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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest...
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BLACK AND BLUE

DAVID ROSENFELT · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The next exciting installment in bestselling David Rosenfelt's Doug Brock series. Doug Brock hasn't had it easy since his getting shot in the line of duty as a New Jersey state police officer. Between the amnesia and having to solve two murder cases, it hasn't been the most restful recovery....
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The Other Americans: A Novel

Laila Lalami · Pantheon
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.Late...
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A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine · Tor Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it." -- Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary JusticeAmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli...
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The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, "Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible." That journey starts right here. In her latest book, The Path Made...
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Groundbreaking."--Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary...
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Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Yuval Taylor · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends -- until they weren't.Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Let America Be America Again") were...
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Clive Thompson · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Hello, world.Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological...
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The American Agent

JACQUELINE WINSPEAR · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade) , investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent...
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Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London

Claire Harman · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: Can a novel kill?In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest...
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