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The honourable schoolboy  by John Le Carré

The honourable schoolboy

John Le Carré

"It is a beleaguered and betrayed Secret Service that has been put in the care of George Smiley. A mole has been uncovered at the organisation's highest levels - and its agents across the world put in grave danger. But untangling the traitor's web gives Smiley...

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A legacy of spies  by John Le Carré

A legacy of spies

John Le Carré

"Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The...

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A devil's share  by T. G. Reid

A devil's share

T. G. Reid

"In the heart of Scotland's whisky country, a killer lurks amongst the casks. When renowned distillery guide Hamish Durie drops down dead during a whisky tasting, seemingly poisoned by his family's own liquid gold, DCI Bone is thrust into a world where...

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The dressmaker's war  by Michelle Vernal

The dressmaker's war

Michelle Vernal

When she found a lost little girl in front of her shop, dressmaker Evelyn Flooks decided to raise Sabrina as her own daughter. So, when Sabrina announces her engagement, Evelyn gifts her the ring she herself was given, to truly show Sabrina that she is...

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Are you happy?  by Lori Ostlund

Are you happy?

Lori Ostlund

"A collection of stories and a novella from a critically acclaimed writer"--

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Cosmic love at the multiverse hair salon  by Annie Mare

Cosmic love at the multiverse hair salon

Annie Mare

"A multiverse novel about two women who fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn't end in disaster, in this debut novel by Annie Mare. Tressa Fay Robeson has never been shy, which is how she's...

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When the museum is closed  by Emi Yagi

When the museum is closed

Emi Yagi

"Rika Horiuchi's new part-time job is to converse with a statue of the Venus de Milo - in Latin - every Monday, when the museum is closed. Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job- she and Venus talk about everything. They fall in love,...

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The stalker  by Paula Bomer

The stalker

Paula Bomer

"Robert Doughten Savile, aka "Doughty," is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius and status. While he has little capacity to accurately assess his own...

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Seesaw monster ; by Kōtarō Isaka

Seesaw monster ;

Kōtarō Isaka

"In Japan's recent past, Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. She uses her secret skills as an ex-spy to investigate her, while trying to maintain a peaceful home life. And in Japan's not-too-distant future, a courier named Mito finds himself...

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Only because it's you  by Rebecca Fisseha

Only because it's you

Rebecca Fisseha

"Miz doesn't "do" marriage. Her parents have been separated for decades and half the weddings she was a bridesmaid in have ended in divorce. She is not the marrying kind. What Miz does "do" is go on dates with her casual-but-very-hot boyfriend, Daniel. . . ....

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Clay  by Franck Bouysse

Clay

Franck Bouysse

"In the heart of Cantal, in the heat of the summer of 1914, the men resigned themselves to going off to fight, far away. Joseph, just 15 years old, must take care of the family farm with his mother, his grandmother, and Leonard, an old neighbor who has become...

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Summerhouse  by Yiğit Karaahmet

Summerhouse

Yiğit Karaahmet

"Fehmi and Şener have been together for forty years-no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed closet doors, their life on Büyükada, an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that only needs one...

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The language of the birds  by K. A. Merson

The language of the birds

K. A. Merson

"When seventeen-year-old Arizona's mother goes missing on a family trip, Arizona tells herself not to worry. Until she finds her family's Airstream ransacked--and the ominous note on the counter. Incredibly, impossibly, her mother has been kidnapped. Even more...

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Maine characters  by Hannah Orenstein

Maine characters

Hannah Orenstein

"Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month with their father at his lake house -- separately. Raised in New York City, Vivian is an ambitious sommelier with a secret that could derail her future. Lucy grew up in a tiny Maine town, where she now...

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A charming touch of tarot  by Melissa Holtz

A charming touch of tarot

Melissa Holtz

"Four friends discover that their new magical skills may not be enough to save them from a stalker hell-bent on turning their lives upside down. Alyssa, Nina, Lanie, and Corinne's friendship is being put to the test. With Nina's marriage falling apart, Lanie...

