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Rules at the school by the sea
by Jenny Colgan
Engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Maggie Adair, a teacher at Downey House the sea in Cornwall, must stop thinking about her colleague at the boys school down the road, while her boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, must confront a scandalous secret she thought shed buried forever. 30,000 first printing.
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Defenestrate : a novel
by Renee Branum
Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls. And when their own family falls apart in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother, the twins move to Prague, the city in which their "falling curse" began.
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What Jonah knew : a novel
by Barbara Graham
"A seven-year-old boy inexplicably recalls the memories of a missing 22-year-old musician in this psychological thriller about the fierce love between mothers and sons across lifetimes"
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The finalists
by David Bell
Competing for the prestigious Hyde scholarship, six college students, locked in an aging Victorian structure, must spend eight hours with a college administrator who will do anything to keep the school afloat, but when one of them is murdered, the survivors turn viciously on one another.
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An honest living
by Dwyer Murphy
A former attorney agrees to help a reclusive literary star find her missing bookseller husband and is drawn into spiraling mysteries and feeling out of his depth when the person who hired him turns out to be an imposter.
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Fire season : a novel
by Leyna Krow
Barton Heydale, the unpopular manager of the only bank in 1889 Spokane Falls, is considering ending his own life when a fire threatening to flateen their fronteir boomtown gives him an idea, a plan and a reason to live.
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The swell
by Allie Reynolds
A former surfer who hung up her surfboard after her boyfriend drowned, Kenna Ward must get back into the game when she, arriving on a remote Australian beach to meet her best friends fianc�, is plunged into a world of murder, passion and obsession.
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Dark earth : a novel
by Rebecca Stott
After their father, a legendary blacksmith accused of infusing his swords with dark magic, suddenly dies, his daughters are faced with enslavement and must escape to the Ghost City where they find an underworld of rebel women living in secret.
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Locklands : a novel
by Robert Jackson Bennett
A god wages warusing all of humanity as its pawnsin the conclusion to the Founders trilogy.
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Big girl : a novel
by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
A young, plus-size girl in 1990s Harlem tries to meet the lofty expectations of her painfully proper mother, sharp-tongued grandmother and her mostly white Upper East Side prep school while finding solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah.
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The novelist : a novel
by Jordan Castro
This deeply insightful, amusing and imaginative debut novel follows a young man over the course of a single morning as he tries and fails to write an autobiographical novel, instead finding himself distracted by social media and his own mind.
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The recruit : a novel
by Alan Drew
In 1987 Southern California, Detective Benjamin Wade, struggling to connect a series of strange crimes, discovers a terror network thats using a new technology called the Internet to lure young men into doing their bidding, forcing Ben to confront uncomfortable truths about himself and his beloved community.
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Moonlight and the pearler's daughter
by Lizzie Pook
To solve the mystery of her missing father, a pearl-diving boat captain, Eliza, in 1896 Australia, must decide the price she is willing to pay to find the truth as she is submerged in a seedy underbelly of a town rife with corruption, prejudice and blackmail.
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The Bartender's Cure
by Wesley Straton
Seduced by her new job as a bartender at Joes Apothecary, a beloved neighborhood bar in Brooklyn, Samantha Fisher, deferring law school for a year, must decide between the life she thought she wanted and the possibility of a different kind of future. 100,000 first printing.
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The scent of burnt flowers : a novel
by Blitz Bazawule
In 1965 Alabama, a newly engaged Black couple, after one fateful night turns them into fugitives, seek asylum in Ghana where they encounter a Highlife musician, which starts a journey of lust, magic and danger that ends in chaos as they each must confront their secrets and each other.
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To kill a troubadour
by Martin Walker
When songwriter Joel Martins song is banned by the Spanish government, which puts him in the crosshairs of a killer, Bruno, as French and Spanish governments agree to mount a joint operation to stop the assailants, must track down the extremists.
