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The Perfect Girl: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

From Gilly Macmillan, the international bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author of What She Knew, comes this whip-smart, addictive, and harrowing novel of psychological suspense - perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Kimberly McCreight."With tightly drawn characters, a fascinating...
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Woman of god.

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen.Is it possible that the new Pope...is a woman?The world is watching as massive crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in history. It's a turning point that...
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Nutshell: A Novel

Ian Mcewan · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches...
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The Gustav Sonata: A Novel

Rose Tremain · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A tale of betrayal, survival, and enduring friendship shadowed by the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats...
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The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the best-selling, acclaimed author of "The Welsh Girl" comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel recasting American history through the lives of Chinese Americans. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, "Tell It Slant" reimagines the traditional...
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Based on a true story

Norm Macdonald · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, raconteur, SNL veteran, and one of the best stand-up comedians of all time.   As this book's title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life - more or less - from his origins on a farm...
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The Smoke Hunter

Jacquelyn Benson · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

THE DEBUT OF A CAPTIVATING VOICE AND RIVETING STORYTELLER!Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed. Discovering...
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The Other Side of the World: A Novel

Stephanie Bishop · Atria Books
Format: Print book

"In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road, an astonishingly beautiful novel about marriage, motherhood, identity, nostalgia, and the fantasy of home, set in England, Australia, and India in the early 1960s"--
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The Soul of the Matter: A Novel

Bruce Buff · Howard Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A scientist's claim that he's found the secrets of the universe's origin encoded in DNA sparks a race against time to uncover the truth in this fast-paced thriller of science and faith, power and murder, loss and redemption.Dan Lawson, a former government cyber-intelligence...
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Reputations

Juan Gabriel Vásquez · Riverhead Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

From the brilliant mind of the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning...
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