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The fate of others  by Richard Bausch

The fate of others

Richard Bausch

"A new collection of short stories examining the extraordinary shades of ordinary life, from the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch"--

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Slaying you  by Michelle Gagnon

Slaying you

Michelle Gagnon

"Two troublemakers hit the danger jackpot when they discover a fresh killer on their high-heels . . . again. Grace and Amber had an unusual "meet-cute": they were stalked by the same serial killer. But after he died, they went their separate ways, determined...

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Not they who soar  by Amanda Flower

Not they who soar

Amanda Flower

"Summer 1904. Katharine and her best friend from Oberlin College, Margaret Goodwin Meacham, are thrilled to attend the St. Louis Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, for the centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Not only is it a grand, international...

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Beach house rules  by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Beach house rules

Kristy Woodson Harvey

"When Charlotte Sitterly's husband is arrested for a white-collar crime, she and her daughter Iris are locked out of their house by the FBI and--what's potentially even worse--thrust into the spotlight of @JuniperShoresSocialite, the town's snarky anonymous...

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A scandalous affair  by Leonard Goldberg

A scandalous affair

Leonard Goldberg

"In 1918, during the height of the Great War, Joanna Holmes and the Watsons receive a late-night, clandestine visit from Sir William Radcliffe, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who brings with him an agonizing tale of blackmail; a case so sensitive that it can...

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Terror at the gates  by Scarlett St. Clair

Terror at the gates

Scarlett St. Clair

"Estranged from her powerful family, Lilith Leviathan finds refuge in Nineveh, a district in the city of Eden devoted to sin. There, she uses her magic to steal for a living, attracting the attention of the five governing families as well as the church, which...

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Ten incarnations of rebellion  by Vaishnavi Patel

Ten incarnations of rebellion

Vaishnavi Patel

"Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston--a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal hunt for rebels. Young men are drafted to fight wars they will never return from. And the...

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The tongues of serpents  by Naomi Novik

The tongues of serpents

Naomi Novik

"Convicted of treason and stripped of rank and standing, Temeraire and Lawrence are transported to the prison colony at New South Wales. With them travel three dragon eggs, which are to be handed over to the officers stationed at the remote outpost -- one a...

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The wind weaver  by Julie Johnson

The wind weaver

Julie Johnson

"Fear of maegic plagues war-torn Anwyvn. Halflings like Rhya Fleetwood are killed on sight. But Rhya's execution is interrupted by an unexpected savior -- one far more terrifying than her would-be killers. The mysterious and mercenary Commander Scythe. In the...

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The life of Herod the Great  by Zora Neale Hurston

The life of Herod the Great

Zora Neale Hurston

"In the 1950s Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the life of one of the most well-known biblical figures, Herod the Great. That novel was never published in Hurston's lifetime. Now for the first time, it is brought to life with...

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The taking of Irene Hart  by Madeleine Reiss

The taking of Irene Hart

Madeleine Reiss

"1859. Somerset, England. When widow Hester Hart decides to sign over all her family's worldly goods -- and their freedom -- to a secretive religious community, her daughters, headstrong Ruby and fragile Irene, have little say in the matter. Led by the...

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Star  by Danielle Steel

Star

Danielle Steel

"Young, innocent and strikingly beautiful Crystal Wyatt was an outcast, envied and resented by all but her devoted father, with whom she shared a deep love for their remote California ranch. When her father dies, Crystal is alone and unprotected. Devastating...

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The ascent  by Allison Buccola

The ascent

Allison Buccola

"Twenty years ago, the members of a reclusive commune outside Philadelphia vanished without a trace. The mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. No sightings of the members were ever verified, and no bodies ever found. But the group did leave one...

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Stuart Woods' finders keepers  by Brett Battles

Stuart Woods' finders keepers

Brett Battles

"After attending an Arrington properties meeting on Martha's Vineyard at the group's newest location, The Vineyard Arrington, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter over lunch, who requests Stone's help in...

