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Carolyn Brown · Montlake Romance
Format: Paperback

Join the millions who have fallen in love with New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown in her landmark hundredth novel.

At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking away their...

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A Spy in Exile: A Thriller

Jonathan de Shalit · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the internationally bestselling "supremely effective, cunningly crafted" (The Providence Journal) thriller Traitor, a cerebral and suspenseful novel of high-stakes intrigue in Israel's top intelligence agency....
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The Parting Glass

Gina Marie Guadagnino · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Devoted maid Mary Ballard's world is built on secrets, and it's about to be ripped apart at the seams, in this lush and evocative debut set in 19th century New York, perfect for fans of Sarah Waters's Fingersmith and Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin.

By day, Mary Ballard...
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The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment

Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.

When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank...
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The Secrets We Bury

Debra Webb · MIRA
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Nothing stays buried forever ...

Doctor Rowan Dupont knows death. She grew up surrounded by it in her family's Victorian funeral home, and it's haunted her since the day her twin sister drowned years ago. Between her mother's subsequent suicide and the recent murder of her father,...
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This Scot of Mine: The Rogue Files

Sophie Jordan · Avon
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A daring deception ...

Desperate to escape her vile fiancé, Lady Clara devises a bold lie - that she's pregnant with another man's child. With her reputation in tatters, Clara flees to Scotland to live out her days in disgrace, resigned to her fate as a spinster ... until she claps...

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Velocity Weapon

Megan E. O'Keefe · Orbit
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in Velocity Weapon, the first book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe.
Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take...
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The Other Brother

Lauren Baratz-Logsted · Diversion Books
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback

Veteran women's fiction writer Lauren Baratz-Logsted presents the moving story of a family disrupted by fame, perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer.

Ever wonder what it must be like to be the younger sibling of someone so popular, princes and presidents are excited...
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Restless Hearts

B. J. Daniels · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

He's fighting for a second chance with his first love ... before it's too late.

The last time PI Blaze McClintock was on her family's ranch, she left in handcuffs. She vowed then to never go home again ... until her estranged father is accused of murder. He's not a good man - this...
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Wine and Punishment

· Kensington
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the first in an engaging new mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox, the owner of a charming literary pub finds her fresh start on the rocks thanks to a case of murder.

Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting...
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While You Sleep: A Novel

Stephanie Merritt · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A modern-day ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, While You Sleep is a page-turning, chillingly erotic Hitchcockian thriller evoking the dark atmospheric of a house that may be more than it seems . . .

It begins, they say, with a woman screaming . . .

On a remote...
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Finder

Suzanne Palmer · DAW
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fergus Ferguson, interstellar repo man and professional finder

Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder.
...
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The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction

Larry Dark · Catapult
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

"The Story Prize -- which recognizes the best story collection to be published each year -- has quickly established itself as a nifty jewel in a writer's crown." -- The New York Times

This anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story...

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Task Force Baum

James D. Shipman · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Saving Private Ryan and Bridge Over the River Kwai, bestselling author James D. Shipman delivers a powerful, action-packed novel that illustrates the long-buried secrets and unending costs of war - based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine...
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Soon the Light Will Be Perfect: A Novel

Dave Patterson · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Two brothers struggle to survive a whirlwind summer in rural Vermont in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel, for fans of Justin Torres and Bryn Greenwood

A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing...
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The Outside

Ada Hoffmann · Angry Robot
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Humanity's super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates...
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One Feta in the Grave

Tina Kashian · Kensington
Pages: 336
Format: Mass Market Paperback

As summer comes to an end in her Jersey Shore town, Lucy Berberian continues to manage her family's Mediterranean restaurant. The Kebab Kitchen also has a food tent at this year's beach festival. But now a local businessman is under the boardwalk - dead by the sea . . .

With a sand...
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Armed in Her Fashion

KATE HEARTFIELD · ChiZine Publications
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"The novel is written with arresting detail and challenges literary tropes about women. Its roster includes half a dozen complex female characters and one trans male character, all of them captivating, sympathetic, repulsive, flawed, dangerous, selfless, determined, and damaged....

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Low Country Hero

Lee Tobin McClain · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to Safe Haven, where love - and a second chance - is just around the corner ...

Sunny, carefree days splashing in the ocean - it's the life Anna George has always wanted for her five-year-old twins. And now that they've made it to Safe Haven, South Carolina, she won't let anyone...
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Dead Blow: A Horseshoer Mystery

Lisa Preston · Skyhorse
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Terrific second in the new Horseshoer Mystery Series, featuring the incorrigible female horse shoer, Rainy Dale.

A dead blow hammer leaves little to no mark on the surface it strikes. It's not a shoer's tool, but horseshoer Rainy Dale knows them and knows there are more questions...
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Forever My Hero

Sharon Sala · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 384
Format: Book

"Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller." -- DEBBIE MACOMBER, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author for A Piece of My Heart

Every storm they've weathered...has led them to each other

Dan Amos lost his wife and son years ago, when they inadvertently got in the way of a death...

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An Ale of Two Cities

Sarah Fox · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this intoxicating mystery by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox, a winter carnival becomes a recipe for disaster when a Shady Creek celebrity gets iced.

The Winter Carnival always brings holiday cheer, Christmas joy - and tourists with cash - to picturesque...
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Waiting for Bojangles

Olivier Bourdeaut · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

The runaway international bestseller - shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes - a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.

A young boy lives with...
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War Valley

Lancaster Hill · Pinnacle
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In this powerful new series, a Confederate veteran heads west to start a new life - and gets caught in the middle of a new kind of war . . .

WAR VALLEY

Hank Gannon grew up on a Florida plantation. He fought alongside his brothers-in-arms in the Civil War. Then he joined...
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Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery

Kelley Armstrong · Titan Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes!

These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion...
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