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The Rosie Project
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The feel-good novel of 2013, The Rosie Project is a classic screwball romance. Rights sold into...more

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The Burgess Boys: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco...more

The Charming Quirks of Others by Alexander McCall Smith

The engaging new novel about Isabel Dalhousie, the compassionate, keen-eyed philosopher-sleuth, from the master storyteller, Alexander McCall Smith

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

One Pulitzer Prize, five Newbery Medals, three Newbery Honors, two Caldecott Medals, one Caldecott Honor, three National Book Awards, seven National Book Award nominations, and...more

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The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey

I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep...more

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The Darkness Gathers by Lisa Unger

Fresh from a tour promoting her last case, reclusive true crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn, "and all the...more

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The Defender by Lindsay McKenna

Two wounded souls in the Wild West.

One last chance to claim the love they deserve.

After escaping her troubled past, all Katie Bergstrom wants is to put down roots on her...more

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The Devil in Silver by Victor Lavalle

New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero...more

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The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff

"How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should have died...But I am here."Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta...more

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The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

The discovery of a long-lost letter reveals an old secret and the truth behind a woman's mysterious past in the best-selling new novel from international publishing sensation,...more

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The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa

A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the...more

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