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Killer on the road  by Stephen Graham Jones

Killer on the road

Stephen Graham Jones

"Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. However, her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend all stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming by joining her on an...

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The perfumer's secret  by Fiona Schneider

The perfumer's secret

Fiona Schneider

"When the Second World War swept through Paris, Iris Penhallam paid the ultimate price to save the ones she loved. Fifty years later, her niece is determined to track down the truth of Iris's forgotten years. Stella Penhallam needs a miracle. So, when her...

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Ruins  by Amy (Novelist) Taylor

Ruins

Amy (Novelist) Taylor

"At a crossroads in their lives, a couple arrives in Greece to house-sit for a friend. Emma is searching for a meaningful next step beyond work or motherhood, and Julian is struggling to come to terms with the failure of his academic career. Their visions for...

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The in-laws  by Sinéad Moriarty

The in-laws

Sinéad Moriarty

"Amanda. Katie. Melanie. Three wildly different women with one big problem - their impossible mother-in-law, Nancy. When an unexpected crisis hits the family business, the sisters-in-law find themselves navigating stormy waters. Amanda is back in town and...

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The woman who laughed  by Simon Mason

The woman who laughed

Simon Mason

"In the first months of 2020 there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre, and although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael...

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We don't talk about Carol  by Kristen L. Berry

We don't talk about Carol

Kristen L. Berry

"In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sydney than her own sister or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl in the photograph is her aunt, Carol, who was one of six North...

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I make my own fun  by Hannah Beer

I make my own fun

Hannah Beer

"She's the woman who has everything. But she wants more. She wants you... Everyone knows Marina, the A-list movie star. But very few know Marina, the absolute monster. Years at the top have proved that whatever Marina wants, she gets. But when she meets...

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A far better thing  by H. G. Parry

A far better thing

H. G. Parry

"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets 'A Tale of Two Cities' in H. G. Parry's 'A Far Better Thing', a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution. The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child, and made him a mortal servant of the Faery...

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Shaw Connolly lives to tell  by Gillian French

Shaw Connolly lives to tell

Gillian French

"Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she's one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a mysterious string of arsons popping up throughout the rural Maine community her department serves. But the tragedy of...

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Emma on fire  by James Patterson

Emma on fire

James Patterson

"You-all of you-are sleepwalking through global catastrophe. And I intend to wake you up. What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire's Ridgemont Academy is shocking. Her school blames a heartbreaking tragedy in her family. Her best friends point to...

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We are all guilty here  by Karin Slaughter

We are all guilty here

Karin Slaughter

"Welcome to North Falls - a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it's personal. She turned away when her best friend's...

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Island calling  by Francesca Segal

Island calling

Francesca Segal

"On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker's caseload of donkeys, cows, and ailing lizards has only increased. She still can't believe the humiliating truth about her father. Probably, she ought to feel worse than she does. But the islanders have taken...

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Atmosphere  by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid

"Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she...

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The Italian flame  by Rosanna Ley

The Italian flame

Rosanna Ley

"Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in love, painfully aware of...

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Stay hidden  by Paul Doiron

Stay hidden

Paul Doiron

"A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, the case seems open and shut. But as soon as he arrives on remote Maquoit Island he discovers mysteries piling up one on...

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Before the fall  by Noah Hawley

Before the fall

Noah Hawley

"The elite have everything: money, cars, private jets and beautiful families. David Whitehead and Ben Kipling are the top of the elite, both influential men with jobs in the media and finance, both travelling back to New York on a private jet after a vacation...

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When the ocean flies  by Heather G. Marshall

When the ocean flies

Heather G. Marshall

"An email from a stranger tells Alison Earley that her natural father, whom she has known for only six years, has died suddenly. What begins as a short trip back to Scotland for a funeral soon becomes a journey that puts adoption, sexuality, and identity on a...

