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Series: Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever Paperback Dan Abnett 9781465441416 $15.99 FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 13, 2016

This stand-alone novel is an epic Lara Croft adventure, featuring enough dual-pistol wielding action and sharp wit to please nostalgic fans of the franchise.After a ruthless competitor beats her in a race to recover a priceless antiquity in Sri Lanka, Lara Croft returns home to London. Nursing her bruises, she gets a call from an old friend in a desperate need of help and learns that something truly strange has been discovered during a excavation beneath the City of London. Investigating, Lara witnesses something so spectacular it could rewrite... + Read More
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Series: Operation Arcana Paperback John Joseph Adams 9781476781990 $10.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

High fantasy, contemporary and urban fantasy, fantasy action and adventure all set in a military vein by top authors including Jonathan Maberry, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Moon, Tanya Huff, Glen Cook, Simon R. Green, Seanan McGuire, and Linda Nagata.In the realms of fantasy, the battlefield is where heroism comes alive, magic is unleashed, and legends are made and unmade. From the War of the Ring, Tolkien’s epic battle of good versus evil, to The Battle of the Blackwater, George R.R. Martin’s grim portrait of the horror and futility of war, thes... + Read More
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Series: The Upright Heart A Novel Paperback Julia Ain-Krupa 9780990004387 $14.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

"Stylistic virtuosity, penetrating emotional power, and a post-apocalyptic vision . . . a brilliant literary achievement. . . . Julia Ain-Krupa gives us something luminous." — Philip K. Jason, Jewish Book Council The Upright Heart chronicles the return from Brooklyn of a Jewish man, Wolf, to his native Poland soon after World War II. He is haunted by the memory of his Catholic lover, Olga, whom he abandoned to marry a woman of his own faith and start a new life in America, and who perished sheltering the parents and younger sister he left behi... + Read More
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Series: Darling Dahlias The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady Paperback Susan Wittig Albert 9780425260630 $10.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

Now in paperback from the New York Times bestselling author—the Darling Dahlias must solve the scandalous murder of the Eleven O’Clock Lady.In the summer of 1934, a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama—and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias’ garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when there’s a mystery to solve.The eleven o’clock lady is so named because the white blossoms don’t open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O’Clock Lady is never g... + Read More
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Series: SINless Necrotech Paperback K C Alexander 9780857666246 $10.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

Street thug Riko has some serious issues—memories wiped, reputation tanked, girlfriend turned into a tech-fueled zombie. And the only people who can help are the mercenaries who think she screwed them over.In an apathetic society devoid of ethics or regulation, where fusing tech and flesh can mean a killing edge or a killer conversion, a massive conspiracy is unfolding that will alter the course of the human condition forever. With corporate meatheads on her ass and a necro-tech blight between her and salvation, Riko is going to have to fight m... + Read More
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Series: The Hidden Keys Paperback AndrÃ© Alexis 9781552453254 $19.95 FICTION Sep 19, 2016

Giller Prize winner André Alexis’s contemporary take on the quest narrative is an instant classic. Parkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help... + Read More
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Series: Nine Island Paperback Jane Alison 9781936787128 $16.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016“Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and FuriesNine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old f... + Read More
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Series: Badawi A Novel Paperback Mohed Altrad 9780802125798 $23.95 FICTION Sep 16, 2016

Published to wide critical acclaim in France,Badawi is Mohed Altrad’s heartrending debut novel, inspired by the author’s own narrative arc from Bedouin orphan to engineer and finally billionaire businessman.In the Syrian desert, a young boy watches as his mother dies. She was a repudiated woman, abandoned by the boy’s powerful father, leaving Maïouf to his scornful grandmother. Though the Bedouin tribes have stopped their centuries-long travels across the dunes—their tents long since converted into sedentary shacks—Maïouf’s grandmother wants hi... + Read More
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Series: Blood Crime Hardcover Sebastia Alzamora 9781616956288 $31.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

