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Ordinary saints  by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

Ordinary saints

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

"Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now living in London with her girlfriend, determined to live day to day and not think too much about either the future or the past. But when she learns that her beloved older brother, who died in a terrible...

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Lone Star  by Mathilde Walter Clark

Lone Star

Mathilde Walter Clark

"A cross-continental novel that splices the vast expanse of Texas with a daughter's desire to reconnect with her aging father"--

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Together again at the Cornish country hospital  by Jo Bartlett

Together again at the Cornish country hospital

Jo Bartlett

"A&E Nurse Amy Spencer lives a very ordinary life in Port Kara. She loves her job at the hospital and has a great group of friends, but there is something or someone missing from her life. Amy's tried dating but no one ever compares with the one boy that got...

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River song  by Di Morrissey

River song

Di Morrissey

"The arrival of a hotshot New York composer brings a rare touch of glamour and excitement to the peaceful country town of Fig Tree River. For Leonie, Madison, Sarita and Chrissie, four women involved in the local musical theatre, it's a welcome distraction...

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The family I'm in  by Sharon G. Flake

The family I'm in

Sharon G. Flake

"John-John and Caleb, friends since childhood, ... have come face-to-face with the struggles and triumphs of growing into young men. They're living in a world where many Black boys are up against generational expectations, fears of the future, and how to...

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Catching the light  by Joanna Horton

Catching the light

Joanna Horton

"When Sylvie, a single mother yearning for a creative spark, meets Michael, a renowned painter, she feels something she hasn't felt in years. Impulsively she decides to uproot her life and move to Isaiah, an artists' colony, with her teenage daughter, Alice....

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The passenger seat  by Vijay Khurana

The passenger seat

Vijay Khurana

"Approaching the wrong person with open hands can be fatal. Seeking escape from their small-town existence, two teenagers impulsively drive north, with no particular place to go and no particular sense of who is at the wheel. Adam and Teddy hope to leave...

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The final feast  by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

The final feast

Jack Meggitt-Phillips

"Ebenezer Tweezer has spent the best part of 512 years doing whatever he wanted, but that all changed when he met Bethany - a rude, snotty-nosed prankster. Ebenezer has come to care for this strange, slightly smelly little scowler more than he has cared about...

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Voices in the mist  by Neil Coleman

Voices in the mist

Neil Coleman

Imagine two groups of friends and family linked through two periods, one in the 1870s Thames, New Zealand, and the other in post-COVID Thames. What links them in this LGBTQ+-themed story is a clash of beliefs, culture, humour, tragedy, and mystery. The...

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The Persians  by Sanam Mahloudji

The Persians

Sanam Mahloudji

"Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in a shabby apartment...

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Mrs. Lilienblum's cloud factory  by Iddo Gefen

Mrs. Lilienblum's cloud factory

Iddo Gefen

"Our story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum discovered drinking a martini in a crater in the Israeli desert. Eli, her adult son, tries to understand what happened to his wacky mother, while he also tackles the legend of a missing hiker named McMurphy, and whether he...

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The seers  by Sulaiman Addonia

The seers

Sulaiman Addonia

"In the squares of Bloomsbury, near an orphanage in Kilburn, a young Eritrean refugee named Hannah grapples with a disturbing sexual story in her mother's diary. As Hannah moves through the UK asylum system haunted by this tale, language becomes a tool of...

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Gloria  by Andrés Felipe Solano

Gloria

Andrés Felipe Solano

"It is a bright spring Saturday: April 11, 1970. The famous Argentine singer Sandro is about to become the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden, and Gloria will be one of the lucky attendees at what will be a legendary concert. At just...

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This promised land  by Cathy Gohlke

This promised land

Cathy Gohlke

"When she ran away as a young war bride, she was cut off from her family forever - or so she believed. Decades later, maybe the only way to move on is to go home. Ginny Pickering Boyden can't wait for her last day of work, when she'll be free to pursue a...

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Our city that year  by Geetanjali Shree

Our city that year

Geetanjali Shree

"In an unnamed city in India, violence is erupting between Hindus and Muslims, each side viewing the other with suspicion, rage, and blame. As their identities sharpen, friends and colleagues turn against each other. Hospital beds fill up and classrooms empty...

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Small ceremonies  by Kyle Edwards

Small ceremonies

Kyle Edwards

Word on the street is that this is the Tigers' last season. For Tomahawk 'Tommy' Shields, an image-obsessed high school student from a northern Indian reserve, the potential loss of his hockey team serves as a stark reminder of the fact that he is completely...

