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Circe

Madeline Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra...

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Countess

Suzan Palumbo - ECW Press
Format: Book

A queer Caribbean anti-colonial Count of Monte Cristo set in space in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British...

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Eligible

Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Book

This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood...

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Finn

Jon Clinch - Random House
Format: Book

In this masterful debut by a major new voice in fiction, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from...

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Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie - Riverhead Books
Format: Book

"Ingenious ... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." - The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty,...

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Mr. Rochester

SARAH SHOEMAKER - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

For 170 years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most complex and captivating romantic heroes. Sometimes cruel, sometimes tender, Jane Eyre's mercurial master at Thornfield Hall has mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte Bronte's...

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Pride and Prejudice in Space

Alexis Lampley - Union Square & Co.
Format: Book

"A dazzling addition to the Austen-verse." - Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudiceis arguably the forerunner of all romantic comedies and certainly one of hermost popular and irreverent works....

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Recipe for Persuasion

Sonali Dev - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another , clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition -- this time, with a twist on Persuasion.Chef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. How else can she save her beloved...

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Scarlet

Genevieve Cogman - Ace
Format: Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved.. It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires - usually rich and aristocratic - have slaked the guillotine's thirst in large numbers. The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised...

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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...

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