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The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova · Ballantine Books
Pages: 478
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present - and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve...
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The Half Wives

Stacia Pelletier · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their...
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The Witchfinder's Sister

Beth Underdown · Ballantine
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A thrilling debut novel, a literary historical thriller based on the devastating witch hunts in 1640s England conducted by "Witchfinder General" Matthew Hopkins - for readers of Sarah Waters and Katherine Howe. Before Salem, there was Manningtree. . . . "This summer,...
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One Good Thing

Wendy Wax · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of Sunshine Beach, a story of four women trying to rebuild more than their lives... Before you can fix it up, you might have to tear it down... Embroiled in a battle to regain control of their renovation-turned-reality TV show, Do Over, Maddie,...
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Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible...
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The Typewriter's Tale: A Novel

Michiel Heyns · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton...
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The Good Assassin: A Novel

Paul Vidich · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Paul Vidich's likable and reluctant spy, George Mueller, will keep readers guessing in this eerily real Cuba of 1958. The Good Assassin is a keen historical adventure from the best noir tradition." - Elizabeth Kostova, #1 New York Times bestselling author "The Good Assassin...
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World, Chase Me Down: A Novel

Andrew Hilleman · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A rousing, suspenseful debut novel - True Grit meets Catch Me If You Can - based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history Once the most wanted man in America, Pat Crowe is a forgotten...
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The Marriage Lie

Kimberly Belle · Mira Books
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Kimberly Belle is back with a "domestic thriller [that] will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night." - Redbook"Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will eat up Kimberly Belle's latest novel." - Bookreporter.com Everyone has secrets...
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The Road to Enchantment: A Novel

Kaya McLaren · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived. And with that, she and Willow set off to New Mexico,...
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The Girl in Green

Derek B Miller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

From the author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before 1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from...
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The White City: A Novel

Karolina Ramqvist · Black Cat
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Karolina Ramqvist has been hailed as "one of Sweden's truly interesting young writers" (Dagens Nyheter) with "a great talent for creating imagery and building atmosphere" (Dagbladet) and she's a powerful literary voice on contemporary issues of sexuality, commercialization,...
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The Beautiful Dead

Belinda Bauer · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

"Belinda Bauer is a marvel. Her novels are almost indecently gripping and enjoyable." - Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a SecretBelinda Bauer is an award-winning British crime writer of the highest caliber, whose smart, stylish...
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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 490
Format: Hardcover

A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of A Fine Balance and Cutting for Stone.Profoundly moving and gracefully told, PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter...
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Days Without End

Sebastian Barry · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER"Startlingly beautiful ... Breathtakingly exciting." -The Guardian From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Journal) , comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American...
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The Magdalen Girls

V S Alexander · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Dublin, 1962. Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city's Magdalen Laundries. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Some inmates are "fallen" women - unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty...
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The Year of the Comet

Sergei Lebedev · New Vessel Press
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

"You read and reread Lebedev's lyrical, cutting prose with equal amounts of awe and enjoyment. This gorgeously written, unsettling novel - a rare work about the fall of the Soviet Union as told through the eyes of a child - leaves us with a fresh understanding of that towering...
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I Liked My Life: A Novel

Abby Fabiaschi · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character." -- Lisa See, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Snow Flower and The Secret Fan"I Liked My Life is a treasure of a novel. Warm-hearted and clever, the story will keep...
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Say Goodbye for Now

Catherine Ryan Hyde · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly...
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Freebird: A Novel

Jon Raymond · Graywolf
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A page-turning new novel from the author of Livability, winner of the Oregon Book AwardThe Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal...
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The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · Pegasus Books
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover

For the first time in English in over a century, a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas's The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still...
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Indelible

Adelia Saunders · Bloomsbury
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees writing on the body of everyone she meets--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank.When she meets...
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Shoes for Anthony: A Novel

Emma Kennedy · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds...
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Containment: A Thriller

Henry Parker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From a former US government advisor on agroterrorism comes a ripped-from-the-headlines debut thriller about a global plot to release a deadly virus and the elite response team who must try to stop it.When a gruesome new tick-borne virus breaks out near a major US city and the outbreak is traced...
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Missing People

Brandon Graham · Tyrus Books
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

Six years after the traumatic disappearance of Etta Messenger, it's clear that none of the members of her middle-class family have finished mourning. Gaping emotional wounds have been poorly addressed. Etta's mother, Meg, anxious to find closure and make what she can of the rest...
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