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  • TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM
    TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM
    GYASI, YAA
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is "a book of blazing brilliance" (The Washington Post)—a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEGifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University ...
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  • A TIME FOR MERCY
    A TIME FOR MERCY
    JOHN GRISHAM
    u003cbu003eu003cbu003e#1u003ciu003e NEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLER u003c/bu003e• Jake Brigance is back! The hero of u003ciu003eA Time to Kill, u003c/iu003eone 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. 1...
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  • THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
    THE EVENING AND THE MORNING
    FOLLETT KEN
    It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilders l...
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  • WOLF HALL
    WOLF HALL
    HILARY MANTEL
    WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into ...
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  • WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
    WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
    OWENS, DELIA
    Delia Owens es coautora de los tres libros de no ficción más vendidos a nivel internacional sobre su vida como científica de vida silvestre en África. Tiene una licenciatura en zoología de la Universidad de Georgia y un doctorado en comportamiento animal de la Universidad de California en Davis. Ha ganado el premio John Burroughs por escritura sobre la naturaleza y ha sido publ...
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  • THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
    THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
    LOUISE ERDRICH
    WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural N...
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  • CAMINO WINDS
    CAMINO WINDS
    JOHN GRISHAM
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • “The perfect crime scene ... in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.”—Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for Camino Island. Florida’s gove...
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    Q. 120

  • THE WOLF DEN
    THE WOLF DEN
    HARPER, ELODIE
    Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book AwardsA Waterstones Book of the MonthWinner of the 2022 Glass Bell Award'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph' The Times 'I loved it' Jennifer Saint 'I couldn't put it down' Claire Douglas 'Utterly spellbinding' Woman & Home 'Deeply moving' William Ryan 'Gripping' Independent 'One of a kind' RedSold by her mot...
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  • THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
    THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY
    HAIG, MATT
    Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021 Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight L...
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  • SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
    SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
    CLAIRE KEEGAN
    Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." --Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & LoversSmall Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable por...
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  • WRITERS & LOVERS
    WRITERS & LOVERS
    LILY KING
    #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayEmma Roberts Belletrist Book Club PickA New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection "I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." --Curtis Sittenfeld An extraordinary new novel of art, ...
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  • CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER
    CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER
    BYTHELL, SHAUN
    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms.Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is ...
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    Q. 140

  • THE GUARDIANS
    THE GUARDIANS
    JOHN GRISHAM
    John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist.In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's.Quincy was tried,...
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    Q. 120

  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Washington Post • Esquire • Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Marie Claire • Parade • Paste • Shelf Awareness • BookRiotEveryone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late six...
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    Q. 125

  • BEACH READ
    BEACH READ
    EMILY HENRY
    "A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar oppo...
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    Q. 135

  • THE MEMORY POLICE
    THE MEMORY POLICE
    YOKO OGAWA
    A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who ar...
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  • TALES FROM THE CAFE
    TALES FROM THE CAFE
    KAWAGUCHI, TOSHIKAZU
    The million-copy bestselling series.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewe...
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  • THE COLOR PURPLE
    THE COLOR PURPLE
    ALICE WALKER
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other acros...
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  • A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM
    A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM
    FOLLETT KEN
    It begins in the Scottish Highlands, in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life and threatened always by firedamp, the explosive gas that may ignite at any moment and bury him, Mack burns with the desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautifu...
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    Q. 140

  • THE STORM SISTER
    THE STORM SISTER
    RILEY, LUCINDA
    Ally D'Apliese is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true ...
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  • THE PERFECT COUPLE
    THE PERFECT COUPLE
    ELIN HILDERBRAND
    From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. *New York Times bestseller*It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event...
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  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    PLATH, SYLVIA
    Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia Plath's place as an enduring feminist icon. Celebrated for its darkly humorous, razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, it continues to resonate with readers to...
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  • THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES
    THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES
    ARIKAWA, HIRO
    A book that “speak[s] volumes about our need for connection—human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy—the perfect gift for cat lovers and travellers!We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to...
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  • THE CRAZY RICH ASIANS TRILOGY BOX SET
    THE CRAZY RICH ASIANS TRILOGY BOX SET
    KEVIN KWAN
    Give the gift of the outrageous, funny, "wickedly delectable" (New York Times) Crazy Rich Asians series in a collectible box set! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore's most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees t...
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  • THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    HEATHER MORRIS
    #1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International BestsellerThis beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.“The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes of hum...
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  • THE SATANIC VERSES
    THE SATANIC VERSES
    RUSHDIE, SALMAN
    One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols...
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  • LIFE OF PI (EXP)
    LIFE OF PI (EXP)
    MARTEL YANN
    One boy, one boat, one tiger ... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitar lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the weck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female oran-utan - and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. ...
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  • HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
    HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
    MOSHFEGH, OTTESSA
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Gar...
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  • THE LITTLE MERMAID AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
    THE LITTLE MERMAID AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
    ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN
    Featuring beloved characters such as the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and the Snow Queen, a deluxe full-color edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytales, illustrated with stunning drawings and interactive artwork from MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise—the perfect companion for fans of the Disney live-ac...
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  • A MAN CALLED OVE: A NOVEL
    A MAN CALLED OVE: A NOVEL
    BACKMAN, FREDRIK
    Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?Behind the cranky exterio...
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