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Moonglow: A Novel

Michael Chabon · HarperCollins
Pages: 448
Format: Large print book

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh...
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The Flame Bearer

Bernard Cornwell · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Bernard Cornwell's epic story of the making of England continues in this tenth installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series - "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer) - the basis of the hit BBC America television series The Last Kingdom.<i>His blood is Saxon....
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The Fate of the Tearling

Erika Johansen · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

"Katniss Everdeen, you have competition." - Entertainment WeeklyThe thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen...
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Orphans of the carnival : a novel

Carol Birch · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the Booker short-listed author of Jamrach's Menagerie comes the extraordinary, moving, and unsettling tale of a woman, branded a freak from birth, who becomes an international sensation but longs for genuine human connection London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall,...
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Faithful: A Novel

Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 258
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night...
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Swing Time

Zadie Smith · Penguin Press
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black...
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Dying for Christmas: A Novel

Tammy Cohen · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A novel full of twists, surprising turns, and suspense, Dying for Christmas is Tammy Cohen's most disturbing psychological thriller yet. Out Christmas shopping one December afternoon, Jessica Gould meets the charming Dominic Lacey and impulsively agrees to go home with him for a drink....
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The Life She Wants

Robyn Carr · MIRA Books
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr brings together a poignant novel with a rich tapestry of characters. A moving story that will leave the reader laughing and crying, as two friends confront their pasts and move towards their futures.In the aftermath of her financier husband's...
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Field of Graves

J T Ellison · Mira Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

With FIELD OF GRAVES, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison goes back to where it all began ... All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer....
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Feedback

Mira Grant · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A new beginning for Mira Grant's "New York Times" bestselling NEWSFLESH series "There are two sides to every story... " We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving...
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The Boat Rocker: A Novel

Ha Jin · Pantheon Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age. New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely...
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The Eastern Shore

Ward S Just · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly) , this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never...
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The confectioner's tale : a novel of Paris

Laura Madeleine · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air. But it is not just the art of confectionery...
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Clamour of Crows

Raymond W Merritt · Permanent Press
Format: Print book

Clamour of Crows is a brilliantly crafted modern morality play that charts the life and curious death of the legendary entrepreneur Ben Baum, replete with mayhem, mystery and, perhaps, murder. The novel's reluctant protagonist, Jonathan Tucker, finds himself drawn into a maze of deception,...
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The Sport of Kings: A Novel

C E Morgan · Farrar
Pages: 545
Format: Print book

Hellsmouth, an indomitable Thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky s oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of raw obsession: to breed the next...
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Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel

Sabina Murray · Grove Press
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

Following her New York Times Editor's Choice collection of short stories Tales of the New World, historical fiction master Sabina Murray returns with an epic and bold novel of friendship and betrayal set across four continents and a 40-year time spanIn prose that is darkly humorous...
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Vegas Girls: A Novel

Heather Skyler · W W Norton
Pages: 348
Format: Print book

For Fans of Julia Glass and Ann Hood, a Novel about How the Choices We Make Last a LifetimeVegas Girls begins when three former high school friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their hometown of Las Vegas - a city they vowed to escape as soon as they could - to celebrate their...
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Family Tree: A Novel

Susan Wiggs · William Morrow
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past - and the promise of the future.Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like...
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Stolen horses

Bill Brooks · Five Star Publishing
Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First edition

Stolen Horses
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A Question of Mercy: A Novel

Elizabeth Cox · University of South Carolina Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police. Jess's odyssey...
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The Senility of Vladimir P.: A Novel

Michael Honig · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A biting satire of a particular despot and a deeply humane allegory of the fragility of goodness and the contagion of unchecked power. Set twenty-odd years from now, it opens on Patient Number One -- Vladimir Putin, largely forgotten in his presidential dacha, serviced by a small coterie...
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A Week in Paris: A Novel

Rachel Hore · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 317
Format: eBook

The City of Light hides a dark past...When talented young violinist Fay Knox arrives in Paris from England, the city feels familiar to her. But not because Fay has visited Paris before. Back home, she finds an old canvas bag with a mysterious luggage tag hidden in her mother's old trunk,...
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IQ

Joe Ide · Mulholland Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood...
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Mistletoe murder : and other stories

P D James · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed...
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The Lesser Bohemians: A Novel

Eimear Mcbride · Hogarth Pr
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The breathtaking new novel from Eimear McBride, about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affairEimear McBride's debut novel A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING was published in 2013 to an avalanche of praise: nominated for a host of literary awards, winner of the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction...
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Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition

Alan Moore · DC Comics; Deluxe edition
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPresented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Bolland, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. According...
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The Last Days of Night: A Novel

Graham Moore · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America - from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and author of The SherlockianSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING...
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Liar's Key

Carla Neggers · Mira Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed and murder in the eagerly awaited new novel in the highly acclaimed Sharpe & Donovan series Emma Sharpe is suspicious when...
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Commonwealth.

Ann Patchett · Harper
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows...
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A Christmas Message: A Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In the spirit of the season, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry presents readers with the gift of another holiday mystery, taking them to the Holy Land for an intriguing and miraculous journey of discovery. The year is 1900, and Victor Narraway is giving his wife, Vespasia,...
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Small Great Things: A Novel

Jodi Picoult · Ballantine Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. "[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking...
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The Award: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

Capturing historical events, terrifying moments of danger, tragedy, the price of war, and the invincible spirit of a woman of honor, The Award is a monumental tale from one of our most gifted storytellers - Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally resonant novel yet. Gaelle de Barbet...
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Mislaid: A Novel

Nell Zink · Ecco Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice - the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper - about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire.Stillwater...
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