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  • THE EXCHANGE
    THE EXCHANGE
    GRISHAM, JOHN
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel ...
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  • THE LONELY HEARTS BOOK CLUB
    THE LONELY HEARTS BOOK CLUB
    LUCY GILMORE
    A young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships in this charming, feel-good novel about one misfit book club and the lives (and loves) it changed along the way.Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old cu...
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  • HAPPY PLACE
    HAPPY PLACE
    EMILY HENRY
    "A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except...
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    Q. 180

  • THE COVENANT OF WATER
    THE COVENANT OF WATER
    ABRAHAM VERGHESE
    OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret"One of t...
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    Q. 330

  • YELLOWFACE INTL
    YELLOWFACE INTL
    KUANG, R. F.
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWhite lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariou...
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    Q. 200

  • REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY
    REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY
    MONICA HEISEY
    A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica HeiseyMaggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at...
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    Q. 175

  • LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
    LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
    ZHANG, C PAM
    A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the...
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    Q. 180

  • THE ONLY PURPLE HOUSE IN TOWN
    THE ONLY PURPLE HOUSE IN TOWN
    AGUIRRE, ANN
    From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes the magical town of St. Claire, where anything is possible...Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. The "chaos bunny." Her sisters are all wildly successful, while she can't balance her budget for a single month. It's no wonder she's in debt to her roommates. When she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aun...
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    Q. 180

  • THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY
    THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY
    BRENDAN SLOCUMB
    #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the WitchGrowing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian's life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream--he's determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he ...
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    Q. 180

  • BROWN GIRLS
    BROWN GIRLS
    ANDREADES, DAPHNE PALASI
    If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . .Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in f...
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    Q. 180

  • TERMINATION SHOCK
    TERMINATION SHOCK
    NEAL STEPHENSON
    From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports listeners to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.“Stephenson is...
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    Q. 250

  • SNOW WHITE AND OTHER GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES (MINALIMA EDITION)
    SNOW WHITE AND OTHER GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES (MINALIMA EDITION)
    GRIMM, JACOB AND WILHELM
    u003cpu003eThe ninth book in Harper Design's deluxe classic illustrated series--a beautiful and inventive fresh take on the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, including "Snow White," with stunning full-color artwork and interactive features created by MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eSnow White a...
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    Q. 340

  • THE PASSENGER
    THE PASSENGER
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    "Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and...
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    Q. 190

  • WE LIVE IN WATER
    WE LIVE IN WATER
    JESS WALTER
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favoriteThese twelve stories—published over the last five year...
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    Q. 110

  • THE GIRL FROM GUERNICA
    THE GIRL FROM GUERNICA
    KAREN ROBARDS
    Inspired by Picasso’s great masterpiece, Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war…On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military a...
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    Q. 210

  • OUT (SPECIAL EDITION)
    OUT (SPECIAL EDITION)
    KIRINO, NATSUO / SNYDER, STEPHEN B.
    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A special edition of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning, tension-filled literary mystery Out. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive hu...
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    Q. 190

  • THE RABBIT HUTCH
    THE RABBIT HUTCH
    GUNTY, TESS
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The GuardianBlandine isn't like the other residents of her building.An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing...
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    Q. 190

  • HOW TO STOP TIME
    HOW TO STOP TIME
    HAIG, MATT
    Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a Londo...
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    Q. 120

  • THE GRAY MAN (NETFLIX MOVIE TIE-IN)
    THE GRAY MAN (NETFLIX MOVIE TIE-IN)
    MARK GREANEY
    NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING RYAN GOSLING, CHRIS EVANS, AND ANA DE ARMASThe first Gray Man novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney.To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always.But there...
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    Q. 110

  • THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN
    THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN
    MARIE BENEDICT / VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
    The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!"Historical fiction at its best!"*A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in orde...
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    Q. 180

  • REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
    REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
    VAN PELT, SHELBY
    A New York Times Bestseller!A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!“Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.” -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See HereFor fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, ...
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    Q. 200

  • TO PARADISE
    TO PARADISE
    YANAGIHARA, HANYA
    Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness. ...
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    Q. 310

  • THE PUSH
    THE PUSH
    AUDRAIN, ASHLEY
    Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--she doesn't behave like most children do.Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox d...
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    Q. 130

  • KLARA AND THE SUN
    KLARA AND THE SUN
    KAZUO ISHIGURO
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ? Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is ?an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness? (The Associated Press). ? A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club ...
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    Q. 110

  • FOSTER
    FOSTER
    CLAIRE KEEGAN
    An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the USIt is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not kn...
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    Q. 210

  • NEVER
    NEVER
    FOLLETT KEN
    New York Times Bestseller The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. "A compelling story, and only too realistic." --Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary "Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, presid...
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    Q. 130

  • THE ROAD
    THE ROAD
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    A post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The landscape is destroyed. Nothing moves save the ash on the wind. Cruel...
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    Q. 130

  • A THOUSAND SHIPS
    A THOUSAND SHIPS
    NATALIE HAYNES
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year"Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War."--Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes an...
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    Q. 190

  • HARLEM SHUFFLE
    HARLEM SHUFFLE
    COLSON WHITEHEAD
    To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Strivers Row dont approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, its still home. Few people know he descends f...
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  • SISTERS
    SISTERS
    JOHNSON, DAISY
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review “Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time From a Booker Prize finalist and int...
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    Q. 170