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Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent

Marie Brennan · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennans Voyage of the Basilisk . . . Devoted readers of Lady Trents earlier memoirs, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, may believe themselves already acquainted with the particulars of her historic voyage aboard...
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Falling Out of Time

David Grossman · Knopf

Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief––concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art’s triumph over death.  ...
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Dark Prairie

John D. Nesbitt · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Winsome, on the plains of Wyoming, in the 1890's. He goes to work at the Little Six ranch and begins to look into the affairs of Tut Whipple, a water project developer. The investigation starts small, with the tracking down of stolen beef...
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Juggernaut

Adam Baker · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

A high-voltage shock to the system. Its smart, witty, crammed with action and disturbingly plausible. Highly recommended. -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Assassins Code A brilliant, gripping portrait of survival in the face of complete annihilation. THEY SEARCHED...
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The Boy in the Shadows

Carl-Johan Vallgren · Quercus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

1970: In an overcrowded Stockholm subway station, a harried father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his stroller and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the elevator. A woman approaches and helpfully offers to lead Kristoffer...
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Minister Without Portfolio

Michael Winter · Pintail, 2014. ©2013
Pages: 330
Format: Print book

A novel confronting the deeply personal effects of war with the emotional resonance of The Shipping News and the power of Tim O'Brien Henry Hayward is a drowning man. In a quest to find meaning in an emotionally arid life, Henry travels to Afghanistan as an army-affiliated contractor,...
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The Transcriptionist: A Novel

Amy Rowland · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

"A haunting and provocative novel about the mysteries of life and a death, the written word, things seen and unseen, heard and forgotten. Amy Rowland's writing is compelling and masterful." -- Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is InOnce, there were many transcriptionists at the Record,...
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Dorothy Parker Drank Here

Ellen Meister · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and haunting the halls of the Algonquin with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and unexpectedly tender wisdom.Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone,...
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The Cellar: A Novel

Minette Walters · The Mysterious Press
Pages: 177
Format: Print book

From the internationally bestselling, award-winning crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British home.On...
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Breaking creed

Alex Kava · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

New York Times- and internationally bestselling author Alex Kava's thrilling new series introducing Ryder Creed, ex-marine turned K9 search-and-rescue dog trainer as he teams up with fan-favorite FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell. Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines....
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