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The Child

FIONA BARTON · Berkley
Pages: 364
Format: Book

As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose...

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But Seriously

John McEnroe · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Book

He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? Fifteen years after his international number-one bestseller You Cannot Be Serious, John McEnroe...

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The Destroyers: A Novel

CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN · HARPERCOLLINS
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

When Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers. . . . We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were honing strategies for survival. . . .

Arriving on the Greek island of Patmos broke and humiliated, Ian Bledsoe is fleeing the emotional and financial...

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Every Last Lie

Mary Kubica · Park Row Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL, Mary Kubica is back with another exhilarating thriller as a widow's pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche.

Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter...

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Fateful Mornings: A Henry Farrell Novel

TOM BOUMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A woman's chilling disappearance haunts a rural Pennsylvania county in the eagerly awaited new Henry Farrell mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dry Bones in the Valley.

Tom Bouman's Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times...

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The Fourth Monkey

J. D. Barker · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind."

For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found,...
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Golden Hill: A Novel

FRANCIS SPUFFORD · SCRIBNER
Pages: 336
Format: Book

"Nothing short of a masterpiece." - The Guardian.

The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-eighteenth century Manhattan,...

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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays

MANDY LEN CATRON · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains...
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The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story

Marie Kondo? · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author and lifestyle/cleaning guru Marie Kondo, this graphic novelization brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using Kondo's advice and inspiration.

Marie...
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Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel

Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel.

Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications...
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Obama: The Call of History

PETER BAKER · New York Times/Callaway
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't...
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The Right Side: A Novel

SPENCER QUINN · ATRIA Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In this riveting new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series, a deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in a stray dog, and encounters new perils...
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Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean

Morten Andreas Strøksnes · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Book

A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean, for readers of Bill Bryson and such classics as The Snow Leopard.

In the great depths surrounding the Lofoten islands in Norway lives the infamous Greenland...

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River Under the Road

SCOTT SPENCER · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love, a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity-and the double-edged sword of success

Thirteen parties over the course of two decades-an opium infused barbeque, a reception for a doomed...

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Fiction

DIANA GABALDON · Delacorte Press
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent collection of short fiction - including two never-before-published novellas - featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, all extending the story of Outlander in thrilling new directions

"The Custom of the Army" begins with...
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The Sisters Chase

Sarah Healy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge

The hardscrabble Chase women - Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane - have been eking out a living running a tiny...
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Spoonbenders: A novel

Daryl Gregory · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind...
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Take Out

Margaret Maron · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Following the heartwarming conclusion to her Deborah Knott series, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new mystery featuring NYPD detective Sigrid Harald.
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UNSUB: A Novel

Meg Gardiner · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier.

Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months...
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Use of Force: A Thriller

BRAD THOR · ATRIA Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor.

As a storm rages across the Mediterranean Sea, a terrifying distress call is made to the Italian Coast Guard. Days later, a body washes ashore.

Identified as a high value terrorism suspect (who had disappeared three...
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The Waking Land

Callie Bates · Del Rey
Pages: 400
Format: Book

Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder - and must flee for her life.

Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon...

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The Windfall: A Novel

DIKSHA BASU · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to "make it" in modern India.

For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors,...
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