A multi-genre gothic novel of the horrific early days of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, perfect for fans of Roberto Bolaño and Mario Vargas Llosa."Startling . . . Blood Crime (beautifully translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent) has a sort of concentrated power that’s rare in horror novels. It’s akin to poetry." —The New York Times Book Review It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of t... + Read More
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Series: The EarthEnd Saga A Dream of Ice Book 2 of The EarthEnd Saga Paperback Gillian Anderson 9781476776576 $20.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

From Gillian Anderson, acclaimed actress and X-Files star, and New York Times bestselling coauthor Jeff Rovin comes the second book in the thrilling paranormal EarthEnd Saga that Flavorwire called “the dream of nerds everywhere.”After uncovering a mystical link to the ancient civilization of Galderkhaan, child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is left with strange new powers. Suddenly she can heal her young patients with her mind and see things from other places and other times. But as she learns more about her powers, she also realizes that someone ... + Read More
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Series: The EarthEnd Saga The Sound of Seas Book 3 of The EarthEnd Saga Hardcover Gillian Anderson 9781476776590 $34.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

From Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin—the final book in their “addictive” (Marie Claire) EarthEnd Saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in a wild story involving time travel, ghosts, alien technology, and strange spiritual powers…the perfect combination for X-Files fans.After discovering the secrets to the Gaalderkhani tiles—ancient computers that house not just memories, but untold destructive force—Caitlin O’Hara’s son gets accidentally thrust back in time. In order to save him she must master the power of the tiles and figure out what the Gaal... + Read More
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Series: Saga of Shadows Eternity's Mind The Saga of Shadows, Book Three Hardcover Kevin J. Anderson 9780765333018 $39.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Eternity’s Mind is the climactic final book in Kevin J. Anderson’s Saga of Shadows Trilogy, which began with the Hugo nomineeThe Dark Between the. The Saga of Shadows, as well as its predecessor series, the international bestselling Saga of Seven, are among the grandest epic space operas published in this century.Two decades after the devastating Elemental War, which nearly destroyed the cosmos, the new Confederation restored peace and profitable commerce among the peoples and worlds of the Spiral Arm. The ambitious, innovative Roamers went bac... + Read More
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Series: Rhona MacLeod None but the Dead (Rhona MacLeod #11) Hardcover Lin Anderson 9781509806980 $28.99 FICTION Sep 22, 2016

None but the Dead are left to tell the tale. Sanday, one of Britain's northernmost islands, inaccessible when the wind prevents the ferry from the mainland crossing, or fog grounds the tiny island hopping plane. When human remains are discovered to the rear of an old primary school, forensic expert Dr Rhona MacLeod and her assistant arrive to excavate the grave. Approaching mid winter, they find daylight in short supply, the weather inhospitable and some of the island's inhabitants less than co-operative. When the suspicious death of an old man... + Read More
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Series: Claire Abbott Mystery Race Against Time Paperback Gail Anderson-Dargatz 9781459808430 $9.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Small-town reporter Claire Abbott wakes from a nightmare, convinced a bomb will go off in the local school. And then, strangely enough, there really is a bomb scare. After the school is cleared by police and their sniffer dog, Claire is certain the threat isn't over. People are behaving strangely. Claire believes a bomber will attack the school. But when? And who is the bomber? Claire must track down the culprit and stop him before the bomb goes off. Race Against Time is the third novel in a series of mysteries featuring journalist and sleuth C... + Read More
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Series: The Spawning Grounds Hardcover Gail Anderson-Dargatz 9780345810816 $32.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

The long-awaited new novel by the two-time Giller-shortlisted author is full of the qualities Gail Anderson-Dargatz's fans love: it's an intimate family saga rooted in the Thompson-Shuswap region of British Columbia, and saturated with the history of the place. A bold new story that bridges Native and white cultures across a bend in a river where the salmon run.On one side of the river is a ranch once owned by Eugene Robertson, who came in the gold rush around 1860, and stayed on as a homesteader. On the other side is a Shuswap community that h... + Read More
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Series: Kate Daniels Magic Binds Hardcover Ilona Andrews 9780425270691 $35.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for what’s to come in this heart-stopping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar. Kate’s father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and is slowly bleeding him dry in a never-ending bid for power. A Witch ... + Read More
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Series: The Beast Arises Watchers in Death The Beast Arises Vol 9 Hardcover David Annandale 9781784962050 $19.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2016
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Series: The Factory Girls Paperback Rosie Archer 9781784297824 $15.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

