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The Night Guest

Hildur Knutsdottir - Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.. Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss...
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The Book Swap

Tessa Bickers - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

"A love letter to books and reading. This debut is catnip for any book geek. I just loved it." - Cesca Major, author of Maybe Next Time, a Reese's Book Club Pick. Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When...
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A Kid from Marlboro Road: A Novel

Edward Burns - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover

An Irish-American family comes to life through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy in this debut novel by actor-filmmaker Ed Burns. . Immigrants and storytellers, lilting voices and Long Island moxie are all part of this colorful Irish-Catholic community in 1970s New York.. Our twelve-year-old...
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Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel

Cebo Campbell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?. One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful...
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An Academy for Liars

Alexis Henderson - Ace
Format: Hardcover

A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come from outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.. Lennon Carter's life is falling apart. . Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting...
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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel

Anna Johnston - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming debut about a zany case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family."Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life?...
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Playground: A Novel

Richard Powers - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height...
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A Dark and Drowning Tide: A Novel

Allison Saft - Del Rey
Format: Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.. Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker...
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Colored Television: A Novel

Danzy Senna - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out ... Senna is one of this country's most thrilling writers." -Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind. A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial...
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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

C. M. Waggoner - Ace
Format: Paperback

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery.. Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies - and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track...
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Entitlement: A Novel

Rumaan Alam - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind. Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend...
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Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Emily C. Hughes - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

A smart, funny crash course in 25 iconic horror movies, from Psycho to Hereditary, for people who love getting the reference but hate being scared.. You don't have to miss out just because you don't like to be frightened! Stop trying to read nonsensical Wikipedia plot summaries...
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