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Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

Sara Ackerman · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

When her husband mysteriously disappears and rumors swirl about his loyalties, a mother must rely on the remarkable power of friendship in war-torn HawaiiIt's 1944, combat in the Pacific is intensifying, and Violet Iverson and her daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives back together one year...
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This Fallen Prey

Kelley Armstrong · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In This Fallen Prey, the next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's thriller series, Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet.When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven...
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The Atomic City Girls: A Novel

Janet Beard · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II."What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."In November 1944, eighteen-year-old...
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Death of an Honest Man

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.DEATH OF AN HONEST MANNobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English....
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The Deceivers

Alex Berenson · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

The Russians don't just want to influence American elections--they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling author Alex Berenson goes beyond today's headlines to tomorrow's all-too-real threats.It was supposed to be a terrorist...
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The Undertaker's Daughter

Sara Blædel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A new thrilling suspense novel from #1 international bestselling author Sara Blaedel, author of THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS"One of the best I've come across." -Michael Connelly"Sara Blaedel is a force to be reckoned with. She's a remarkable crime writer who time and again delivers...
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A Long Way from Home: A novel

Peter Carey · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial.Irene...
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The House of Impossible Beauties

Joseph Cassara · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"Exceptional...The writing is erotically luscious, lyrically intense, forthrightly in your face, and pitch-perfect in the dialog." -- Library Journal, STARRED REVIEWA gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene...
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The Storm King: A Novel

BRENDAN DUFFY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, atmospheric novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben. Burying the past only gives it strength - and fury. Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most...
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The Woman in the Water

Charles Finch · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This chilling new mystery in the New York Times bestselling series by Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox's very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London's most brilliant detectives.London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox...
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Look for Me

LISA GARDNER · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner's latest twisty thrill ride, Detective D. D. Warren and Find Her's Flora Dane return in a race against the clock to either save a young girl's life . . . or bring her to justice.The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four...
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Agent in Place

Mark Greaney · Berkley
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novelsCourt Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress...
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A Death in Live Oak: A Jack Swyteck Novel

James Grippando · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

James Grippando delivers his most explosive and riveting suspense novel yet: a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today's headlines, in which Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged with a heinous racial crime - the first...
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Promise: A Novel

MINROSE GWIN · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful...
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How to Stop Time

MATT HAIG · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"The first rule is that you don't fall in love,' he said ... 'There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.'"A love story across the ages - and for the ages...
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The Great Alone

NOT AVAILABLE. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Alaska, 1974.Untamed.Unpredictable.And for a family in crisis, the ultimate test of the human spirit. From the author who brought you the phenomenon of The Nightingale.
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Force of Nature: A Novel

JANE HARPER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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The Hush

JOHN HART · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Set in the world of his most beloved novel The Last Child ("A magnificent creation" -- The Washington Post) , John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen.It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown...
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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could...
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Night Moves: An Alex Delaware Novel

JONATHAN KELLERMAN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The new book in the #1 bestselling suspense series starring psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis.An affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner only to find the murdered and brutalized corpse of a total stranger in their house. This baffling, twisted tale tests Alex...
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Surprise Me: A Novel

SOPHIE KINSELLA · The Dial Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

#1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged new standalone novel about marriage and family, and how those we love and know best can sometimes surprise us the most.After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they...
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Robert B. Parker's Buckskin

ROBERT KNOTT · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times bestselling series.After Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's vacant...
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The Last Death Penalty: A Novel

John Lescroart · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart comes a dramatic family drama in which attorney Dismas Hardy is called on to defend a former client against the accusation of murder.Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing...
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Sunburn: A Novel

LAURA LIPPMAN · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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Sisters Like Us

Susan Mallery · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

The grass is always greener on your sister's side of the fence ... Divorce left Harper Szymanski with a name no one can spell, a house she can't afford and a teenage daughter who's pulling away. With her fledgling virtual-assistant business, she's scrambling to maintain her overbearing...
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Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition

David Mamet · Custom House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Jackie Weiss, Mike Hodge wrote, had died of a broken heart, it being broken by several slugs from a .45 . . .From his perch at the Chicago Tribune, Mike Hodge - scarred veteran of the Great War - had gotten to know the underbelly of the metropolis like few others. Politicians, gangsters,...
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The One

John Marrs · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

How far would you go to find THE ONE? One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate...
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The Kremlin's Candidate

Jason Matthews · Scribner
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova has been a recruited asset of the CIA, stealing Kremlin secrets for her CIA handler Nate Nash for over seven years. In the dazzling finale to the Red Sparrow Trilogy - which will be published right before the release of Red Sparrow,...
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As Bright as Heaven

Susan Meissner · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even...
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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief,...
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Only Child: A novel

Rhiannon Navin · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Room and The Girls, a dazzling, tenderhearted debut about healing, family, and the exquisite wisdom of children, narrated by a six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts, and the quietest voices speak the loudest."Only...
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Maggie O'Farrell · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie...
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Beautiful Days: Stories

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters...
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Girl Unknown

Karen Perry · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

How quickly could the family we have created for ourselves unravel -- and how far will we go to protect it?David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage's middle years -- raising two children; overseeing care for David's ailing mother; leaning into their careers,...
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

Lauren Slater · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With...
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The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval...
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The Gatekeeper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

CHARLES TODD · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York...
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We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories

Stephanie Powell Watts · Ecco
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their controlThe ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that...
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Rosie Colored Glasses: A Novel

Brianna Wolfson · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

SHE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH ROSIE COLORED GLASSES ... Rosie Collins makes everything dazzle. She's magnetic. Rex Thorpe is serious and unsentimental. Yet when the two meet, Rex is swept up in Rosie's manic tornado of love. But just as opposites attract, they also cause friction. Rosie is illuminating,...
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