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Screenplay: A Novel

Macdonald Harris · Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover

Originally published in 1982, Screenplay is a delirious, erotically charged, and wildly inventive novel that presents a writer of limitless imagination at the height of his powers. With hints of Alice in Wonderland, Screenplay follows a wealthy young dilettante named Alys, who is as out of place...
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Cloudbound.

Fran Wilde · Tor
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

After the dust settles, the City of living bones begins to die, and more trouble brews beneath the clouds in this stirring companion to Fran Wilde's Updraft.When Kirit Densira left her home tower for the skies, she gave up many things: her beloved family, her known way of life, her dreams...
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Blind Sight

Carol O'Connell · Putnam
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The thrilling new Mallory novel from the New York Times-bestselling author and one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America. The nun was dead. Her body lay on the lawn outside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City's mayor, and it wasn't alone. There were four of them altogether....
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That Mistletoe Moment

Cat Johnson · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As the holidays descend, three single women take a thoroughly modern approach to good old-fashioned romance, and wonder if the best - and most complicated - gift of all is just a click, tap, or swipe away ... MADE UP Like a Christmas miracle, the Build a Boyfriend App lets you simply...
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The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin: A Novel

Stephanie Knipper · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come together to protect Rose's daughter. Ten-year-old Antoinette has a severe form of autism that requires constant care and attention....
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A Legacy of Spies: A Novel

JOHN LE CARRE · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe undisputed master returns with a riveting new book - his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family...
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Coffin Road

Peter May · Quercus
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

In his latest mystery set in Scotland and the Outer Hebrides, award-winning author Peter May spins a tale about three disparate cases that may or may not be linked...On the remote Isle of Harris in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, a man washes up on a deserted beach, hypothermic and completely...
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Miranda and Caliban

Jacqueline Carey · Tor
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe. We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what of Miranda? Or Caliban, the so-called savage Prospero chained to his will?In this incredible retelling...
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Mikhail and Margarita: A Novel

Julie Lekstrom Himes · Europa Editions
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A love triangle involving Mikhail Bulgakov, famed author of The Master and Margarita, an agent of Stalin's secret police, and the bewitching Margarita has inescapable consequences for all three in 1930s Russia. It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink...
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Wedding Bush Road: A Novel

David Francis · Counterpoint Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

A young lawyer in Los Angeles is called back to his family's farm in rural Australia and plunged into a complex struggle between past and present, town and country, and the secrets that haunt them all.When he learns of his mother's ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles...
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The Genius Plague

David Walton · Pyr
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

THE CONTAGION IS IN YOUR MINDIn this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors.Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker in the NSA when his brother,...
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News of the World: A Novel

Paulette Jiles · William Morrow
Pages: 213
Format: Print book

National Book Award Finalist - FictionIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless,...
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Lady Cop Makes Trouble

Amy Stewart · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's...
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Look Behind You

IRIS JOHANSEN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 325
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen and Edgar Award-winning author Roy Johansen are back with Look Behind You, a novel featuring Kendra Michaels -- hired gun for both the CIA and FBI.A serial killer is on the loose in San Diego with a most unusual M.O. With each kill, the perpetrator...
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Precious and Grace: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander Mccall Smith · Pantheon Books
Pages: 227
Format: Print book

In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi help a young woman on a quest to find someone from her past.Changes are afoot at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, where Mma Makutsi, who has recently...
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