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Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel

Christina Nichol · The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

An exciting and hilarious debut novel: a remarkable picaresque set in post-Soviet Georgia―land of corruption, love, and power shortages In the republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by . . . well, by what? Something much more confusing. There are no jobs in the cities....
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You Should Pity Us Instead

Amy Gustine · Sarabande Books
Pages: 222
Format: Print book

"Amy Gustine's You Should Pity Us Instead is a devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank collection of stories. Gustine can be brutally honest about the murky calculations, secret dreams and suppressed malice to which most of us never admit, not even to ourselves." - Karen Russell"You...
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Your Next Breath: A Novel

Iris Johansen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Your Next Breath from New York Times best selling author Iris JohansenCatherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there...
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Murder in the Locked Library

ELLERY ADAMS · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to Storyton Hall, Virginia, where book lovers travel from near and far to enjoy the singular comforts of the Agatha Christie Tea Room, where they can discuss the merits of their favorite authors no matter how deadly the topic . . . With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back...
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The Chesapeake Bride: A Novel

Mariah Stewart · Pocket Books
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a new chapter in her celebrated Chesapeake Diaries series, featuring her signature "rich characterization, charming setting, and a romance you'll never forget" (Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author) .Architect...
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Let It Breathe

Tawna Fenske · Montlake Romance
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

Forbidden fruit can be downright intoxicating.Vineyard manager Reese Clark is determined to bring her family's Oregon winery into the big leagues, and she knows building a new tasting room and event pavilion is her ticket there. Having her ex-husband's best friend - and her secret...
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Haunted Nights

Lisa Morton · Anchor
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns,...
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Mrs. Osmond: A novel

John Banville · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, a dazzling and audacious new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected territory.Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth...
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Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

HUGH HOWEY · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling...
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The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 1

Neil Gaiman · HarperCollins
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The first volume of a glorious two-volume, four-color graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning novel The Graveyard Book, adapted by P. Craig Russell and illustrated by an extraordinary team of renowned artists.Inventive, chilling,...
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The Songbird's Seduction

Connie Brockway · Montlake Romance
Format: Book

Effervescent bon vivant Lucy Eastlake is a young operetta singer whose star is on the rise in Edwardian London. Though struggling to maintain her beloved great-aunts household, she holds fast to the belief that things will work out. Now, with the fiftieth anniversary of a siege her great-aunt...
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Liar's Winter: An Appalachian Novel

NOT AVAILABLE. · Kregel Publications
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

The choices you make determine who you are. No no mark." Lochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark - and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year...
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Widow's Tears

Susan Wittig Albert · Berkley
Format: Book

Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum” (Publishers Weekly).  In Widow’s Tears, a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends… After losing her family...
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Exquisite Corpse

Pénélope Bagieu · First Second
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Zoe isn't exactly the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment . . . and into his life.Zoe doesn't know Balzac from Batman, but she's going to have to wise up fast . . . because Rocher has a terrible...
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Batgirl Vol. 1: Beyond Burnside

Hope Larson · DC Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Spinning out of DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH comes the newest adventures of Batgirl in BATGIRL VOL. 1: BEYOND BURNSIDE!New York Times best-selling creators Hope Larson (A Wrinkle in Time) and Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) take one of Gotham's greatest heroes on a whirlwind world tour...
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