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Queen Esther
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John Irving
After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther--a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.
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The Orphan's Last Goodbye
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Glynis Peters
With six hard years of war behind her, former nurse Kitty McCarthy should be facing a bright future. But her husband Michael shatters her peace in an instant when he tells her he feels hemmed in by Britain, and wants to return to the wide-open plains of the Canadian west. Before she can process this life-changing news, Michael is gone.
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False Witness
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Phillip Margolin
With a deadly criminal drug gang, a powerful, corrupt figure hiding in the D.A.'s office, and a Congressman who turned up with an unbelievable story after disappearing for days, False Witness is twisty, breathtaking, and unpredictable thriller.
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Best Offer Wins
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Marisa Kashino
An insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino's darkly humorous debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success--and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams? Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis.
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The Wake
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
A group of young professionals travel to the Westman Islands off the coast of Iceland to attend an old friend's wake. Their reunion soon turns into a living nightmare, as the memories of a party they attended at university, and desperately tried to forget, come rushing back.
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Days at the Torunka Café
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Satoshi Yagisawa
While Café Torunka serves up a perfect cup of coffee, it provides these sundry souls with nourishment far more lasting. Satoshi Yagisawa brilliantly illuminates the periods in our lives where we feel lost—and how we find our way again.
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The Burning Library
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Gilly MacMillan
From the internationally bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes a thrilling dark academic tale of murder, obsession and ruthless ambition, set in remote St Andrews, Scotland. The Burning Library is the story of a centuries-old secret set to divide and consume those who seek to unearth it.
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Brigands & Breadknives
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Travis Baldree
Now in paperback, return to the cozy fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with an adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern. A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely thumping hangover. As together they fend off a rogue's gallery of ne'er-do-wells trying to claim the bounty the goblin represents, Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when nothing seems inevitable.
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The Perfect Hosts
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Heather Gudenkauf
A couple's gender reveal party turns deadly and everyone is a suspect in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest. As the shadow of a killer looms, the happy parents-to-be must unravel the truth before it's too late.
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Where He Left Me
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Nicole Baart
From Nicole Baart, the bestselling author of Everything We Didn't Say, comes a twisty, atmospheric novel about a newlywed whose husband disappears, leaving her isolated in Washington State's North Cascades. Filled with dark menace and the danger of the wild, Where He Left Me is at once heartfelt and heart-pounding.
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Innocence Road
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Laura Griffin
Detective Leanne Everhart swore she'd never go back to her hometown near Marfa, Texas--but she returns when her brother needs her, only to find a town in need too, still torn apart by a decades-old crime. Now, with conflicted loyalties and without allies, Leanne must hunt down a serial killer, one who's been preying on local women for two decades, growing bolder and more ruthless with every strike.
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Next Time Will Be Our Turn
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Jesse Q. Sutanto
A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Stretching across decades and continents, Magnolia's star-crossed love story reveals how life can take unexpected turns but ultimately lead you to exactly who you're meant to be.
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Pick a Color
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Souvankham Thammavongsa
Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange.
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A Killer Motive
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Hannah Mary McKinnon
You never know who's listening.To Stella Dixon, sneaking her teenage brother out of their parents' house for a beach party was harmless fun--until Max disappeared without a trace.Six years later, Stella's family is still broken, and she can't let go of her guilt. The only thing that keeps her going is helping other families find closure through A Killer Motive, her true crime podcast. When she says on air that if she had just one clue, she'd find Max and bring whoever hurt him to justice, someone takes it as a challenge.
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Clown Town
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Mick Herron
David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks' College in Oxford, and now it turns out that one of the books has gone missing. Or perhaps it never existed. Now River, once a 'slow horse' of Slough House, MI5's outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and investigating the secrets of his grandfather's library seems a harmless activity. But nothing involving the slow horses ever stays harmless for long.
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The Trial of Katterfelto
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Michael Redhill
Endlessly inventive, richly imagined, and entirely its own, The Trial of Katterfelto is a consciousness-expanding novel that writes directly into the most urgent questions we face as a species: who we are, what we have done, and what we might do from here.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer: A Mystery
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Ragnar Jónasson
One winter evening, bestselling crime author Elãain S. Jãaonsdãaottir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective Helgi to crack the case before it's leaked to the press. As Helgi interviews the people closest to her--a publisher, an accountant, a retired judge--he realizes that Elãain's life wasn't what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than the fiction she wrote. As the case of the missing crime writer becomes more mysterious by the hour, Helgi must uncover the secrets of the writer's very unexpected life--
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The Wasp Trap
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Mark Edwards
Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor that brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing. But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one by one.
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