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Hamnet: A novel

Maggie O'Farrell - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling departure: A short, piercing, deeply moving new novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am, about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenth-century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great...
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Super Host

Kate Russo - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his galley...
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Take My Hand

Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

"Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze ... an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption." - Celeste NgA searing and compassionate new novel about a young Black nurse's shocking discovery and burning quest for justice in post-segregation Alabama, from...
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Rock Paper Scissors: A Novel

Alice Feeney - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can't recognize friends...
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Anderson Cooper - Harper
Format: Hardcover

CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.Few names are as synonymous with wealth...
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The Displacements: A Novel

Bruce W Holsinger - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Hypnotic." - New York Times"Cinematic." - USA Today"I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post"A full-throttle page turner."- Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times...
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Klara and the Sun: A novel

Kazuo Ishiguro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse,...
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Back to the Garden: A Novel

Laurie R King - ‎Bantam
Format: Hardcover

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life - with potentially fatal consequences - in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes seriesThe Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved...
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The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan - Fractal Press
Format: Paperback

"The Thirty-Nine Steps" was written by John Buchan and published in the year 1915. It is only the first of the 5-book series of the Richard Hannay novels. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcocks 1939 classic film of the same name. Told...

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The House on Vesper Sands

Paraic O'Donnell
Format: Hardcover

"The House on Vesper Sands is a delicious book. Somehow it manages to do a hundred marvelous things at once: Funny, eerie, tender, haunting and unsettling, smokily atmospheric and fantastically enjoyable, it's a nineteenth-century supernatural procedural mystery that is also an impassioned...
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True Biz: A Novel

Sara Novic - Random House
Format: Hardcover

True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with...
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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy Book 1)

Katherine Arden - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Katherine Ardens bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. "A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up." - Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted....
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