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Woman of god.

James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book

St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen.Is it possible that the new Pope...is a woman?The world is watching as massive crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in history. It's a turning point...
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

Carrie Brownstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein...
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The Widow

Fiona Barton - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A twisted psychological thriller you'll have trouble putting down." - People"If you liked Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, you might want to pick up The Widow by Fiona Barton. Engrossing. Suspenseful."...
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The Rembrandt Affair

Daniel Silva - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

"Of those writing spy novels today, Daniel Silva is quite simply the best." -The Kansas City Star "The perfect book for fans of well-crafted thrillers ... the kind of page- turner that captures the reader from the opening chapter and doesn't let go." -The Associated...
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Preacher VOL 01: Gone to Texas

Garth Ennis - DC Comics
Format: Paperback

Here's a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it's the epitome of iconoclasm. Like a brutal accident, you can't watch but you can't turn away. The story follows an ex-preacher man, Jesse, who has become...
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The Girl On Legare Street

Karen White - New American Library
Format: Book

Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street.Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she?d have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton...
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The Eastern Shore

Ward S Just - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly) , this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never...
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Every Heart a Doorway

Seanan Mcguire - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere......
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The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly "Summer Must List" Pick A New York Post "Summer Must-Read" Pick Included in Summer Book Guides...
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Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureA New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing...
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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel

Fannie Flagg - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced...
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Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come...
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The Transmigration of Bodies

Yuri Herrera - And Other Stories
Format: Print book

A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange...
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The Unleashing

Shelly Laurenston - Kensington Books
Format: Print book

Winging ItKera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn't for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die. In uncountable years of service...
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Downfall: A Brady Novel of Suspense

J A Jance - William Morrow
Format: Print book

Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest.With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff...
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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: eBook

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken...
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They Left Us Everything: A Memoir

Plum Johnson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three...
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Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times BestsellerChristina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is an unforgettable story of friendship and second chances that highlights a little-known but historically significant movement in America's past - and it includes a special PS section for book clubs featuring insights,...
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Red Dragon

Thomas Harris - Delta Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Will Graham stands in a silent, empty house communing with a killer. An FBI instructor with a gift for hunting madmen, Graham knows what his murderer looks like, how he thinks, and what he did to his victims after they died. Now Graham must try to catch him. But to do it, he must feel the heat...
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel

Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize­-winning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas...
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Time of Death: A Stillwater General Mystery

Lucy Kerr - Crooked Lane
Format: Print book

Welcome to Stillwater, a quiet town nestled on the banks of the Illinois River. Twelve years ago, Frankie Stapleton moved to Chicago, leaving behind her family, their struggling hardware store, and her fiance. Now she s back--an emergency room nurse with an adrenaline addiction and a string...
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Stars of fortune

Nora Roberts - Berkley Books
Format: Print book

FIRST IN THE GUARDIANS TRILOGY From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about three couples who join together to create their own family and solve an ancient mystery through the powers of timeless love ... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted...
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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

Lawrence S Ritter - HarperPerennial
Format: Book

Baseball was different in earlier days - tougher, rawer, more intimate - when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game.
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Under a Graveyard Sky

John Ringo - Pocket Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW SF/HORROR SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR! A family of survivors who fight back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines....
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Giant Days Vol. 2

John Allison - Boom! Studios
Format: Print book

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, personal experimentation, holiday balls, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted...
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel

David Stephen Mitchell - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Print book

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character,...
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A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel

Victoria Schwab - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. SchwabKell is one of the last Antari -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. Kell was raised in Arnes -- Red London...
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M Train

Patti Smith - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

National Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafs and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life."...
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The Nameless City

Faith Erin Hicks - First Second
Format: Print book

Every nation that invades the City gives it a new name. But before long, new invaders arrive and the City changes hands once again. The natives don't let themselves get caught up in the unending wars. To them, their home is the Nameless City, and those who try to name it are forever outsiders....
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Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

Hal Holbrook - Farrar
Format: Hardcover

Was it worth it, this awful struggle to survive, no matter what the cost?" Harold is Hal Holbrook's affecting memoir of growing up behind disguises, and his lifelong search for himself. Abandoned by his mother and father when he was two, Holbrook and his two sisters each commenced...
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Ariel: Poems

Sylvia Plath - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Hardcover

"Sylvia Plaths last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name." - The Critical Quarterly Sylvia Plaths celebrated collection. When Sylvia...
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The Monstrumologist

Richard Yancey - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Hardcover

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
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Dracula

Bram Stoker - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship...
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Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Format: Audiobook

Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley - an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea, its owner Max de Winter and his new young wife...and of course Rebecca. Abridged.
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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder - LUNA
Format: Paperback

Choose: A quick death . . . Or slow poison . . . About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become...
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Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia...
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The First Bad Man: A Novel

Miranda July - Scribner
Format: Book

From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny - so Miranda July - that readers will be blown away.Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman...
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Me Before You: A Novel

Jojo Moyes - Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestseller, and major motion picture. Read the sequel After You and Jojo's new book, Paris for One. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady...
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Storm Front

Jim Butcher - ROC
Format: Hardcover

THE FIRST DRESDEN FILES NOVEL FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JIM BUTCHERFor Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing...
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

Carrie Brownstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein...
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A Widow for One Year

John Irving - Random House
Format: Paperback

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long...
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Dark Lover

J R Ward - Signet Eclipse
Format: Paperback

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black...
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Land Girls

Angela Huth - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

In 1941, desperate for assistance, John and Faith Lawrence hire three very differnt young women--Prue, a Manchester hairdresser; Agatha, an intellectual Cambridge undergraduate; and Stella, devastated by separation from her lover--to take the place of farmhands off serving their country.
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Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens - Everyman
Format: Book

The classic Dickens tale of Nell Trent and her grandfather, forced into debt andthen having to flee to the country where they face great hardships. Tragically, both Nell and her grandfather have died before his brother traces them.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J K Rowling - Scholastic
Format: Book

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar faces. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. As...
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