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In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

ISABEL ALLENDE · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent...
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How the Finch Stole Christmas!: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

As in her previous Christmas mysteries, Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, Andrews continues to write “firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie’s Christmas books” (Toronto...

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Tell Tale: Short Stories

JEFFREY ARCHER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Book

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries...

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The Witches' Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery

M. C. Beaton · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The Witches’ Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.

Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory...

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The Relive Box and Other Stories

T C BOYLE · Ecco Press
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

05/15/2017
The author of a string of well-regarded novels, including the Pen Faulkner Award winner World's End, Boyle has written more than 100 stories and won the 2014 Rea Award...

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Origin

ANONYMOUS. · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's...
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Crazy Like a Fox: A Novel

RITA MAE BROWN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

"Sister" Jane Arnold returns in a mystery full of colorful characters (both two- and four-legged!) , gorgeous country landscapes, timeless traditions, and the breathtaking thrill of the hunt.
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The Summer That Made Us

Robyn Carr · MIRA
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins—they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past,...

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The Last Ballad: A Novel

WILEY CASH · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina...

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The Stolen Marriage

Diane Chamberlain · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent.

One mistake,...

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Grant

RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 928
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically...
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Untitled Memoir

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Hillary Clinton's new book of essays of stories from her life, up to and including her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign, has been inspired by the hundreds of quotations she has been collecting for decades:

"These are the words I live by. These quotes have helped...
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Two Kinds of Truth

MICHAEL CONNELLY · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered....
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The Last Mrs. Parrish

LIV Constantine · HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook

Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve.Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes...
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Enigma

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by New York Times #1 bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot,...
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The Cuban Affair

NELSON DEMILLE · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character - US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail...
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Manhattan Beach: A Novel

Jennifer Egan · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival...
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Fresh Complaint: Stories

JEFFREY EUGENIDES · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown that he is an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, sexual identity, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be an American...

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Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel

JAMIE FORD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about an orphan boy whose life is transformed when he is raffled off at Seattle's 1909 World Fair.
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Pulse

FELIX FRANCIS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Book

New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis is back in the newest thrilling adventure in the Dick Francis tradition.

A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently...

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Doomed Legacy

Heather Graham · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Nevermore ...

Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston and Special Agent Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to their new home in Virginia and stop for a visit in Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a popular author is found dead in the basement...

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Winter Solstice

ELIN HILDERBRAND · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover


Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn.

It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing...
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Strange Weather: Four Short Novels

JOE HILL · William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.

"One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine) , Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary...

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The Rules of Magic

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

From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.

Find your magic.

For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.

Hundreds...
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Righteous

JOE IDE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover



Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client) . But something is wrong: the death...
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Mind Game

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A down-on-his-luck Hollywood director's actress wife is taken over by a Scientology-like mind game cult called Transformationalism. She disappears into the bowels of Transformationalism. He's determined to rescue her, to the point where pretends to be taken over too. Is he or isn't he? As he delves...
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The Trouble with Twelfth Grave

DARYNDA JONES · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the twelfth installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling paranormal series, The Trouble with Twelfth Grave.

Ever since Reyes Farrow escaped from a hell dimension in which Charley Davidson...

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Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded...
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Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

Gregory Maguire · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Book

In this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves...

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Second Chance Girl

Susan Mallery · HQN Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A touching modern fairy tale that won't let go of your heart, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fool's Gold romances!

Mathias Mitchell's easy smile hides a world of hurt. After the worst kind of family betrayal, he moved to Happily Inc.,...

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Revolutionary War as never told before.

The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George...

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An Echo of Murder: A William Monk Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques - lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry.

In the course of his tenure...
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Deep Freeze

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series

Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated...
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Fairytale: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Fairytale is the captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestsellers have made her one of America's most beloved storytellers.
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Heather, the Totality

MATTHEW WEINER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A collision course between a privileged family and a dangerous young man, Heather, The Totality is a chilling debut novel by the creator of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner.
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Lilac Lane

Sherryl Woods · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

No one writes about friends, family and home better than Sherryl Woods. Told with warmth and humor, Lilac Lane is a brand-new story in her beloved Chesapeake Shores series, one readers all over the world have waited two years to read!

At the heart of Lilac Lane is Keira Malone,...

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Quick & Dirty

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington returns in the action-packed new adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.

Stone Barrington is the master of keeping calm and collected under fire, but his latest case will challenge even his tireless aplomb. . .
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