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You Will Know Me: A Novel

Megan Abbott · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: eBook

The audacious new novel from bestselling author Megan Abbott, "one of the best living mystery writers" (Grantland) . Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks...
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Chance Developments: Stories

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From one of our most beloved authors - and in the style of his Trains and Lovers - comes a new collection of thematically linked short stories on the subjects of love and art, each one inspired by an intriguing old photograph. While gathering material for a photography book about Edinburgh,...
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Chance Developments: Stories

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From one of our most beloved authors - and in the style of his Trains and Lovers - comes a new collection of thematically linked short stories on the subjects of love and art, each one inspired by an intriguing old photograph. While gathering material for a photography book about Edinburgh,...
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All the Time in the World: A Novel

Caroline Angell · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

For fans of Jojo Moyes and Jonathan Tropper, an unforgettable debut about a young woman's choice between the future she's always imagined and the people she's come to love.Charlotte, a gifted and superbly trained young musician, has been blindsided by a shocking betrayal in her promising...
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The Innocents

Ace Atkins · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The extraordinary new novel in the New York Times-bestselling author's acclaimed series about the real Deep South - "a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post) . She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle...
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The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel

Catherine Banner · Random House
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy - combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry works of Isabel Allende. Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten,...
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The Perfect Mistress

ReShonda Tate Billingsley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The daughter of an adulterous father deals with the long-rippling effects of his actions in her own love life in this emotionally powerful novel by award-winning and national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley.Lauren Robinson knows exactly what it takes to be the perfect mistress....
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The Light of Paris

Eleanor Brown · Putnam
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The miraculous new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. Madeleine is trapped - by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears - in an unhappy marriage...
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Tall Tail: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia - uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. TALL TAIL At any moment...
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The Muse: A Novel

Jessie Burton · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women - a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain - and the powerful mystery that links them togetherJuly 1967, Mayfair, London - a painting left...
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Among the Wicked: A Kate Burkholder Novel

Linda Castillo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English"...
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As Time Goes By

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

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A Time of Torment: A Charlie Parker Thriller

John Connolly · Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community.Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings,...
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The Course of Love: A Novel

Alain De Botton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The long-awaited and beguiling second novel from Alain de Botton that tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership, from the internationally bestselling author of On Love and How Proust Can Change Your Life.We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love....
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Lost Along the Way: A Novel

Erin Duffy · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A fresh, funny, and insightful novel about what it really means to be "friends forever" from the acclaimed author of Bond Girl and On the Rocks.All through childhood and adolescence, Jane, Cara, and Meg swore their friendship would stand the test of time. Nothing would come between...
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Champion of the World

Chad Dundas · Putnam
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of wrestling in the 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value. Late summer, 1921: Disgraced former lightweight champion Pepper Van Dean...
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The Sunlight Pilgrims: A Novel

Jenni Fagan · Hogarth Pr
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The stunning new novel from the highly-acclaimed author of The PanopticonIt's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just...
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Killer Look

Linda Fairstein · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein delivers a heart-pounding thriller that explores the dark secrets of New York City's Garment District - and centering on its infamous Fashion Week - in her eighteenth Alexandra Cooper novel.New York City is known for its glamour, and nowhere...
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Absalom's Daughters: A Novel

Suzanne Feldman · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Two half-sisters, one black and one white, embark on a risky road trip through the 1950s Jim Crow South in this spellbinding story of identity and raceSelf-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith...
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Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

Julian Fellowes · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is people by a rich cast...
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One Less Problem Without You

Beth Harbison · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

To Lissa Thomas, majoring in business administration seemed like a practical and stable life path...until she tried to find a job after graduation. Desperate, Lissa finds herself working as the office/business manager for M Street Apothecary, a metaphysical store selling cards, crystals,...
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Troublemaker

Linda Howard · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Book

A thrilling, fast-paced novel of romantic suspense from sensational New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard.

For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed,...

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Night and Day

Iris Johansen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target. It will take everything...
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The Wolf Road: A Novel

Beth Lewis · Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

True Grit meets The Road in this postapocalyptic psychological thriller--narrated by a young girl who has just learned that her adopted father may be a serial killer, and that she may be his next victim.

