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The Reading List: A Novel

Sara Nisha Adams · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops...
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Holdout: A Novel

Jeffrey Kluger · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at the top of her class from the Naval Academy, had a successful career flying fighter jets, and has spent more than three hundred days in space. So when she refuses to leave her post aboard the International Space Station following an accident...
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Ghosts: A novel

Dolly Alderton · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads...
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A Slow Fire Burning: A Novel

Paula Hawkins · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

" With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge. When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers...
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World

Arthur Herman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers - including the most...
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The Bookseller's Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII

Michelle Gable · Graydon House; Original edition
Format: Paperback

"The Bookseller's Secret is a delight from start to finish. Michelle Gable skillfully twines the narratives of two effervescent heroines, a modern-day author with writer's block and her literary icon Nancy Mitford who is struggling to pen a bestseller in the middle of the London...
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The Riviera House

Natasha Lester · Forever
Format: Paperback

The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They're wrong. They think she's merely cataloging art in a Louvre museum and unaware they're stealing national treasures for their private collections. They have no idea she's carefully decoding their notes and smuggling...
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All's Well

Mona Awad · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Miranda Fitch&;s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she&;s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director....
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