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Becoming Josephine: A Novel

Heather Webb · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback

A sweeping historical debut about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjoy...
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Secondhand Souls: A Novel

Christopher Moore · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone -- or something -- is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie...
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The Ambassador's Wife: A Novel

Jennifer Steil · Doubleday Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From a real-life ambassador's wife comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador...
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All Day and a Night: A Novel of Suspense

Alafair Burke · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A new murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads Detective Ellie Hatcher into a twisting investigation with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery from the "terrific web spinner" (Entertainment Weekly) Alafair Burke.When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick...
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Bloodline: War of the Roses

Conn Iggulden · Michael Joseph
Pages: 420

The third beautifully written novel in the War of the Roses series by bestselling author Conn Iggulden. 'Superbly plotted and paced' The Times *** - Winter 1461 - Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still...
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White Bone

Ridley Pearson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable duo of the Risk Agent novels, team up again in the latest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson. When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover...
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The Wonders: A Novel

Paddy O'Reilly · Washington Square Press

From the author of the "funny, irreverent, and highly entertaining" (Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband's Secret) Fine Color of Rust comes a brilliant new novel about a misfit trio who become instant international reality stars, probing the nature of celebrity, disability,...
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Fox Is Framed

Lachlan Smith · Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover

Lachlan Smith won great critical acclaim for his first novel in the Leo Maxwell series, Bear Is Broken, which won the Shamus Award for best first P.I. novel and was a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year. William Bernhardt called it "one of the best debuts I've read in years."...
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The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Beatriz Williams · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover

"Williams conjures up another substantive beach read steeped in history and familial intrigue.... Readers will love wallowing in the twists and turns of this irresistibly luxurious tale." - BOOKLIST Passion, redemption, and a battered suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling...
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The Moonlit Door: a contemporary British village mystery

Deryn Lake · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

A new puzzle for the Reverend Nick Lawrence . . . It is May in the sleepy village of Lakehurst, Sussex, and Nick Lawrence has organised a Medieval Fair, complete with maypole dancing, archers and Mr Grimm's men, a group of Morris dancers. The fair is enjoyed by all and a great success,...
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