Desafío: New Year, New Author!

Read a debut title and you might discover a whole new favorite!

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Photo of glasses and a newspaper with the headline "New Year, New Goals." The word goals is crossed out in red, and Author is written above it.
Task

Read The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell

Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. But one thing is standing in Tess's way-well, one very tall, annoyingly handsome person, actually: Hugh Balfour. Sparks fly, but not in the way Tess hoped, when an electrical accident sends the two feuding co-stars back in time to Jane Austen's era.

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Read Boy from the North Country by Sam Sussman

An auto-fictional novel about the courage and resilience of motherhood as well as a window into the life of Bob Dylan at a peak moment of his creative output.

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Read The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman

A poignant coming-of-age story about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.

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Read Ruth by Kate Riley

In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning.

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Read Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman

Book conservator Tory Van Dyne is a down-to-earth member of an eccentric old-money New York family. When a woman in the library's Christie Room introduces herself as Agatha Christie and announces she's there to help solve a murder (that hasn't yet happened), Tory determines she's just a nutty Christie fangirl. But when her socialite/actress cousin is caught up in a suspicious death, Tory and the woman claiming to be her deceased literary idol -- aided by unlikely sleuths including a snarky librarian, an eleven-year-old computer whiz, and an NYPD detective with terrible taste in suits -- begin to unravel the twists and turns of a murderer's devious mind.

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Read Daikon by Samuel Hawley

Three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific-not two-and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this strange new device.

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Read Stillwater: a thriller by Tanya Scott

For fans of Jack Reacher, Tanya Scott's debut thriller introduces readers to Luke Harris, a man trying to move beyond his criminal past but finds himself forced back into his old life and a deadly battle to survive. When Jack Quinn's mother dies of a drug overdose, it's not his father that raises him, but Gus-a ruthless crime boss who sees Jack for what he is: a whip-smart kid with untapped potential.

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Read I found a body by Becky C. Brynolf

Detective Sergeant Mona Hendricks has a lot on her plate: she’s getting divorced, her teen daughter is punishing her for it, and she’s shooting for a life-changing promotion. When her daughter’s favorite influencer, Kylie May, finds a dead body and livestreams it to the world, Mona is thrown into a very public murder investigation. When Kylie decides to solve the case herself, their dueling investigations hamper all efforts to identify the killer. Nine years later, Kylie, now a sleek TV contrarian, approaches Mona with a high-paying offer to reopen the cold case, and a desperate Mona has no choice but to accept and hope things will be different this time around.

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Read The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill

It’s been years since the three Ryan sisters were all together at their beloved family home on the eastern shore of Long Island. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by an accident on their brother Topher’s boat: A friend’s brother was killed, the resulting lawsuit nearly bankrupted their parents, and Topher spiraled into depression, eventually taking his life. Now the Ryan women are back for Thanksgiving, eager to reconnect, but each carrying a heavy secret. Infusing everything is the grief for Topher that none of the Ryans have figured out how to carry together.

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Read Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

What could accidentally moving into a house with thirty feral cats teach you about going viral, surviving capitalism, and the importance of community? Kind of a lot, actually. When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn't know that the property came with thirty feral cats.

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