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American Mermaid
by Julia Langbein
A former English teacher whose feminist novel about a fierce mermaid is lured to Hollywood to assist in the tale's big-budget action film adaptation, but is alarmed when she believes her character has come to life to exact revenge.
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At Sea
by Emma Fedor
Becoming pregnant after a summer fling with a man who claims he can breathe underwater as part of an experimental Special Forces unit, Cara is desolate and questioning everything she believes when Brendan takes their son and vanishes.
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Beyond That, The Sea
by Laura Spence-Ash
A young girl is sent from London to live in America during World War II and fits in so seamlessly with her new family that she is hesitant to return to post-war England when she is called home.
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Biography of X
by Catherine Lacey
When a famous iconoclastic artist and shape-shifter dies suddenly, her widow, CM, begins writing her wife's biography and opens a vast Pandora's box of secrets and explores the history of the fascist theocracy where she lived.
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Blue Hunger
by Viola Di Grado
Mourning her twin's death, a young woman leaves Rome for Shanghai and befriends a mysterious girl with a turbulent past and the pair discover a new dimension where the citizens practice extreme erotic rituals.
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Clytemnestra
by Costanza Casati
Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the Ancient World, has her work cut out for her.
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Commitment
by Mona Simpson
Depicts a family in crisis in the late 1970s when three teenage siblings in California try to manage on their own after their mother is committed to a state hospital for a deep depression.
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Community Board
by Tara Conklin
A woman moves back into her parents' empty home after her husband leaves her and spends her days on the town's internet community board in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Last Romantics.
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Confidence
by Rafael Frumkin
A pair of best friends and occasional lovers who meet at a last-chance camp before juvenile detention embark on what they hope is a lucrative career in scam artistry with Nulife, a company that promises consumers a lifetime of bliss.
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The Dance Tree
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
In this historical novel, the internationally best-selling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in 16th-century France.
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Daughters of Nantucket
by Julie Gerstenblatt
An atmospheric historical debut novel centers on Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, in which three very different women are brought together, each forced to re-evaluate her priorities and answer the harrowing question: What and whom would you save?
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Dust Child
by Phan Qué̂ Mai Nguyẽ̂n
From the internationally best-selling author of The Mountains Sing comes a suspenseful saga about family secrets, hidden trauma and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Vietnam.
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Earth's the Right Place For Love
by Elizabeth Berg
Arthur becomes friends with the hottest girl in his class even though she has a crush on his older brother and must come to terms with grief and how to go on when a sudden tragedy changes his world.
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The Fake
by Zoe Whittall
A scammer as alluring as she is elusive irrevocably upends the lives of two strangers, in a novel from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People.
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The Farewell Tour
by Stephanie Clifford
From the author of the New York Times best-seller Everybody Rise comes a novel that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music.
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Fractured Soul
by Akira Mizubayashi
A novel of remembrance, loss and the ways in which art defies death to become the very matter of life.
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Hang the Moon
by Jeannette Walls
After encouraging her younger step-brother to participate in daredevil activities leads to an accident, Sallie Kincaid is cast out of her family in the new novel from the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Glass Castle.
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Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano
Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
by Soraya Palmer
Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know—and confront a long-buried family secret.
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In Memoriam
by Alice Winn
Henry Gaunt, a student at an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside is relieved to escape his feelings for Sidney Ellwood when he enlists to fight in World War I, but is horrified when all his classmates join him.
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Künstlers in Paradise
by Cathleen Schine
In this powerful novel of stories hand down and handed on, and those held close to the heart, Julian Künstler, during the 2020 pandemic, is trapped in Venice, California, with his glamorous, eccentric 93-year-old grandmother who shares her experiences upon arriving in the U.S. after escaping Nazi Germany.
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The Last Beekeeper
by Julie Carrick Dalton
Returning to her childhood home, Sasha Severn, the daughter of the infamous Last Beekeeper, sees a honeybee, presumed extinct, which she believes is connected to her incarcerated father's missing research—a discovery that could threaten the lives of those around her—or save them all.
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Lessons at the School by the Sea
by Jenny Colgan
During summer holiday, beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair, despite being engaged to another man, falls for her colleague, David McDonald, and faces an uncertain future, while the girls of Downey House each have their own challenges during the break.
