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Series: Sex and Vanity Hardcover Kevin Kwan 9780385695404 $34.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds—the WASP establishment of her father’s family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her ... + Read More
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Series: Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Crazy Rich Asians Paperback Kevin Kwan 9781400027071 $12.99 FICTION May 26, 2020

The funny, juicy first novel in the New York Times bestselling Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, in which the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend home to meet the family…without telling her that they’re loaded.When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks... + Read More
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Series: Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy China Rich Girlfriend Paperback Kevin Kwan 9781400027088 $12.99 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians comes a deliciously fun story of family, fortune, and fame in Mainland China.It’s the eve of Rachel Chu’s wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won’t be there to walk her down the aisle.Then a chance accident reveals his identity. ... + Read More
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Series: Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Rich People Problems Paperback Kevin Kwan 9781400027095 $12.99 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, here is the uproarious conclusion to the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy.When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to her bedside—but he’s not alone. It seems the entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe, ostensibly to care for their matriarch, but truly to stake claim on the massive fortune that Su Yi controls. With each family member secretly fantasizing about getting the keys to Tyersall Park, the place b... + Read More
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Series: This Little Light Paperback Lori Lansens 9780735276444 $21.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis brilliant novel is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. By the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain Story.Taking place over 48 hours in the year 2024, this is the story of Rory Anne Miller, on the run with her best friend because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. There’s a bounty on their heads, and... + Read More
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Series: Children of My Heart Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Gabrielle Roy 9780771057663 $19.95 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

A Canadian classic, Children of My Heart is a profound and compassionate testimony to the indomitable human spirit. Set in the prairies of the 1930s, and rich with the author’s own memories of her time there as a young woman, Children of My Heart is the powerful story of an impressionable and passionate teenaged teacher and the children whose lives she touched.From immigrant families now living in unforgiving surroundings, many of the students have been wounded by poverty and misfortune. Most memorable is Médéric, a seemingly hostile boy who op... + Read More
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Series: Night Boat to Tangier A novel Paperback Kevin Barry 9780345810670 $19.95 FICTION Jul 07, 2020

From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, ... + Read More
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Series: The Boat People Paperback Sharon Bala 9780771024313 $21.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

#1 National Bestseller and Winner of the Harper Lee PrizeInspired by a real incident, The Boat People is gripping, page-turning, and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada—only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father is overcome with relief: he and his six-year-old son can finally put Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war... + Read More
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Series: Blue Ticket A Novel Paperback Sophie Mackintosh 9780735239166 $24.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

THE GUARDIAN’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2020 - picked by our acclaimed guest authors”BELLETRIST’S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK“[Mackintosh’s] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending…Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can’t have it all,... + Read More
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Series: The Mountain Story Paperback Lori Lansens 9780345809032 $21.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2016

Five days. Four hikers. Three survivors. From Lori Lansens, author of the national bestsellers Rush Home Road, The Girls and The Wife's Tale comes a gripping tale of adventure, sacrifice and survival in the unforgiving wilderness of a legendary mountain. On his 18th birthday, Wolf Truly takes the tramway to the top of the mountain that looms over Palm Springs, intending to jump to his death. Instead he encounters strangers wandering in the mountain wilderness, three women who will change the course of his life. Through a series of missteps... + Read More
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Series: Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion Paperback Graeme Gibson 9780771057762 $25.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

Together in a single volume, two beloved works by the inimitable Graeme Gibson. Gentleman DeathNovelist Robert Fraser comes face-to-face with creativity, his mortality, and the deaths of his father and brother. Set mainly in Toronto, the novel also takes us to London, Scotland, Germany, and New York as we follow the escapades of two of Fraser’s fictional characters. There is Simpson, called into service as an anonymous sperm donor, and Dunbar, an enigmatic tourist in Berlin just before the Chernobyl disaster, where he meets the captivating Lena... + Read More
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Series: The Girls Paperback Lori Lansens 9780676977967 $21.00 FICTION May 09, 2006