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The cat who saved the library  by Sōsuke Natsukawa

The cat who saved the library

Sōsuke Natsukawa

"Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books...

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Good dirt  by Charmaine Wilkerson

Good dirt

Charmaine Wilkerson

"Ebby Freeman's life has always been marked with tragedy. First, the death of her brother Baz, killed in an anonymous armed robbery when they were teenagers. Then her perfect fiancé Henry deserting her on the day of their wedding, without an explanation. When...

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The trip of a lifetime  by Monica McInerney

The trip of a lifetime

Monica McInerney

"The wilful and eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her. More than 60 years after emigrating to Australia, she's keeping a secret promise to return to her Irish homeland. Lola...

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Broken country  by Clare Leslie Hall

Broken country

Clare Leslie Hall

"Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help think they were right. She was seventeen when she'd first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he...

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Cannibals  by Shin'ya Tanaka

Cannibals

Shin'ya Tanaka

"During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-year-old Shinogaki Toma is entangled in a desperate struggle against what he believes to be his fate to become his sadistic father. Consumed by a fear that he...

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Woodworking  by Emily St. James

Woodworking

Emily St. James

"In small-town South Dakota, newly divorced Erica, a closeted trans teacher, forms an unlikely bond with Abigail, a bold trans student navigating senior year, as their friendship withstands community scrutiny as it shapes their journeys toward self-acceptance...

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The view from the balcony  by Janette Paul

The view from the balcony

Janette Paul

"Andie has no memory of the man who pushed her out of the way of a speeding car. A week before Coral's biggest career highlight, her mum has a fall. And the last thing Mara wants is to be assigned to work at the hospital bedside of the much-despised senior...

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Trust me on this  by Lauren Parvizi

Trust me on this

Lauren Parvizi

"Zahra Starling and her younger half sister, Aurora, have nothing in common. Not their childhoods or their personalities. And certainly not their outlooks. After a terrible loss, Zahra prefers the solitude of her LA kitchen to people, especially family. Bubbly...

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Sky daddy  by Kate Folk

Sky daddy

Kate Folk

"Linda makes $20 an hour as a content moderator, flagging comments that violate a tech conglomerate's terms and conditions. Each night, she returns to the windowless room in a garage that she rents from a family who pretend she isn't there. But once a month,...

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The hotel at the heart of the lakes  by Ellie (Author) Wood

The hotel at the heart of the lakes

Ellie (Author) Wood

"Welcome to the Lake Island Hotel, on a small island in the centre of beautiful Derwentwater, offering an escape from it all like no other destination. With a 360-degree view of the hills, and the water lapping at your feet on the private shore, you can't help...

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The other Lata  by Kirthana Ramisetti

The other Lata

Kirthana Ramisetti

"Somewhere in New York City, Lata Murthy knows there is another person with her name living a much more interesting life. That's because Lata often receives the other Lata's emails: invites to Hampton soirees, fundraising appeals from the New York City Ballet...

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Bad manners  by Amy Beashel

Bad manners

Amy Beashel

"A men-only charity dinner. A clutch of young waitresses. The jokes are uncomfortable. The hands linger. The collars loosen. Behind closed doors, the wine flows. The night is dark. The faces blur. The memories warp. Behind closed doors, the money flows. But...

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What is wrong with you?  by Paul Rudnick

What is wrong with you?

Paul Rudnick

"A tech billionaire and the flight attendant he's marrying. A TV superhero who used to be married to the flight attendant. A Manhattan book editor and the sensitivity associate who got him fired. A twenty-three-year-old wild child prodigy who's perhaps the...

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The absolutes  by Kate Potter

The absolutes

Kate Potter

"His wife is dead. His beloved daughter has been lost to a dangerous cult. And now time is running out to rebuild their relationship. Haunted by his failings as a son, a husband and, most of all, as a father, he is desperate to try and make things right before...

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The editor's wife  by Clare Chambers

The editor's wife

Clare Chambers

"When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder's mate), his family is sceptical. But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming...

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Out of the woods  by Gretchen Shirm

Out of the woods

Gretchen Shirm

"In the year 2000, an Australian woman travels to The Hague to work as the secretary for an Australian judge. There, she sits through the trial of a former military man who has been charged with war crimes. As the trial proceeds, she is confronted with two...

