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Those Bones Are Not My Child: A Novel

Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Paperback(1 VINTAGE)

This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's...
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City of Dreams: A Novel

Don Winslow - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Hot on the heels of the "superb" (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled...
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Brighton: A Novel

Michael Harvey - Ecco
Format: Print book

"The f**king bomb! I loved it." - Stephen King"I couldn't stop reading." --John GrishamA gritty and suspenseful Boston thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane and The DepartedAn extraordinary thriller - gripping, haunting, and marvelously told - about two friends growing...
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Real Easy: A Novel

Marie Rutkoski - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

It's 1999, and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. She's not used to taking anyone under her wing -- after all, between her disapproving boyfriend and his daughter, who may as well be her own child, she has enough to worry about. But when Samantha overrides...
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel

James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses...
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Vanishing in the Haight

Max Tomlinson - Oceanview Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard and Gillian FlynnBetween fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life...
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In the Woods

Tana French - Viking
Format: Hardcover

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing...
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And Now She's Gone

Rachel Howzell Hall - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

"Sharp, witty and perfectly paced, And Now She's Gone is one hell of a read!" -- Wendy Walker, bestselling author of The Night BeforeIsabel Lincoln is gone.But is she missing?It's up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want...
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Long Bright River: A Novel

Liz Moore - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters travel the same streets,though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing.In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other,...
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