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1,000 Coils of Fear
by Olivia Wenzel
A Black German woman living in Berlin and Manhattan takes stock of the rapidly changing times on the eve of the 2016 presidential election in a new novel by a playwright whose dramatic works have been staged in Germany.
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Acts of Violet
by Margarita Montimore
As the 10-year anniversary of the mid-act disappearance of her magician sister approaches, responsible Sasha, who has been raising her niece Quinn, is pursued by a podcaster devoted to the mystery who is becoming increasingly intrusive.
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Any Other Family
by Eleanor Brown
Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Weird Sisters.
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Big Girl
by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
A young, plus-size girl in 1990s Harlem tries to meet the lofty expectations of her painfully proper mother, sharp-tongued grandmother and her mostly white Upper East Side prep school while finding solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah.
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The Bodyguard
by Katherine Center
Hired as superstar actor Jack Stapleton's bodyguard, Hannah Brooks must pose as his girlfriend while visiting his family's ranch in Texas where she finds it easy to protect him, but hard to protect her own, long-neglected heart.
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The Boys
by Katie Hafner
Unable to share a secret with his wife that has haunted him since childhood, introverted Ethan Fawcett, when the foster boys she brings home drive a wedge in their relationship, must find a way to repair their marriage and learn the true meaning of family.
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Briefly, a Delicious Life
by Nell Stevens
Four hundred years after she died in a monastery in Mallorca, a perpetually 14-year-old ghost, Blanca, becomes completely in love and obsessed with George Sand, a 19th-century writer living an unconventional life and attracting the ire of the local villages.
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Brother Alive
by Zain Khalid
One of three brothers adopted by an Imam at a Staten Island mosque sees a hallucinatory double of himself who stays with him his whole life and is present when the adult siblings begin to question their deeply held beliefs.
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
by Oscar Hokeah
Follows the life of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American, through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face policy corruption, threats of job loss, constant resettlement and the pent up rage of centuries of injustice.
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Corinne
by Rebecca Morrow
Fifteen years after being forced to build a new life after being cast out of the fundamentalist church she was raised in since birth, Corinne Callahan realizes she never stopped missing the man she once loved.
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Dark Earth
by Rebecca Stott
After their father, a legendary blacksmith accused of infusing his swords with dark magic, suddenly dies, his daughters are faced with enslavement and must escape to the Ghost City where they find an underworld of rebel women living in secret.
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December '41
by William Martin
After Pearl Harbor, a German agent in Los Angeles plots to assassinate FDR when he lights the National Christmas Tree and is pursued across country by an FBI agent, a Hollywood script reader and an aspiring actress.
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The Displacements
by Bruce W. Holsinger
When a hurricane upends everything they have taken for granted, the privileged Larson-Hall family find themselves displaced to a FEMA mega shelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group of vulnerable children and a dedicated relief worker trying to keep the peace.
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The Earthspinner
by Anuradha Roy
Moving between England and India, this intricate, wrenching novel about the transformative ways of loving and living in an increasingly uncertain world follows Elango, a potter who is guided by an astral, indefinable voice to create his life's work while driving him to a forbidden relationship.
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The Edge of Summer
by Viola Shipman
After the death of her beloved, intensely private mother, Sutton Douglas, leaving the Ozarks behind, heads to a magical Michigan resort town where she hopes to find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but her own place in the world.
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The Falcon's Eyes
by Francesca Stanfill
Illuminating the end of the 12th century and the notorious queen Eleanor of Aquitaine who dominated it, this sweeping, suspenseful tale follows Isabelle, a spirited, questing young woman, who defies convention and her controlling, falconry-obsessed husband to lead an extraordinary life.
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Fellowship Point
by Alice Elliott Dark
A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries to get the beautiful Maine coast where her novels are set donated to a trust, but must first convince the shareholders, one of which is her best friend.
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The Force of Such Beauty
by Barbara Bourland
The princess of a tiny European kingdom, Caroline uses her once-powerful body to smile, wave and produce children with perfect grace until she begins to open her eyes to the world around her and becomes desperate to escape this gilded prison.
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A Gracious Neighbor
by Chris Cander
A lonely, suburban wife and mother is delighted when a former high school classmate moves in next door but finds it trickier to get back into their friendship when their memories of the past don't always align.
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Groupies
by Sarah Priscus
Hopping a Greyhound to Los Angeles in 1977, Faun, a naive college dropout and aspiring photographer reconnects with her childhood best friend who is a rising model and a muse to a rock band front man.
