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September 2022
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Act of Oblivion
by Robert Harris
Follows General Edward Whalley's and his son-in-law Colonel William Goffe's flight to America in 1660 after their involvement in the beheading of King Charles I, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Fatherland.
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All That's Left Unsaid
by Tracey Lien
In Cabramatta, Australia, after her younger brother is murdered inside a restaurant while celebrating his high school graduation, Ky Tran vows to uncover his killer despite an indifferent police force and witnesses who claim they saw nothing.
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The Attic Child
by Lola Jaye
Two children locked away in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret, discover beneath its floorboards clues that provide comfort, when all hope is lost, to break free from their confinement and leave the darkness behind.
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The Bad Angel Brothers
by Paul Theroux
Escaping his manipulative and domineering brother, Frank, Cal, forging his own way and acquiring his own wealth, finds his brother's power and influence interfering with his affairs, and when Frank commits the ultimate betrayal, Cal is left with only one solution: murder.
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Best of Friends
by Kamila Shamsie
Two best friends who grew up in Karachi must confront their differences thirty years later when two troubling figures from their past resurface, in the new novel from the acclaimed author of Home Fire.
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The Birdcatcher
by Gayl Jones
Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her.
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Bliss Montage: Stories
by Ling Ma
In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home.
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The Book Haters Book Club
by Gretchen Anthony
When Elliot, the co-owner of Over the Rainbow bookstore, suddenly passes away, his former business partner, reeling from grief, decides to sell the store to a giant developer, but her daughters and Elliot's romantic partner conspire to save the store by any means necessary with surprising results.
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Children of the Catastrophe
by Sarah Shoemaker
Marrying and settling in 1908 Smyrna, Vassili and Liana enjoy an idyllic life until growing divisions between the Greeks and the Turks and the outbreak of the Great War thrust their entire family into danger.
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The Fortunes of Jaded Women
by Carolyn Huynh
Follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women cursed to never know love or happiness as they reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction.
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The Furrows
by Namwali Serpell
Haunted by the accidental death of her little brother Wayne years ago, Cassandra Williams begins seeing her brother everywhere and meets a man both mysterious and familiar who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world his name is Wayne.
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The Girl from Guernica
by Karen Robards
During WWII, Sibil, living in Germany with her father, a scientist working on jet propulsion engines for the Nazi party, joins the underground resistance movement with him, and they become deeply embedded in a web of secrets, lies and deceit that threatens to destroy their already fragile family.
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Has Anyone Seen My Toes?
by Christopher Buckley
An aging screenwriter in coastal South Carolina deals with stress from the pandemic by binge-eating and believing there's a nefarious Russian influence on the local coroner's race, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Thank You for Smoking.
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The House in the Orchard
by Elizabeth Brooks
In 1945, war widow Peggy, inheriting Orchard House from her husband's Aunt Maude, arrives to find a rambling property shrouded by dark mysteries, and finding Maude's teenage diary, searches for answers in these pages that reveal corrupted innocence and a violent tragedy bringing the past to the present.
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The House Party
by Rita Cameron
When the good kids trash her newly built home just weeks before she moves in, Maja Jensen finds her marriage put to the ultimate test as the repercussions from what should've been the party of the year divides the town over questions of privilege and responsibility.
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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
by Angie Cruz
From the beloved author of Dominicana comes a new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story.
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I Walk Between the Raindrops : Stories
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The best-selling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In presents a collection of new short stories filled with biting satire, resonant wit and boundless, irrepressible imagination.
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If I Survive You
by Jonathan Escoffery
Fleeing to Miami after political violence consumes their native Kingston, a younger son of a Jamaican family, Trelawny, struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism and flat-out bad luck, clawing himself out of homelessness with a series of odd, often hilarious jobs.
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Jacqueline in Paris
by Ann Mah
During her college year abroad in postwar Paris, Jacqueline Bouvier witnesses, beneath the city's glitter and luminous beauty, the beginning of the political environment that will shape the rest of her life and that of her future husband.
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Less Is Lost
by Andrew Sean Greer
In this highly anticipated follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, Arthur Less, after the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis, sets out on a literary adventure across the U.S. during which he must finally face his personal demons.
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Lessons
by Ian McEwan
With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories.
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Lucy by the Sea
by Elizabeth Strout
Former married couple now lifelong friends, New Yorkers Lucy Barton and William, as a panicked world goes into lockdown, hunker down in a little house in Maine on the edge of the sea where they are faced with fear, struggles and isolation as well as hope, peace and possibilities.
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The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one duty to provide an heir, fights for her very survival.
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The Matchmaker's Gift
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
A heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to realize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places.
