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America for Beginners: A Novel

LEAH FRANQUI · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendships...
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Whistle in the Dark: A Novel

Emma Healey · Harper
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary...
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Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel

Victoria Christopher Murray · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.Gabrielle Wilson has the perfect life: a Beverly Hills mansion, a loving family, and a massively successful PR firm. When her father admits that an affair he had years before resulted in a daughter, Gabrielle is shocked, but is actually...
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Believe Me: A Novel

J P DELANEY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation. "A compelling read . . . redefines the concept of an unreliable narrator . . . [a] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone...
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This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us: A Novel

Edgar Cantero · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives, Die Hard, Fast & Furious, and the worst case of sibling rivalry. In a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names...
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The Spook in the Stacks: A Lighthouse Library Mystery

EVA GATES · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover

Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents...
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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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Goodfellas

CARL WEBER · Urban Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Headlined by New York Times bestseller Carl Weber, three authors bring readers tales of power, greed, and ambition set in some of the country's roughest neighborhoods. "Sibling Rivalry" by Carl Weber: They say the parent's sins always fall into the children's laps....
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Me, Myself and Them

Dan Mooney · Park Row
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking, funny and fresh debut about human connection and the power of friendship Struggling to cope with a tragic loss, Denis Murphy has, for the past seven years, learned to live differently. His friends are used to his strict routines, like ironing his socks and lighting his fireplace...
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Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One

RAPHAELLE GIORDANO · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

The feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the Search for Happiness.At thirty-eight and a quarter years old, Paris native Camille has everything...
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RESCUED

DAVID ROSENFELT · Minotaur Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover

In Rescued, David Rosenfelt again delights his readers with the charm and wit they've come to expect. Even the most fervent fans of the sardonic Andy Carpenter and his team will be enthralled by this latest case, where the stakes have never been higher.Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter is reluctant...
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Baby Teeth: A Novel

ZOJE STAGE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Sweetness can be deceptive.In the tradition of THE DINNER and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a "bad seed" debut about a mom desperate to find help for her mute young daughter, whose disturbing behavior grows increasingly dangerous."Unnerving and unputdownable, Baby Teeth...
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Heroine Complex

SARAH KUHN · DAW
Pages: 378
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka and Aveda Jupiter protect San Francisco from perilous threats in the first book in Sarah Kuhn's snarky and smart fantasy trilogy * "The superheroine we've been waiting for." - Seanan McGuireBeing a superheroine is hard. Working for one is even...
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Shelved Under Murder: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery

VICTORIA GILBERT. · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Autumn leaves aren't the only things falling in the historic Virginia village of Taylorsford -- so are some cherished memories, and a few bodies.October in Taylorsford, Virginia means it's leaf peeping season, with bright colorful foliage and a delightful fresh crew of tourists attending...
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The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel

Elizabeth Leiknes · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film...
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Safe Houses: A novel

Dan Fesperman · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins...
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Dune Drive

Mariah Stewart · Pocket Books
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the next heartwarming novel in her celebrated Chesapeake Diaries, a small-town romance series in the vein of Barbara Freethy, Susan Mallery, and Robyn Carr.
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The Sinners

ACE ATKINS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the new novel from New York Times-bestselling crime master Ace Atkins, violence comes in many forms...and this time it may be more than Quinn Colson can handle.The Pritchards had never been worth a damn--an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem....
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Ghosted: A Novel

ROSIE WALSH · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Six perfect days. Then he disappeared. A love story with a secret at its heart.When Sarah meets Eddie, they connect instantly and fall in love. To Sarah, it seems as though her life has finally begun. And it's mutual: It's as though Eddie has been waiting for her, too. Sarah has never been...
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Scandal Above Stairs

Jennifer Ashley · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below StairsA mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian LondonPriceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife...
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The Late Bloomers' Club: A Novel

LOUISE MILLER · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A delightful novel about two headstrong sisters, a small town's efforts to do right by the community, and the power of a lost dog to conjure up true loveNora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em to her regulars,...
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The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom: A Novel

A E Hotchner · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A heartwarming amateur detective story set in Depression-era St. Louis from beloved author A. E. Hotchner.Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewlery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father,...
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Dreadful Company

Vivian Shaw · Orbit
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

Contemporary fantasy in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, whose family has been keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well for generations.When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is unexpectedly called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects...
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Isabel Dalhousie

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 287
Format: Hardcover

Isabel Dalhousie grapples with complex matters of the heart as she tries to juggle her responsibilities to friends, family, and the philosophical community. With two small boys to raise, a mountain or articles to edit for the Review of Applied Ethics and the ever-increasing demands of her niece,...
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Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell

KEVIN HEARNE · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In an irreverent new series in the tradition of Terry Pratchett novels and The Princess Bride, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly overwritten feast scenes. Once upon a time, in a faraway...
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