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The Branson Beauty: A Mystery

Claire Booth · Minotaur Books
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

The Branson Beauty, an old showboat, has crashed in the waters of an Ozark mountain lake just outside the popular tourist destination of Branson, Missouri. More than one hundred people are trapped aboard. Hank Worth is still settling into his new role as county sheriff, and when he responds...

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The Life-Writer

David Constantine · Biblioasis
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"At its heart ... The Life-Writer turns on the same ideas of love, loss and memory that animate 'In Another Country' and has about it much the same air of tempered suffering. It would, we might expect, be filmed in the same ... manner as 45 Years." - Times...

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Sisters

Raina Telgemeier · Graphix
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers...
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A Murdered Peace: A Kate Clifford Novel

Candace Robb · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

England still in tumult at the start of the fifteenth century, as Kate Clifford finds herself working to prove the innocence of her longtime confidante.It is deep winter in York, 1400, the ground frozen, the short days dimmed with the smoke from countless fires, the sun, when it shines,...
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The Rules of Love and Grammar

Mary Simses · Little
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A woman finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to her roots in the enchanting new novel from the author of The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café.

Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come...
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I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

TESS GERRITSEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series - continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives.

"Suspense doesn't get smarter than this."...
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Hazardous Duty

W E B Griffin · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.M exican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks...
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The City on the Other Side

MAIRGHREAD SCOTT · First Second
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In The City on the Other Side, a young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms, and the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance!

Sheltered within her high-society world, Isabel plays the part of a perfectly proper little girl -- she's quiet,...

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You Were Always Mine: A Novel

Nicole Baart · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Little Broken Things returns with another "race-to-the-finish family drama" (People) about a single mother who becomes embroiled in a mystery that threatens to tear apart what's left of her family.Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with...
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News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles · William Morrow
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist - Fiction

It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys...

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Candle Flame: A novel of Mediaeval London featuring Brother Athelstan

P C Doherty · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

An intriguing medieval mystery featuring Brother AthelstanFebruary, 1381. London lies frozen in the grip of one of the bitterest winters on record. The ever-rising taxes demanded by the Regent, John of Gaunt, are causing increasing resentment among the citys poor. When the seething unrest...
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The Widow File

S.G. Redling · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

Dani, a data analyst with an elite security firm, possesses the unnerving ability to read people by the trash they leave behind. Receipts, parking tickets, the detritus of daily life—if you leave it behind, she will figure you out. Her latest case involves high-tech industrial espionage...
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The Burial Hour

Jeffery Deaver · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 729
Format: Hardcover

DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.

Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver's New York Times bestselling series.

A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight....
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The Thing About December: A Novel

Donal Ryan · Steerforth
Format: Book

While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Following the deaths first of his father and then his mother, Johnsey inherits the family...
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Bark: Stories

Lorrie Moore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America ("Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability."...
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