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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

In Italy during World War II, malingering bombardier Yossarian's real problem is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

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All the Colors of the Dark

Chris Whitaker

1975 is a time of change in America. In the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. Their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

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The Seven Rings

Nora Roberts

Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house—a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. And now, to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all, a difficult task must be completed.

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The King's Ransom

Janet Evanovich

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble. As a bank president, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. Recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime. 

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Emma on Fire

James Patterson

Everyone at Ridgemont Academy knows to expect perfect grades, perfect record, and a perfect life from Emma Caroline Blake. Then she stands up in class and commits an act so shocking her reputation will never recover. Emma has decided to live life as if everyone's future depends on it because it does.

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Lethal Prey

John Sandford

Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death, but her killer was never found. Twenty years later, her twin sister Lara is determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead. When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer’s identity. 

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The Grave Artist

Jeffery Deaver

A wedding reception is coming to a close in the Hollywood Hills when the blissful day is shattered by the death of one of the newlyweds. Though the incident appears to be an accident, Homeland Security Investigations agent Carmen Sanchez and her partner, security expert Jake Heron, discover that the tragedy is the third in a series of similar deaths and conclude that chilling evidence points to a serial killer dubbed the Honeymoon Killer. Now his dark obsession has turned to Carmen and Jake, his perfect next target. 

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The Black Wolf

Louise Penny

Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind it. A man they called the Black Wolf. In a sickening turn of events, Gamache has realized that plot, as horrific as it was, was just the beginning. Something deeper and darker, more damaging, is planned. Did he in fact arrest the Black Wolf, or are they still out there? 

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Nightshade

Michael Connelly

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island. Then Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor, a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. He is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as "Nightshade." Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
 

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Gone Before Goodbye

Harlan Coben

Army combat surgeon Maggie McCabe has lost her purpose after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by an elite plastic surgeon, a former colleague. A mysterious man requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate but skilled enough to take this job, Maggie fulfills her end of the agreement. When the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself.

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Exit Strategy

Lee Child

First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. Nothing is missing. Second—a store to buy a coat. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note with a desperate plea for help.

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Wedding Dashers

Heather McBreen

Ada’s little sister is getting married. But the wedding is all the way in Ireland, and Ada is so broke that she just barely managed to get a ticket on a budget airline that just cancelled her connection. She spills her heart about the womanizing best man she dreads to meet to a handsome also-stranded stranger at the bar. Then she realizes the stranger is the infamous best man. Now, Jack and Ada must put their simmering attraction behind them to make it to Belfast before they miss the nuptials. 

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The Love Audit

Lucy Eden

There are three things that PR strategist Jasmine Morgan knows for sure: One, she's damn good at her job. Two, she'll do whatever it takes to save her team from looming layoffs. And three, Derek Carter will always be her handsome archnemesis. Unfortunately, she and Derek end up on competing projects in Miller's Cove, a small town highly suspicious of corporate outsiders. To gain the trust of the locals, she'll have to ditch her blazer and pose as a "honeymooning couple" with her mortal enemy. But as the two get deeper into their charade, they discover little Miller's Cove has a lot of big secrets. 

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Indian Block Printing

Holly Jones

These modern step-by-step projects draw inspiration from the artisans working in traditional block print workshops around Jaipur. From simple motifs to intricate patterns – and from tablecloths and tote bags to air-dry clay and gift wrapping – the instructions can be followed both by beginners and experienced crafters. Indian block printing is more than just an art form. It's a conscious and creative way of living.

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Progress

Samuel Miller McDonald

In Progress, geographer Samuel Miller McDonald offers a radical new perspective on the myths upon which the modern world is built, illuminating its destructive lineage and suggesting an urgent alternative. Drawing on interdisciplinary research across anthropology, history, philosophy and geography, McDonald argues that if humanity is to thrive, then we must dismantle, reimagine, and create anew what progress means.

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The Trouble with Giraffes

Lisa Mantchev

A girl knows having a pet giraffe poses some difficulties, like finding a way to take walks together with legs very different in length. And her giraffe doesn’t fit into the clubhouse door for Pet Club. But the Pet Club members come together to find a way for him—and everyone—to be included. Because that’s what friends do.
 

