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Welcome to Publishers Weekly’s Summer/Fall 2023 Grab a Galley. We’re excited to share some of the buzziest titles hitting the shelves next season with you.
Our wonderful publishing partners have not held back. With nearly 200 titles, this Grab a Galley has it all: Cold War spy thrillers, epic love stories, moving memoirs, YA fantasy, LGBTQ romance, coming-of-age middle grade novels, hilarious picture books, and maybe even a ghost story tucked into a family drama.
Spanning every age group and category, this outstanding collection also includes highly anticipated books from speakers at the U.S. Book Show. Browse through the collection either by category or by selecting All Titles on the navigation bar, and stock up on captivating reads. Choose the Thumbnail display option below to view an entire category or use the Slideshow to flip through one title at a time.
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Fiction
24 Hours in Italy
Romi Moondi
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1 of 55 titles
24 Hours in Italy
Wattpad Books
Two years after 24 Hours in Paris, Mira and Jake collide again, this time on the gorgeous Amalfi Coast. With a destination wedding only one day away, love is in the air, but that doesn’t mean things will go smoothly. Safe to say Mira and Jake’s quest for a happy ending will be as rocky as the Italian coastline.
All Is Not Forgiven
Joe Kenda
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2 of 55 titles
All Is Not Forgiven
Blackstone Publishing
In this debut crime novel by Investigation Discovery and Homicide Hunter star Joe Kenda, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.
Ana Turns
Lisa Gornick
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3 of 55 titles
Ana Turns
Turner Publishing
(Keylight Books) unspools over the twenty-four hours of a woman’s sixtieth birthday. Ana Turns spirals through past, present, and the looming future, culminating in a watershed dinner party, with Ana’s family members’ true colors on display. By sunset, the bounds of her own identity illuminated, Ana turns towards a vision of what she wants next in this blink of a life.
The Antiquity Affair
Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne
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4 of 55 titles
The Antiquity Affair
Harper Muse
In this women-centered nod to the beloved Indiana Jones stories, The Antiquity Affair is a high-stakes, international thrill ride, with the page-turning excitement and romance of classic adventure novels and a poignant story of sisterhood at its core.
Bessie: A Novel
Linda Kass
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5 of 55 titles
Bessie: A Novel
She Writes Press
Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America. This intimate fictional portrait reveals Myerson’s inner struggles to escape her roots and fulfill her fierce desire to make her mark on the world.
Big Little Spells
Hazel Beck
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6 of 55 titles
Big Little Spells
Graydon House
It's been ten years since Rebekah was stripped of her magic and banished from at the age of eighteen. Now the Joywood Coven has summoned her with an impending death sentence, and her secret tutor…and secret impossible crush, Nicholas, is her only hope. Is her magic a threat to witchkind…or is she simply powerful enough to save the world?
Bride of the Tornado
James Kennedy
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7 of 55 titles
Bride of the Tornado
Quirk Books
When a young woman learns of mysterious tornadoes that plague her midwestern town every generation—and her connection to a teen boy holding off total annihilation, known as the tornado killer—she must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her. Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
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8 of 55 titles
The Centre
Gillian Flynn Books
Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies. When her mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. The Centre, an elite, invite-only program that guarantees complete fluency, in just ten days. But as Anisa enmeshes herself further within the organization, seduced by all that it’s made possible, she soon realizes the hidden cost of its services.
Christmas Presents
Lisa Unger
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9 of 55 titles
Christmas Presents
The Mysterious Press
A bookseller’s dark past comes back to haunt her when a celebrity true crime podcaster comes to her lakeside hometown to investigate the serial killer that murdered her best friend — and almost murdered her — in this seasonal novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Coleman Hill
Kim Coleman Foote
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10 of 55 titles
Coleman Hill
SJP Lit
Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.
Daisy
Pamela Buchanan
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11 of 55 titles
Daisy
Austin Macauley Publishers
Have you ever wondered what happened to Daisy Buchanan after the Great Gatsby was murdered in his swimming pool on Long Island in the summer of 1922? Pamela Buchanan has reconstructed Daisy’s life in Paris, in England, and in Spain where Daisy left the privileged life she knew to become involved on the loyalist side of the Spanish Civil War.
The Dance of the Dolls
Lucy Ashe
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12 of 55 titles
The Dance of the Dolls
Union Square & Co.
