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1) The women
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New Releases—February 6, 2024
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Helen Thorpe, Buddhist butler, is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgement. One of Cartier's fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit, where neither of them is...
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English
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"From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A'ja Wilson comes an inspirational collection on what it means to grow up as a Black girl in America. This is a book for all the girls with an apostrophe in their name. This is for all the girls who are "too loud" and "too emotional." This is for all the girls who are constantly asked, "Oh, what did you do with your hair? That's new." This is for my Black girls. In this empowering...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome', a rare functional...
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One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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New Orleans: live music, endless drinks, brightly-coloured attractions, the perfect place for a party... The bride-to-be The best friend The cousin The mother-in-law The sister The groom's friend The bachelorette begins on a Friday night; all six women are excited for a chance to escape their everyday lives. But then friendly rivalries turn vicious, and a game of truth or dare turns deadly. By the end of the weekend one of them will be dead...
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Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Happy Galentine's Day! Celebrate the gals in your life with this heart-shaped book with foil on the cover! From mothers to aunts, grandmothers to sisters, gals share a special bond--and this heart-shaped book is a perfect way to celebrate that!
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
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Español
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"Una historia para reír, llorar y reconciliarse con la vida. Sin nada que perder y todo por ganar, Rita Racons emprende el que será el viaje de su vida. Animada por su abuela, decide coger un avión y trasladarse a Estados Unidos para trabajar como au-pair y aprender inglés. El azar la llevará a la casa de los Bookland, en Atlanta, donde cuidará de los tres hijos de la familia durante un año entero. Los Bookland lo son todo menos la típica...
8) Enemy women
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
Description
After facing the loss of her family during the Civil War, eighteen-year-old Adair is imprisoned in a filthy St. Louis women's prison, and a Union major who interviews her falls in love and promises to return for her.
9) River Mumma
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Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store. Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb. Alicia doesn’t understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can’t remember all...
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Essien of Alkebulan volume 1
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Keylight Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Essien defies her village's gender roles by signing up for military enlistment, but when she begins seeing mythical beings of Alkebulan folklore and discovers she possesses superhuman abilities, she must choose between fulfilling her destiny as Goddess of Alkebulan or altering the course of history.
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"'What does it mean to be loved by the muses?' Miyuu is attending night classes in the hopes of getting into Tokei University of the Arts. As she works on her painting assignments, however, she's forced to confront her persistent doubts and abysmal self-esteem. And when it comes to the people in her life, she's starting to discover an important lesson: Compassion and cruelty often go hand in hand."--
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Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
14) Office gods: 1
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Gods, demigods, and true romance? Office Gods, based on the hit webcomic, is an addictive rom-com set in the corporate HQ of the Olympians themselves! Iris, a young human woman, is swept into the world of divine bureaucracy when she's recruited to work in the office of the gods, in the department of Hermes. The gods and goddesses may be beautiful beyond human comprehension, but she quickly learns that they're every bit as petty and quarrelsome...
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Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
Description
"Gilda teme a la muerte, lo normal. Solo que quizá la teme demasiado. Tanto que provoca accidentes, colapsa las urgencias hospitalarias, preocupa a sus seres queridos con presuntos infartos, tumores, enfermedades irreversibles. Sin embargo, tras perder su enésimo trabajo, lo más factible es que acabe muriendo de hambre. Cuando entra a trabajar de ayudante del párroco en la iglesia St. Rigobert tiene que esconder que es hipocondríaca, atea y lesbiana....
16) Coffee moon: 4
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"To end this chain of sorrow is her oath. But Pieta, if she should end despair, must destroy their sorrow and power both. FULL MOON So named are they who might aid in the dare. But though this "Stephanie" shares their ringed eyes, who can trust girls in a shadowy lair? The end of despair...Overcoming Dilemmas once and for all...Pieta and company could use every bit of help they can get on their quest. But when a mysterious girl named Stephanie introduces...
17) Freshman year
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A stylish graphic novel about the unique angst, humor, and self-doubt that comes with going away to college—perfect for fans of Heartstopper. Everyone gets a fresh start. Who do you want to be? Sarah is leaving suburban Wisconsin for college in Minnesota. She has high hopes for the future: impress her professors, meet interesting new people, stay close to her best friends and boyfriend back home, flourish as an artist, and shed her lingering...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling...
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Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl borads her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath and her "postcolonial novel" (If only she could work out just what that means). Though she is ambivalent towards academia and its trappings, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectation and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life...
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