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Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Donna Leon - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable...
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The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly "Summer Must List" Pick A New York Post "Summer Must-Read" Pick Included in Summer Book Guides...
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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

M. L. Stedman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible ... seductive ... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine) .After four harrowing years...
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Life of Pi

Yann Martel - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION COPIES SOLD New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Washington Post Bestseller San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller Chicago Tribune Bestseller A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction.Los Angeles Times Book Review After...
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Into the Water

PAULA HAWKINS - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train"Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors - think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival,...
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The Old Man and The Sea

Ernest Hemingway - Scribner; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here...
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Sea Glass: A Novel

Anita Shreve
Format: Print book

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the hou
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A Sunless Sea: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Anne Perry's spellbinding Victorian mysteries, especially those featuring William Monk, have enthralled readers for a generation. The Plain Dealer calls Monk "a marvelously dark, brooding creation" - and, true to form, this new Perry masterpiece is as deceptively deep and twisty...
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Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brian - W.W. Norton
Format: Paperback

"The best sea story I have ever read." -- Sir Francis Chichester It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to command of H.M.S. Sophie?, an old, slow brig unlikely to make...
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