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American Spy: A Novel

Wilkinson, Lauren · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa. It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence...
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A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder

Dianne Freeman · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

How far will some go to safeguard a secret? In the latest novel in Dianne Freeman's witty and delightful historical mystery series, the adventurous Countess Harleigh finds out . . . Though American by birth, Frances Wynn, the now-widowed Countess of Harleigh, has adapted admirably...
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Window on the Bay: A Novel

Macomber, Debbie · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself--and her passions--in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. She's spent the last twenty years raising...
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A Spy in Exile: A Thriller

Jonathan de Shalit · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the internationally bestselling "supremely effective, cunningly crafted" (The Providence Journal) thriller Traitor, a cerebral and suspenseful novel of high-stakes intrigue in Israel's top intelligence agency. After Ya'ara Stein is forced out of her job at the Mossad...
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Lynskey, Dorian · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop.1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding...
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The Heavens

Newman, Sandra · Grove Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium....
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John O'Hara: Four Novels of the 1930s

John O'Hara · Library of America
Pages: 684
Format: Hardcover

In one volume, four novels by "the real Fitzgerald": scintillating, sexually frank tales of the desperate pursuit of pleasure and status in Jazz Age America.Here in one volume are four gripping novels about the anxious pursuit of pleasure and status in the Jazz Age by the writer...
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Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows

Ann Petry · Library of America
Pages: 875
Format: Hardcover

In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America...
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Everything Under: A Novel

DAISY JOHNSON · Graywolf Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of FenThe dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking...
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Waxman, Abbi · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinThe author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does...
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