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Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo

Bess Kalb

Every day, Buffalo Fluffalo goes about his usual routine. He munches all the grass he can eat, frolics and rollicks with his friends, and at noontime, lies down for a nap in the shade. But one morning, Fluffalo wakes up to a loud wailing cry and, to his surprise, finds a little buffalo named Puffalo with the tiniest, shiniest eyes!

At first, Fluffalo does not like Puffalo. “What does it need?” he huffs in alarm. But Crow wisely explains that Puffalo doesn't need much—just time to learn and grow. Slowly, Fluffalo watches as Puffalo learns to trip, slip, gallop, and trot. He teaches Puffalo to eat plants and to keep away from red ants. Together, the two take long strolls and snuggle for naps. And even though Puffalo sometimes slows him down, Fluffalo realizes that life is much better with Puffalo by his side.
 

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Ms. Rachel and Bean and the Bedtime Routine: Encouraging a Calm and Comforting Good Night

Ms. Rachel

It’s bedtime for Bean! And Ms. Rachel knows exactly how to get him settled down and ready for a restful sleep. Follow along as Ms. Rachel and Bean say good night to the day with their tried-and-true bedtime routine. 

First, they put away toys. Next comes bathtime and pajamas. Then Bean brushes his teeth and uses the potty. Finally, Ms. Rachel and Bean will read a wonderful bedtime story together and sing a song! 

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Let's Split Up

Bill Wood

When the town's "it-couple," Brad and Shelley, are found brutally murdered in a secluded manor, a brave group of teen friends takes on the mystery.

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How Girls Are Made

Mindy McGinnis

Fallon is a fixer. Shelby is a fighter. Jobie is a failure. Fallon needs to keep herself anonymous, Shelby needs to keep her new boyfriend happy, and Jobie needs to keep her followers who keep asking for more. Each girl finds herself trapped in an inescapable situation--that will leave one of them dead.

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The Trespassers

Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

Finley, Mya, River, and Eli were inseparable—until tragedy shattered their bond and drove Finley away. Now it’s senior year, and she’s back, hoping to reclaim the friendships she lost. But when Mya throws a house party on a snowy night, Finley realizes the group isn’t what it used to be. Then a stranger crashes the party. Then someone ends up dead. Then everything unravels.

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Heart Check

Emily Charlotte

Dawson, a star hockey player, and Harper, his biggest critic, must confront their assumptions about each other while working together at an after-school job, as they navigate their differences and find unexpected common ground.

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The Elopement

Gill Hornby

1820. Mary Dorothea Knatchbull is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward. But when her father marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary’s life is suddenly changed. Fanny’s sisters become Mary’s first friends, and her brothers are not only amusing, but also handsome and charming. She forms an especial bond with one Mr. Knight in particular. Soon, they are deeply in love and determined to marry. It promises to be the most perfect match. Who would want to stand in their way?

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Love Letters for Other People

Shaylin Gandhi

When mathematician Aubrey MacLean's career implodes, she has no choice but to return to her rural Indiana hometown. She has a long memory, especially when it comes to Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart. Nick's life is routine: long shifts at the steel mill, plus a side business writing love letters for other people. It's enough to numb his regrets--until his first love returns, stirring up a past he thought he'd buried.

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Convent Wisdom

Ana Garriga

Convent Wisdom is your guide to navigating everything from patriarchal bureaucracy to an all-consuming friend crush with help from history’s most fascinating nuns. Struggling with money? Saint Teresa and her fellow Carmelites have recession-proof advice. Scrolling social media and drowning in FOMO? Mary of Jesus of Ágreda’s miraculous ability to engage in bilocation might help you cope. Confounded by a lesbian situationship? The yearnings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz contain unexpected insights.

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Otherwise Engaged

Susan Mallery

Chance brings the four women together at a wedding venue, where a shocking secret comes tumbling out. Twenty-four years ago, desperate teenager Cindy chose wealthy Ava to adopt her baby--then changed her mind at the very last second. The loss rocked Ava's world, leaving her unable to open her heart to the daughter she did adopt, Victoria. As Shannon and Victoria deal with the fallout from the decisions their mothers made, they wrestle with whether who they are is different than who they might have become.

