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The Air You Breathe: A Novel

Frances de Pontes Peebles · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation...
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The Outside Child

Tiffany L Warren · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"When I read a Tiffany L. Warren novel I know I'm going to get two things - a riveting story and a faith boost!" - ReShonda Tate Billingsley All of Chenille Abrams' dreams came true the day she married NFL star Brayden Carpenter. He's the down-to-earth, loving, and protective...
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Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries

MARTHA WELLS · Tor.com
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?Sci-fi's favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where...
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Three Things About Elsie: A Novel

Joanna Cannon · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of the "remarkable ... masterfully constructed, pitch-perfect" (BOOKLIST , starred review) debut The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small...
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You Were Made for This

MICHELLE SACKS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship.Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place....
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Hollywood Ending

Kellye Garrett · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

And the award goes to . . . . . . Dayna Anderson, the semi-famous actress turned PI who steps up her sleuthing swagger in this follow-up to breakout hit Hollywood Homicide, winner of the Lefty Award and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel! Tinseltown's awards season is in full swing,...
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Red, White, Blue: A novel

Lea Carpenter · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret past--at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty.Anna is the beloved...
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The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel

Julie Schumacher · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach...Now...
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The Line That Held Us

David Joy · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again.When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years,...
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Cherry: A novel

Nico Walker · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move...
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Bloody Rose

Nicholas Eames · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

A standalone epic fantasy adventure featuring a band of legendary mercenaries set in the world of Kings of the Wyld from author Nicholas Eames, who has been hailed as "the voice of modern fantasy" by Michael R. Fletcher. Live fast, die young. Tam Hashford is tired of working...
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Whiskey When We're Dry

John Larison · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From a blazing new voice in fiction, a gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads westIn the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation...
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The Sea Queen: A Novel

LINNEA HARTSUYKER · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The epic Viking saga begun in The Half-Drowned King continues with this exhilarating tale filled with the excitement, romantic adventure, political intrigue, violence, and rich history that have made Game of Thrones, Outlander, and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology popular bestsellers.Six years...
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Bibliomysteries: Volume Two: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores

Otto Penzler · Pegasus Books
Pages: 532
Format: Hardcover

Specially commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop, the "bibliomysteries" in this unique collection feature original stories by the genre's most distinguished authors: Ian Rankin, Thomas Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, and Elizabeth George. If you like mysteries and you like...
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City of Ink

Elsa Hart · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Following the enthralling 18th century Chinese mysteries Jade Dragon Mountain and White Mirror, comes the next Li Du adventure in Whisper of Ink.Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But to unravel the mystery that surrounds his mentor's execution,...
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Goodbye, Paris: A Novel

Anstey Harris · Touchstone
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.Grace once had the beginnings of a promising musical career, but she hasn't been able to play her cello publicly since a traumatic event...
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Foundryside: A Novel

ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT · Crown
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself--the first in a dazzling new fantasy series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett. Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse...
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The Point

John Dixon · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

What if you had a power you had to hide from everyone - until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes.Welcome to The Point, future leaders of the Posthuman Age. New cadets, society is not ready...
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The Stars Now Unclaimed

DREW WILLIAMS · Tor Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Firefly and James S. A. Corey's Expanse series, The Stars Now Unclaimed is a fun, adventure-filled ride around a far-future galaxy.Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse...
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The Phantom Tree

Nicola Cornick · Graydon House
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another."Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait - supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter...
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Meet Me at the Museum: A Novel

ANNE YOUNGSON · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." -- Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"This is a work of art, dear readers. Revel in its beauty."...
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Bellewether

Susanna Kearsley · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters -- sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!" -- DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander"The house,...
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