaced Serena Kahn returns home, scouring the city to find him and must decide if the pursuit of real passion is worth it before she destroys the life she's always wanted.
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Meet Me at the Lake
by Carley Fortune
In desperate need of a lifeline, 32-year-old Fern Brookbanks finds it in the form of Will Baxter, who rescued her nine years ago, and, believing he is hiding something, but knowing hes the only one who understands what shes going through, wonders if she can do the same for him.
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Mrs. Nash's Ashes
by Sarah Adler
Reluctant travel companions, starry-eyed romantic Millicent and cynical writer Hollis take the road trip of a lifetime to deliver the ashes of Millicent's elderly best friend to the woman she fell in love with nearly 80 years ago, upending what they both believe about true love.
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Once More With Feeling
by Elissa Sussman
Leaving her pop star image in the past after one unforgettable night blows up her whole life, Katee Rose, when Cal Kirby, who destroyed her career, offers her the opportunity of her dreams, reluctantly agrees to star in his musical and finds their still-smoldering attraction taking center stage.
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Planes, Trains, and All the Feels
by Livy Hart
Trying to get home for her sister's wedding, Cassidy shares the last rental car with a complete stranger with whom she falls in love, and after a lifetime of letting the expectations and needs of others drive her life, must decide if she's ready to take the wheel.
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Practice Makes Perfect
by Sarah Adams
When she overhears her latest date say she is boring, Annie Walker, on a quest to find her perfect match, turns to emotionally unavailable Will Griffin for tutoring lessons on how to become flirtatious and fun and as the lines of their friendship become blurred, she soon reconsiders her dream guy.
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Queen Charlotte
by Julia Quinn
In 1761, German Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz marries King George III, and in her new role, she navigates the intricate politics of the court while guarding her heart as she fights for herself, her husband and for all her new subjects who look to her for guidance and grace.
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Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice
by Annika Sharma
To save her family's fortune, Payal Mehra agrees to marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra, who will do anything for his parents' respect, and as they race toward an impending engagement ceremony date, they realize that maybe they aren't just in this for business.
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The True Love Experiment
by Christina Lauren
A bestselling romance novelist who doesn't practice what she preaches, Felicity“Fizzy” Chen agrees to star in a reality TV show to find her perfect match if documentary filmmaker and single father Connor Prince meets her list of demands, and soon realizes her finds happily-ever-after may be behind the camera.
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Wild Things
by Laura Kay
Giving up their big city apartments and moving out to a ramshackle house on the edge of an English country village, El, her best friend Ray and their two other closest friends transform the newly named Lavender House into a queer commune that forces El to confront her feelings for Ray.
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A Crown of Ivy and Glass
by Claire Legrand
Gemma, the only Ashbourne to possess magic meets the extremely handsome Talan d’Astier, the only survivor of a family who dabbled in forbidden magic, in the first novel of a new trilogy from the author of the Empirium Trilogy.
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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Despite hoping to enter the Scribe Quadrant, the bookish Violet Sorrengail is forced to become one of the hundreds of candidates risking their lives to be a dragon rider in the first novel of a new series.
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Fractal Noise
by Christopher Paolini
On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII, there is a circular pit not of nature but design, and a small team must journey across the surface to learn who built it and why, followed by the ghosts of their past each step they take toward the mysterious abyss.
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe
by Emma Tèorzs
Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power.
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Lords of Uncreation
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings readers the third and final novel in an space-opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.
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Perilous Times
by Thomas D. Lee
Awakening in a strange new world where oceans have risen, armies have been privatized and half of Britain's been sold, Sir Kay, an immortal Knight of the Round Table, joins Mariam on a quest to save the planet, facing insurmountable odds when ancient evils reveal their own sinister agenda.
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The Salt Grows Heavy
by Cassandra Khaw
On the run, a mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own and when they stumble upon a village of ageless children thirsty for blood, they must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature to survive.
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Titanium Noir
by Nick Harkaway
Investigating the unimaginable murder of a Titan, one of society's genetically altered elites, Cal Sounder, a detective working for the police on certain sensitive cases, finds his investigation intensifying as it becomes clear he's on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world.
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The Will of the Many
by James Islington
To destroy the empire that executed his family, Vis Telimus infiltrates the elite Catenan Academy, a school that leeches away peoples' Will—drive, strength and focus—and gives it to those in power, keeping his identity a secret from the Hierarchy to survive.
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Witch King
by Martha Wells
After being murdered, his consciousness confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai-Enna, waking to a lesser mage attempting to harness his magic to his own advantage, gathers his allies to discover why he was imprisoned and how the world's changed since his assassination.
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