It's 1944, after D-Day. Doodlebugs are the latest threat to war-battered southern England.Local crook Samuel Golden is still finding ways to exploit people's hardship for his own gain. Heroine Em, who we first met in The Munitions Girls, finds herself caught up in one such scheme while having to deal with her daughter's unexpected pregnancy. Female friendship; wartime drama; mothers and daughters; and finding a good man in the end - it's all there in this sparkling new saga from Rosie Archer.
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Series: The Last Days of Jack Sparks Hardcover Jason Arnopp 9780316362269 $31.50 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

"Ingenious and funny . . . Magnificent." -- Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for VendettaJack Sparks died while writing this book.It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed. Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account. Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that... + Read More
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Series: The Story of a Brief Marriage A Novel Hardcover Anuk Arudpragasam 9781250072405 $34.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize“Brave…Brilliant…This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life.” —The New York Times Book Review"One of the best books I have read in years." —Colm ToibinTwo and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around... + Read More
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Series: Duke's Sons What the Duke Doesn't Know Paperback Jane Ashford 9781492621591 $11.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

"Ashford soars to new heights of literary excellence by creating a cleverly conceived story that takes all the traditional elements readers love in Regency romances and making everything seem refreshingly new. "—Booklist After making his fortune overseas, Royal Navy captain James Gresham is ready to settle down with a proper wife, but dark-eyed half-Polynesian Kawena is making that very difficult for him.Captain James Gresham is the fifth son of the Duke of Langford and has made his fortune in the Royal Navy. The time has come to find a proper ... + Read More
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Series: A Shifters Unbound Novel Guardian's Mate Paperback Jennifer Ashley 9780425281369 $10.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

The New York Times bestselling author of White Tiger returns as primal desire draws two lone shifters into each other’s arms... She wasn’t ready to lead... Chosen as the Guardian of her Montana Shiftertown, wolf Shifter Rae Lyall is facing opposition—for no woman has ever been selected for this powerful position. Still adjusting to the new authority thrust upon her, Rae travels to train with Zander Moncrieff, a Shifter healer, tasked with teaching her about her new role and its responsibilities. He wasn’t ready to love... A polar bear ... + Read More
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Series: Fell Paperback Jenn Ashworth 9781473630611 $24.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

In this eerie, atmospheric and mysterious tale, a woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find it falling apart, undermined by the roots of two huge sycamores. She is unaware that she has awoken the spirits of her parents, Jack and Nettie Clifford, who watch anxiously as their daughter Annette is overwhelmed by the state of the house and realise too late how far they neglected her as a child. As their memories come alive, the story unfolds of a crucial summer when Annette was 8 and Nettie became too ill to ... + Read More
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Series: Fell Hardcover Jenn Ashworth 9781473630604 $34.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

A haunting, mysterious tale imbued with the force of myth, by the award-winning author of A Kind of Intimacy.When Annette Clifford returns to her childhood home on the edge of Morecambe Bay, she despairs: the long-empty house is crumbling, undermined by two voracious sycamores. What she doesn't realise is that she's not alone: her arrival has woken the spirits of her parents, who anxiously watch over her, longing to make amends. Because as the past comes back to Jack and Netty, they begin to see the summer of 1963 clearly, when Netty was despe... + Read More
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Series: No Pasarán! Hardcover Pete Ayrton 9781681772165 $34.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

From the homefront to the heat of battle, the first truly international Spanish Civil War anthology.Hope, resignation, despair, sadness, humor, confusion, ruthlessness, compassion, kindness, generosity and love inhabit Pete Ayrton's anthology of writings from the Spanish Civil War: there is little sense of triumphalism among the bewilderingly diverse Republican and Nationalist coalitions, all shades of which are represented here. Previous collections privileged the writings of the International Brigades over those of the Spanish, sometimes excl... + Read More
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Series: My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises Paperback Fredrik Backman 9781444775853 $15.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, BernadetteHeartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, by the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them.But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally?Breaking into a zoo in the middle of t... + Read More
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Series: All That Matters The Penny Heart Paperback Martine Bailey 9781444769869 $15.99 FICTION Age (years) from 18 - 99 Sep 20, 2016

