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Our Lady of the Prairie

THISBE NISSEN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises - and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself

In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad - long-married theater...
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Captain America, Vol. 2: Red Menace Ultimate Collection

Ed Brubaker · Marvel; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Six months ago, Crossbones kidnapped the Red Skull's daughter, Sin, from a government re-education facility and disappeared into the night. Now, he and his spawn of infinite evil have come to the American Midwest to tear a new hole in A.I.M. - but none of them counted on Cap and Agent...
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AQUAMAN 4 - REBIRTH

DAN ABNETT · DC Comics
Pages: 152

A whole new era of AQUAMAN begins as master storyteller Stjepan Sejic (Sunstone, Death Vigil) joins series writer Dan Abnett for Arthur's boldest and most harrowing adventure yet in AQUAMAN VOL. 4: UNDERWORLD Former terrorists have replaced the Atlantean police. Crime lords control...
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Aladdin: A New Translation

Paulo Lemos Horta · Liveright
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice, tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation.

Long defined by popular film adaptations that have reductively portrayed Aladdin as a simplistic rags-to-riches story for children,...

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The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects

Deborah Lutz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex...
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The Marvelous Land of Oz

Eric Shanower · Spotlight
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

When the Scarecrow, now the ruler of the Emerald City, is driven out by General Jinjur and her all-girl army, his friends--the Tin Woodman, a boy named Tip, and Jack Pumpkinhead--try to restore peace in this graphic novel adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic tale.
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Theme Music: A Novel

T. Marie Vandelly · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An utterly propulsive and unpredictable psychological thriller from stunning new talent T. Marie Vandelly

She didn't run from her dark past. She moved in.

For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen...
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The Gray Ghost Murders: A Sean Stranahan Mystery

Keith McCafferty · Penguin Books
Pages: 24
Format: Book

"Truly wonderful. . . . A mystery that unfolds with grace and humor against a setting of stunning beauty and danger." - Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon Mysteries

Award-winning Field & Stream writer Keith McCafferty caused a splash...
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Crazy Love You

Lisa Unger
Format: Print book

Enjoying a successful career with his best friend Priss, a destructive friend who helped him escape bullies in childhood, Ian fears for his life when she becomes irrationally angry about Ian's new relationship.
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Jerusalem

Alan Moore · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 1266
Format: Print book

Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.

In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble...

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The Croc Ate My Homework: A Pearls Before Swine Collection

Stephan Pastis · Andrews Mcmeel Pub
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

The Pearls Before Swine crew is back in their second collection of cartoons for the middle-grade crowd!?Always witty and clever, and sometimes irreverent, Pearls Before Swine's sarcastic take on life appeals to fans of all ages. In this second collection of cartoons specially chosen...
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The Delta

Tony Park · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Assassin-for-hire Sonja Kurtz is on the run. Kurtz, an ex-soldier turned mercenary, is given a high profile job--to kill the president of Zimbabwe. But its a set up, the assassination attempt fails, Kurtz has been burned and her exfiltration plan are in ruins. Kurtz now heads for her only...
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The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel

Irvine Welsh · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The famed—some would say notorious—author of Trainspotting and many other brilliant offenses against common literary decency comes at last to America, with a dark and twisted tale of personal training and abject codependency in the fading glitter of Miamis South Beach, with a novel...
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Before Everything

VICTORIA REDEL · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill - the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality.

Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each...
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