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After the Lights Go Out
by John Vercher
A washed-up, mixed-race, 30-something MMA fighter busies himself teaching youth classes at his manager’s gym, waiting for his year-long suspension to end and take a chance at redeeming himself in a high-profile comeback fight.
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The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
by Jess Walter
This humorous, heartfelt and redemptive collection of short fiction from the best-selling author explores moments when everything changes—for the better, worse and outrageous—as an unforgettable cast of characters question life and search for inspiration.
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Ashton Hall
by Lauren Belfer
A frustrated academic still reeling from her husband’s betrayal moves into Ashton Hall with her young son and tries to come up with answers after they discover the remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor.
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Aurora
by David Koepp
When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers own in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings.
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Belle Greene
by Alexandra Lapierre
Based on a true story, describes how a flamboyant, brilliant member of New York society hid the fact that she was the daughter of a famous black activist.
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By Her Own Design
by Piper Huguley
Describes the life of the Anne Lowe, who learned how to sew from her mother and grandmother, a former slave, and fought personal struggles and racial prejudice to design a wedding dress for Jacqueline Bouvier.
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A Calm & Normal Heart: Stories
by Chelsea T. Hicks
From Oklahoma to California, the heroes of A Calm & Normal Heart are modern-day adventurers—seeking out new places to call their own inside a nation to which they do not entirely belong. Darkly comic stories that herald an important new voice in American letters.
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The Candid Life of Meena Dave
by Namrata Patel
A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong.
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Can't Look Away
by Carola Lovering
Lonely and feeling out of place in their wealthy suburb, Molly, plagued by fertility issues, believes she’s finally found a friend in newcomer Sabrina, but soon discovers that this woman’s secrets are linked to her own, forcing her to confront an obsessive love from her past.
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Community Klepto
by Kelly I. Hitchcock
Twenty-five-year-old Ann Josephson is a kleptomaniac who steals from people at her gym. When a handsome stranger strikes up a treadmill conversation, Ann must battle her crippling social anxiety to avoid suspicion as the resident petty thief, but soon finds herself in over her head when she learns the stranger’s true identity.
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Cult Classic
by Sloane Crosley
From New York Times bestselling author comes a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.
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Elsewhere
by Alexis Schaitkin
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.
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Flying Solo
by Linda Holmes
A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel.
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Girls They Write Songs About
by Carlene Bauer
This thoughtful story of how desire and ambition change over time is a power ballad to female friendship, and a thrumming, searching novel about bonds that shape us more than any love affair.
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Greenland
by David Santos Donaldson
A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl - in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.
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Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race horse, one studying its remains, the other uncovering the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
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Hurricane Girl
by Marcy Dermansky
A victim of bad luck flees an abusive relationship only to have her home destroyed in a hurricane and believes she may be in love with her brain surgeon in a novel that walks a knife’s edge between comedy and horror.
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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
by Clare Pooley
An advice columnist breaks her rule for never talking to other commuters on the train when she witnesses a nurse save another man choking on a grape in a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting.
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Jackie & Me
by Louis Bayard
A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings.
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The Kingdom of Sand
by Andrew Holleran
Andrew Holleran's unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire-the first novel in thirteen years from one the most acclaimed gay authors of our time.
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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 Long Answer
by Anna Hogeland
A young woman gathers intimate stories about pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships, in this profound and provocative novel.
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The Lovers
by Paolo Cognetti
As a romance blooms in an isolated Italian Alpine town, fate and free will shape the lives of many in this gorgeously written novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Eight Mountains.
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Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic
by Lauren Ho
An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected, in this unflinchingly funny and honest novel.
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The Lunar Housewife
by Caroline Woods
In 1953 New York City, when up-and-coming journalist for Downtown magazine Louise Leithauser discovers someone powerful is pulling the publication’s string, censoring her fellow writers, she uses her newfound knowledge to shape her own novel “The Lunar Housewife” as her paranoia and suspicions mount.
