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The Escape Room

Megan Goldin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"One of my favorite books of the year." -- Lee Child

"Cancel all your plans and call in sick; once you start reading, you'll be caught in your own escape room -- the only key to freedom is turning the last page!" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A...

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All the Flowers in Paris: A Novel

Sarah Jio · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Sarah Jio weaves past and present in this eminently readable novel about love, gratitude, and forgiveness. I tore through the pages!" - New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline

Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious...
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The Passengers

John Marrs · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

You're riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, "You are going to die."

Just as self-driving cars become the trusted, safer norm, eight people find themselves in this...
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The Doll Factory: A Novel

Elizabeth Macneal · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The #1 International Bestseller

New York Times Editor's Choice

"A lush, evocative Gothic." - The New York Times Book Review

"This terrifically exciting novel will jolt, thrill, and bewitch readers." - BOOKLIST , starred...
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The Swallows: A Novel

Lisa Lutz · Ballantine Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war - with deadly consequences - in this dark and provocative novel by the bestselling author of The Passenger

"Riveting . . . full of imagination and power." - Caroline Kepnes, author of You and Providence

NAMED...
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Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Ellen Datlow · Saga Press
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre - including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...
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We Must Be Brave

Frances Liardet · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.

One woman. One little girl. The war that changed everything.

December...
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The History of Living Forever: A Novel

Jake Wolff · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the Elixir of Life

Conrad Aybinder is a boy with a secret; sixteen and ready for anything. A chemistry genius, he has spent the summer on an independent-study project with his favorite teacher, Sammy...

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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

Kelly Harms · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

"A laugh-out-loud funny, pitch-perfect novel that will have readers rooting for this unlikely, relatable, and totally lovable heroine, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is the ultimate escape - and will leave moms everywhere questioning whether it isn't time for a #momspringa...

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At Briarwood School for Girls

Michael Knight · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans...
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The Tenth Muse: A Novel

Catherine Chung · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover


An exhilarating novel about a trailblazing mathematician who unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War II
The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent--and I recognized even then that it was a comment...
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In the Blink of an Eye

Jesse Blackadder · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Intimate, raw and beautiful." -- Bryan Reardon, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Jake

"A captivating, visceral, beautifully written story ... The characters were so real and relatable that I was riveted." -- Robyn Harding, international...

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The Paper Wasp

Lauren Acampora · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riveting knife-edge story of two women's dark friendship of twisted ambition set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood



In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary...

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Forget You Know Me: A Novel

Jessica Strawser · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The next "masterful" (Publishers Weekly) novel from "the gifted Jessica Strawser" (Adriana Trigiani) , hailed as "immensely satisfying" (Kathleen Barber) and "that book you can't put down" (Sally Hepworth) . A video call between...

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Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel

Jean Kwok · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A READ WITH JENNA * TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times * Time * Marie Claire * Elle * Buzzfeed * Huffington Post * Good Housekeeping * The Week * Goodreads * New York Post * Publishers Weekly...

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American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

Stephanie Marie Thornton · Berkley
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

"Presidential darling, America's sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt's swashbuckling daughter Alice springs to life in this raucous anthem to a remarkable woman." - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

A sweeping novel...
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My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding

Wendy Wax · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A wedding dress passed down through generations unravels the tangled threads of three women's lives in a novel of friendship, family, and forgiveness from the USA Today bestselling author of Ten Beach Road.

Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory...
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Dawson's Fall: A Novel

Roxana Robinson · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoningIn Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson's...
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Rules for Visiting: A Novel

Jessica Francis Kane · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.

At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding...
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I Know You: A Novel of Suspense

Annabel Kantaria · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

A twisted domestic thriller in the vein of B. A. Paris and Shari Lapena that asks: How well do you know your friends?

That picture you posted?
I've seen it.
That location you tagged?
I've been there.
I know everything about your life . . .
And I'm going to destroy...
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The Woman in the White Kimono

Ana Johns · Park Row
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community,...
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The Chain

Adrian McKinty · Mulholland Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

You just dropped off your child at the bus stop.A panicked stranger calls your phone.Your child has been kidnapped.The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger.The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child - within...
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The Printed Letter Bookshop

Katherine Reay · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop.

One of Madeline Cullen's happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later,...

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Elizabeth of Bohemia: A Novel about Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen

David Elias · ECW Press
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

A sweeping, cinematic novel about the life of the Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart. October 1612. King James I is looking to expand England's influence in Europe, especially among the Protestants. He invites Prince Frederic of the Palatinate to London and offers him his 16-year-old daughter...
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Swimming for Sunlight

Allie Larkin · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie's grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother's troupe of underwater performers - finding hope and renewal in unexpected places, in this sweet novel perfect for fans...
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