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  • Follow Me Darkly by Hardt, Helen
    Helen Hardt

    Follow Me Darkly

    She's a take-charge woman. But he's a master of control. Skye Manning knows what she wants. Her job as assistant and photographer for a major social media influencer isn't perfect, but it's a rung on the ladder to bigger and better things. She's confident...
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  • Love Lettering: A Witty and Heartfelt Love Story by Clayborn, Kate
    Kate Clayborn

    Love Lettering: A Witty and Heartfelt Love Story

    In this warm and witty romance from acclaimed author Kate Clayborn, one little word puts a woman's business-and her heart-in jeopardy . . .Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York...
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  • How Much I Love by Force, Marie
    Marie Force

    How Much I Love

    It wouldn't be fair to drag her into my life when my future is so uncertain. But I can't resist her.WyattMy name is Wyatt Blake. I'm a cardiothoracic surgeon in Phoenix. When I was 17, I had a heart transplant that saved me. That's...
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  • City of Night by Rechy, John
    John Rechy

    City of Night

    " Rechy's] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling and liberating...
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  • Killer Content by Blacke, Olivia
    Olivia Blacke

    Killer Content

    It's murder most viral in this debut mystery by Olivia Blacke. Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a rent free apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods around by cat-sitting, and has a...
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  • The Dark Hours by Connelly, Michael
    Michael Connelly

    The Dark Hours

    A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year "A masterpiece"--LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's...
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  • The Goodby People by Lambert, Gavin
    Gavin Lambert

    The Goodby People

    First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. "His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled." (Armistead Maupin) "The bisexual draft...
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  • Pleasantview by Mohammed, Celeste
    Celeste Mohammed

    Pleasantview

    Winner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for FictionWinner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature"In one of Chekhov's stories, a character says that every happy man should have someone who taps at his door with a little hammer, reminding him that...
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  • Hot Time: A Mystery by Flint, W. H.
    W. H. Flint

    Hot Time: A Mystery

    For fans of The Knick, The Alienist, and The Last Days of Night, an entertaining, atmospheric crime thriller set in the Gilded Age. New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and...
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  • Paper Airplanes by Forney, Tabitha
    Tabitha Forney

    Paper Airplanes

    When Erin loses her husband on September 11, she thinks her life is lost, too. She surrenders to fate by diving into a self-destructive cocktail of grief, guilt, and substance abuse. But when the road to destiny presents a twist, she realizes she has...
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  • The Delivery by Mendelsund, Peter
    Peter Mendelsund

    The Delivery

    Enter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must pedal his way to five-star customer ratings--and, perhaps, freedom--in novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund's The Delivery. Countries go wrong sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and...
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  • Amnesty by Adiga, Aravind
    Aravind Adiga

    Amnesty

    An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about...
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  • Scenes of Bohemian Life by Murger, Henri
    Henri Murger

    Scenes of Bohemian Life

    Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris'...
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  • The Bookseller's Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII by Gable, Michelle
    Michelle Gable

    The Bookseller's Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII

    "A novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII"--Cover.Author: Michelle GableISBN-10: 143289353XISBN-13: 9781432893538Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2021Pages: 595Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10dLarge Print
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  • Ghosting: A Witty, Heartfelt, & Modern Love Story by Skilton, Tash
    Tash Skilton

    Ghosting: A Witty, Heartfelt, & Modern Love Story

    Online Dating Ghostwriting Rules to Live by: - Do not present a "perfect" image. No one will trust it. Nor should they. - Think of your quirks--such as cosplaying B-movies from the 1980s--as a "Future Honesty." Save these as a reward only for those...
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  • How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by Jackson, K. M.
    K. M. Jackson

    How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

    USA Today bestselling author K.M. Jackson delivers a hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally.Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot. What?! How could the world's...
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  • It Had to Be You by Clark, Georgia
    Georgia Clark

    It Had to Be You

    For the past twenty years, Liv and Eliot Goldenhorn have run In Love in New York, Brooklyn's beloved wedding-planning business. When Eliot dies unexpectedly, he even-more-unexpectedly leaves half of the business to his younger, blonder girlfriend, Savannah. Liv and Savannah are not a match...
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  • The Runaways by Bhutto, Fatima
    Fatima Bhutto

