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Whether you’re headed to LibLearnX or holding post at your library, this Grab a Galley’s got a great selection of titles that will sure to excite readers: heart-pounding thrillers; harrowing multigenerational family sagas; a dazzling and ambitious debut; coming of age graphic memoirs, and an autobiographical manga centered on transgender issues. Nonfiction titles take us into the world of generative AI while another tells the story of the first Black golfer to get his PGA card and his journey with a crusading civil rights attorney.
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Fiction
After Annie: A Novel
Anna Quindlen
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1 of 22 titles
After Annie: A Novel
Penguin Random House
Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing.
Bad Habit
Alana Portero
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2 of 22 titles
Bad Habit
HarperVia Books
Combining the raw realism and vulnerability of Shuggie Bain and Detransition, Baby, Bad Habit is a staggering coming-of-age novel rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in the 80’s heroin-epidemic. With her first novel, Alana S. Portero strikingly underscores the ties between gender and class, the search for identity, and the power of sisterhood and community.
Becoming Ted
Matt Cain
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3 of 22 titles
Becoming Ted
Kensington Books
A Man Called Ove meets “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in this vibrant, joyful, universally relatable story about kindness, self-acceptance, and blooming at any age from the acclaimed author of the LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick, The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle. Fans of Byron Lane, Steven Rowley, Gail Honeyman, and Linda Holmes will fall in love with Becoming Ted and its heartfelt reminder to always choose joy.
The Bookshop Sisterhood
Michelle Lindo-Rice
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4 of 22 titles
The Bookshop Sisterhood
MIRA Books
After years of hard work, four best friends are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. Until their worlds are upended and the four women must lean on each other to navigate their grief and uncertainty. And together, they’ll learn that sometimes, even life’s most unexpected plot twists can lead to beautiful new beginnings.
CINDERWICH
Cherie Priest
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5 of 22 titles
CINDERWICH
Apex Book Company
CINDERWICH is a mystery/thriller southern gothic novel set in a dying Tennessee town that is known for one thing: the mysterious death of a young woman decades prior. A journalist, along with her college mentor, travels to rural Tennessee finding answers that by turns are familial and unexpected.
The Coast Road
Alan Murrin
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6 of 22 titles
The Coast Road
HarperVia Books
A claustrophobic coastal town. Two women trapped in unhappy marriages. How will they ever find freedom? Addictive as Big Little Lies with a depth and compassion that rivals the works of Elizabeth Strout, The Coast Road is a story about the limits placed on women’s lives in Ireland only a generation ago, and the consequences women have suffered trying to gain independence.
Double Lives
Mary Monroe
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7 of 22 titles
Double Lives
Kensington Books
Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the segregated South of 1930s Lexington, Alabama in an outrageous new drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever…
Edison
Pallavi Sharma Dixit
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8 of 22 titles
Edison
Third State Books
Prem Kumar, the hapless son of an Indian business tycoon, is obsessed with Bollywood films. Uninterested in his father’s business, he runs away to America. Fate deposits him in an Indian immigrant neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey. When he falls in love with Leena Engineer, will our hero become a man of action, an entrepreneur, a real American hero?
ELLA
Diane Richards
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9 of 22 titles
ELLA
Amistad Books
A magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.
Expraedium
Armen Melikian
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10 of 22 titles
Expraedium
Erzenka Publishing House
An incendiary tour-de-force, this novel by multiple literary award-winning author Melikian is equal parts satire and philosophy, polemic and prophecy. “Expraedium is one of the most creatively, philosophically, culturally, semantically, and thematically ambitious novels I’ve ever read in my 40 years of professional life.” –Paul McCarthy, Prof. of English, University of Ulster, Ireland (Former Senior Acquisitions Editor at Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Doubleday).
The Husbands: A Novel
Holly Gramazio
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11 of 22 titles
The Husbands: A Novel
Penguin Random House
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? (“A time-bending gem”—Gabrielle Zevin; “Kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny." –Claire Lombardo)
An Intrigue of Witches: A Secret Society Mystery
Esme Addison
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12 of 22 titles
An Intrigue of Witches: A Secret Society Mystery
Severn House
Discovery of Witches meets National Treasure in this gripping new series from Esme Addison. Join Black American History professor Sidney Taylor as she hunts for a missing archaeological treasure – and soon finds herself plunged into a dark, glittering world of secret societies, ancient bloodlines, witches, and magic.
Made for You
Jenna Satterthwaite
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13 of 22 titles
Made for You
MIRA Books
Synthetic woman Julia Walden was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Fifteen months later, and Julia and Josh are married and raising their baby. But Julia's life is a far cry from the domestic bliss she imagined. Josh goes missing, and she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.
A Magical Girl Retires
Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur
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14 of 22 titles
A Magical Girl Retires
HarperVia Books
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.
Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad
Damilare Kuku
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15 of 22 titles
Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad
HarperVia Books
The anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve outrageous, bold, and laugh-out-loud stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, from a rising star of Nollywood.
Only One Survives
Hannah Mary McKinnon
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16 of 22 titles
Only One Survives
MIRA Books
Just as their star begins to rise, The Bittersweet careens off an icy road in the middle of a blizzard—leaving one band member dead. The band take shelter in a nearby abandoned cabin, determined to survive the night. But when members start to die one by one, it’s clear someone believes rock bands are worth more dead than alive…
Perilous Waters: A Jessie Madison Thriller
Terry Shames
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17 of 22 titles
Perilous Waters: A Jessie Madison Thriller
Severn House
FBI diving instructor Jessie Madison’s survival skills are stretched to breaking point when she is plunged into dangerous waters in the Bahamas in the tense, exhilarating first book in a brand-new thriller series from acclaimed mystery writer Terry Shames (the Samuel Craddock mysteries).
Shanghailanders
Juli Min
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18 of 22 titles
Shanghailanders
Spiegel & Grau
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time—beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past—exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years. Shanghailanders is an unforgettable exploration of marriage, relationships, and the layered experience of time.
Tiananmen Square
Lai Wen
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19 of 22 titles
Tiananmen Square
Spiegel & Grau
An epic, deeply moving coming-of-age novel about young love and lasting friendships forged in the years leading up to the Tiananmen Square student protests, for readers of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. Drawn from her life, Wen’s novel is mesmerizing and haunting—an intimate, universal story of youth and self-discovery that plays out against the backdrop of a watershed historic event.
To Slip the Bonds of Earth
Amanda Flower
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20 of 22 titles
To Slip the Bonds of Earth
Kensington Books
From USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower, a radiant new series set in Ohio at the turn of the 20th century and starring Katharine Wright, sister of the famous inventors of flight, as an amateur sleuth. Frequently called "the third member of the [Wright Brothers] team," Katherine Wright’s tenacity and intelligence make her a compelling subject and role model in this thoroughly engaging historical mystery.
You Know What You Did: A Novel
K. T. Nguyen
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21 of 22 titles
You Know What You Did: A Novel
Penguin Random House
In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. . . .
youthjuice
E.K. Sathue
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22 of 22 titles
youthjuice
Hell's Hundred
A bloodthirsty copywriter goes in over her head at a glamorous beauty company with an ugly secret in this surreal, satirical horror send-up of It-girl beauty culture, perfect for fans of Mona Awad’s Rouge and American Psycho.
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