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The Stranger

Harlan Coben · Dutton

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Harlan Coben delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life-- and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it. The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar,...
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The Bone Tree: A Novel

Greg Iles · William Morrow

Greg Iles continues the electrifying story begun in his smash New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning in this highly anticipated second installment of an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, featuring Southern lawyer Penn Cage.Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée,...
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The

Sydney Padua · Pantheon

THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer,...
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Early Warning: A novel

Jane Smiley · Knopf

From the best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a riveting, emotionally engaging journey through mid-century America, as lived by a remarkable family with roots in the heartland of Iowa Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart...
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Snowblind: Stories of Alpine Obsession

Daniel Arnold · Counterpoint

In this powerful debut story collection, veteran travel writer and adventurer Dan Arnold brings to life the men and women whose lives are defined by the call of the mountain. From varied backgrounds with diverse perspectives, the characters that populate Snowblind don’t feel quite...
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House of Echoes: A Novel

Brendan Duffy · Ballantine Books

In this enthralling and atmospheric thriller, one young family’s dream of a better life is about to become a nightmare.   Ben and Caroline Tierney and their two young boys are hoping to start over. Ben has hit a dead end with his new novel, Caroline has lost her banking job,...
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The Dig

Cynan Jones · Coffee House Press

"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The...
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All the Old Knives

Olen Steinhauer · Minotaur Books

Six years ago in Vienna, terrorists took over a hundred hostages, and the rescue attempt went terribly wrong. The CIA's Vienna station was witness to this tragedy, gathering intel from its sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground and from an agent on the inside....
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An Exaggerated Murder: A Novel

Josh Cook · Melville House

How can you solve a murder when the clues are so dumb?   Private investigator Trike Augustine may be a brainiac with deductive skills to rival Sherlock Holmes, but they’re not doing him any good at solving the case of a missing gazzilionaire because the clues are so stupefyingly—well,...
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Live Right and Find Happiness

Dave Barry · G.P. Putnam's Sons

During the course of living (mumble, mumble) years, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom,* (*actual wisdom not guaranteed) and he is eager to pass it on—to the next generation, the generation after that, and to those idiots who make driving to the grocery store in Florida a death-defying...
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The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia

Bryan Denson (Author)

"A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel . . . and it’s all true." ?Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanInvestigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons?father...
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The Jefferson Rule: Why We Think the Founding Fathers Have All the Answers

David Sehat (Author)

In The Jefferson Rule, historian David Sehat describes how liberals, conservatives, secessionists, unionists, civil rights leaders, radicals, and libertarians have sought out the Founding Fathers to defend their policies.Beginning with the debate between Thomas Jefferson...
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The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career

Jack Welch , · HarperBusiness

The business titans and #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Winning return with a modern, essential guide for everyone in business today—and tomorrow—that explores the most pressing challenges related to creating winning strategies, leading and managing others, and building...
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam · Simon & Schuster

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

John Lydon · Dey Street Books

From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.John Lydon is an icon—one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols-the...
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My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today

Nora Pouillon · Knopf

A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America’s first certified organic restaurant, My Organic Life is the story of an unheralded culinary pioneer who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. While growing up on a farm in the Austrian...
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