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The Bone Thief
The Bone Thief
by Vanessa Lillie
Reviewed: Jun 11, 2025
 
Published: Oct 28, 2025
 
When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate...from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie.
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(3.7/5)
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The Sister's Curse
The Sister's Curse
by Nicola Solvinic
Reviewed: Jun 11, 2025
 
Published: Oct 21, 2025
 
There's something in the water in Bayern County…

When mysterious drownings plague her small town, a detective haunted by her serial killer father must uncover whether revenge, ancient legends, or something darker lurks beneath the surface.
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(4.3/5)
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When They Burned the Butterfly
When They Burned the Butterfly
by Wen-yi Lee
Reviewed: Aug 13, 2025
 
Published: Oct 21, 2025
 
In this fierce, glamorous adult fantasy debut, Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R.F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy.
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(3.5/5)
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Hole in the Sky
Hole in the Sky : A Novel
by Daniel H. Wilson
Reviewed: Sep 10, 2025
 
Published: Oct 7, 2025
 
A gripping thriller—and Native American first contact story—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, Daniel H. Wilson, who is a Cherokee Nation citizen and has worked as a threat forecaster for the United States Air ...
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(4.1/5)
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The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
by Chanel Cleeton
Reviewed: Jan 16, 2025
 
Published: Sep 30, 2025
 
A mysterious book with a legacy spanning from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day unites three women in this unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton.
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(4.5/5)
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What We Can Know
What We Can Know : A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Reviewed: Aug 13, 2025
 
Published: Sep 23, 2025
 
From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.
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(4.6/5)
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The Wilderness
The Wilderness : A Novel
by Angela Flournoy
Reviewed: Sep 10, 2025
 
Published: Sep 16, 2025
 
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from ...
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(4.1/5)
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The Vanishing Place
The Vanishing Place
by Zoë Rankin
Reviewed: May 14, 2025
 
Published: Sep 16, 2025
 
A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore she'd never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.
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(4.3/5)
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