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  • THE PAINTER'S DAUGHTERS
    THE PAINTER'S DAUGHTERS
    EMILY HOWES
    A “beautifully written” (Hilary Mantel) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits.Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England’s most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the...
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  • OURS
    OURS
    PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS
    From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedomIn this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to...
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  • END OF STORY
    END OF STORY
    FINN, A J
    For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window"I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story."So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San F...
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    Q. 310

  • THE LAST DAYS OF THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS
    THE LAST DAYS OF THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS
    SARAH TOMLINSON
    Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous, a gripping debut about the complicated legacy of a legendary rock band and the ghostwriter telling their story Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught in the middle.Anke Berben is ready to tell all. A legendary model and style icon, she reveled in headline-grabbing romances with...
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    Q. 300

  • I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT'S KILLING US BOTH
    I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT'S KILLING US BOTH
    MARIAH STOVALL
    Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanitySet in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, wh...
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    Q. 290

  • THE BOOK OF LOVE
    THE BOOK OF LOVE
    KELLY LINK
    In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle."A dizzying dream ride you will never forget.”—Leigh Bardugo"An astonishing, gorgeous novel.”—Holly Black"An incredible achievement." —Cassandra ClareThe Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, chann...
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    Q. 210

  • MEDEA
    MEDEA
    EILISH QUIN
    Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind.Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, th...
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  • GRETA & VALDIN
    GRETA & VALDIN
    REILLY, REBECCA K.
    A New York Times Editors’ Choice For fans of Schitt’s Creek and Sally Rooney’s Normal People, an irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness, multiracial identity, and the dramas big and small of their entangled, unconventional family, all while flailing their way to love. It’s been a year since his ex-boyfri...
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  • A SIGN OF HER OWN
    A SIGN OF HER OWN
    SARAH MARSH
    A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that follows a deaf former student of Alexander Graham Bell as she learns to reclaim her own authentic voice. Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also ...
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  • A WOMAN IN THE POLAR NIGHT
    A WOMAN IN THE POLAR NIGHT
    CHRISTIANE RITTER
    “An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great CircleA rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic“A refreshing voice in the canon of Arctic literature. . . charms its reader with its simple candor. Readers will delight in Ritter’s frank impressions and...
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  • LETTERS TO ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER
    LETTERS TO ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER
    JAMES, HENRY
    “One of the most satisfying of all letter-writers.” — Spectator Henry James’s beautiful letters to his friend and inspiration, the unconventional art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as ro...
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    Q. 140

  • COME AND GET IT
    COME AND GET IT
    REID, KILEY
    From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting profess...
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  • SWANNA IN LOVE
    SWANNA IN LOVE
    JENNIFER BELL
    It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Ma...
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    Q. 180

  • GREEK LESSONS
    GREEK LESSONS
    KANG, HAN
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the “visionary” (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian“Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and revelatory insight...
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    Q. 140

  • THE CRAZY HUNTER
    THE CRAZY HUNTER
    BOYLE, KAY
    At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household and dotes on her new gelding, a gift from her father. When a sudden accident leaves the horse blind, Nan's mother insists he must be put down, initiating a power struggle that brings the family's conflict...
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  • IN LOVE
    IN LOVE
    ALFRED HAYES
    An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New York In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a lonely divorcee; of how one night she was offered one thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Love is an indictment of, and an elegy to, a love ...
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  • ADVIKA AND THE HOLLYWOOD WIVES
    ADVIKA AND THE HOLLYWOOD WIVES
    KIRTHANA RAMISETTI
    A page-turning tale of marriage, scandal, and fame, perfect for readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid: "The glitz and underlying darkness of Hollywood make for a setting as complex and compelling as Ramisetti's characters . . . rings with insight--and with heart" (Meena Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author).u200b At age 26, Advika Srinivasan considers herself a failed scree...
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  • MARTYR!
    MARTYR!
    KAVEH AKBAR
    A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.“Kaveh Akbar i...
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    Q. 200

  • SHE AND HER CAT
    SHE AND HER CAT
    SHINKAI, MAKOTO / NARUKI NAGAKAWA
    For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the...
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    Q. 190

  • A LADY'S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT
    A LADY'S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT
    SALLY FRANSON
    With "elements of The Bold Type, Mad Men, and The Devil Wears Prada" (Entertainment Weekly), a young woman navigates a tricky twenty-first-century career--and the trickier question of who she wants to be--in this savagely wise debut novel. At 28, Casey Pendergast is not where she thought she'd be. Sure, she's killing it at her high-paying advertising job, but when she thinks ab...
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    Q. 200

  • VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES
    VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES
    DAN KOIS
    A Best in Fiction Book for 2023"Exceptionally warm-hearted . . . mounts a convincing case for such uncool causes as good taste over fashionable taste, editing as creative craft work, and smart novels where everything matters only as much as it ever matters in life." --VoxSlate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New York City, a...
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    Q. 200

  • REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY
    REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY
    MONICA HEISEY
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Every sentence of Monica Heisey's writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does." --Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love Recommended by Los Angeles Times * Washington Post * GQ * Elle * Good Morning America * People * Guardian * The Times * E! News Online * The Globe and Mail * Toronto Star * The Week *...
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  • MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE
    MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE
    ILYON WOO
    One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.In 18...
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    Q. 210

  • THE FETISHIST
    THE FETISHIST
    KATHERINE MIN
    In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, le...
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  • POOR DEER
    POOR DEER
    CLAIRE OSHETSKY
    A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss--and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life--from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire Oshetsky Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one bla...
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  • ARGYLLE
    ARGYLLE
    CONWAY, ELLY
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fameA luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny.A CIA plane downed in the ju...
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  • ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS
    ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS
    ARAMINTA HALL
    Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for simil...
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  • YOU ONLY CALL WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE
    YOU ONLY CALL WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE
    STEPHEN MCCAULEY
    “I don’t think I will find a book I love more this year.”—Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author“Funny, poignant, joyous, explosive, but most of all affirming of our connections to one another. You Only Call When You're in Trouble is a book to cherish. A book that loves you back. What more could you want, my gosh? Read it!”—Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning autho...
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  • THE BOOK OF FIRE
    THE BOOK OF FIRE
    CHRISTY LEFTERI
    “A compelling story of love, loss, and redemption in the face of unimaginable tragedy . . . As with The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Lefteri transports the reader to a once lush and now destroyed world.”—Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale “Christy Lefteri writes with great delicacy and urgency, making us see the world through fresh eyes.”—Heather Mo...
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    Q. 310

  • THE STORM WE MADE
    THE STORM WE MADE
    VANESSA CHAN
    * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * One of the “most anticipated books of 2024” (Oprah Daily), this spellbinding, sweeping novel features a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII—with shocking consequences for her family, and her country.Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son...
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