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September/October 2023

The Collector: A Novel

Daniel Silva · Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva is back with an electrifying new thriller.Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate...
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The King's Pleasure: A Novel of Henry VIII

Alison Weir · ‎Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of the legendary king Henry VIII and his dramatic and brutal reign in this extraordinary historical novel.Having completed her Six Tudor Queens series of novels on the wives of Henry VIII, extensively...
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The Ferryman: A Novel

Justin Cronin · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying." - STEPHEN KING From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia - where the truth isn't what...
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Crook Manifesto: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.. It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy,...
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The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf: A Detective Varg Novel (4) (Detective Varg Series)

Alexander McCall Smith · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of preserving the peace.. The Department of Sensitive Crimes is downsizing in light of a recent downturn of sensitive crime,...
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The DaVinci Code

Dan Brown · Findaway World; Unabridged edition
Format: Audiobook

PREMIUM MASS MARKET EDITION1 Worldwide BestsellerMore Than 80 Million Copies SoldAs millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable...
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H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man

Dobbs

In the midst of winter, a snowstorm blows into the small, quiet village of Iping - and along with the storm arrives a mysterious stranger. The village inhabitants are quickly disturbed by the sudden appearance of this peculiar scientist who keeps his face hidden and prefers solitude. When...
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The Witches of Eastwick

John Updike

Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorces with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms;
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