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Tramps like us  by Joe Westmoreland

Tramps like us

Joe Westmoreland

"Between the beginnings of gay liberation and the pre-AIDS era of the 1970s and early 1980s, a gay American teenager runs away from Kansas City and his father's homicidal tendencies, on a journey first to New Orleans and then to San Francisco, discovering a...

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The cowboy of my dreams  by A. J. Pine

The cowboy of my dreams

A. J. Pine

"As a successful country music star, scandal seems to follow Ash Murphy wherever he goes. There's only one place he can sneak off to where the world can't find him: his family ranch. Ash plans to rest up and lay low, working with his brothers and their new...

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Mission critical  by Mark Greaney

Mission critical

Mark Greaney

"Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. The mysterious passenger is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land at...

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Sleeping worlds have no memory  by Yaroslav Barsukov

Sleeping worlds have no memory

Yaroslav Barsukov

"Refusing the queen's order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished to the border to oversee the construction of the biggest defensive tower in history. However, the use of technology taken from refugees from another reality makes the...

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A gentleman of questionable judgment  by Grace Burrowes

A gentleman of questionable judgment

Grace Burrowes

"While attending a two-week horse race meeting along with his fiancée, Miss Hyperia West, Lord Julian Caldicott finds himself drawn into the high-stakes investigation of suspected horse race rigging."--Provided by publisher.

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A gentleman under the mistletoe  by Grace Burrowes

A gentleman under the mistletoe

Grace Burrowes

"Lord Julian Caldicott is standing in for his ducal brother as manager of Yuletide merriment at the family seat. Alas for his lordship, nothing is going as planned. Cranky relatives arrive uninvited, family squabbles ensue, and Julian's annual case of the blue...

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A gentleman of sinister schemes  by Grace Burrowes

A gentleman of sinister schemes

Grace Burrowes

Lord Julian Caldicott has been tasked with discovering who wants the Marquess of Dalhousie dead. Two attempts have already been made on Dalhousie's life, and the evidence Julian uncovers casts suspicion on members of the marquess's own family. The dashing heir...

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Russian nonsensical  by Edward D. Webster

Russian nonsensical

Edward D. Webster

"Pastor Clem Dudas is a man of exquisite contradictions; a charismatic preacher who features rattlesnakes in his worship, a businessman developing fake AI 'political exposés', a schemer with clandestine Russian connections. Bud Randolph shares Clem's politics,...

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American nonsensical  by Edward D. Webster

American nonsensical

Edward D. Webster

"Nineteen years ago, a bizarre mother-son preaching team, Sarah and Jeff Lamb, disappeared. Now, in 2020, with the country in a Covid-19 panic and an election frenzy, Jake Christian goes missing. Jake's hot wife, Hannah, asks detectives, Stan and Bud, to track...

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Stalkers  by Paul Finch

Stalkers

Paul Finch

"All he had to do was name the woman he wanted. It was that easy. They would do all the hard work. Detective Sergeant Mark 'Heck' Heckenberg is investigating the disappearance of 38 different women. Each one was happy and successful until they vanished without...

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How to dodge a cannonball  by Dennard Dayle

How to dodge a cannonball

Dennard Dayle

"How to Dodge a Cannonball tells the story of a friendless, fatherless, and guileless white teenager named Anders who volunteers for the Union army as a flag-twirler to escape his abusive mother. In desperate acts of self-preservation, he...

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Weepers  by Peter Mendelsund

Weepers

Peter Mendelsund

"Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper. He's a card-carrying member of an eccentric union hired to cry at funerals, wakes, services and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country as a whole has...

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The ten teacups  by Carter Dickson

The ten teacups

Carter Dickson

"Writing as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery John Dickson Carr returns to the Crime Classics series, pitching his series amateur detective Henry Merrivale against a seemingly watertight mystery: after the police are sent a note warning...

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Fear death by water  by Emily (Writer and script editor) Cook

Fear death by water

Emily (Writer and script editor) Co...

