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Blackbird: A Novel

Michael Fiegel - Arcade Crimewise
Format: Paperback

Featured on the Lifetime and Netflix TV show You. A Darkly Compelling Debut of an Unusual Bond Between Two Killers - and the Destruction Left in Their Wake. A cold-blooded killer-for-hire, Edison North drifts across America from city to city, crime scene to crime scene, leaving behind a world...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel,...
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The Annie Year: A Novel

Stephanie Wilbur Ash - The Unnamed Press
Format: Print book

Tall, trusted Tandy Caide, CPA, is a long-time patron of the arts in her town, which is why you will find her sitting in the front row of the high school's annual musical production. This year is an Annie year - and it would be no different than other years were it not for the high school's...
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Sometimes I Lie

ALICE FEENEY - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Boldly plotted, tightly knotted -- a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvelous." -- AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the WindowMy name is Amber Reynolds. There...
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Only Child: A novel

Rhiannon Navin - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Room and The Girls, a dazzling, tenderhearted debut about healing, family, and the exquisite wisdom of children, narrated by a six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts, and the quietest voices speak the loudest."Only...
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The Power

NAOMI ALDERMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste...
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The Snow Child: A Novel

Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur Books
Format: eBook

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall,...
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Not on Fire, but Burning: A Novel

Greg Hrbek - Melville House Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being...
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