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The Midcoast
by Adam White
Recently returned to a tourist haven on the coast of Maine, Andrew, a high school English teacher, is envious of his former friend Ed Thatch’s extravagant new lifestyle until he stumbles upon the truth, finding his envy turning to horror as the true story of the Thatches begins.
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More Than You'll Ever Know
by Katie Gutierrez
Told through alternating timelines, this wrenching family drama follows struggling crime writer Cassie Brown as she becomes obsessed with a 1985 murder case involving a woman whose double life led to murder and vows to tell the real story.
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Mother Ocean Father Nation
by Nishant Batsha
Two siblings on a small Pacific island, after hearing about a hate crime against an Indian grocer, must make some difficult decisions as they go off in different directions—one to California, and one staying behind despite the island’s escalating volatility,
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The Mutual Friend
by Carter Bays
A hilarious and thought-provoking debut novel set in NYC that follows Alice Quick, who finds her plans of going to med school interrupted by the drama going on around her involving her tech millionaire brother, her adventurous new roommate—and love.
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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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Nora Goes Off Script
by Annabel Monaghan
A romance channel screenwriter, turning her disastrous marriage into the best script of her life, is shocked when the leading man, after shooting wraps, asks to stay with her for 7 days, $1,000 per day—just enough time to fall in love or just enough time to have her heart broken.
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Nuclear Family
by Joseph Han
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawaii faces the fallout of their eldest son's attempt to run across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea in this inventive novel.
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Oleander City
by Matt Bondurant
Based on a true story and set in the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane. Three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross.
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One's Company
by Ashley Hutson
A woman obsessed with the show Three’s Company wins the lottery and replicates the world of the sitcom to live in this fearless debut that chronicles one woman’s escape into a world of imagination.
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On Rotation
by Shirlene Obuobi
With her life crashes down around her, Ghanaian-American med student Angie Appiah, who’s spent her life being the Perfect Immigrant Daughter, questions everything—her career, her friendships and her taste in men—until she meets someone who changes everything.
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Out of the Clear Blue Sky
by Kristan Higgins
When her husband suddenly leaves her for another woman, Lillie, furious and with limited options of whom to turn to for help, finds unexpected allies who come to her aid, while, at the same time, she comes to theirs.
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Praying with the Enemy
by Steven T. Collis
A novel based on the true story of an American POW during the Korean War and a North Korean soldier who become unlikely allies united in their shared faith in God during a daring escape to freedom.
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Three
by Valerie Perrin
In 2017, when a car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside, Virginie, a local journalist with a dark past, focuses on three friends who were unusually close when young but now no longer speak, bringing her to a surprising truth. A June Indie Next List Pick.
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The Twilight World
by Werner Herzog
One of the most revered filmmakers of all time tells the extraordinary story of Hiroo Onoda, a former soldier famous for having defended a small island in the Philippines for 29 years after WWII, unaware the fighting was over.
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Vacationland
by Meg Mitchell Moore
While staying at her parents’ house in Maine, Louisa must unravel a family mystery, while newly arrived Kristie cannot keep her various lives from colliding forever. As these two women cross paths, they will ask themselves what they are owed and what they owe others in a delicious summer read.
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Wrath Goddess Sing
by Maya Deane
Living among the transgender priestesses of Aphrodite, Achilles agrees to fight as a man in the war against the Hittites in return for the woman’s body she’s always longed for until the cruel, immortal Helen seeks to destroy everything Achilles cherishes.
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And by Fire
by Evie Hawtrey
A Detective Inspector with the City Police, Nigella Parker, teams up with her ex of Scotland Yard to track down a serial killer who is creating sculptures around London using burnt human flesh and becoming the “artist’s” unwitting next targets.
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Backstory
by Jr. Myers, William L.