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A Likely Story
by Leigh Mcmullan Abramson
A woman aspiring to be a writer like her best-selling novelist father faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday on the verge of a breakdown when she uncovers shocking truths about her parents and her family.
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The London Séance Society
by Sarah Penner
In 1873, Lenna Wickes accompanies acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire to England where they team up with London's exclusive Seance Society to solve a high-profile murder and soon suspect they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves.
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The Lost English Girl
by Julia Kelly
During WWII, Viv Byrne, with her husband serving in the Royal Air Force, discovers the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn't immune from the horrors of war, and it is only years later, with his help, that she learns what it will take to put their family back together again.
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Love, Honor, Betray
by Mary Monroe
With their sham of a marriage in danger, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins, desperately trying to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing, must decide whether or not to reveal the person who might be behind the serial murders plaguing their town, which would risk their own web of lies being exposed.
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Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Set during the rise of the Mafia in 19th-century Sicily, this epic story of good vs evil follows four individuals—a desperate lemon grower; an idealistic lawyer with a secret life; a new mother; and a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew—as their lives collide.
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The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
by Colleen Oakley
The USA Today best-selling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island presents a novel featuring a college dropout and an 84-year-old woman on the run from the law.
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The New Earth
by Jess Row
An award-winning author offers a globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future.
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The Nursery
by Szilvia Molnar
Struggling with postpartum depression, a new mother, ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, and feeding, strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbor, but they are both running out of time, and something is soon to crack.
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Old Babes in the Wood
by Margaret Atwood
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents this stunning collection of short stories that showcase both her creativity and her humanity as she explores family relationships, marriage, loss and memory and what it means to spend a life together.
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Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
Based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of WWII, this beautifully written novel follows four individuals as they, 20 years after the war, find their lives interconnecting in Israel, in unexpected ways, and must each ask where and to whom they truly belong.
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Our Best Intentions
by Vibhuti Jain
An immigrant family gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation.
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The Perfumist of Paris
by Alka Joshi
In 1974, Paris perfumer Radha, on the cusp of a breakthrough, travels to India where she enlists the help of her sister and the courtesans of Agra, who use the power of fragrance to seduce, while finally confronting a past secret, which threatens her already vulnerable marriage.
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River Spirit
by Leila Aboulela
Told through the voices of seven men and women whose fates grow inextricably linked, this breathtaking new novel, set during the Mahdist War in 19th-century Sudan, is a story of people who—against the odds and for a brief time—gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge and sacrifice.
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Rootless
by Krystle Zara Appiah
When his wife, unable to handle the demands of motherhood and feeling the dreams she had slipping away once again, disappears, leaving their toddler son behind, Sam finds his vision for their future shattered, in this heartrending love story that explores what happens after a marriage collapses.
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The Sister Effect
by Susan Mallery
When her sister, Sloane, a recovering addict, returns, wanting a relationship with her daughter, Finley McGowan, who has been raising her niece, struggles with forgiveness and trust with the help of a man who knows all too well how messy families can be.
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Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
by Heather Webb
Transporting readers to the golden age of Hollywood, this captivating novel follows Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra as they ride a rollercoaster of success and failure, passion and anger, wondering if the next turn will be the end of their careers—and the end of all they've shared.
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Two Wars and a Wedding
by Lauren Willig
As the Spanish-American war begins, archaeologist Betsy Hayes joins the Red Cross in search of her former best friend and follows Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders straight to the heart of the fighting where dark memories of her last war resurface and her need to protect old and new friends intensifies.
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Wandering souls
by Cecile Pin
Seeking refuge in the UK after the last American troops leave Vietnam, Anh and her younger brothers, in a London plagued by social inequality and raging anti-immigrant sentiment, find their paths diverging as time passes, wondering if love alone can keep them together.
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Weyward
by Emilia Hart
Told over five centuries through three connected women, this riveting novel follows Kate, in 2019, as she seeks refuge in Weyward Cottage; Altha, in 1619, as she uses her powers to maintain her freedom; and Violet, in 1942, as she searches for the truth about her mother's death.
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
by Claire Jimenez
This powerful debut novel follows a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long-missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
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White Cat, Black Dog
by Kelly Link
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, 17th-century French lore and Scottish ballads, this clever collection of reinvented fairy tales expertly blends realism and the speculative as characters hunt for love, connection, revenge or their own sense of purpose.
