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Three Things About Elsie: A Novel

Joanna Cannon · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of the "remarkable ... masterfully constructed, pitch-perfect" (BOOKLIST , starred review) debut The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret,...
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Mother.

Yvvette Edwards · Amistad
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats makes her hardcover debut with a provocative and timely novel about an emotionally devastated mother's struggle to understand her teenage son's death, and her search for meaning and hope in the wake of incomprehensible loss.

The...

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Savage Country: A Novel

ROBERT OLMSTEAD · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . ."

Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle...
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House of Secrets

V. C. Andrews · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes a shivery gothic tale of romance, class divisions, and the secrets that haunt families for generations.

Ever since Fern could remember,...
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Every Wild Heart

Meg Donohue · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From USA Today bestselling author Meg Donohue comes a mystery, a love story, and a mother-daughter tale about two women on a precarious journey to uncover their true selves.

Passionate and funny, radio personality Gail Gideon is a true original. Nine years ago when Gail's husband...

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Jem and the Holograms Volume 2: Viral

Rebekah Isaacs · Idea & Design Works
Pages: 152
Format: Print book

Jerrica and her sisters face their biggest threat yet -- success! Meanwhile, the Misfits aren't taking these upstarts lying down... as they find themselves under new management. Plus, go behind the scenes and see THE HOLOGRAMS and THE MISFITS from a whole new perspective ... that of music...
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Paul Tobin · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 76
Format: Print book

Get ready for the Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare graphic novel! Based on the hit video game, this comic tells the story that leads up to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, the game! How did the "Zombossification" of surburbia begin? Where did all the powerful...
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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel

Linda Holmes · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who's lost her husband and a major league pitcher who's lost his game.

"Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company."...
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Stolen Beauty: A Novel

Laurie Lico Albanese · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings.In...
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Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

Hillary L Chute · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The massive impact that comics have had on our culture becomes more and more clear every day, from the critically acclaimed musical Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking comic, to the dozens of superhero films hitting cinemas every year. What is it that makes comics so special?...

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Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Volume 1

Stephen McCranie · Dark Horse Books
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback

A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years.To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Her mom is the flavor of mint--sharp and bright. Her dad is like...
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Lions and Tigers and Murder, Oh My

Denise Swanson · Berkley
Pages: 288
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Between a Book and a Hard Place comes the latest Devereaux's Dime Store Mystery - and it packs a bite.

Opening up a dime store in her hometown of Shadow Bend, Missouri, Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair thought she'd left...

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A Whisper of Bones

Ellen Hart · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Jane Lawless new and old will be fascinated by newly minted Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart's latest intricate puzzle in A Whisper of Bones.

Britt Ickles doesn't remember much from her only visit to her mother's childhood home when she was a kid,...

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Stay and Fight: A Novel

Madeline ffitch · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we knowHelen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and eager to carry out her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming,...
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Christmas Cake Murder

JOANNE FLUKE · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

It's Christmas many years ago, and topping young Hannah Swensen's wish list is becoming the go-to baker in Lake Eden, Minnesota. But as Hannah finds out, revisiting holiday memories can be murder . . .

With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's...
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