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The Invited: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one . . .In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate...
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The Last Romantics: A Novel

TARA CONKLIN - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Tara Conklin is a generous writer who deftly brings us into the world of this fictional family, an engrossing and vivid place where I was happy to stay. The Last Romantics is a richly observed novel, both ambitious and welcoming." -- Meg WolitzerThe New York Times bestselling...
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Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding

Hazel Gaynor - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS. Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind...
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel

Sara Collins - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London - a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying...
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Lost and Found: A Novel

Danielle Steel - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * What might have been? That tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she loved and let go, in Danielle Steel's exhilarating new novel. It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York...
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The Girl in the Glass Box: A Jack Swyteck Novel

James Grippando - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself, in this timely and pulse-pounding thriller that explores the stories...
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Mistress of the Ritz: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II - while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Htel Ritz in Paris - from the New York Times bestselling author of The...
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The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel

Lindsay Stern - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"An exuberant, wise, and darkly funny novel from an essential new voice in fiction." --Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest This astonishing first novel tells the story of a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate...
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Tom Clancy Enemy Contact

Mike Maden - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The final wish of a dying friend leads Jack Ryan, Jr. to the jungles of South America where an unexpected confrontation will have shocking international repercussions in this latest entry in the New York Times bestselling series.Jack Ryan, Jr. has faced death before, but sitting...
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The Huntress: A Novel

Kate Quinn - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.In...
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The Missing Years

Lexie Elliott - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The French Girl captivated readers with a twisting tale of psychological suspense. Now author Lexie Elliott heads to the foothills of the Scottish Highlands, where a woman's tangled family history comes back to haunt her...An eerie, old Scottish manor in the middle of nowhere that's...
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Stay and Fight: A Novel

Madeline ffitch - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we knowHelen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and eager to carry out her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming,...
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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel

Linda Holmes - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best seller Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today "Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty, relatable, and a little complicated." (People) A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman whos lost her husband and a Major...
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Bowlaway: A Novel

Elizabeth McCracken - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alleyFrom the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A tender and wise novel about love, family, and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his world turned upside down by a vibrant woman determined to open the first bookstore his town has ever seen--and to leave her haunting memories of the Holocaust far behind."Beautifully...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestEdith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside...
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Disappearing Earth: A novel

Julia Phillips - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Ta Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon,...
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The Volunteer: A Novel

Salvatore Scibona - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father...
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The Raven Tower

Ann Leckie - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

Following her record-breaking run in science fiction, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, brings her immense talent to a new novel and new world.
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Wunderland: A Novel

Jennifer Cody Epstein - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelist East Village, 1989 Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between...
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Layover

David Bell - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In this high concept psychological suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter, a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on a pulse-pounding quest for the truth.Joshua Fields takes the same flights every week for work, his life a series...
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How Not to Die Alone

Richard Roper - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him when he gets home, to help wash the day's cares away. At least, that's what his coworkers believe.  He is offered a second chance...

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A Weekend in New York: A Novel

Benjamin Markovits - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover

"In tender, compassionate prose and a deftly compressed time-scheme, Markovits glints through desire, ennui, misunderstanding, and love, illuminating his family so they collectively glow like a human panorama." -- Jonathan Lethem"Deliciously poised, [a] hugely enjoyable and unashamedly...
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The Orphan's Song

Lauren Kate - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan's Song is a sweeping love story about family and music--and the secrets each hold--that follows the intertwined fates of two Venetian orphans.Venice, 1736. Violetta has a secret:...
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Red Metal

Mark Greaney - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare...
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Rules for Visiting: A Novel

Jessica Francis Kane - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure...
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A Beginner's Guide to the Universe: Uncommon Ideas for Living an Unusually Happy Life

Mike Dooley - Hay House Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The beloved creator of Notes from the Universe distills a career's worth of inspiration into elegant, brief lessons for making our way through the world--conceived as a guidebook for his young daughter yet relevant to everyone who's living a life on earth. (In other words, everyone.)...
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The Great Unexpected: A Novel

Dan Mooney - Park Row
Format: Paperback

A curmudgeon and his eccentric new roommate join together to plan an epic escape in this charming, poignant tale.Joel lives in a nursing home, and he's not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He's fed up with life and begins to plan...
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The Friend

Sigrid Nunez - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified...