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The Red Scare Murders

Con Lehane

July 1950: Mick Mulligan has just hung out his shingle as a private investigator in New York’s sweaty Hell’s Kitchen. Last year, universally reviled cab company owner Irwin Johnson was murdered. One of his drivers, an African American Communist Party member named Harold Williams, was arrested, tried, and found guilty, despite scant evidence. Now his execution date is two weeks away. New York City labor leader Duke Rogowski asks Mick to find fresh evidence that might buy Harold a stay of execution.
 

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Lemons and Lies

Alexis Castellanos

Valeria Morales's senior year is off to a sour start. Her twin brother, Adrian, isn't talking to her, she's realizing all her friends were actually his friends, and now she's failing math. Enter Gage Magnussen. Gage isn't looking to take on any tutoring gigs now that his standing as valedictorian is at risk after letting a catastrophic breakup distract him - not to mention his demanding parents expect Gage to coordinate their yearly charity auction alongside his cheating ex. So Valeria offers him a deal: if he helps her pass math, she'll take over event planning AND pretend to be his girlfriend. A win-win-win! But as their study sessions move to deep conversations and their fake dates begin feeling realer and realer, is it possible the lemons they've been dealt will turn into lemonade? Or will this arrangement only sting?

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Under a Fire-Red Sky

Geraldine McCaughrean

With World War II on their doorstep, four teens evade evacuation and remain in London, attempting to aid the Fire Service and keep each other safe during the Blitz.

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The House No One Sees

Adina King

When seventeen-year-old Penelope enters her childhood home, the house floods her with painful memories of her mother's opioid addiction that she must confront to mend her fractured past.

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The Weaver Bride

Lydia Gregovic

A sweeping fantasy about a witch who must navigate a ruthless marriage competition while investigating a mysterious death and navigating a thrilling romance.

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Avatar Legends Bending Academy: Light It Up!

Ash J. Wu

Adaki dreams of being a powerful Firebender, but at eleven years old, he feels like he’s not where he should be. So when the chance to train with his school’s best firebending master arises, Adaki jumps at the opportunity, even though it means he and his friends will have to compete in a tournament full of older kids with more experience—and more attitude. When training does not go as planned—what do cooking and math have to do with being a Firebender?—Adaki begins to wonder: Can he and his friends overcome their inexperience and defeat the older competitors?

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Broken Dolls

Ally Malinenko

"Put it on your list!" -Stephen King

Author of Ghost Girl and This Appearing House Ally Malinenko brings to life a terrifying middle grade novel about a girl learning to grieve her grandfather and the creepy antique dolls in his house that seem to come alive, perfect for fans of The Doll in the Garden.

One. Two. Three. Are you ready to play?

Ever since Kaye's grandfather died, she's been obsessed with counting things: the steps to her bedroom, the dolls on her sister's bed, even the threads on her favorite blanket. It's arithmomania, and with the selective mutism that sometimes prevents her from speaking, she literally can't find the words to talk about how she feels now that Grampa is gone. When they take the summer to clean out and renovate his old house, Kaye finds herself counting the days.

That is, until her younger sister, Holly, starts finding dolls. She finds them buried in the backyard, stuffed in the walls, crammed into the closets. From the first one, Kaye knows they aren't like normal dolls. They smile at her like they know something, and sometimes their eyes open and close on their own. Kaye hears her sister talking to them constantly—and she swears she's heard the dolls whispering back.

Everyone assumes that Holly's just a kid with a good imagination. Kaye doesn't think it's a game, because she knows that Holly—and the dolls—are going to make her play with them. Forever.

  • Perfect for Halloween Reading
  • Ideal for fans of the supernatural
  • Features light scares


 

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Kat & Mouse: I Like Cheese!

Salina Yoon

Kat and Mouse are opposites: Kat is spontaneous and creative, and Mouse likes routine-and cheese. While Kat's lunchtime is always an adventure, Mouse, on the other hand, has cheese every day. Kat wonders: doesn't Mouse ever get bored of cheese?! Mouse wonders: does Kat ever get bored of me?! Can this duo find a lunch that fits their friendship?