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Harry Sylvester Bird
by Chinelo Okparanta
Harry leaves his racist, xenophobic and financially incompetent parents in Pennsylvania and moves to Manhattan where he falls in love with a young Nigerian woman who forces him to confront his identity.
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Hawk Mountain
by Conner Habib
An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully, in a tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder.
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Human Blues
by Elisa Albert
A musician, Aviva Rosner, struggles with infertility and pours her feelings into her music, which hits a nerve with fans and critics in a darkly humorous novel about feminism, fame, art and our cultural obsession with childbearing.
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In Her Boots
by K. J. Dell'Antonia
Rhett Smith, an author whose inspirational book written under a pseudonym becomes a wild success, must grudgingly step into the limelight to save her inheritance of the family farm and prove to her controlling mother that she is worthy.
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Kaleidoscope
by Cecily Wong
Riley Brighton, always eclipsed by her older sister, leaves her biracial Chinese American family after a calamity rocks their world and sets off across the globe in search of answers about the people she thought she knew best.
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Keya Das's Second Act
by Sopan Deb
When he makes a discovery that could change everything in his life, Bengali American Shantanu Das finds a way to atone for his daughter Keya's death by turning her unfinished manuscript into a play with the blessing of Keya's girlfriend.
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A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
by Sophie Irwin
Left with her father's enormous debts, Kitty Talbot sets off for the London season to find a wealthy husband and save her family from ruin in the new novel from the author of the best-selling The Party Crasher.
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Last Summer on State Street
by Toya Wolfe
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer.
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The Librarian Spy
by Madeline Martin
Posing as a librarian in Lisbon while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence during WWII, Ava, as the battle in Europe rages, connects with a woman who runs a printing press in occupied France through coded messages that bring hope in the face of war.
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Lightning Shell
by W. Michael Gear
Declared dead by her enemies, Blue Heron must rely on her wits, Seven Skull Shields shameless cunning and a desperate gamble to determine who lives and dies in Cahokia, in this epic conclusion to the People of Cahokia series.
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My Name Is Yip
by Paddy Crewe
A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voice.
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Nevada
by Imogen Binnie
"A beloved and blistering cult classic finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip."
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Other Names for Love
by Taymour Soomro
Sent to the family's rural estate in upcountry Pakistan, where his father hopes to make him a man, 16-year-old Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants especially a local boy with whom he falls in love, learning the consequences of desire.
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The Poet's House
by Jean Thompson
Hired to work for a scandalous aging poet, 20-something landscaper Carla learns about the power of words as she discovers the insular world of writers, in this wry meditation on art as transformative and the ways which it can be leveraged as commerce.
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The Ruins
by Phoebe Wynne
Arriving in France to purchase the Chateau des Sẗes despite shocking memories of one buyer, one who is equally haunted by this jewel of the Cote d'Azur.
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Shmutz
by Felicia Berliner
Resigned to the fate of an arranged marriage, Raizi, a Hasidic Jewish woman, must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the more conventional expectations of the family she loves when she becomes addicted to online pornography.
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Sister Mother Warrior
by Vanessa Riley
When a war breaks out on Saint Domingue, two extraordinary women the first Empress of Hair and a West African-born warrior finally meet and play pivotal roles in the revolution that will eventually lead to full independence for Haiti and its people.
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Switchboard Soldiers
by Jennifer Chiaverini
In 1917, Grace Banker from N.J., Marie Moissec from France, and Valerie DeSmedt, originally from Belgium, are recruited as a telephone operators, aka switchboard soldiers, to help American forces communicate between troops as bombs fell around them.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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The Work Wife
by Alison B. Hart
Told over the course of a single day and from three fierce perspectives, this novel of female power and ambition follows Zanne, a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty, who must decide if the sacrifices she made for the job are worth the moral price she has to pay.
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The 6:20 Man
by David Baldacci
After a cryptic murder, a former soldier-turned-entry-level analyst, who boards the 6:20 commuter train like clockwork, is forced into a clandestine investigation into his firm that takes him to the darkest corners of the country's economic halls of power, rife with corruption, where a killer awaits.
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The Big Dark Sky
by Dean R. Koontz
Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion shed long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves and humanity.
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The Binding Room
by Nadine Matheson
Attempting to untangle two crimes: the murder of a preacher and the victim of a religious ritual, Detective Anjelica Henley, when another body appears, is left with more questions than answers as she races against time to stop a killer from taking more lives, including her own.
