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Kaliane Bradley's debut novel is "The Ministry of Time." The novel imagines a near future in which the British government is testing the viability of time travel by transporting various people from the past to the present.

They essentially pluck people out from the edge, grab them just before they die and bring them to the present so as to prevent ripples in the future. It all starts off with good intentions, very scientific - or so it seems.

The novel centers on a small group of these time travelers and their minders, a group of secret agents who are tasked with living with them and watching over them to study the effects of time travel.

The focus is Commander Graham Gore, who was plucked from 1847. The woman tasked with watching over him is our unnamed narrator.

Sparks fly between the narrator and Graham Gore. Mystery ensues, resulting in a time travel romance, a spy thriller and a workplace comedy all rolled into one.

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Andrew Boryga has described his debut novel, "Victim," succinctly: Javi, a Bronx kid, pimps out his identity to achieve his dream of being a successful writer, but loses himself in the process.

Javi is an unreliable narrator who pulls us into the world of diversity, politics, and buzzwords. A world where we're never sure what is true and what is a lie. And the author seems to be asking, is this fiction that different from the real world?

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Zibby Owens has been called one of New York City's most powerful bookfluencers.

She is the CEO of Zibby Books publishing house, owner of Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA, founder of Zibby Media and the podcast host of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books.

She just published her debut novel, "Blank." Blank is about a 40-ish former literary sensation who fears she will be a one hit wonder as she stares at a blank page.

With nothing written, she has five days to come up with a new book or to repay the advance she's already spent. Desperate, she seizes on her 12-year-old son's idea. What about a blank book? Is that bold or terrible?

This debut novel is about family, friendship, success and rediscovery.

It's also about what's broken in publishing and how we can fix it, from the perspective of an outsized presence in the publishing world.

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Jennifer Croft is the author of the new novel "The Extinction of Irina Ray." She is also an translator who translates works from Polish, Unkrainian and Argentine Spanish.

Croft's debut novel is about eight translators who gather in Poland to translate the newest book by a world renowned author.

Each translates a different language and have been selected by the author. They have worked for her before, and they have a ritual of coming together at the author's house on the edge of a primeval forest, to translate all at once, each working in their respective languages.

This time something is different. The author is with them on the first day, but then she goes missing.

Author Jennifer Croft is a renowned translator herself. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights.

This novel, about translation and translators by a translator, asks: What is translation and how do translations work?

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