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Wintersmith

Terry Pratchett · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.

At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.

At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen. . . .

But the Wintersmith isn't exactly...

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The Widow

Fiona Barton · Berkley
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A twisted psychological thriller you'll have trouble putting down." - People

"If you liked Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, you might want to pick up The Widow by Fiona Barton. Engrossing....
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Fresh: Simple, Delicious Recipes to Make You Feel Energized!

Donal Skehan · Sterling Epicure
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From TV and YouTube star Donal Skehan comes a cookbook jam-packed with healthy, fresh recipes that are as nourishing and energizing as they are delicious.
Television and YouTube sensation Donal Skehan believes in maximizing health and energy through the enjoyment of flavorful, nutrient-packed...
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved classic From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would...
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Wild Thing: A Novel

Josh Bazell · Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Pages: 388
Format: Book

Beat the Reaper left critics applauding, readers gasping, and Dr. Pietro Brnwa on the run from the mob. WILD THING finds him adrift: at sea, literally, as a cruise ship doctor under an assumed name. So when a reclusive billionaire offers him a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive...

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A Test of Wills: The First Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

Charles Todd · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation ... .A meticulously wrought puzzle."
- New York Times Book Review

"An intricately plotted mystery. With this remarkable debut, Charles Todd breaks new ground...

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Bad Monkey

Carl Hiaasen · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Andrew Yancy - late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office - has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon...

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The Alexandria Link: A Novel

Steve Berry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth...
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Dark of the Moon

John Sandford · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers - tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's - had kicked around a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport...
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The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel (Mickey Haller)

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Representing the system's most unsavory characters in his work as a criminal defense lawyer, jaded attorney Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by sinister events that suggest the workings of a particularly evil...
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All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation.
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This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

Kenneth Oppel · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

Bravery, danger, and intense passion. How does obsession begin?

Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real.

They stumble upon...

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The Art of Fielding: A Novel

Chad Harbach · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 516
Format: Book

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens...

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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

Denene Millner · Agate Bolden
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - Ebony

For almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about...
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Everyday Super Food

Jamie Oliver · Ecco
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

This is the most personal book I've ever written, and in order to write it I've been on a complete journey through the world of health and nutrition. Now, using the thing I know best - incredible food - my wish is that this book will inspire and empower you to live the healthiest, happiest,...

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Even Dogs in the Wild

Ian Rankin · Little, Brown & Company
Format: Book


Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis.

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She's investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers...

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The Last Kind Words Saloon

Larry McMurtry · Wheeler Publishing
Pages: 235
Format: Large Print

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday move across the frontier from Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver in the latest novel by the acclaimed author of The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove. (westerns) . Simultaneous.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson's thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families...
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Light in August: The Corrected Text

William Faulkner · Modern Library
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner - also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected...

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Impossible

Nancy Werlin · Dial Books
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Beautiful Creatures and Wicked Lovely comes this New York Times Bestselling modern fairy tale from National Book Award Finalist Nancy Werlin.

Inspired by the classic folk ballad "Scarborough Fair," this wonderfully riveting novel is rife...
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The Lions of Lucerne (Scot Harvath 1)

Brad Thor · Pocket Star
Pages: 544
Format: Mass Market Paperback

On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has happened: the President of the United States has been kidnapped, and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived -- ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn't buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are responsible,...
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The Starless Sea: A Novel

Erin Morgenstern · Doubleday
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when...
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