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Jon Fosse · Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Print book

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts...
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We Will All Go Down Together

Gemma Files · ChiZine Publications
Format: Paperback

Every family has its monsters...and some are nothing but. In the woods outside Overdeere, Ontario, there are trees that speak, a village that doesn't appear on any map, and a hill that opens wide, entrapping unwary travellers. Music drifts up from deep underground, while dreams - and nightmares...
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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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Dry Bones in the Valley: A Novel

Tom Bouman · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back...
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Son of No One

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In Son of No One, next in the blockbuster The Dark-Hunters series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, it's not easy being life's own personal joke, but Josette Landry has made an unstable peace with the beast. Completely down on her luck, Josette takes a job with a local paranormal group as a photographer...
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What the Groom Wants

Jade Lee · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 409
Format: Paperback

An honest love... Radley Lyncott has been in love with Wendy Drew as long as he can remember. When he went to sea, she was too young to court. Now that he's returned to take up his Welsh title, he is appalled to find that debt has ruined the Drew family, and - even worse - Wendy is being...
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The Secrets to Ruling School

Neil Swaab · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

It's the first week of middle school, i.e., the Worst Place in the Entire World. How do you survive in a place where there are tough kids twice your size, sadistic teachers, and restrictions that make jail look like a five-star resort? Easy: with the help of Max Corrigan, middle school...
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X-Men: Battle of the Atom

Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel
Format: Hardcover

"The past, present and future of the X-Men collide in an uncanny event 50 years in the making! Charles Xavier is dead. Cyclops and Wolverine each lead their own team of X-Men. Mutantkind is divided like never before. In a desperate bid to save Xavier's dream, the Beast brought...
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Days of Awe: A novel

Lauren Fox · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Â2015
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Celebrated for her irresistibly witty, strikingly intelligent examinations of friendship and marriage, Lauren Fox ("An immensely gifted writer - a writer adept at capturing the sad-funny mess that happens to be one woman's life" - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) has written...
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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense - Agatha Christie - now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded...
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Atomic Fracture

Don Pendleton · Gold Eagle
Format: Paperback

Stony Man Fighting battles few even know exist, the covert officers of Stony Man Farm are the most elite soldiers and cyber techs in the world. The team knows that if they don't succeed, innocent victims will die.  Rebel Deception A civil war in the Middle East is the perfect...
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City of Jasmine

Deanna Raybourn · Mira Books
Pages: 354
Format: Print book

Set against the lush, exotic European colonial outposts of the 1920s, New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn delivers the captivating tale of one woman who embarks upon a journey to see the world - and ends up finding intrigue, danger and a love beyond all reason. Famed aviatrix...
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1914: A Novel

Jean Echenoz · New Press
Pages: 119
Format: Paperback

Jean Echenoz, considered by many to be the most distinguished and versatile living French novelist, turns his attention to the deathtrap of World War I in 1914. In it, five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a young woman who longs for their return. But the main character...
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Friend Me: A Novel of Suspense

John Faubion · Howard Books
Pages: 339
Format: Paperback

"You're afraid you are becoming unfaithful, aren't you?" Scott and Rachel's marriage is on the brink of disaster. Scott, a businessman with a high-pressure job, just wants Rachel to understand him and accept his flaws. Rachel is a lonely housewife, desperate for attention...
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