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The Chalk Artist: A Novel

Allegra Goodman · The Dial Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The lives of a gifted artist, an idealistic teacher, and a troubled young videogamer intersect in this compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cookbook Collector and Intuition.
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The City Always Wins: A Novel

OMAR HAMILTON · MCD
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report couldThe City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo's surging streets and roiling political...
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

SEANAN MCGUIRE · TOR COM
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones -- a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex Award-winning Every Heart a DoorwayTwin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen...
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Camille T Dungy · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history.As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely...
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A House Among the Trees: A Novel

Julia Glass · Pantheon Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the beloved author of the National Book Award-winning Three Junes: The unusual bond between a world-famous children's author and his assistant sets the stage for a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, and the power of an unexpected legacyWhen the revered...
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Hunger: A Memoir of

Roxane Gay · Harpercollins
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself."I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl...
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The Identicals: A Novel

ELIN HILDERBRAND · LITTLE
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, a summertime story about identical twins who couldn't be any less alike.Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters...
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Knife Creek

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed...
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The Little French Bistro: A Novel

NINA GEORGE · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about self-discovery and new beginnings. Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides...
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Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense

LAURIE R KING · BANTAM
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A classroom is held hostage by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, ripped-from-the-headlines novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries. Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: a day given to innocent...
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The Marsh King's Daughter

Karen Dionne · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Praised by Lee Child and Karin Slaughter, and sure to thrill fans of The Girl on the Train and The Widow, The Marsh King's Daughter is mesmerizing psychological suspense, the story of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal...
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MatchUp

Lee Child · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology.MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender....
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

MATTHEW SULLIVAN · SCRIBNER
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer.Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously...
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern...
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Robert Ludlum's

ERIC VAN LUSTBADER · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Jason Bourne returns in this stunning new thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, continuing Robert Ludlum's classic series.General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder,...
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Saints and Misfits

S K ALI · Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life ... starring a Muslim teen.There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They're...
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From Taylor Jenkins Reid, "a genius when it comes to stories about life and love" (Redbook) , comes an unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress's relentless rise to the top - the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public...
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Silver Silence

NALINI SINGH · Berkley
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal... Control. Precision. Family. These are the principles that drive Silver Mercant. At a time when the fledgling Trinity Accord seeks to unite...
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SWITCH

JOSEPH FINDER · DUTTON
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in the TSA security line at LAX. He doesn't notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it's too late. Tanner's curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that...
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Tom Clancy Point of Contact

MIKE MADEN · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy created a world of indelible characters who live on this electrifying thriller. Jack Ryan, Jr. is going out on an ordinary audit. Hendley and Associates, the investment firm that acts as cover for The Campus is looking to invest in a German...
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The Ultimatum

Karen Robards · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will - Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled...
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir

Sherman Alexie · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Entertainment Weekly and Bustle A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner.When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only...
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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals

JEREMY MCCARTER · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, a stunning group portrait of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them?...
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