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The Body in the Gallery: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Katherine Hall Page · Avon
Pages: 323
Format: Paperback

Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the café at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive - she discovers that the Romare...
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The Flag Captain

Alexander Kent · McBooks Press
Pages: 384
Format: Book

April 1797, Falmouth Bay. As France continues her bitter struggle for supremacy on land and sea, the Royal Navy receives a crippling blow at home: the Great Mutiny. Returning home after eighteen-months' service, Flag Captain Richard Bolitho finds himself at the center of the crisis.
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The Nanny's Homecoming

Linda Goodnight · Love Inspired
Format: Paperback

After her fiancé calls off their wedding, Brooke Clayton has nowhere to go but home.If she can survive in the tiny Colorado town for a year, she'll fulfill the odd terms of her estranged grandfather's will. Turns out the wealthy businessman next door, handsome single father Gabe Wesson,...
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The Antagonist

Lynn Coady · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature. Gordon Rankin Jr., aka Rank, thinks of himself as King Midas in reverse—and indeed misfortune...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
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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By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel

F Paul Wilson · Forge
Pages: 347
Format: Print book

By the Sword takes up the adventures of Repairman Jack directly after Bloodline. Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. Central characters include the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese...
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Mouse and Dragon

Sharon Lee · Baen
Format: Hardcover

The Latest Novel in the Exciting Liaden Universe® Space Adventure Series. The Sequel to Saltation.            Aelliana Caylon has endured much, and finally, she appears to have won all: a spaceship, comrades, friends -- and the love...
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Them

Joyce Carol Oates · Vanguard Pr
Pages: 508
Format: Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge...
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The Secrets of Lake Road: A Novel

Karen Katchur · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A haunting story about the destructive power of secrets, The Secrets of Lake Road is an accomplished and gripping suspenseful women's fiction debutJo has been hiding the truth about her role in her high school boyfriend's drowning for sixteen years. Every summer, she drops her children...
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The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel

Julie Schumacher · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach...Now...
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The Smart One

Jennifer Close · Vintage
Format: Hardcover

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses An irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel —Marie Claire, Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry,...
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