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The Midwife's Dilemma

Delia Parr · Bethany House
Pages: 317
Format: eBook

Delia Parr's Delightful Midwife Series ConcludesMidwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast,...
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On Lone Star Trail

Amanda Cabot · Baker Publishing Group
Pages: 368
Format: eBook

A woman without a future. A man running from the past.One enchanting place where broken dreams are mended.If there's one thing Gillian Hodge never wants to see again, it's a man on a motorcycle. Her last encounter with one left her right hand crushed, ending her promising career as a concert...
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We Are Pirates

Daniel Handler · Bloomsbury, 2015.
Pages: 269
Format: eBook

"A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay"--
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The last mile

David Baldacci · Grand Central Pub.

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Rocket girls

Nathalia Holt · Little
Pages: 338

During World War Il, when the brand-new minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as "computers"--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical...
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Titans

Leila Meacham · Grand Central Publishing

A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses . Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes...
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Nobody but you : Cedar Ridge Series, Book 3

Jill Shalvis · Grand Central Publishing

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The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal

Howard Blum · Harper Collins Publishers
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the...
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

Kate Andersen Brower · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 405
Format: eBook

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.One of the most...
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Summerland

Michael Chabon · HarperCollins
Pages: 528
Format: eBook

From the Pulitzer Prize winning Michael Chabon comes this bestselling novel for readers of all ages that blends fantasy and folklore with that most American coming-of-age ritual: baseball - now in a new edition, with an original introduction by the author.Ethan Feld is having a terrible...
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300 Days of Sun: A Novel

Deborah Lawrenson · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: eBook

Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters' Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline's The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson's mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past - where two women, decades apart, are drawn...
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All Chained Up: A Devil's Rock Novel

Sophie Jordan · Avon Books
Pages: 370
Format: eBook

There are bad boys and then there are the men of Devil's Rock . . .Some men come with a built-in warning label. Knox Callaghan is one of them. Danger radiates from every lean, muscled inch of him, and his deep blue eyes seem to see right through to Briar Davis's most secret fantasies. But there's...
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Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harper
Pages: 309
Format: eBook

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue - the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall...
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The Total Package: A Novel

Stephanie Evanovich · William Morrow
Pages: 246
Format: eBook

The New York Times bestselling author of Big Girl Panties is back with a funny, sweet, and sizzling novel about love, redemption, and second chances.Heartthrob star quarterback Tyson Palmer has it all: a million-dollar arm, a winning season and the promise of a Superbowl ring. But more...
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The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

Annie Dillard · Ecco
Pages: 309
Format: eBook

In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself."A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through...
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Gone again

James Grippando · Harper
Pages: 390
Format: eBook

In this electrifying and fast-paced tale of suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Cash Landing, Cane & Abe, and Black Horizon, Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon in a case as twisty as it is shocking.Sashi...
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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

Skip Hollandsworth · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: eBook

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer - America's first - who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884,...
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Most Wanted

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 449
Format: eBook

Donor 3319 Profile:Tall. Blonde. Blue eyes. Medical Student.Wanted for Serial Murder."Spellbinding. Another tour de force from Scottoline. It drew me in, in a single breath." -Mary Kubica, bestselling author of The Good GirlChristine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate...
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Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America

Bob Benmosche · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 271
Format: eBook

In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard...
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

Dominic Smith · Farrar
Pages: 306
Format: eBook

A masterful new novel charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painterThis is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's...
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Dirty: A Dive Bar Novel

Kylie Scott · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 289
Format: eBook

Love - on the rocks ... .The last thing Vaughan Hewson expects to find when he returns to his childhood home is a broken hearted bride in his shower, let alone the drama and chaos that come with her.Lydia Green doesn't know whether to scream or cry in a corner. Discovering the love of your...
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Putin country : a journey into the real Russia

Anne Garrels · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 242
Format: eBook

More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contained beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious...
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Hurt People: A Novel

Cote Smith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 334
Format: eBook

Summer of 1988. Leavenworth, Kansas: a town with four major prisons, gripped by the recent escape of a convict. Yet for two young brothers, all that matters is the pool in their apartment complex. They spend their blissful days practicing dives while their divorcée mother works her day shift...
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The Calendar of New Beginnings

Ava Miles
Pages: 309

Over one million readers have fallen in love with Ava's bestselling Dare Valley and Dare River series ... come join the family.USA Today Bestselling Author Ava Miles presents a sweet and emotional friends-to-lovers story about the power of new beginnings. The last thing international photojournalist...
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The Obsession

Nora Roberts · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 464
Format: eBook

The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar. "She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her." Naomi Bowes...
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Family Jewels

Stuart Woods · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 317
Format: eBook

Stone Barrington is back and better than ever in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Stone Barrington's newest client seems to be a magnet for trouble. A poised lady of considerable wealth, she's looking for help discouraging the attentions of a tenacious...
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At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 297
Format: Print book

From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly...
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Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting

Lesley Stahl · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 279
Format: eBook

From one of the country's most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman's life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl's most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching...
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The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed...
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Three-Martini Lunch

