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Invincible Summer

Alice Adams · Little, Brown, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey.Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate in 1998, into a world on the brink of the new millennium. Hopelessly in love with playboy Lucien and keen to shrug off the socialist politics of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work at a big bank....
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The Charmers

Elizabeth Adler · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Mirabella Matthews' Aunt Jolly died unexpectedly and mysteriously, and as a result, Mirabella has inherited her villa in the South of France. Driving on the way from the train with Verity, the young woman she picked up along the way, Mirabella is run off the road by a motorcycle...and she soon...
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Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel

Fredrik Backman · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry returns with an irresistible novel about finding love and second chances in the most unlikely of places.Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable...
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The Noise of Time: A novel

Julian Barnes · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

"A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure,...
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Fatal Thunder

Larry Bond · Forge, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

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The Cavendon Luck

Barbara Taylor Bradford · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The Cavendon Luck picks up nine years after Cavendon Women in July of 1938. Cecily and Miles, with the help of the whole family, have brought the family and the estate back from the brink of disaster. But now, with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge...
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The Girls: A Novel

Emma Cline · Random House, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Girls - their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong - are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer,...
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The Courtship Basket

Amy Clipston · Zondervan
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Years ago, a picnic basket brought two hearts together. For Rachel and Mike, history may be about to repeat itself. Rachel Fisher is devastated when the young man she's loved for years leaves her to date her best friend. Her heart is broken, and she has all but given up on love. Rachel...
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First Strike

Ben Coes · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A violent, radical Islamic group, Muslim Dawn, has launched a major military campaign to take over southern Iraq. But as they commit more and more public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up. However, their charismatic leader, Tristan Isolda, has a major card left to play,...
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Dominion: The Chronicles of the Invaders

John Connolly · Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic sci-fi with rich, character-driven plot, as Paul and Syl fight to save Earth from an enemy who is closer than ever.Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have...
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The Emperor's Revenge

Clive Cussler · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back,...
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Widowmaker: A Novel

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

After a mysterious woman gives Mike Bowditch disturbing news, the game warden goes looking for a family secret in a Maine ski town and discovers a vigilante who seems to be targeting sex offenders.
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The Pursuit: A Fox and O'Hare Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again for the fifth book in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series!
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Guilty Minds

Joseph Finder · Dutton, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating thriller featuring fan favorite Nick Heller. Nick Heller is a private spy - a private intelligence operative, based in Boston, hired by lawyers and politicians and even foreign governments. A veteran of the war in Iraq,...
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All Summer Long: A Novel

Dorothea Benton Frank · William Morrow, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

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A Hero of France: A Novel

Alan Furst · Random House, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as "the best in the business," comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.
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First Comes Love: A Novel

Emily Giffin · Ballantine, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In a dazzling, delightful new novel that's quintessential Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only introduces a pair of thirty-something sisters who find themselves asking: If love, marriage, and children don't...
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Haunted Destiny

Heather Graham · Mira Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham will be available May 31, 2016. Preorder your copy today!
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If I Forget You

Thomas Christopher Greene · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Book

Two former lovers reconnect in this beautiful and haunting tale of great lost love from the critically acclaimed author of The Headmaster's Wife

Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife was a breakout book for Thomas...

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Homegoing: A novel

Yaa Gyasi · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.

Two half sisters,...
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Crimson Death: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K Hamilton · Berkley Pub Group, 2016.
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

The 25th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel - from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

"Hamilton is still thrilling fans...with her amazing multifaceted characters and intricate multilayered world, a mix of erotic romance, crime-drama, and paranormal/fantasy...
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Brighton: A Novel

Michael Harvey · Ecco Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

An extraordinary thriller - gripping, haunting, and marvelously told - about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.

"You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta...

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Here's to Us

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


An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it.

Celebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life....
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We Could Be Beautiful: A Novel

Swan Huntley · Doubleday, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything - and yet can trust no one.

Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment,...
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The Girls: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books, 2016. ©2015
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Lisa Jewell's characters are so real that I finish every book half-expecting to bump into one of them. Modern, complex, intuitive, she just goes from strength to strength." - Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of After You

Imagine that you live...
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The Curse of Tenth Grave

Darynda Jones · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do I get gum out of my sister's hair before she wakes up? But, "How do I trap not one god, but three?"...

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Born of legend.

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

"It's official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?"

Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend...

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End of watch : a novel

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers - In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly...
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Marrying Winterborne

Lisa Kleypas · Avon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author LISA KLEYPAS is beloved by millions for romances rich in wit, emotion, and sensuality. In her stunning new novel, one of the realm's most powerful men meets his match - in his lovely, innocent new wife.

A ruthless tycoon Savage ambition has brought...

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Collecting the Dead

Spencer Kope · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly needed, he works as a tracker. The media dubs him "The Human Bloodhound," since Steps is renowned for his incredible...