A man awakens from a bout of unconsciousness and can’t remember anything, including who he is. Myers immediately creates sympathy for his amnesiac lead’s situation, and the plot races at a breakneck pace toward the surprising conclusion in this contemporary noir.
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A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
by Kate Khavari
Attempting to blaze a new trail for women at the University College London in 1923, research assistant Saffron Everleigh becomes involved in solving the murder of a professor’s wife who appeared to have been poisoned at a school dinner party.
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Cold Fear
by Brandon Webb
Wanted for questioning in connection to war crimes in Yemen, a disgraced Navy SEAL is on the run and trying to clear his name while being stalked by a fellow SEAL-turned-contract-killer.
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Counterfeit
by Kirstin Chen
Ava Wong, a strait-laced Chinese American lawyer and her former college roommate from Mainland China, who dropped out under mysterious circumstances, join forces in an ingenious counterfeit operation selling replica luxury handbags.
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Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary
by Amy Lillard
Returning home to Yoder, Kansas where she helps her aunt run the Sunflower Café, Sissy, who secretly writes an advice column as 70-year-old Bess, needs advice herself when she finds the milk deliveryman out behind the café with a knife in his back.
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Death and Hard Cider
by Barbara Hambly
A surgeon turned piano player in 1840 New Orleans investigates the death of a young woman who caused a suitor fist fight at a political reception in the latest addition to the series.
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Death by Beach Read
by Eva Gates
Lucy discovers dusty footprints, an open door, and a dead body in her kitchen in her new home in a historic cottage in the Outer Banks, in the ninth novel of the series.
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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 Drowning Sea
by Sarah Stewart Taylor
Former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy finds her family vacation in Ireland taking a dangerous turn when a body washes up on shore, pulling her into an investigation that reveals old secrets. Another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs.
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Even the Darkest Night
by Javier Cercas
A young police officer from Barcelona investigates a horrific double murder in Terra Alta and discovers that nothing about the case is quite as it seems. An elegantly constructed thriller from the prize-winning Spanish author.
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The Gatekeeper
by James Byrne
After foiling an attack at the hotel where he’s staying, Dez, a retired mercenary, musician and gatekeeper, is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy involving media manipulation, militias, an armed coup and an attempt to fracture the very country in which we live.
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Hatchet Island
by Paul Doiron
A game warden and his girlfriend investigate the death of two marine biologists who were overheard arguing with local fisherman near an endangered sea bird sanctuary in the thirteenth novel of the series.
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The House Across the Lake
by Riley Sager
Rcently widowed actress Casey Fletcher retreats to her family’s lake house in Vermont where she passes the time watching the glamorous couple across the lake until the wife disappears and she discovers that the most shocking of secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces
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It Dies With You
by Scott Blackburn
After the murder of his father, 29-year-old boxer Hudson Miller, taking over his salvage yard that doubles as an illegal gun-running ring, makes a grisly discovery and must fight for his life, joining forces with his father’s former employee and a teenage girl on her own mission of justice.
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The Key to Deceit
by Ashley Weaver
This second in the series from Edgar-nominated author Weaver is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit.
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Last Call at The Nightingale
by Katharine Schellman
In 1824 New York, Vivian, whose days are filled drudgery, escapes to the Nightingale, a secret jazz club, until a dead body and police raid traps her between the city’s wealthy and New York’s underground where lives of the poor are considered disposable, including Vivian’s own.
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The Local
by Joey Hartstone
When the judge on his case is murdered—and all evidence points to his client, wealthy Pakistani-American businessman Amir Zawar, patent lawyer James Euchre sets out to prove Zawar’s innocence in a town where everyone knows everyone and bad blood has a long history.
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Local Gone Missing
by Fiona Barton
In a seaside town where tensions are growing between the locals and weekenders, an ambitious detective investigates the disappearance of a man during a music festival.
