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The Ministry of Time: A Novel

Kaliane Bradley - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.. In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary...
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Daughters of Shandong

Eve J. Chung - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse.. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese...
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Savor It: A Novel

Tarah DeWitt - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Summer won't last forever. . Sage Byrd has lived in the coastal town of Spunes, Oregon (not to be confused with Forks, Washington) her entire life. She's learned to love her small world, with the misfit animals on her hobby farm, and her friendships with the town's inhabitants....
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This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune. This summer they'll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different. Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward...
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Lies and Weddings: A Novel

Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners from the iconic author of Crazy Rich Asians. Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury...
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When Among Crows

Veronica Roth - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Step into a city where monsters feast on human emotions, knights split their souls to make their weapons, and witches always take more than they give.. Pain is Dymitr's calling. To slay the monsters he's been raised to kill, he had to split his soul in half to make a sword from...
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Long After We Are Gone: A Novel

Terah Shelton Harris - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

"A big, beautiful, devastating, and ultimately hopeful novel." - Erica Bauermeister, New York Times bestselling author of No Two Persons An explosive and emotional story of four siblings - each fighting their own personal battle - who return home in the wake of their father's...
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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club: A Novel

Helen Simonson - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

A young woman's life is forever changed in the summer after World War I when she befriends a group of independent, motorcycle-riding women in a seaside town on the English coast - a captivating novel from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. "You may find...
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Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

Rebecca Thorne
Format: electronic resource

In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen's private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after...if only the world would let them.All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop...
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The Return of Ellie Black: A Novel

Emiko Jean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"The Return of Ellie Black is a page-turning suspense novel, a shrewd character study, and a captivating mystery, all at the same time. The last fifty pages are magnetic. I couldn't put it down until I'd experienced every last twist and turn." - STEPHEN KING Detective...
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"A masterpiece of science writing." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass"Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World"A brilliant must-read. This book shook and changed me." -David George Haskell,...
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