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All the White Spaces

Ally Wilkes - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Book

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James “Australis” Randall, Jonathan may live as his true...

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Build Your House Around My Body

Violet Kupersmith - Random House
Format: Book

In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is changed forever. In 2009, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra as part of a dangerous money-making scheme with a former lover. And in 2011, a young,...

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The Cherry Robbers

Sarai Walker - Mariner Books
Format: Book

- New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts...

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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor...

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A Dowry of Blood

S T Gibson - Redhook
Format: Book

This deliciously dark retelling of Dracula is a sensual story of obsession, desire, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love.This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . . Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta...

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The Hacienda

Isabel Canas - Berkley
Format: Book

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches…

During the overthrow...

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House of Hunger

Alexis Henderson - Ace
Format: Book

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year...

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The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward - Tor Nightfire; 1st edition
Format: Book

-- Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes -- Stephen KingIn a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone...

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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Book

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes "a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror" (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico..

After...

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Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez - Hogarth
Format: Book

We have children so we can continue, they are our immortality." A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed.

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Summer Sons

Lee Mandelo - Tordotcom; 1st edition
Format: Book

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew...

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The Upstairs House

Julia Fine - ‎Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

In this provocative meditation on new motherhood - Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening - a postpartum woman's psychological unraveling becomes intertwined with the ghostly appearance of children's book writer Margaret Wise Brown. There's a madwoman upstairs, and only...

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What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher
Format: Book

From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend...

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The Women Could Fly

MEGAN GIDDINGS - Amistad
Format: Book

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times - a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world...

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