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The librarianist : a novel
by Patrick deWitt
While volunteering at a senior center, retired librarian Bob Comet, who has lived his life through and for literature, revisits his past—one of war, true love, purpose and pride—amidst a community of strange peers who gather around him.
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Business or pleasure
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Snubbed at a book signing for the novel she actually wrote, a“ghostwriter” connects with a charming attendee for an awkward hookup that she would prefer to forget, but can't when he turns out to be her next client. Original.
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Wanderlust : a novel
by Elle Everhart
Winning a once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world with a catch: her travel partner must be a contact randomly selected on her phone, magazine writer Dylan Coughlan and Jack, a man she accidentally ghosted, form an unexpected bond, forcing her to choose between salvaging her career and following her heart. Original.
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Excavations : a novel
by Kate Myers
Four female colleagues on an archeological site at the Megalopolis in rural Greece, each at a very different crossroad in their lives, are forced to become friends in order to make the discovery of a lifetime. 50,000 first printing.
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A man of lies : a novel
by Ben Crane
A collector for a Midwestern criminal enterprise is caught stealing money from his boss and is given one last job to pay back his debt by participating in an elaborate heist and blackmailing a small-time Omaha Mafioso.
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Alchemy of a blackbird : a novel
by Claire McMillan
Felling the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
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Flags on the bayou : a novel
by James Lee Burke
Accused of murder, an enslaved woman goes on the run with an abolitionist schoolteacher in the fall of 1863, dodging constables and slave catchers, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of If I Disappear. Simultaneous.
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The parrot and the igloo : climate and the science of denial
by David Lipsky
Starring heroes, villains, pioneers and con artists, this dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, which grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes.
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Hello stranger
by Katherine Center
After a routine surgery a struggling artist loses the ability to see people's faces but can still see animal faces in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of What You Wish For. 150,000 first printing.
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The St. Ambrose School for Girls
by Jessica Ward
Relentlessly bullied by St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, Sarah Taylor finds an ally in her roommate Ellen, a cigarette-huffing, devil-may-care athlete, and determined not to let Greta break her, finds her world unraveling in ways she could never have imagined when a scandal unfolds, resulting in murder.
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My husband : a novel
by Maud Ventura
Obsessing over her perfect husband, a beautiful 40-year-old Parisian woman, who has an enviable life, watches him attentively and sets traps to make sure he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met until one day she realizes she may have gone too far. 40,000 first printing.
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Crook manifesto : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys. Simultaneous.
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How can I help you
by Laura Sims
Accepting a position at a small-town public library, a recent graduate student and failed novelist discovers a patron dead in the library bathroom and begins to dig up her co-worker's past as a nurse with a trail of premature deaths.
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Immortal longings
by Chloe Gong
Princess Calla Tuoleimi plans to take down her family's monarchy but must decide between her kingdom or her new lover, in an adult fantasy epic from the New York Times best-selling author of the YA Secret Shanghai novels.
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The bitter past
by Bruce Borgos
Sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, Porter Beck must solve the murder of an old, retired FBI agent linked to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age in a case where an all-but-forgotten person holds the key to what happened then and the deadly events now.
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Strange Sally Diamond
by Liz Nugent
Garnering media attention when she tries to incinerate her dead father, reclusive Sally Diamond, beginning to discover the horrors of her early childhood, steps into the world for the first time and soon finds her trust issues severely challenged by a sinister voice from her past she doesn't remember.
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Zero-sum : stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
Creating a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism and ever-shifting identities, one of America's most acclaimed writers presents this provocative and stunning collection of stories centering around deadly zero-sum games.
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Sammy Espinoza's last review : a novel
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
With her life a raging dumpster fire, music critic Sammy Espinoza, to guarantee her professional comeback, arrives in Ridley Falls, Washington, to gain exclusive access to former rock god Max Ryan's first ever solo album—and get revenge on this man who ghosted her after an unforgettable night together. Original.
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Every rising sun : a novel
by Jamila Ahmed
Furious at his first wife's infidelity, Malik begins to marry and behead a new girl every night until Shaherazade saves her own life with an unfinished, ongoing story each night, in a new take on One Thousand and One Nights.
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An Honest Man
by Michael Koryta
A man who gained infamy after murdering his own father ten years prior discovers seven murdered men on his yacht, in the new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead. 50,000 first printing.
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Somebody's fool
by Richard Russo
When a decomposing body is found in an abandoned hotel between North Bath and Schuyler Springs, police officers Charice Bond and her ex-lover Doug Raymer are drawn together again, while the town's residents speculate on the identity of the victim and wonder who among their number could've disappeared unnoticed.
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Prom Mom
by Laura Lippman
Drawn back to Baltimore where she's known as“Prom Mom”—the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date—Joe Simpson, abandoned her, Amber Glass is unable to stay away from Joe and vice versa until he asks her to help him do the unthinkable.
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The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight
by Andrew Leland
In a book that is part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.
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Emergent Properties
by Aimee Ogden
A powerful A.I. reporter investigating on the moon comes back online to discover they have no memory of the past 10 days nor any idea what leads they were following and tries to uncover the truth. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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