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All for Nothing

Walter Kempowski · NYRB Classics
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers.The last novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers, All for Nothing was published...
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Listening Woman: A Leaphorn & Chee Novel

Tony Hillerman · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.Now the solution to a horrific crime...
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The Quiet Side of Passion: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

Alexander McCall Smith
Format: eBook

Isabel finds herself grappling with ethically-complex matters of the heart as she tries to juggle her responsibilities to friends, family, and the philosophical community. With two small boys to raise, a mountain of articles to edit for the Review of Applied Ethics, and the ever-increasing...
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The Hangman

Mary Burton · Montlake Romance
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback

Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she's not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer ... the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While...
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Coldwater

Samuel Parker · Revell
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Having forfeited his youth to the state prison system, Michael moved back to the only home he'd ever known. An empty shell of a man who now lived--if it could be called living--in the still vacant house of his parents in a town with one stoplight. A town that hated him. Had always hated...
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Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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What Falls Between the Cracks

Robert Scragg · Allison and Busby
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover

Did she slip through the cracks, or was she pushed?When a severed hand is found in an abandoned flat, Detective Jake Porter and his partner Nick Styles are able to DNA match the limb to the owner, Natasha Barclay, who has not been seen in decades. But why has no one been looking for her?...
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Tom Clancy Oath of Office

MARC CAMERON · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The fall of the Iranian government presents unexpected danger to President Jack Ryan in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Tom Clancy series.President Jack Ryan preaches caution when the prospects for a Persian Spring excite the rest of the world. His is the lone Western...
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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud

MIKE LUPICA · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival.Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never...
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Nobody's Sweetheart Now: The First Lady Adelaide Mystery

Maggie Robinson · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard.Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold...
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