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• All Fours

  July, Miranda, 1974-

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  The unnamed heroine lavishly redecorates a motel room and begins an odd but passionate affair with a younger man who works at a rental-car agency.

• Beautyland

  Bertino, Marie-Helene,

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  In 1970s Philadelphia, an alien girl sent to Earth before she’s born communicates with her fellow life-forms via fax as she helps gather intel about whether our planet is habitable.

• Black River

  Roy, Nilanjana S.,

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  Teetapur is a quiet majority-Hindu Indian village - until one of its children, 8-year-old Munia, is found murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man.

• The Book of Love

  a Novel

  Link, Kelly,

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  After three teenagers are brought back from the dead, the magic-wielding band teacher who revived them gives them a series of tasks to stay alive.

• The Bright Sword

  a Novel of King Arthur

  Grossman, Lev,

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  A young knight helps lead a ragtag band to rebuild Camelot in the wake of King Arthur's death.

• The Coin

  a Novel

  Zaher, Yasmin,

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  An unnamed Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City becomes involved in a scheme to buy Hermès Birkin bags and scalp them to “trashy and unworthy” buyers.

• Colored Television

  Senna, Danzy,

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  The conflict between making art and selling out gets a fresh take in this novel about a struggling mixed-race couple — she’s a writer, he’s a painter — in Los Angeles.

• Creation Lake

  a Novel

  Kushner, Rachel,

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  An American agent infiltrates a commune of French environmentalists who yearn for a return to the ancient past before civilization.

• Dead in Long Beach, California

  Blackburn, Venita,

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  Narrated by dystopian artificial intelligence machines, the story follows a woman who impersonates her brother by texting from his phone after his suicide.

• The Empusium

  a Health Resort Horror Story

  Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962,

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  In 1913, at a health resort in what is now Poland, a shy and sickly student discovers a terrible secret: every year around the first full moon in November, a man is torn to pieces in the nearby forest.

• The Familiar

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  A lowly servant girl in 16th-century Spain has a secret: there’s magic in her fingertips.

• Funny Story

  Henry, Emily,

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  A librarian and a bartender move in together after their respective partners leave them for each other. Though they’re polar opposites, they have an immediate connection.

• Ghostroots

  Stories

  Aguda, 'Pemi,

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  These stories, set in an alternate version of Lagos, Nigeria, in which supernatural phenomena make the impossible commonplace, unflinchingly explore complicated human emotions.

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  A pair of missing siblings at an Adirondack summer camp spark a reckoning about the powerful, wealthy and possibly wicked family whose house looms nearby.

• Godwin

  O'Neill, Joseph, 1964-

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  A twisty international adventure in which a sports agent and his brother search West Africa for a mysterious soccer prodigy known only as Godwin.

• Good Material

  a Novel

  Alderton, Dolly,

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  Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly.

• Great Expectations

  a Novel

  Cunningham, Vinson,

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  A Black campaign aide coolly observes as aspiring power players angle to connect with a candidate who more than resembles Barack Obama.

• Headshot

  a Novel

  Bullwinkel, Rita,

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  Set at a young women’s boxing tournament in Reno, Nev., this novel centers on eight contestants, and the fights — physical and emotional — they bring to the ring.

• The Hunter

  French, Tana,

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  A cop has retired in a rural Irish community and hoped for peace. But peace is shattered when bad men come to town.

• Intermezzo

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally,

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  Two brothers, a successful barrister and a competitive chess player, who are mourning the death of their father and navigating the lingering bitterness between them.