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Adult Fiction
The 12.30 from Croydon, by Freeman Wills Crofts
The Bertie Project, by Alexander McCall Smith
A Book of American Martyrs, by Joyce Carol Oates
The Burning World, by Isaac Marion
The Clairvoyants, by Karen Brown
The Freedom Broker, by K.J. Howe
Garden of Lamentations, by Deborah Crombie
The Impossible Fortress, by Jason Rekulak
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill
Lust, by Victoria Christopher Murray
Nowhere Near You, by Leah Thomas
Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman
The One Inside, by Sam Shepard
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
The Possessions, by Sara Flannery Murphy
The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Robert B. Parker’s Revelation, by Robert Knott
To Name Those Lost, by Rohan Wilson
Adult Nonfiction
Age of Anger: A History of the Present, by Pankaj Mishra
Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops, by Charles Campisi and Gordon Dillow
A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide, by Stephanie Saldaña
Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music, by James Rhodes
The Secret Project, by Jonah Winter and Jeanette Winter
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression, by Daphne Merkin
Youth Nonfiction
ABC Pasta: An Entertaining Alphabet, by Juana Medina Rosas
Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel, by Nancy Castaldo