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Chrysalis
by Lincoln Child
Famed enigmatologist Jeremy Logan is summoned by a multibillion dollar tech company to investigate a disturbing anomaly in their new product rollout and discovers something very wrong, in the sixth novel of the series following Full Wolf Moon.
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Cold, Cold Bones
by Kathy Reichs
A forensic anthropologist discovers a very fresh, human eyeball in a box on her porch with coordinates etched into it that point to a murder at a Benedictine monastery, in the latest novel of the series following The Bone Code.
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Confidence
by Denise Mina
While on vacation with their blended family, Anna McDonald and Fin Cohen take off to try to solve the case of a shocking kidnapping, in the sequel to the nationally best-selling Conviction.
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Desperate Undertaking
by Lindsey Davis
Taking over her father's business as a private informer in ancient Rome, Flavia Albia is hired to investigate a series of brutal murders, in the 10th novel of the series following A Comedy of Terrors.
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The Hidden One
by Linda Castillo
When her first love is accused of murdering a beloved Amish bishop 10 years ago, chief of police Kate Burkholder, forced to confront a painful episode from her past, discovers a dark side to the victim, in this complex case that puts her own life in danger.
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Hokuloa Road
by Elizabeth Hand
Leaving Maine for a job as at a luxury property in Hawaii, Grady Kendall is shocked to discover that the island is known as a place where people vanish and becomes determined to uncover the truth.
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Holy Chow
by David Rosenfelt
A retired lawyer running a dog rescue must make good on a promise to an elderly woman to take in her Chow Chow if she died, in the latest novel of the series following Best in Snow.
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An Honest Living
by Dwyer Murphy
A former attorney agrees to help a reclusive literary star find her missing bookseller husband and is drawn into spiraling mysteries and feeling out of his depth when the person who hired him turns out to be an imposter.
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The It Girl
by Ruth Ware
After John Neville, the man convicted of killing her best friend April 10 years earlier, dies in prison, expectant mother Hannah Jones, after new evidence surfaces proving his innocence, reconnects with old friends to solve the mystery of Aprils death and realizes they all have something to hide including a murder.
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The Kingdoms of Savannah
by George Dawes Green
With the M. Musgrove & Family Detective Agency back in business, determined to expose Savannahs seedy underbelly, the dysfunctional family unearths a depraved history of murder and slavery that a powerful few are determined to keep hidden by any means necessary.
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The Last to Vanish
by Megan Miranda
When a journalist investigating a string of unsolved disappearances goes missing, Abigail Lovett, the manager of The Passage Inn in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutters Pass, decides to investigate and discovers how little she knows about her coworkers, neighbors and even those closest to her.
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Listen to Me
by Tess Gerritsen
Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are plagued by the seemingly senseless murder of a widow and nurse, who, as they investigate further, is linked to an open hit-and-run case from months earlier that someone will kill to keep from being solved.
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Miss Aldridge Regrets
by Louise Hare
In 1936 London, down-on-her-luck actress Lena Aldridge is offered the role of a lifetime in New York, and, sailing aboard the Queen Mary, is drawn into the fold of an obscenely wealthy family and their bizarre family dynamic where her greatest performance will be for her life.
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The Murder Book
by Mark Billingham
While hunting a woman responsible for a series of brutal murders, Tom Thorne's past catches up with him, revealing a ruinous secret that threatens every happiness he has built and forces him to do the unthinkable to save himself and those he loves.
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Murder Spills the Tea
by Vicki Delany
When, during the filming of the country's hottest TV cooking show at her tea room, an infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge is murdered with her rolling pin, Lily whips up an impromptu investigation to catch a killer who could be anyone associated with the show.
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The Paper Caper
by Kate Carlisle
During the Mark Twain Festival, wealthy media mogul Joseph Cabot runs a citywide contest based on The Prince and the Pauper, giving one lucky lookalike access to his wealth for a few days, which leads to murder, and Brooklyn must quickly solve this case before another murder becomes front-page news.
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Peril at the Exposition
by Nev March
In 1893, when her husband, Captain Jim Agnihotri, disappears while investigating a murder at Chicago's World Fair, Diana scours the city's dangerous streets to find him and wonders who she can trust because a single misstep could lead to disaster.
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Daniel Silva
In this thrilling story of deception in the world of international fine art, restorer and spy Gabriel Allon scours Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a 17th-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions.