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Midnight on the Marne
by Sarah Adlakha
On the run from a victorious Germany, American soldier George Mountcastle and nurse/spy Marcelle Marchand start a new life in brutally occupied France where, as years pass and tragedy strikes, George is set on a course that could change the past and rewrite history to keep what he holds dear.
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The Net Beneath Us
by Carol Dunbar
In the aftermath of her husband’s logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on while caring for their two small children in the unfinished house he was building for them. To cope with the challenges of winter and the miscommunications from her in-laws, she forges her own relationship with the land, taking comfort in the trees her husband had so loved.
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The Old Place
by Bobby Finger
Retired teacher Mary Alice Roth, while working her way back to a comfortable friendship with her neighbor, finds the careful shell she's built around her life threatened by her sister who delivers a staggering piece of news that could send shockwaves through her small Texas town.
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On the Rooftop
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The talk of the Jazz-Era Fillmore, The Salvations sisters Ruth, Esther and Chloe find their personal ambitions on a collision course with those of their mother, whose dreams of musical stardom for them force her to confront the parts of her life that threaten to splinter.
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The Orchard
by Beverly Lewis
After her twin brother, Evan, is drafted for the Vietnam War, despite their Old Order Amish belief in non-resistance, Ellie Hostetler, confiding in Sol Bontrager, the cousin to her new beau, Menno, as they work together in her family's orchard, suddenly finds the plans she held so dear seem increasingly uncertain.
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People Person
by Candice Carty-Williams
An aspiring lifestyle influencer saddled with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, 30-year-old Dimple Pennington has never felt so alone in her life until a dramatic event brings her half siblings crashing back into her life, forcing them all to reconnect with the absent father they never really knew.
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The Real Mrs. Tobias
by Sally Koslow
In 2015 NYC, Birdie Tobias, after her husband gets into trouble, flees to her Midwestern hometown with her young daughter hoping to find a new path forward, while those she left behind are forced to reconsider their relationships to each other, and ultimately, what it means to be a family.
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Shrines of Gaiety
by Kate Atkinson
In London after the Great War, Nellie Carter, the notorious and ruthless queen of a dazzling, seductive and corrupt new world in the clubs of Soho, finds her success breeding enemies as she faces threats from without and within, revealing the dark underbelly beneath Soho's gaiety.
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Sugar Street
by Jonathan Dee
Attempting to disavow his former life of privilege and enter a blameless new existence, an unnamed male narrator hits the road with $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under the car seat, hitting a city where his past is unlikely to track him down or so he thinks.
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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
by Laura Warrell
When he discovers free-spirited drummer Maggie, the woman who is secretly closest to his heart, is pregnant by him, 40-year-old trumpet player and old-school ladies' man who refuses to be tied down, Circus Palmer flees, setting off a chain of interlocking revelations from the various women in his life.
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The Two Lives of Sara
by Catherine Adel West
During the racially divided 1960s, a Black young, unwed mother named Sara, working for Mama Sugar at a popular boarding house in Memphis, Tennessee, finds friendship and refuge until secrets from Mama Sugar's are revealed, forcing Sara to make a decision that will reshape the rest of her life.
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The Unfolding
by A. M. Homes
Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, the Big Guy taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of the American Dream, while facing turbulence within his family, learning what happens when the same words mean such different things to people living together under one roof.
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A Very Typical Family
by Sierra Godfrey
A woman must return to her hometown of Santa Cruz, California, and reunite with the estranged brother and sister she sent to prison 15 years earlier.
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The Ways We Hide
by Kristina McMorris
Inspired by stunning true accounts, a story about the wars we fight between nations and inside ourselves explores the courage we find in unexpected places.
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The Winners
by Fredrik Backman
As simmering tensions between the towns of Beartown and Hed turn into acts of intimidation and then violence, a 14-year-old boy, increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community, puts in motion a plan to avenge his beloved sister's death that will leave Beartown with an unimaginable loss.
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An Affair of Spies
by Ronald H. Balson
A spy mission aims to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb.
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Back to the Garden
by Laurie R. King
Inspector Raquel Laing investigates a 50-year-old case at a storied and glamourous California estate after renovations turn up a human skull that may have been the work of a serial killer.
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The Best Friend
by Jessica Fellowes
Even though they are best friends, the trust between Bella and Kate is fragile, especially when men came into their lives, and, over time, acts of both cruelty and love ferment, until one shocking event tests them more than ever.
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The Bullet that Missed
by Richard Osman
While Elizabeth is presented with a deadly mission, kill or be killed, the Thursday Murder Club and their unlikely new friends, including TV stars, money launderers and ex-KGB colonels, investigate two murders, 10 years apart, and must catch the culprit and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again.
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Captive
by Iris Johansen
Jane MacGuire is on the run after her MI6 agent partner runs afoul of an international crime lord and she is targeted in the latest addition to the long-running series following A Face to Die For.
