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Something Red
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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 Chaperone
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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
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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
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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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Bring Up the Bodies
: Wolf Hall Trilogy #2
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Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. |
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City of Women
: A Novel
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David R.
Gillham
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 7 May 2013
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It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death. |
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