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Only Child: A novel

Rhiannon Navin · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Room and The Girls, a dazzling, tenderhearted debut about healing, family, and the exquisite wisdom of children, narrated by a six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts, and the quietest voices speak the loudest.

"Only...
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Brush Back

Sara Paretsky · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 459
Format: Hardcover

Chicago's V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in the gritty new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky.

No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High...
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life...
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The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money

Carl Richards · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Whenever I tell people about my job as a financial advisor, the conversation inevitably turns to how hopeless they feel when it comes to dealing with money. More than once, they've begged, "Just tell me what to do."It's no surprise that even my most successful friends...
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The Odds of Getting Even

Sheila Turnage · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three Times Lucky

The trial of the century has come to Tupelo Landing, NC. Mo and Dale, aka Desperado Detectives, head to court as star witnesses against Dale's daddy--confessed...
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Dietland

Sarai Walker · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

An Amazon Top 100 Editors' Pick of the Year
One of Entertainment Weekly's "10 Best Books of 2015"
One of Bustle's "2015's 25 Best Books, Fiction Edition"
A New York Post "Best Novel to Read This Summer"
An Us Weekly "Hot...
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Precious Gifts: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman - the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer - as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different...
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Everybody's Fool: A novel

Richard Russo · Random House Large Print
Pages: 760
Format: Large 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 unexpected...
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The Buried Giant: A novel

Kazuo Ishiguro · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ."...
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A Sinful Calling

Kimberla Lawson Roby · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . .

A SINFUL CALLING

Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly moved back home, married...
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Shadow Spell

Nora Roberts · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 339
Format: Paperback

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about the land we're drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love ... Book Two of The Cousins O'Dwyer TrilogyShadow SpellWith the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood,...
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Strawberry Hill

Catherine Anderson · Berkley
Pages: 448
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Spring Forward returns to Mystic Creek, Oregon, where an unlikely pair learn to open themselves up to love.

Newcomer to the sheriff's department Erin De Laney knows next to nothing about wilderness patrols, but she's also never...
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

Cary Elwes · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs,...
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel

Susan Rivers · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

"TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." - BOOKLIST (starred review)

"All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening...
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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...
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