"Northumberland, 1838. The TARDIS crash lands on board a sinking steamship. Stranded, the Doctor and the few survivors fight for their lives - while the local lighthouse keeper's daughter, Grace Darling, risks her life to row to their rescue. Lauded a heroine,...

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The other brother  by Tierney Page

The other brother

Tierney Page

"April thinks she has life sorted: a home of her own, a job she loves, and a fiancé, Lucas, who adores her ... Except it turns out he's hiding something that she simply can't forgive. Heartbroken, April retreats from the world, only surfacing when her best...

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How to hold someone in your heart  by Mizuki Tsujimura

How to hold someone in your heart

Mizuki Tsujimura

Ayumi is searching for the best way to balance the responsibility of his special powers with his own desires as a young man in the real world. According to strict rules, meetings must take place under a full moon: -A young film star finds resolution with the...

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Spectral scream  by Hannah Fergesen

Spectral scream

Hannah Fergesen

"When a psychic shriek for help nearly overwhelms the TARDIS, the Doctor and Belinda track the source to a distant planet. There they find a sentient, telepathic bioship named Adama and ragged colonists descended from the original crew. Adama is dying, and...

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Drive me home  by Carly Robyn

Drive me home

Carly Robyn

"Charlotte Walker's life had always been a well-scripted story, until she took an unexpected detour to London and is met with an intriguing offer comes her way from an unlikely source - her brother's best friend Lucas Adler, AlphaVite Racing's star driver,...

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Inspector Imanishi investigates  by Seichō Matsumoto

Inspector Imanishi investigates

Seichō Matsumoto

"As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is found on the tracks. With only two leads - a distinctive accent and a single word, 'kameda' - senior inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle. Setting aside...

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Jamaica road  by Lisa (Novelist) Smith

Jamaica road

Lisa (Novelist) Smith

"South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive is to go unnoticed. Daphne's attempts at invisibility are upended when a boy named Connie Small arrives...

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Amplitudes

Amplitudes

"Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity is a speculative fiction anthology exploring queer and trans lives across imaginative futures--from dystopian cities to galactic nightclubs. Blending protest, desire, and whimsy, the collection reclaims sci-fi...

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The naked eye  by Yōko Tawada

The naked eye

Yōko Tawada

"A young Vietnamese woman is invited to speak at an International Youth Conference in East Berlin. On her arrival, she is kidnapped to a small town on the other side of the Berlin Wall. There she falls under a strange spell of domestic-sexual boredom with her...

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The story of a single woman  by Chiyo Uno

The story of a single woman

Chiyo Uno

"She left her home, just a girl, determined to live alone. But wasn't this the very life her late father had most fervently forbidden? As an older woman, Kazue looks back on her tumultuous younger years with piercing clarity. Growing up in a tiny Japanese...

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Scenes from a tragedy  by Carole Hailey

Scenes from a tragedy

Carole Hailey

"When an empty passenger plane crashes in the Lake District, Carly Atherton's hopes of getting back together with the man she loves vanish - Luke Emery was one of the two pilots on board. Investigating the story behind the doomed flight might just be the...

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Paperboy  by Callum McSorley

Paperboy

Callum McSorley

"DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular. Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit. When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled...

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Murder by candlelight

Murder by candlelight

"As the nights draw in and the old year slips away, the haunting season begins. Twigs scrape at windowpanes in the darkness, mysterious footprints are found in the snow, and all sorts of mysteries, monsters and nastiness are in the offing. Bringing together...

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Legion  by William Peter Blatty

Legion

William Peter Blatty

"When a young boy is found murdered in a mock crucifixion, Lieutenant Kinderman investigates the crime, and wonders if there is a connection to a series of murders that took place twelve years before."--Provided by publisher.

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The sisters  by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

The sisters

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

"A family saga about the lives of three sisters and a narrator named Jonas, spanning three decades and three continents"--

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