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Bestseller Preview October 2019
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Find Me
by André Aciman
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.
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Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo
Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university's secret societies.
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Imaginary Friend
by Stephen Chbosky
A highly anticipated follow-up to The Perks of Being a Wallflower finds a single mother's desperate efforts to escape an abusive relationship thrown into turmoil by her son's disappearance and reappearance days later with an imaginary friend.
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Blue Moon
by Lee Child
A highly anticipated latest installment in the best-selling series finds Jack Reacher offering aid to an elderly couple only to be confronted by the most dangerous opponents of his career. By the best-selling author of One Shot.
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The Night Fire
by Michael Connelly
Receiving a notebook with details about a 20-year cold case, homicide detective Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Renée Ballard before uncovering disturbing clues about his late mentor. By the best-selling author of Dark Sacred Night.
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A Tall History of Sugar
by Curdella Forbes
Tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance.
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The Shape of Night
by Tess Gerritsen
Moving to a coastal community in Maine, a woman trying to outrun her past is confronted by a string of murders and the ghost of a sea captain who is haunting her isolated home. By the best-selling author of Harvest.
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The Guardians
by John Grisham
The best-selling author of The Reckoning and The Rooster Bar presents his latest fast-paced legal thriller, incorporating his signature inventive twists and turns into a courtroom drama inspired by some of today's most hot-button issues.
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Royal Holiday
by Jasmine Guillory
Accompanying her daughter to England to help style a royal family member during the Christmas season, Vivian finds herself in an unexpected holiday romance with the queen's charming Private Secretary. By the best-selling author of The Wedding Date.
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What Happens in Paradise
by Elin Hilderbrand
A follow-up to the best-selling Winter in Paradise finds Irene and her sons returning to St. John to investigate her late husband's secret double life before uncovering surprising truths about their own realities and futures.
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Agent Running in the Field
by John Le Carre
Desperate to resist the political turbulence of his 2018 London home, a young man establishes connections that lead him down a dark and dangerous path. By the best-selling author of A Legacy of Spies.
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A Mrs. Miracle Christmas
by Debbie Macomber
Struggling with her grandmother's failing health and her inability to have a child, a woman receives unexpected help from a kindhearted stranger at the same time her dreams begin coming true. By the best-selling author of Alaskan Holiday.
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Meant to Be Yours
by Susan Mallery
The best-selling author of Thrill Me and California Girls presents a latest romance set in the small wedding-tourist community of Happily Inc, California, in a series entry that is complemented by a bonus story.
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The Giver of Stars
by Jojo Moyes
Volunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships. By the best-selling author of Me Before You
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The 19th Christmas
by James Patterson
Solving crimes never happens on schedule, but as a criminal mastermind unleashes credible threats by the hour, the month of December is upended for the Women's Murder Club. Avoiding tragedy is the only holiday miracle they seek.
If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, this killer is to blame.
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Bloody Genius
by John Sandford
When a culture war between rival departments at a local state university culminates in the death of a renowned scholar, Virgil Flowers struggles to identify a killer among a group of wildly passionate, diametrically opposed zealots.
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Grand Union: Stories
by Zadie Smith
The award-winning author of White Teeth presents a first collection of 10 original short stories and selections from her most-lauded pieces as first published in The New Yorker and other prestigious literary magazines
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Child's Play
by Danielle Steel
Enduring her late husband's death by embracing strict self-discipline to secure her career and the prospects of her children, a prestigious Manhattan attorney is confronted by astonishing secrets and an out-of-wedlock baby. By the best-selling author of Fairytale
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Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
A sequel to Olive Kitteridge finds Olive struggling to understand herself while bonding with a teen suffering from loss, a woman who gives birth unexpectedly, a nurse harboring a longtime crush and a lawyer who resists an unwanted inheritance
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Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
A transgender doctor falls in love with a celebrated professor who is leading the debate about artificial intelligence and conducting controversial experiments impacting cryogenics and the sex trade. By the author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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