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All Manner of Things

Susie Finkbeiner · Revell
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of paper with the address of their long-estranged father. If anything should happen to him in Vietnam, Mike says, Annie must let their father know. In Mike's absence, their father returns...
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The Paper Wasp

Lauren Acampora · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riveting knife-edge story of two women's dark friendship of twisted ambition set against the backdrop of contemporary HollywoodIn small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once...
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The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Leonard Goldberg · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the third book of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown. Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner...
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Death in Kew Gardens

Jennifer Ashley · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Scandal Above Stairs Kat Holloway steps out from beneath the stairs and into international intrigue, where murder and stolen treasure lurk among the upper echelons of Victorian London. In return for a random act of kindness, scholar Li Bai Chang...
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The Summer Guests

Mary Alice Monroe · Gallery Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Beach House series comes a heartwarming and evocative novel about the bonds and new beginnings that are born from natural disasters and how, even during the worst of circumstances - or perhaps because of them - you discover what is most...
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The Tenth Muse: A Novel

Catherine Chung · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating novel about a trailblazing mathematician who unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War IIThe first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent--and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with...
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Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Deb Spera · Park Row
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great DepressionIt's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother...
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The Islanders: A Novel

Meg Mitchell Moore · William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets. Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous...
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The Snakes: A Novel

Sadie Jones · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins," she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air."Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London...
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Big Sky

Kate Atkinson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia....
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