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  • BETTER THAN FICTION
    BETTER THAN FICTION
    ALEXA MARTIN
    "If you think life is better than fiction, then you haven't read Alexa Martin's fiction."--NPROne of...Amazon's Best Romances of NovemberBuzzfeed's New Romances to Read This FallCosmopolitan's Best Books Coming Out In NovemberBustle's Most Anticipated Books of NovemberWomen's Health's Swooniest Romance Novels of 2022Love isn't always by the book in this charming romantic comedy...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • MALIBU RISING
    MALIBU RISING
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever.Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer a...
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    Q. 130

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Q. 185

  • 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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  • 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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    Q. 130

  • 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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    Q. 130

  • 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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    Q. 130

  • 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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  • 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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