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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Pacific, inc. Hawaii, Aus & NZ

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  • Playground
    Playground: A Novel
    Richard Powers
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The ...
  • Bright Objects
    Ruby Todd
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a ...
  • A Disappearance in Fiji
    Nilima Rao
    Paperback: 05/07/2024
     
    A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a ...
  • Birnam Wood
    Birnam Wood: A Novel
    Eleanor Catton
    Paperback: 03/05/2024
     
    The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high ...
  • Exiles
    Exiles: Aaron Falk Mystery #3
    Jane Harper
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jane Harper comes Exiles, a captivating mystery about...
  • All That's Left Unsaid
    Tracey Lien
    Paperback: 09/26/2023
     
    For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a ...
  • Dirt Creek
    Dirt Creek: A Novel
    Hayley Scrivenor
    Paperback: 05/30/2023
     
    In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never ...

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