    The Runaways

    "Dazzling. A novel that holds up to scrutiny a world of claustrophobic war zones, virulent social media and cities collapsing upon themselves, and then sets it down again, transformed by the grace of storytelling." - Siddartha Deb, author of The Point of Return Anita...
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  • Sensation Machines by Wilson, Adam
    Adam Wilson

    Sensation Machines

    A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a Post-Trump America in economic free fall Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a...
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  • Speculative Los Angeles by Hamilton, Denise
    Denise Hamilton

    Speculative Los Angeles

    "A stimulating anthology of 14 futuristic L.A. fables . . . Some of the best of these tales seem illumined by the humanistic spirit of the late Ray Bradbury, poet laureate of Southern California fantasy literature." --Wall Street JournalAs an incubator of the future,...
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  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    A rediscovered classic about how racism and sexism tests the spirit, ambition, and character of three children growing up in Hell's Kitchen and Harlem, from the literary editor of The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP With an introduction by New York Times...
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  • The Company She Keeps by McCarthy, Mary
    Mary McCarthy

    The Company She Keeps

    This is the author's first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy's bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediate recognition as one of...
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  • Clean Sweep by Lee, E. B.
    E. B. Lee

    Clean Sweep

    Retirement was supposed to bring her time to paint. Instead, she would find a purpose.Carli Morris is ready for her next chapter. Selling her Madison Avenue ad agency for billions, the self-assured career woman pursues her love of art and spends her spare hours...
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  • The Reading List by Adams, Sara Nisha
    Sara Nisha Adams

    The Reading List

    A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.Widower...
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  • Patsy by Dennis-Benn, Nicole
    Nicole Dennis-Benn

    Patsy

    Heralded for writing "deeply memorable . . . women" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New...
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  • Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Our Mutual Friend

    A dead body is dredged from the Thames, presumed to be the son of wealthy miser John Harmon, in Dickens' final novel, Our Mutual Friend. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and...
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  • The Reading List by Adams, Sara Nisha
    Sara Nisha Adams

    The Reading List

    A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!"The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel."--ShondalandAn unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an...
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  • Tower of Babel by Sears, Michael
    Michael Sears

    Tower of Babel

    Shamus Award-winning author Michael Sears brings Queens, New York, to literary life in this crime series debut featuring a somewhat seedy lawyer with a heart of gold (or at least gold plate). Queens, New York--the most diverse place on earth. Native son Ted Molloy...
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  • Along the Path of Torment by Morrison, Chandler
    Chandler Morrison

    Along the Path of Torment

    Ty Seward is a sick man. Anorexic, sexually aberrant, and haunted by a ghostly apparition residing in his closet. Living in the shadow of an in-remission cancer he fully expects to return, Ty bitterly earns his meager living by working as an assistant to...
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  • A Dark Matter: Volume 1 by Johnstone, Doug
    Doug Johnstone

    A Dark Matter: Volume 1

    Three generations of women from the Skelfs family take over the family funeral home and PI businesses in the first book of a taut, gripping page-turning and darkly funny new series. ***Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year***...
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  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    "An important book." -- The New York Times Set in Philadelphia and New York a century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance traces the hopes and dreams of three young African-Americans as they search for love, financial security, and success:...
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  • Love on Lexington Avenue: Volume 2 by Layne, Lauren
    Lauren Layne

    Love on Lexington Avenue

    A Goodreads Best Romance "Fans of The Devil Wears Prada will flip over Love on Lexington Avenue." --Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne comes the second delightfully charming installment in the Central Park Pact series,...
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  • Passion on Park Avenue: Volume 1 by Layne, Lauren
    Lauren Layne

    Passion on Park Avenue

    An Oprah.com Best Romance Novel of 2019! "Perfect for readers who love the dishy women's fiction of Candace Bushnell." --Booklist From the author of the New York Times bestselling Stiletto and Oxford series, the first in a sizzling new series following the unlikely friendship...
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  • Straight from the Horse's Mouth by Alaoui, Meryem
    Meryem Alaoui

    Straight from the Horse's Mouth

    Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Public Library This hilarious, colorful portrait of a sex worker navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Thirty-four-year-old prostitute Jmiaa reflects on the bustling world around her with a...
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  • Vagablonde by Dorn, Anna
    Anna Dorn

