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Crush: A Novel

Ada Calhoun - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Ada Calhoun writes with absolute clarity about the giddiest and most destabilizing feeling - the crush. This novel made me feel dizzy and I loved every second. Calhoun can seduce me any day of the week." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow....
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Mutual Interest

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"A timeless queer love story and a meditation on power, capitalism, and the flow of history . . . This novel is a revelation and a joy." -Anna North, New York Times bestselling author of OutlawedA classic in the making: a mesmerizing novel about marriage and ambition, sexuality...
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Death Takes Me: A Novel

Cristina Rivera Garza - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.. A city is always a cemetery.. A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse...
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Sun City

Tove Jansson - NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback

From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida.. In The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group...
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High Tea and Misdemeanors (A Tea Shop Mystery Book 29)

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

When a wedding is tragically averted by the death of the bride, Theodosia is determined to prove that it was murder in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.. Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are tapped to cater the elegant wedding of Bettina...
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The Pretender: A Novel

Jo Harkin - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell set during the time of the Tudors' ascent. The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied...
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Deep Cuts: A Novel

Holly Brickley - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The incredibly buzzy debut that everyone is talking about -- a love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music.. It's a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates...
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Glory Daze: A Glory Broussard Mystery (Glory Broussard Mysteries)

Danielle Arceneaux - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow up to the award-winning Glory Be, Glory Broussard finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of her ex-husband's death . . . with an unlikely ally at her side.. After her life was turned upside down by solving the murder of her best friend, Sister Amity Gay,...
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Let's Call a Truce: A Novel

Amy Buchanan - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

LET'S CALL A TRUCE is a sexy contemporary romance about second chances at life and love, bursting with humor and a touch of angst from debut author, Amy Buchanan.. After Juliana Ryan's husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her with two grieving kids and a stunted career from years...
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To Sicily with Love (Meet Me in Italy Book 4)

Jennifer Probst - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

When she learns she has a big Italian family she never knew about, a lonely woman travels to Sicily for a life-changing summer in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst. Aurora York had it all together: loving parents, a steady relationship, and a promising...
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