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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven

MITCH ALBOM · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie - the little girl he saved on earth - in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.Fifteen years ago, in Mitch...
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The Dead Ringer

M C BEATON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"The Agatha Raisin series is my guilty pleasure -- it's full of perfectly pitched interest, intrigue, and charm." -- Lee ChildThe church of St. Ethelred in the village of Thirk Magna is renowned for its team of bell-ringers, the troupe led by identical twins Mavis and Millicent...
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The Dream Daughter

DIANE CHAMBERLAIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Book

New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child.

When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl...

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Hippie

PAULO COELHO · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Book

If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you.
 
Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace...

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Dark Sacred Night

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

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets....
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War of the Wolf

Bernard Cornwell · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)—the basis of the hit Netflix television series The...

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Shadow Tyrants: Clive Cussler

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

Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group...

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Dark Sentinel

CHRISTINE FEEHAN · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns to her beloved Carpathian series for an enthralling new romance...

The vampire conspiracy uncovered in Dark Carousel continues to bring chaos and destruction, as the Carpathians gather in America...

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Red War

VINCE FLYNN · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia's gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO.

When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he's determined to cling to power. His first...
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The Fox

Frederick Forsyth · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A new and timely thriller from the legendary Frederick Forsyth, "truly the world's reigning master of suspense" (Los Angeles Times) .

The Fox is a riveting thriller that begins with separate disasters striking the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA. A massive...
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A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

THERESE ANNE FOWLER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family in as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.

Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into...

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The Witch Elm: A Novel

TANA FRENCH · Viking
Pages: 464
Format: Book

A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post)

From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent"...

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River to Redemption

ANN H GABHART · Revell
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

KENTUCKY SETTING. Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick...

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Leadership in Turbulent Times

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

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...

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The White Darkness

DAVID GRANN · Doubleday
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces...
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel

HANK GREEN · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Book

In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly...

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The Reckoning

John Grisham · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Book

New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi, to tell the story of an unthinkable murder and the bizarre trial that follows it, in this powerful new legal thriller.
 
Pete Banning was Clanton's...

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An Easy Death

Charlaine Harris · Saga Press
Pages: 320
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, True Blood, Midnight Crossing) delivers the first thriller in a new trilogy that presents a chilling alternate history of the United States where everyone believes in magic - but no one is sure...

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Welcome to Paradise

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


Spend the coldest days of winter on a Caribbean beach with New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.

Join New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand on the stunning beaches of St. John for the beginning of her thrilling new winter series-The Paradise....
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Vendetta

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new explosive, compelling thriller.

With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate:...

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Bathed in Prayer: Father Tim's Prayers, Sermons, and Reflections from the Mitford Series

JAN KARON · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A new must-have collection for fans of the New York Times bestselling Mitford series, featuring the prayers, sermons, and inspiration from beloved Father Tim, as well as new essays and reflections on faith from author Jan Karon.

Over the course of fourteen novels, millions...
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

MAXWELL KING · Abrams Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children...
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Elevation

STEPHEN KING · Scribner
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together - a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences.

Although Scott...
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When We Were Young: A Novel

KAREN KINGSBURY · Howard Books
Pages: 352
Format: Book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce.

From their first meeting, to their...

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Unsheltered: A Novel

BARBARA KINGSOLVER · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange...

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The Forbidden Door: A Jane Hawk Novel

Michelle Cliff · Bantam
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Jane Hawk--rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home in the explosive new thriller from Dean Koontz, bestselling author of The Silent Corner.

Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden...
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes a new book about the place hope holds in our lives.

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill...
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Alaskan Holiday: A Novel

DEBBIE MACOMBER · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting Christmas tale, set in the Alaskan wilderness, about finding love where it's least expected--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who's one of America's most beloved storytellers.

Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants,...
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Why Not Tonight

Susan Mallery · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Susan Mallery welcomes you to Happily Inc, where true love isn’t just for fairy tales…

Natalie Kaleta will do anything for the artists at her gallery, including risk life, limb and the effect of humidity on her naturally curly hair....

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Dragon's Code: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern

Gigi McCaffrey · Del Rey
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A new hero emerges in a divided world as one of sci-fi's most beloved series - Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern - relaunches with this original adventure from Anne's daughter, Gigi McCaffrey.

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Gigi does...
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Remembrance

MARY MONROE · Dafina
Pages: 304
Format: Book

In this moving, unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe, a successful, happily married mother suddenly finds herself feeling far from joyful. But Christmas brings an unexpected chance to rediscover herself, and what happiness really means . . .

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The Clockmaker's Daughter

KATE MORTON · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Book

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.

My real name, no one remembers.
The truth...

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Killing Commendatore: A novel

HARUKI MURAKAMI · Knopf
Pages: 608
Format: Book

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving...

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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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Shell Game: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

Sara Paretsky · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout - her most widely read novel in years - with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today's most powerful figures.

Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns...

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Ambush

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover


An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a set-up, taking an officer down-and it's not Michael Bennett.

The life of New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows,...
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A Spark of Light: A Novel

JODI PICOULT · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.

The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center - a women's reproductive...

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Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

Anne Rice · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Book

The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part fairy-tale--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead,...

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The Rain Watcher: A Novel

TATIANA DE ROSNAY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Overview
The Rain Watcher: A Novel by Tatiana de Rosnay
The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations,...

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Holy Ghost

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

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (BOOKLIST )

Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word "moribund" might have...
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Courtney's War

Wilbur Smith · Zaffre
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The brand new Courtney Series novel, and the much-anticipated sequel to the global bestseller WAR CRY

Paris, 1939.

Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives.

Gerhard - despite his objections...
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Every Breath

Nicholas Sparks · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Book

In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals...

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Reagan: An American Journey

Bob Spitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational.

More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable...
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Dracul

Dacre Stoker · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.

It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old...
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Book

An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse...

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Under My Skin

Lisa Unger · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Book

From New York Times bestselling author and master of suspense Lisa Unger comes an addictive psychological thriller about a woman on the hunt for her husband's killer

What if the nightmares are actually memories?

It's been a year since Poppy's husband,...

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Consumed

J R Ward · Gallery Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series comes a brand-new novel about arson investigator, Ann Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family's scorched legacy, and her current case: chasing a deadly killer.

Anne...
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Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

Reese Witherspoon · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.

Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother...

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Desperate Measures

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

Stone Barrington faces down danger on New York's mean streets in the latest thriller from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods.

Upon returning to the states from a European jaunt, Stone Barrington makes the acquaintance of a stunning woman who seems like...

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