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate.Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't k... + Read More
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Series: Early One Morning Paperback Virginia Baily 9780316300407 $20.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years. Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge. Several decades later, Chiara lives alone in Rome, a self-cont... + Read More
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Series: Hope Chest of Dreams Rebecca's Bouquet Paperback Lisa Jones Baker 9781420141580 $8.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

“Written with tenderness and simplicity.” —Joan Wester Anderson, New York Times bestselling authorFirst in a new seriesThree young Amish women, gifted with hand-carved hope chests to hold their treasures and their dreams for the future, find the inspiration they need to help them reconcile love and faith in the most unexpected ways…The last thing Rebecca Sommer dreamed her plan to wed would bring is a heart-wrenching choice. She thought she and her betrothed, William, would spend the rest of their lives in Illinois’ heartland, raising a family ... + Read More
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Series: Kate Fox Mystery Stripped Bare A Novel Hardcover Shannon Baker 9780765385444 $34.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

Stripped Bare by Shannon Baker is "A must read" (Alex Kava, New York Times bestselling author) mystery that stars a female Longmire in the atmospheric Nebraska Sandhills.Kate Fox is living the dream. She’s married to Grand County Sheriff Ted Conner, the heir to her beloved Nebraska Sandhills cattle ranch, where they live with Kate’s orphaned teenage niece, Carly. With the support of the well-connected Fox Clan, which includes Kate’s eight boisterous and interfering siblings, Ted’s reelection as Grand County Sheriff is virtually assured. That le... + Read More
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Series: Memory Man series The Last Mile Paperback David Baldacci 9781455586462 $20.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

When a convicted killer is saved by another man's confession, Amos Decker, now an FBI special task force detective, must find the truth in this "utterly absorbing" #1 New York Times bestseller (Associated Press).Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the s... + Read More
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Series: Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart Karolina's Twins A Novel Hardcover Ronald H. Balson 9781250098375 $36.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

In the tradition ofTheNightingale,Sarah's Key, andLilac Girls, comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust survivor’s quest to return to Poland and fulfill a promise, from Ronald H. Balson, author of the international bestsellerOnce We Were Brothers.~~“Readers who crave more books like Balson’s Once We Were Brothers and Kristin Hannah’s bestsellingThe Nightingale will be enthralled by Karolina’s Twins.” —Booklist(starred review)"A heart-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story." —Chicago Tribune~~She made a promise in desperationNow it... + Read More
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Series: Good People Paperback Nir Baram 9781925240955 $23.95 FICTION Sep 23, 2016

?[Baram] asks what kind of people would choose to serve?empires of falsehood with their eyes open and their minds sharp. Not monsters or even cynics, he answers in a pacey, plot-heavy novel of dramatic events and big ideas, but gifted storytellers fuelled by ordinary motives of love, loyalty or ambition.’?Economist'Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.'?Amos Oz'One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today.'?Haaretz'Good People has been showered with praise for its elegance prose and scope? By putting the types of ... + Read More
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Series: Able Seacat Simon The Wartime Hero of the High Seas Hardcover Lynne Barrett-Lee 9781471151835 $25.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

Inspired by a true story, a fictional reimagining of a cat named Simon whose heroism and feline charisma won over the crew of a British warship just after World War II.Discovered in the Hong Kong docks in 1948 and smuggled onboard the H.M.S Amethyst by a British sailor who takes pity on the malnourished kitten, Simon quickly acclimates to his new water-borne home. The friendly feline soon established himself as the chief rat-catcher, while also winning the hearts of the entire crew. Then the Amethyst is ordered to sail up the Yangtze River to t... + Read More
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Series: A US Marshals Novel Locked and Loaded Paperback Mandy Baxter 9781420141078 $8.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

