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Disappearing Earth: A novel

Julia Phillips · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon,...
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Rules for Visiting: A Novel

Jessica Francis Kane · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure...
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The Satapur Moonstone

SUJATA MASSEY · Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic...
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The Night Before

Wendy Walker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The night before...and the nightmare after."Ferociously smart." -- AJ Finn "Riveting." -- Riley Sager "Addictive." -- Liv Constantine "Wonderfully tense." -- Aimee Molloy"Irresistible." -- Mary Kubica"Impossible to put down."...
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The Behavior of Love: A Novel

Virginia Reeves · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An incredibly compulsive, poignant exploration of marriage, lust, and ambition from one of America's great young literary talents, the Man-Booker Prize longlisted author of Work Like Any Other. Doctor Ed Malinowski believes he has realized most of his dreams. A passionate, ambitious behavioral...
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Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait: A Novel

Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII's fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series.Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...
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Beyond the Point: A Novel

Claire Gibson · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

In this powerful debut novel set at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, three women - a nationally-ranked point guard, the granddaughter of an Army general, and a rebellious Homecoming Queen - are brought together in an enthralling story of friendship, heartbreak, and resilience.Duty....
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The Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · Gallery Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime - maybe even love - in this romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling authors of Roomies. Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems...
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The Scent of Murder

Kylie Logan · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

First in a new series from national bestselling author Kylie Logan, The Scent of Murder is a riveting mystery following Jazz Ramsey as she trains cadaver dogs. The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She's thirty-five years old and owns her own home in one of Cleveland's most...
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel

Sonali Dev · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco...It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered...
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Read on Arrival: A Bookmobile Mystery

Nora Page · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Death, deadly omens, and a decades-overdue book put senior librarian Cleo Watkins on a collision course with a killer in the second Bookmobile mystery.Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins believes in gracious manners, sweet tea, and justice -- library justice. For over forty years, Cleo...
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Rabbits for Food

Binnie Kirshenbaum · Soho Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats....
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The Light Brigade

Kameron Hurley · Saga Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the Hugo Award­­-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted...
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The Space Between Words

Miche?le Phoenix · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"There were seconds, when I woke, when the world felt unshrouded. Then memory returned."When Jessica regains consciousness in a French hospital on the day after the Paris attacks, all she can think of is fleeing the site of the horror she survived. But Patrick, the steadfast friend...
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Orange World and Other Stories

Karen Russell · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imaginationThese eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid,...
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Drawing Home

Jamie Brenner · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: the newest page-turner from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner.Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting guests at the front desk of The American Hotel. But when...
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The Alchemy of Noise: A Novel

Lorraine Devon Wilke · She Writes Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Infused with beauty, humor, and pain, The Alchemy of Noise is a modern American love story that asks if love can bridge the distance between two Americas." -- Laura Nicole Diamond, author of Shelter Us and Deliver MeIn a world so full of lonely people and broken hearts, Chris...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel

Kim Michele Richardson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's...
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The Little Teashop on Main

Jodi Thomas · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A rainy-day ritual - a tea party between three little girls - becomes the framework of not only their friendship, but their lives.Blonde, curly-haired Zoe is openhearted, kind and free-spirited, and dreams of becoming a famous actor in New York City. Shy Emily struggles with mental health...
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You, Me, and the Sea: A Novel

Meg Donohue · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of All the Summer Girls and Dog Crazy comes a spellbinding and suspenseful tale inspired by Wuthering Heights that illuminates the ways in which hope - and even magic - can blossom in the darkest of places.To find her way, she must abandon everything...
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She Lies in Wait: A Novel

Gytha Lodge · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl goes missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in a gripping thriller for readers of Tana French, The Woman in Cabin 10, and the Lynley series. On a scorching July night in 1983,...
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The Road to Grantchester

James Runcie · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian...
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One Word Kill

Mark Lawrence · 47North
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author who George RR Martin describes as "an excellent writer."In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that...
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Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel

Casey McQuiston · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

"I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy -- this book had everything I crave. I'm jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina...
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Mrs. Jeffries Delivers the Goods

Emily Brightwell · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

When poison fells an arrogant and rude businessman in public, Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon both realize they are looking for a deranged maniac in this all new installment in the beloved Victorian Mystery series On a cold night in February, the popular Lighterman's ball festivities...
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Life After: A Novel

Katie Ganshert · WaterBrook
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

It could have been me.Snow whirls around an elevated train platform in Chicago. A distracted woman boards the train, takes her seat, and moments later a fiery explosion rips through the frigid air, tearing the car apart in a horrific attack on the city's transit system. One life is spared....
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A Brightness Long Ago

Guy Gavriel Kay · Berkley
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city,...
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