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The Swallows: A Novel

Lisa Lutz · Ballantine Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from...
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Tidelands

Gregory, Philippa · Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the great storytellers of our time" (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer's...
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The Dragon Republic

Kuang, R. F. · Harper Voyager
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

Rin's story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War - an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters.The war is over.The war has just begun.Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival...
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel

Tokarczuk, Olga · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." --Annie ProulxIn a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying...
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Tell Me Everything: A Novel

Cambria Brockman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A murder at an elite New England college tears apart a group of friends - one of whom is playing a dangerous game - in this electrifying debut in the tradition of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Couple Next Door. In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit...
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Travelers: A Novel

Habila, Helon · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A startlingly imaginative exploration of the African diaspora in Europe, by one of our most acclaimed international writers.Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision ... a major talent" (Rawi Hage) . His new novel...
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Doublespeak: A Novel

Smith, Alisa · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The followup to the literate and action-packed historical thriller Speakeasy, Doublespeak finds plucky protagonist Lena on a journey back to her past. Lieutenant Lena Stillman has been left, nearly alone, on her code-breaking mission in remote Alaska. World War II has been over for a month,...
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The Killer in Me: A Novel

Kiernan, Olivia · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A deadly past refuses to stay buried in Olivia Kiernan's masterful new novelDeath is no stranger to Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan, but she isn't the only one from her small, coastal suburb to be intimately acquainted with it. Years ago, teenager Seán Hennessey...
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The Taster

Alexander, V. S. · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined - one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship . . . In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents...
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Contraband

Woods, Stuart · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington's crime-fighting adventures continue to lead him around the world in the latest from #1 New York Times-bestselling Stuart Woods.
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