With a rock-hard body and steel blue eyes, Mason Decker is about to become the U.S. Marshals’ newest recruit. But one last undercover job with a straitlaced attorney will test him to his limits . . . Charlotte Cahill intends to take down an infamous diamond smuggler on the FBI’s Most Wanted list—and she intends to do it by the book. That won’t be easy with the cocky new temporary deputy on her task force. Mason Decker feels like trouble, especially when his cool gaze wanders across her hot body . . . After his time as a Customs officer, De... + Read More
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Series: Class The secret diary of a teacher in turmoil Paperback Jane Beaton 9780751553291 $15.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

'Funny, page-turning and addictive . . . just like Malory Towers for grown-ups'Sophie KinsellaClass is the first novel in Jenny Colgan's beloved Maggie Adair series.**************Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely, ozoney air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance?It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the ne... + Read More
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Series: Agatha Raisin Mysteries Pushing Up Daisies An Agatha Raisin Mystery Hardcover M. C. Beaton 9781250057440 $36.99 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin—now the star of a hit show on Acorn TV and public television—is back on the case and poking around where she doesn't belong.Agatha Raisin, private detective, resident in the Cotswold village of Carsely, should have been a contented and happy woman…But in M.C. Beaton'sPushing Up Daisies, things are about to get a little less cozy. Lord Bellington, a wealthy land developer, wants to turn the community garden into a housing estate. And when Agatha and her friend Sir Charles Fraith atte... + Read More
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Series: Song of Shattered Sands Of Sand and Malice Made Hardcover Bradley P. Beaulieu 9780756412098 $24.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

This standalone companion novel returns to Bradley P. Beaulieu's Song of Shattered Sands epic fantasy universeÇeda is the youngest pit fighter in the history of Sharakhai. She’s made her name in the arena as the fearsome White Wolf. None but her closest friends and allies know her true identity. But this all changes when she crosses the path of Rümayesh, an ehrekh, a sadistic creature forged aeons ago by the god of chaos.The ehrekh are desert dwellers, but for centuries Rümayesh has lurked in the dark corners of Sharakhai, combing the populace ... + Read More
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Series: Nightwise Nightwise Paperback R. S. Belcher 9780765374615 $23.99 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

R.S. Belcher, the acclaimed author ofThe Six-Gun Tarot andThe Shotgun Arcana launches a gritty new urban fantasy series set in today's seedy occult underworld inNightwise.In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of ten, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night, he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of ... + Read More
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Series: A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories Paperback Matt Bell 9781616955236 $20.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Here we have Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and stunning visions of the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an e... + Read More
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Series: A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery Blue Madonna Hardcover James R. Benn 9781616956424 $33.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Billy Boyle, World War II US Army detective and ex-Boston cop, faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy.May 1944: Captain Billy Boyle is convicted on spurious charges of black market dealings stripped of his officer’s rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months’ hard labor. But Billy is given an opportunity: if he takes on the incredibly dangerous mission of investigating a set of murders at the Allies’ safe house in the French town of Chaumont, he can avoid his punis... + Read More
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Series: A Ben Garston Novel Chasing Embers Paperback James Bennett 9780316390699 $19.49 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

"A thrilling fusion of myth and modernity," revel in this explosive debut fantasy of magic and mayhem that"will have you rooting for dragons over humans and loving every minute of it."(Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author) There's nothing special about Ben Garston. . .or so he'd have you believe. He won't tell you, for instance, that he's also known as Red Ben. That the world of myth and legend isn't just a fantasy, as we've been led to believe. And he certainly can't let you know the secret of what's hiding just beneath his skin. . ... + Read More
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Series: The Smoke Hunter Paperback Jacquelyn Benson 9781455569069 $19.49 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

"Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft" in this debut and engrossing action thriller with the fate of the world in one person's hands (RT Book Reviews).Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed. Discovering it would make her career, but Ellie isn't the only one after the prize. A disgraced professor and his ruthless handler are hot on her heels, willing to go any extreme to ... + Read More
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Series: A Melanie Travis Mystery The Bark Before Christmas Paperback Laurien Berenson 9780758284594 $8.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

