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Gayle E. Pitman · Magination Press
Pages: 1
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 ALA STONEWALL BOOK AWARDA Top Ten Title, 2015 Rainbow ListWinner, 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society AwardsNamed one of the most important books of the last decade by The Advocate's "40 Under 40" list. In a wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant reflection...
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Landfalls: A Novel

Naomi J. Williams · Farrar
Pages: 315
Format: Print book

Long-listed for the NBCC's John Leonard PrizeThe gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discoveryIn her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical Lapérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates,...
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One Way or Another: A Novel

Elizabeth Adler · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

What begins as a beautiful evening at a party on a yacht ends with attempted murder...and a quest for revenge...One moment Angie Morse is standing on the deck of a large luxury yacht and the next she feels a stinging blow to her head from a champagne bottle wielded by a beautiful woman....
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The Reluctant Matador

Mark Pryor · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 299
Format: Paperback

A nineteen-year-old aspiring model has disappeared in Paris. Her father, Bart Denum, turns to his old friend Hugo Marston for help. Marston, the security chief at the American Embassy, makes some inquiries and quickly realizes something is amiss: Bart's daughter was not a model, but rather...
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Bones never lie : a novel

Kathy Reichs · Bantam Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common...
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Clara's Wish: An Amish Christmas Romance

Beth Shriver · Realms

In this Amish Christmas romance, Lizzy Ryder discovers that this holiday season could be her best friends last. Will she find the comfort and love she desperately needs?  ,
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Abroad: A Novel

Katie Crouch · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

Not since Donna Tartt's The Secret History has a novel this intoxicating captured the headiness and dark temptations of university life. The old Etruscan city of Grifonia swarms with year-abroad students -- thousands of them from all over. Ostensibly, they've come to study. But really...
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Camille: The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy

Pierre Lemaitre · MacLehose Press; 3 edition
Format: Hardcover

In his acclaimed, award-winning novels Alex and Irène, Pierre Lemaitre created an unforgettable character in Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven. Now, in Camille, the final volume in Lemaitre's internationally bestselling trilogy of "meta-meta detective" novels (The New York...
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The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs: A Novel

Matthew Dicks · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Caroline Jacobs has lost herself. She's a wife, mother (to a tattooed teenage daughter she avoids) , Sears Portrait Studio photographer, and wimp. Asserting herself, taking the reins, or facing life head-on are not in her repertoire. So when Caroline suddenly cracks and screams "Fuck...
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The New Neighbor: A Novel

Leah Stewart · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, The New Neighbor is "a chilling page-turner" (People) a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity turned into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's...
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