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Mermaid Academy: Amber and Flash

Julie Sykes

Mermazing action-packed underwater adventures for young readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout and with a glittery cover! From the authors and illustrator of the bestselling Unicorn Academy series.

Hidden deep beneath the waves is Mermaid Academy, a magical school where mermaids are paired with their very own dolphin and must discover their unique mermaid magic, with plenty of adventure along the way!

Laid-back Amber is having the best time joking around on their school trip to The Shining Sea. Flash, her dolphin, wishes she'd pay more attention! Then the evil Mal Mer show up with a horrible plan. Amber and Flash will have to work together to carry out a daring rescue!

Mermaid Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure.

Look out for more titles! Isla and Bubble , Cora and Sparkle and Maya and Rainbow. 

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As Many Souls As Stars

Natasha Siegel

1592. Cybil Harding is trapped in a house with a mother paralyzed by grief and a father willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of magic. Miriam Richter is a creature of shadow. Forged by the dark arts many years ago, she is doomed to exist for eternity alone--killing mortals and consuming their souls for sustenance. Everything changes when she meets Cybil, whose soul shines with a light so bright, she must claim it for herself. She offers a bargain: she will grant Cybil reincarnation in exchange for her soul.

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Sharpe's Storm

Bernard Cornwell

The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter shows no mercy. Amid brutal conditions, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself saddled with an unexpected burden: Rear-Admiral Sir Joel Chase, dispatched by the Admiralty with sealed orders, unshakable confidence, and a frankly terrifying enthusiasm for combat. Sir Joel could hold the key to defeating Napoleon once and for all. But to pull off his audacious plan, he needs someone who knows how to fight dirty, think fast, and survive the impossible.

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Horses

Ludovic Orlando

Ludovic Orlando garnered world acclaim for helping to rewrite the genomic history of horse domestication. Horses takes you behind the scenes of this ambitious genealogical investigation, revealing how he and an international team of scientists discovered the elusive origins of modern horses. Along the way, he shows how the domestication of the horse changed the trajectory of civilization—with benefits and unforeseen consequences for the animals themselves.

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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything

Peter Brannen

Science journalist Peter Brannen reveals how carbon dioxide's movement through rocks, air, water, and life has kept our planet's climate livable, its air breathable, and its oceans hospitable to complex life. Drawing on groundbreaking research and with a clear- eyed perspective, Brannen shows how a deep exploration of the carbon cycle can shed light on the way forward for humanity as we try to avert environmental catastrophe in the future. 

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The Fellowship of the Ring

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

In ancient times, Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him and remained lost. After many ages, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

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The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie

When Colonel Protheroe, the exceedingly disagreeable local magistrate, is found shot to death in the vicar's study, the police are confounded. But the vicar's observant neighbor, Miss Marple, notices far more than most. An adept and shrewd student of human nature, she is the only one clever enough to untangle the clues and solve the mystery.

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Horizontal Vertigo

Juan Villoro

With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers.

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The Kiss Quotient

Helen Hoang

Stella Lane is professionally successful but has made way less progress in the dating department. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice at romance and intimacy with a professional. She hires escort Michael Phan to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan. Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but also to crave all of the other things he's making her feel. 

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The Wangs Vs. the World

Jade Chang

Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn't repossessed. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the eldest Wang daughter, Saina. 



 

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Full Speed to a Crash Landing

Beth Revis

Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Help arrives in the form of a government salvage crew, and while they reluctantly rescue her from certain death, they are not pleased to have an unexpected passenger along on their classified mission. 

 

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The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Lowland is an engrossing family saga steeped in history: the story of two very different brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn apart by revolution, and a love that endures long past death. Moving from the 1960s to the present, and from India to America and across generations, this dazzling novel is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.

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Sabrina & Corina

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado—a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite—these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.

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A Knock at Midnight

Brittany K. Barnett

Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and  Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole for a first-time drug offense. Moved by Sharanda’s plight, Brittany set to work to gain her freedom. 

