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Series: Ridgerunner Hardcover Gil Adamson 9781487006563 $32.95 FICTION May 12, 2020

Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist Part literary Western and part historical mystery, Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winner Ridgerunner is now available as a paperback. November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough mo... + Read More
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Series: How a Woman Becomes a Lake Paperback Marjorie Celona 9780735235823 $24.95 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangov... + Read More
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Series: A Long Petal of the Sea A Novel Hardcover Isabel Allende 9781984820150 $37.00 FICTION Jan 21, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home.In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irrevers... + Read More
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Series: The Searcher A Novel Hardcover Tana French 9780735224650 $36.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Best Book of 2020New York Times |NPR | New York Post“This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet…Its own kind of masterpiece.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post“A new Tana French is always cause for celebration…Read it once for the plot; read it again for the beauty and subtlety of French’s writing.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York TimesCal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wa... + Read More
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Series: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Hardcover V. E. Schwab 9780765387561 $34.99 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore a... + Read More
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Series: Dearly Poems Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780771000775 $32.95 POETRY Nov 10, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.Before she became one of the world’s most important and lo... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Longings A Novel Hardcover Sue Monk Kidd 9780525429760 $37.00 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

“An epic masterpiece that is a triumph of insight and storytelling.”—Associated Press Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by O, the Oprah Magazine, Good Morning America/ABC-TV, Good Housekeeping, Bustle, TIME, Marie Claireand The MillionsAn extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of WingsIn her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to histo... + 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: Hamnet and Judith A novel Paperback Maggie O'Farrell 9780735280175 $24.95 FICTION Jul 21, 2020

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER 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 wom... + Read More
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Series: Piranesi Hardcover Susanna Clarke 9781635575637 $36.50 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Women's Prize for FictionWorld Fantasy Awards FinalistFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant... + Read More