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Season of the Dragonflies: A Novel

Sarah Creech · HarperCollins
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains.For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured...
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Closer Than You Know: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.

Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.

It was a lesson...
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After I'm Gone: A Novel

Laura Lippman · HarperCollins
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left...
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Murder at Mullings - A 1930s country house murder mystery

Dorothy Cannell · Severn House Trade Paperback; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris seriesIn its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage...
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China Dolls: A Novel

Lisa See · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTThe author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and Shanghai Girls has garnered international acclaim for her great skill at rendering the intricate relationships of women and the complex...
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The First Phone Call from Heaven: A Novel

Mitch Albom · Harpercollins
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined...
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Death of a Novice: A mystery set in 1920s Ireland

CORA HARRISON · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The sudden death of a young novice nun raises a series of puzzling questions in the latest Reverend Mother historical mystery.The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense...
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The Dime

Kathleen Kent · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas--and neither is ready for the fight. Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when...
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The Incrementalists

Steven Brust · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Secret societies, immortality, murder mysteries and Las Vegas all in one book? Shut up and take my money." —John ScalziThe Incrementalists—a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share...
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Something Like Happy: A Novel

Eva Woods · Graydon House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

With wry wit and boundless heart, Eva Woods delivers an unforgettable tale of celebrating triumphs great and small, seizing the day, and always remembering to live in the moment.

"It's simple, really. You're just meant to do one thing every day that makes you happy. Could...

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Spirit of Steamboat: A Walt Longmire Story

Craig Johnson · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&E’s hit show Longmire“It’s a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you don’t.”Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas...
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The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel

Wendy Webb · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists' retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor's dark past...
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Charming

Elliott James · Orbit
Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First EditionView all editions and formats

Sharp, sarcastic, and efficiently lethal, John Charming would feel right at home having drinks with Dean Winchester and Harry Dresden. If you're looking for a new urban fantasy series to pick up, CHARMING is a guaranteed page-turner.John Charming isn't your average Prince...He comes...
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A Circle of Wives

Alice LaPlante · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

* An Indie Next Pick* A LibraryReads Selection* An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mysteries & Thrillers) * A Daily Candy Best Book of March* One of More Magazine's "Five Thrillers Not to Read After Dark"When Dr. John Taylor turns up dead in a hotel room, the local police...
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The Skin Collector

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 434
Format: Hardcover

In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forensic detective.Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues...
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