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The Madwomen of Paris

Jennifer Cody Epstein

After being dragged into the Salpêtrière asylum screaming, covered in blood, and suffering from amnesia, Josephine is diagnosed with what the nineteenth-century Parisian press has dubbed “the epidemic of the age”: hysteria. Jean-Martin Charcot, the Salpêtrière’s acclaimed director, devotes popular lectures to it, using hypnosis to elicit fits and fantastical symptoms in front of rapt audiences. Laure, a lonely ward attendant, finds in Josephine friendship and something more. But who, really, is the girl she's grown to love?

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The Cairo Affair

Olen Steinhauer

Sophie Kohl is living a nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, a mid-level American diplomat in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved ask why her husband has been assassinated. Omar Halawi has worked in Egyptian intelligence for years, and he must follow the fallout wherever it leads.

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Bunny

Mona Awad

Samantha Heather Mackey is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world.

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Antelope Woman

Louise Erdrich

When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano’s mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him—and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.

 

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A Fatal Inheritance

Lawrence Ingrassia

Ingrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer—different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives. And while highly unusual, his family is not the only one to wonder whether their heartbreak is the result of unbelievable bad luck, or if there might be another explanation.

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The Cat who Saved Books

Sōsuke Natsukawa

Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for--or rather, demands--the teenager's help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

The delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe is drawn to private investigation to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart is a missing eleven-year-old boy who may have been snatched by witch doctors.

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This Cursed House

Del Sandeen

In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Chicagoan Jemma Barker accepts an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, thinking it is her chance to start over. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma. Then the shocking truth comes out. Jemma learns the Duchons are cursed, and they believe that only she can free them.
 

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Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

Mark Woods

On the eve of turning fifty, Mark decided to spend a year visiting the national parks. He planned to take his mother to a park she'd not yet visited and to re-create his childhood trips with his wife and their iPad-generation daughter. But when his mother was diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live, Mark's journey became about family, the parks, and the legacies we leave behind.

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The Museum Detective

Maha Khan Phillips

When Dr. Gul Delani receives a call in the middle of the night from Karachi's Sindh police, she is summoned to a narcotics investigation in a remote desert region, many hours away. There, in a cave, they find a mummy—intact, seemingly authentic, its sarcophagus decorated with symbols from the ancient city of Persepolis. If it’s a genuine archaeological discovery, it will rewrite history.

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Clanlands

Sam Heughan

From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, stars of Outlander Sam Heughan and Graham Robb embark on a road trip with a difference, as the two Scotsmen explore their land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.

 

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Winter in Paradise

Elin Hilderbrand

One cold and snowy night, everything Irene Steele thought she knew falls to pieces with a shocking phone call: her beloved husband, away on business, has been killed in a helicopter crash on the distant Caribbean island of St. John. After Irene and her sons arrive at the island, they discover that her husband had been living a secret life. 

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Who Is Vera Kelly?

Rosalie Knecht

New York City, 1962: Vera Kelly is working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. They send her to Argentina, to wiretap a congressman and infiltrate a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera is forced to take extreme measures to save herself.
 

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The Caliph's House

Tahir Shah

English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge. From elaborate exorcism rituals involving sacrificial goats to dealing with gangster neighbors intent on stealing their property, the Shahs must cope with a new culture and all that comes with it. 

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City of Veils

Zoë Ferraris

Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical examiner's office, is determined to make her work mean something. Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. She calls upon her friend Nayir for help. Their growing search takes them from the city's car-clogged streets to the deadly vastness of the desert beyond.

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Rough Magic

Lara Prior-Palmer

At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior–Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”―an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty–five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her.

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Better the Blood

Michael Bennett

A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. A mysterious video leads her to discover a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room with a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Hana realizes that the murder is utu--the Māori tradition of rebalancing for the crime of killing a Maori chief eight generations ago. Descendants of two of the soldiers who killed the chief have been killed in turn, and four more potential murders remain. 

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The Amalfi Curse

Sarah Penner

Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast and the sunken treasure her father spotted on his final drive. Upon Haven's arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?

 

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Bullet Train

Kotaro Isaka

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug, the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in the world," is put on the bullet train by his boss, a mysterious young woman called Maria, to steal a suitcase full of money and get off at the first stop. When Ladybug misses his chance to get off the train, he soon discovers that he's not the only dangerous passenger on board. Worse yet, now everyone's after the suitcase.
 

