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Secret of a Thousand Beauties
Mingmei Yip · Kensington
Format: Book
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"Spring Swallow was promised in marriage while still in her mother's belly. When the groom dies before a wedding can take place, seventeen-year-old Spring Swallow is ordered to become a ghost bride to appease his spirit. Under her in-laws' protection, she will be little more... |
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Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
Lucy Ives · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A tale of two idiots -- the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego -- who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious creative writing program in the country It's the end of summer,... |
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Every Day Is for the Thief: Fiction
Teju Cole · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER THE NEW YORK TIMES bullNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle NPR The Root The Telegraph The Globe and MailNATIONAL BESTSELLER bull FINALIST PHILLIS WHEATLEY BOOK AWARD bull TEJU COLE WAS NAMED ONE OF THE MOST... |
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The Infinite Blacktop: A Novel
SARA GRAN · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The "delicious and addictive" (Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling noir mystery that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed "world's greatest detective." As Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls raves, these novels are "cryptic,... |
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For the Dead
Timothy Hallinan · Soho Crime; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Timothy Hallinan has been nominated for the Edgar, Nero, Shamus, and Macavity awards. He is the author of seventeen widely praised books, including The Fear Artist, The Hot Countries, Crashed, Little Elvises, The Fame Thief, and Herbies Game. After years of working in the television... |
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Call Me Burroughs: A Life
Barry Miles · Twelve
Pages: 718
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media.... |
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Perfidia: A novel
James Ellroy · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIt is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race... |
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Scandal at Six
Ann Purser · Berkley Hardcover; Book Club edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lois Meade has scrubbed her way through the homes in Long Farnden, and shes not afraid of dusting cobwebs and killing a few bugs. But in her role as amateur sleuth, shes learning that if theres one thing to beware of, its a snake in the grass Spring has arrived in Long Farnden and with... |
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The Man in the Crooked Hat
Harry Dolan · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"A new master mystery writer emerges."--Forbes MagazineOne cryptic clue leads a desperate man into a labyrinthine puzzle of murder in the electrifying new novel from national bestselling author Harry Dolan. There's a killer, and he wears a crooked hat.Private investigator Jack... |
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Where the Light Falls: A Novel of the French Revolution
ALLISON PATAKI · The Dial Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with revolution. The citizens... |
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El Deafo
Cece Bell · Amulet Books
Pages: 233
Format: Book
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A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles... |
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The Force: A Novel
DON WINSLOW · William Morrow
Pages: 482
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times BestsellerRecommended for summer reading by Amazon, New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Miami Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Edmond News, Rutland Herald, Seattle Times, AM New York, BookBub, and theREALbookspy.com"The Force is mesmerizing,... |
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The Everything Box: A Novel
Richard Kadrey · Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels - a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined... |
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A House Divided
DONNA HILL · Dafina
Pages: 279
Format: Paperback
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Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal - or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs we do for the right reasons, and the ways we struggle to reconcile the truth.Journalist Zoie Crawford had to leave New Orleans to finally make... |
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Unti Decker/Lazarus Mystery #10
FAYE KELLERMAN · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.On a quiet suburban street in upstate... |
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