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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Series: House of a Thousand Lies A Novel Hardcover Cody Luke Davis 9781639100057 $35.99 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

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Series: Into the Broken Lands Hardcover Tanya Huff 9780756415242 $37.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From sci-fi and fantasy master Tanya Huff comes a new epic fantasy saga set in a land of dangers and mysteriesShattered by mage wars, the Broken Lands will test the bonds of family and friendship, strength and sanity. To save their people, the Heirs of Marsan have no choice but to enter, trusting their lives and the lives of everyone they Protect, to someone who shouldn’t exist, who can’t be controlled, and who will challenge everything they believe about themselves.Story Locale: Fantasy world
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Series: Carrie Soto Is Back A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385695794 $24.95 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

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Series: Only Sisters Paperback Lilian Nattel 9780735277069 $24.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

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Series: All Good People Here A Novel Hardcover Ashley Flowers 9780593496473 $37.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor gets involved with the eerily similar disappearance of another girl twenty years later.You can’t ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors.Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as Janu... + Read More
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Series: Detective Annalisa Vega Long Gone A Detective Annalisa Vega Novel Hardcover Joanna Schaffhausen 9781250264633 $36.99 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

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Series: Bad Fruit A Novel Hardcover Ella King 9781662601491 $36.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

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