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  • DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD
    DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD
    TOKARCZUK, OLGA
    In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies ar...
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  • SEVEN LIES
    SEVEN LIES
    ELIZABETH KAY
    Lies are dangerous, but the truth can be fatal. . .Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven. Growing up, they shared everything, they knew the other's deepest secrets, and they wouldn't have had it any other way. Jane was always happiest when it was just the two of them; in fact, she remembers those days as the best time of her life. And even when Jane marri...
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  • THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
    THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
    CHRISTY LEFTERI
    This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see.”—Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzWINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY P...
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  • BUNNY
    BUNNY
    MONA AWAD
    Soon to be a major motion picture"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." --Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times"Awad is a stone-cold genius...
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    Q. 140

  • GHOSTBUSTERS - THE ORIGINAL NOVELIZATIONS OF GHOSTBUSTERS 1 AND 2
    GHOSTBUSTERS - THE ORIGINAL NOVELIZATIONS OF GHOSTBUSTERS 1 AND 2
    MUELLER, RICHARD
    For the first time in a beautiful new edition, this omnibus will collect together the original official novelizations of both Ghostbusters 1 and 2.Relive the classic Ghostbusters stories with the original movie novelizations reprinted for the first time since 1980s.When Dr. Peter Venkman and his Columbia University colleagues are kicked out of their prestigious academic posts, ...
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  • FATHERHOOD MEDIA TIE-IN (PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS TWO KISSES FOR MADDY)
    FATHERHOOD MEDIA TIE-IN (PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS TWO KISSES FOR MADDY)
    MATT LOGELIN
    The courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of the author's life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife--and winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Memoir & Autobiography is now a major motion picture!Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los ...
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    Q. 110

  • WOMEN TALKING
    WOMEN TALKING
    MIRIAM TOEWS
    The basis of the Oscar-nominated film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." --Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel ...
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    Q. 180

  • A CHILDREN'S BIBLE
    A CHILDREN'S BIBLE
    LYDIA MILLET
    "An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrat...
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    Q. 265

  • A TIME FOR MERCY
    A TIME FOR MERCY
    JOHN GRISHAM
    u003cbu003e#1 u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BEST SELLER * Jake Brigance is back! The hero of u003ciu003eA Time to Kill,u003c/iu003e one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003e says is "riveting" and "suspenseful."u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance fin...
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  • BLONDE
    BLONDE
    JOYCE CAROL OATES
    The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeSoon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, a...
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  • SWEET SORROW
    SWEET SORROW
    DAVID NICHOLLS
    From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life. Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer. The...
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    Q. 180

  • THE SHAKESPEARE REQUIREMENT
    THE SHAKESPEARE REQUIREMENT
    SCHUMACHER, JULIE
    A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach...Now is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fit...
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    Q. 190

  • BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES 4
    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES 4
    JEFFREY ARCHER
    Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Comp...
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    Q. 120

  • MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    MOSHFEGH, OTTESSA
    From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia ...
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    Q. 135

  • UNDER THE BRIDGE
    UNDER THE BRIDGE
    REBECCA GODFREY
    “A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Soon to be a limited series on Hulu.In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of ...
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    Q. 200

  • THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS (CANON)
    THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS (CANON)
    TWAN, ENG TAN
    After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic A...
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  • AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB)
    AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB)
    JONES, TAYARI
    A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION  WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wr...
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  • MARY VENTURA AND THE NINTH KINGDOM
    MARY VENTURA AND THE NINTH KINGDOM
    PLATH, SYLVIA
    Never before published, this newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life. Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young...
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  • CHRONICLE IN STONE (CANONS)
    CHRONICLE IN STONE (CANONS)
    KADARE ISMAIL
    In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War.A disturbing mix of tragedy and comedy, politics and sexuality, Chronicle in Stone is a fascinating masterpiece about what i...
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  • THE SEVEN SISTERS
    THE SEVEN SISTERS
    RILEY, LUCINDA
    Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is ha...
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  • MADE FOR LOVE
    MADE FOR LOVE
    NUTTING, ALISSA
    From the exciting and provocative writer of Tampa, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love--and how far some will go to escape it.Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extremely lifelike sex doll--as her roommates. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bl...
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  • THE DEBUT
    THE DEBUT
    ANITA BROOKNER
    An “almost flawless novel” (People) about a quiet scholar who is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature and that she must make a new start in life.Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the attentions of her eccentric parents into the gentler warmth and company of friends and lovers. Now at forty years old, an academic devote...
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  • THE DEAD FATHERS CLUB
    THE DEAD FATHERS CLUB
    HAIG, MATT
    Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him.Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistr...
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  • THE LAST FAMILY IN ENGLAND
    THE LAST FAMILY IN ENGLAND
    HAIG MATT
    Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their black Labrador. Prince is an earnest young dog, striving hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact (Remain Loyal to Your Human Masters, Serve and Protect Your Family at Any Cost). Other dogs, led by the Springer Spaniels, have revolted. As things in the Hunter family begin to go...
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  • THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
    THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"If you' re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read." --BustleFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six--an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar) as she reflects on her r...
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  • GRAVEL HEART
    GRAVEL HEART
    GURNAH, ABDULRAZAK
    Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted...
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  • THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN
    THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN
    HENDRIK GROEN
    A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove: an irresistible, funny, charming, and tender-hearted tale about friendship, love, and an old man who is young at heart.Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is....elderly. But at age 83 1/4, this feisty, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, ex...
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  • IRISH THOROUGHBRED
    IRISH THOROUGHBRED
    ROBERTS, NORA
    The very first novel by the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestselling author, now in a beautiful new hardcover edition.There's nothing left for Adelia Cunnane in Ireland. The aunt she cared for has passed, and the family farm has been sold for taxes. But her uncle Paddy has written her: Come to America...Dee has always had a magical touch with animals, and she finds employment w...
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  • THE RADLEYS
    THE RADLEYS
    HAIG, MATT
    FAMILIES. SOMETIMES THEY'RE A BLOODY NIGHTMARE . . .Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother Rowan finally discover why they can't sleep, can't eat a Thai salad without fea...
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  • THE PENELOPIAD (CANONS)
    THE PENELOPIAD (CANONS)
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey, especially for the details of Penelope's parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I've chosen to g...
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