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The bookshop of new beginnings  by Jen Mouat

The bookshop of new beginnings

Jen Mouat

"Emily Cotton has always dreamed of owning a bookshop, but when her dreams finally become a reality, she realises she's going to need some help. So after a couple of glasses of Merlot, she emails her childhood best friend, Kate Vincent. Kate jumps at the...

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All that life can afford  by Emily Everett

All that life can afford

Emily Everett

"I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. As a child, Eva devoured London through library books--savoring its soft, dreamlike edges of castles and dances, a far cry from her life of co-pays and Craigslist and caring for her...

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The sideways life of Denny Voss  by Holly Kennedy

The sideways life of Denny Voss

Holly Kennedy

"On the surface, Denny Voss's life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his prospects are...

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Look the world in the eye  by Alice Peterson

Look the world in the eye

Alice Peterson

"Katie has a seemingly perfect life. Good looking and in a relationship with a rich, successful man, she hasn't told anyone about her sister Bells who was born disabled. But when Bells comes to stay, and turns her life upside down, Katie begins to learn what...

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Rest of our lives  by Benjamin Markovits

Rest of our lives

Benjamin Markovits

"What's left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Layward's wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact....

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The keeper  by Charles Martin

The keeper

Charles Martin

"Murphy Shepherd, devastated by the loss of his mentor Bones, is thrust back into the fight against human trafficking when the vice president's three daughters are kidnapped. Despite the best security, the daughters are taken without a trace, leaving behind...

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The wandering season  by Aimie K. Runyan

The wandering season

Aimie K. Runyan

"Unraveling the tangled roots of her family takes her places she never expected. Veronica Stratton, a specialty food broker with a business on the cusp of brilliant success that would change the trajectory of her life, visits her parents in idyllic Estes Park...

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This bright life  by Karen Campbell

This bright life

Karen Campbell

"Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He's a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it's like at home for Gerard; he's used...

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Supersonic  by Thomas B. Kohnstamm

Supersonic

Thomas B. Kohnstamm

"When PTA president Sami Hasegawa-Stalworth petitions to rename a Seattle elementary school after her late grandmother, she ignites a battle over the school's future and the history of its surrounding neighborhood. Supersonic launches readers into a...

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London Bridge  by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

London Bridge

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

"One of the last major untranslated works by France's most controversial author, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where Guignol's Band (1944; English translation 1954) left off, Celine's...

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Three men in a boat  by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Three men in a boat

Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

"Jerome K. Jerome's classic comedy of English gentlemen bumbling across the countryside has amused and entertained generations of readers. It was first published in 1889, and despite the often hostile reviews from critics, sold thousands of copies around the...

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The runaway wives  by Karen King

The runaway wives

Karen King

"We're leaving. And there's nothing either of you can do about it! ... When the surprise holiday Dee thinks her husband has booked for her sixtieth birthday weekend turns out to be yet another solo golfing break - it's the last straw. Meanwhile her best friend...

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Room on the sea  by André Aciman

Room on the sea

André Aciman

"In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape...

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The secret collector  by Abigail (Novelist) Johnson

The secret collector

Abigail (Novelist) Johnson

"When an elderly eccentric collector and a troubled teen become each other's only hope of getting their lives back on track, what can possibly go wrong? Alfred is an elderly widower who uses antiques and collectibles to fill the hole in his heart left by his...

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Harriet Tubman  by the Drag Queen Bob

Harriet Tubman

the Drag Queen Bob

"In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom...

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Cat's people  by Tanya Guerrero

Cat's people

Tanya Guerrero

"A stray cat brings together five strangers over the course of one fateful summer in this heartwarming novel about love, found family, and the power of connection"--

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Counting backwards  by Binnie Kirshenbaum

Counting backwards

Binnie Kirshenbaum

"It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the street. Initially, Leo believes the visions are related to visual impairment - they are something he and his wife, Addie,...

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The world's fair quilt  by Jennifer Chiaverini

The world's fair quilt

Jennifer Chiaverini

"As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Creek Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter's retreat in the country, but unexpected financial...

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VHS  by Chris Campanioni

VHS

Chris Campanioni

"While collecting the scattered stories of his parents' entangled passages to the United States, the narrator begins to record the material onto videocassettes through a series of cutting and grafting, splicing footage of his present dislocation and overlaying...