    Vagablonde

    "It's tempting to compare Vagablonde to Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays... But Dorn's firecracker of a novel is all her own." --Michael Schaub Prue is a 30-year-old attorney who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the...
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  • Sister: Volume 8 by Dahl, Kjell Ola
    Kjell Ola Dahl

    Sister: Volume 8

    The Oslo Detectives are back in another chilling slice of Nordic Noir ... Fr lich searches for the mysterious sister of a young female asylum seeker, but when people start to die, everything points to an old case and a series of events that...
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  • Come on Up by Nopca, Jordi
    Jordi Nopca

    Come on Up

    Global capitalism fails young Barcelona couples in this dynamic debut"Heartbreaking and hilarious" --New York Times Book Review"Nopca's stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart and modern, filled with sharply observed detail. They capture the unease of the times and the flux of contemporary...
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  • Leaving Las Vegas by O'Brien, John
    John O'Brien

    Leaving Las Vegas

    Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is the disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Sera is a prostitute, content with the independence and routine she has carved out for herself...
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  • Cover Story by Rigetti, Susan
    Susan Rigetti

    Cover Story

    Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, Fortune, PopSugar, and more![A] page-turner that's...
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  • Diamond Hill by Fan, Kit
    Kit Fan

    Diamond Hill

    "I enjoyed Diamond Hill very much. It's fantastically evocative of a time and place, full of vivid images but never at the expense of story. A hugely impressive first novel."--DAVID NICHOLLS, bestselling author of One Day It is 1987 and three years since Britain...
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  • The Delivery by Mendelsund, Peter
    Peter Mendelsund

    The Delivery

    Enter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must peddle his way to 5-star customer ratings--and, perhaps, freedom--in novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund's The Delivery. Countries go wrong, sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and...
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  • You're in the Wrong Place by Harris, Joseph
    Joseph Harris

    You're in the Wrong Place

    A lyrical deconstruction of postindustrial American life. In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You're in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that "Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the...
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  • Story of My Life by McInerney, Jay
    Jay McInerney

    Story of My Life

    Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-something actress Alison Poole and her coterie of club-hopping, coke-addicted friends....
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  • About the Author by Colapinto, John
    John Colapinto

    About the Author

    From the author of the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him comes a “clever and entertaining first novel.”--Elle Despite a severe case of writer's block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from his life as...
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  • Harlem's Love 2 by Malloy, James
    James Malloy

    Harlem's Love 2

    This complicated love came quickly rushing to an end when Mike got the bad new about May. Things were tense now, and he didn't have a clue about where to start. May's disappearance and rumors of her being shot had Mike in limbo. Not...
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  • All I Stole from You by Bellows, Ava
    Ava Bellows

    All I Stole from You

    For fans of Lily King's Writers & Lovers comes a captivating debut novel about the complexities of love and the unpredictable bonds that change our livesMaggie Hoyt is a quick-witted, house-sitting LA actress who's dated one too many DJs for her liking. An incorrigible...
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  • The Monsters We Defy by Penelope, Leslye
    Leslye Penelope

    The Monsters We Defy

    "[P]itch perfect, with wit, romance, and a lovable found family." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This smart and entertaining, magical heist novel hits all the right notes!" ―T.L. Huchu NPR Best Book of 2022! Paste Best Fantasy Book of 2022! "Never make a deal with...
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  • The Marriage of Rose Camilleri by Hough, Robert
    Robert Hough

    The Marriage of Rose Camilleri

    An illuminating portrait of an unconventional marriage by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Robert Hough. When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together, navigating a sometimes turbulent marriage and scraping through the process of raising a family. When...
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  • Tales from the Cafe by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
    Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    Tales from the Cafe

    Over One Million Copies SoldNow an International Best SellerIf you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. Local legend says...
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  • Pull Focus by Walsh, Helen
    Helen Walsh

    Pull Focus

    "Part Real Housewives, part grown-up Nancy Drew." -- Missy Marston, author of Bad Ideas When Jane's partner goes missing she needs to find out if he's in danger while also contending with the politics of a large international film festival: Hollywood power brokers, Russian...
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