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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar...
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) , Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What's to be done about...
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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their...
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The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward - Tor Nightfire; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

-- Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes -- Stephen KingIn a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone...
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

Richard Osman

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club - are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpe
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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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The Last Graduate: A Novel

Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year - and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery...
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No Words: A Novel

Meg Cabot - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children's book author with a case of writer's block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their differences as they get through a weekend long...
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Portrait of a Scotsman

Evie Dunmore - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do? London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted just three things in life:1. Acclaim as an artist. 2. A noble...
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