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10:04: A Novel
by Ben Lerner
A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire. In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Exploring sex, friendship, medicine, memory, art, and politics, this is both a riveting work of fiction and a brilliant examination of the role fiction plays in our lives.
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Accidents of Marriage
by Randy Susan Meyers
From the bestselling author of The Comfort of Lies, an engrossing look at the darker side of a marriage and at how an ordinary family responds to an extraordinary crisis.
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Ballroom : A Novel
by Alice Simpson
A debut novel told in interconnecting stories, Ballroom is a beautifully crafted, astoundingly poignant debut about a group of strangers united by a desire to escape their complicated and unhappy lives, if only for a few hours each Sunday evening, in a dilapidated Manhattan dance hall on the verge of closure.
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The Bully of Order : A Novel
by Brian Hart
Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, this spell-binding novel tells the story of the Ellstrom family and the violent social and historical forces that tear them apart.
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The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
A highly-respected London judge hides behind her professional accomplishments her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son.
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The Dog
by Joseph O'Neill
Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. Told with eloquence, empathy, and storytelling mastery, this is a brilliantly original, achingly funny fable for our globalized times.
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Edge of Eternity
by Ken Follett
This finale to the epic trilogy covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution and rock and roll.
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Florence Gordon
by Brian Morton
A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for 75 defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes.
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The High Divide : A Novel
by Lin Enger
Abandoned by her husband and her two sons who went out to search for him, Gretta Pope must follow her family across the rugged badlands of 1880s Montana.
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
by Nayomi Munaweera
A U.S. release of an award-winning first novel traces the experiences of two women on opposing sides of the Sri Lankan Civil War who connect in unexpected ways when a Tamil aspiring teacher is arrested by soldiers and placed in the path of a young woman from a loving Sinhala family.
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An Italian Wife
by Ann Hood
An Italian immigrant watches her six children grow up while she searches for her seventh, the product of a love affair who was given up for adoption in this multigenerational saga.
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The King's Curse
by Philippa Gregory
Married to loyal Lancaster supporter Sir Richard Pole to minimize her claim to the throne of Henry VII, Margaret becomes an advisor to newlyweds Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon before witnessing the rapid ascent of Henry VIII.
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Mr. Bones : Twenty Stories
by Paul Theroux
A dark and bitingly humorous collection of short stories from the "brilliantly evocative" (Time) Paul Theroux.
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Neverhome
by Laird Hunt
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and two-time PEN finalist, Hunt is poised for breakout with hard-hitting historical fiction (based in fact) about a woman who leaves her husband to fight for the Union cause. - Library Journal
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The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers
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Queen Bee Goes Home Again
by Haywood Smith
Forced to move back home by her husband's abandonment and the impact of the economy on her real-estate career, Linwood witnesses the struggles of her aging parents and her brother's efforts to turn over a new leaf while gradually connecting with a handsome Baptist preacher.
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Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good : The New Mitford Novel
by Jan Karon
Jan Karon returns - and invites her millions of fans to join her again in Mitford. While Father Tim Kavanagh struggles with ambivalence about returning to the pulpit in Mitford, his adopted son, Dooley, falls passionately in love with an aspiring veterinarian against the backdrop of a mayoral reelection campaign and the opening of a new cafe.
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Stone Mattress : Nine Tales
by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships.
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A Sudden Light
by Garth Stein
When a boy tries to save his parents' marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain.
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The Undertaking
by Audrey Magee
The breathtaking story of a German couple who married for the convenience of military benefits during WWII and worked their way up the ranks of Nazi high society until the fall of Berlin changed everything and threatened their unborn child.
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The Wonder of All Things
by Jason Mott
Ava has an unusual gift: she can heal others of their physical ailments. Her gift had been a secret. Now the whole world knows, and suddenly people from all over the globe begin flocking to her small town, looking for healing. But Ava's unique ability comes at a great cost, and as she grows weaker with each healing, she soon finds herself having to decide just how much she's willing to give up in order to save the ones she loves most.
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The Zone of Interest
by Martin Amis
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life and - shockingly - love in a concentration camp.
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The Blood of an Englishman : an Agatha Raisin mystery
by M. C. Beaton
Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.
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Blood on the Water : A William Monk Novel
by Anne Perry
Shut out of the investigation of a massive bombing he witnessed, William Monk takes over when evidence surfaces that the person executed for the crime was innocent, a situation that places him in the center of a violent power struggle for control of the Suez Canal.
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Bones Never Lie : a Novel
by Kathy Reichs
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds the forensic investigator employing her classic style while embarking on new territory that leads her to reunite with her mother and track down an elusive adversary.
