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• Birthday Girl

  Douglas, Penelope, 1977-

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  Sparks fly between a father and his son's girlfriend after she moves in with them in this steamy age-gap romance.

• Crime and Punishment

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

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  Shortly after he commits a crime, Raskolnikov finds himself descending into paranoia as he grapples with severe guilt for what he has done. This classic of world literature captures brilliantly the sufferings of the human conscience.

• A Fine Balance

  Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-

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  Four strangers share a too-small apartment in 1975 India, a time of upheaval and change, and try to maintain a “fine balance between hope and despair” in troubled and cruel times.

• The Henna Artist

  Joshi, Alka

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  The first book in a series which follows protagonist Lakshmi, who escapes her abusive husband and becomes a successful henna artist in 1950s Jaipur.

• Her Soul to Take

  Laroux, Harley

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  A ghost hunter and the demon trying to steal her soul fall in love with a heavy dose of spice.

• Intermezzo

  Rooney, Sally

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  "Bestseller Rooney returns with a boldly experimental and emotionally devastating story of estrangement...her focus on Peter and Ivan’s complicated fraternal bond pays enormous dividends." — Publishers Weekly

• Master of Salt & Bones

  Lake, Keri

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  This gothic dark romance is a spicy mashup of "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Phantom of the Opera."

• No Country for Old Men

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

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  In this moody neo-western novel, moral ambiguity has displaced conventional treatments of good and evil. Brilliant character studies flesh out this violent border tale. A modern classic.

• Presumed Innocent

  Turow, Scott

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  Prosecuting attorney Rusty Sabich is in the unenviable position of investigating the brutal murder of his colleague and former lover, when he becomes the accused. This classic of the legal thriller genre paved the way for writers like John Grisham.

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna

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  Charmed by the teachings of their Classics professor, a group of eccentric students decide to commit a murder, which sets off of a series of life-changing events. Donna Tartt creates a mystery with morally problematic characters that you can't help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Siren

  Reisz, Tiffany

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  The first of four novels in the The Original Sinners series, "The Siren" is "a haunting story of love and pain." A steamy erotic romance by an award-winning author of this genre.

• Where All Light Tends to Go

  Joy, David, 1983-

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  Jacob, the son of a meth-addicted mother and sociopathic drug-lord father dropped out of school to work for his father. He falls ever deeper into a world of violence, betrayal and murder.