Everything Elka knows of the world she learned from the man she calls...
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Make Me Love You

Johanna Lindsey · Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey delivers a sparkling, passionate tale of an earl's daughter who must convince a mysterious viscount to marry her and end his vendetta against her brother.

One duel could be considered a matter of honor, but three duels are attempted...
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Another One Goes Tonight

Peter Lovesey · Soho, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Two police officers are about to head home after a long night shift when they receive one last call: a suspicious nude person has been spotted in the wee hours of the morning. En route to the call, the patrol car spins off the road, killing one of the exhausted cops instantly and leaving...
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Arrowood: A Novel

Laura McHugh · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A dark, gripping novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a mysterious kidnapping and the ways in which our lives are shaped by the stories we create about our past

Arrowood is the most ornate and beautiful of the grand historical houses that line...
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The Long Drop

Denise Mina · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book


A standalone psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels that exposes the dark hearts of the guilty...and the innocent.
The "trial of the century" in 1950's Glasgow is over. Peter Manuel has been found guilty of a string of murders...
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Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty · Flatiron Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The new book by #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty, one of today's fastest growing franchise authors.

Immensely popular and utterly singular, Liane Moriarty's novels consistently feature spot-on observations about contemporary life, irresistible humor,...

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Someone Always Knows

Marcia Muller · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a...
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This Must Be the Place: A novel

Maggie O'Farrell · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

An irresistible love story for fans of The Beautiful Ruins and Where'd You Go, Bernadette: Maggie O'Farrell's This Must Be the Place is a smart, sophisticated, spellbinding summer read that captures the collapse--and reawakening--of an extraordinary marriage....
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The Last One: A Novel

Alexandra Oliva · Ballantine
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

For readers of Station Eleven and The Passage comes a dazzling and unsettling novel of psychological suspense. In Alexandra Oliva's thrilling fiction debut, survival is the name of the game, as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself - and one woman's mind...
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Baby Doll

Hollie Overton · Redhook
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, BABY DOLL is the most tense thriller you will read this year.

Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their...
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Defender

Diana Palmer · Harlequin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The man who shattered her trust is back to protect her ... New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer delivers a breathtaking story of second-chance love.

When Paul Fiore disappeared from Isabel Grayling's life, he told himself it was for all the right reasons. She was young...
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White Bone

Ridley Pearson · Putnam
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable duo of the Risk Agent novels, team up again in the latest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson.

When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning...
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The Secret Language of Stones: A Novel

M J Rose · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Rose's "brilliantly crafted" (Providence Journal)...
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Outfoxed

David Rosenfelt · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them...
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Jonathan Unleashed: A Novel

Meg Rosoff · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Meg Rosoff's charming, hilarious new novel about a young New Yorker's search for happiness and the two dogs who help him find it - the perfect summer read

Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship...
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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said...
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The Black Widow

Daniel Silva · Harpercollins
Pages: 464
Format: Book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon

Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with eighteen thoughtful and gripping...

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Magic: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Magic is the mesmerizing new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's most beloved writers.
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Sarong Party Girls: A Novel

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

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Ghosts of War

Brad Taylor · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

World War is on the horizon in New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor's tenth heart-pounding Pike Logan thriller.

The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now,...
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Ink and Bone: A Novel

Lisa Unger · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance.

Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people...
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All Is Not Forgotten

Wendy Walker · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect.

Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault....

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The Angels' Share: A Bourbon Kings Novel

J R Ward · Penguin Books, 2016.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series - a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a façade of privilege and prosperity, while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation ...
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The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin Ten, an equally suspenseful and haunting psychological thriller.
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Miss Jane: A Novel

Brad Watson · W W Norton
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral.

Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog- Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South, in work as melancholy,...

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Flight Patterns

Karen White · New American Library
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Glass and coauthor of The Forgotten Room tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind - and to the woman she always wanted to be...

Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting...
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Underground Airlines

Ben H Winters · Mulholland Books/Little
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred.
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Dishonorable Intentions

Stuart Woods · Putnam
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington gains an adversary that he can't seem to shake in the electrifying new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

Stone Barrington's latest lady friend is full of surprises, both good and ill. A sensual woman with unexpected desires,...
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Dancing with the Tiger

Lili Wright · Putnam
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

When 30-year-old Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca. Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her unfaithful fiancé, a museum curator, Anna hurls...
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The Lost Girls: A Novel

Heather Young · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

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