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Agent in Place

Mark Greaney · Berkley
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novelsCourt Gentry is back in action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress...
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Sunburn: A Novel

LAURA LIPPMAN · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable...

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Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief,...
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Death of an Honest Man

M. C. Beaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.

DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN
Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell...
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The Tuscan Child

Rhys Bowen · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Book

Thirty years after her British bomber pilot father parachuted from his stricken plane into German-occupied Tuscany, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to learn about her father's hidden wartime past.

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The Throne of Caesar: A Mystery of Ancient Rome

Steven Saylor · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history: It's Rome, 44 AD, and the Ides of March are approaching.Julius Caesar has been appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate. Having pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded...
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World

CONDE NAST & THE WOMEN'S MARCH. · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD * SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH * AMERICA FERRARA * ROXANE GAY * ILANA GLAZER * ASHLEY JUDD * VALARIE KAUR * CINDI LEIVE * DAVID REMNICK * JILL SOLOWAY * YARA SHAHIDI * JIA TOLENTINO * CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS * ELAINE WELTEROTH * JOSE ANTONIO...

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Healthyish: A Cookbook with Seriously Satisfying, Truly Simple, Good-For-You

LINDSAY HUNT · Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Healthyish is recipe developer Lindsay Maitland Hunt's totally doable, delicious, and dead-simple cookbook, helping us to eat how we all want to eat - healthy, but with an occasional bit of decadence. Lindsay Maitland Hunt is an expert recipe developer who has created recipes for everyone...
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The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History

WILLIAM REMPEL · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American...
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

CHARLES C MANN · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people...
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The Girls in the Picture: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin · Delacorte Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife, a fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends - screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford

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