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The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover

SUSAN WITTIG ALBERT · Presevero Press
Format: Hardcover

NYT bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Depression-era Darling, Alabama . . . where the ladies of the Dahlias, the local garden club, are happy to dig a little dirt! In the seventh book of this popular series, it looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop...
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High Tide Club

MARY KAY ANDREWS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Weekenders comes a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations.When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000...
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Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums....
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Blood Standard

Laird Barron · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with a novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw--a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald.Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's...
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Overkill: An Alex Hawke Novel

TED BELL · William Morrow
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

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If I Live

TERRI BLACKSTOCK · Zondervan
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Hunt is Almost OverCasey Cox is still on the run after being indicted for murder. The hunt that began with her bloody footprints escalates, and she's running out of places to hide. Her face is all over the news, and her disguises are no longer enough. It's only a matter of time before...
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The High Season: A Novel

Judy Blundell · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a beach town overrun with vacationers and newly colonized by socialites, one woman goes to extreme lengths when the life she loves is upended. The ultimate summer read, this novel of money, class, and family is perfect for fans of Meg Wolitzer, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Cynthia D'Aprix...
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Probable Claws: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

RITA MAE BROWN · Bantam
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with a new tale in their bestselling Mrs. Murphy series, as mysteries past and present converge in Albemarle County, Virginia. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her friends and animal companions pursue the threads...
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

JAMES COMEY · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions....
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The Gray Ghost

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The search for a legendary automobile almost puts an end to both the careers and the lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, in the thrilling new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling master of adventureIn 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray...
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The 49th Mystic

TED DEKKER · Revell
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams.They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah, a blind girl named Rachelle Matthews is about...
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Unti Frank #13

DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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The Summer I Met Jack: A Novel

Michelle Gable · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark - and the child they may have had.Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families...
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Fade to Black

Heather Graham · Mira Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Where dreams go to die... Starring in a cult TV show was a blessing for Marnie Davante, especially now that her former fame could support her future dream of starting a children's theater. So she'll work the convention circuit. But then a costar is brazenly murdered in front of her. With...
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The Dark Angel

ELLY GRIFFITHS · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway - "a captivating amateur sleuth" (Louise Penny) - and DCI Nelson investigate a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones. It's not every day that you're summoned to the Italian countryside...
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Charmed Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery

Carolyn Haines · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.Private detective Sarah Booth Delaney doesn't quite know what to expect when she's urgently called to a school board meeting for Sunflower County, Mississippi. But she certainly...
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Our Kind of Cruelty: A Novel

Araminta Hall · MCD
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short: I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line. " --Gillian FlynnThis is a love story. Mike's love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet,...
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Paper Ghosts: A Novel of Suspense

Julia Heaberlin · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia - and who may or may not be a serial killer - from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life - since she was twelve years old - for this...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

ZORA NEALE HURSTON · AMISTAD
Format: Hardcover

A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade - illegally smuggled...
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Robin

Dave Itzkoff · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning...
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Death Doesn't Bargain: A Deadman's Cross Novel

SHERRILYN KENYON · Tor Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Death Doesn't Bargain is the second historical fantasy title in New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's Deadman's Cross series. Where Deadmen tell their tales, and every soul is damned or redeemed by the final choices they make.The Deadmen are back ... But so are the demons...
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The Outsider

STEPHEN KING · Scribner
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably...
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To the Moon and Back: A Novel

KAREN KINGSBURY · Howard Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a brand-new love story in the Baxter Family collection about two people who long ago shared a childhood tragedy - two people desperate to find each other and the connection they once shared ... and just maybe a chance at love.Brady...
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The Favorite Sister

Jessica Knoll · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From Jessica Knoll - author of Luckiest Girl Alive, the instant New York Times bestseller and the bestselling debut novel of 2015 - comes a blisteringly paced thriller starring competitive sisters whose dark secrets and lies result in murder when they sign onto a reality TV show.When five...
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The Crooked Staircase: A Jane Hawk Novel

DEAN KOONTZ · Bantam
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Jane Hawk - who dazzled readers in The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room - faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime in this electrifying new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz. "I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse...
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How It Happened

Michael Koryta · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) , comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary...
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Gale Force

Owen Laukkanen · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For all lovers of maritime adventures, an electrifying thriller of treachery and peril on the high seas, featuring a dynamic new heroine, from the multi-award-nominated suspense star.In the high-stakes world of deep-sea salvage, an ocean disaster can mean a huge payoff--if you can survive...
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The Road Home

Beverly Lewis · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Lena Rose Schwartz hadn't planned to leave her Old Order community in Centerville, Michigan. But then, she could not have foreseen the accident that made her and her siblings orphans. After her parents' funeral, her younger brothers and sisters are farmed out to various nearby relatives....
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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional...
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Love and Ruin: A Novel

PAULA MCLAIN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn - a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937,...
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Truth or Dare

Fern Michaels · Zebra
Pages: 368
Format: eBook

The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . . When the call comes,...
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Beach House Reunion

MARY ALICE MONROE · Gallery Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Return to the heartwarming New York Times bestselling Beach House series by Mary Alice Monroe.
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The Crossing

Jason Mott · Park Row
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling dystopian novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Returned, the world is at war and two siblings are forced on the run, challenged to do whatever it takes to save themselves - and each other Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since...
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Macbeth

Jo Nesbo · Hogarth Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND THE THIRST Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream...
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Warlight: A novel

Michael Ondaatje · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their...
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

MICHAEL POLLAN · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research...
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The Other Lady Vanishes

AMANDA QUICK · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California where even the brightest razzle dazzle can't always hide the darkest secrets...New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick returns to the exclusive seaside community of Burning...
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Alternate Side: A Novel

Anna Quindlen · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood - and a seemingly happy marriage - are exposed by an unexpected act of violence in this provocative new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller's Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband,...
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Shelter in Place

ANONYMOUS. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes, there is nowhere safe to hide.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts -- a powerful tale of heart, heroism . . . and propulsive suspense.
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Calypso

David Sedaris · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

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The Cast: A Novel

DANIELLE STEEL · Delacorte Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel follows a talented and creative woman as she launches her first television series, helping to recruit an unforgettable cast that will bring a dramatic family saga to the screen. Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely...
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A Nantucket Wedding: A Novel

NANCY THAYER · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new romances are blooming--for better or for worse--in a standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer.It's summer on Nantucket and Alison is finally engaged to the love of her life....
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The Hellfire Club

JAKE TAPPER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The debut political thriller from Jake Tapper, CNN's chief Washington correspondent and the New York Times bestselling author of The Outpost-- 1950's D.C. intrigue about a secret society and a young Congressman in its gripCharlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family...
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Untitled Book 4

RUTH WARE · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel.On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes...
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