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PAULA DALY · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Haven't we all wanted to pretend everything's perfectly fine? Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at all costs. Given the choice, she'll always let her husband, Leon -- a bestselling thriller author -- fight their battles. She'd prefer to focus on the good things in life: precious days with...
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Invisible: he Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster T

STEPHEN CARTER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 384
Format: Book

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life

She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could...

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The Witch Elm: A Novel

TANA FRENCH · Viking
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post)

From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent"...
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The Clockmaker's Daughter

KATE MORTON · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Book

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.

My real name, no one remembers.
The truth...

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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven

MITCH ALBOM · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie - the little girl he saved on earth - in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.

Fifteen years ago,...

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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968

George Howe Colt · Scribner
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story in the tradition of The Boys in the Boat about an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale football game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents...
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Mycroft and Sherlock

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR · Titan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.

It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no interest in the killings;...
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My Squirrel Days

ELLIE KEMPER · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naïf to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker.

There comes a time...
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Bitter Orange

CLAIRE FULLER · Tin House Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances...

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