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Monkey in the Middle
by Loren D. Estleman
When a young would-be journalist needs his protection, but is suspiciously vague why or from whom, PI Amos Walker—faced with a sketchy novelist, a fugitive whistleblower and a career assassin—searches for answers but instead finds a dead body.
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Outside
by Ragnar Jonasson
Stranded by a snowstorm in the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge where they discover they are not alone, and must come to terms with their past to survive to see their future.
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Point Last Seen
by Christina Dodd
After Adam Ramsdell saves her life, Elle, with no memory of who she is, finds refuge in his home where she faces a terrible truth—buried in her mind lurks a dark secret that could get her killed by the one person she trusts.
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Privacy
by Nina Sadowsky
You never know who's watching. . . . A successful therapist's world is upended when her patients are targeted in a campaign of twisted psychological harassment in this propulsive novel.
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Rock of Ages
by Timothy Hallinan
Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, Junior Bender is hired by Irwin Dressler to find out who is using his Rock of Ages tour to steal his money—a job that rouses Junior’s teenage daughter’s suspicion in how he earns his living.
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Shifty's Boys
by Chris Offutt
When he is asked by the mother of a recently deceased heroin dealer to look into her son’s case, Army-CID-officer/unofficial PI Mick Hardin is pitted against his sister, the local sheriff, and drawn into a dark underworld where unseen forces will stop at nothing to get what they want.
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Under Her Care
by Lucinda Berry
Consulting on a brutal murder case involving an autistic boy, local autism expert Casey Walker finds her understanding of the human condition shattered in ways she could never have imagined.
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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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The Dead Romantics
by Ashley Poston
Returning home to bury her beloved father, Florence Day, the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, second-guesses everything she’s ever known about love stories when she is haunted by the ghost of her new editor.
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Fake It Till You Bake It
by Jamie Wesley
A reality star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery in this sweet and sexy romance.
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Four Weeks of Scandal
by Megan Frampton
Vying for her family’s estate, which she inherited, against Gabriel Fallow, who claims he won the house in a bet, spirited Octavia Holton agrees to pretend to be engaged for four weeks all the while seeking out any will, letter or document that proves who gets the ownership.
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How to Fake It in Hollywood
by Ava Wilder
When her long-running soap opera wraps, Grey Brooks enters into her publicist’s scheme to begin a fake a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob who also could use the publicity, but is shocked when real feelings emerge.
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The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
by Cat Sebastian
Fleeing to the countryside after shooting her murderous husband, the Duchess of Clare turns to a charismatic blackmailer, highwayman and con-artist for help and together they discover more true joy and peace that either has felt in ages until their pasts intervene.
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The Sizzle Paradox
by Lily Menon
Writing a doctoral thesis on sexual chemistry, grad student Lyric Bishop, who is unable to find the “sizzle” with someone, gets schooled on dating tactics by her roommate, Kian Montgomery, and soon discovers that he might be the solution to cracking the Sizzle Paradox.
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves
by Alex Jennings
In a remarkable version of New Orleans where music is magic, nine songs of power have escaped from the magical piano that maintains the city’s beat. Failed magician Perilous Graves and his sister realize they must recapture these ballads to save the city they love.
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Daughter of Redwinter
by Ed McDonald
Raine, who can see and speak to the dead, rescues an injured woman in the snow who is fleeing from Redwinter, the fortress-monastery of warrior magicians and discovers that her secret ability could save an entire nation.
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Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
by Eddie Robson
A translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth is pulled into the middle of an intergalactic incident in this locked room mystery set in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy.
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From Below
by Darcy Coates
Missing for 60 years, the supposedly unsinkable SS Arcadia is discovered submerged over 300 miles from its course and the small team granted permission to explore it uncovers even more unexplained mysteries and must fight for their lives.
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Resolute
by Jack Campbell
Fending off spies and assassins while escorting a diplomatic and scientific mission to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, Admiral John Geary must make a decision that puts the fate of the fleet—and humanity—in his hands.
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