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• The Weekend Retreat

  a Novel

  Laskowski, Tara,

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  Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Mystery. Gathering at their lush winery estate for a joint birthday celebration, the Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, find old tensions ignited as they are pushed to the edge during this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mistress of Bhatia House

  Massey, Sujata,

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  Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Fever in the Heartland

  the Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

  Egan, Timothy,

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  Anthony Award for Best Critical/Nonfiction Work, Washington State Book Award for General Nonfiction/Biography, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Special Recognition. The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mother-daughter Murder Night

  a Novel

  Simon, Nina,

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  Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Sinners Bleed

  Cosby, S. A.,

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  Anthony Award for Best Hardcover Novel and Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense . After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Play the Fool

  a Mystery

  Chern, Lina,

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  Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel, Mary Higgins Clark Award. A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend's mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit. For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Peacock and the Sparrow

  a Novel

  Berry, I. S.,

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  Barry Award for Best First Mystery or Crime Novel, Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author . Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, World Fantasy Award for Novel, Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flags on the Bayou

  a Novel

  Burke, James Lee, 1936-

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  Edgar Award for Best Novel . In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Some Desperate Glory

  Tesh, Emily,

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  Hugo Award for Best Novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thornhedge

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  Hugo Award for Best Novella. There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A City on Mars

  Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

  Weinersmith, Kelly,

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  Hugo Award for Best Related Work. Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And Then She Fell

  a Novel

  Elliott, Alicia,

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  Indigenous Voices Award for Best Prose in English. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of study…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

  a Novel

  Crane, Marisa,

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  Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction. In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Natural Beauty

  a Novel

  Huang, Ling Ling, 1989-

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  Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Family Meal

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Biography of X

  a Novel

  Lacey, Catherine, 1985-

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  Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Same Bed Different Dreams

  a Novel

  Park, Ed, 1970-

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  Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sing Her Down

  a Novel

  Pochoda, Ivy,

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  Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison-or so her ex-cellmate, Diosmary Sandoval, keeps insinuating. Dios knows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Once a Family

  a Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

  Asgarian, Roxanna, 1987-

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  Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction. The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children-and…Read moreRead more of this annotation