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Oh William!: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Through her "careful words and reverberating silences" (The New York Times) , Elizabeth Strout has long captured readers' hearts with her spare, exquisite insights on family, relationships, and loss. And never has her "perfect attunement to the human condition"...
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All Her Little Secrets: A Novel

Wanda M. Morris - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

"All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space." - Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling...
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Still Life

Sarah Winman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage...
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Our Country Friends: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart - Random House
Format: Hardcover

It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaulate whom...
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

Richard Osman

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club - are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpe
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Five Tuesdays in Winter

Grove Atlantic - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country...
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

Nathaniel Ian Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner...
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A Line to Kill: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz.When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, a
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Tales from the Cafe: A Novel

Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Hanover Square Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese caf. In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than...
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: A Novel

Eva Jurczyk - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

"With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers....
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