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Joe Hill · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.

A...

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Cilka's Journey

Heather Morris · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, comes the new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience.

"She was the bravest person I ever met." -- Lale Sokolov on Cilka Klein, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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The Furies: A Novel

Katie Lowe
Format: Hardcover


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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · Flatiron Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.

Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands...

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Letters from an Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The natural follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind...
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To the Land of Long Lost Friends: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual.Mma Ramotswe reconnects with an old friend who has been having problems...
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Let It Snow: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket shopkeeper discovers that Christmas is the perfect occasion to make unexpected friendships, to warm the coldest of hearts--and maybe even to find love.Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating...
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Normal People: A Novel

Sally Rooney · Hogarth
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football...
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Where We Come From: A novel

Oscar Casares · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican American family in Brownsville, Texas, who reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States

From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican...
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You, Me, and the Sea: A Novel

Meg Donohue · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the USA Today bestselling author of All the Summer Girls and Dog Crazy comes a spellbinding and suspenseful tale inspired by Wuthering Heights that illuminates the ways in which hope - and even magic - can blossom in the darkest of places.To find her way, she must abandon everything...
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All the Forgivenesses

Elizabeth Hardinger · A John Scognamiglio Book
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selection

Set in Appalachia and the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, this exquisite debut novel paints an intimately rendered portrait of one resilient farm family's challenges and hard-won triumphs - helmed by an unforgettable...
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Headlong

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Bill Slider and his team investigate the death of a prominent literary agent in this intriguing contemporary mystery.When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from...
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Good Riddance

ELINOR LIPMAN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results.

Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held...
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So Much Life Left Over: A Novel

LOUIS DE BERNIERES · Pantheon
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two world wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I.

They...
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Patsy: A Novel

Nicole Dennis-Benn · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From nationally celebrated novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn, a brave, stirring portrait of a Jamaican woman who leaves her daughter behind for a new life in America.

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it's the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely,...
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A Terrible Country: A Novel

KEITH GESSEN · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A cause for celebration: big-hearted, witty, warm, compulsively readable, earnest, funny, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers." - George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo

A literary triumph...
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The Institute: A Novel

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It - publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters.

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street...
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The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel

Kirsty Manning · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"Kristy Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel." - Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A gripping historical novel...

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The World That We Knew: A Novel

Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.

In Berlin, at the time when...
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The Golden House: A Novel

SALMAN RUSHDIE · Random House
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture - a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities

On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign...
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Chances Are . . .: A novel

Richard Russo · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
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