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January 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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The 12th Commandment
by Daniel Torday
A two-time National Jewish Book Award winner's haunting new novel about murder, memory, and an ancient cult of Jewish mystics in the rural Midwest.
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After Sappho
by Selby Wynn Schwartz
An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Age of Vice
by Deepti Kapoor
After a speeding car kills five people late at night in New Delhi, the driver, a shell-shocked servant is unable to explain the series of strange events that lead to the crime.
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The Bandit Queens
by Parini Shroff
Considered a self-made widow after the disappearance of her husband, Geeta, when other women in the village ask her for help in getting rid of their own no-good husbands, must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her fearsome reputation and the life she's built.
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The Blue Window
by Suzanne Berne
From the Orange Prize-winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood comes a novel about a therapist whose attempts to unlock the most difficult cases of her life, those of her son, and of her mother, reveal that the bigger the secret you're concealing, the more it conceals you.
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Brotherless Night
by V. V. Ganeshananthan
A 16-year-old Sri Lankan woman, Sashi, is hoping to become a doctor but instead watches her four beloved brothers get caught up in violent political ideologies that result in a devastating civil war.
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Call and response : Stories
by Gothataone Moeng
Looks at the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world.
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Central Places
by Delia Cai
A young woman returns home to Illinois from Manhattan to introduce her Chinese immigrant parents to her white fiancé in a disastrous weekend where she runs into her unrequited high school crush and complicates matters further.
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Daughters of Victory
by Gabriella Saab
From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war.
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Decent People
by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
From a prizewinning author comes a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal.
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The Deluge
by Stephen Markley
In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
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The End of Drum-Time
by Hanna Pylväinen
An epic love story about a young reindeer herder and a minister's daughter in the 19th century Arctic Circle.
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The Faraway World
by Patricia Engel
From the New York Times best-selling author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.
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Ghost Season
by Fatin Abbas
A debut novel connects five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
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In the Upper Country
by Kai Thomas
The fates of two unforgettable women, one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act, intertwine in this sweeping novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad.
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Independence
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
In 1947 India, three sisters, after their father, a well-respected doctor, is killed during a riot and their neighbors turn against them, find themselves separated from one another, each on different paths due to events beyond their control.
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Love, Clancy : Diary of a Good Dog
by W. Bruce Cameron
Told from the viewpoint of Clancy, a very good dog who keeps a diary, this deeply moving story follows an unforgettable cast of characters as they jointly and separately navigate the challenges of life, of love and of other pets, including Clancy's worst enemy.
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Maame
by Jessica George
A young British Ghanaian woman navigates her 20s and finds her place in the world.
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Margot
by Wendell Steavenson
Portrays a young woman's struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution.
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The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict
After her sister Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and her sister Unity follows Diana to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress, novelist Nancy Mitford, after uncovering disquieting documents, must make difficult choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a debut novel follows a black woman who will do whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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Ms. Demeanor
by Elinor Lipman
When a neighbor's complaint about consensual sex turns into house arrest and a suspended legal license, Jane's recipe for survival involves cooking for another home-arrested tenant while trying to figure out the whys and hows of her mysterious accuser.
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My Father's House
by Joseph Oconnor
In a German-occupied Rome during WWII, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help those seeking refuge.
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The New Life
by Tom Crewe
A debut novels looks at two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London.
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The Night Travelers
by Armando Lucas Correa
Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
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Night Wherever We Go
by Tracey Rose Peyton
A debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners.
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Please Report Your Bug Here
by Josh Riedel
A debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds.
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Really Good, Actually
by Monica Heisey
Determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcě, 29-year-old Maggie, with the help of her tough-loving academic advisor, her newly divorced friend and her group chat, barrels through her first year of singledom, searching for what truly makes her happy.
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River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer
A redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery.
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Sam
by Allegra Goodman
Grappling with self-doubt and insecurity as she grows into her teens, Sam, yearning for her climbing coach's attention, dealing with her father's absence and raging against her mother's constant pressure, must decide who she wants to be in the face of what she's expected to do.
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Small World
by Laura Zigman
Inviting her older sister Lydia, who is also divorced, to live with her until she finds a place of her own, Joyce finds their relationship fraying as new revelations from their family's history come to light, forcing them to finally reckon with their childhood.
