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Holly
By King, Stephen
2023-09 - Scribner Book Company
9781668016138

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Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. "Sometimes the universe throws you a rope." --BILL HODGES Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers …More

The River We Remember
By Krueger, William Kent
2023-09 - Atria Books
9781982179212

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In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "expansive, atmospheric American saga" (Entertainment Weekly) This Tender Land. On Memorial Day, as the people of …More

The Fraud
By Smith, Zadie
2023-09 - Penguin Press
9780525558965

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From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived …More

Enchanted to Meet You
By Cabot, Meg
2023-09 - Avon Books
9780063320192

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A witchy rom-com from New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up with a handsome stranger to help protect her village from an otherworldly force--but will she be able to protect her heart?

It's Magic When You Meet Your Match

In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously

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Things We Left Behind
By Score, Lucy
2023-09 - Bloom Books
9781728276120

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score returns to spicy-sweet Knockemout, Virginia with Lucian and Sloane's story.

There was only one woman who could set me free. But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything.

Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his …More

Evil Eye
By Rum, Etaf
2023-09 - Harper
9780062987907

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"A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!"--Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community Board

The acclaimed New York Times

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Mother-Daughter Murder Night
By Simon, Nina
2023-09 - William Morrow & Company
9780063315044

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A fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town.

"A lively and tender story of family that Simon deftly transforms into an edge-of-your-seat murder mystery... One part The Maid and one part family drama ? la The Nest,

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The Circumference of the World
By Tidhar, Lavie
2023-09 - Tachyon Publications
9781616963620

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Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very …More

The Witching Tide
By Meyer, Margaret
2023-09 - Scribner Book Company
9781668011362

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"Stylish and raw...seizes the reader's sympathy and does not let go." --Anne Enright, Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historical events--a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England--that claimed manyMore

Bright Young Women
By Knoll, Jessica
2023-09 - S&s/ Marysue Rucci Books
9781501153228

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From the megabestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-life sorority and target of America's first celebrity serial killer. January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top …More

Coleman Hill: A Biomythography
By Coleman Foote, Kim
2023-09 - Sjp Lit
9781638931140

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Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

"Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops the breath. Kim Coleman Foote is that writer." --Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Red at the Bone"A masterpiece. Brilliant, vivid, heartbreaking, epic, beautiful, raw and true . . . This is the American story."More

Code Red: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Kyle Mills
By Flynn, Vince
Author Mills, Kyle
2023-09 - Atria Books
9781982164997

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Mitch Rapp returns to make a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and up-to-the-minute installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from "one of the best thriller writers on the planet" (The Real Book Spy). Mitch Rapp hates owing anyone a favor--especially when it's the world's most powerful crime lord. But when Damian Losa calls, Mitch is honor-bound to …More

The Vaster Wilds
By Groff, Lauren
2023-09 - Riverhead Books
9780593418390

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A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive

“Extraordinary...staggering...with wrenching beauty…This is a triumph.”-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Must be read...The writing is inspired, the imaginative power near mystic.”-Kirkus

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Nineteen Steps
By Anon9780063335776
2023-09 - William Morrow & Company
9780063335776

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"My inner history-loving teenage geek clapped her hands in ecstasy at the thought of a historical novel penned by Enola Holmes, and she wasn't disappointed!"--Kate Quinn

Millie Bobby Brown's Nineteen Steps is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War

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The Moral Offset
By Taranto, Julius
2023-09 - Little Brown and Company
9780316513074

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A "very funny, very good" (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage)

Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could …More

The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
By Osman, Richard
2023-09 - Pamela Dorman Books
9780593299425

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A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club.

Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the …More

Wellness
By Hill, Nathan
2023-09 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780593536117

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The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria, Wellness reimagines the love story with a healthy dose of insight, irony, andMore

Starter Villain
By Scalzi, John
2023-09 - Tor Books
9780765389220

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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.

Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake …More

The Golden Gate
By Chua, Amy
2023-09 - Minotaur Books
9781250903600

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Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the …More

Dark Ride: A Thriller
By Berney, Lou
2023-09 - William Morrow & Company
9780062663863

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From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need

Twenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A

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The Door of No Return
By Diop, David
Translator Taylor, Sam
2023-09 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374606770

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 "I read Beyond the Door of No Return with pleasure and admiration. David Diop has opened up a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties." --Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Afterlives

"Stunningly realized . . . Exquisite . . . A spellbinding novel about the high price of betrayal--of others, and …More

The Armor of Light
By Follett, Ken
2023-09 - Viking
9780525954996

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The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives …More

The Running Grave: A Cormoran Strike Novel
By Galbraith, Robert
2023-09 - Mulholland Books
9780316572101

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In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that …More

The Fragile Threads of Power
By Schwab, V.E.
2023-09 - Tor Books
9780765387493

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V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic.

Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power. Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a …More

The Museum of Failures
By Umrigar, Thrity
2023-09 - Algonquin Books
9781643753553

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A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick Honor Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl--and to see his elderly …More

Land of Milk and Honey
By Zhang, C. Pam
2023-09 - Riverhead Books
9780593538241

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The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world "It's rare to read anything that feels this unique. A richly imagined, ambitious, and haunting novel." -GABRIELLE ZEVIN, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow and …More

The Unsettled
By Mathis, Ayana
2023-09 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780525519935

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From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel--set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival "[A] powerful book." --Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead From the moment Ava …More