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Ordinary People: A Novel

Diana Evans · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love. Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post) , Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction...
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Ordinary People: A Novel

Diana Evans · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love. Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post) , Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction...
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The Innocent

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career...
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Stars of fortune

Nora Roberts · Berkley Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

FIRST IN THE GUARDIANS TRILOGY From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about three couples who join together to create their own family and solve an ancient mystery through the powers of timeless love ... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams...
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In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

ISABEL ALLENDE · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent...
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The Book of M: A Novel

PENG SHEPHERD · William Morrow
Pages: 485
Format: Hardcover

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW! "Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven." --BOOKLIST WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER?Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson · Alexandria Library
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's...
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I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Jenny Mollen · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best Seller!By the actress, writer, and one of the funniest women on Twitter, an outrageous, hysterical memoir of acting on impulse, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any formJenny Mollen is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles....
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Children of Blood and Bone: The OrÏsha Legacy

Tomi Adeyemi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha...
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The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

Rick Yancey · Putnam Publishing Group
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

The riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The 5th Wave, hailed by Justin Cronin as "wildly entertaining." How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan...
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Momotaro Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters

Margaret Dilloway · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

Xander Miyamoto would rather do almost anything than listen to his sixth grade teacher, Mr. Stedman, drone on about weather disasters happening around the globe. If Xander could do stuff he's good at instead, like draw comics and create computer programs, and if Lovey would stop harassing...
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