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Metropolis

Philip Kerr - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

"[Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye--and first hello--to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home." --Washington PostNew York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks...
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Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait: A Novel

Alison Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII's fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series.Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...
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Baby of the Family: A Novel

- Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The money is old, the problems are new.A wry and addictive debut about a modern-day American dynasty and its unexpected upheaval when the patriarch wills his dwindling fortune to his youngest, adopted son - setting off a chain of events that unearth family secrets and test long-held definitions...
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A Family of Strangers

Emilie Richards - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards will be available Jun 25, 2019. Preorder your copy today!
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

MARLON JAMES - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African...
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The Mother-in-Law

Sally Hepworth - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what...
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Abbi Waxman - Berkley
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinThe author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina...
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The Summer Guests

Mary Alice Monroe - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Beach House series comes a heartwarming and evocative novel about the bonds and new beginnings that are born from natural disasters and how, even during the worst of circumstances - or perhaps because of them - you discover what is most...
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Daughter of Moloka'i

Alan Brennert - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert's acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, Moloka'iAlan Brennert's beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that...
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Summer Friends

HOLLY CHAMBERLIN - Kensington
Format: Paperback

In this compelling novel set against the beautiful backdrop of Ogunquit, Maine, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin portrays an unexpected friendship, and its consequences for two very different women as time inevitably sweeps them into adulthood . . . Over the course of one eventful...
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The Gifted School: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively...
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The Favorite Daughter

Kaira Rouda - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Best Day Ever comes another gripping novel of psychological suspense set in an upscale Southern California community, for fans of B. A. Paris and Shari Lapena. In the aftermath of a tragic accident, one family is keeping secrets from each other. But who's deceiving whom?...
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The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer - Graydon House
Format: Paperback

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century.Since she was nine...
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The Forgotten Hours: A Novel

Katrin Schumann - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Paperback

"A relevant, compelling, and compassionate look at the torture of conflicted loyalties and the slipperiness of truth." - Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost FamilyIn this evocative debut novel, Katrin Schumann weaves a riveting story...
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You'll Always Have Tara

LEAH MARIE BROWN - Lyrical Press
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A spoiled Southern belle loses her lavish lifestyle - and finds an unexpected new beginning . . . Tara Maxwell seems to have been born under a lucky star, enjoying a life of leisure in beautiful, historic Charleston, South Carolina. But luck, and family fortunes, have a way of running...
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The Other Mrs. Miller

Allison Dickson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

In this unputdownable domestic suspense debut, a lonely suburban housewife finds her life entangled with the family that moves in across the street at the same time that she becomes convinced someone is watching her--perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and The Last Mrs. Parrish.Once...
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One Word Kill

Mark Lawrence - 47North
Format: Hardcover

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author who George RR Martin describes as "an excellent writer."In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen...
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Blood Orange

Harriet Tyce - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A young lawyer's outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena.I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison, a young lawyer, has just been...
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City of Girls: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good...
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Gods of Jade and Shadow

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.. "A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom,...
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The October Man

Ben Aaronovitch - Subterranean
Format: Hardcover

With this long new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series. If you thought magic was confined to one country - think again. Trier: famous for wine, Romans and being Germany's...
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Arturos Island: A Novel

Elsa Morante - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"Astonishing for the quality of the writing . . . the complexity of the invented world, the wide- ranging view of the human condition." - Elena FerranteElsa Morantes novels were once considered the greatest of Italys postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldsteins "deft translation"...
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Backlash: A Thriller

Brad Thor - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet!In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These...
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The Snow Gypsy

Lindsay Jayne Ashford

From the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express comes a haunting novel of two women - one determined to uncover the past and the other determined to escape it.At the close of World War II, London is in ruins and Rose Daniel isn't at peace. Eight yea
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Lost Roses: A Novel

MARTHA HALL KELLY - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris...
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The Farm: A Novel

Joanne Ramos - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. "[Joanne] Ramos's debut novel couldn't be more relevant or timely." - O: The Oprah Magazine (25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019) Nestled...
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Aerialists: Stories

Mark Mayer - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." --Marilynne RobinsonWelcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories...
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Natalie Tans Book of Luck and Fortune

Roselle Lim - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lims magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places. . At the news of her mothers death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadnt spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years...
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

Anissa Gray - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you.The Butler family has had their share of trials - as sisters Althea, Viola,...
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Redemption

David Baldacci - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in this compelling Memory Man thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached...
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Bethlehem: A Novel

Karen Kelly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

With the writing chops of Ian McEwan and the story-craft of Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering debut about two intertwined families and the secrets that they buried during the gilded, glory days of Bethlehem, PA."A haunting debut." -- Georgia Hunter, New York Times...
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Becoming

Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House...
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