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The Whispered Word

ELLERY ADAMS · Kensington
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams' intriguing new Secret, Book, and Scone Society novel, Nora Pennington and her fiction loving friends in small-town Miracle Springs, North Carolina, encounter a young woman desperately in need of a new beginning . . . Nora Pennington,...
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Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud

MIKE LUPICA · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival.Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never...
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In These Streets

SHELLY ELLIS · Dafina
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

They beat the odds and turned their lives around. But now three best friends will go head-to-head with ambition, deception - and each other . . . Derrick. Ricky. Jamal. One's responsible; one's still a player; one's upwardly-mobile. Sentenced to the Branch Avenue Boys' Youth Institute...
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Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse

Ben Schott · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now, bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life in a madcap new adventure that is full of the hijinks, entanglements, imbroglios,...
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A Pocketful of Crows

Joanne Harris · Gollancz
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover

I am as brown as brown can be,And my eyes as black as sloe;I am as brisk as brisk can be,And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295) So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws...
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Someone to Trust

Mary Balogh · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in the latest novel in the Westcott series.After her husband's passing, Elizabeth Overfield decides that she must enter into another suitable...
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Tell Her No Lies

KELLY IRVIN · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Even the most admired families have secrets to hide . . . Nina Fischer carries a camera wherever she goes - so she can view life through a filter. Safely. After her mother abandoned her to the streets, Nina has kept people at a distance, including her uncle, who adopted Nina and her sister....
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The Man She Married

CATHY LAMB · Kensington
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

In Cathy Lamb's gripping and thought-provoking novel, a woman whose memory is shattered must piece together her husband's secrets - and reevaluate her life, love, and relationships . . . When Natalie Shelton thinks back to how things were before the car accident, she remembers a great...
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A Light of Her Own

Carrie Callaghan · Amberjack Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In Holland 1633, a woman's ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to try to become the first woman admitted to the Haarlem painters guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering a lost...
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Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic...
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The Adults

Caroline Hulse · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A couple, now separated. Their daughter. Their new partners. One epic Christmas vacation. What could go wrong? This razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The Holiday.Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide that...
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Sweetpea

C. J. Skuse · MIRA
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead ... I haven't killed anyone for three years, and I thought that when it happened again I'd feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whiskey. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful night's sleep. Didn't wake up at all. And for once, no bad dream...
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The Mortal Word

Genevieve Cogman · Ace
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

In the latest novel in Genevieve Cogman's historical fantasy series, the fate of worlds lies in the balance. When a dragon is murdered at a peace conference, time-travelling Librarian spy Irene must solve the case to keep the balance between order, chaos...and the Library.When Irene returns...
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Find Me Gone: A Novel

Sarah Meuleman · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From Vogue Amsterdam columnist Sarah Meuleman comes a haunting, whip-smart debut novel about second chances and the lengths one young woman will go to keep her dark secrets sealed in the past.1996. In the sleepy hamlet of Bachte-Maria-Leerne, in the Belgian countryside, the residents are reeling...
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'Twas the Knife Before Christmas: A Christmas Tree Farm Mystery

Jacqueline Frost · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

A Christmas delight, 'Twas the Knife Before Christmas will charm the stockings off readers of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier. It's out of the cupcake tin, into the fire for Holly White's best friend, Caroline. Can Holly clear Caroline's name in time to go caroling?When a body turns up in a larger-than-life...
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Once a Midwife: A Hope River Novel

Patricia Harman · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Welcome back to Hope River in New York Times bestselling author Patricia Harman's newest novel as midwife Patience Hester, along with her family and friends, face the challenges of the home front during World War II.The women of Hope River trust midwife Patience Hester, whose skill in delivering...
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The Razor

Jack Barton Mitchell · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"J. Barton Mitchell's The Razor is cutting-edge SF." -- Matthew Costello, author of Planet of the Apes: Last FrontierBrilliant engineer Marcus Flynn has been sentenced to 11-H37 alongside the galaxy's most dangerous criminals. A hard labor prison planet better known as the Razor,...
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Deceased and Desist

Misty Simon · Kensington
Pages: 272
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Window of opportunity . . . Most housecleaners don't do windows, but Tallie Graver loves leaving a pane of glass streak-free and sparkling. After a dirty divorce from a filthy-rich jerk, she's started her own cleaning business to make ends meet. On her latest job, prepping a renovated...
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The Last Sword Maker: A Thriller

Brian Nelson · Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed...
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Lies, Love, and Breakfast at Tiffany's

JULIE WRIGHT · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A fan favorite from Lies Jane Austen Told Me has her own story as Silvia Bradshaw begins her Hollywood career loving every aspect from the glamour and style of Audrey Hepburn to the behind-the-scenes filmmaking magic—and she is ready to prove her worth as the newest film editor at a major...
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