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The Thing in the Snow
by Sean Adams
Three caretakers and a single remaining researcher, who keep the Northern Institute in working order in case research ever resumes, find their work upended by a mysterious object that appears in the snow that soon challenges their every notion of what is normal.
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This Other Eden
by Paul Harding
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Tinkers comes a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.
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Tomb of Sand
by Gītāñjali Śrī
In Northern India, when her grandson brings her a seemingly magical cane to lift her spirits after the death of her husband, 80-year-old Ma, with a new lease on life, embarks on a series of adventures that turn the family's understanding of themselves upside down.
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Wade in the Water
by Nyani Nkrumah
A debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
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All the Dangerous Things
by Stacy Willingham
After her son is kidnapped while sleeping in his crib, a mother agrees to be interviewed by a true-crime podcaster with ulterior motives in the new novel from the best-selling author of A Flicker in the Dark.
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Better the Blood
by Michael Bennett
Hana Westerman, a Māori detective juggling career pressures, single motherhood and endemic prejudice investigates two ritualistic murders that have a chilling connection to the execution of a M?ori Chief during the bloody British colonization of New Zealand 160 years prior.
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The Blackhouse
by Carole Johnstone
Twenty years after she announced, at just five years old, that a man on Kilmeray—a place shed never visited—had been murdered, Maggie McKay is determined to find out what really happened and, receiving ominous threats, must decide how far she will go to discover the horrifying truth.
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Blaze Me a Sun
by Christoffer Carlsson
A Swedish police officer obsessed with a serial killer that became active in 1986, on the same night the prime minister was assassinated, fails to solve the case, until a novelist returns to Halland and begins interviewing him decades later.
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The Bullet Garden
by Stephen Hunter
In 1944 Normandy, when German snipers start picking off hundreds of Allied soldiers every day, Pacific hero Earl Swagger, assigned this crucial and bloody mission, must infiltrate the shadowy corners of London and France to expose the traitor who is tipping off these snipers with the locations of American GIs.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
by Douglas Preston
As Constance finds her way back to New York City in the late 1800s to prevent the death of her siblings and stop serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, FBI Special Agent Pendergast desperately tries to find a way to reunite with her before it's too late.
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City Under One Roof
by Iris Yamashita
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone winters in the same high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.
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The Devil You Know
by P. J. Tracy
When a beloved actor is found dead the day after a fake video ruins his career, LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan uncovers a scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchables.
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The Devil's Ransom
by Brad Taylor
When his covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, is hit with a ransomware attack linked to the Taliban, Pike must stop a plot to alter the balance of power on the global stage orchestrated by a former NSA specialist in the U.S. government.
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Don't Open the Door
by Allison Brennan
Quitting her job and moving in the wake of the shocking murder of her son, Marshal Regan Merritt returns to Virginia to look into her former boss' death, in the second novel of the series following The Sorority Murder.
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The Drift
by C. J. Tudor
Hannah, trapped with a handful of survivors after an accident; Meg, stranded in a cable car high above snowy mountains with five strangers; and Carter, plunged into darkness at an isolated ski chalet, are all faced with something that threatens to consume all of humanity.
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Eden's Children
by V. C. Andrews
A former teacher adopts and homeschools two siblings, but when one, Faith, becomes attracted to a handsome young out-of-town visitor her brother will do anything to keep her safe in the first novel of a new series.
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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
by Benjamin Stevenson
Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle meet Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.
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Exiles
by Jane Harper
A federal investigator, Aaron Falk, investigates the disappearance of young mother who left her baby alone in a festival crowd and vanished in the latest novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Dry.
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A Fashionable Fatality
by Alyssa Maxwell
Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, investigate after a guest is found dead at a posh, but small gathering at her sister's home in the eighth novel of the series following A Deadly Endowment.
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Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
by Elle Cosimano
Owing a favor to the Russian mob for buying a luxury car she accidentally destroyed, Finlay agrees to help identify a contract killer in the latest novel of the series following Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead.
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The Game is a Footnote
by Vicki Delany
Asked to look into some strange happenings at Scarlet House, a historical re-enactment museum, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, and Jayne instead find a dead body and suspect foul play as secrets about the museum come to light.
