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The Shameless

Atkins, Ace · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New revelations on a notorious local cold case raise ghosts of the past in the newest thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins.Twenty years ago, teenager Brandon Taylor walked into the Big Woods north of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, and never returned. For former Army...
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Alpha and Omega

Turtledove, Harry · Del Rey
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"The standard-bearer for alternate history" (USA Today) now turns his potent imagination to the End of Days in this gripping novel about a discovery in the Middle East that turns the world upside down.What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days...
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Gettysburg

Kevin Morris · Grove Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

As a young man, John Reynolds fled his provincial hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for Los Angeles, lured by the promise of a life fueled by the excitement of show business. But after twenty years in Hollywood, Reynolds feels existentially unfulfilled. He resides in a beautiful mansion...
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The Gifted School: A Novel

Holsinger, Bruce · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively...
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt: A Novel

Bobotis, Andrea · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere far away.Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer--the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder no one talks about. She knows it's high time to make an inventory of her household...
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Milady

Sullivan, Laura L. · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

From the glittering ballrooms of 17th Century England to the dangerous intrigues of the French court, Laura L. Sullivan brings an unlikely heroine to the page, turning on its head everything we've been told about The Three Musketeers and their ultimate rival. I've gone by many...
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The Substitution Order: A novel

Martin Clark · Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wickedly clever, tenderhearted, and intricately plotted novel about a hard-luck lawyer's refusal to concede defeat, even as fate, the court system, and a gang of untouchable con artists...
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Heart of barkness : a Chet & Bernie mystery

Spencer Quinn · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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Surfside Sisters: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren't always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer....
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The Ghost Clause

Norman, Howard · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another "provocative . . . haunting"* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost (*Janet Maslin, New York Times) Simon...
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