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Us Against You: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times) , a heart-wrenching story...
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The Killing Habit: A Tom Thorne Novel

MARK BILLINGHAM · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn) , The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases. While DI Nicola...
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The Lost Family: A Novel

JENNA BLUM · Harper
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"I was spellbound from the start of The Lost Family. The writing is so smart and empathetic and I think what will stay with me the most are the characters, who on the surface embody glamour and verve, but who are in fact all striving to find happiness under a legacy of devastating...
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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

KATE ANDERSEN BROWER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world - the vice presidents of the modern era - from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents...
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Unti Dale Brown #14: A Novel

DALE BROWN · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

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Social Creature: A Novel

Tara Isabella Burton · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City.If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Louise Wilson is an expert at just barely...
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Brief Cases

Jim Butcher · Ace
Format: Hardcover

A new collection of previously published Dresden Files stories, including an ORIGINAL Dresden Files novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.Return to Chicago with a brand-new Dresden Files novella, plus other reader favorites featuring Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago...
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The President Is Missing

Bill Clinton · Little, Brown and Company and Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A sitting U.S. President is missing. President Bill Clinton partners with #1 bestselling author James Patterson in a powerful, one-of-a-kind thriller filled with the kind of insider details that only a President can know.
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Bloody Sunday

BEN COES · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series.North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal -- he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While...
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He

John Connolly · Quercus
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

John Connolly recreates the Golden Age of Hollywood in this moving, literary portrait of two men who found their true selves in a comedic partnership. When Stan Laurel was paired with Oliver Hardy, affectionately known as Babe, the history of comedy--not to mention their personal and professional...
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The Melody: A Novel

Jim Crace · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest, Quarantine, and Being Dead, a tender new novel about music, celebrity, local intrigue, and lost love--all set by the Mediterranean SeaAside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town...
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The Patchwork Bride

Sandra Dallas · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of A Quilt for Christmas comes the irrepressible story of a runaway bride. Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be - her granddaughter June - unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling...
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Before and Again

Barbara Delinsky · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, a brand-new novel about a woman in hiding finding the courage to face the world again.Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road for just a moment but the resulting collision was enough to rob her not only of her beloved...
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The Summer List: A Novel

Amy Mason Doan · Graydon House
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later - until the clues expose a breathtaking secret that just might shatter them once and for all.Laura and Casey were once inseparable: as they floated...
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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel

EMILY GIFFIN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Two very different families collide in the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, The One & Only, and First Comes Love. When scandal threatens your loved ones, how far would you go to protect them?Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying...
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The Perfect Couple

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. It's wedding season on Nantucket. The beautiful island is overrun with summer people--an annual source of aggravation for year-round...
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Jar of Hearts

Jennifer Hillier · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Jar of Hearts grabs you by the throat! The perfect blend of riveting characters, chilling details, and gasping twists in this standout thriller will keep you frantically reading until the explosive end." - Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Right Behind YouThis...
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The Word Is Murder

ANTHONY HOROWITZ · Random House Audiobooks; Unabridged edition edition
Format: Audiobook

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Providence: A Novel

Caroline Kepnes · Lenny
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive novel that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller - from the acclaimed author of You whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original" Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond so intense...
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Island of the Mad: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

LAURIE R KING · Bantam
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are back in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."Following the startling revelations of Mrs. Hudson's past and a commission of murder in the spring of 1925,...
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Tom Clancy Line of Sight

MIKE MADEN · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Jack Ryan Jr. finds that the scars of war can last a lifetime in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Twenty years ago, Dr. Kathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl who had been injured during an attack in the Balkan War. Today, her son, Jack Ryan...
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Bearskin: A Novel

James A McLaughlin · Ecco
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling - filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin's writing...
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Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

Joyce Carol Oates · Mysterious Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those...
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There There: A novel

Tommy Orange · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author...
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Bring Me Back: A Novel

B A PARIS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

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The Dante Chamber

MATTHEW PEARL · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From Mathew Pearl, the bestselling author of The Dante Club, a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murderThe year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around...
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The Pharaoh Key

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight.Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live,...
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The Moscow Deception: An International Spy Thriller

Karen Robards · Mira Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Clever, cunning and highly skilled--there's only one Bianca St. Ives and don't you dare forget it. Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does--the way her father trained her to--hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout...
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You Were Made for This

MICHELLE SACKS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship.Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect...
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The Secrets Between Us: A Novel

THRITY UMRIGAR · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar's beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel - a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path...
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The Madonna of the Mountains: A Novel

Elise Valmorbida · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An epic and inspiring novel about one woman's survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside, oppressed by both a patriarchal society and by Mussolini's iron-fist rule, but determined to protect her family throughout the war--by any means possible.A sweeping saga about womanhood,...
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When Life Gives You Lululemons

Lauren Weisberger · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada - Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who's just landed the client of a lifetime.Welcome...
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Dreams of Falling

KAREN WHITE · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night the Lights Went Out comes a stunning new novel.New York Times bestselling author Karen White crafts evocative relationships in this new contemporary women's fiction novel about best friends who share a devastating secret, set in the Lowcountry...
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Unti Susan Wiggs #3: A Novel

SUSAN WIGGS · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Beloved #1 New York Times-bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with her most powerful, moving, and sophisticated novel to date - an unforgettable story of unexpected love and unforeseen conflict.
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Untitled Stone Barrington #46

Stuart Woods · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Stone Barrington is back in action--and back in the line of fire--in the newest thriller from perennial fan favorite and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
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