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The Bell Jar: A Novel

Sylvia Plath - HarperCollins / Perennial Classics
Format: Hardcover

A Special Hardcover Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable NovelSylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanityEsther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously...
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Blackouts: A Novel

Justin Torres - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories - personal and collective.Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay - playful raconteur,...
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The Book of Lost Names

Kristin Harmel

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years - a book she recognizes as The Book of
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. * "A new and necessary American voice."...
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Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation...
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A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.As her marriage...
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Daisy Darker: A Novel

Alice Feeney - ‎Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns ... with a family reunion that leads to murder.After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally...
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess: A Novel (Celestial Kingdom, 1)

Sue Lynn Tan - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed national and international bestseller"Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish." - Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series"An all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense."...
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The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

Edward Humes - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case - and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy. In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies...
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Horse: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American historyKentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal...
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A House With Good Bones

T. Kingfisher - Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. "Mom seems off." Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto...
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mothe
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Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds

BRANDON SANDERSON - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a new novella collection, including a brand new, never-been-published story.Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad.A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation,...
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ANDREW SEAN GREER - Back Bay Books/Little
Format: Print book

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel

Bonnie Garmus - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A delight for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show.Chemist Elizabeth...
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A Light in the Flame: A Flesh and Fire Novel

Jennifer L Armentrout - Blue Box Press
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series ... The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill.The truth about Sera's plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos....
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Little Weirds

Jenny Slate - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Step into Jenny Slate's wild, unfiltered imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling) , "delicious" (Amy Sedaris) , and "poignant" (John Mulaney) collection about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful"...
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Marshaling Her Heart (Wyoming Sunrise Book #3)

Mary Connealy - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Will their lives and romance survive the trouble coming their way?. Becky Pruitt has always prided herself on knowing everything that's happening on her successful ranch, so an unexpected admission from her foreman, Nate Paxton, comes as quite a surprise. With the notorious Deadeye...
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The Rose Code: A Novel

Kate Quinn - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis,...
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The Running Grave: A Cormoran Strike Novel (A Cormoran Strike Novel, 7)

Robert Galbraith

In the seventh installment in the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. (Financial Times) . Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, W
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The Salt Grows Heavy

Cassandra Khaw - Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a dark and deliciously twisted mermaid tale.. After murdering her husband and burning his kingdom to cinders, a mermaid joins a strange doctor on a journey through the eerie taiga. Deep in the woods, the pair stumble...
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School Lunch: Unpacking Our Shared Stories

Lucy Schaeffer - Running Press Adult
Format: Hardcover

Bought or brought? Revisit the nostalgia of the school cafeteria with this collection of interviews, vivid portraits, and elaborately reimagined food photos.Food often unites us in unexpected ways -- especially on Taco Salad Day. Drawing on material from more than seventy voices , these...
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The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Hardcover

Sue Monk Kidd's first novel The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, and a Good Morning America "Read This" Book Club pickFans of The Helpwill love Sue Monk...
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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback

Alicia Berensons life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of Londons most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia...
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Solutions and Other Problems

Allie Brosh - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh - beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half - returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories...
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Still Alice

Lisa Genova - Gallery Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children...
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Sundial

Catriona Ward

"DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying." - Stephen King A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! STARRED review from Publishers Weekly! Anticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more!Sundial is a new, twi
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The Weaver and the Witch Queen

Genevieve Gornichec - Ace
Format: Hardcover

The lives of two women - one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to become queen of Norway - intertwine in this spellbinding, powerful novel of Viking Age history and myth from the acclaimed author of The Witch's Heart.Oddny and Gunnhild meet as children...
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Wolfsong

TJ Klune

Ox was 12 when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was 16 when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the boy hadn't spoken in a
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Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel

GILLIAN MCALLISTER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed "perfection, every word, every moment" by Lisa...
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