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Christmas Scarf Murder
by Carlene O'Connor
They're coziest of wintertime accessories unless, of course, they become accessories to murder, in this collection of seasonal stories where noted authors' beloved series sleuths each solve cases revolving around hand knit Christmas scarves.
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Hellburner
by Mike Maden
After narrowly escaping an explosion and losing a crew member, Juan Cabrillo must track down a nuclear torpedo before it starts World War III, in the latest novel of the series following Marauder.
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Daphne
by Josh Malerman
High school senior Kit Lamb hears a ghost story about a girl who went to her school years ago and died under mysterious circumstances and afterward is horrified when each of her basketball teammates begin to vanish, one by one.
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Desperation in Death
by J. D. Robb
Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the Pleasure Academy after two girls attempt to escape with tales of being groomed for sex trafficking, in the latest addition to the long-running, New York Times best-selling series following Desperation in Death.
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Fall Guy
by Archer Mayor
Joe Gunther investigates after discovering the body of the perpetrator of a burglary spree in the truck of one of the cars he stole, in the latest novel of the long-running series following Marked Man.
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From the Shadows
by James R. Benn
Captain Billy Boyle embarks on a humanitarian mission in the south of France in 1944 with his wartime lover and a legendary Special Operations Executive agent, in the 17th novel of the series following The Red Horse.
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The Furies
by John Connolly
When murder and mayhem arrive in Portland, Maine, Charlie Parker is faced with two connected crimes involving the enigmatic sisters Strange, new clients who are more capable of taking care of themselves than anyone could have imagined as the city shuts down in the face of a global pandemic.
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Hell and Back
by Craig Johnson
Walt Longmire wakes up at the site of a tragic 1896 boarding school fire covered in blood and missing a bullet from his gun, in the 18th novel of the best-selling series following Daughter of the Morning Star.
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Killers of a Certain Age
by Deanna Raybourn
Sent on an all-expense paid vacation to mark their retirement, four assassins discover they've been marked for death, forcing them to turn against their own organization and teach them what it really means to be a woman and a killer of a certain age.
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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
by Agatha Christie
Starring Agatha Christies legendary detective Jane Marple, this brand-new collection of short stories is written by 12 best-selling and acclaimed authors each of which reimagines Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.
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Mother Daughter Traitor Spy
by Susan Elia MacNeal
In 1940 Los Angeles, Veronica and her mother stumble upon an underground Nazi cell and go undercover to gather enough information to take to the authorities with the help of an anti-Nazi spymaster, embroiling them in a plot far more sinister than they feared where one misstep could cost them everything.
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Next in Line
by Jeffrey Archer
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, William Warwick and Ross Hogan return in an explosive adventure that will take them to the very heart of power.
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Oath of Loyalty
by Vince Flynn
When the president's power-hungry security adviser betrays him by leaking the true identity of his partner, Claudia Gold, Mitch Rapp, racing to neutralize the enemies conspiring against her, is faced with the seemingly impossible task of finding and stopping a killer whose business model is based on double-blind secrecy.
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The Other Side of Night
by Adam Hamdy
The lives of a disgraced police officer, a prolific author, and an upstanding citizen are inextricably bound together by a series of mysterious deaths.
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The Rising Tide
by Ann Cleeves
When a member of a group of friends, who meet regularly for reunions on Holy Island, is found hanged, Vera Stanhope must discover what the friends are hiding and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now.
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Robert B. Parker's Fallout
by Mike Lupica
When a star high-school baseball player is found dead after winning the team's biggest game, police chief Jesse Stone, who had personal ties to the victim, is stonewalled at every turn, while another case needs his attention after the former Paradise police chief is murdered.
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The Shadow Murders
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Faced with their toughest case yet, made only more difficult with COVID-19 restrictions and the challenges of their own personal lives, Department Q, led by Detective Carl Mørck, investigates a series of accidental deaths over the span of 30 years that may be the work of a violent serial killer.
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A Song of Comfortable Chairs
by Alexander McCall Smith
Mma and Grace help an old friend with a troubled son while Phuti develops a new marketing campaign to beat a rival furniture company's ads, in the latest novel of the series following The Joy and Light Bus Company.
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Suspect
by Scott Turow
Investigating the high-profile case of police chief Lucia Gomez, who is accused of soliciting sex for promotions to higher ranks, P.I. Clarice Pinky Granum must unravel the dark secrets of the people closest to Gomez, drawing her into the deepest recesses of the city's criminal networks.
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Treasure State
by C. J. Box
Cassie Dewell has her hands full with two cases finding the man who conned a wealthy Florida widow out of her fortune, which takes her to Montana, and decoding a poem that promises buried treasure to one lucky adventurer, which has led to five deaths.