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Broadchurch
by Erin Kelly
A novelization of the hit television show follows detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller as they search for a young boy's killer among numerous suspects and a brewing media storm.
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Broken Monsters
by Lauren Beukes
A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending novel of suspense.
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Burn
by James Patterson
Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building, in the seventh novel of the series.
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The Cinderella Killer
by Simon Brett
Charles Paris has landed a minor role in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella. But rehearsals descend into chaos when a member of the cast is discovered shot dead beneath Eastbourne Pier. Charles must put his renowned sleuthing skills to the test to find out who killed his co-star - and why.
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A Dancer in the Dust
by Thomas H. Cook
A former aid worker who was stationed in a newly independent African country is distraught when a friend from that period of his life turns up murdered in New York and he must come to terms with the loss.
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Darkness, Darkness
by John Harvey
The discovery of the body of a young woman who disappeared 30 years prior during the British Miners' Strike brings Charlie Resnick out of virtual retirement to assist in the murder investigation forcing him to confront his past in what will assuredly be his last case as well as the final novel in a long-running series.
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The Day of Atonement : A Novel
by David Liss
Returning to mid-18th-century Lisbon to avenge the death of his father, Sebastian Foxx stealthily collects funds and identifies friends and allies among Inquisition spies. By the Edgar Award-winning author of A Conspiracy of Paper.
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Day of Vengeance
by Jeanne M. Dams
Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral when one of the candidates is found murdered in his own church. Then a second candidate is found dead, and the case becomes very complicated indeed.
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The Distance : A Thriller
by Helen Giltrow
A dark, ultra-contemporary, and relentlessly paced debut thriller about a London society woman trying to put her secret criminal past behind her, and the hit man who comes to her with an impossible job she can't refuse.
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The Drop
by Dennis Lehane
Based on the screenplay he developed from his short story "Animal Rescue," The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong; Fox's film of the same title stars James Gandolfini (in his final on-screen performance).
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The Eye of Heaven
by Clive Cussler
Discovering an artifact-filled, perfectly preserved Viking ship in the ice during an Arctic expedition, Sami and Remi Fargo investigate a legend about a fabled Toltec object, only to be targeted by treasure hunters and crime cartels.
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Fighting Chance : A Gregor Demarkian Novel
by Jane Haddam
When his best friend, parish priest Tibor Kasparian, is wrongly arrested for murder, a distraught Gregor Demarkian breaks his personal rules about consulting in his determination to uncover the truth.
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French Pastry Murder
by Leslie Meier
Lucy Stone's trip to Paris to learn culinary secrets from a top French pastry chef takes a turn for the worse when she discovers the chef in a pool of blood and must criss-cross the country to find his killer.
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The Golden Hour
by Todd Moss
Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali. An extraordinary thriller debut of twenty-first-century espionage.
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The Golem of Hollywood
by Jonathan Kellerman
Waking up beside a beautiful woman he has no memory of meeting, Detective Jacob Lev investigates a Hollywood Division murder case involving a severed head, an ominous message in Hebrew and the legend of the Golem of Prague.
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Hold the Dark
by William Giraldi
A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind's losing battle with nature.
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The Lost Key
by Catherine Coulter
Investigating the Wall Street stabbing of a rare book dealer who had been secretly looking for a missing WWI U-boat full of treasure, Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, frantically try to track down the victim's missing children.
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The Marco Effect : A Department Q novel
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Denied Danish citizenship and an education by his oppressive gypsy clan leader, 15-year-old Marco is forced to beg and steal before fleeing in the wake of a murderous act, which is investigated for its ties to petty crime rings, embezzlers and child soldiers.
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Murder 101 : A Decker/Lazarus Novel
by Faye Kellerman
While working for the Greenbury Police Department in upstate New York, Peter Decker must draw from his years of experience as a homicide cop when a break-in at the local cemetery leads him into a world of art forgery and murder that is linked to cold case crimes, international intrigue and ruthless people who kill for sport.
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Night of the White Buffalo
by Margaret Coel
Attorney Vicky Holden discovers the body of a man who recently confessed to a murder and investigates along with Father John, in the 17th addition to the series.
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The Perfect Witness
by Iris Johansen
A stand-alone thriller by the best-selling author of the Eve Duncan series follows the experiences of a woman with an eidetic memory who has spent her life in the Witness Protection Program and who is forced to flee for her life when her cover is exposed.
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Perfidia : A Novel
by James Ellroy
A debut entry in a second L.A. Quartet by the award-winning author of L.A. Confidential follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
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Personal : a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child
A follow-up to the best-selling Never Go Back traces the fallout of game-changing events, placing Jack Reacher in a unique environment while pitting him against adversaries whose fates transform in unexpected ways.