“We’ve been called many things: freaks, horrors, monsters, devils, witches, retards, wonders, marvels. To most, we’re a curiosity. In small-town Leaford, where we live and work, we’re just ‘The Girls.’”Rose and Ruby Darlen are closer than most twin sisters. Indeed, they have spent their twenty-nine years on earth joined at the head. Given that they share a web of essential veins, there is no possibility that they can be separated in their lifetime.Born in a small town in the midst of a tornado, the sisters are abandoned by their frightened teen... + Read More
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Series: Love Paperback Roddy Doyle 9780735279889 $24.95 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of confidences—some planned, some spontaneous—in this captivating new book from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.Old friends meet up on a summer’s evening at a Dublin restaurant. Both are now married with grown-up children, and their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in stor... + Read More
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Series: The Nickel Boys Paperback Colson Whitehead 9780385693981 $19.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for FictionFinalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary AwardsLonglisted for the 2019 National Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sen... + Read More
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Series: The Secrets We Kept Paperback Lara Prescott 9780385693288 $19.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak’s magnum opus make its way into print around ... + Read More
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Series: The Difference Paperback Marina Endicott 9780735276703 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in 1912.Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world.At the heart... + Read More
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Series: A Fine Balance Paperback Rohinton Mistry 9780771060540 $24.99 FICTION Apr 05, 1997

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, ... + Read More
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Series: This Side Jordan Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780771057748 $21.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

A major work of lasting significance, This Side Jordan creates echoes in the mind of the reader as resonant as the drums of Ghana.Best known for her novels about the Canadian prairie, Margaret Laurence began her career writing about West Africa. Based on her experience living with her husband on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the years just before independence, This Side Jordan confronts issues of race relations, sexism, and colonial exploitation.This lyrical, vivid novel addresses all of the tensions of the time: the excitement, anticipation, a... + Read More
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Series: The Tomorrow-Tamer Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Margaret Laurence 9780771057755 $21.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom.With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brill... + Read More
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Series: The Ghost in the House Paperback Sara O'Leary 9780385686259 $22.95 FICTION Jul 07, 2020

What if you found out that there was a ghost haunting your home? What if you found out that you were the ghost?In the middle of her life, Fay wakes up on the top of her piano with a strong intuition that something is not right. To all appearances everything is perfect: married to a man she loves, living in the house she dreamt of as a child, her life is full of possibility. Except—for reasons not immediately clear to Fay—she is now haunting her own once-happy home.Everything that should be familiar is suddenly altered. But furniture in the wron... + Read More
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Series: Utopia Avenue A novel Hardcover David Mitchell 9780345809810 $36.00 FICTION Jul 14, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe hotly anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas.Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the Top 10; to Amsterdam, Rome and a fateful Ame... + Read More
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Series: Hamnet and Judith A novel Paperback Maggie O'Farrell 9780735280175 $24.95 FICTION Jul 21, 2020

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[An] exceptional winner…. It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring.”—Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The Women’s Prize for Fiction judgesTWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A PLAGUE THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.England, 1580. A young Latin tutor—penniless, bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an eccentric young wo... + Read More
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Series: The Night Piece Collected Short Fiction Hardcover Andre Alexis 9780771006630 $34.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis’s acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the highly original Beauty and Sadness, and including previously uncollected stories, here is the surreal and brilliant short fiction of André Alexis—one... + Read More
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Series: Summer Hardcover Ali Smith 9780670070060 $32.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to Be Both, comes the last instalment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet.Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith’s celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.Series Overview: Summer is the fourth (and final) book in the Seasonal Quartet.
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Series: The Porpoise Paperback Mark Haddon 9780385692663 $21.00 FICTION May 12, 2020

A fantastical new novel—a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare’s Pericles—from the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeWhen his pregnant wife is killed in a plane crash, the unimaginably wealthy Philippe becomes obsessed with the safety of his surviving daughter, Angelica. Over time, his concern morphs into something more sinister and grotesque, until a young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelica and intuits their secret. As Angelica comes to terms with ... + Read More
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Series: A Stranger in the House Paperback Shari Lapena 9780385686990 $21.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can’t account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart.Karen and Tom Krupp are happy. They have a lovely home in upstate New York, they’re practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished—her car’s gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse, complete with phone and ID, beh... + Read More
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Series: Harry Hole Series Knife A Harry Hole novel Paperback Jo Nesbo 9780735275362 $22.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the 2019 Riverton PrizeBrilliant, rogue police detective Harry Hole—at the centre of 11 bestselling crime novels including The Snowman and The Thirst—is back and once again hunting the mastermind killer who has haunted his entire career. This time his reasons are intensely personal. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel—the only woman he’s ever loved—has kicked him out, permanently. He’s been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police, but it’s in the cold case office, when what he really wants is ... + Read More
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Series: Millennium Series The Girl Who Lived Twice A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series Paperback David Lagercrantz 9780735233034 $22.00 FICTION May 05, 2020

