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The Nanny: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another.

When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt...

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Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Ellen Datlow · Saga Press
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre - including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...
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The Last Train to London: A Novel

Meg Waite Clayton · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and The Nightingale, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe - and one brave...

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To the Lions: A Novel

Holly Watt · Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An international thriller featuring a female journalist who stumbles upon a dark conspiracy, and her determination to follow the clues, no matter how far that takes her.

Casey Benedict, star reporter at the Post, has infiltrated the lives and exposed the lies of countless...
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Paper Chains: A Novel

Nicola Moriarty · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Fifth Letter and Those Other Women comes this touching story of secrets, friendship, family, and forgiveness - and the serendipitous twists of fate that shape our lives.

Accept a letter ...

Hannah has been running - literally and figuratively...

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Where the Light Enters

Sara Donati · Berkley
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York

Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early...
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The Woodpecker Always Pecks Twice

J.R. Ripley · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A red-bellied woodpecker may lead to a yellow-bellied killer ...

One morning when unwilling early bird Amy Simms grabs her binoculars for a closer look at the woodpecker who's been waking her up, she can't believe her eyes. Across Ruby Lake, through a curtain of rain,...
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Strands of Truth

Colleen Coble · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Suspense, romance, and generational secrets meld in this engrossing new novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble.

Strands of Harper Taylor's childhood are resurfacing - but will the truth save her . . . or pull her under?

Harper Taylor is used to being alone...

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The Nightjar

Deborah Hewitt · Tor Books
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt is a stunning contemporary fantasy debut about another London, a magical world hidden behind the bustling modern city we know.

Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life...until the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice...

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Pretty Guilty Women: A Novel

Gina LaManna · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Four Women. Four Confessions. One Murder.

Something has gone terribly wrong at the Banks wedding. A man is dead. Four different women rush to offer confessions, each insisting that they committed the crime -- alone.

Ginger is holding her family together by a thread, and this...

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One Night at the Lake: A Novel

Bethany Chase · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A tragedy on a hot summer night at a lake house forever alters the lives of two best friends - and the man they both love. But the truth isn't as simple as it appears in this intricate novel of love, friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness.

Leah has been waiting for this moment a long...
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The Deception

Kat Martin · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin returns with a brand-new story in her Maximum Security series! When a woman's missing sister is found dead, she'll stop at nothing to find the killer - even hire a bounty hunter. The Deception is high-stakes, fast-paced suspense at its finest!
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Bringing Down the Duke

Evie Dunmore · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing such a man brought to his knees by a beautiful woman with nothing to her name except an inviolable sense of her own self-worth." - NPR

A Most Anticipated Fall Release for Bustle, Refinery29, and Publishers Weekly!

A...
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When Hell Struck Twelve

James R. Benn · Soho Crime
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

US Army detective Billy Boyle and Lieutenant Kaz are assigned to the French Resistance with delicate orders: help them with their mission, but only enough to keep up a deception campaign - the outcome of the war depends on it.

August, 1944: US Army Captain Billy Boyle is assigned...
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The Sisters of Summit Avenue

Lynn Cullen · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From Lynn Cullen, the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain's End, comes a powerful novel set in the Midwest during the Great Depression, about two sisters bound together by love, duty, and pain.

Ruth has been single-handedly raising four young daughters and running...
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Rewind

Catherine Ryan Howard · Blackstone Audio
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

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Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera?...

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And Then They Were Doomed: A Little Library Mystery

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Zoe Zola is one of ten invitees to an Agatha Christie symposium. Tempers flare ... and then there are nine. Can Jenny Weston save Zoe from murder on the Upper Peninsula?

Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation - in the form...
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Vanishing in the Haight

Max Tomlinson · Oceanview Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard and Gillian Flynn

Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then...

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The Last Astronaut

David Wellington · Orbit
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth's last astronaut--and last hope--in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.
Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended...
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Goodnight Stranger: A Novel

Miciah Bay Gault · Park Row
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Somewhere the ghosts of Shirley Jackson and the Henry James of The Turn of the Screw are smiling, because a wildly talented young writer has joined their lineage."
- George Saunders, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

Entertainment Weekly's...
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novel

Petina Gappah · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared only as footnotes in history, yet whose final, brave act of loyalty and respect changed the course of it. An incredible and important book by a masterful...
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Monarch Manor

Maureen Leurck · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Erin Marinelli has her work cut out for her when she arrives at her late grandmother's Wisconsin home to prepare for an estate sale. But sifting through the overwhelming collection of figurines, outdated appliances and dusty books, she finds something that captures her attention: a yellowed...
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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · Tor.com
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A USA Today Best-Selling Novel!

"Unlike anything I've ever read. " -- V.E. Schwab

"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" -- Charles Stross

"Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through." -- NPR

The...

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Empty Hearts: A Novel

Juli Zeh · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump...
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The Third Daughter: A Novel

Talia Carner · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

"In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation...

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The First Girl Child

Amy Harmon · 47North
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a breathtaking fantasy of a cursed kingdom, warring clans, and unexpected salvation.

Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned,...

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A Song for a New Day

· Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.

In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit...
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow · Redhook
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery...
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The Nobodies: A Novel

Liza Palmer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author." -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six

Charmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies is a novel about failing but never losing the core...

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29 Seconds

T. M. Logan · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From T.M. Logan, the bestselling author of Lies, comes 29 Seconds, a sensational new thriller that explores what happens when a split second thought of revenge takes on a life of its own.

"Give me one name. One person. And I will make them...

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Live a Little: A Novel

Howard Jacobson · Hogarth
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of 'our funniest writers alive' (Allison Pearson) : a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.

At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including...
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