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Hard To Break
by Michael Ledwidge
While on a bucket list Alaskan grizzly bear hunt with his adult son. Mike Gannon runs into other hunters who are not looking for grizzlies but for him, in the third novel of the series following Run for Cover.
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The House in the Pines
by Ana Reyes
Seven years after the mysterious death of her best friend, Aubrey, Maya comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman dies in front of the same man Aubrey did, leading her back to a New England cabin to finally uncover a truth that could save her.
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The Hunter
by Jennifer Herrera
Explores the dark side of a small town and asks: How can we uncover the truth when we keep lying to ourselves?
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Irish Coffee Murder
by Leslie Meier
Presents a collection of St. Patty's-themed novellas written by fan-favorite cozy mystery authors.
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Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica
When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing.
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Locust Lane
by Stephen Amidon
When three teenagers Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history; Jack, the popular kid with a mean streak; and Christopher an outsider desperate to fit in become suspects in the murder of a fellow student, their parents will do anything to protect them, even at the others expense.
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The Mitford Secret
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1941, when the Mitford family gathers at Chatsworth for Christmas, along with society's most glamourous guests and Louisa Cannon, an old family friend turned private detective, a mystery unfolds after a psychic reveals a long-ago murder in this very house, prompting Louisa to solve this cold case.
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Murder Book
by Thomas Perry
An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting midwestern towns.
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Picture in the Sand
by Peter Blauner
To save his teenaged grandson Alex, who has run off to Syria to become a holy warrior, Ali Hassan, an Egyptian-American businessman, reveals a secret past of activism and heartbreak to Alex through a series of letters recounting his involvement in events that changed the course of history.
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Regrets Only
by Kieran Scott
A single mom goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of A local suburban parent-school association, including embezzlement, bribery, adultery, and murder.
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The Shards
by Bret Easton Ellis
In 1981 Los Angeles, 17-year-old Bret and his friends at the exclusive Buckley prep school welcome new student Robert Mallory into their fold until Mallory's unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers throughout the city, takes a horrific turn.
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The Skeleton Key
by Erin Kelly
Nell, driven into seclusion by her father's obsessed fans, returns home to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her father's book The Golden Bones, which is being reissued along with a documentary crew to film what happens after he finally reveals the location of the last hidden bone.
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The Twyford Code
by Janice Hallett
A new novel explores the mysterious connection between a teacher's disappearance and an unsolved code in a children's book.
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The Villa
by Rachel Hawkins
While on a girl's trip to Italy with her best friend Chess, Emily discovers their high-end villa was once the scene of a brutal murder, and, digging into the past, finds the truth seeping into the present as dangerous betrayals emerge.
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What Lies in the Woods
by Kate Alice Marshall
Twenty-two years after her best friend was attacked in the woods, surviving seventeen stab wounds, Naomi Shaw, who has a secret worth killing for, returns home when the man responsible dies in prison to find out what really happened, no matter how dangerous the truth may be.
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You Must Remember This
by Kat Rosenfield
When 85-year-old Miriam Caravasios slips through the ice to her death, Delphine, a frightened and insecure young woman who adored her grandmother, falls under scrutiny when it is revealed that Miriam's will cut off her children, leaving her almost everything and emboldening her to find the truth.
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You Will Never Be Found
by Tove Alsterdal
While investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his wife, police officer Eira Sjödin, knowing the pain of loss, loses herself in an affair with her boss until he, too, disappears, leaving her at the mercy of an elusive perpetrator and a love she can no longer deny.
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Back in a Spell
by Lana Harper
Powerful witch Nineve Blackmoore tries out a dating app and has an awkward and terrible date with the owner of the Shamrock Cauldron, in the fifth novel of the series following From Bad to Cursed.
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The Backup Plan
by Jill Shalvis
When she inherits a falling-apart-at-the-seams old Wild West B&B along with her ex-best friend Lauren and Knox, the guy who once broke her heart, Alice unexpectedly finds acceptance, true friendship and love as they work together to restore the inn to its former glory.
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Do I Know You?
by Emily Wibberley
When a couple feels like they're married to a stranger, a flirtatious game of pretend becomes the spark they need to reignite their relationship in this romance from the authors of The Roughest Draft.
