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Updated April 2, 2024
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The Art of Breaking Ice
Mead, Rachael.
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Ashes of the sun
Wexler, Django
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'Ashes of the Sun is fantasy at its finest' Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the WyldFour hundred years ago, a cataclysmic war cracked the world open. Amid the ashes, the Dawn Republic now stands guard over lands littered with eldritch relics and cursed by plaguespawn...
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Don't Swipe Right
Chilton, L. M.
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'Utterly compelling and laugh-out-loud funny.' KATY BRENT, author of How To Kill Men and Get Away With It'As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!' RUPERT HOLMESFinding true love can be murder.Gwen Turner, 29, entrepreneur and...
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The door-to-door bookstore : a novel
Henn, Carsten
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The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life. Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing...
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The drift : a novel
Tudor, C. J
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Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. "The wildest thriller of the year is three thrillers in one....
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The fox wife : a novel
Choo, Yangsze
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Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying...
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Hello beautiful : a novel
Napolitano, Ann
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a "powerfully affecting" (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? "Another tender tearjerker...
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Hide : a novel
White, Kiersten
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this "marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end" (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying) "The suspenseful plot combines elements of...
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The Hummingbird Effect
Mildenhall, Kate.
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An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the...
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Love objects
Maguire, Emily
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A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident.
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Perilous times : a novel
Lee, Thomas D.
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An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet--saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself--in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend. "If you like Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, you'll enjoy Perilous Times<...
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The Shadow Cabinet
Dawson, Juno.
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The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty's Royal CovenAll is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty's Royal Coven... Despite thinking theyâe(tm)ve thwarted the prophecy, the witches are still reeling from the events of the past few months. ...
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Sharpe's Command
Cornwell, Bernard.
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SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover...
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The sunset years of Agnes Sharp
Swann, Leonie
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It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and unruly grandsons),...
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The twilight world
Herzog, Werner
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The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II. In 1997, Werner...
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Untethered
Inoon, Ayesha.
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HIGHLY COMMENDED - The ACT Book of the Year 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED - ACT Literary Awards 2024, Fiction. Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha...
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Wildflowers
Frew, Peggy.
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A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands.
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Witch king
Wells, Martha
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Winner of the Locus Award! From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose. "I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon...
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Women talking
Toews, Miriam
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A profound, unsettling and virtuosic piece of fiction from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows.
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