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All our beautiful goodbyes  by Julianne MacLean

All our beautiful goodbyes

Julianne MacLean

"Like the untamed island around her, she weathers each storm to face a new tomorrow. 1946: World War II is over, and Emma Clarkson is poised to take flight. With dreams of attending university, she's ready to leave behind the wild beauty of Sable Island, the...

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The unwanted  by Boris Fishman

The unwanted

Boris Fishman

"Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter, Dina, have been lucky, so far, in these four years since war broke out in their country. Even as their fellow "minority-sect" neighbors and classmates are murdered or imprisoned, George's loyal work teaching...

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Everybody says it's everything  by Xhenet Aliu

Everybody says it's everything

Xhenet Aliu

"Growing up in Connecticut with their adoptive mother, Jackie, twins Drita and Petrit (aka Pete), had no connection to their Albanian heritage and knew nothing about where they came from. Their American lives were all about the Barbie doll that Drita wanted...

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The moorings of Mackerel Sky  by author MZ (Choreographer)

The moorings of Mackerel Sky

author MZ (Choreographer)

"They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimuë the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the...

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Memories of my melancholy whores  by Gabriel García Márquez

Memories of my melancholy whores

Gabriel García Márquez

Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel.

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Twist  by Colum McCann

Twist

Colum McCann

"Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the story of the underwater cables that carry the world's information. The sum of human existence--words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses--travels through the tiny fiber...

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The lion women of Tehran  by Marjan Kamali

The lion women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

"In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to...

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Dances with Wolves  by Michael Blake

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

"Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Lieutenant John Dunbar...

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Espedair Street  by Iain Banks

Espedair Street

Iain Banks

"Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however...

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The fact checker  by Austin Kelley

The fact checker

Austin Kelley

"It's just a puff piece about a farmer's market, I said to myself. It's not going to kill anyone... It started out like any other morning for the Fact Checker. The piece, 'Mandeville/Green,' didn't raise any red flags. There were more pressing stories that...

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Outside women  by Roohi Choudhry

Outside women

Roohi Choudhry

"Would you risk your own life to pursue justice for a stranger? Two migrant women - separated by geographies and generations - face this same devastating choice... Lured away from her home in 1890s India, Sita is brought to South Africa as an indentured...

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Mother tongue  by Naima Brown

Mother tongue

Naima Brown

"What if being true to yourself means hurting everyone around you? Brynn is a claustrophobic suburban mother on the brink... Eric, her husband, is transforming in dark and dangerous ways... Their daughter, Jenny, can't fathom the storm coming her way... When...

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Kingfisher  by Rozie Kelly

Kingfisher

Rozie Kelly

"She smelled like jasmine. No, not exactly. She smelled like the earth beneath a jasmine plant on a hot day. Most of us are poets, she said. It's just a question of how it comes out. When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague - the...

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Lucky night  by Eliza Kennedy

Lucky night

Eliza Kennedy

"Nick Holloway is forty-six. A successful partner at a law firm, he has a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a big house. If he also has gnawing disappointments, secret yearnings, and a creeping sense of opportunities wasted, well, that's nobody's fault...

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The resistance painter  by Kath Jonathan

The resistance painter

Kath Jonathan

"1939. Irena Marianowka's dreams of attending art school in Paris are crushed when the Nazis invade Poland. Instead, she joins the Home Army and, together with her young husband, risks her life every day in the sewers of Warsaw. In 1944, after a harrowing...

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Rabbit moon  by Jennifer Haigh

Rabbit moon

Jennifer Haigh

"Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit and run accident. At a...

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The library of lost dollhouses  by Elise Hooper

The library of lost dollhouses

Elise Hooper

"Tildy Barrows, Head Curator of a beautiful archival library in San Francisco, is meticulously dedicated to the century's worth of inventory housed in her beloved Beaux Art building. She loves the calm and order in the shelves of books and walls of art. But...

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The family recipe  by Carolyn Huynh

The family recipe

Carolyn Huynh

"Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc's Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She abandoned the family without a trace, and clearly doesn't want anything to do with Duc, the...

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The café with no name  by Robert Seethaler

The café with no name

Robert Seethaler

" It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a café on the corner of a bustling Vienna market. He recruits a barmaid, Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter,...

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Always on my mind  by Carys Green

Always on my mind

Carys Green

"When Elijah suggests going to OneMind to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Anna is dubious about getting the implant that will allow them to hear each other's thoughts. However, she's eager to please him, and to make up for the fact she can't give him...

