“Mercy Street is propulsive, urgent, and essential. Haigh writes with uncommon insight and compassion (and, yes, mercy) about people whose ideals are so strikingly at odds that we can only wait for their lives to collide. I was riveted and transported, and want to hand this book to everyone I know."
—Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Great Believers
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The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide…
“Lucy Foley gets better with every book…”
—Marie Claire on The Guest List
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Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman
"Award-winning crime writer Weinman (The Real Lolita, 2018) weaves a strange and compelling tale about murder, deception, fame, and friendship…. This is a psychologically fascinating must-read for true-crime buffs."
—Booklist ⭐ review
"With this enthralling book, Weinman (The Real Lolita) details the twisted, extraordinary story of a murderer who manipulated his way to freedom and fame…. An immediately absorbing story of crime, manipulation, and influence."
—Library Journal ⭐️ review
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No Second Chances by Rio Youers
"How is this guy not more widely known?…. Youers has spent years developing his style, perfecting his voice, and with No Second Chances he has produced a book that feels like something Elmore Leonard might have written: a dark and ballsy story that, once you’ve started it, you absolutely cannot stop reading."
—Booklist ⭐️ review
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Fake by Erica Katz
“A gripping, glittering deep dive into one artist’s present—and the past that she can’t quite escape. Fake will transport you across the globe, exposing what really lies under the glamour of this decadent art scene. Evocative, entertaining, and highly original, with writing that will keep readers turning pages and perpetually questioning what’s real—and what isn’t.”
—Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, bestselling author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here
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The Cage by Bonnie Kistler
“Former trial lawyer Kistler follows up her 2019 debut, House on Fire, with this absolutely spellbinding thriller. Two women enter an elevator. Only one comes out. The other is dead. Was it murder or suicide?…. [An] absolutely spellbinding thriller…. An utterly engrossing and thoroughly entertaining story.”
—Booklist ⭐️ review
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The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
"This is a gripping, devastating book, and it must have taken great courage and determination to write. The human story of the “smuggler’s road” from Afghanistan to Europe is one of terrible suffering, and Aikins tells it with clarity and simplicity. I could write that The Naked Don’t Fear The Water should be given prizes, and no doubt it will, but it seems to me that the best way to honor this book would be for us all to read it and ask ourselves what we can do for the thousands of unknown and unrecognized people who are treading this terrifying path."
—Hari Kunzru, author of Red Pill
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Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
"A warm hug of a queer contemporary romance with sparkling prose, heartfelt dialogue, and delicious dirty talk. Fans of the series will be delighted by the returning characters and the steamy heat between Margot and Olivia, while new readers who liked Tessa Bailey’s It Happened One Summer or Karelia Stetz-Waters’s Satisfaction Guaranteed will find much to love."
—Library Journal ⭐️ review
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Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik
“Fans of Nalini Singh will swoon for this stoic psychic space warrior hero, and fall in love with a badass mercenary captain heroine who will go to any lengths to protect her wounded-squad-turned-found-family. Compelling, steamy, and impossible to put down–Mihalik has created a world I want to visit again and again for years to come. Give me more sexy hot psychic space aliens!”
—Kit Rocha, New York Times bestselling author
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Asking for a Friend by Andi Osho
"Lies and past hurt upend a friend group in comedian Osho’s laugh-out-loud debut rom-com. To help aspiring actor Simi break her habit of falling in love too quickly, her two best friends agree to all find dates for each other…. Osho navigates these strained relationships with emotional nuance and dry, sarcastic humor. With as much focus on platonic love as romantic, this paean to sisterhood and personal growth is sure to charm."
—Publishers Weekly ⭐️ review
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The Great Mrs. Elias by Barbara Chase-Riboud
"Peppered with such historical figures as Lillian Russell, Granville Woods, and J. P. Morgan, and enlivened with a showstopping courtroom debacle, Chase-Riboud's biographical novel is a randy, rollicking tour of Gilded Age excess, racism, and misogyny."
—Booklist ⭐️ review
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Shadows of Pecan Hollow by Caroline Frost
“How do we let go of a dark, menacing past, especially when a dangerous love still binds us to it? Frost’s extraordinary debut is about Kit, a young mother struggling to raise her daughter, and to erase her abduction at 13 by a thief, who coerced her into crime and into his heart. Dazzling, unexpected and profound, this is a shattering page-turner about how love can twist our lives into something we no longer recognize, and how we might find our way back to our best selves and to the communities that just might save us. In a word: brilliant.”
—Caroline Leavitt, bestselling author of With or Without You
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