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Worthy Opponents
by Danielle Steel
The CEO of the most respected and luxurious department store in NYC, Spencer Brooke goes up against Mike Weston, a wealthy investor who threatens to take over, but when bad luck strikes and she is backed into a corner, she must decide what's best for the family business.
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All That is Hidden
by Rhys Bowen
Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is shocked when her husband tells her they are moving to Fifth Avenue and that he's running for sheriff in the latest addition to the long-running series following Wild Irish Rose.
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All That is Mine I Carry With Me
by William Landay
When the remains of their mother's body are discovered twenty years after she went missing, three siblings must decide whether or not to believe their criminal defense attorney father is guilty of the murder or stand by him.
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Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land in the new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.
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Collateral Damage
by Judith A. Jance
Ali Reynolds tries to figure out who was the real target and who was the collateral damage after her husband is forced off the road in an airport limo while preparing to fly to a ransomware conference in London.
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Countdown
by James Patterson
A young CIA agent has been handed an impossible mission, and has five days to save the world, four days to save her family and three hours to find the world's most dangerous double-agent.
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The Dig
by Anne Burt
When her brother mysteriously disappears, Sarajevo-born lawyer Antonia King returns home to Thebes, Minnesota, where she unearths years of secrets and lies, leading to shocking revelations about her adoptive family—and the truth behind her biological mother's death—forever altering her life.
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The Donut Legion
by Joe R. Lansdale
When his ex-wife, Meg, who works at a local donut shop run by an evangelist cult who believes in an extraterrestrial Second Coming, goes missing, Charlie Garner, along with his brother and a reporter, uncovers strange and frightening details in his quest to rescue Meg.
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A Flaw in the Design
by Nathan Oates
After his nephew is orphaned, a creative writing professor and his wife must take in seventeen-year-old Matthew and are concerned and panicked when the young man begins writing chilling stories that imagine the deaths of his parents and relatives.
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Forget What You Know
by Christina Dodd
Zoey Phoenix is almost killed in a car accident on the same day her mother disappears and must rely on her ex-husband for help in both her recovery and also searching for answers about what happened to her mother.
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The Golden Spoon
by Jessa Maxwell
During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as America's Grandmother, finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
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Good Dog, Bad Cop
by David Rosenfelt
Paterson Police Department's Corey Douglas and his K Team investigate a suspicious crime near the Long Island sound that resulted in two deaths and a cold case in the fourth novel of the series following Citizen K-9.
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The Guilty One
by Bill Schweigart
A hero cop thwarts a brutal murder and can't remember a thing about it, but memories return and so do the nightmares.
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He Said He Would Be Late
by Justine Sullivan
The loving wife of a rising Boston banker takes a deep dive down a dangerous rabbit hole after she intercepts a text with a kissy-face emoji on her husband's phone while everyone around her becomes convinced she's losing her mind.
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Her Deadly Game
by Robert Dugoni
After a failed romance with a coworker, a Seattle prosecutor must return home to her family's failing law firm to work for her father until she accepts a high profile case in which the prosecutor is her ex.
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Hiss & Tell
by Rita Mae Brown
When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw.
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I Will Find You
by Harlan Coben
Receiving evidence that his son might still be alive, an innocent father convicted of murdering his own child breaks out of prison to uncover the truth in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Stranger.
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Just One More
by Annette Lyon
A librarian investigates her husband's dark past and winds up dead. Now it's up to her best friend to uncover the truth.
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The Kind Worth Saving
by Peter Swanson
When a troubled woman from his past wants proof her husband is cheating, this simple case of infidelity turns into a murder investigation, forcing PI Henry Kimball to go back to one of the worst days of his life to uncover the truth.
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Lemon Curd Killer
by Laura Childs
When murder takes center stage during Charleston Fashion Week, tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning, implored by the victim''s daughter to help find the killer, enters a world of backstabbing business partners, crazed clothing designers, angry film producers and drug deals.
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The Lost Americans
by Christopher Bollen
A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to uncover the truth about her brother's mysterious death.
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A Mansion for Murder
by Frances Brody
Old bones speak from the grave as a curse descends on Saltaire.
