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Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

Alix...
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Potions Are for Pushovers

Tamara Berry · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

It may have been a ghost that led Eleanor Wilde to set up shop in a quaint English village. But now that she's established herself as the town witch, Ellie's contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enough - or gullible enough - to request her mysterious potions ...

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Snapshot

Camryn King · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

An ambitious photojournalist. An uber-dedicated enforcer. And an explosive, high-profile
scandal ignites Camryn King's provocative new thriller . . .

Breathtaking oceanfront views, friendly locals, festive meals. At first, award-winning photographer Kennedy...
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The Way Back to You

Sharon Sala · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Sharon Sala's Blessings, Georgia series is filled with unforgettable charm and delight!" -- ROBYN CARR, #1 New York Times bestselling author

What do you do when your whole life is turned upside down?

Sully Raines sets out to find his birth mother, and ends up in Blessings,...

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The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel

Georgie Blalock · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

If you love The Crown, then this is the book for you!

Diana, Catherine, Meghan ... glamorous Princess Margaret outdid them all. Springing into post-World War II society, and quite naughty and haughty, she lived in a whirlwind of fame and notoriety. Georgie Blalock captures the fascinating,...

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The Playground: A Novel

Jane Shemilt · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt's breakout debut The Daughter.Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle,...

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The Rhythm Section: A Stephanie Patrick Thriller

Mark Burnell · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

The international thriller soon to be a major motion picture, from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively. Mark Burnell's riveting thriller The Rhythm Section begins with the crash of flight NEO027. The crash destroys Stephanie Patrick's...

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The One for You

Roni Loren · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Extraordinary."Kirkus STARRED Review for The One You Can't ForgetThe highly-anticipated fourth book in Roni Loren's unforgettable The Ones Who Got Away series.Sassy Kincaid Breslin finally gets her happy ending...Kincaid Breslin was the girl who was supposed to die first...
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Murder in Rat Alley

Mark de Castrique · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this unusual spin on the classic spy novel, murder strikes from our wartime pasts...

Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past -- and they...

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The Best of Uncanny

Lynne M Thomas · Subterranean
Pages: 680
Format: Hardcover

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas have co-edited and co-published Uncanny Magazine since its launch in 2014. They brought readers stunning cover art, passionate science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, and provocative nonfiction by writers from every conceivable...
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The Chosen One

Walt Gragg · Berkley
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

A fundamentalist Islamic army is on the march in the Middle East, and the fight to stop the spread of madness will take everything the American military can muster, in this novel from the author of The Red Line.Two months ago, a new leader arose in the Islamic world, the Mahdi - or the Chosen...
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A Small Town

Thomas Perry · Mysterious Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town -- burning down...
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The Network: A Novel

L. C Shaw · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media.

"A twisty, nonstop conspiracy thriller that only has one gear: high! The Network delivers."-Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times Bestselling...

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Made Things

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Tor.com
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Making friends has never been so important.Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation...
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Murder on Cape Cod

Maddie Day · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series. Summer is busy season for Mackenzie "Mac" Almeida's bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham,...
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Wyoming

JP Gritton · Tin House Books
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback

A Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 Pick!

A cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself.

It's 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He's broke, he's been fired from...
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Love Lettering

Kate Clayborn · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

In this warm and witty romance from acclaimed author Kate Clayborn, one little word puts a woman's business - and her heart - in jeopardy . . . Meg Mackworth's hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City...
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The Kill Club

Wendy Heard · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother.

Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin...
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Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense

Leslie S. Klinger · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers -- including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton -- presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie...

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A Step So Grave

Catriona McPherson · Quercus
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

'Everything I adore' Red magazine

'Plenty of twists to keep you guessing' The Bookbag

Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on Valentine's Day. They've come to celebrate Lady Lavinia's fiftieth birthday...

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The Wives: A Novel

Tarryn Fisher · Graydon House
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Imagine that your husband has two other wives.You've never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don't care. Or at least that's what you've...
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Holly Banks Full of Angst

Julie Valerie · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 377
Format: Paperback

A laugh-out-loud debut novel for anyone who's tried to live the perfect life - and learned the hard way there's no such thing.Holly Banks could not have made a worse first impression on the seemingly perfect moms in her new affluent community, the Village of Primm. Turns out wearing...
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Freedom Lessons: A Novel

Eileen Harrison Sanchez · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Told alternately, by Colleen, an idealistic young white teacher; Frank, a black high school football player; and Evelyn, an experienced black teacher, Freedom Lessons is the story of how the lives of these three very different people intersect in a rural Louisiana town in 1969.



Colleen...
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Storm of Secrets

Loretta Marion · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Book

A deadly storm, a missing three-year-old child, a grisly murder, and the eerie presence of the spirits of the dead set the stage for the second mesmerizing installment of Loretta Marion's paranormal suspense series.

A powerful storm...

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