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The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel

Edward Kelsey Moore · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 299
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgivenessWhen a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's...
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Morningstar: Growing Up With Books

ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover

A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book That Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story...
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White Fur: A Novel

Jardine Libaire · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A stunning star-crossed love story set against the glitz and grit of 1980s New York City When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from...
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The Western Star

CRAIG JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series LongmireSheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts...
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Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 702
Format: Hardcover

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like...
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The Life She Was Given

ELLEN MARIE WISEMAN · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets - beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s.On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood...
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The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel

Daniel H Wilson · Doubleday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient...
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The Last Hack: A Jack Parlabane Thriller

CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 426
Format: Hardcover

-- The Last Hack is vintage Brookmyre?equal parts adrenaline and empathy, a plot that opens out like a Japanese flower dropped in hot water, and characters so real you want to reach through the page and save them.??Diana Gabaldon Published in the UK as Want You GoneThere are no women on the Internet....
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The Late Show

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Introducing Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing...
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House of Spies

DANIEL SILVA · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding thriller - the seventeenth novel in his acclaimed Gabriel Allon series."One of fiction's greatest spies," (Kirkus Reviews) , Gabriel Allon returns for his seventeenth adventure in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author...
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A Perfectly Good Guitar: Musicians on Their Favorite Instruments

Chuck Holley · University of Texas Press
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

Ask guitar players about their instruments, and you're likely to get a story - where the guitar came from, or what makes it unique, or why the player will never part with it. Most guitarists have strong feelings about their primary tool, and some are downright passionate about their axes....
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The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo

Ian Stansel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband's killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police...
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ANONYMOUS. · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Whoever You Are. Whatever You Believe. Everything Is About To Change. The stunningly inventive new novel from the world's most popular thriller writer Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum...
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