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Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, The Office BFFs
An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey’s friendship, and an insiders' view of Pam Beesly, Angela Martin, and the unforgettable cast of the hit series’ iconic characters.
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Paul Holes, Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases
From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
Genre: Fantasy
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Mary Serfozo, Rain Talk
A child enjoys a glorious day in the rain, listening to the varied sounds it makes as it comes down.
Genre: Picture Book
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Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together--excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn--the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases--has slipped into a coma, Avery's life turns upside down.
Genre: Mystery
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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C. J. Archer, The Librarian of Crooked Lane
A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she’s descended from magicians, she’s skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she’s just an ordinary girl who loves books.
Genre: Fantasy
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Kelley Armstrong, A Rip Through Time
In this series debut from bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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S. A. Barnes, Dead Silence
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life.
Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
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Jade Beer, The Last Dress From Paris
The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses... London, 2017. There's no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother. So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks for Lucille's assistance with a small matter, she's happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with retrieving a priceless Dior dress.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Lauren Belfer, Ashton Hall
When a close relative falls ill, Hannah and her young son, Nicky, decide to join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky discovers the skeletal remains of a woman in a forgotten, walled-off wing of the manor, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers.
Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction
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Steve Berry, The Omega Factor
When Nicholas Lee travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of the twelfth panel for the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years.
Genre: Thriller
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Jim Butcher, Storm Front
Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches.
Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction
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Jill Cantor, Beautiful Little Fools
Bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices.
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
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Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.
Genre: Mystery
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Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair
In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him.
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
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Kristy Woodson Harvey, The Wedding Veil
The bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series brings “her signature wit, charm, and heart” (Woman’s World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple
Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves her husband. Enter Avery Chambers.
Genre: Thriller
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John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
Genre: Fiction
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Amanda Jayatissa, You're Invited
When Amaya is invited to Kaavi’s over-the-top wedding in Sri Lanka, she is surprised and a little hurt to hear from her former best friend after so many years of radio silence. But when Amaya learns that the groom is her very own ex-boyfriend, she is consumed by a single thought: She must stop the wedding from happening, no matter the cost.
Genre: Thriller
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Dakota Krout, Ritualist
The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted. In fact, if the wrong people gained knowledge of what he was capable of, assassins would appear in droves.
Genre: Fantasy
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William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Mur Lafferty, Station Eternity
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian's talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries.
Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery
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Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation
Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Then she hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that's predicted to change dating forever. Jess' test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility--with GeneticAlly's founder Dr. River Peña--someone she already knows. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist--and the science behind a soulmate--than she thought.
Genre: Romance
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Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's rights.
Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction
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Peace Adzo Medie, His Only Wife
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious’s house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity—a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn’t truly know.
Genre: Fiction
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Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami.
Genre: Fiction
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Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Genre: Mystery
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Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
Bestselling and acclaimed author Allison Pataki has crafted an intimate portrait of a larger-than-life woman, a powerful story of one woman falling in love with her own voice and embracing her own power while shaping history in the process.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby sister, Kit. The siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-- especially as the offspring of legendary singer Mick Riva. It's the day of Nina's annual end-of-summer party, and she's the only person not looking forward to it after being abandoned by her pro tennis player husband.
Genre: Fiction
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Nora Roberts, Nightwork
Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached.
Genre: Romance
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Sascha Rothchild, Blood Sugar
When we meet Ruby, she is in a police interrogation room, being accused of her husband’s murder. Which, ironically, is one murder that she did not commit, though her vicious mother-in-law and a scandal-obsessed public believe differently.
Genre: Thriller
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Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker, Dracul
A prequel to the classic book Dracula inspired by notes and texts left by Bram Stoker, revealing not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.
Genre: Horror
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Stephanie Marie Thornton, American Princess
Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves--oceans of them.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace
In this sequel to The Golem and the Jinni, Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan.
Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction
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Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White, Lost Summers of Newport
From the bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White--a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.
Genre: Historical Fiction
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N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell, Far Sector
For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. The city has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of their ability to feel. As a result, violent crime is virtually unheard of, and murder is nonexistent.
Genre: Science Fiction
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, The Waiting
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It’s not an uncommon story—the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother’s story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel.
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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Chugong, Solo Leveling
The weakest of the weak, E-class hunter Jinwoo Sung has no money, no talent, and no prospects to speak of. And when he enters a hidden dungeon that fateful day, he ends up being left to die in the aftermath of a horrendous tragedy. At death's door, Jinwoo is suddenly invited to be a "player" by a mysterious voice. Desperate to live, Jinwoo jumps at the chance...but what is this strange new leveling system that only he can see?
Genre: Fantasy
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Jirō Taniguchi, A Journal of My Father
The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father’s death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface.
Genre: Fiction
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James Tynion and Werther Dell'Edera, Something Is Killing the Children
When the children of Archer's Peak--a sleepy town in the heart of America--begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories--impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows.
Genre: Horror
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Adam Alexander, The Seed Detective
Adam Alexander shares his own stories of seed hunting, with the origin stories behind many of our everyday food heroes. Taking us on a journey that began when we left the life of the hunter-gatherer to become farmers, he tells tales of globalization, political intrigue, colonization, and serendipity―describing how these vegetables and their travels have become embedded in our food cultures.
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James Clear, Atomic Habits
A leading expert on habit formation reveals practical strategies to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
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Joe Kenda, Killer Triggers
Retired police detective Joe Kenda shares his memories of homicide cases that he investigated or oversaw. In each case, he examines the trigger that led to death.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., The Measure of a Man
Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism.
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Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day.
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Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Genre: Fiction
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Tatsuya Endo, Spy x Family
Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment--get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head!
Genre: Manga, Thriller
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Bill Konigsberg, The Bridge
Two teenagers, strangers to each other, have decided to jump from the same bridge at the same time. But what results is far from straightforward. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Genre: Fiction, LGBTQ
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Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
Genre: Thriller
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