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Courage  by Natalie Keller Reinert

Courage

Natalie Keller Reinert

"Jules Thornton isn't afraid of anything - except, maybe, riding racehorses. So she never imagined she would find herself at a racetrack at dawn. But her new home, Briar Hill Farm, is in trouble, and she and her boyfriend, Pete Morrison, are willing to do just...

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The homemade god  by Rachel Joyce

The homemade god

Rachel Joyce

"Set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe, this is a story about sibling relationships - what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever. Family is everything, even when it falls apart. There is a heatwave across Europe....

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Sister Europe  by Nell Zink

Sister Europe

Nell Zink

"Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck by a malady that maroons her in Montreux, she's unable to host an exclusive gala dinner in Berlin to honor the author Masud al-Huzeil for his lifetime achievement in Arabic...

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Crush  by Ada Calhoun

Crush

Ada Calhoun

"When a husband asks his wife to consider what might be missing from their marriage, what follows surprises them both--sex, heartbreak and heart rekindling, and a rediscovered sense of all that is possible. She's happy and settled and productive and content in...

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The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony  by Roberto Calasso

The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Roberto Calasso

"The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient Greek mythology. In this masterful...

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Escape  by James Clavell

Escape

James Clavell

"Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company--secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong--with a fleet of helicopters registered in Iran faces bankruptcy if their copters are...

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The weight of ink  by Rachel Kadish

The weight of ink

Rachel Kadish

"Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague...

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Attila  by Aliocha Coll

Attila

Aliocha Coll

""My life will not make any sense when Attila is finished," declared Aliocha Coll about his mesmerizing final novel. In this groundbreaking "untranslatable" work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires, the future of the city,...

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No names  by Greg Hewett

No names

Greg Hewett

"Inspired by the iconic punk scene of the late '70s, No Names blurs the lines of affection and sexuality in a haunting tale of desire, hope, and loss. Mike and Pete were "no names," two working-class boys lost in the shuffle of their stratified town, brought...

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Walk softly on this heart of mine  by Callie Collins

Walk softly on this heart of mine

Callie Collins

"Austin, Texas is a town in the throes of social upheaval and the Rush Creek Saloon, five miles on its outskirts, is a bar without a crowd. Until a strange new house band transforms it from moribund honky-tonk to thriving blues bar. But are the throngs of...

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The lives and deaths of Véronique Bangoura  by Tierno Monénembo

The lives and deaths of Véronique Bangoura

Tierno Monénembo

"In this gripping novel set in both French Guinea and Paris, award-winning author (The King of Kahel) Tierno Monenembo explores themes of international exile, sexual abuse, generational trauma and repressed memory of a people and country under the regime of...

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Paradise close  by Lisa Russ Spaar

Paradise close

Lisa Russ Spaar

"In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade-fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer support-finds herself alone in an ancestral home during a blizzard. Marlise's struggles to survive there become the focal point for a...

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Luck  by Natalie Keller Reinert

Luck

Natalie Keller Reinert

"Jules and Pete have hit rock bottom. They are living in the middle of nowhere in a tiny horse trailer, their horses are in temporary stalls, and they are dependent on nearby farms for training facilities. Yet somehow, despite all of that, Jules has never been...

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Wildcat dome  by Yūko Tsushima

Wildcat dome

Yūko Tsushima

"Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo - but ever since the sudden death of Mitch's brother, they've been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of...

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Our beautiful boys  by Sameer Pandya

Our beautiful boys

Sameer Pandya

"When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets-and the secrets of their parents-threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of...

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The third generation  by Chester B. Himes

The third generation

Chester B. Himes

"From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel about a black family tortured by colorism as it strives to live up to the myth of the Black middle class in white, post-war America. Lillian Taylor has three sons, a...

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Yesterday will make you cry  by Chester B. Himes

Yesterday will make you cry

Chester B. Himes

"Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in "the hole," where inmates' sense of reality slips away in total darkness. When a fire...

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Kaitiaki  by Tihema Baker

Kaitiaki

Tihema Baker

"The truth of Jason's heritage haunts him. He has the power to decide the future of humanity, but something draws him instead to the past, where only ghosts await him. Meanwhile, the war between the Storm and the Watchers rages on. When enemies join forces,...

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At the island's edge  by C. I. Jerez

At the island's edge

C. I. Jerez

"She fled the island with a broken heart. But going home is the only way to heal the wounds of war... As a combat medic, Lina LaSalle went to Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers. But when her convoy is attacked, she must set aside her identity as a...

