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All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache, 16)
Minotaur Books

All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache, 16)

Louise Penny

On their first night in Paris, the Gamache family is pulled into a dangerous crisis when their godfather is attacked. As the case widens into a web of conspiracy, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must uncover the truth before the family is swallowed by the city’s shadows.

Road Out of Winter
Mira Books

Road Out of Winter

Alison Stine

A survival novel set in a frozen, climate-ravaged world, following a young woman searching for a place to live and endure.

The Family Clause
Farrar Straus & Giroux

The Family Clause

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Alice Menzies

A grandfather living abroad returns to Sweden every six months and steps back into the lives of his adult children. His son wants to end an old arrangement with him, while his daughter faces a turning point of her own. The novel portrays the unspoken contract that binds a family and the wounds parents and children pass on to one another, with both wit and pain.

Nature humaine
Flammarion-Pere Castor

Nature humaine

Serge Joncour

Tracing changes in rural France and one family from the 1970s to the great storm of 1999, the novel layers together land-bound life, the transformation of agriculture, and social and political upheaval through the family history of a young man. It captures the texture of a world slowly disappearing.

The Bitch
World Editions

The Bitch

Pilar Quintana, Lisa Dillman

On Colombia's Pacific coast, in a poor village pressed between the sea and the jungle, middle-aged Damaris takes in an orphaned puppy and begins to love it as the daughter she never had. Loneliness, thwarted motherhood, a cooled marriage, and a harsh natural world converge as affection gradually turns into obsession and violence.