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Exes and O's
by Amy Lea
Bookstagrammer Tara Li Chen is “trash for a second-chance reunion trope,” especially after witnessing the real-life rekindling of her Grandma Flo’s love for a childhood sweetheart. So Tara decides to date her exes —all but her recent ex-fiancé—in hopes of finding her own second-chance romance.
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Georgie, All Along
by Kate Clayborn
Laid off from her job in Los Angeles, 28-year-old Georgie leaves her life behind and drives across the country to her hometown. When she finds a notebook with her high school bucket list, she decides to try to live out her younger self's goals. She soon meets Levi, a handsome stranger with a questionable past. He helps her with her bucket list, leading to a deeply emotional affair that's complicated by small-town prejudices and entrenched family trauma.
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A Guide to Being Just Friends
by Sophie Sullivan
When Hailey and Wes find each other in a disastrous meet cute that wasn’t even intended for them, they embarrassingly go their separate ways. But when Wes finds Hailey to apologize for his behavior, they strike up a friendship. Because that’s all this can be. Hailey doesn’t want any distractions. Wes doesn’t want to fall in love.
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Her Lessons in Persuasion
by Megan Frampton
Mina Bettesford is an astronomer, trying to avoid marriage at all costs before receiving her inheritance and dedicating her life to the stars. Unfortunately, Mina's widowed father suddenly marries, and her stepmother convinces barrister Bram Townsend to pretend he is courting Mina, hoping this will heighten the interest of more eligible men from the London aristocracy. Bram agrees to help Mina fend off suitors and family expectations and soon finds Mina is his match.
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Lunar Love
by Lauren Kung Jessen
Olivia is excited/terrified to be taking over her grandmother's matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has taken her Pó Po's traditional Chinese zodiac approach and made it about "animal attraction," her emotions skew more toward furious/outraged. Especially when L.A.'s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O'Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family's legacy.
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Loathe to Love You
by Ali Hazelwood
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas and their loves in loathing.
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Make a Wish
by Helena Hunting
Harley has a defining life moment she wish she could do over: the time she almost kissed the widowed father of the toddler she nannied for. It was so bad they moved across the state and she never saw them again. Fast forward seven years and she's totally over it. Until Gavin Rhodes and his adorable now nine-year-old daughter reappear at a princess-themed birthday party hosted by Spark House, Harley's family's event hotel.
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One Duke Down
by Anna Bennett
Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family’s fishing business afloat. The very last thing she expects or wants to find is a dangerously attractive man. Especially one with a head wound—who’s convinced he’s a duke.
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All Hallows
by Christopher Golden
On Halloween night in 1984 Coventry, Massachusetts, four children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup blend in with the neighborhood kids trick-or-treating, begging to be hidden and kept safe from The Cunning Man.
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Bad Cree
by Jessica Johns
A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.
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The Daughters of Izdihar
by Hadeer Elsbai
In a novel set wholly in a new world and inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women, Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing, find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
by Heather Fawcett
A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.
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Hell Bent
by Leigh Bardugo
Assembling a team of dubious allies, Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to find a gateway to the underworld and rescue Darlington from purgatory in the second novel of the series following Ninth House.
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How To Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents' house, Louise discovers that her and her brothers old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls.
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Lost in the Moment and Found
by Seanan McGuire
Leaving the Shop Where the Lost Things Go behind, Antoinette finds herself lost (literally, this time) and even though many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds.
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The Nightmare Man
by James Markert
A chilling horror novel illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity.
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The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, Destry is dedicated to terraforming the planet Sask-E until she discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, and as she uncovers more about their past, she starts to question the mission she's devoted her life to.
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Vampire Weekend
by Mike Chen
When Ian, a long-lost relative, finds her, Louise Chao, punk rock vampire extraordinaire, feels a connection for the first time in ages, but when he discovers her true identity, he asks her for the ultimate favor one that might change everything vampires know about life and death forever.
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Vamps : Fresh Blood
by Nicole Arend
Sink your teeth into this exciting new paranormal series that transports you to an elite vampire academy where a half vampire, half human must hone his bloodthirsty side in order to survive in a cutthroat world.
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