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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series

Heather Fawcett - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.. Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore...
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The Busy Body

Kemper Donovan - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Hardcover

Veep meets Agatha Christie in this intelligent, wildly funny, literary mystery for fans of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, and Nita Prose!. The host of the "All About Agatha" podcast injects the spark and fizz of a Golden Age murder mystery into the present-day, as a ghostwriter...
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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston
Format: electronic resource

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.”—Reese WitherspoonEvie Porter has everything...
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Diva: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina:...
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel

Shubnum Khan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South...
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The Clinic: A Novel

Cate Quinn - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the Pacific Northwest coast, in which the death of a woman inside prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient in order to find the truth. Perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham and Tarryn...
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Come and Get It

Kiley Reid - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.. It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident...
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect: A Novel

Benjamin Stevenson - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz, a fiendishly fun locked room murder mystery from the author of the indie darling Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - this time set on a train full of mystery writers, agents, editors, and fans.Ernest Cunningham returns in a deliciously...
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Twenty-Seven Minutes: A Novel

Ashley Tate - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

A must-read debut that marks Ashley Tate as a brilliant new voice in literary suspense." - Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The PushIn this stunning and propulsive debut, a town grieves the loss of a young girl - but some fight to keep the truth about her death...
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All Rhodes Lead Here: A Novel

Mariana Zapata - Avon
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and the Queen of Slow Burn Romance Mariana Zapata's fan favorite All Rhodes Lead Here, a story about finding love when you least expect it - now with new exclusive content!The people we lose take a part of us with them ... but they leave a part of themselves...
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Family Family: A Novel

Laurie Frankel - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, Laurie Frankel, comes a propulsive, sharply funny, and strikingly tender novel about how families are sometimes formed in the most unexpected ways.. India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards (which, torn into...
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

David Bellos - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very...
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