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Infected: A Novel

Scott Sigler · Broadway Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page. A mysterious disease is turning thousands of ordinary Americans into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, their own families, and even themselves. And one morning,...
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Flame in the Mist

RENEE AHDIEH · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass.

The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known...
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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton...
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The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova: A Novel

Ruth Hogan · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things - an uplifting, slightly magical story about how it's never too late to find out who you really are.Madame Burova - beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant - is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton...
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel

LOUISE ERDRICH · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.

The...

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Karma

Carly Phillips · Berkley
Format: Paperback

Dear Readers: Welcome back to the town of Serendipity and the third Barron brothers novel. I'm thrilled at the response I've received so far to the small town and its beloved characters!KARMA Police Officer Dare Barron has had a crush on Liza McKnight ever since he was a teenager....
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Judd Apatow · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years - including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne Barr,...
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We Hunt the Flame

Hafsah Faizal · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A BuzzFeed Pick for "YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring"
A Bustle's Most Anticipated 2019 YA Release
Paste Magazine's Top 10 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2019

"Lyrical and spellbinding" -- Marieke Njikamp, #1 New York...

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The People We Keep

Allison Larkin · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough - enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town - she decides...
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