“If you like dogs, you’ll love Laurien Berenson’s Melanie Travis mysteries!” —Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling authorThere’s nothing lovelier than Christmas in Connecticut, but Melanie Travis can scarcely find a moment to enjoy the festivities. With her youngest son approaching toddlerhood, she’s decided to return to her old job at Howard Academy, a posh private school attended by the children of Greenwich’s well-heeled gentry. Balancing work, motherhood, and the hectic dog show circuit takes some fancy footwork, especially when the hea... + Read More
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Series: Rembrandt's Shadow Paperback Janet Lee Berg 9781682611432 $20.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

Sylvie Rosenberg escaped the holocaust—but can she escape the past? Angela Martino is haunted by events from her childhood and struggles to resolve her guilt. Can these two women from different generations reconcile their own turmoil—or pay the price of an even greater loss? October 20, 1942. Benjamin Katz and his frightened family stand at the train station in occupied Holland, unsure if they would be taken to their freedom—or the death camp. Sylvie, his granddaughter, who was six years old at the time, would later recall the madness as they ... + Read More
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Series: Cotton Malone The 14th Colony A Novel Paperback Steve Berry 9781250113856 $22.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain—in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos.Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States.Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in t... + Read More
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Series: The Other Side of the World A Novel Hardcover Stephanie Bishop 9781501133121 $32.99 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

“An exquisite meditation on motherhood, marriage and the meaning of home.” —The New York Times In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road comes a “beautifully written and atmospheric” (Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites) novel set in England, Australia, and India in the early 1960s.Cambridge, 1963. Charlotte is struggling. With motherhood, with the changes brought on by marriage and parenthood, with never having the time or energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped thro... + Read More
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Series: Outlaw Hearts Love's Sweet Revenge Paperback Rosanne Bittner 9781492631446 $11.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

"An emotional powerhouse!"—RT Book Reviews 4 1/2 Stars, TOP PICK! for Do Not Forsake Me "Fresh and alluring."—Publishers Weekly STARRED for The Last OutlawTheir Passion Shaped a NationOver the years, Jake and Miranda Harkner have endured all the dangers a wild and brutal West could throw at them. Now, settled on theirranch in the beautiful Colorado hill country, they've finally found peace. But for a man like Jake Harkner, danger is always lurking, and the world may not be ready for an infamous outlaw-turned-lawman-turned-legend to hang up his ... + Read More
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Series: War of the Realms Novel, A Ninth City Burning Hardcover J. Patrick Black 9781101991442 $36.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

For fans of Ender’s Game, Red Rising, and The Hunger Games comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut... Cities vanished, gone in flashes of world-shattering destruction. An alien race had come to make Earth theirs, bringing a power so far beyond human technology it seemed like magic. It was nearly the end of the world—until we learned to seize the power, and use it to fight back. The war has raged for five centuries. For a cadet like Jax, one of the few who can harness the enemy’s universe-altering force, that means growing up in an eli... + Read More
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Series: Letters from Paris Paperback Juliet Blackwell 9780451473707 $20.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Key comes the story of a mysterious work of art and the woman inspired to uncover its history in the City of Light.After surviving the accident that took her mother’s life, Claire Broussard has worked hard to escape her small Louisiana hometown. But these days she feels something is lacking. Abruptly leaving her lucrative job in Chicago, Claire returns home to care for her ailing grandmother. There, she unearths a beautiful piece of artwork that her great-grandfather sent home from Paris a... + Read More
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Series: Tufa Novels Chapel of Ease A Novel of the Tufa Hardcover Alex Bledsoe 9780765376565 $38.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

