Contemporary Fiction Books

Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don't take life too seriously, get out on the road when you can, and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life - so don't blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life - all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. At the end of 1995, Young meets Erena and as their relationship blossoms, we get flashbacks to Young's first five loves. That means Erena is "number six." Was his uncle wrong? Is she the one and only? Or are they fated for failure to make room for Young's final, seventh love?

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Sang Duri is the eldest member and "visual" of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he's abruptly cancelled. Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H-Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married with children and a psychologist with a savior complex, a combination that makes their potential union both seductive and incredibly problematic.

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Following a breakup, Kate and her now ex-boyfriend Finn decide to continue sharing their apartment until the lease runs out. They will alternate living there week by week so that they are sharing the same space, but never at the same time. Practically, the plan makes sense, but coming back each Sunday to a home where Finn has been and gone feels too much like living with a ghost. Around her, life carries on as usual, but Kate feels caught in a threshold between lives, floating between her past and present, suspended in the air, having let go of one thing but not yet grabbed onto the next.

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The three Blue sisters are exceptional - and exceptionally different. They also had a fourth sister, whose unexpected death left them reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised inches As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they've been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves. Author of "Cleopatra and Frankenstein." Print run 75,000.

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"When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot--what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face"--Amazon.

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"Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest"-- Provided by publisher.

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Aromantic and asexual students Sophie and Jo, engaged in an online feud as the creators of popular relationship advice accounts "Dear Wendy" and "Sincerely Wanda," unwittingly become real-life friends and navigate their shared aroace identities as they face the challenges of college life.

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London, 2019. It's the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than they've been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths will intersect at a party that will change their lives forever. As the temperature continues to climb, Maggie, Ed, and Phil will have to confront their shared pasts, current desires, and limits of their future lives together before the weekend is over. Print run 75,000.

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A clever con woman must convince a skeptical, sexy farmer of his property's resident real-life ghost if she's to save them all from a fate worse than death, in this delightful new novel from the author of Mrs. Nash's Ashes.

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Long ago 82-year-old Honey Fasinga broke ties with her New Jersey mobster family and moved west. Now it's time to go home, make her peace, and come to terms with the tragedies of her past - even though she still remembers where all the bodies are buried. But Honey's best intentions frizzle when her great-nephew Michael bursts into her life in what appears to be a drug-fuelled frenzy - only to disappear even more suddenly? Honey is curious to find the answer - in between navigating the awkward social labyrinths of funerals for old friends and enemies.

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This suspenseful queer YA romance reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he's been stealing from.

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At Archwell Academy, everyone wants to be a Lily. And like every secret society, there is something much darker beneath the surface.

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On the surface, Rory is the underdog--a scholarship kid, teased for her weight, but we soon find out that she will go to any length to secure the lead role in her school's senior musical. She is charming, conniving, and brutally ambitious.You will find yourself rooting for her, while simultaneously dreading what she might do!

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Follow a week in the life of a part-time high school English teacher. At home, her two children ask constant questions. Her husband, always on business calls with Hong Kong at odd hours, shows up for meals only occasionally. At school, her students seem increasingly disconnected, and some put worrying details of their lives into their creative writing assignments. Filled with sly observations about our off-kilter days, this is a witty and resonant novel about the challenges of motherhood, the question of what we owe the people around us, and the search for normalcy in a fractured world.

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Five high school friends who've experienced the worst abuse, bullying and gaslighting their small town of Eganston, Ontario, has to offer, put their survival tactics to good use as they plot their revenge.

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Nayan Olak is mounting a run for general secretary of the union when he finds himself inexorably drawn to an inscrutable woman he keeps seeing around town. Passing the run-down house where she lives with her teenage son, he wonders why they've returned to this place, and why they appear so guarded. As Nayan's involvement deepens, he unknowingly barrels toward long-held secrets about how his and this woman's pasts might be connected - and much more is threatened than his chances of winning.

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Growing up, Bryce, Beatriz, and Santiago were inseparable, but after the dissolution of their friendship and Bryce's suicide, Beatriz and Santiago attempt to reconcile and navigate love, mental illness, and forgiveness.

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Signing on to record a podcast sharing relationship advice, best-selling romance novelist Truly Livingston finds herself bickering with a cynical divorce lawyer and walks out, but when he tracks her down, asking for a fresh start, they go from enemies to something else entirely.

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"When Janae Simmons left Kedgewick, VA, ten years ago, she knew she'd never return, but now she has. Nothing has changed, but she's not the same. Determined to carve out a place, she goes to work for local law firm, but nothing goes as planned. Carter Montgomery took the only job he could get as a museum director at the Elliott Museum, knowing he could restart his career while giving his nephew a safe place to grieve. Then an elderly woman claims two of the museum's paintings belong to her family. He needs an attorney to help him navigate the legal quagmire of who owns the paintings, and Janae seems perfect. But when an attorney turns up dead and she finds a painting of her own, life spins into a complex web of challenges. Can they unravel them before the stakes become too high? Janae's not sure, but she is certain that the past is catching up with her and her friends"-- Provided by publisher.

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Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. As a college student, Javi embellishes his life story until there's not even a kernel of truth left. The only real connection to his past is the occasional letter he trades with his childhood best friend, Gio. Soon after graduating, a viral essay transforms Javi from a writer on the rise to a journalist at a legendary magazine. But Gio more than anyone knows who Javi really is. Once he's released from prison and Javi offers to cut him in on the deal, will he play along with Javi's charade, or will it all come crumbling down?

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Winnie Nash, who has been keeping her sexual orientation a secret, spends the summer with her grandma in New Jersey as she struggles with her family's expectations while yearning to embrace her true self and attend the Pride Parade in New York City.

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