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Amy Shearn

**An NPR Books We Love 2025One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started…**It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Leaning on her best friend Lulu to show her the ropes, Rachel dips a toe in the online dating world, leading to park dates with younger me...

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Amy Shearn

Edna Sloane was a promising author at the top of her game. Her debut novel was an instant classic and commercial success, vaulting her into the heady echelons of the 1980s New York City lit scene. Then she disappeared and was largely forgotten. Decades later, Seth Edwards is an aspiring writer and editor who feels he’s done all the right things to achieve literary success, but despairs that his dream will be forever out of reach. He becomes obsessed with the idea that if he can rediscover ...

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Amy Shearn

A spinster librarian in New York City becomes obsessed with a patron and his haunted house in this novel by the author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn.In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It's a question Meg Rhys doesn't think she's asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sister's ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an in...

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Amy Shearn

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Allyson Ryan

**An NPR Books We Love 2025One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started…**It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Leaning on her best friend Lulu to show her the ropes, Rachel dips a toe in the online dating world, leading to park dates with younger me...

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Amy Shearn

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Kimberly M. Wetherell, Karen Chilton

In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It’s a question Meg Rhys doesn’t think she’s asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sister’s ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an intriguing library patron and the haunted house he’s trying to research. The house has its own story to tell too, of love and war, of racism’s fallout and the ghost story that is ge...

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Mindy Kaling

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this hilarious instant classic, the creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood.“[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps . . . the next Nora Ephron.”—The New York Times**Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afr...

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J. Courtney Sullivan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • An insightful and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions."Once again, Sullivan has shown herself to be one of the wisest and least pretentious chroniclers of modern life."—The Washington Post

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Shannon Stacey

Now a Harlequin Movie, Snowbound for Christmas!Adrian Blackstone built a million-dollar business with hard work and determination—and by remaining professional at all times. Denying his longtime attraction to his beautiful executive assistant hasn’t been easy but it’s necessary. She’s indispensable, and he can’t stand the thought of losing her if things didn’t work out.For more than a year, Rachel Carter has been quietly dreaming of all the ways sh...

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Richard Ford

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Bascombe Trilogy

In this “powerful” blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life.As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people—men, mostly—who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. ...

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Ruth Madievsky

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the California Book AwardWinner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut FictionRachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace**On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and ...

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Renee George

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Witchin' Impossible Cozy Mysteries

A disgruntled bear fiancé. A familiar on the lamb. A hairless cat named Lonnie…and me without my magic.When my familiar, Tizzy the Squirrel, fell in love with another familiar, we had no idea her furry pal would gain witch magic. Apparently, that's a big no-no for the High Familiar Clowder, the council that rules all familiars. When the Clowder shows up in Paradise Falls to decommission Tizzy and send her to the in-between, I defy those stick-in-the-butt jerkfaces ...

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Leil Lowndes

Command attention and respect by conversing with confidence, credibility, and charismaTwo books packed into one eBook!You can speak up and be heard at business meetings. You can chat with confidence in at parties. You can be the one with the best job and most interesting friends. It’s all about how you communicate and connect with others—which is something you can learn.How to Talk to and Instantly Connect with Anyone do...