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The Secret Life of Sam Holloway: A Novel

Rhys Thomas · Park Row
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A poignant and irresistible story about an improbable hero and the woman who saves him. Sam Holloway is a survivor, but he's not really living. His meticulous routines and quiet lifestyle keep everything nice and safe - with just one exception ... Three nights a week, Sam dons his superhero...
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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

K. J. Parker · Orbit
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The powerful new novel from World Fantasy Award-winner K. J. Parker and the start of a sweeping new epic fantasy series. A siege is approaching, and the City has little time left to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all. Their only...
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What Red Was: A Novel

Rosie Price · Hogarth
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A sophisticated and conversation-starting novel of modern love, sexual violence and toxic inheritance from a brilliant new literary voice"Gripping . . . shines an unflinching light on trauma and its prismatic impact. A deeply necessary book" -Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water...
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The Cold Way Home

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, former West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins investigates the murder of a teenager while continuing to rebuild her life. Bell Elkins and Jake Oakes make a good team, so good that they decide after years of working together to hang...
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The Ventriloquists: A Novel

E.R. Ramzipoor · Park Row
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most...
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Rules of War: A Thriller

Matthew Betley · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Following the events of the "fast, hard-hitting, and impossible to put down" (The Real Book Spy) Field of Valor, Logan West continues his mission to bring America's traitorous vice president to justice, even as the clandestine group pulling...
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Haunted House Murder

Leslie Meier · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tricks and treats keep the Halloween spirit alive in coastal Maine. But this year the haunted house theme is getting carried a little too far . . . HAUNTED HOUSE MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Newcomers to Tinker's Cove, Ty and Heather Moon have moved into a dilapidated house reputed to be a haven...
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife: A Novel

Karen Brooks · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London - a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue ... and chocolate.Damnation has never been so sweet...Rosamund...
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Tin Badges: A Novel

Lorenzo Carcaterra · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A top NYPD detective is pulled out of retirement to take down a notorious drug dealer. But when cracking the case means involving his computer-whiz nephew, will he risk the only family he's ever had? From the #1 bestselling author of Sleepers and The Wolf. . . . As one of the NYPD's most...
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More to Life

ReShonda Tate Billingsley · Dafina
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

In this stunning sequel to her acclaimed debut My Brother's Keeper, #1 national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley brings her real-deal insight to a heartfelt new novel about a wife and mother on a daring rescue mission - to save herself. Freshly forty-five, Aja James knows...
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Layover

David Bell · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

In this high concept psychological suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter, a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on a pulse-pounding quest for the truth.Joshua Fields takes the same flights every week for work, his life a series of departures...
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Gumshoe Rock

Rob Leininger · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

USA Today best-selling author"Mortimer Angel is my favorite private eye." -- John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author Early in July, northern Nevada's senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden -- disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office -- vanished...
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We Came Here to Forget: A Novel

Andrea Dunlop · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of She Regrets Nothing, which BuzzFeed called a "sharp, glittering story of wealth, family, and fate," comes a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses everything and escapes to Buenos Aires, where she reinvents herself, meets a colorful group of ex-pats,...
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Love at First Like

Hannah Orenstein · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From the author of Playing with Matches, the rollicking tale of a young jewelry shop owner who accidentally leads her Instagram followers to believe that she's engaged - and then decides to keep up the ruse.Eliza Roth and her sister Sophie co-own a jewelry shop in Brooklyn. One night, after...
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Hollow Kingdom

Kira Jane Buxton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots) , and enjoying...
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The Great Unexpected: A Novel

Dan Mooney · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

A curmudgeon and his eccentric new roommate join together to plan an epic escape in this charming, poignant tale.Joel lives in a nursing home, and he's not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He's fed up with life and begins to plan...
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Wonton Terror: A Noodle Shop Mystery

Vivien Chien · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Ho-Lee Noodle House is ready to win a local culinary competition -- until a brand-new food venue literally explodes onto the scene.Lana Lee is all smiles when the first evening of Cleveland's Asian Night Market kicks off the summer. The weekly festival is always good for business, packed...
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The Paris Orphan

Natasha Lester · Forever
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress comes a World War II novel that spans continents and crosses generations as an American soldier and an enterprising Vogue photographer brave war-torn France to help a lost little girl find the one thing she never had: a family....
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Quichotte: A Novel

Salman Rushdie · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie delivers an utterly modern remake of Don Quixote with an epic love story set in the Age of Anything Can Happen.
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After the Flood: A Novel

Kassandra Montag · William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Book

An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga with the literary force and evocative imagination of Station Eleven, Zone One, and The Road, that signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, the world has been utterly transformed. After...
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The Long Call

Ann Cleeves · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From Ann Cleeves -- bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows -- comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers." -- Louise PennyIn North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into...
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Shades: Detroit Love Stories

Esperanza M. Cintrón · Wayne State University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Esperanza Cintrón's Shades: Detroit Love Stories is a short story collection that is distinctly Detroit. By touching on a number of romantic and sexual encounters that span the historical and temporal spaces of the city, each of these interconnected stories examines the obstacles an individual...
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A Dangerous Engagement

Ashley Weaver · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A Dangerous Engagement is the stylish, charming sixth novel in the Edgar-nominated Amory Ames mystery series by Ashley Weaver, set in 1930s New York. As they travel by ship to New York for her childhood friend Tabitha's wedding, Amory Ames gazes out at the city's iconic skyline, excited...
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Death by Jack-o'-Lantern

Alexis Morgan · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Overcommitted committee member Abby McCree gets in a patch of trouble trying to solve the murder of a pumpkin farmer ... The small town of Snowberry Creek, Washington, is gearing up for the Halloween Festival, and naturally Abby is on the planning committee. As part of her duties, she's...
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

H. G. Parry · Redhook
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library.For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't...
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Play with Fire

William Shaw · Mulholland Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In hedonistic 1960s London, a police detective investigates the unexpected connections between two suspicious deaths: a call girl and a rock star. It's the summer of '69, and the hard-living rock stars of the British Invasion still rule London. When former Rolling Stone Brian Jones turns...
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