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Cygnet: A Novel

Season Butler - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth - and, in its quiet way, the end of the world." - China Miville, author of Perdido Street StationAn utterly original coming-of-age tale, marked by wrenching humor and staggering...
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Cemetery Road: A Novel

Greg Iles - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"An ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption ... Iles's latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy, Iles writes with passion, intensity and absolute commitment."...
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The Editor

Steven Rowley - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny, poignant, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever--both as a writer and a son.After years of struggling as a writer in 1990s New York...
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The Golden Hour: A Novel

Beatriz Williams - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau - a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu"...
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The Queen Bee of Sullivan's Island: A Novel

Dorothea Benton Frank - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island,...
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The Border: A Novel

Don Winslow - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force.What do you do when there are no borders When the lines you thought existed simply vanish How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know...
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A Wonderful Stroke of Luck: A Novel

Ann Beattie - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we loveAs a member of the Honor Society at Bailey Academy, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, Ben falls under...
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The Last Woman in the Forest

Diane Les Becquets - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, here is a riveting and powerful thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves. ... Marian Engstrom has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced...
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Anthony Bourdain Remembered

CNN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A moving and insightful collection of quotes, memories, and images celebrating the life of Anthony Bourdain When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, the outpouring of love from his fans around the world was momentous. The tributes spoke to his legacy: That the world is much smaller than...
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Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance

Emily Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

USA Today Bestseller | Publishers Weekly BestsellerForeword by Mark Hyman, MDPreface by Andrew Huberman, PhDYou know you should be meditating, so what's stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation - the favorite training for high achievers - will...
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The Poison Thread: A Novel

Laura Purcell - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A thrilling Victorian gothic horror tale about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to killDorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder.When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate...
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The Night Window: A Jane Hawk Novel

Dean Koontz - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Jane Hawk's one-woman war comes to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent gambles everything against a terrifying conspiracy, for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom - from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Corner. "Jane Hawk is arguably...
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor

Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero...
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Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution

Michael J. Behe - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The scientist who has been dubbed the "Father of Intelligent Design" and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin's Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator. In his controversial bestseller...
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Summer of '69

Elin Hilderbrand - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's...
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The Book of Dreams: A Novel

Nina George - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The next novel from Nina George, author of the blockbuster bestsellers The Little Paris Bookshop and The Little French Bistro, about the spaces between lives and realities and loves both lost and coming homeWhen Henri ends up in a coma after rescuing a young girl from the Thames,...
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Death and Other Happy Endings: A Novel

Melanie Cantor - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

There's nothing like being told that in three months you'll be dead to make you think about what you really want in lifeJennifer Cole has just been told that she has a terminal blood disorder and has just three months to live--ninety days to say goodbye to friends and family, and to put her affairs...
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The Chef

James Patterson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

In the new stand-alone thriller from the World's Bestselling author comes a police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, but now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted.In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder...
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The Electric Hotel: A Novel

Dominic Smith - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith, a radiant novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his museDominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey -- America's first movie...
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The Peacock Emporium: A Novel

Jojo Moyes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she agreed to marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme, her parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years,...
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The Welcoming

Nora Roberts - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Visitors come to Charity's friendly little inn to escape their ordinary lives. But FBI Agent Roman DeWinter knows something ugly is going on beneath the cozy surface. His mission is to expose the dangerous criminal gang operating out of the inn. Going undercover, Roman begins his investigation...
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

Peter Hessler - Penguin Press
Format: eBook

From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive changeDrawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters...
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel

Rajeev Balasubramanyam - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

Follow the completely infuriating, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? "Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous,...
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Henry, Himself: A Novel

Stewart O'Nan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern masterStewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience...
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Chances Are . . .

Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since...
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Sunset Beach: A Novel

Mary Kay Andrews - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach - it comes with a twist.Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows...
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Wolf Pack

C J BOX - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The...
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

Julie Yip-Williams - Random House
Format: Hardcover

As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle....
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Ruth Kassinger - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due." - Elizabeth Kolbert Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would...
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Almost Midnight

Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron's bestselling series, a deadly attack on one of Maine's last wild wolves leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy.While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from...
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The Greatest You: Face Reality, Release Negativity, and Live Your Purpose

Trent Shelton - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

"If you want to become the best you, but are unsure how to get there, start here." -- Rachel Hollis, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop ApologizingIn this remarkable, life-changing new book, renowned inspirational speaker Trent Shelton...
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The Library of Lost and Found