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The Book of Harlan

Bernice L. McFadden · Akashic Books, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"During WWII, two African-American musicians are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp, in the latest from the author of Sugar and Loving Donovan."
--Publishers Weekly, Spring 2016 Announcements

Praise...
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I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

Terry Mcmillan · Crown, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

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The Space Between Sisters: A Butternut Lake Novel

Mary McNear · HarperCollins
Pages: 384
Format: eBook

Return to Butternut Lake with New York Times bestselling author Mary McNear in a story where the complicated bonds of sisterhood are tested, long-kept secrets are revealed, and love is discovered ... all during one unforgettable summer at the lake.

They are two sisters who couldn't...

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The House of Secrets

Brad Meltzer · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with the first book in an entirely new series.
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Every Woman's Dream

Mary Monroe · Dafina
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Not all wishes should come true.

Master storyteller Mary Monroe begins her Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart series with a page-turning tale of seduction and shocking surprises, as two unhappy women fulfill their every erotic dream - and find a desire that kills ...
...
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The Unseen World: A Novel

Liz Moore · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A heartbreaking and moving story about a daughter's quest to discover the truth about her father's hidden past.

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, she accompanies her loving father -- brilliant, eccentric,...

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Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.

Picking up where Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins finds his life in transition. He's ready to - finally - propose...
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The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror

Joyce Carol Oates · Mysterious Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories.

In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows...
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Forgive Me

Daniel Palmer · Kensington Pub Corp, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In a heart-pounding thriller from one of the most innovative voices in contemporary suspense, a woman unravels the shocking truth about her parents, her past, and a life built upon an unthinkable lie.

At DeRose & Associates Private Investigators in Virginia, Angie DeRose strives...
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Mercy

Daniel Palmer · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming...
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Private Rio

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Don't let the beautiful beaches of Rio fool you--these games are deadly.

Two years ago Jack Morgan--the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private--was in charge of security for the World Cup. During the championship match, the action nearly spilled from the field...
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What We Become: A Novel

Arturo Perez-Reverte · Atria Books, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

#1 bestselling author and Dagger Award winner Arturo Pérez-Reverte delivers an epic historical tale following the dangerous and passionate love affair between a beautiful high society woman and an elegant thief. A story of romance, adventure, and espionage, this novel solidifies Pérez-Reverte...
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The Long Cosmos: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: "Join...

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Barkskins: A Novel

Annie Proulx · Scribner, 2016.
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing - an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness and destroying the forest,...
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

You will be scared. But you won't know why ...

In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. What follows is a twisted unraveling and an unforgettable ending that will haunt you long after the last...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat,...
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A Sinful Calling

Kimberla Lawson Roby · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married a woman named Raven, decided he was going to become a minister and then founded a church right in the center of his living room. Today he's pastor of an 1000-plus-member...
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Lily and the Octopus

Steven Rowley · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, Lily and the Octopus is an epic adventure of the heart.

When you sit down with Lily and the Octopus, you will be taken on an unforgettable ride.
...
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Everybody's fool.

Richard Russo · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success.

The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some...
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They May Not Mean To, but They Do: A Novel

Cathleen Schine · Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally...

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The Far Empty

J Todd Scott · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"J. Todd Scott's The Far Empty is so good I wish I'd written it. The poetic and bloody ground of west Texas has given birth to a powerful new voice in contemporary western crime fiction." - Craig Johnson, New York Times-bestselling author of the Walt Longmire...
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

Lionel Shriver · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin centres on three generations of The Mandible family as a fiscal crisis hits a near-future America It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old...
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The Apartment: A Novel

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

The Apartment is the captivating 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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The Crow Girl: A novel

Erik Axl Sund · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 784
Format: Print book

A NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER

The newest crime novel sensation: In this shocking and suspenseful psychological thriller, a police detective must confront a hideous evil that forces her to question how much suffering one person can inflict upon another before creating...
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The Island House: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Soak up the sun with this delightful novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer! Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Courtney has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established university professor, she finds herself...
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Foreign Agent: A Thriller

Brad Thor · Atria Books, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor comes Foreign Agent - a thriller as current as tomorrow's headlines.

In a safe house near the Syrian border, a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target:...
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Untethered

Julie Lawson Timmer · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When Char Hawthorn's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what...
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Vinegar Girl: A Novel

Anne Tyler · Hogarth Pr, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew retold as Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller

Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like...
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Singles Game

Lauren Weisberger · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Book

The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada - a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court.

Charlotte...

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A Certain Age: A Novel

Beatriz Williams · William Morrow, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.

As the freedom...

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Security: A Novel

Gina Wohlsdorf · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The inventiveness of A Visit from the Goon Squad meets the down-the-rabbit-hole suspense of The Girl on the Train in this chilling, pulse-racing thriller from an electrifying new writer.

When the gleaming new Manderley Resort opens in twenty-four hours, Santa...
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagercrantz · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web--an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country.

It's...
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