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Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named...
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Not a Sound

Heather Gudenkauf · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

What one woman believes is her greatest weakness becomes her greatest asset in this latest crime chiller from New York Times bestselling author Heather GudenkaufWhen a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything...
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A Hiss Before Dying: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain...
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Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato

Mike Tyson · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring,...
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Trophy Son: A Novel

Douglas Brunt · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A compelling, provocative novel about a father, his son, and the cost of early excellence in our achievement-obsessed society.The third novel by New York Times bestselling author Douglas Brunt, Trophy Son tells the story of tennis prodigy Anton Stratis, from an isolated childhood of grueling...
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Nighthawk

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever...
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Al Franken · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author - the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. AL FRANKEN, GIANT OF THE SENATE is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest...
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The Reminders

VAL EMMICH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the 12 Best New Books of May by Harper's Bazaar and one of AM New York's "10 Books to Read in 2017"
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Dying Breath

Heather Graham · Mira Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Buried alive ... As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized - someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending...
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The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich. Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate...
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You Will Pay

LISA JACKSON · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.It starts as a prank - a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors,...
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White Fur: A Novel

Jardine Libaire · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A stunning star-crossed love story set against the glitz and grit of 1980s New York City When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from...
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Touch

Courtney Maum · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Book

Sloane Jacobsen is the most powerful trend forecaster in the world (she was the foreseer of "the swipe") , and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated,...

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One of Us Is Lying

Karen M McManus · Delacorte Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

Pay close attention and you might...
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No Good Deed

GOLDY MOLDAVSKY · POINT
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

He's not asking for much. All Gregor Maravilla wants to do is feed all of the starving children on the planet. So when he's selected to join Camp Save the World, a special summer program for teenage activists from all over the country to champion their cause, Gregor's sure he's on the path...
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Theft by Finding: Diaries

DAVID SEDARIS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot

David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making

It's no coincidence that the world's...
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Come Sundown

NORA ROBERTS · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

A novel of suspense, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession...

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand...

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Beren and Lúthien

J R R TOLKIEN · HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Pages: 304
Format: Book

The tale of Beren and Luthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following...

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Extraordinary Adventures

Daniel Wallace · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace.

Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends...

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