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Susan Mallery · Mira
Format: Book

After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can’t grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might...

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Crooked River

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A STARTLING CRIME WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS. Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach--each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. A...
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The Illness Lesson: A Novel

Clare Beams · Doubleday
Format: Book

"Astoundingly original, this impressive debut belongs on the shelf with your Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler collections."--New York Times Book Review

Named a most anticipated book of 2020 by TimeVanity Fair, EsquireO...

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Forever Hidden

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover

For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish....
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Last Day

Luanne Rice · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Book

Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister Kate suffered what they thought would be the worst tragedy of their lives the night both the famous painting Moonlight and their mother were taken. The detective assigned to the case, Conor Reid, swore to protect the sisters from...

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Careless Whiskers

Miranda James · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When Charlie's daughter is falsely accused of the murder of an angsty actor, he and Diesel must put their best paws forward to crack the case in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series.The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright...
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Weather: A novel

Jenny Offill · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisisLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this...
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The Holdout: A Novel

Graham Moore · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night: a jury on a murder trial is deadlocked when a young woman manages to turn the tide to acquit; now, a decade later, she must face the consequences when a fellow juror is killed...
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The Authenticity Project: A Novel

Clare Pooley · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually"Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?"This is the question...
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Check In at the Pine Away Motel: A Novel

Katarina Bivald · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

New from the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend! A charming tale of the folks who reunite at a ramshackle roadside motel in Pine Creek, Oregon, after the unfortunate death of Henny, a local who worked at the cabins all her life, and who isn't...
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A Beginning at the End

Mike Chen · Mira
Format: Book

How do you start over after the end of the world?

"Not just an apocalyptic thriller, but also a timely reminder of what is most important in life―family, love, and hope.” ―Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M

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Creatures: A Novel

Crissy Van Meter · Algonquin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Wiry, rhythmic, and wrenchingly beautiful, Creatures plumbs the sea-struck heart of a family fractured by longing and grief." - Leni Zumas, bestselling author of Red Clocks On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom...
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Hi Five

Joe Ide · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Isaiah Quintabe, the genius PI who combines book smarts, street smarts, and enough blistering action to melt the pavement of East Long Beach, is back with a new adventure. Fresh off the beating he took at the hands of a gang of ex-Abu Ghraib thugs working as paramilitary contractors, IQ is determined...
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Alone in the Wild

Kelley Armstrong · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby.Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided...
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Followers: A Novel

Megan Angelo · Graydon House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"If anyone is going to explore a future version of our high-tech, internet-obsessed culture, please let it be Megan Angelo. Followers is pure gold." -- Abbi Jacobson, bestselling author and cocreator of Broad CityAn electrifying story of two ambitious friends, the dark choices...
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Agency

William Gibson · Berkley
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "app-whisperer" is hired by a mysterious San Francisco start-up and finds herself in contact with a unique and surprisingly combat-savvy AI.
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The Wild One

Nick Petrie · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the national bestselling author of The Drifter.Losing ground in his fight against post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran...
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Recipe for a Perfect Wife

Karma Brown · Dutton
Format: Book

In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question...

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Never Again, No More

Untamed · Urban Renaissance
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Follow four friends who learn that to win in life, sometimes you have to lose. Journey with these ladies as they try not to fall victim, Never Again, No More.Born and raised in Atlanta, Lucinda, LaMeka, Charice, and Trinity are best friends who all have suffered the perils of teen pregnancy....
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Thistles and Thieves: The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series: Book 3

Molly MacRae · Pegasus Books
Format: Book

The latest entry in the charming Highland Bookshop mystery series finds the women of Yon Bonnie Books embroiled in the death of a local doctor, which sets off a chain of other curious -- and deadly -- events.

Out for a bicycle ride in the hills beyond Inversgail, Janet Marsh...

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Love Her or Lose Her: A Novel

Tessa Bailey · Avon
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation... Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they...
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Lady Emily Mystery

Tasha Alexander · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this new installment in Tasha Alexander's bestselling Victorian series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin uncover a mystery in the ancient city of Pompeii. Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii,...
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Trouble Is What I Do

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's most downtrodden.Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York...
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Long Bright River: A Novel

Liz Moore · Riverhead Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters travel the same streets,though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing.In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction....
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Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Resurrection

Joshua Hood · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Treadstone made Jason Bourne an unstoppable force, but he's not the only one.Operation Treadstone has nearly ruined Adam Hayes. The top-secret CIA Black Ops program trained him to be a nearly invincible assassin, but it also cost him his family and any chance at a normal life. Which...
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How Quickly She Disappears

Raymond Fleischmann · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense, set in the relentless Alaskan landscape, about madness and obsession, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family....My proposition is very simple: I am going to ask you for three gifts, and for each...
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The Look-Alike

Erica Spindler · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Girl and Justice for Sara comes a thrilling psychological drama about a woman who believes she escaped a brutal murder years ago -- but does anyone else believe her? Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid...
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Into the Fire: An Orphan X Novel

Gregg Hurwitz · Minotaur Books
Format: Book

Evan Smoak lives by his own code.

Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented – and most feared – men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself...

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