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Secretly Yours by Tessa BaileyReturning home to his familys winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his ivy league job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life. 30,000 first printing.
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The Crane Husband by Kelly Regan BarnhillA best-selling author offers a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.
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The Last Kingdom by Steve BerryWhen his protege infiltrates a renegade group intent on winning Bavarian independence from Germany, with everything hinging on a lost 19th-century deed that is the legal title to lands that Germany, China and US want, Cotton Malone battles an ever-growing list of deadly adversaries, all intent on finding the last kingdom.
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Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year by Rochelle BilowSpending one year living in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands to write a bestselling cookbook and drink a lot of whisky, Ruby Spencer starts to see a future that goes beyond her year of adventure when she is embraced by the tight-knit community, including Brochan, the ruggedly handsome local handyman.
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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani ChokshiBreaking the promise he made to his beautiful wife, to never pry into her past, when they arrive at her childhood home, a crumbling manor shrouded in mystery, a scholar of myths must choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage or their lives. 60,000 first printing.
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Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian love story by Terri-Lynne DeFinoWhen her 92-year-old mother and daughter set in motion an ill-conceived plan to find her a man, widow Varina Paladino, running Paladinos Italian Specialties grocery and keeping her large, loud Jersey Italian family from killing one another, doesnt have time for love, but fate has other plans. 100,000 first printing.
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Best Served Hot by Amanda ElliotA social media restaurant reviewer with a large following butts heads with a smarmy, social-media-averse society boy who snagged her dream job when video of her confronting him for his outdated opinions goes viral. 45,000 first printing.
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It's One of Us by J. T. EllisonA successful interior designer who keeps failing in her quest to conceive is shocked when she learns that a suspect in a recent murder investigation is her husbands son from a long-ago donation to a sperm bank. 100,000 first printing.
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One Month of You by Suzanne Ewart"When Alec asks Jess out, she knows it won't work. Is Alec charming? Of course. Attractive? Definitely. Can she not stop thinking about him...yes, but that's also the problem. Because Jess has rules. And the first? Don't fall in love. What no one knows is that Jess has inherited Huntington's disease from the mother that she cares for. And while witnessing her own future play out, Jess has learnt to keep everyone and everything at arm's length. But Alec is determined to break down those barriers. When she finally tells him why they have no future, he proposes a different option-just one month together. One month to date. One month to live. One month to fall in love. But as Jess grows closer to Alec, she knows she has to end it. It's better that he is hurt now rather than heartbroken later, isn't it?"
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Skull Water by Heinz Insu FenklAn inter-generational coming-of-age novel set in South Koreaabout friendship, belonging, and displacement.
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My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert FlorinA debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one womans final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaosand into an ill-advised affair with a married professor.
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The Neighbor Favor by Kristina ForestEnlisting the help of her new neighbor to find a date for her sisters wedding, not realizing he is her favorite fantasy author??the very same one who ghosted her months ago??aspiring childrens book author Lily Greene finds this simple favor between them becoming anything but.
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Maame by Jessica GeorgeA young British Ghanaian woman navigates her 20s and finds her place in the world.
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Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared HoseinAfter a young man from the poorest part of Trinidad goes missing during the end of British colonialism, a farmhand is offered a generous stipend to become a watchman and determine what happened to the missing man. 100,000 first printing.
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Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff"Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind"
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The House of Eve by Sadeqa JohnsonFrom the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal.
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Essex Dogs by Dan JonesA group of unruly archers and men-at-arms land on the beaches of Normandy in 1346 to fight for the throne in the fiction debut of the best-selling New York Times historian behind Powers and Thrones. 60,000 first printing. Maps.
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Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham JonesReturning to rural Proofrock after being released from prison, Jade Daniels runs afoul of a convicted serial killer, who escapes from a prison transfer in a blizzard, in the second novel of the series following My Heart is a Chainsaw.
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The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna LabuskesSet against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. 30,000 first printing.
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I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca MakkaiA successful film professor returns to teach at her alma mater and becomes determined to investigate a closed murder case in the new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers.
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Homestead by Melinda MoustakisFrom National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Flannery O'Connor Award comes a debut novel set in 1950s Alaska, about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders.
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The Angel Maker by Alex NorthFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.
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The Shamshine Blind by Paz PardoIn an alternate 2009 where psychopigments?, colorful chemicals that produce almost any human emotion upon contact, are both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs, Psychopigment Enforcement Agent Kay Curtida, while working on a career-making case, is led to an overdue reckoning with the truth of her own emotions.
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The Magician's Daughter by H. G. Parry"It is 1912, and for the last seventy years magic has all but disappeared from the world. Yet magic is all Biddy has ever known. Orphaned as a baby, Biddy grew up on Hy-Brasil, a legendary island off the coast of Ireland hidden by magic and glimpsed by rare travelers who return with stories of wild black rabbits and a lone magician in a castle. To Biddy, the island is her home, a place of ancient trees and sea-salt air and mysteries, and the magician, Rowan, is her guardian. She loves both, but as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she is stifled by her solitude and frustrated by Rowan's refusal to let her leave. One night, Rowan fails to come home from his mysterious travels. To rescue him, Biddy ventures into his nightmares and learns not only where he goes every night, but that Rowan has powerful enemies. Determination to protect her home and her guardian, Biddy's journey will take her away from the safety of her childhood, to the poorhouses of Whitechapel, a secret castle beneath London streets, the ruins of an ancient civilization, and finally to a desperate chance to restore lost magic. But the closer she comes to answers, the more she comes to question everything she has ever believed about Rowan, her own origins, and the cost of bringing magic back into the world"
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The Cradle of Ice by James RollinsBonded by fate and looming disaster, a soldier, a thief, a lost prince and a young girl, hunted by hostile enemies and surrounded by war, must travel into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world theyve only known in stories. 300,000 first printing.
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Arch-conspirator by Veronica RothFeeling uncontrollable rage toward her militant uncle Kreon who is rising to claim her fathers vacant throne, Antigone and her siblings, welcomed into his mansion, become captives as well as guests, but her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable??and neither is he. 200,000 first printing.
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The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal RyanThis triumphant story of four generations of women and the fierce devotion that binds them together follows the Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, whose lives are touched by betrayal and loyalty, isolation and togetherness, and transgression, forgiveness, desire and love.
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Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. SloanA former child star fights the conservatorship that is governing every aspect in her life and uses social media to help in the new novel from the author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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The Cliff's Edge by Charles ToddIn the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is drawn into a deadly feud between two families that sets in motion a revelation with the potential to change the loves of those she loves most. 75,000 first printing.
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Nocturneby Alyssa WeesWith the Great Depression in full swing, prima ballerina Grace Dragotta, paying the high price of achieving her dream, garners the attention of a mysterious patron who, as she begins to unlock his secrets, shows her there may be another way to achieve the transcendence shes always sought.
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