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A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Bob Proehl - Viking
Format: Print book

"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." - Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand SaintsValerie Torrey took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar...
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Montana 1948: A Novel

Larry Watson - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback

"From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them ... " So begins David Hayden's story of what happened in Montana in 1948. The events of that...
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The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green

Erica Boyce - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

Sometimes wonder is found not beyond the stars, but a few feet from your own front door...Daniel Green makes crop circles. As a member of a secret organization, he travels across the country creating strange works of art that leave communities mystified. He's always been alone; in fact,...
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Juliet Grames - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fateFor Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening...
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Seven Days of Us: A Novel

FRANCESCA HORNAK - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter - who is usually...
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My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Shoemaker & Hoard
Format: Print book

For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written a most unusual book in a career of distinctive and unique accomplishments. My Nine Lives is "Chapters of a Possible Past," as the subtitle declares. It is, as the author has commented, a book filled...
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4321 : a novel

Paul Auster - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

This program is read by the author. Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel - a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel...
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The 8th Circle: A Thriller

Sarah Cain - Crooked Lane Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

A year ago, Danny Ryan lost his wife and son in a car accident. He's still reeling from the tragedy when Michael Cohen, his friend and fellow journalist, drives into the pond in front of his house with a bullet through his gut.With Michael's death ruled a murder, Danny must work...
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The Ancient Nine: A Novel

Ian Smith - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

"Pulls you into the depths of a secret world from the first page. Ian Smith's novel is unmissable." -- Harlan Coben, author of Missing YouSpencer Collins thinks his life at Harvard will be all about basketball and pre-med; hard workouts and grinding work in class. The friends...
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Victim 2117: A Department Q Novel

Jussi Adler-Olsen - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own - the enigmatic Assad.The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim...
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A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

John Gregory Brown - Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Format: Print book

A tragicomic tour de force about one man's redemption through love and art.Fleeing post-Katrina New Orleans, haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit, Henry Garrett pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road,...
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Forty Acres: A Thriller

Dwayne Alexander Smith - Atria Books
Format: Book

A young black attorney confronts issues of race and power as he uncovers a shocking conspiracy in the most page-turning and provocative thriller since The Firm.Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most...
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One Night at the Lake: A Novel

Bethany Chase - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A tragedy on a hot summer night at a lake house forever alters the lives of two best friends - and the man they both love. But the truth isn't as simple as it appears in this intricate novel of love, friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness. Leah has been waiting for this moment a long time:...
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