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The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel

Katherine Arden · Del Rey
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice. At the edge of the Russian...
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The Sleepwalker: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Doubleday
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire - the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night. When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker...
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Huck Out West: A Novel

Robert Coover · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye to a great American classic in this sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light...
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The Meaning of Michelle: 15 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Veronica Chambers · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

**One of BookRiot's '11 Books to Help Us Make It Through a Trump Presidency'**"Whenever I think about Michelle Obama, I think, 'When I grow up, I want to be just like her. I want to be that intelligent, confident, and comfortable in my own skin'." -- Roxane Gay"Even after...
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False Friend: A Novel

Andrew Grant · Ballantine Books
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

The second installment in the extraordinary Cooper Devereaux mystery thriller series, which combines the atmosphere of James Lee Burke and Craig Johnson with the noir brilliance of Robert Crais An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham, Alabama - with devastating effect. Detective...
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Dry.

Jane Harper · Flatiron Books
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

"One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Every word is near perfect." -- David BaldacciA small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent...
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

Eddie S Jr Glaude · Crown
Pages: 274
Format: Book

A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling...
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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth: A Novel

Lindsey Lee Johnson · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this captivating debut novel.The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local...
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The Dark Room

Jonathan Moore · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

"Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room." - James Patterson A heart-pounding thriller from an "electrifying"* author that shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied. *Stephen...
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Burning Bright

Nicholas Petrie · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

"LOTS OF CHARACTERS GET COMPARED TO MY OWN JACK REACHER, BUT PETRIE'S PETER ASH IS THE REAL DEAL." - Lee ChildIn the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, "an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne" (Lincoln Journal-Star) , Ash has a woman's...
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A Perilous Undertaking

Deanna Raybourn · Berkley Books
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries... London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only...
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel

Susan Rivers · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." - BOOKLIST (starred review) "All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening in July and saw my husband...
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Lucinda Rosenfeld · Little
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

A satirical novel about a mother whose life spirals out of control when she's forced to rethink her bleeding heart liberal ideals For idealistic forty-something Karen Kipple, it isn't enough that she works full-time in the non-profit sector, aiding an organization that helps hungry children...
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Fever Dream: A Novel

Samanta Schweblin · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." - Vanity Fair"Genius." - Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together,...
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Lucky Boy

Shanthi Sekaran · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 472
Format: Print book

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy."A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love." - Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book...
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Her Every Fear: A Novel

Peter Swanson · William Morrow
Pages: 333
Format: Print book

The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller - as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark - involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation,...
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A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

Ayelet Waldman · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 229
Format: Print book

"A highly engaging combination of research and self-discovery, laced with some endearingly honest comic moments." -Publisher's Weekly, starred review A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat...
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Ring of Fire: A Pike Logan Thriller

Brad Taylor · Dutton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Former Delta Force officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a relentlessly fast-paced, gripping thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America....
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The Guests on South Battery

Karen White · Berkley
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by, and restless spirits refuse to fade away... With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than...
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