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Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding...
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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe bestselling cult classic - now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting,...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Maria Semple - NHLA READS-TO-GO
Format: Paperback

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.Then Bernadette...
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Tulip Fever: A Novel

Deborah Moggach - Delta Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution - set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever. In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy...
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Red Sparrow: A Novel

Jason Matthews - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of John le Carr, the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is "a primer in twenty-first century spying" (The New York Times Book Review), written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know - and shortlisted for an Edgar...
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Annihilation: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Book

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being...
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A Wrinkle in Time Movie Tie-In Edition

MADELEINE L'ENGLE - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night ... In 1962, Madeleine L'Engle debuted her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which would go on to win the 1963 Newbery Medal. Bridging science and fantasy, darkness and light, fear and friendship, the story became a classic of children's literature and is beloved...
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Wonder

R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind...
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Thank You for Your Service

David Finkel - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Print book

From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after warThe wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

Doug Stanton - ‎Scribner; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere! "A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times...
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The Mountain Between Us: A Novel

Charles Martin - Broadway Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Where the River Ends, comes this page-turning story of love and survival.On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport.  Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. ...
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My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin!"From the first page...the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." -The New York TimesFrom the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall.Philip...
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