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Miracle at St. Andrews: A Novel

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The Miracle series continues with a pilgrimage to the mythical greens at St. Andrews. If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top. Though nobody has ever identified a single secret--no universally accepted truth--to the sport, every real player searches...
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Little Boy: A Novel

Lawrence Ferlinghetti · Doubleday
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical.In this unapologetically unclassifiable...
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel

Juliet Grames · Ecco
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter...
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Pickle's Progress: A Novel

Marcia Butler · Central Avenue Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Marcia Butler's debut novel, Pickle's Progress, is a fierce, mordant New York story about the twisted path to love. Over the course of five weeks, identical twin brothers, one wife, a dog, and a bereaved young woman collide with each other to comical and sometimes horrifying effect....
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel

Kim Michele Richardson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however,...
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Waisted: A Novel

Randy Susan Meyers · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers.Alice and Daphne, both successful and accomplished working mothers,...
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The Tubman Command: A Novel

Elizabeth Cobbs · Arcade
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, a novel based on a thrilling chapter of Civil War history and African American history, how Harriet Tubman lead a Union raid to free 750 slaves. It's May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with...
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Queen Bee: A Novel

Dorothea Benton Frank · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's...
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Otherwise Engaged: A Novel

PalmerLindsey J. · Skyhorse
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Life is sweet for New Yorkers Molly and Gabe: They're young, in love, and newly engaged.But when Gabe sells his first novel--a thinly-veiled retelling of his wild love affair with ex-girlfriend Talia--and it becomes a national sensation, Molly can't help but feel like the third...
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Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Red

Jessica Fletcher · Berkley
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series, Jessica loses a loved one to unnatural causes and sets her sights on the mysterious local hospital before more people wind up dead on arrival...Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new...
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