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The Eulogist: A Novel

Terry Gamble · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American...
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The Plotters: A Novel

Un-su Kim · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the novelist dubbed "the Korean Henning Mankell" (The Guardian) comes a fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance. Perfect for fans of Han Kang and Patrick deWitt. Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous...
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The Weight of a Piano: A novel

Chris Cander · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin's The OrchardistA tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old...
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The Suspect

FIONA BARTON · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow and The Child returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense.When two British teenage girls go missing in Bangkok following a hostel fire, journalist Kate Waters is sent to follow the story. Despite the circumstances,...
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What Doesn't Kill Her

Christina Dodd · HQN
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which.1. I have the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military.3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet...
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That Churchill Woman: A Novel

STEPHANIE BARRON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm...
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The New Iberia Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

JAMES LEE BURKE · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from "modern master" (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke. Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled...
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Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery

Charles Martin · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 342
Format: Book

They have one summer to find what was lost long ago. "Never settle for less than the truth," she told him. But when you don't even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it's hard to see. It can even flourish inside a lie. And as Chase...
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Washington Black: A novel

Esi Edugyan · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar...
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Presidio: A Novel

Randy Kennedy · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being...
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Turning Point: A Novel

DANIELLE STEEL · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Turning Point is a riveting new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestsellers have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.
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Side by Side: A Novel of Bonnie and Clyde

JENNI L WALSH · Forge Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Someday they'll go down together / they'll bury them side by side. / To few it'll be grief / To the law a relief / But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde."The story of America's most infamous crime spree told in the raw and honest voice of the woman who lived...
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Sweet and Low: Stories

Nick White · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Praised by the Washington Post as "Tennessee Williams . . . transposed to the twenty-first-century South," Nick White returns with a stunning short-story collection that tackles issues of masculinity, identity, and place, with a sharp eye for social commentary and a singular handling...
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White Chrysanthemum

Mary Lynn Bracht · Random House Large Print
Pages: 535
Format: Paperback

In the spirit of Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply moving and redemptive debut that follows two sisters separated by World War II. Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea,...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDRE III DUBUS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel she cannot...
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The Half-Life of Everything: A Novel

Hoge Raad. · Bancroft Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

David and Kate are happily married fiftysomethings when she's diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. He has never been unfaithful, but after several years of losing Kate more each day, he wonders: What is a married widower supposed to do? Two strong-willed women intervene and everyone...
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The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel

KATE MORTON · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows....
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Killing Commendatore: A novel

HARUKI MURAKAMI · Knopf
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - and a stunning...
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The Dakota Winters: A Novel

Tom Barbash · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassinationIt's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend...
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

HAZEL GAYNOR · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years."They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary...
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How Are You Going to Save Yourself

J M HOLMES · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"JM Holmes is not just a new voice but a new force: honest, urgent, compelling, often hilarious, and more often gut-wrenching. Comparisons to Junot Díaz and Denis Johnson are perhaps inevitable, but I imagine they'll prove short-lived; in a few years we'll be comparing writers to JM Holmes."...
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Paid in Blood

WILLIAM W JOHNSTONE · Pinnacle
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now. From the bestselling chroniclers of the American West comes a riveting new chapter in the epic Buckhorn saga - the legendary adventures of a young gun-for-hire with Indian blood, a lightning-fast trigger, and his own special brand of justice...
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A Reason to Die

WILLIAM W JOHNSTONE · Pinnacle
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone - the explosive adventures of Perley Gates, who's carving out his own legacy in the violent American frontier . . . Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family...
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Right between the Eyes

WILLIAM W JOHNSTONE · Pinnacle
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now. A lawman with a past. A gunman with a grudge. A blood-soaked massacre just waiting to happen. Welcome back to Rattlesnake Wells, Wyoming . . . THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH In a wild frontier boomtown like Rattlesnake Wells, it's hard...
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