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A Most Intriguing Lady
by Sarah Ferguson
From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, comes a sweeping, romantic historical saga about a Duke's daughter—the perfect Victorian lady—who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle.
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Night Flight to Paris
by Cara Black
In 1942, American markswoman and former spy Kate Rees is pulled out of retirement by her former handler who sends her to Paris on a dangerous three-pronged mission--one that requires her to take the shot that just might win, or lose, WWII.
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Now You See Us
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
When a Filipina maid is arrested for murdering her female employer, three Filipina other domestic workers—Corazon, Donita and Angel—are shocked into action, using their moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened and exposing the secrets of Singapore's elite along the way.
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On the Line
by Fern Michaels
Undergoing a series of genetic tests to learn the cause of his sudden illness, rising star chef Mateo Castillo discovers his results threatening to uncover a dark secret that will expose his family to dangers in the past, while clouding the investigation into who is trying to hurt him in the present.
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The Raven Thief
by Gigi Pandian
Taking part in a mock seance to remove any trace of her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt, from her life, Tempest Raj is stunned when his dead body crashes the party, and when suspicion falls on her beloved grandfather, she must conjure up the real killer.
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Red Queen
by Juan Gómez-Jurado
After a personal trauma, Antonia Scott, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary, refuses to continue her work until she is drawn into a macabre, ritualistic murder investigation by a desperate police officer with his own agenda.
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The Refusal Camp
by James R. Benn
The award-winning author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries presents an eclectic mix of new and previously published stories full of terror, action and humor that are rife with historical detail and riveting wartime storytelling.
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A Sinister Revenge
by Deanna Raybourn
After receiving a cryptic, but threatening letter, Lord Templeton-Vane invites Veronica and her beau, Stoker, to a dinner party to help lure out the criminal.
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So Shall You Reap
by Donna Leon
Assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant, Commissario Guido Brunetti must rely on gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim, and as parts of the puzzle come together, a connection to his own youthful past turns out to be the final piece.
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Standing Dead
by Margaret Mizushima
From a critically acclaimed thriller author comes the eighth installment of the award-winning Timber Creek K-9 mysteries.
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Those Empty Eyes
by Charlie Donlea
Ten years after being exonerated in the massacre of her family, legal investigator Alex Armstrong, still searching for answers, finds her crusade to help a man who's under suspicion in the disappearance of his journalist girlfriend resulting in unexpected connections to the murder of her own family.
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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Walking Practice
by Dolki Min
An alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.
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What Have We Done
by Alex Finlay
The survivors of Savior House, an abusive group home for wayward teens, are forced to come together when someone one starts killing them one by one--a reunion none of them asked for or wanted, but one that may be the only way to save all their lives.
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White Fox
by Owen Matthews
In 1963, in a desolate Russian penal colony, when a violent revolt breaks out, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin, a disgraced KGB agent, finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy.
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The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
A former wartime operative and trained killer, Elinor White, settling in Kent, England, keeps to herself until the powerful Mackie crime family threatens her neighbors and former wartime colleagues, who know the truth about what happened in 1944, help free her from her past.
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Wolf Trap
by Connor Sullivan
A former Ground Branch paramilitary officer, Brian Rhome, thinking his time with this elite group of shadow operatives was over, instead finds himself in the midst of a deadly conspiracy that threatens the highest levels of American democracy.
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You Never Know
by Connie Briscoe
After someone breaks into her home and tries to assault her, Alexis Roberts, who is hearing impaired, believes the intruder is her husband, who, after she made a horrifying discovery, disappeared without a trace, and finds herself trapped in a nightmare of fear and uncertainty.
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Infamous
by Lex Croucher
22-year-old aspiring writer Edith and her best friend Rose have always done everything together—climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing...But following their debutante ball Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. When Eddie meets charming poet Nash, he invites her to his Gothic estate. The entourage of artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs, but she might discover the world of famous literary icons isn't all poems and pleasure.
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Love and Other Flight Delays
by Denise Williams
Love takes flight in this collection of three steamy, fun novellas all set at the airport from the acclaimed author of The Fastest Way to Fall.
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The Love Wager
by Lynn Painter
Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, author of Mr. Wrong Number.
