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Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League eliteGalaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school...
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Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel

Emily M. Danforth - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Brimming from start to finish with sly humor and gothic mischief. Brilliant." - SARAH WATERSThe Favourite meets The Haunting of Hill House in this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls, a wickedly whimsical...
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The Betrayals: A Novel

Bridget Collins - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

International Bestseller!"Dizzyingly wonderful . . . a perfectly constructed work of fiction, with audacious twists . . . Collins plays her own game here with perfect skill." - The Times (UK) An intricate and utterly spellbinding literary epic brimming with enchantment, mystery,...
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Magic for Liars

Sarah Gailey - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it.Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life - or at least, she's perfectly...
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Never Let Me Go (Vintage International)

Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Library Binding

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathynow thirty-one years oldlived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside...
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The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova - Back Bay Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world...
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Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel

Vera Kurian - Park Row; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

Meet Chloe Sevre. She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. Her hobbies include yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based...
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Summer Sons

Lee Mandelo - Tordotcom; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew...
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The Maidens: a Novel

Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Book

Tragedy dogs Mariana's footsteps as she struggles to recover from the deaths of her husband, sister, brother-in-law and father. Then, in her beloved Cambridge, young girls are being killed. Fearing for her niece, Mariana is determined to find the murderer, and in a twisted plot, discovers...
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These Violent Delights: A Novel

Micah Nemerever - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel - a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.When...
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If We Were Villains: A Novel

M L Rio - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." -- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times...
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My Dark Vanessa: A Novel

Kate Elizabeth Russell - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"A hard story to read and a harder one to put down . . . a well-constructed package of dynamite." - Stephen KingExploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet nave teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming...
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The Broken Girls

Simone St James - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A breakout suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare.Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's...
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Ghosts of Harvard: A Novel

Francesca Serritella - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Cadence Archer arrives on Harvards campus desperate to understand why her brother, Eric, a genius who developed paranoid schizophrenia took his own life there the year before. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cadys life, and while her decision to follow in her brothers footsteps threatens...
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The Secret History

Donna Tartt - Knopf
Format: Print book

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits...
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Catherine House: A Novel

Elisabeth Thomas - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

Trust us, you belong here. A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate who uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her school's...
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