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Killing Kate

Alex Lake · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the author of ebook No. 1 bestseller and Sunday Times top ten bestseller AFTER ANNA.A serial killer is stalking your home town.He has a type: all his victims look the same.And they all look like you.Kate returns from a post break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial...
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Perfect Little World: A Novel

Kevin Wilson · Ecco
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much of a head-case to help raise the child. Izzy...
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Night of Fire: A Novel

Colin Thubron · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants - including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon;...
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The Sleepwalker: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Doubleday
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire - the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night. When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker...
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No Man's Land: A Novel

Simon Tolkien · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme....
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

Plutarch. · W W Norton
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A brilliant new translation of five of history's greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt...
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Fever Dream: A Novel

Samanta Schweblin · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." - Vanity Fair"Genius." - Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together,...
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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth: A Novel

Lindsey Lee Johnson · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this captivating debut novel.The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local...
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Selection Day: A Novel

Aravind Adiga · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize­-winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming of age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves.Manjunath...
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The Road Ahead: Stories of the Forever War

Adrian Bonenberger · Pegasus Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A decade has passed since boots first hit the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the war has not ended -- only changed. Twenty-five diverse veteran voices reflect the changing face of combat and reflect the haunting realities and truths only fiction can reveal.These masterfully crafted...
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