The latest installment in Alex Bledsoe's critically-acclaimed Tufa series about musically-talented fae in rural Tennessee, a seriesKirkus Reviews calls "powerful, character-driven drama...a sheer delight." (starred review)“Beautifully written, surprisingly moving, and unexpected in the best of ways.” —Seanan McGuire,New York Times bestselling authorWhen Matt Johansson, a young New York actor, auditions for "Chapel of Ease," an off-Broadway musical, he is instantly charmed by Ray Parrish, the show's writer and composer. They soon become friends;... + Read More
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Series: The Shooting Paperback James Boice 9781939419743 $25.50 FICTION Sep 23, 2016

Meet the most hated woman in America: Jenny Sanders (also known as the country’s most successful gun control advocate). On her way to New York City, to the site of yet another shooting, she encounters one of her many opponents. Their shocking collision will plunge you directly into the world of James Boice’s fourth and most urgent novel.It begins with Lee Fisher, a boy raised as a patriot and native son who cannot escape the influence of his troubled father. The heir to a massive family fortune, Lee struggles to find his place in the world. By ... + Read More
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Series: True Arab Love Paperback Issa J. Boullata 9781988130071 $12.95 FICTION Sep 09, 2016

Abdallah's encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami's moving search for his lost fiancée in Jerusalem closes the collection. In between, Issa J. Boullata's stories show what it's like to be an Arab from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Egypt making a new life as an immigrant in Canada or the United States. This is what it is, to be displaced. This is what it is to leave your home and start over in a new country.
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Series: The Shadow Wake of Vultures Paperback Lila Bowen 9780316264297 $20.99 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy adventure starring ever fearless Nettie Lonesome."I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Buy this book because it's the thrilling, delightfully written, and important one you've always wanted to read."?Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling authorNettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the figh... + Read More
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Series: A Brooklyn Bruisers Novel Rookie Move Paperback Sarina Bowen 9780399583438 $10.99 FICTION Sep 06, 2016

The first novel in a sexy series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts—from the USA Today bestselling author of the Ivy Years series. In high school they were the perfect couple—until the day Georgia left Leo in the cold... Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL. But on the first day he’s called up to the newly franchised Brooklyn Bruisers, Leo gets checked on both sides, first by the team’s... + Read More
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Series: Storm's Thunder Paperback Brandon Boyce 9780786035229 $7.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

From the bloody banks of the Rio Grande to the edge of the American frontier comes this truly epic Western from the author of the acclaimed Here by the Bloods. A Twelve Man Massacre Along the Rio Grande, a dozen bodies fester in the sun. Harlan Two-Trees discovers the massacre, but wants nothing to do with it. Mistrusted by the whites who run Caliche Bend and estranged from the Navajo, Harlan heads west to California—to freedom. He will find the Rio Grande’s bloody baptism does not wash off so easily. Death Rides Alongside From his berth ab... + Read More
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Series: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd A Flavia de Luce Novel Hardcover Alan Bradley 9780385678414 $29.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2016

Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a much anticipated new Christmas mystery from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming, she is greeted on the docks with unfortunate news: Her father has fallen ill, and a hospital visit will have to wait while he rests. But with Flavia's ... + Read More
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Series: Bertrand Court Paperback Michelle Brafman 9781938849800 $23.95 FICTION Sep 16, 2016

“Brafman’s talent for drawing human emotion shines through in this episodic, deeply sensitive, and introspective novel of the human psyche.”—BooklistBertrand Courtis a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth ... + Read More
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Series: Bertrand Court Hardcover Michelle Brafman 9781938849794 $37.50 FICTION Sep 16, 2016

“Brafman’s talent for drawing human emotion shines through in this episodic, deeply sensitive, and introspective novel of the human psyche.”—BooklistBertrand Courtis a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth ... + Read More
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Series: Kate Shackleton Mystery Death of an Avid Reader A Kate Shackleton Mystery Hardcover Frances Brody 9781250067395 $36.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

An intricate plot set in the 1920s English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) Kate Shackleton makeDeath of an Avid Reader an absorbing 6th installment in this mystery, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie.The Search for a Daughter Lady Coulton gave up the baby that would have ruined her marriage, born when Lord Coulton was abroad. Now that her husband is dying, she asks Kate to find Sophia.A Haunted Library It is forty years since the ghost of a dead librarian haunted the old library, ... + Read More