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The Feral Detective: A Novel
JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella,... |
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An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere
Mikita Brottman · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere -- a once-grand hotel -- and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed... |
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The Best Bad Things: A Novel
Katrina Marie Carrasco · MCD
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A brazen, brawny, sexy standout of a historical thrill ride, The Best Bad Things is full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco's debut will leave you thirsty for more." -- Lyndsay Faye,... |
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A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time
Rob Scheer · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children.Rob Scheer never... |
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The Kinship of Secrets
Eugenia Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran,... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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Those Who Knew
Idra Novey · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"Those Who Knew speaks with uncommon prescience to the swirl around us. Novey writes, with acuity and depth, about questions of silence, power, and complicity. The universe she has created is imagined, and all too real." --Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single LadiesFrom... |
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Ways to Hide in Winter
Sarah St.Vincent · Melville House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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In the wintery silences of Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a mysterious foreigner - setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically charged debut After surviving a life-altering accident at twenty-two, Kathleen recuperates by retreating to a remote campground... |
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A Shot in the Dark: A Constable Twitten Mystery
Lynne Truss · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A wryly entertaining new crime novel from Lynne Truss, New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter... |
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