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Proof Positive : A Joe Gunther Novel
by Archer Mayor
Investigating the death of a Vietnam veteran whose PTSD culminated in a hoarding disorder, Joe Gunther learns that the victim's collection of combat photos contains information that a sinister adversary desperately wanted to keep hidden.
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Raging Heat
by Richard Castle
When her Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist boyfriend decides that her latest case is his next big story, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat, investigating the death of an illegal immigrant who fell from the sky, clashes with the man she loves when he writes that she arrested the wrong man for the murder.
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Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Struggling with regrets while attending a reunion of his former Triple-A team, Jesse Stone is embroiled in a murder-kidnapping case that is linked to the reunion and one of Jesse's former teammates.
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Rose Gold : An Easy Rawlins mystery
by Walter Mosley
When a boxer-turned-revolutionary kidnaps the daughter of a weapons manufacturer and threatens to publicly execute her in exchange for a lucrative ransom, Easy Rawlins is tapped by the LAPD to make a difficult border crossing to navigate an ensuing standoff.
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The Secret Place
by Tana French
Investigating a disturbing photo of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with abrasive detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the tight-knit cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.
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Seven Wonders
by Ben Mezrich
After his reclusive, math-genius brother is murdered, Jack's search for the killer sends him to the Seven Wonders of the World, where he stumbles upon an ancient mystery. By the author of The Accidental Billionaires.
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Silent Murders
by Mary Miley
When movie studio bigwig Bruno Heilmann and an old friend are brutally murdered, vaudeville actress Jessie Carr, with a face not yet famous enough to be recognized, uses her unique position to investigate these deaths and get her career back on track.
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The Stone Wife
by Peter Lovesey
When a competitive-bidding war for a rare carved stone is interrupted by three masked men who kill the highest bidder, Peter Diamond and his team investigate the carving's mystical origins while Ingeborg goes undercover to learn about the murder weapon.
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Virtue Falls
by Christina Dodd
Growing up believing that her father was responsible for murdering her mother 20 years earlier, Elizabeth returns to her hometown in search of answers in this tightly-plotted romantic suspense.
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The White Van
by Patrick Hoffman
In this sharply drawn cast of characters, a drug hustler who is set up for robbery and an alcoholic cop confront dirty cops, Russian drug dealers, Chinese black-market traders, street smart Cambodians, and shady entrepreneurs.
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Angel Killer
by Andrew Mayne
A self-published bestselling e-book, this thriller is now in print. FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she has successfully left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her, until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test.
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The Bone Clocks
by David Mitchell
A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluently mixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and heartbreaking realism.
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Dark Blood
by Christine Feehan
An elite werewolf killer, Zev Hunter, begins to question both his past and his purpose after he is nursed back to consciousness by a member of the Dragonseeker clan.
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Festive in Death
by J. D. Robb
Investigating the untimely murder of a narcissist personal trainer who left a string of broken hearts in his wake, Lieutenant Eve Dallas sorts through a long list of suspects while juggling seasonal demands, including her husband's upcoming holiday bash.
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The Golden Princess : A Novel of the Change
by S. M. Stirling
Princess Orlaith, heir to Rudi Mackenzie, Artos the First, High King of Montival, now wields the Sword of the Lady--and faces a new enemy. Now all the survivors of the Change must choose sides....
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Haunted
by Kay Hooper
In the latest addition to the series, Trinity Nichols investigates after Deacon James's sister becomes the prime suspect in the murder of two men but claims she was possessed by supernatural forces.
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The Seventh Sigil
by Margaret Weis
Margaret Weis and co-author Robert Krammes bring the enthralling Dragon Brigade trilogy to a thrilling conclusion in this sweeping novel of worldwide war and personal redemption.
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Sleeping Late on Judgement Day
by Tad Williams
After failing to rescue his demon girlfriend from the Grand Duke of Hell, fallen angel Bobby Dollar runs into an old friend who has mysteriously lost his memory, in the latest novel of the series.
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Son of No One
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds skeptic photographer Josette reluctantly taking employment with a paranormal group before being drawn to condemned immortal Cadegan, whose inner demon is determined to consume Josette's soul.
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Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
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The Witch : And Other Tales Re-told
by Jean Thompson
The National Book Award-finalist author presents a collection of stories that put a modern twist on classic fairy tales, depicting characters ranging from lost children who try to find their way home to adults who confront their past misdeeds.
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The Witch with No Name
by Kim Harrison
Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the klutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. But power demands responsibility, and world-changers must always pay a price. That time is now. To save Ivy's soul and the rest of the living vampires, to keep the demonic ever after and our own world from destruction, Rachel Morgan will risk everything.
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