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KATE ATKINSON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Life After Life, a new novel that explores the repercussions of one young woman's espionage work during World War IIJuliet Armstrong is a dissatisfied radio producer in a 1950s London that is recovering from the war as much as she is. During World War Two,...
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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

SARAH BIRD · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers."Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it."Missouri,...
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Abandoned: A Novel

Allison Brennan · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. In New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan's next installment, Max faces the most important--and most dangerous--mystery of her career.
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Texas Free

JANET DAILEY · Kensington
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

She's a woman with a burning need to break free from her past . . . Rose Landro is on the run. Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, she is finally ready to claim the land her granddaddy left her and make a fresh start. But her return is rife with controversy when cattle begin disappearing...
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A Willing Murder

Jude Deveraux · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Book

New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux makes her debut in the world of mystery with a story of old secrets, deadly grudges and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth regardless of the consequences ...

Sara Medlar is a household...

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Washington Black: A novel

Esi Edugyan · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados...
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Tear Me Apart

J. T. Ellison · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison's Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them.

One moment will change their lives forever ...

Competitive...
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In Pieces

Sally Field · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.
...
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America for Beginners: A Novel

LEAH FRANQUI · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendships...

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Leadership in Turbulent Times

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come...
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Button Men

ANDREW GROSS · Minotaur Books
Pages: 416
Format: Book

Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Gross's next historical thriller brings to life the drama of the birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City from the tale of one family. After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself...

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Dead Man Running

Steve Hamilton · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered.

On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs onto the security...

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Time's Convert

DEBORAH HARKNESS · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.

Set in contemporary Paris and London, and the American colonies during the upheaval and unrest that exploded into the Revolutionary War, a sweeping...
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Sea Prayer

KHALED HOSSEINI · Riverhead Books
Pages: 48
Format: Book

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people...

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Field of Bones

J.A. Jance · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Sheriff Joanna Brady's best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer in this chilling tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author...

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The Sapphire Widow: A Novel

DINAH JEFFERIES · Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, breathtaking story of love and betrayal from the internationally bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have...
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Depth of Winter: A Longmire Mystery

CRAIG JOHNSON · Viking
Format: Book

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson's latest mystery, Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious...

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Walking Shadows

Faye Kellerman · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.

On...

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Stygian: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Sherrilyn Kenyon · Tor Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us back to the astonishing world of the Dark-Hunters in Stygian, with a hero misunderstood by many ... but most of all by himself.

Born before man recorded time, I lived for thousands of years believing...

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When the Lights Go Out

Mary Kubica · Park Row
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A woman is plunged into a bizarre case of stolen identity in this ambitious and riveting thriller by the blockbuster bestselling author of The Good Girl, Mary Kubica

Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She rents a new apartment...
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An Unwanted Guest

SHARI LAPENA · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

A remote lodge in upstate New York is the perfect getaway . . . until the bodies start piling up.

It's winter in the Catskills and the weather outside is frightful, but Mitchell's Inn is so delightful! The cozy lodge nestled deep in the woods is perfect for a relaxing--maybe...

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The First Love

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

In the summer of 1952, eighteen-year-old Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with a debilitating illness, she is accustomed to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet no one but Jimmy Beiler...

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Run

John Lewis · Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Told in multiple parts, Run is the next chapter of civil rights history after the March saga, bringing to life the true story of John Lewis and many of his colleagues in the movement after the historic success of the Selma campaign. Days after the Voting Rights Act is signed...
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Lies

T M LOGAN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

What if you have the perfect life, the perfect wife and the perfect child -- then, in one shattering moment, you discover nothing is as it seems? Now you are in the sights of a ruthless killer determined to destroy everything you treasure.

"[T. M. Logan's Lies] is assured,...

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

BETH MACY · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover



From the New York Times bestselling author of Factory Man comes the only book to fully chart the opioid crisis in America-an unforgettable portrait of the families and first responders on the front lines.
In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's...
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The Winter Soldier

Daniel Mason · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

By the international bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a sweeping and unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War.

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across...
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Bury the Lead

ARCHER MAYOR · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Joe Gunther and the VBI team are investigating a murder and an arson case -- both potentially related to an outbreak of ebola.

When the dead body of a young woman is found near a trail at one of Vermont's popular ski mountains, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont...

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Safe and Sound

Fern Michaels · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Learning that a deceased former client's young prodigy son is being increasingly subjected to danger by greedy caregivers, Isabelle summons the Sisterhood to protect the boy and search for one of their own who has gone missing. By a #1 New York Times best-selling...

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In Her Bones: A Novel

Kate Moretti · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti's next "exceptional ... emotionally astute, [and] deliciously sinister" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) thriller follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who finds herself at the center of a murder investigation.

Fifteen...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

Heather Morris · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Book

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.

"The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary...

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John Woman

WALTER MOSLEY · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Book

A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor -- while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows.


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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series

As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly...

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A lush debut; Owens delivers her mystery wrapped in gorgeous, lyrical prose." --Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

How long can you protect your heart?

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted...
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Man of War: An Eric Steele Novel

SEAN PARNELL · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Fast, hard, and effortlessly authentic - both lead character Eric Steele and author Sean Parnell are the real deal." - Lee Child

"An exciting, action-packed debut! Bristling with intrigue, deceit, power, and treason - once you pick this book up, you will NOT be able...

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Juror #3

James Patterson · BookShots
Format: Audiobook

Juror #3 has a shocking secret.
Struggling young attorney Ruby Bozarth has landed the murder case of a lifetime. Her gut says he's innocent, but only a jury can decide. And this jury has a secret....




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The Man Who Came Uptown

GEORGE PELECANOS · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover


In bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos' thrilling new novel, an ex-con must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path

Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian,...
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Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Book

When a ransom exchange turns violent in the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, Commander William Monk faces an unthinkable possibility: betrayal by his own men.

Local businessman Harry Exeter doesn't want the aid of the Thames...

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Cross Her Heart: A Novel

Sarah Pinborough · HarperLuxe
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

"Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession." - Harlan Coben

The New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes returns with a twisty, hair-raising psychological thriller about a single mom, her daughter, and her best friend, the secrets they hide,...

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Leverage in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

J D ROBB · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Lieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Manhattan office building in the latest in the #1 New York Times bestselling series...

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The Labyrinth of the Spirits: A Novel

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON · Harper
Pages: 848
Format: Hardcover

The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale - a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work...
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Trust Me

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN · Forge
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Grief and deception are at the helm of Hank Phillippi Ryan's latest thriller, Trust Me, in which a crime writer and an accused criminal's lives collide, as they come to discover that no one can be trusted, not even oneself. The tension mounts at a blistering pace, while Ryan dazzles...
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Lake Success: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth in the long-awaited novel, his first in seven years, from the acclaimed, bestselling author...
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In His Father's Footsteps: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Book

In this powerful novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells the story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined...

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Spymaster: A Thriller

BRAD THOR · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series!

Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States,...

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A Forgotten Place

CHARLES TODD · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author.

The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that are still...

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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

One of Stylist Magazine's 20 Must-Read Books of 2018
One of Harper's Bazaar's 10 Must-Read Books of 2018
One of Marie Claire, Australia's 10 Books You Absolutely Have to Read in 2018

The Rules of Blackheath
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m.
There...

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The Glass Ocean: A Novel

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS · William Morrow
Pages: 416
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century - two deep in the past, one in the present - to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.

May...

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