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The Cutting Edge
JEFFERY DEAVER · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City from their honeymoon in Italy to discover a killer is terrorizing New York City. Dubbed the Fiancé Killer, their latest foe targets newly engaged couples by following them into jewelry stores, ending the couples' lives just before... |
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Fascism
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace. At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many,... |
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Macbeth
Jo Nesbo · Hogarth Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND THE THIRST Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream... |
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Circe
Madeline Miller · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song of Achilles"An epic spanning thousands of years that's also a keep-you-up-all-night page turner." - Ann Patchett"This is as close as you will ever come to entering the world of mythology... |
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The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely... |
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Unbury Carol: A Novel
JOSH MALERMAN · Del Rey Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Bird Box returns with a haunting tale of love, redemption, and murder. Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each... |
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Sharp
Michelle Dean · Grove Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm -- these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America... |
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Country Dark
CHRIS OFFUTT · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction... |
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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
Carlos Magdalena · Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An impassioned memoir of saving extraordinary plants on the brink of extinction, by a scientist who has been called a "codebreaker" (Telegraph) and "an inspiration" (Jane Goodall) Carlos Magdalena is not your average horticulturist. He's a man on a mission to save... |
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Viet Thanh Nguyen · Abrams Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches,... |
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