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Forthcoming Book: August 2014
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Away : a novel
by Amy Bloom
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Jazz District, Alaska, and along the Telegraph Trail toward Siberia to find the missing girl. By the author of Come to Me. 75,000 first printing.
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The silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
While investigating the brutal murder of a novelist who had just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knew, which would ruin many lives, P.I. Cormoran Strike must race against time to catch a killer unlike any he has ever encountered before. 600,000 first printing.
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The frozen dead
by Bernard Minier
A U.S. release of an international best-seller is set in a high-security French Pyrenees asylum for the criminally insane and follows the experiences of psychologist Diane Berg, who helps Commandant Martin Servaz investigate a brutal killing and the disappearance of medications. A first novel.
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The furies : a novel
by Natalie Haynes
Moving from London to Edinburgh after tragically losing her fiancé, former actress Alex Morris accepts a drama-therapy teaching job for troubled teens and bonds with them over Greek tragedies in ways that help her heal but inspire the teens in disturbing ways. By the award-winning author of The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
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Knockout Games
by Greg Neri
As a gang of urban teenagers known as the TKO Club makes random attacks on bystanders, Erica, who is dating the gang leader, wrestles with her dark side and "good kid" identity
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The Islands at the End of the World
by Austin Aslan
When Hawaii is cut off from the rest of the world by a catastrophic technology failure that coincides with an eerie new starscape in the night sky, epileptic Leilani and her father embark on a nightmarish journey back home that tests their survival skills. Simultaneous eBook.
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Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
by Lucy Frank
An evocative novel in verse traces the unfolding friendship between two very different teen girls who share a hospital room and an illness from which one gradually recovers while the other languishes. Simultaneous eBook.
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The ultra thin man
by Patrick Swenson
"In the twenty-second century, a future in which mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug-induced slumber, no one--alive or dead, human or alien--is quite what they seem. When terrorists manage tocrash Coral, the moon, into its home planet of Ribon, forcing evacuation, it's up to Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for the Network Intelligence Organization, to solve a case of interplanetary consequences.
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The invention of exile : a novel
by Vanessa Manko
Wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings and deported to a war-torn early-20th-century Mexico, Russian immigrant Austin Voronkov maintains a daily correspondence with his wife in the United States while struggling against challenging political forces to reunite with his family. A first novel.
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Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky
by David Connerley Nahm
Leah's little brother, Jacob, disappeared when the pair were younger, a tragedy that haunts her still. When a grown man arrives at the non-profit Leah directs claiming to be Jacob, she is wrenched back to her childhood, an iridescent tableau of family joy and strife, swimming at the lake, sneaking candy, late-night fears, and the stories told to quell them.Book Annotation
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Your face in mine : a novel
by Jess Row
Shocked by a childhood friend's decision to dramatically change his appearance after immersing himself for 20 years in black culture, widower Kelly confronts morally ambiguous choices about race, identity and belonging when his friend asks him to help promote racial reassignment surgery. By the award-winning author of The Train to Lo Wu
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Painted Horses
by Malcolm Brooks
A young archeologist surveying a Western canyon in the 1950s ahead of the planned construction of a major dam meets a former mounted cavalryman who shows her the beauty in the stark landscape around her.
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A colder war
by Charles Cumming
Disgraced MI6 agent Thomas Kell is assigned to investigate the murders of an Iranian defector, an investigative journalist and an Iranian nuclear scientist who had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, a case that is further complicated by a senior agent's suspicious death. By the best-selling author of A Foreign Country
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Small blessings : a novel
by Martha Woodroof
Resigning himself to a life of regrets with a heavily dependent wife whose neuroses were exacerbated by his infidelity, English professor Tom Putnam hopes for renewal through a new friendship, only to learn that his former mistress bore him a son a decade earlier. A first novel.
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Designated Daughters
by Margaret Maron
After her Aunt Rachel is found smothered with a pillow while receiving hospice care, Judge Deborah Knott investigates who would've hastened her end—and why—in the latest addition to the mystery series following The Buzzard Table. 40,000 first printing
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Lisette's list : a novel
by Susan Vreeland
A tale centered on the lives of Provence-inspired master artists follows the experiences of an exiled young Parisian who cares for her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime and rediscovers love through the master works of Cezanne, Pissarro, Chagall and Picasso. By the best-selling author of The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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Evergreen : a novel
by Rebecca Rasmussen
Determined to find the half-sister who was given away after her violent conception in the late-1930s Minnesota wilderness, Hux discovers that the neglected girl has grown up completely wild, causing Hux to fear that they cannot share family life. By the award-winning author of The Bird Sisters. 40,000 first printing.
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One of us
by Tawni O'Dell
Haunted by the tragic death of his younger sister, successful forensic psychologist Sheridan Doyle returns to his hometown and discovers a body at an infamous gallows site before teaming up with a mentor detective who helps him unravel disturbing family secrets. By the best-selling author of the Oprah Book Club pick, Back Roads
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The ghost in the electric blue suit
by Graham Joyce
Working at a run-down English family resort during the sweltering summer of 1976, college student David searches for his biological father among suspicious characters and amid eerie visions of a mysterious man, a situation that is further complicated by a love triangle and a plague of ladybugs.
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The magician's land : a novel
by Lev Grossman
Visiting his magical college after being cast out of the secret land of Fillory, Quentin Coldwater, accompanied by brilliant undergraduate Plum, encounters desperate practitioners of gray magic before discovering a sorcery masterwork that could dissolve the boundaries between Fillory and Earth.
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The liar's wife : four novellas
by Mary Gordon
Four novellas about relationships at home and abroad are set in different historical periods and explore the experiences of such protagonists as an American grad student who escapes to Italy after a compromising love affair. By the award-winning author of The Love of My Youth
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