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Rising Tiger
by Brad Thor
Americas top spy, Scot Harvath, with democracy itself hanging in the balance, is thrust into a completely unfamiliar culture where he can trust no one as he fights to take down the country's most powerful enemy and for his life.
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Sweet Remnants of Summer
by Alexander McCall Smith
Serving on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Isabel intercedes on a philosophical disagreement between family members, while her husband, Jamie, seeks a new cellist for his ensemble both of which endeavors require their usual tact and charm.
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The Unkept Woman
by Allison Montclair
In 1946 London, the proprietors of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge must deal with fallout from the war as they each contend with disruptions in their personal lives, especially Iris whose past exploits have come back to haunt her.
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Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
When his DNA is rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything the world has seen, Logan Ramsey finds his transformation threatening everything around him as he is forced to take sides in a fight to save humankind.
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The Wedding Plot
by Paula Munier
During the four-day wedding extravaganza of her grandmother and her longtime beau, Mercy and Elvis, while trying to find the inns missing spa director, discover a dead body instead, and they, with families and festivities under threat, must save the bride and groom before death do they part.
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The Woman in the Library
by Sulari Gentill
Four strangers in a library strike up a friendship. One of them is a murderer. As they each share their stories, which one has something to hide?
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Aura of Night
by Heather Graham
Meghan Law uses her talent in uncovering people's words true meanings as a consultant for the FBI along with Special Agent Ragnar Johansen and his K9 helper, Red, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Sound of Darkness.
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The Best Is Yet to Come
by Debbie Macomber
After the death of her twin brother, teacher Hope Godwin moves to Oceanside, Washington, where she falls in love with animal shelter volunteer, and wounded ex-marine, Cade Lincoln, Jr. and a dog named Shadow, finally finding peace in her new home until Cades past comes back with a vengeance.
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The Falling
by Anna Todd
Falling for Kael, a soldier on the cusp of discharge, physical therapist Karina, who prides herself on fixing broken things, sets out to help him heal, but finds her trust in him broken when their relationship is tested by the one thing she cannot accept, forgive or understand.
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Grace Under fire
by Julie Garwood
Grace MacKenna is assisted by a former Navy SEAL and current lawyer after a wounded man stumbles into her arms and she shoots the attacker threatening them both, in the latest addition to the series following Wired.
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Honey and Spice
by Bolu Babalola
A young black British woman with a popular student radio show that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation on the line after she publicly makes out with a man she publicly denounced.
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Remember Love
by Mary Balogh
Exiled as a traitor from his family, Devlin Ware is called home six years later when his father dies and, trying to fix his fractured family, realizes he still has feelings for Gwyneth Ross, whom he loved and lost after his family banished him.
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Storm Echo
by Nalini Singh
A healer who has lost everything, Soleil Bijoux Garcia exists in a world of aloneness until she meets a man her animal half knows from her past, but her memories are tattered fragments, leading her on a mission of vengeance that could decide the fate of the entire Psy race.
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The Book of Gothel
by Mary McMyne
In this reimagining of Rapunzel, as told from the witch's perspective, Haelewise, after her mother dies, finds the legendary tower, the Gothel, where she encounters Rika, who carries a dark secret the Church strives to keep hidden, one of ancient spells and murderous nobles.
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await.
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The Grief of Stones
by Katherine Addison
In this direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead, Celehar, the Witness for the Dead of Amalo, is drawn into a scandal involving the founding girls who are being sold into service, or worse, that leads him into the depths of his own losses.
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Into the Mist
by P. C. Cast
A group of high school teachers returning from a conference develop superpowers after an attack on the U.S. unleashes devastation, fire and biological destruction in the form of a strange green mist that empowers women but kills men.
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Just Like Home
by Sarah Gailey
Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house, finding out just how deep the rot goes.
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Lapvona
by Ottessa Moshfegh
As record drought and famine plague the village, a young shepherd boy finds himself caught in a power struggle between his people and their depraved lord and governor when occult forces arise to upset the old order. By the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
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Locklands
by Robert Jackson Bennett
A god wages war using all of humanity as its pawns in the conclusion to the Founders trilogy.
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
by Becky Chambers
Returning from Panga, Sibling Dex, a Tea Monk, and Mosscap, a robot, focus on finding answers and making new friends on the small moon they call home, in the second novel of the series following A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
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Thrust
by Lidia Yuknavitch
A motherless girl from the 21st century who is a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time, Laisvė, rescuing vulnerable figures from the margins of history, seeks to forge a connection to save their shared dream of freedom.
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