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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar... |
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
Richard Osman
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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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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's... |
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Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Format: Book
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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled... |
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Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular... |
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The Last Graduate: A Novel
Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year - and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery... |
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My Monticello: Fiction
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, "My Monticello," tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors... |
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Smile: The Story of a Face
Sarah Ruhl - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bell's palsy patients see spontaneous improvement and experience a full... |
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A Spindle Splintered
Alix E. Harrow - Tordotcom
Format: Hardcover
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"A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -- Katherine ArdenIt's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special... |
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When Ghosts Come Home: A Novel
Wiley Cash - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The eagerly awaited novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, a tender and haunting story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memoryWhen the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes... |
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Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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.Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home, and found something more complex in its place. Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder... |
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Fight Night
Miriam Toews - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book
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“You're a small thing,” Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.” Swiv's Grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community, she has fought those who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit.... |
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An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
Helene Tursten - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover
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Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic... |
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The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
Ruth Ozeki
Format: Book
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After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying,... |
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The Book of Magic: A Novel
Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live.... |
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