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The angel of Rome : and other stories
by Jess Walter
This humorous, heartfelt and redemptive collection of short fiction from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Ruins explores moments when everything changesfor the better, worse and outrageousas an unforgettable cast of characters question life and search for inspiration. 50,000 first printing.
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The local : a legal thriller
by Joey Hartstone
When the judge on his case is murderedand all evidence points to his client, wealthy Pakistani-American businessman Amir Zawar, patent lawyer James Euchre sets out to prove Zawars innocence in a town where everyone knows everyone and bad blood has a long history.
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The stardust thief
by Chelsea Abdullah
A hunter and seller of illegal magic, Loulie al-Nazari, after saving the life of a cowardly prince, is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp, drawing her into a world where nothing is what it seems and where she must decide who she will become in this new reality. 30,000 first printing.
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Desperation in Death
by J. D. Robb
Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the Pleasure Academy after two girls attempt to escape with tales of being groomed for sex trafficking, in the latest addition to the long-running, New York Times best-selling series following Desperation in Death. (mystery & detective).
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Ghost lover : stories
by Lisa Taddeo
A collection of short stories, including two Pushcart Prize winners, from the New York Times best-selling author of Three Women includes the tale of hard partying friends crashing into lifes responsibilities and of a dating service that flirts for you.
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Outside
by Ragnar Jónasson
Stranded by a snowstorm in the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge where they discover they are not alone, and must come to terms with their past to survive to see their future. 50,000 first printing.
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The bridesmaids union : a novel
by Jonathan Vatner
Tired of being a bridesmaid to demanding and ungrateful brides, Iris Hagarty joins an online group of other disgruntled bridesmaids who help her deal with family drama when her spoiled sister asks her to be her maid of honor and she develops feelings for the groom. 25,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Trigger points : inside the mission to stop mass shootings in America
by Mark Follman
An award-winning journalist, tracing the evolution of behavioral threat analysis, show how a school district in Oregon implemented a comprehensive and immersive systemic program of threat assessment without punitive and penal measures and how the U.S. should adopt similar techniques. 75,000 first printing.
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The Chaos Machine : The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher
A New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, through research, exclusive interviews and on-the-ground reporting, captures the tangible havoc wreaked upon our minds and world by the titans of the tech industry, telling the inside story of how the social networks fundamentally altered the world. 75,000 first printing.
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Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land
by Taylor Brorby
A poet and essayist recalls growing up gay in in rural North Dakota and how his experiences in the ravaged landscapes of coalfields and mining led him to a career in environmental activism. Illustrations.
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Horizons : the global origins of modern science
by James Poskett
This new history of science focuses on the contributions of lesser-known heroes from non-Western cultures in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region and how they influenced and guided great minds such as Copernicus, Newton, Darwin and Einstein. 20,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Pretty baby : a memoir
by Natalie West
Moving between the embodied world of the pro domme and the abstract realm of academia, a former sex worker, who branded herself a L.A.s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix, reveals how lessons from the classroom apply to the dungeon and vice versa, showing how power and desire can be renegotiatedor reinforced.
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The man who could move clouds : a memoir
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of the secretsthe power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds. Illustrations.
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Pig years
by Ellyn Gaydos
An itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.
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Making history : the storytellers who shaped the past
by Richard Cohen
This fascinating book reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists and political propagandist, influence what becomes the accepted record, 40,000 first printing.
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A good day to bake : simple baking recipes for every mood
by Benjamina Ebuehi
"This is a cookbook that embraces simplicity, mindfulness and the therapeutic comforts of baking. The Great British Bake Off's 2016 contestant Benjamina writes so warmly about cakes and her recipes speak to a natural, seasonal and down-to-earth way of baking...because every day is a good day to bake"
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Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me
by Ada Calhoun
The New York Times-best-selling author recalls her strained relationship with her father, who shared an obsession with Frank OHara, the famed bohemian poet and member of The New York School art movement.
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