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Theory of Shadows: A Novel

Paolo Maurensig · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The strange circumstances surrounding the death of the world chess champion and alleged Nazi collaborator Alexander Alekhine, as investigated by a literary grand masterOn the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine -- "sadist of the chess world,"...
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Batman - Detective Comics Vol. 6: Fall of the Batmen

JAMES IV TYNION · DC Comics
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

Batman's team of vigilantes is on the verge of destruction from within in the epic new graphic novel BATMAN: DETECTIVE COMICS VOL. 6!Everyone in Batman's orbit is broken somehow--some more than others. For Clayface, keeping the pieces of his psyche together has been a years long...
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The Court of Broken Knives

ANNA SMITH-SPARK · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

In this dark and gripping debut fantasy that Miles Cameron called "gritty and glorious!" the exiled son of the king must fight to reclaim his throne no matter the cost.
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The Lost Queen: A Novel

Signe Pike · Touchstone
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The Mists of Avalon meets the world of Philippa Gregory in the thrilling first novel of a debut trilogy that reveals the untold story of Languoreth - a forgotten queen of sixth-century Scotland - twin sister of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin. I write because I have seen the darkness...
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The Shivering Turn: A new series set in Oxford

Sally Spencer · Severn House Publishers Ltd.
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

"Spencer scores another top-notch hit with this new series, which features her usual skilful writing, clever plotting, and intriguing characters"BOOKLIST Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the first of a brand-new mystery series. 'My daughter's...
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River of Secrets: A Wallace Hartman Mystery

Roger Johns · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman struggles to find the killer amid conspiracies and corruption in River of Secrets, a gripping new mystery from Roger Johns. Herbert Marioneaux, a Louisiana politician infamous for changing...
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The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel

CHARLES STROSS · Tor.com
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover

"Smart, literate, funny." -- Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!Bob Howard's career in the Laundry,...
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Loving Luther

Allison Pittman · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Germany, 1505In the dark of night, Katharina von Bora says the bravest good-bye a six-year-old can muster and walks away as the heavy convent gate closes behind her.Though the cold walls offer no comfort, Katharina soon finds herself calling the convent her home. God, her father. This,...
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Under the Shadows

Gwen Florio · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

A story assignment becomes a murder investigation for troubled journalist Lola Wicks Lola Wicks is in bad shape. A family tragedy has nearly flattened her in a way that her years reporting from war zones never did. Her friends, alarmed by signs that Lola is in the grip of a destructive...
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Journeyman: A Novel

Marc Bojanowski · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From the author of The Dogfighter, hailed by Geoff Dyer as "the most exciting debut ... by an American writer since Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides," comes Journeyman, a tightly wound novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love, and the value of a place to call home. Nolan...
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Persepolis Rising

James S. A. Corey · Orbit
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series.AN OLD ENEMY RETURNSIn the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse...
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On Turpentine Lane

Elinor Lipman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It's a peaceful life, really, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind...
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Bounty of Greed: The Lincoln County War

Paul Colt · Five Star Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Paul Colt captures the greed, cunning and vengeance that ignited the epic Lincoln County War. Powerful merchant and political strong man, James Dolan owns Lincoln County, until brash, young English business man John Tunstall hits town to challenge Dolan's empire. War breaks out when Tunstall...
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The Little Pieces of You and Me

Vanessa Greene · Sphere
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

'You'll laugh as much as you cry at this poignant tale of female friendship, love and loss' Marie ClaireA story of friendship, heartbreak and the day that changed two lives forever from the bestselling author of The Vintage Teacup Club. The perfect read for fans of Lucy Diamond...
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Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories

Abbey Mei Otis · Small Beer Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, putting kids from the moon into a small beach town and then...
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