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Lindsey Kelk · HarperCollins
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

'A corker ... hilarious!' Giovanna Fletcher'Full of heart and very, very funny' Paige ToonEveryone wants that special someone ... .Annie Higgins has given up on love: she's too busy trying to get her tiny business off the ground. Infuriated by the advertising agency across the hall making...
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Presidio: A Novel

Randy Kennedy · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being...
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Second Chance At Two Love Lane

KIERAN KRAMER · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 336
Format: Mass Market Paperback

From USA Today bestselling author Kieran Kramer, comes Second Chance at Two Love Lane, a fast-paced tale about the intoxicating effects of fame and what happens when a past romance is rekindled behind the silver screen.Sometimes love is waiting in the second act... In her professional career,...
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An Easy Death

Charlaine Harris · Saga Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing, with a main character you'll love." - Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO's True...
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Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

Anne Rice · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part suspense--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead,...
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Downright Dead

PAMELA KOPFLER · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Holly Davis never imagined having a haunted bed and breakfast would be the secret to her success - or that a secret might leave her B&B DOA . . . After the syndicated TV show Inquiring Minds airs footage of their resident ghost at Holly Grove, a converted antebellum plantation house,...
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The Witch Elm: A Novel

TANA FRENCH · Viking
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King,...
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The Dream Daughter

DIANE CHAMBERLAIN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child.When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970,...
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Untitled #6: A Novel

KATE MORTON · Atria Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House--the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day.My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows....
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November Road: A Novel

LOU BERNEY · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America - a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway...

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Consumed

J R Ward · Gallery Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series comes a brand-new novel about arson investigator, Ann Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family's scorched legacy, and her current case: chasing a deadly killer.

Anne...
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The Other Wife

MICHAEL ROBOTHAM · Sphere
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover


Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.

This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDRE III DUBUS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.

For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel...

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Dracul

Dacre Stoker · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.

It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old...
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Street Freaks

Terry Brooks · Grim Oak Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

It begins with a dire call-right before his father disappears and his skyscraper home's doors explode inward. Street Freaks is the kind of thrilling futuristic story only New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks can tell.

"Go into the Red Zone. Go to Street Freaks."...

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The Little Shop of Found Things: A Novel

Paula Brackston · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure.

New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed...

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King of the Dancehall

Nick Cannon · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A heartpounding, exhilarating novel based on the hot new movie from Nick Cannon, King of the Dancehall.

The coming of age story of Tarzan Brixton, a product of the harsh and merciless Brooklyn projects. After being released from a 5 year prison sentence for an armed...

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Crisis

FELIX FRANCIS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis returns with his newest edge-of-your seat horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition.

Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable...
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Dragon's Code: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern

Gigi McCaffrey · Del Rey
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A new hero emerges in a divided world as one of sci-fi's most beloved series - Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern - relaunches with this original adventure from Anne's daughter, Gigi McCaffrey.

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dragonriders of Pern series, Gigi does...
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis: A Novel

Patti Callahan · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, a relationship that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan's...

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Virgil Wander

LEIF ENGER · Grove Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart

Midwestern movie...
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When the Men Were Gone: A Novel

MARJORIE HERRERA LEWIS · William Morrow
Pages: 240
Format: Book

In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson - a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas - comes to life.

"A wonderfully touching...

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War of the Wolf

Bernard Cornwell · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Bernard Cornwell's epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series - "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer) - the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom.

His blood is Saxon

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