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Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

On the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter-to-be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef, using cooking to express herself and sharing recipes with readers along the way.

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The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do Dublin couple, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from.
 

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Boy from the North Country

Sam Sussman

In this deeply moving debut novel, Sam Sussman writes one of the most tender and intimate mother-son relationships of our era. Caring for his mother as her illness worsens, and as she begins to tell him truths he has waited so long to hear, Evan comes to understand the startling gift this extraordinary woman has bequeathed him.

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Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Talia Hibbert

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a bucket list of life experiences. When she enlists Redford ‘Red’ Morgan in her mission to live more fully, she learns that this handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and sex appeal has a bucket list of his own. And Chloe may find herself on it.

 

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Stone Fruit

Lee Lai

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and ease in all three of their lives, which ping-pong between familial tensions and deep-seeded personal stumbling blocks. Taking a leap of faith, each opens up and learns they have more in common with their siblings than they ever knew. 

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Notes on Infinity

Austin Taylor

Harvard students and colleagues Zoe and Jack find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough: the promise of immortality through a novel antiaging drug. Finding encouraging results, they bring their work to an investor, drop out of Harvard, and form a startup. Then Zoe and Jack receive a startling accusation that threatens to destroy both the company they built and their partnership.

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Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston

* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller *
* GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 *
* BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! *

What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?

When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. But Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond, leading to a well-publicized altercation. What at first begins as a staged truce and friendship becomes something deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. 
 

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Not Quite Dead Yet

Holly Jackson

On Halloween night, Jet Mason is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm in a week or less. Jet looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend. As her condition deteriorates, she reconnects with her childhood friend Billy, the only one willing to help her solve her own murder.

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Call Us What We Carry

Amanda Gorman

This luminous poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. 

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Chain Gang All Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are com­peting for the ultimate prize: their freedom. The penalty for loss? Death.
 

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The Lamb

Lucy Rose

Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. They spend quiet days waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Mama feeds these 'strays,' keeps them warm, then satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies. When a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her bid for freedom.

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The List

Yomi Adegoke

In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist's world is upended when her fiancé's name turns up in a viral social media post.

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The Climate Book

Greta Thunberg

In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts—geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and Indigenous leaders—to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. 

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Family Meal

Bryan Washington

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's life, won't leave Cam alone. He follows Cam from LA back home to Houston, his visits wild, tender, and unpredictable. But Cam has changed, and when he reenters the orbit of his childhood best friend TJ and his family's bakery, neither Cam nor TJ is sure how to navigate their charged estrangement. Searching for a way past all the wounds and secrets, the pair find hope and sustenance from the most unlikely source. 

 

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The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang

Kuang makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.

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Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight—breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. 

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Birdgirl

Mya-Rose Craig

Birdgirl follows Mya-Rose and her family as they travel the world in search of rare birds and astonishing landscapes. But a shadow moves with them, too—her mother's deepening mental health crisis. In the face of this struggle, the Craigs turn to nature again and again for comfort and meaning. 

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Gilded in Vengeance

Lyssa Mia Smith

Two years after being framed for fraud by the Society of the Charmed, an exclusive club of New York's wealthiest--and most magical--citizens, Emmy Vallillo wastes away in prison, utterly alone. Until her cell door bursts open, revealing Jack Fontaine, one of the Society's favorite sons, now imprisoned for a crime he swears he didn't commit. They make a deal: he'll help Emmy escape, if she helps destroy those who've wronged them. 

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Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls (Standard Edition)

Rowana Miller

When the first letter appears in Kay Anderson's locker, it carries one instruction: dye your hand blue. Kay doesn't have time for secret societies. Still, Kay's intrigued, so she stains her palms with ink to join the mysterious Blue Hand Girls. Kay soon finds out that the group is set on exposing the shady business that Davison's founders would rather keep hidden.

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Run Away with Me

Brian Selznick

Run away with me is a profoundly romantic YA novel about two teenage boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.

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Roar of the Lambs

Jamison Shea

Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, NewYork, for good, after all. But all of that changes when a vision sends her stalking in the remains of her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago.

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