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Something Red
by Douglas Nicholas
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 18 Jun 2013
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| An intoxicating and spirited blend of fantasy, mythology, and history, Something Red features the most fascinating of characters, as well as an epic snowstorm that an early reader described as "one of the coldest scenes since Snow Falling on Cedars." |
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The Blood of Heaven
by Kent Wascom
Hardcover: 4 Jun 2013
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| A remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, a moving love story, and a vivid tale of ambition and political machinations that brilliantly captures the energy and wildness of a young America where anything was possible. |
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The Malice of Fortune
by Michael Ennis
Hardcover: Sep 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince. |
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The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: 4 Jun 2013
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| A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. |
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Live by Night
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. |
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The Headmaster's Wager: A Novel
by Vincent Lam
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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| A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage |
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Flora
by Gail Godwin
Hardcover: 7 May 2013
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| Flora is a novel as word-perfect and taut as an Alice Munro short story; like Munro, Godwin has flawlessly depicted the kind of fatalistic situation we can encounter in our youth — one that utterly robs us of our childhood and steers the course for our adult lives. |
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Hardcover: 7 May 2013
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| A brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. |
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