Suzanne Rindell · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 507
Format: eBook

From the author of the "thrilling" (The Christian Science Monitor) novel The Other Typist comes an evocative, multilayered story of ambition, success, and secrecy in 1950s New York. In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz clubs, and new ideas - the ideal spot...
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'Til Death Do Us Part

Amanda Quick · Berkley Books/Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 351
Format: eBook

The author of the New York Times bestseller Garden of Lies returns to Victorian London in an all-new novel of deadly obsession. Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves...
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The association of small bombs

Karan Mahajan · Viking
Pages: 278
Format: eBook

* A New York Times Editors' Choice * "Wonderful. . . . Smart, devastating, unpredictable, and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. If you enjoy novels that happily disrupt traditional narratives - about grief, death, violence, politics - I suggest you go out and buy this...
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The Regional Office Is Under Attack!: A Novel

Manuel Gonzales · Riverhead Books
Pages: 402
Format: eBook

Read it!" - Jess Walter, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins"[R]eminded me that reading can be FUN." - BuzzfeedIn a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization - the Regional Office - and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects...
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Eat pray love made me do it

· Penguin Publishing Group
Format: eBook

True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, bestselling books of our time   In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible,...
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Twisted River: A Novel

Siobhan MacDonald · Penguin Books
Pages: 259
Format: eBook

A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong "She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car." Limerick, Ireland: the O'Brien family's driveway....
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The Mastermind

David Unger · Akashic Books
Pages: 272
Format: eBook

"This novel by Guatemalan-born Unger (The Price of Escape, 2011) offers a compelling portrait of a country shattered by government corruption, civil war, mass murder, drug cartels, ordinary street crime, inequality, desperate poverty, and even the effects of globalization....The rich...
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Even in Paradise

Elizabeth Nunez · Akashic Books
Pages: 322
Format: eBook

"An epic tale of family betrayal and manipulation couched in superbly engaging prose and peopled with deftly drawn characters. In a story structure as rhythmic as the ebb and flow of the water surrounding Trinidad and Barbados, this revisiting of the classic story of King Lear becomes...
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I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her

Joanna Connors · Grove/Atlantic
Pages: 272
Format: eBook

"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown...
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Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

Bob Mehr · Da Capo Press
Pages: 521
Format: eBook

Trouble Boys is the first definitive, no-holds-barred biography of one of the last great bands of the twentieth century: The Replacements. With full participation from reclusive singer and chief songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, guitarist Slim Dunlap, and the family of late...
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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones

Dee Dee Ramone · Da Capo Press 2016. ©2016
Pages: 311
Format: eBook

Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow,...
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Last Round At Guapa

Saleem Haddad · Other Press
Format: eBook

A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East  Set over the course of twenty-four hours,  Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social...
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books

Sasha Abramsky · New York Review Books, 2015.
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam,...
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Lab Girl

Hope Jahren · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 290

National Best SellerNamed One of TIME magazine's 2016 100 Most Influential PeopleAn illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed scientist...
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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

James McBride · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 232
Format: eBook

National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the "real" James Brown after receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth. His surprising journey illuminates not only our understanding of this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul...
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Lilac Girls: A Novel

Martha Hall Kelly · Ballantine Books
Pages: 497
Format: eBook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday...
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The Rope: A Novel

Kanan Makiya · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 337
Format: eBook

From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, here is a gritty and unflinching novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American invasion, as seen through the eyes of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could...
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Before the Wind: A novel

Jim Lynch · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 289
Format: eBook

Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion.Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them,...
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Dodgers: A Novel

William Beverly · Crown Publishers
Pages: 290
Format: eBook

Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys - including East's hothead younger brother...
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Never-Open Desert Diner

James Anderson · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: eBook

A singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman. Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote...
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Just Fall: A Novel

Nina Sadowsky · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: eBook

Perfect for fans of Patricia Highsmith and Gillian Flynn, this sexy and seductive debut novel asks: How can you find out that the person you love is a killer . . . and continue to love him anyway? THEN Ellie Larrabee's life is perfect. She's thriving at work, living in a fabulous apartment,...
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Succubus heat

Richelle Mead · Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pages: 353
Format: eBook

It doesn't get any hotter than this ... Seattle based shape-shifting succubus Georgina Kincaid gets her energy from seducing mortal men. Fortunately, she can have any man she wants - except the one she's in love with. Because unfortunately, her lovers always pay - with their souls... Thanks...
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As time goes by : a novel

Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 280
Format: eBook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense, " a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy...
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Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs, and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway

Peter Zheutlin · Sourcebooks
Pages: 236
Format: eBook

"Peter Zheutlin has written a lovely, moving, important book about a subject that is both heartbreaking and joyful." - Dean Koontz How far would you go to save a life? This is the extraordinary story of one man who has driven more than 1 million miles to rescue thousands...
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The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist

Larry Alex Taunton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 212
Format: eBook

At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. "Nobody is not a divided self, of course," he once told an interviewer, "but I think it's rather strong in my case." Hitchens was a man of many...
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Annette Gordon-Reed · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 370

A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race.Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure - a riddle - a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible...
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