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Curses, Boiled Again! (Lobster Shack Mystery)
St Martins Pr

Curses, Boiled Again! (Lobster Shack Mystery)

Shari Randall

After an injury ends Allie’s ballet career, she returns home to help at a lobster shack and is drawn into a death tied to a food contest. The seaside setting, local relationships, and a story of recovery frame the cozy mystery.

STILL ME (Me Before You Trilogy)
Pamela Dorman Books

STILL ME (Me Before You Trilogy)

Jojo Moyes

Louisa Clark throws herself into a new job and life in New York while facing a long-distance relationship, secrets in her employer's household, and the task of rediscovering who she is. Caught between the glamour of the city and the comfort she finds in a vintage clothing shop, she learns to choose her life for herself.

Wild Is the Wind
Farrar Straus & Giroux

Wild Is the Wind

Carl Phillips

Taking its title from the jazz standard, this poetry collection considers the restlessness of love, the gap between memory and history, and the risk of belief after loss. Philosophical reflection and lyric pressure meet in voices moving between intimacy and solitude through Phillips's exacting syntax.

The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Perveen Mistry Novel)
Soho Crime

The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Perveen Mistry Novel)

Sujata Massey

Perveen Mistry, one of Bombay’s first women lawyers, questions inheritance documents involving widows living in purdah and is drawn into a murder case. The historical mystery is shaped by law, religion, and patriarchal constraint.

Robots vs. Fairies
S&S/Saga Press

Robots vs. Fairies

Dominik Parisien, Navah Wolfe

An original short-story anthology that pits two classic motifs, robots and fairies, against each other. It plays with the border between science fiction and fantasy while refreshing both modes of imagination.

PERFECT NANNY, THE
Penguin Books

PERFECT NANNY, THE

Leila Slimani, Sam Taylor

A psychological thriller that tracks the tension between a family and the nanny they hire, rendered in a cool, incisive style. Childcare, class, and the collapse of trust slowly converge toward tragedy.

Nie Ma
Fundacja Instytutu Reportazu

Nie Ma

Mariusz Szczygiel

Nie ma is a work of literary reportage about absence, loss, and memory. Through fragments of individual lives, places, and untold histories, it asks how what is missing continues to shape people and societies.

Widnokrag
Znak

Widnokrag

Wieslaw Mysliwski

A long novel that traces family memory and postwar Polish experience through a slow drift of recollection. Set around Sandomierz, it lets a child's perspective widen into a fuller view of the world.

The New Animals
Victoria Univ Pr

The New Animals

Pip Adam

A novel about people from different generations working in Auckland's fashion scene. Exhausted Generation X workers and younger figures with money and ideals collide around production and a photo shoot, bringing consumer culture, labor, bodies, and the lack of a clear future sharply into view.