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Not That Kind of Ever After
by Luci Adams
Fairytale meets feminism in Luci Adams's Not That Kind of Ever After, a frothy adventure of one woman’s journey to claim happily ever after in times of serial dating, swiping right, and the quest to find your soulmate.
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Off the Map
by Trish Doller
Fate throws Carla and Eamon together when she arrives in Dublin for her best friend’s wedding and he is tasked with picking her up from the airport. But what should be a simple drive across Ireland quickly becomes complicated with chemistry-filled detours, unexpected feelings, and a chance at love—if only they choose it.
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The Portrait of a Duchess
by Scarlett Peckham
An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women’s rights—on the condition she must wed—she is forced to reveal a secret: she’s already married. To a man she hasn’t seen for twenty years.
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The Quarantine Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
In these entries, princess Mia Thermopolis records her most heartfelt emotions while dealing with her husband’s quarantine after exposure to the virus; her personal (and political) battles while imposing health restrictions on her small European nation; life during lockdown; and of course, dealing with her demanding royal family, especially her grandmother.
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
by KJ Charles
Abandoned by his father, Gareth grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh and a family he doesn't know. The Marsh is another world, a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar...
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Something Wild & Wonderful
by Anita Kelly
When Alexei finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho.
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A Spinster's Guide to Danger and Dukes
by Manda Collins
Miss Poppy has been living a lie. To escape an odious betrothal, she hid as the quiet and unassuming Flora Deaver, secretary to London's most infamous female crime reporter. When her beloved younger sister is accused of murder, however, Poppy returns home to keep her sibling from the hangman's noose. But a collision with the most unexpected—and unwelcome—of travel companions interrupts her journey. To her surprise, the arrogant, albeit handsome, Duke of Langham offers to help clear her sister's name...in exchange for a favor of his own.
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Antimatter Blues
by Edward Ashton
With the antimatter that fuels their colony running low, Commander Marshall asks Mickey to retrieve a possible antimatter bomb being held by their creeper neighbors in the second novel of the series following Mickey7.
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Assassin of Reality
by Marina Dyachenko
The sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina's journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magic—and not all magic is good.
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Battle Scars
by Sam Maggs
A survivor of the top-secret Order 66 massacre that identified all Jedi as traitors to the Galactic Republic, Cal Kestis, leads the crew of the Mantis on an adventure that takes place after the critically-acclaimed Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
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A Brief History of Living Forever
by Jaroslav Kalfar
In an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life, two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion.
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Chlorine
by Jade Song
A debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale and is told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies.
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The Curator
by Owen King
Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
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Feed Them Silence
by Lee Mandelo
Using a neurological interface to translate animal's perceptions through her own mind, a scientist becomes obsessed with seeing the world through the eyes of a wolf, endangering her marriage and threatening her mind and body.
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The Foxglove King
by Hannah Whitten
A young woman's secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King's royal court.
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The God of Endings
by Jakki Holland
A lonely artist heading an elite fine arts school for children in 1984, Collette LeSange, an immortal beauty who has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache, finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home and her own mysteriously growing hunger.
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A House With Good Bones
by T. Kingfisher
Warned by her brother that their mother seems "off," Sam visits and discovers a once-cozy home with sterile white walls, a her mom a jumpy, nervous wreck and a jar of teeth hidden in the rosebushes.
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The Lies of the Ajungo
by Moses Ose Utomi
Three days before he turns thirteen, the age when your tongue is cut out to appease the terrifying Ajungo Empire and make sure it continues sending water, Tutu embarks on a quest for salvation of his mother, his city and himself.
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Lone Women
by Victor LaValle
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the lone women taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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Monstrilio
by Gerardo Sm̀ano Cr̤dova
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased 11-year-old son's lung, nurturing it until in gains sentience, and hides this carnivorous little Monstrilio in the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate, but his innate impulses threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.
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Piñata
by Leopoldo Gout
Returning to New York with her daughters after supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey in Mexico, Carmen Sanchez soon discovers that something evil and unexplainable has followed them home—and it may already be too late to escape what's been awakened.
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Smolder
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Helping the police investigate a brutal murder linked to a nationwide slaughter of vampires and humans, powerful necromancer Anita Blake must put her wedding preparations aside to not only catch a killer but to stop an ancient evil from taking away everything she and her husband-to-be hold dear.
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