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American Dirt: A Novel

Jeanine Cummins · Flatiron Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, there are dreams.Already being hailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new American classic", American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer...
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A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel

Isabel Allende
Format: Hardcover


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Heart of Junk: A Novel

Luke Geddes · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pageant star. The city of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. However, the dealers...
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Agency

William Gibson · Berkley
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "app-whisperer" is hired by a mysterious San Francisco start-up and finds herself in contact with a unique and surprisingly combat-savvy AI.
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The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel

Louisa Luna · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan.On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility...
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The Blaze

· Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 384

One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in his Montana hometown--if only he could remember it.

Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after...
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Emma Copley Eisenberg · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were...
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