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The Starless Sea: A Novel

Erin Morgenstern · Doubleday
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when...
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel

Talia Hibbert · Avon
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance's brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who's tired of being "boring" and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things - perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine...
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Susannah Cahalan · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels...
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The Siberian Dilemma

Martin Cruz Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko - "one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY) - who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna.Journalist...
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Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives?and Save Theirs

Richard Louv · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Richard Louv has done it again. A remarkable book that will help everyone break away from their fixed gaze at the screens that dominate our lives and remember instead that
we are animals in a world of animals." - Bill McKibben, author of Falter

Richard Louv's...
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The Revisioners: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton · Counterpoint
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Following her National Book Award-nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South In 1925, Josephine is the proud...
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The Family Upstairs: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of "bone-chilling suspense" (People) comes another page-turning look inside one family's past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists...
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Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America

Karine Jean-Pierre · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A moving, inspiring political memoir and progressive call to arms from the chief public affairs officer for moveon.org, chronicling her own experiences - from growing up in New York's Haitian community to working in the Obama White House and charting a path for others to help change...
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On Swift Horses: A Novel

Shannon Pufahl · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus,...
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The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

Matthew Goodman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era's brightest hopes - racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog - but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall The unlikeliest of champions, the 1949-50 City College Beavers were extraordinary...
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Songs from the Deep

Kelly Powell · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A girl searches for a killer on an island where deadly sirens lurk just beneath the waves in this gripping, atmospheric debut novel.The sea holds many secrets. Moira Alexander has always been fascinated by the deadly sirens who lurk along the shores of her island town. Even though their...
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