New York Times BestsellerNational BestsellerThe sixth Lisbeth Salander story—the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide.Lisbeth Salander—the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo—has disappeared. She’s sold her apartment in Stockholm, gone silent electronically, and told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she’s got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights.Mikael Blomkvist needs Salander’s help unraveling the identity of a man who lived and died on ... + Read More
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Series: The Wrong Hands and Other Stories Not Safe After Dark / The Price of Love Paperback Peter Robinson 9780771000577 $25.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

Over two dozen of the very best mystery short stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, Peter Robinson. Set in places as far-flung as Inspector Alan Banks’s turf in Yorkshire, Robinson’s own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida, these stories also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England, Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War.Complete with the award-winning stories “Innocence” (Crime Writers of Canada Best Short Story Award), “The Two Ladies of Rose Cot... + Read More
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Series: Jackson Brodie Big Sky Paperback Kate Atkinson 9780385691574 $22.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

New York Times BestsellerInternational BestsellerIconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel by the brilliant Kate Atkinson about secrets, sex, and lies.Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It’s picturesque, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes.Jackson’s current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard is... + Read More
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Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series The Geometry of Holding Hands An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (13) Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9780735280151 $32.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

Isabel Dalhousie applies her moral philosopher’s mind to wrongdoings in Edinburgh, and will have to call upon her powers of deduction and her unflappable moral code to unravel another social mystery in the new novel from the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.Isabel Dalhousie finds herself entangled in some tricky familial and financial situations that will require all of her kindness, charm and philosophical expertise to navigate.Just when Isabel and Jamie finally seem to have some time to connect and unwind, a wea... + Read More
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Series: A Burning Hardcover Megha Majumdar 9780771059834 $32.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to politcal power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political p... + Read More
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Series: The Water Cure LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Paperback Sophie Mackintosh 9780735239715 $19.95 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men.“A gripping, sinister fable!”—Margaret Atwood, via TwitterKing has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals a... + Read More
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Series: Grown Ups Paperback Marian Keyes 9780385695893 $24.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A brand-new book from the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life.They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together—birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy family. Johnny’s wife, Jessie—who has the most money—insists on it.Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much…Still, everything manages to ... + Read More
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Series: Paul Stuart Series The Second-Worst Restaurant in France A Paul Stuart Novel (2) Paperback Alexander McCall Smith 9780735277991 $19.95 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

In this delightful sequel to the bestselling comedic novel My Italian Bulldozer, Paul Stuart’s travels take him to a French village, where the local restaurant’s haute cuisine leaves a lot to be desired.Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.So when Paul’s cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she’s rented in the French countryside, he jumps at the chance. The two quickly befriend t... + Read More
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Series: Quichotte A Novel Paperback Salman Rushdie 9780735279339 $23.00 FICTION May 26, 2020

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEQuichotte is a love story of profound tenderness and humanity from a great storyteller at his brilliant best. Wise, beautifully written, as heartbreaking as it is wildly comic, its characters unforgettable, its plot dazzlingly suspenseful, it illuminates our corrupt times where fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.Quichotte, an aging travelling salesman obsessed with TV, is on a quest for love. Unfortunately, his daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films and soaps has distorted his ability to separate fanta... + Read More
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Series: Bunny Paperback Mona Awad 9780735235908 $21.00 FICTION Jun 09, 2020

The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this“wickedly hilarious” (New Yorker), “audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel” (Los Angeles Times).Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny,” and seem to move and speak as one.But everything... + Read More
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Series: Seven Lies A Novel Paperback Elizabeth Kay 9780735239265 $24.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2020

“Scalpel-sharp writing and a killer concept-dark, clever, compelling and utterly assured.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List, a Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club PickIt all started with just one little lie. But we all know that it never ends there. Because, of course, one lie leads to another…Growing up, Jane and Marnie shared everything. They knew the other’s deepest secrets. They wouldn’t have had it any other way. But when Marnie falls in love, things begin to change.Because Jane has a secret: she loathes Marnie’s wealthy, prig... + Read More
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Series: Agent Running in the Field Paperback John le Carré 9780735238633 $22.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