This is the story of identical twin ballerinas rehearsing for Coppélia with a twisted obsession. As the sisters rehearse, danger lurks. In this novel about obsessive love set in the world of ballet in pre-war London, the story of Coppélia and the dancing doll threatens to become a dark and sinister reality.
Death Valley
Melissa Broder
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13 of 55 titles
Death Valley
Scribner
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
Carsten Henn
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14 of 55 titles
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
Hanover Square Press
The bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff delivers books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other.
The Favor
Adele Griffin
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15 of 55 titles
The Favor
Sourcebooks Landmark
For readers of Rebecca Serle and Jennifer Close. Vintage fashion-store clerk Nora struggles with infertility and money. But when fabulous socialite Evelyn wanders into the shop and wants to be friends, Nora can’t turn her away, even when the ensuing friendship becomes even more complicated when Evelyn offers to carry Nora’s baby.
The Fiction Writer
Jillian Cantor
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16 of 55 titles
The Fiction Writer
Park Row Books
From USA Today-bestselling Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer follows a mid-list writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family history with Daphne du Maurier and finds herself drawn into a tangled web of obsession, marital secrets, and stolen manuscripts.
The Future
Naomi Alderman
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17 of 55 titles
The Future
Simon & Schuster
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
Half-Life of a Stolen Sister
Rachel Cantor
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18 of 55 titles
Half-Life of a Stolen Sister
Soho Press
Chapter by chapter, Half-Life of a Stolen Sister brings together diaries, letters, home movies, television and radio interviews, deathbed monologues, and fragments of juvenilia to form a kaleidoscopic, form-shattering novel reimaging the lives of the Brontë siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell—from their precocious childhoods, to the writing of their great novels, to their early deaths.
He Should Have Told the Bees
Amanda Cox
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19 of 55 titles
He Should Have Told the Bees
Revell
Beekeeper Beckett Walsh was living her dream working alongside her father on their small farm until his unexpected death thrusts a new part-owner into her world. Callie Peterson threatens not only her livelihood, but her beliefs about the goodness of the man she’d always perceived to be her kind and faithful father.
Herc
Phoenicia Rogerson
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20 of 55 titles
Herc
Hanover Square Press
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labors, his endless adventures…everyone’s favorite hero, right? Well, it’s not. This is the story of everyone else. It’s time to hear their stories. Told with humor and heart, Phoenicia Rogerson's transporting debut gives a voice to silenced characters in this intoxicating queer, revisionist retelling of the classic Hercules myth.
The Housekeepers
Alex Hay
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21 of 55 titles
The Housekeepers
Graydon House
It’s the night of London's grandest ball, and a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class. Never underestimate the women downstairs…
How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel
Julius Taranto
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22 of 55 titles
How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel
Little, Brown and Company
An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage).
Hush Harbor
Anise Vance
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23 of 55 titles
Hush Harbor
Hanover Square Press
After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City. A resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project. But when a new mayor with ties to white supremacists threatens the group’s pseudo-sanctuary and locks the city down, the collective must come to a decision for their survival.
The Keeper of Hidden Books
Madeline Martin
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24 of 55 titles
The Keeper of Hidden Books
Hanover Square Press
It is 1939, and nothing could prepare Marta and Janina for the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. As the bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler’s forces surround the city, a series of tragedies spur them to action. They find ways to join the war efforts using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature.
Kiss the Girl
Zoraida Córdova
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25 of 55 titles
Kiss the Girl
Hyperion Avenue
A modern tale of unexpectedly falling in love and finding your voice. Don’t miss the novel Jasmine Guillory calls “a sheer delight”!
La Tercera
Gina Apostol
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26 of 55 titles
La Tercera
Soho Press
In her first novel since Insurrecto, Gina Apostol assembles a vision of Philippine history from the 19th century to present day in the fragmented story of the Delgados, a family surviving across generations of colonization, catastrophe, and war. ·
The Last Love Note
Emma Grey
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27 of 55 titles
The Last Love Note
Zibby Books
A novel with heart and soul. After her husband's tragically early death, Kate is determined to find new happiness, but she has to start looking in the right place. The Last Love Note sweeps readers into unabated hopefulness and delivers them home with tears of laughter, loss, and joy - and a renewed faith in the resilience of the human heart.
Long Dog Road
Kent Nerburn
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28 of 55 titles
Long Dog Road
Polished Stone
From award-winning writer Kent Nerburn, praised as “one of the few American writers who can successfully bridge the gap between Native and non-Native cultures,” comes Lone Dog Road, a picaresque tale of compassion and redemption played out against the haunting backdrop of the American high plains during the drought-stricken summer of 1950.
