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The Expectations

Alexander Tilney · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Prep and Old School, a sharp and evocative portrait of an insider at an elite boarding school who must face a reality very different from his lofty expectations.St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben is a true...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era...
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Window on the Bay: A Novel

Debbie Macomber · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself--and her passions--in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. She's spent the last twenty years raising...
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Abbi Waxman · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinThe author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does...
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Alpha and Omega

Harry Turtledove · Del Rey
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"The standard-bearer for alternate history" (USA Today) now turns his potent imagination to the End of Days in this gripping novel about a discovery in the Middle East that turns the world upside down.What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true?...
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A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder

Dianne Freeman · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

How far will some go to safeguard a secret? In the latest novel in Dianne Freeman's witty and delightful historical mystery series, the adventurous Countess Harleigh finds out . . . Though American by birth, Frances Wynn, the now-widowed Countess of Harleigh, has adapted admirably...
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Dragonfly

Leila Meacham · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy...
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The Shameless

Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New revelations on a notorious local cold case raise ghosts of the past in the newest thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins.Twenty years ago, teenager Brandon Taylor walked into the Big Woods north of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, and never returned. For former Army...
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The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs: A Novel

Katherine Howe · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curseConnie Goodwin is an expert on America's fractured past...
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Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

Janet Fitch · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

The story of THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M. continues in bestselling author Janet Fitch's sweeping epic about a young woman's coming into her own against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.After the events of The Revolution of Marina M., the young Marina Makarova finds herself...
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