New York Times BestsellerNational BestsellerA new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le CarréSet in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the new political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a very dangerous path. In his plot and characterization le Carré is as thrilling as ever and in the way he writes about our times he proves himself, once again, to be the greatest chronicler of our age.Publica... + Read More
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Series: The Perfect Wife Paperback JP Delaney 9780385690744 $19.95 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

National BestsellerA missing woman is brought back to life by her billionaire husband—with deadly consequences—in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before.Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. Tim Scott is an icon of the tech world and founder of the lucrative Scott Robotics. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son and the perfec... + Read More
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Series: Keep You Close Paperback Karen Cleveland 9780385690959 $19.95 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

An FBI official’s sense of right and wrong is blurred when her own son is accused of the unimaginable in this heart-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know.Stephanie Maddox makes tough decisions every day. She has her hands full heading the FBI’s Internal Investigations division, policing wrongdoers within the Bureau. But, as a single mother, the most important thing in her life is her teenage son Zachary, who’s anxiously awaiting college acceptance letters. So when she discovers a gun concealed in Zach’s ro... + Read More
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Series: Wherever She Goes Paperback K.L. Armstrong 9780385693660 $17.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

National Bestseller“Few crimes are reported as quickly as a snatched kid.”That’s what the officer tells single mother Aubrey Finch after she reports a kidnapping. So why hasn’t anyone reported the little boy missing? Aubrey knows what she saw: a boy being taken against his will from the park. It doesn’t matter that the mother can’t be found or no one reported it. Aubrey knows it happened.But instead of believing her, people question her sanity. Aubrey hears the whispers. She’s a former stay-at-home mom who doesn’t have primary custody of her da... + Read More
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Series: The Second Wife Paperback Rebecca Fleet 9780385691284 $22.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

A twisty new thriller from the acclaimed author of The House Swap.After the death of his first wife, Alex has been given a second lease on life with Natalie, to whom he is newly married. Living in Brighton with Alex’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Jade, the couple seem to be made for one another.But their idyllic domestic calm is soon shattered when Alex returns home one night to find that Jade and Natalie have narrowly escaped from a devastating house fire. Hospitalized and traumatized, Jade insists that she saw a man in their house on that fate... + Read More
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Series: Every Step She Takes Paperback K.L. Armstrong 9780385693677 $22.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A gripping new thriller by the author of the instant bestseller Wherever She Goes.Sometimes there’s no use running from your past….Genevieve has secrets that no one knows. In Rome she can be whoever she wants to be. Her neighbours aren’t nosy; her Italian is passable; the shopkeepers and restaurant owners now see her as a local, and they let her be. It’s exactly what she wants.One morning, after getting groceries, she returns to her 500-year-old Trastevere apartment. She climbs to the very top of the staircase, the stairs narrowing the higher s... + Read More
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Series: Playing Nice Paperback JP Delaney 9780385693837 $24.95 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

A couple’s pleasant little life is upended by the revelation that their son was switched at birth in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before.Pete Riley stays at home; his partner, Maddie, is the breadwinner. He spends his days browsing parenting blogs, where no concern is too trivial, and pacifying their rambunctious son, Theo.Then, one day, a knock at the door. Miles and Lucy, a posh and near-perfect couple, tell Pete something shocking: Theo isn’t his son. Their children were switched... + Read More
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Series: The Lies That Bind Hardcover Emily Giffin 9780385689731 $34.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted, a woman is falling hard for a man she’s just met when he disappears without a trace on 9/11.It’s 2 a.m. in a dive bar on the Lower East Side, May 2001. Cecily figures it’s the perfect place to order a beer and try to forget that she’s just been dumped by the man she suspects she’ll always think of as The One Who Got Away. Her best friend warned her to hunker down and avoid any risk of late-night drunk di... + Read More
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Series: The Wife's Tale Paperback Lori Lansens 9780307398390 $21.00 FICTION Apr 27, 2010

It’s the eve of her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband, Jimmy, to come home. But Mary isn’t just waiting for Jimmy. She is waiting for a mother who accepts her, children she is unable to have, a life beyond the well-worn path from her bedroom to the refrigerator. Mary is waiting for her life to start. As she waits for Jimmy, the night passes into day and it becomes clear that he isn’t coming home. A letter left in the mailbox confirms her worst fears and Mary is left alone to make a difficult decision. Sh... + Read More
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Series: Rush Home Road Paperback Lori Lansens 9780676974515 $21.00 FICTION Jan 21, 2003

Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of t... + Read More
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Series: A Good Enough Mother Paperback Bev Thomas 9780735276734 $19.95 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

“Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller with the emotional resonance of a powerful family drama.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the TrainRuth Hartland is a psychotherapist with years of experience. But professional skill is no guard against private grief. The mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never “fit in,” disappeared a year and a half earlier. She cannot ... + Read More
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Series: little scratch a novel Paperback Rebecca Watson 9780771005831 $23.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

In the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport comes a dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman’s every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day.She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there’s something else going on: something under her skin.Relayed in interweaving columns that chart the feedback loop of memory, the senses, and modern distractions with wit and precision, our narrator becomes... + Read More
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Series: How the Penguins Saved Veronica Paperback Hazel Prior 9780735238107 $24.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2020

“A glorious, life-affirming story. I read it in a day. I’m going to buy it for so many people this year!”—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of Let Me LieA heartwarming story about a curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins that proves it’s never too late to be the person you want to be…and that family is what you make it.After a disastrous first meeting with the grandson she never knew she had, eighty-four-year-old Veronica McCreedy wants to find a worthwhile cause to endow with her... + Read More
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Series: Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop Paperback Roselle Lim 9781984803276 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

Become enamored with the splendor of Paris in this heartwarming and delightful story about writing one’s own destiny and finding love along the way.Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people’s fortunes—or misfortunes—in tea leaves.Ever since she can remember, Vanessa Yu has been able to see people’s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonex... + Read More
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Series: Sensation Machines Hardcover Adam Wilson 9781641291651 $34.00 FICTION Jul 07, 2020

A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a Post-Trump America in economic free fall Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: he lost the couple’s life savings when a tanking economy caused a major market crash. And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to solve a national crisis of mass unemployment... + Read More
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Series: The Carls A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor A Novel Hardcover Hank Green 9781524743475 $36.00 FICTION Jul 07, 2020

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERApril May and the Carls are back in the already-anticipated sequel to Hank Green’s #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.Who has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely dea... + Read More
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Series: The Benefit of Hindsight Simon Serrailler Book 10 Paperback Susan Hill 9781529110548 $19.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

In this, the tenth Simon Serrailler crime novel, Simon must engage with his own demons as Lafferton struggles to cope with a series of crimes that threaten the sanctity of hearth and home. On the face of it DC Simon Serrailler has had time to recuperate after the violent incident that cost him his arm, and nearly his life. He is back in harness at Lafferton CID, but is spending his spare time high up in the cathedral roof, making drawings of the medieval angels which are being restored. Lafferton is going through a quiet patch, so far as crime ... + Read More
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Series: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead A Novel Paperback Olga Tokarczuk 9780525541349 $23.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

Brilliantly inventive noir from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize.In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts ... + Read More
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Series: Zo A novel Hardcover Xander Miller 9781101874127 $35.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceSet in Haiti, a breathtaking love story—a saga of passion, tenacity, and hope in the face of disasterWe first meet Zwazo Delalun, or Zo, during his childhood, in the 1990s, in a fishing village on the western tip of Haiti. An orphan, he learns to swim and fish, then to harvest almonds and cut cane. He travels the island in his youth, finding work wherever he can. One morning, while hauling cement in the broiling sun, he meets Anaya, a nursing student who is sipping cherry juice under a tree. Their att... + Read More
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Series: The Beekeeper of Aleppo A Novel Paperback Christy Lefteri 9780593128176 $23.00 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.“Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international significance which has the capacity to have us open our eyes, and see.” Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzNuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the country... + Read More
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Series: Mexican Gothic Hardcover Silvia Moreno-Garcia 9780525620785 $36.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico—and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets.He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me.After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Engli... + Read More
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Series: The Margot Affair A Novel Hardcover Sanaë Lemoine 9781984854438 $36.00 FICTION Jun 16, 2020

The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family, in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal.“There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding…”Margot Louve has lived her life as her parents’ secret. For seventeen years, her father—an influential French politician with presidential ambitions—has led a double life: his only contact with Margot a... + Read More