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Big Sky

Kate Atkinson
Format: Audiobook

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. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current...
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Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the SpaceAge

Robert L. Stone
Format: Audiobook

Going in depth to explore their stories beyond the PBS series, writer/producer Robert Stone—called “one of our most important documentary filmmakers” by Entertainment Weekly—brings these important figures to brilliant life. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy...
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City of Girls: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert · Riverhead Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person."A spellbinding...
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Dragonfly

Leila Meacham · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes a gripping new novel about five young spies embedded among the highest Nazi ranks in occupied Paris At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them...
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Tembi Locke · Simon & Schuster Audio
Pages: 320
Format: Audiobook

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Timesbestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours.It...
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The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

"Orlagh cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden."...
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Hold on Tight: The Bridgeport Social Club Series, book 3

Shelley Shepard Gray · Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries...
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Lady in the Lake CD: A Novel

Laura Lippman · HarperAudio
Format: Audio CD

The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day." - Washington Post "[A] charmer of a take. . . Warm, witty and--like any good craft beer--complex, the saga delivers a subtly feminist and wholly life-affirming message." - People Magazine A novel of family, Midwestern...
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Little Darlings: A Novel

Melanie Golding · Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

""Mother knows best"" takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy's The Perfect Mother.Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they're right; with newborn...
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Lost and Found

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * What might have been? That tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she loved and let go, in Danielle Steel's exhilarating new novel. It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York City. The firehouse...
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Master and Apprentice

Claudia Gray · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navigate a dangerous new planet and an uncertain future in the first canon Star Wars novel to take place before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. A Jedi...
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Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

John Waters · Corsair
Pages: 384
Format: Book

No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A...
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Mrs. Everything: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller "A multigenerational narrative that's nothing short of brilliant." - People "Simply unputdownable." - Good Housekeeping "The perfect book club pick." - SheReads Named a Best Book of Summer by Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan,...
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The New Girl CD: A Novel

Daniel Silva · HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 USA Today Bestseller * #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, this summer's hottest thriller.Now you see her. Now you don't. THE NEW GIRL. A new thriller of deception, betrayal, and vengeance.She was covered...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish...
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The Night Window

Dean Koontz · Bantam
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Jane Hawk's one-woman war comes to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent gambles everything against a terrifying conspiracy, for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom - from the author of The Silent Corner. "Jane Hawk is arguably the best...
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One Good Deed

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable new character: Archer, a straight-talking former World War II soldier fresh out of prison for a crime he didn't commit.It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent...
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

Josh Levin · Hachette B and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Slate editor Josh Levin's masterful account of the life and crimes of America's original ""welfare queen"" On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon...
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Sophia, Princess Among Beasts

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A princess who has lost her mother and father finds herself in a terrifying world that urgently needs a queen. Sophia is smart, beautiful, and accomplished, a beloved princess devoted to the people and to reading books. The kingdom is hers, until she is plunged into a nightmarish realm...
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The Summer Guests

Mary Alice Monroe · Gallery Books
Pages: 368
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 - we discover what is most important...
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Summer of '69

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin...
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Surfside Sisters: A Novel

Nancy Thayer
Format: Audiobook

Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she’s a bestselling novelist living in New York City, attending glamorous cocktail parties and mingling with the literary elite. Keely is also dating a charming, perfectly fine pediatric...
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Tom Clancy Enemy Contact

Mike Maden · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Jack Ryan, Jr.'s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend in this blistering entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western...
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Two Weeks: A Novel

Karen Kingsbury
Format: Audiobook

Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream—a career in medicine. But as he starts his final semester of high school he meets Elise, a mysterious new girl who captures his attention—and...
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Under Currents

Nora Roberts · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers...
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Window on the Bay: A Novel

Debbie Macomber · Random House Audio
Format: Book

When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself--and her passions--in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. She's spent the last twenty years raising...
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