Lump
Nathan Whitlock
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29 of 55 titles
Lump
Rare Machines
A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos. Lump is an incisive dark comedy about marriage, motherhood, privilege, and power, “a page-turner and a disquieting and complex take on marriage, illness, and privilege.” (Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People)
The Madstone: A Novel
Elizabeth Crooks
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30 of 55 titles
The Madstone: A Novel
Little, Brown and Company
With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.
Main Character Energy
Jamie Varon
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31 of 55 titles
Main Character Energy
Park Row Books
For fans of People We Meet in Vacation, Main Character Energy follows a plus-sized woman resigned to settle in life who finds herself on a whirlwind adventure traveling to the French Riviera to chase a mysterious inheritance and reclaiming her role as the main character in her own life.
Managing the Matthews
Haleigh Wenger
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32 of 55 titles
Managing the Matthews
CamCat Books
Being the talent manager for Hollywood's three hottest brothers used to be fun. Not anymore, since one of them broke her heart and another wants to ruin their friendship. Kell needs a new job––easier said than done when a new reality show promises fame and fortune of unknown proportions.
The Marksman
Robin G. Mercier, Danny Kravits, Chris Charles, Ted Goeglein
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33 of 55 titles
The Marksman
Level 4 Press
Novelization of hit film starring Liam Neeson. A troubled rancher on the Arizona-Mexico border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the United States. An exploration of immigration, grief, and the meaning of home. “Propulsive, exciting, and deeply moving” – Lili St. Germain, USA Today Bestselling author
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
Avery Cunningham
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34 of 55 titles
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
Hyperion Avenue
Debut author Avery Cunningham’s epic love story explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago.
The Mistress of Bhatia House
Sujata Massey
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35 of 55 titles
The Mistress of Bhatia House
Soho Crime
India, 1922: Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling new installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series.
Mudflowers
Aley Waterman
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36 of 55 titles
Mudflowers
Rare Machines
In this “pulsing” debut (Cassidy McFadzean), broke glass artist Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between her oldest love, Alex, and newest love, Maggie. Dynamics unfold in surprising ways, leading Sophie back to her home to reconcile her past and her future. Mudflowers examines the impact of family that one is born into and family one chooses, exploring new and unconventional intimacies.
My Name Is Faraj: Love and Slavery in the Gulf
Mohammed Ali Abdullah
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37 of 55 titles
My Name Is Faraj: Love and Slavery in the Gulf
Ishmael Tree
Captured from Zanzibar and sold into slavery, Faraj becomes the best pearl diver in all of Arabia. When he falls in love with Oaysheh, the beautiful daughter of a slave and her Noble Master, Faraj discovers the masters’ chains have no hold on him like forbidden love. Faraj must become a free man in order to marry Oaysheh. Mohammed Ali Abdullah is one of Qatar's Pioneer Artists whose Award Winning talents and expertise in Fine Art and Architectural History in the Gulf have been a source of great cultural enlightenment.
One Blood
Denene Millner
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38 of 55 titles
One Blood
Forge Books
Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel by New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner.
One Summer in Savannah
Terah Shelton Harris
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39 of 55 titles
One Summer in Savannah
Sourcebooks Landmark
For fans of Seven Days in June and This Close to Okay, two people discover what it means to truly forgive in this emotionally wrought story about a woman desperate to protect her daughter from the family of the man who assaulted her while trying to heal her own wounds from the past.
The Paris Agent
Kelly Rimmer
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40 of 55 titles
The Paris Agent
Graydon House
A family's innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery to light, in the riveting new novel from the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say.
The Premonition: A Novel
Banana Yoshimoto; Translated by Asa Yoneda
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41 of 55 titles
The Premonition: A Novel
Counterpoint
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth
Saving Myles
Carl Vonderau
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42 of 55 titles
Saving Myles
Oceanview
Wade, a respected banker, learns that his teenage son snuck off to Tijuana to buy drugs—and was kidnapped. Wade must work with a shady bank to secure the ransom, but when he makes a deal with the bank owner, Wade realizes he’s wrapped up in more crime than just a kidnapping—he’s now indebted to a cartel.
The Secret Hours
Mick Herron
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43 of 55 titles
The Secret Hours
Soho Crime
From the author of Slow Horses, comes a gripping standalone spy thriller about the cover-up of a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin. At once unnerving, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Secret Hours is a dazzling entry point into Mick Herron’s novels and an absolute must-read for Slough House fans.
