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16th Seduction (A Womens Murder Club Thriller)

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Still recovering from her husbands betrayal, Detective Lindsay Boxer faces a series of heart-stopping crimes and a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy San Francisco.Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxers life was perfect. She had a beautiful child and a doting husband, Joe,...
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Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies

ACE ATKINS - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last. Connie Kelly thought she'd...
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Into the Water

PAULA HAWKINS - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train"Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors - think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott...
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much

AMANDA QUICK - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Amanda Quick, the bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part, transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins ... When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning...
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel

JO NESBO - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue - fragments...
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Full Wolf Moon

LINCOLN CHILD - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist . . . featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish,...
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Since We Fell

DENNIS LEHANE - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBarnes and Noble Best Book of the YearBookpage Best of 2017BOOKLIST Best Crime NovelPopSugar Best Book of 2017The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island"Lehane is the master of complex human characters...
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Dragon Teeth

MICHAEL CRICHTON - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate...
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Theft by Finding: Diaries

DAVID SEDARIS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiotDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the makingIt's no coincidence that the world's best writers...
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Between Them: Remembering My Parents

RICHARD FORD - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford's parents - Edna, a feisty, pretty...
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The Stars Are Fire: A novel

Anita Shreve - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic...
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Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Including the story "Drive My Car" - now an Academy Award-nominated film - this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; itll move you and confuse you and sometimes...
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Same Beach, Next Year

Dorothea Benton Frank - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart.One enchanted summer, two couples begin...
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G-Man

Stephen Hunter - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

"A roaring good read." - FORBES.com Master sniper Bob Lee Swagger returns in this riveting novel by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter. Ryan Philippe currently stars as Bob Lee Swagger on the hit USA Network series Shooter. The Great Depression...
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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

Lee Child - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child. No Middle Name begins with "Too Much Time,"...
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Nighthawk

CLIVE CUSSLER - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.When...
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Heat Storm

Richard Castle - Kingswell
Format: Hardcover

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group...
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The Broken Road

Richard Paul Evans - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A broken man. A twist of fate. A second chance. From the #1 bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk comes the first novel in a riveting new trilogy that explores the tantalizing question: What if you could start overChicago...
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Walking on My Grave (A Death on Demand Mysteries)

Carolyn G Hart - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In the latest Death on Demand Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Dont Go Home, book seller Annie Darling learns murder and money go hand in hand...Annies friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her with his estate,...
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Private: Gold

JAMES PATTERSON - BookShots
Format: Paperback

Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for an easy job-but when he tries to protect an American woman, nothing is what it seems in a web of money, betrayal, and murder . . . Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine...
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Trajectory: Stories

Richard Russo - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar...
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The Best of Adam Sharp

GRAEME SIMSION - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"This dazzling story about a former pianist who has a second chance in midlife with his former actress flame will do some major heart-warming this Spring -- and readers will never foresee the incredible ending." -- POPSUGAR"It's a fun sweet ride." -- The Washington...
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better...
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A Dog's Way Home

W BRUCE CAMERON - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's PurposeLucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment...
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Deadmen Walking: A Deadmans Cross Novel

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

New York Times best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon debuts a sweeping new epic saga sure to appeal to her millions of fans! Deadmen tell their tales.... To catch evil, it takes evil. Enter Devyl Bane - an ancient dark warlord returned to the human realm as one of the most notorious pirates...
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Secrets in Summer: A Novel

NANCY THAYER - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"The queen of beach books" (The Star-Ledger) returns to the shores of Nantucket in a novel about one memorable summer when flirtations flourish, family dramas play out, and scandalous secrets surface. Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have descended...
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Are You Anybody: A Memoir

Jeffrey Tambor - Crown/Archetype
Format: Print book

It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television....
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Testimony

Scott Turow - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR) , returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.At the age of fifty, former prosecutor...
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Rich People Problems: A Novel

KEVIN KWAN - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan) and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven...
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The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War

JEFF SHAARA - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat:...
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You Will Pay

LISA JACKSON - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.It starts as a prank - a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen...
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin:...
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Eat to Live Quick and Easy Cookbook: 131 Delicious Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health (Eat for Life)

Joel Fuhrman M.D. - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Discover What Millions of People Have Already Experienced-- Dr. Fuhrmans Extraordinary and Life-Changing Recipes Too busy to shop? Too tired to cook? Not sure whats healthy?From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Eat to Live and the instant New York Times bestseller Eat to Live...
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Detective Cross

JAMES PATTERSON - BOOKSHOTS
Format: Print book

The suspect is your patient, Dr. Cross. An anonymous caller has promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late... . BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES...
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Price of Duty: A Novel

DALE BROWN - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyber warfare attack in this action-packed military techno-thriller from New York Times bestselling master Dale Brown.In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation's...
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New Boy

TRACY CHEVALIER - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare's harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge to a 1970s era elementary school playground. Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with...
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Crazy House

JAMES PATTERSON - jimmy patterson
Format: Hardcover

There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape. Seventeen-year-old Becca Greenfield was snatched from her small hometown. She was thrown into a maximum-security prison and put on Death Row with other kids her age. Until her execution, Becca's told to fit in and shut...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

DAVID FISHER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain...
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Dying Breath

Heather Graham - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

Buried alive ... As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized - someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending...
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Gwendy's Button Box

STEPHEN KING - Cemetery Dance Pubns
Format: Hardcover

The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told... until now.There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs....
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