Phaedra Patrick - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

A librarian's discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the international bestselling author of The Curious Charms of Arthur PepperLibrarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though not for lack...
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Connections in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

J D ROBB - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (February 2019) Lieutenant Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent -- and serve justice to the guilty -- on the streets of New York in Connections in Death, the gritty and gripping new In Death...
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If You Want to Make God Laugh

Bianca Marais - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries.In a squatter...
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Savage News

Jessica Yellin - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

Be noisy. Natalie Savage grew up hearing these words from her beloved father, who admired Walter Cronkite so much he named the family dog after him. Natalie - who spent her twenties missing out on life's benchmarks - finally sees her efforts pay off when she's assigned to cover...
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The New Thomas Harris Thriller

Thomas Harris - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed, and the consequences of dark obsession.Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading...
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MALTA EXCHANGE

STEVE BERRY - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international...
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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback

Alicia Berensons life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of Londons most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia...
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Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Daniel C. Guiet - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family...
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Park Avenue Summer

Renée Rosen - Berkley
Format: Book

New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands the job of a lifetime working for the first female editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. Nothing...

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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Richard Zoglin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal...
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Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

Gary Sinise - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Theater icon, award-winning film and television star, and American patriot Gary Sinise shares the never-before-told story of his journey from trouble-making Chicago kid to cofounder of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company, world-famous actor, and tireless advocate for America's active...
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Rouge: A Novel of Beauty and Rivalry

Richard Kirshenbaum - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

Like Swans of Fifth Avenue and Truman Capotes Answered Prayers, Richard Kirshenbaums Rouge gives readers a rare front row seat into the world of high society and business through the rivalry of two beauty industry icons, by the master marketer and chronicler of the over-moneyed. Rouge is a sexy,...
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The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green

Erica Boyce - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

Sometimes wonder is found not beyond the stars, but a few feet from your own front door...Daniel Green makes crop circles. As a member of a secret organization, he travels across the country creating strange works of art that leave communities mystified. He's always been alone; in fact,...
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Labyrinth

Catherine Coulter - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which agents Savich and Sherlock stumble into a bizarre case that's more complicated and twisted than any they've ever encountered. On a Tuesday afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown...
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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

Kelly Harms - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"A laugh-out-loud funny, pitch-perfect novel that will have readers rooting for this unlikely, relatable, and totally lovable heroine, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is the ultimate escape - and will leave moms everywhere questioning whether it isn't time for a #momspringa of their...
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The First Lady

James Patterson
Format: Hardcover

In James Patterson's new stand-alone thriller, one secret can bring down a government when the President's affair to remember becomes a nightmare he wishes he could forget. Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something...
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The Summer Cottage

Viola Shipman - Graydon House
Format: Paperback

Advance Praise for THE SUMMER COTTAGE"Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm, entertain and remind us what matters. Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that absolutely irresistible and necessary novel." - New York Times Bestselling...
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Surfside Sisters: A Novel

Nancy Thayer - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren't always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become...
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply...
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Run Away

Harlan Coben - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this "brilliantly executed" New York Times bestselling thriller from a "master storyteller" (Providence Sunday Journal) .You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive...
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Never Tell

Lisa Gardner - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer...
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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

John Taliaferro - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. Hailed by the New York Times as "the father of American conservation," George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) , the Brooklyn-born...
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The Lightest Object in the Universe: A Novel

Kimi Eisele - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"This is a novel with that exact balance of heart and momentum. Dazzling." --Christian Kiefer, author of The Animals What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut...
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I Ain't Doin' It: Unfiltered Thoughts From a Sarcastic Southern Sweetheart

Heather Land - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover

Social media comedian Heather Land uses her trademark sassy, laugh-out-loud humor to remind us of the many ways that real life can be really funny.Heather Land has something to say about almost everything in life - the unbelievable, inconceivable, and downright frustrating - and why she "ain't...
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Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh

Alan Strachan - I. B. Tauris
Format: Hardcover

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth-century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking...
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[1542040078] [9781542040075] What the Wind Knows-Hardcover

Amy Harmon - ‎Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post...

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Waiting for Tom Hanks

Kerry Winfrey - Berkley
Format: Paperback

A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn't always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel.Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing screenplays, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle,...
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Courting Mr. Lincoln: A Novel

Louis Bayard - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton, or fiction - of any era - that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." - A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning...
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