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Green pastures  by Patricia (Romance writer) Johns

Green pastures

Patricia (Romance writer) Johns

"Tabitha Schrock's return to Lancaster County shakes the foundations of her family and community. After her departure during rumspringa and a recent divorce, Tabitha faces the challenge of reintegrating into Amish society while pursuing her dream of working as...

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Prodigal  by Phyllis C. Gobbell

Prodigal

Phyllis C. Gobbell

"It's the Fourth of July, 2000. In a small Southern town, fireworks light the sky above the City Park, while down the street a smaller flash of light changes everything for 19-year-old Connor Burdette. He has just lost the girl he loves. Now, buying beer at...

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Theft  by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah

"At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university in Dar es Salaam with a new swagger and sense of ambition. There he catches the eye of Fauzia, who sees in him a chance...

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People from Oetimu  by Felix K. Nesi

People from Oetimu

Felix K. Nesi

"July 1998. Men living on the border between West and East Timor are gathering at the police station to watch the World Cup. No one feels noble enough to sit next to the Javanese soldiers on the couch, so most of the guys crowd on the floor. They train their...

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The English problem  by Beena Kamlani

The English problem

Beena Kamlani

"Shiv Advani is an eighteen-year-old growing up in India. But he is no ordinary young man. Shiv has been personally chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to come to England, learn their laws, and then return home and help drive the British out of India. Before he leaves,...

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The place of shells  by Mai Ishizawa

The place of shells

Mai Ishizawa

"In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography of medieval saints. She waits at the train station to...

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The Avignon quintet  by Lawrence Durrell

The Avignon quintet

Lawrence Durrell

"Avignon: the kingdom of kings and Popes, capital of the historic South of France, heart of legendary Provence. The entwined lives of a group of friends – and lovers – are transformed forever by the outbreak of World War II. But their dramatic present only...

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Cool cat  by Jazz Taylor

Cool cat

Jazz Taylor

"Nova doesn't lie--she tells hopes for the future. That's why she tells her mom she got an A on her math quiz, even though she got a B. It's also why she doesn't tell her mom about her secret Instagram that she's almost old enough to have. When a viral video...

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Gatsby  by Jane Crowther

Gatsby

Jane Crowther

"Everyone knows Gatsby. New money. Murky past. Huge online following. Nic Carraway doesn't belong amongst the super-rich, but when she scores a cheap summer lease in Long Island, it-girl Jay Gatsby becomes her neighbour. Gatsby welcomes Nic to her opulent...

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Deep cuts  by Holly Brickley

Deep cuts

Holly Brickley

"It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy--who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it--can't stop herself from overanalyzing...

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Someday, someday, maybe  by Lauren Graham

Someday, someday, maybe

Lauren Graham

"It's January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York, dreaming of Broadway and doing 'important' work. But all she has to show for her efforts so far is a part in an ad for ugly...

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The new confessions  by William Boyd

The new confessions

William Boyd

"Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element'. Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the...

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Small boat  by Vincent Delecroix

Small boat

Vincent Delecroix

"An inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters...

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The usual desire to kill  by Camilla Barnes

The usual desire to kill

Camilla Barnes

"Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer full of food dating back to 1983. Miranda's father is a retired professor of philosophy who never loses an...

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Fire in the head  by Daniel Oakman

Fire in the head

Daniel Oakman

"Fire in the Head addresses a deep taboo in Australian society - the legacy of child sexual abuse and what victims must endure to bring perpetrators to justice. In March 1999, twenty-seven-year-old James Harper, a shy public servant living in Canberra, is...

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Don't make me laugh  by Julia Raeside

Don't make me laugh

Julia Raeside

"Ali Lauder, a driven but undervalued radio producer, is assigned the job of a lifetime: landing the sought-after comedian Ed Catchpole for her show. A seasoned performer with an unpredictable edge, Ed seems to offer Ali a way out of her routine - but as their...

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Right way up  by Fiona (Novelist) McCallum

Right way up

Fiona (Novelist) McCallum

"Kind-hearted and practical psychologist Colin Palmer has spent decades helping his clients. Now he's under pressure to retire and hit the road in a new caravan with his wife Joyce. However, when Joyce abruptly heads off on her own adventure, Colin's perfectly...

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Too far afield  by Günter Grass

Too far afield

Günter Grass

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen observer, and gifted speaker and Ludwig Hoftaller, a mid-level...

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