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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Price, Leah · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained...
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Kill Zone

Anderson, Kevin J. · Forge Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone, a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste...
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Cut and Run

Michaels, Fern · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

It?s been three months since Countess Annie de Silva left her home, leaving a cryptic note and no clue as to her destination, and now The Sisterhood is desperate to ensure that its founding member is alive and well. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife: A Novel

Karen Brooks · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London - a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue ... and chocolate.Damnation has never been so sweet...Rosamund...
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The Murder List

Ryan, Hank Phillippi · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A cracker of a read --her best yet!" -- B.A. Paris, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart, she's a hard worker, she does the right thing. She's successfully...
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Beneath the Attic

Andrews, V. C. · Gallery Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Long before Garden of Shadows, the prequel to Flowers in the Attic, a young girl named Corrine Dixon met Garland Foxworth and, after a short, passionate rendezvous, the two shared a forbidden and complicated relationship. Now, in this evocative and thrilling tale from New York Times bestselling...
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Stay and Fight: A Novel

Ffitch, Madeline · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we knowHelen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and eager to carry out her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming,...
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They Could Have Named Her Anything: A Novel

Jimenez, Stephanie · Little A
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Racism, class, and betrayal collide in this poignant debut novel about restoring the broken bonds of family and friendship.Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Anís Rosario takes the subway an hour from her boisterous and close-knit family in Queens to her private high school on the Upper...
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The Accidentals: A Novel

Gwin, Minrose · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices - an unforgettable, beautiful novel that is threaded...
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Tidelands

Gregory, Philippa · Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the great storytellers of our time" (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer's...
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