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A Plain Vanilla Murder

Susan Wittig Albert · Persevero Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of Queen Anne's Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries. China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop,'' always a huge hit with customers...
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Wherever She Goes

Kelley Armstrong · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a brand new psychological thriller about the lengths one woman will go to in order to save a child. "Few crimes are reported as quickly as a snatched kid." That's what the officer tells single mother Aubrey Finch after...
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Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold

Nancy Atherton · Viking
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the newest installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treature and new friendships It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch--and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma...
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Big Sky

Kate Atkinson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia....
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The Gone Dead: A Novel

Chanelle Benz · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day - and she hasn't...
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Their Little Secret

Mark Billingham · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something...
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Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel

Taffy Brodesser-Akner · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A finely observed, timely exploration of marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition from one of the most exciting writers working today - with "the humor of Maria Semple, the heart of Meg Wolitzer, the lustiness of Philip Roth, and a voice that is pure" (Emma...
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Whiskers in the Dark: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond, in a supernaturally thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown.A trial is underway in Albemarle...
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The Hive

Orson Scott Card · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars -- the alien invasions...
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A Dangerous Man

· G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date.Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland,...
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Recursion: A Novel

Blake Crouch · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

What if someone could rewrite your entire life?"My son has been erased." Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton, before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop.Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn that this wasn't an isolated case....
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The Rest of the Story

Sarah Dessen · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl - and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about...
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This Storm: A novel

James Ellroy · Knopf
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master.It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously wrong. It's a summons to misalliance and all the spoils...
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City of Girls: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert · Riverhead Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person."Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there...
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The Friends We Keep

Jane Green · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Book

The Friends We Keep is the warm and wise new novel from Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Sunshine Sisters and The Beach House Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since university. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have...
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The Porpoise: A Novel

Mark Haddon · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the presentMark Haddon's...
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Montauk: A Novel

Nicola Harrison · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An epic and cinematic novel by debut author Nicola Harrison, Montauk captures the glamour and extravagance of a summer by the sea with the story of a woman torn between the life she chose and the life she desires.Montauk, Long Island, 1938. For three months, this humble fishing village...
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Summer of '69

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Follow New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand back in time and join a Nantucket family as they experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a 1960s summer. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they...
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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel

Linda Holmes · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who's lost her husband and a major league pitcher who's lost his game."Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company."...
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The Sentence Is Death: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The writer "Anthony Horowitz" and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery as they delve deeper into Hawthorne's past.
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The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs: A Novel

Katherine Howe · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curseConnie Goodwin is an expert on America's fractured past with...
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Paranoid

Lisa Jackson · Kensington
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a new novel of nerve-jangling suspense as a woman haunted by guilt realizes that nothing can be trusted - not even her own memory ... There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think that twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston got away...
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Ask Again, Yes: A Novel

Mary Beth Keane · Scribner
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness.Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973....
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FKA USA: A Novel

Reed King · Flatiron Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Reed King's amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams's A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.In Reed King's wildly imaginative and possibly prescient debut, the United...
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The Ditch

Herman Koch · Hogarth
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The bracing and inventive new novel of suspicions and secrecy from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The DinnerWhen Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception,...
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After the End

Clare Mackintosh · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Book

From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh, a deeply moving and page-turning novel about an impossible choice—and the two paths fate could take. Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers—unshakable. But then their...
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Tom Clancy Enemy Contact

Mike Maden · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The final wish of a dying friend leads Jack Ryan, Jr. to the jungles of South America where an unexpected confrontation will have shocking international repercussions in this latest entry in the New York Times bestselling series.Jack Ryan, Jr. has faced death before, but sitting at the bedside...
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The Summer of Sunshine and Margot

Susan Mallery · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The Baxter sisters come from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love. But this summer, Sunshine and Margot will turn disasters into destiny ... As an etiquette coach, Margot teaches her clients to fit in. But she's never faced a client like Bianca, an aging movie star who gained...
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The Summer Guests

Mary Alice Monroe · Gallery Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Beach House series comes a heartwarming and evocative novel about the bonds and new beginnings that are born from natural disasters and how, even during the worst of circumstances - or perhaps because of them - you discover what is most...
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The Burning Chambers

Kate Mosse · Minotaur Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

"For fans of juicy historical fiction, this one might just develop into their next obsession." -- EW.com"A masterly tour of history . . . a breathless thriller, alive with treachery, danger, atmosphere, and beauty." -- A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
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My Life as a Rat: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling...
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Unleashed

Diana Palmer · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

She vowed to never trust another man ... until she met him. A passionate new Long, Tall Texans romance from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer Clancey Lang knows how to run. She's been doing it since the day she fled her abusive home to save her and her younger brother's lives....
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Unsolved

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The perfect murder always looks like an accident. FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a shocking new case-unfolding across the country-has left...
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Wherever You Go

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Mary Reichert is one of the best sharpshooters in the country, and in the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza her skills are on display in every performance. But unless the man responsible for her brother's death is brought to justice, Mary's fame and accomplishments seem hollow. She feels...
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The Travelers: A Novel

Regina Porter · Hogarth
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The adventures of two families unfold and intertwine - across continents and generations, spanning the 1950s through Obama's first year as president - in The Travelers, an absorbing tale of family, history, and the persistence of love. Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan...
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Rogue Strike

David Ricciardi · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Jake Keller finds himself in a familiar position - on the run for his life and desperate to find the shadowy figures behind a global conspiracy.CIA agent Jake Keller and his partner, Curt Roach, are in Yemen on an important mission. They've been tipped off to a secret meeting of top al Qaeda...
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The Lemon Sisters: A Novel

Jill Shalvis · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California, where two completely opposite sisters - who are still nursing wounds from the past - realize they need each other more than they think.When Brooke's older sister, Mindy,...
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The Electric Hotel: A Novel

Dominic Smith · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith, a radiant novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his museDominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey -- America's first movie town -- and on the battlefields...
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Lost and Found: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Lost and Found is an unforgettable new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestsellers have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.
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Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller - Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick - that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard "Dodge"...
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

J. Randy Taraborrelli · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli comes his most astonishing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children born to the original Kennedy icons: JFK and Jackie; Bobby and Ethel; Ted and Joan; and the rest. Raised against a backdrop of American...
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Backlash: A Thriller

Brad Thor · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book

#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered...
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Mrs. Everything: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places - and be true to themselves - in a rapidly evolving...
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The Summer Country: A Novel

Lauren Willig · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet - a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English...
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Skin Game

Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Book

Teddy Fay returns to his roots in espionage, in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy...
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