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Amanda Wakes Up

ALISYN CAMEROTA · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The Devil Wears Prada meets Primary Colors in this wickedly funny debut novel about a bootstrapping young reporter who lands a plum job at a big-time cable news station and finds her ambitions and her love life turned upside down When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands...
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Vector

James Abel · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Amazon rain forest spawns a new terror that will bring the world to its knees in this new Joe Rush bio-thriller . . . Joe Rush is at an Amazon gold rush to study new forms of malaria when his best friend and partner, Eddie Nakamura, disappears. Learning that many of the sick miners...
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A long-awaited English translation of the classic oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Svetlana Alexievich shares stories of women's experiences in World...
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LoveMurder

SAUL BLACK · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When she's called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, as beautiful, intelligent, charming -- and utterly...
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Paradise Valley

C. J. Box · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. And she almost caught him...once. Working for the Bakken County, North...
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Let the Dead Speak

Jane Casey · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Casey is a true craftswoman, a writer who beguiles one through the most twisted of plots with a confident and seductive hand. Let The Dead Speak is sharp, complex and gripping to the very end"Alex Marwood, bestselling author of Wicked Girls and The Killer Next DoorWhen eighteen-year-old...
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Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

MARTIN CORONA · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal...
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The Wildling Sisters

Eve Chase · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote Manor. Four sisters. One summer. A lifetime of secrets. When fifteen-year-old...
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Killing Is My Business

ADAM CHRISTOPHER · TOR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'" -- John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling authorAnother golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape and assignment for intrepid PI-turned-hitman -- and last robot left in working order -- Raymond Electromatic....
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Deadfall

LINDA FAIRSTEIN · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Hunting a killer within New York's urban jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper's career in New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein's latest unputdownable thriller. A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation...
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Street Warrior: The True Story of the NYPD's Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him

RALPH FRIEDMAN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend. Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield...
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Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

BRUCE HENDERSON · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role...
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The Goddesses: A Novel

Swan Huntley · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Descendants meets Single White Female in this captivating novel about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful. When Nancy and her family arrive in Kona, Hawaii, they are desperate...
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography

Lawrence P Jackson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally.In his Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) , Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social...
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The Lost Ones

S H Kamal · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts - a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander...
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The One I've Waited For

MARY B MORRISON · DAFINA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison's unforgettable series, the fiercely sexy Crystal women bring ultimate drama and shattering choices home with a vengeance . . . Now that she's happily married-for-security, there's nothing Mercedes Crystal won't do to hold on to what...
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

JEREMIAH MOSS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York.For generations, New York City has been a mecca for artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich...
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The Way We Die Now: The View from Medicine's Front Line

Seamus O'Mahony · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of the dying spend their last days in general hospitals and nursing homes, in the care of strangers. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are often robbed of their dignity after...
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The Painted Queen: A Novel

ELIZABETH PETERS · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Egypt, 1912 - Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment...
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Fierce Kingdom

Gin Phillips · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"It tore at every maternal fiber in my body. I couldn't put it down." - Fiona Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The WidowAn electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she'll go to protect him. The zoo is nearly...
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight

Vanessa Potter · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,...
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The Marriage Pact: A Novel

Michelle Richmond · Bantam
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this relentlessly paced novel of psychological suspense, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond crafts an intense and shocking tale that asks: How far would you go to protect your marriage? Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known...
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Careers for Women

JOANNA SCOTT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A masterful novel about how our choices continue to haunt us long after we've made them from the author of The Manikin, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.In the Public Relations Department of the New York Port Authority in 1958, Maggie Gleason is one of several extraordinary young women...
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Laura Shapiro · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal...
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Talon of God

WESLEY SNIPES · Harper Voyager
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed actor makes his fiction debut with this enthralling urban fantasy in which a holy warrior must convince a doctor with no faith to help stop a powerful demon and his minions from succeeding in creating hell on earth - a thrilling adventure of science and faith, good and evil,...
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The Lying Game: A Novel

RUTH WARE · GALLERY BOOKS
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware's chilling new novel.On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach....
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