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Tiamat's Wrath

JAMES S A COREY · Orbit
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

The eighth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper....
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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest...
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White Elephant: A Novel

· Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novelThe White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing...
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The Secretary: A Novel

Renée Knight · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Renée Knight follows up her international sensation Disclaimer with this shivery tale of psychological suspense, featuring a character as disturbing and compelling as Mrs. Danvers in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca.

From her first day as Personal Assistant to the celebrated...

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The Matchmaker's List

Sonya Lalli · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

One devoted modern girl + a meddlesome, traditional grandmother = a heartwarming multicultural romantic comedy about finding love where you least expect it

Raina Anand may have finally given in to family pressure and agreed to let her grandmother play matchmaker, but that doesn't...
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The River: A novel

Peter Heller · Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, this is a masterful tale of wilderness survival in the vein of Into the Wild and The Call of the Wild. It is the story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, whitewater, starvation,...

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Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna

MARIO GIORDANO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Auntie Poldi finds a body in a vineyard, she sets out to solve another murder - with the Mafia nipping at her heels - in the next adventure from this national bestselling "smash series." (People Magazine)

"There's a new star in the mystery firmament,...
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Forget Me Not

Brenda Jackson · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Brenda Jackson welcomes you back to Catalina Cove, where love is waiting to be reclaimed ...

Ashley Ryan never doubted that her husband, Devon, was the love of her life. Even now, three years after Devon died in a car wreck while on a business trip, Ashley can't bring herself to move...
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Otherwise Engaged: A Novel

Palmer Lindsey J. · Skyhorse
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Life is sweet for New Yorkers Molly and Gabe: They're young, in love, and newly engaged.

But when Gabe sells his first novel--a thinly-veiled retelling of his wild love affair with ex-girlfriend Talia--and it becomes a national sensation, Molly can't help but feel like the third...
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When You Are Near

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

After her father's death, Lizzy Brookstone, the star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, takes over management of the traveling show. In her new role, she has to work with both Wesley DeShazer, the man who once broke her heart, and Jason Adler, her financial...
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Redemption Point

Candice Fox · Forge Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller in Redemption Point.

When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rainforest town of Crimson Lake would...

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The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly bewitching. This atmospheric, intricate thriller, a pitch-perfect modern Gothic, chilled my blood and warmed my heart. As unforgettable as it is original."
- A.J. Finn

"Goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting, in every sense. I loved this book! And you will...
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The Last Year of the War

Susan Meissner · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.

Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old...
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel

Rajeev Balasubramanyam · The Dial Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Follow the completely infuriating, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?

"Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant,...
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Little Faith

Nickolas Butler · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church

Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life...

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The Goodbye Café

Mariah Stewart · Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From Mariah Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of The Chesapeake Diaries series, comes the next book in her popular Hudson Sisters series, which follows a trio of reluctant sisters who set out to fulfill their father's dying wish and discover themselves in the process in this...
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Kaddish.com: A novel

Nathan Englander · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father

Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father...
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A Dangerous Collaboration

Deanna Raybourn · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Veronica Speedwell returns in another adventure filled with secrets and betrayal from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries.

Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is whisked off to a remote island off the tip of Cornwall...
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The Library of Lost and Found

Phaedra Patrick · Park Row
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A librarian's discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the international bestselling author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though...
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If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel

Genki Kawamura · Flatiron Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

The international phenomenon that has sold over a million copies in Japan, If Cats Disappeared from the World is a funny, heartwarming, and profound meditation on the meaning of life.


The postman's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only...

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