Star Bringer
Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft
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44 of 55 titles
Star Bringer
Red Tower Books
Firefly meets The Breakfast Club in this high-concept, LGBTQ romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff and award-winning author Nina Croft. The only thing standing between a dying sun and ultimate salvation is seven unlikely misfits -- a princess, a prisoner, a con artist, a warrior, a priestess, a mercenary, and the asshole in charge of them all.
Stars in Your Eyes
Kacen Callender
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45 of 55 titles
Stars in Your Eyes
Forever
The National Book Award-winning author of Felix Ever After delivers a beautifully tender story of two actors navigating their love story both on and offscreen. A heartfelt, hopeful, and nuanced story about identity, healing, and growth.
Sun House: A Novel
David James Duncan
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46 of 55 titles
Sun House: A Novel
Little, Brown and Company
An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, from the author of the perennial cult bestsellers The River Why and The Brothers K. “One of the greatest imaginative achievements I’ve encountered in a lifetime of reading,” raves author William DeBuys.
The Sun Sets in Singapore
Kehinde Fadipe
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47 of 55 titles
The Sun Sets in Singapore
Grand Central Publishing
Basking in Singapore’s sunshine and luxury goods market, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until their carefully constructed lives are upended by a handsome and mysterious new arrival. "Wanderlust-inducing . . . A rich celebration of the nuanced complexities of Black womanhood and friendship" (Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black).
Take the Long Way Home
Rochelle Alers
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48 of 55 titles
Take the Long Way Home
Kensington Books
An epic novel spanning seven decades and two continents – from a cloistered 1950s Mississippi town founded by freed slaves to the striking diversity of Paris and Rome in the 1960s and 70s, through the glamor of 1980s Wall Street, to present day New York – bestselling author Rochelle Alers chronicles one woman’s remarkable journey through some of history’s most turbulent eras—and the four men who impact her life along the way.
Those People Behind Us
Mary Camarillo
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49 of 55 titles
Those People Behind Us
She Writes Press
It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices—divisions that change the lives of five neighbors as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.
The Truthful Witness
James Chandler
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50 of 55 titles
The Truthful Witness
Severn River Publishing
In a quiet Wyoming town, lawyer Sam Johnstone seeks solace from his past. However, when a close friend is charged with murder and confesses, Sam is compelled to join the defense. Facing an unethical prosecutor with a vendetta, he must risk everything to help his friend. In a case fraught with deception and hidden truths, Sam is pushed to the brink. How far will he go to expose the astonishing truth?
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
Breanne Randall
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51 of 55 titles
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
Alcove Press
For fans of Practical Magic, debut novel The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Readers who love the magic of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and the sense of community in The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches will enjoy this warm, witchy novel.
Unknown Rider
Jack Stewart
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52 of 55 titles
Unknown Rider
Severn River Publishing
Navy pilot and TOP GUN instructor Colt Bancroft discovers a global conspiracy after a near-fatal incident with his stealth fighter. Sent to investigate mysterious lights near his aircraft carrier, disaster strikes, endangering his life and reputation. In a high-stakes game of espionage, Colt must navigate treachery, aerial combat, and trust no one to clear his name and stop an insidious enemy. To prevail, he must rely on his skill and training while unmasking the elusive UNKNOWN RIDER.
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama
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53 of 55 titles
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Hanover Square Press
What are you looking for? is the question that Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi, poses to those who come to her for their next book. The list of recommendations she gives, however, always contains one unexpected addition that promises to give its the borrower the motivation they didn’t realize they needed to change their life.
The Woman in the Castello
Kelsey James
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54 of 55 titles
The Woman in the Castello
Kensington Books
In 1960s Italy, a desperately broke American actress is cast to star in an enigmatic horror film being shot on location at a crumbling medieval castle outside of Rome. Parts ghost story, mystery, romance, and family drama, Kelsey James’s debut blends reality with the supernatural, everyday existence with the movies, and history with family dynamics in a propulsive, anything-can-happen story.
Women of the Post
Joshunda Sanders
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55 of 55 titles
Women of the Post
Park Row Books
For fans of A League of Their Own, a debut historical novel that gives voice to the pioneering Black women of the of the Six Triple Eight Battalion who made history by sorting over one million pieces of mail overseas for the US Army.
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