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  • Book Jacket: Love and Other Consolation Prizes
    Love and Other Consolation Prizes
    Jamie Ford
    Published 9/12/17

    For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the ...
  • Book Jacket: The Twelve-Mile Straight
    The Twelve-Mile Straight
    Eleanor Henderson
    Published 9/12/17

    Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other ...
  • Book Jacket: Seven Days of Us
    Seven Days of Us
    Francesca Hornak
    Published 10/17/17

    It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even...

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  • Book Jacket: A Short History of the Girl Next Door
    A Short History of the Girl Next Door
    Jared Reck
    Published 9/26/17

    Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day of your life and never think a thing of it, ...
  • Book Jacket: The Long Count
    The Long Count
    JM Gulvin
    Published 9/26/17

    With a gun on each hip and godson to the Ranger that took down Bonnie and Clyde, 36-year-old John ...
  • Book Jacket: The Blind
    The Blind
    A.F. Brady
    Published 9/26/17

    Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, ...

Featured This Week

  • Book Jacket: The Ninth Hour
    The Ninth Hour
    Alice McDermott
    Published 9/19/17

    Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning ...
  • Book Jacket: Of Arms and Artists
    Of Arms and Artists
    Paul Staiti
    Published 9/19/17

    A fascinating look at how the art world viewed the American Revolution, and how their work still ...
  • Book Jacket: The Invisible Guardian
    The Invisible Guardian
    Dolores Redondo
    Published 9/19/17

    Already a #1 international bestseller, this tautly written and gripping psychological thriller ...

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New in Hardcover

  • Book Jacket: This Blessed Earth
    This Blessed Earth
    Ted Genoways
    Published 9/19/17

    Is there still a place for the farm in today's America?
  • Book Jacket: The Ninth Hour
    The Ninth Hour
    Alice McDermott
    Published 9/19/17

    Rendered with remarkable lucidity and intelligence, Alice McDermott's The Ninth Hour is a crowning ...
  • Book Jacket: You Bring the Distant Near
    You Bring the Distant Near
    Mitali Perkins
    Published 9/12/17

    This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with...

New in Paperback

  • Book Jacket: Moonglow
    Moonglow
    Michael Chabon
    Published 9/19/17

    Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-...
  • Book Jacket: The Gustav Sonata
    The Gustav Sonata
    Rose Tremain
    Published 9/19/17

    A breathtakingly radiant story of an unlikely childhood friendship that survives the test of time.
  • Book Jacket: Of Arms and Artists
    Of Arms and Artists
    Paul Staiti
    Published 9/19/17

    A fascinating look at how the art world viewed the American Revolution, and how their work still ...

Top Recommendations for Book Clubs

  • Book Jacket: The Almost Sisters
    The Almost Sisters
    Joshilyn Jackson
    Published 7/11/17

    With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, ...
  • Book Jacket: The Velveteen Daughter
    The Velveteen Daughter
    Laurel D. Huber
    Published 7/11/17

    The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery ...
  • Book Jacket: News of the World
    News of the World
    Paulette Jiles
    Published 6/20/17

    It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to ...

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