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A Truth to Lie For
by Anne Perry
Britain's MI6 sends Elena Standish on a dangerous mission to smuggle a breakthrough weapon in germ warfare out of Germany before the developers can tell Hitler it exists, in the fourth novel of the series following A Darker Reality.
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The Vicious Circle
by Katherine St. John
Inheriting a wellness center deep in the Mexican jungle that's home to an ardent spiritual group devoted to her late uncle, Sveta falls in love with this secluded paradise until she discovers its violent secrets, and, to survive, turns to the very person she trusts the least.
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We Spread
by Iain Reid
Penny, an elderly artist, begins to lose her grip on reality in a room in a unique long-term care residence.
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Yesterday's Spy
by Tom Bradby
When his estranged son Sean goes missing in Tehran after writing a damning article about the involvement of government officials in the opium trade, recently retired British intelligence officer Harry Towers must discover if Sean was taken in retribution for his reporting, or if Harry's past caught up to them all.
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Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match
by Sally Thorne
The younger sister of Victor Frankenstein embarks on her own project, resurrecting an intended beau who is more intent on uncovering his forgotten identity than in romance in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Hating Game.
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Dreamland
by Nicholas Sparks
After his own musical career was tragically roadblocked, Colby Mills meets and falls for a graduate of a prestigious college music program looking to become a star in Nashville, in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Wish.
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Drunk on Love
by Jasmine Guillory
Accidentally and unknowingly having a one-night stand with her new employee the night before his first day, stressed out Napa Valley winery owner Margot Nobel tries to keep things purely professional, but fails miserably.
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Falling Stars
by Fern Michaels
A ski resort owner agrees to train and take a famous actor on one of Colorado's most treacherous runs while pretending she's not a huge fan, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of Sisterhood.
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The Kiss Curse
by Erin Sterling
Two business rivals, witch Gwyn Jones and Llewellyn Wells Penhallow, after one magical kiss, are determined to stay away from each other until they must work together to figure out what a new coven of witches want and how to restore Gwyn's waning powers.
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A Merry Little Meet Cute
by Julie Murphy
A successful plus-sized adult film star agrees to star in a Christmas movie for a squeaky-clean cable network when her childhood crush and ex-boy band member signs on as co-star.
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Rules of Engagement
by Selena Montgomery
While infiltrating a terrorist group responsible for stealing lethal environmental technology, Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, finds the most dangerous thing of all is falling for her partner as they untangle a twisted web of secrets and lies.
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Sweetwater and the Witch
by Jayne Castle
Becoming a matchmaker, Ravenna Chastain, who has a very specialized skill set, considers Ethan Sweetwater her first professional failure until they make a deal that leads to industrial espionage and a chemistry between them as explosive as the danger that's stalking her.
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The Viper
by J. R. Ward
When Kane, horribly burned while in a notorious prison camp, is nursed back to health by nurse Nadya, he, after a daring escape that changes his very nature, comes back for her, setting him on a collision course with his own past where only true love can save his soul.
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Fairy Tale
by Stephen King
A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world, in the new novel by the extremely prolific and popular best-selling author of It.
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The Genesis of Misery
by Neon Yang
Gives a space opera twist to Joan of Arc's story, full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs.
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House of Hunger
by Alexis Henderson
Escaping the slums, Marion applies for the position of Bloodmaid and is swept into a world of lust, blood, and dark debauchery presided over by the feared Countess Lisavet, who enlists her into a vicious game of cat and mouse.
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The Last Dreamwalker
by Rita Woods
Tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation.
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Leech
by Hiron Ennes
Combines parasitic body horror with gothic family drama in a post-apocalyptic masterpiece.
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Nona the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Six months ago, after waking up in a stranger's body, Nona longs to lead an ordinary life with those she loves, but instead is being used as a weapon of destruction to save her people from the Nine Houses.
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Silver Under Nightfall
by Rin Chupeco
Full of court intrigue, queer romance, and terrifying monsters—this gothic epic fantasy will appeal to fans of Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree and the adult animated series Castlevania.
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Spells for Forgetting
by Adrienne Young
Back on Saoirse Island, Emery Blackwood, in a place rooted in folklore and magic, finally learns the truth surrounding her best friend's murder when the love of Emery's life and the person accused of the crime returns, unearthing the past the town has tried desperately to forget.
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Thistlefoot
by Genna Rose Nethercott
Reunited when they receive a strange inheritance a sentient house on chicken legs called Thistlefoot, the Yaga siblings find themselves being hunted by the Longshadow Man, who bears with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in their blood for generations.
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The Witch and the Tsar
by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
When Anastasia, the wife of the tsar, desperately needs her protection, immortal witch Baba Yaga realizes the fate of all Russia is tied to Anastasia's and must step out of the shadows to protect the land she loves from powers far older and more fearsome than anyone can imagine.
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