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Tell Me Lies: A Novel

Carola Lovering · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling, sexy coming-of-age story exploring toxic love, ruthless ambition, and shocking betrayal, Tell Me Lies is about that one person who still haunts you - the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn't let go of. The one you'll never forget.Lucy Albright is far from her Long...
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Final Resting Place: A Lincoln and Speed Mystery

JONATHAN F PUTNAM · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past -- from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt...
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Something in the Water: A Novel

CATHERINE STEADMAN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut - for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin...
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays

Amy Meyerson · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just...
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Sailing Lessons: A Novel

Hannah McKinnon · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

On the shores of Cape Cod, the Bailey sisters reunite with their long-lost father for a summer of hope and forgiveness in this heartfelt novel from the author of the "sharp and evocative" (Kirkus Reviews) Mystic Summer, The Lake Season, and The Summer House, sure to appeal...
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Crime & Punctuation

KAITLYN DUNNETT · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges from retirement as a freelance editor. With her ability to spot details that others fail to see, it's not long before Mikki earns clients - and realizes that the village of Lenape Hollow isn't...
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Field of Valor: A Thriller

Matthew Betley · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Set in the aftermath of Betley's "machine-gun pace" (BOOKLIST ) Oath of Honor and the discovery of a deadly global conspiracy, the president requests Logan West to form a covert task force with the mission to dismantle a nameless enemy.With the full resources of the Justice...
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London Rules

Mick Herron · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The fifth entry in the CWA Gold Dagger-winning Slough House series featuring Jackson Lamb London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting...
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The Dead House: A Novel

Billy O'Callaghan · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the past endures - and sometimes it never lets go.This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital...
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Ain't She a Peach

Molly Harper · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet - but he hasn't bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he's ever met.Frankie McCready talks to dead people. Not like a ghost whisperer or anything - but it seems rude to embalm them and not at least...
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Nightflyers & Other Stories

GEORGE R R MARTIN · Tor Science Fiction
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones: Nightflyers, coming to television on SyFy, is an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror, plus five George R. R. Martin classic science fiction tales.On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics...
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Path to Passion

Nana Prah · Harlequin Kimani Romance
Pages: 224
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The man who broke her heart ... Is the man she now needs more than ever!Heir to his family's global empire, branding genius Miguel Astacio turns everything into marketing gold. Only his best friend's sister seems immune to his magic touch. Until Tanya Carrington comes to him to save her floundering...
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The Shimmer

Carsten Stroud · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

How do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you're never born?A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing...
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The Cottages on Silver Beach

RaeAnne Thayne · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Years after betraying her, he's back in Haven Point ... and ready to learn the truthMegan Hamilton never really liked Elliot Bailey. He turned his back on her family when they needed him the most and it almost tore them all apart. So she's shocked when Elliot arrives at her family's inn,...
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Murder in Greenwich Village

LIZ FREELAND · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A year before World War I breaks out, the sidewalks of Manhattan are crowded with restless newcomers chasing the fabled American Dream, including a sharp-witted young woman who discovers a talent for investigating murder . . . New York City, 1913. Twenty-year-old Louise Faulk has fled...
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We Begin Our Ascent

Joe Mungo Reed · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzling debut by an exciting and essential new talent: fast, harrowing, compelling, masterfully structured, genuinely moving. Reed is a true stylist." - George Saunders "Joe Mungo Reed's unforgettable debut novel introduces us to a powerful new literary voice, as riveting...
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Little Big Love

Katy Regan · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

About a Boy meets Parenthood in this smart, big-hearted love story about a family for whom everything changed one night, a decade ago, and the young boy who unites them all.Ten-year-old Zac Hutchinson collects facts: octopuses have three hearts, Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth. But no one will...
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Death of an Unsung Hero: A Mystery

Tessa Arlen · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Lady Montfort and her pragmatic housekeeper Mrs. Jackson investigate a murder of a WWI officer with amnesia in the 20th-century English countryside.Building on the success of her last three mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe in Death of an Unsung Hero...
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A Terrible Country: A Novel

KEITH GESSEN · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A cause for celebration: big-hearted, witty, warm, compulsively readable, earnest, funny, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers." - George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the BardoA literary triumph about Russia,...
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A Study in Treason: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery

LEONARD GOLDBERG · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A continuation of USA TODAY bestselling author Leonard Goldberg's The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Treason is a new intriguing locked room mystery for Joanna and the Watsons to solve.The following case has not previously been disclosed to the public due to the sensitive information...
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The Ever After: A Novel

Sarah Pekkanen · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this intricate and enthralling domestic drama, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and The Affair, the internationally bestselling author of the "gossipy page-turner" (Glamour) The Perfect Neighbors goes deep into a marriage in crisis, peeling back layers of secrets to discover...
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The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington

Charles Rosenberg · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington, for fans of alternate histories like The Plot Against America, The Guns of the South and The Man in the High Castle.British special agent Jeremiah Black,...
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The Verdun Affair: A Novel

NICK DYBEK · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart.In 1921, two young Americans...
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