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The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

DAVID MCCULLOUGH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American...
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The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls - "think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl" (TheSkimm) - a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have...
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The Night the Lights Went Out

KAREN WHITE - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street series comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what it seems.... Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta...
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Burntown: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People:Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown."...
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Nevertheless: A Memoir

Alec Baldwin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Anne Lamott - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it."Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening...
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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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The Ebb Tide

Beverly Lewis - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A Heartwarming Tale of Courage and Love from Amish Fiction's #1 AuthorWhen a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community...
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20 Ways to Make Every Day Better: Simple, Practical Changes with Real Results

Joyce Meyer - Faithwords
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer shares powerful, practical ways to experience a new level of joy and excitement about life every day. The traffic is backed up, the kids are screaming, and the car is making a funny noise again. Any one of these challenges can test our temperament...
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War Cry: A Courtney Family Novel

Wilbur Smith - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The saga of the legendary Courtney family continues in this fourteenth installment in Wilbur Smith's bestselling series - the sequel to 2009's Assegai - a thrilling tale of espionage, adventure, and danger, set in Africa and spanning from the Great War's end to the dark days of World War II.As...
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The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J R Ward - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. R. Ward's newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King,...
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Song of the Lion: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

Anne Hillerman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.When...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Paperback

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage...
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy

SHERYL SANDBERG - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Best SellerFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable...
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Ominous

LISA JACKSON - Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, and Rosalind Noonan join together in a gripping novel of suspense, as a long-guarded secret plunges three friends into a new nightmare. NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering...
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The Secrets of My Life

KATHERINE SUE NEWPORT - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In this remarkable memoir-written during her pivotal first years of becoming her authentic self-Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future.
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I Found You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"Jewell is a wonderful storyteller. Her characters are believable, her writing is strong and poetic, and her narrative is infused with just enough intrigue to keep the pages turning. Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love." - Library Journal...
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High Stakes

FERN MICHAELS - Kensington Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardcover

The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world... Investigative reporter...
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The Red Hunter: A Novel

Lisa Unger - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger "brings her trademark of intense suspense, believable characters and sharp plotting" (Sun-Sentinel) to this heart-stopping new psychological thriller, and proves once again why she is regarded as "one of today's...
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The Lost Order: A Novel (Cotton Malone Book 12)

Steve Berry - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times bestseller Steve Berrys Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller. The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold...
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My Italian Bulldozer: A Novel

Alexander Mccall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside.When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue cookbook, he expects...
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The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present - and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad...
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The Horse Dancer: A Novel

Jojo Moyes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A quintessential Jojo Moyes novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everything When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo - hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite...
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Thrawn

Timothy Zahn - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most...
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Any Day Now

Robyn Carr - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr's What We Find transports readers back to Sullivan's Crossing. The rustic campground at the crossroads of the Colorado and Continental Divide trails welcomes everyone - whether you're looking for a relaxing...
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Finding Gideon

ERIC JEROME DICKEY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first...
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Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers. STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels. And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT.Before...
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The Red Hunter: A Novel

Lisa Unger - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger "brings her trademark of intense suspense, believable characters and sharp plotting" (Sun-Sentinel) to this heart-stopping new psychological thriller, and proves once again why she is regarded as "one of today's...
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Beartown: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream - and the price required to make it come true. "You'll love this engrossing novel." - People...
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Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. "This book, this writer, are magnificent."...
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All By Myself Alone

Mary Higgins Clark - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride,...
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The Burial Hour

Jeffery Deaver - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series.A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's...
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Two from the Heart

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sundays at Tiffany's, two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities.Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home...
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One Perfect Lie

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Scottoline keeps the pace relentless as she drops a looming threat into the heart of an idyllic suburban community, causing readers to hold their breath in anticipation." -BOOKLIST "Readers can be assured that the author nails the high school milieu, from athletic...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team...
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No Easy Target

Iris Johansen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with another thriller, No Easy TargetMargaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where she sought refuge whenever...
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Golden Prey

John Sandford - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport....
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