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    Theo of Golden

    One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully…

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    The Magic of Chamomile Cottage

    A storyteller in search of a story. A healer in need of hope. A town looking for a fresh start. And the magic that binds them together. Popular storyteller Sunny Callaway is known for writing captivating human-interest stories, but lately she’s having trouble writing anything after a devastating diagnosis and a painful breakup. When a surprise discovery leads her to a small town fighting for survival after the closing of its tea factory, she finds family she hadn’t known and a story that will change her life forever. Tea shop owner Nova Frances Clark has an old soul, a healer’s heart, and a big secret. Although her special chamomile tea…

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    If Books Could Kill

    When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favorite author's next novel, she has romance in mind -- namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted by a mysterious busker, and she finds herself swept into a fairytale first date with a dashing stranger who seems destined to take her breath away.    Except for one little hiccup: that dashing stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist -- but this time, Anna is writing a…

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    The Collected Regrets of Clover

    Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library.

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    Road Trip

    Maeve and Therese Dunigan are sisters–but the two have been estranged for years. They could not be more opposite. When their mother’s death brings the family back together, the two find that they have inherited a painting–one that could be worth millions and could save each of them from their respective wolves at the door. The only issue is, the painting might be a fake and the only way they can solve the problem is to find the original. Can Maeve and Therese find the real painting, remove a family curse, solve a cold case, and actually survive without killing each other?

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    The Correspondent

    Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.

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    Seven Days in June

    When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that 15 years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years. Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect - but Eva's wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the…

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    A Novel Christmas

    Book 3 in The Arcane Tales of Tamsyn Pride series. The Otherworld is dying, and Tamsyn Pride is trapped inside it. Back in Much Wenlock, the dead walk freely through the streets. The Archbishop’s thirty-year plan is finally coming to fruition – but he’s made one crucial mistake...he left Annalise Pride alive. Meanwhile, Ellis Rowlands has spent years searching for his missing family. As magic begins to return to Britain and old wounds tear open, will he ever learn what became of his wife and daughter before it’s too late? As the shadows rise, the past refuses to stay buried, and the Pride family’s darkest secret is about to surface.

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    The Forget-Me-Not Library

    Ingrid and her boyfriend Cory have been together for 11 years. When her sister gets engaged, they decide to take a break to date other people. What follows is a commentary on contemporary dating and the ruts younger millennials find themselves in, a friendship that has always felt like more, and the courage it takes to be vulnerable.