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The Red Lotus: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Doubleday
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that...
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Bird Summons

· Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Hardcover

BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it all and return...
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The Mirror & the Light

Hilary Mantel · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 800
Format: Book

"If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?"

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors....

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Remembrance

Rita Woods · Forge Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train.

Remembrance ... It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry....

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Facets of Death

Stanley, Michael · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A prequel to the award-winning Detective Kubu series

David Bengu has always stood out from the crowd. His personality and his physique match his nickname, Kubu -- Setswana for "hippopotamus" -- a seemingly docile creature, but one of the deadliest in Africa. His keen...

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Light Changes Everything: A Novel

Nancy E. Turner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"I adored stepping into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light Changes Everything is a novel as gritty and authentic as the women of the Arizona Territory. Nancy E. Turner brings the west and its people fully to life." -Lisa Wingate, #1 New...

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The Last Taxi Driver

Durkee, Lee · TIN HOUSE BOOKS
Format: Book

The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged hackie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou--a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned...

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Lost Autumn

Mary-Rose MacColl · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

An emotional novel of love and the power of lost dreams from an internationally bestselling master of historical fiction, about a young woman's coming-of-age in 1920 and the secrets that surface more than seventy years later.

Australia, 1920. Seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright embarks...
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False Value

Ben Aaronovitch · DAW
Pages: 304
Format: Book

Now in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.

Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future,...

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A Long Time Comin'

Robin W. Pearson · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with...
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Riot Baby

Tochi Onyebuchi · Tor.com
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

"Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether." -- Marlon James

Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby...

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The Secret Chapter

Genevieve Cogman · Ace
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Time-travelling, dimension-jumping, Librarian-spy Irene and dragon-prince Kai will have to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to pull off an amazing art heist - or risk the wrath of a dangerous villain with a secret island lair.

A Librarian's work is never done, and Irene is summoned...
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The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune's breakout contemporary fantasy

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.

Arthur...

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Qualityland

Marc-Uwe Kling · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

QUALITYLAND is an internationally bestselling, visionary glimpse at an all-too-plausible near-future that asks: What if the perfect world wasn't built for you?

Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career...
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A Good Neighborhood

Therese Anne Fowler · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Therese Anne Fowler has taken the ingredients of racism, justice, and conservative religion and has concocted a feast of a read: compelling, heartbreaking, and inevitable. I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it's that good." -- Jodi Picoult, #1 New York...

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Owner of a Broken Heart

Cheris Hodges · Dafina
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

For the three very different Richardson sisters, continuing their family's renowned bed-and-breakfast legacy is already a formidable job. But unexpected desire will challenge them in ways they never imagined . . .

Sportswriter Nina Richardson had the perfect life away from her family's...
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Bound for Murder: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery

Victoria Gilbert · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the "flower children" when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune.

Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend "Sunny" Fields is running for mayor. But nothing...
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Separation Anxiety: A Novel

Laura Zigman · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don't stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel." - Alice Hoffman

From bestselling...

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The Vineyards of Champagne

Juliet Blackwell · Berkley
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Carousel of Provence....

Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne...
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Lean on Me

Pat Simmons · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

First in an emotional, poignant romantic women's fiction series from acclaimed inspirational romance author Pat Simmons.

No one should have to go it alone...

Tabitha Knicely is overwhelmed with sorrow and exhaustion caring for her beloved great-aunt, whose dementia is getting...

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The Wife and the Widow

Christian White · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White.

Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow...

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The Better Liar: A Novel

Tanen Jones · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

When a woman conceals her sister's death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets in this addictive new thriller for fans of Megan Abbott, Gillian Flynn, and Paula Hawkins.

"Like most of the dead, I want to be remembered."

...
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The King's Justice: A Maggie Hope Mystery

Susan Elia MacNeal · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Can a stolen violin lead secret agent and spy Maggie Hope to a new serial killer terrorizing London? Find out as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues.

Maggie Hope started out as Winston Churchill's secretary,...
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A Murderous Relation

Deanna Raybourn · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Veronica Speedwell navigates a dark world of scandal and murder in this new adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help...
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