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  • Ship of Fools

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    The classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters,
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    • Author: Porter, Katherine Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 497
    • Publish Date: May 30 1984
    • ISBN10: 0316713902
    • Language: English
  • Today Will Be Different

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    A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a st[more below]

    • Author: Semple, Maria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 27 2017
    • ISBN10: 0316403458
    • Language: English
  • Lord Hornblower

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    Hornblower is tasked with a dangerous rescue mission in this “enthralling” chapter (New York Times) in C. S. Forester’s beloved naval adventure series.

    Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his e

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    • Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #10
    • Author: Forester, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: November 02 1989
    • ISBN10: 0316289434
    • Language: English
  • A God in Ruins

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    This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson’s #1 bestseller Life After Life, “one of the best novels I’ve read this century” (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula’s brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown fut[more below]

    • Author: Atkinson, Kate
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: January 12 2016
    • ISBN10: 0316176508
    • Language: English
  • Forever

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    This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever.

    Through the eyes of Cormac O’Connor — granted immortalit

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    • Author: Hamill, Pete
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 613
    • Publish Date: November 03 2003
    • ISBN10: 0316735698
    • Language: English
  • Marjorie Morningstar

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    Now hailed as a “proto-feminist classic” (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk’s powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has be[more below]

    • Author: Wouk, Herman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: June 15 1992
    • ISBN10: 0316955132
    • Language: English
  • The Swan Thieves

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    Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of … [more below]

    • Author: Kostova, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: November 03 2010
    • ISBN10: 031606579X
    • Language: English
  • The Heretic’s Daughter

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    A courageous woman fights to survive the darkest days of the Salem Witch Trials in this “heart-wrenching story of family love and sacrifice” (USA Today).

    Salem, 1752. Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak wit

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    • Author: Kent, Kathleen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: October 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 031602449X
    • Language: English
  • Hits and Misses: Stories

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    A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer’s real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social med[more below]

    • Author: Rich, Simon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 10 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316468886
    • Language: English
  • Then We Came to the End

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    Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is “as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.” (TIME)

    No one knows

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    • Author: Ferris, Joshua
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: February 26 2008
    • ISBN10: 031601639X
    • Language: English
  • Central Park

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    From the #1 international bestselling author: a woman wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of how she got there in this “unpredictable and moving psychological thriller that keeps you holdi[more below]

    • Author: Musso, Guillaume
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 16 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316590967
    • Language: English
  • Miracle on the 17th Green

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    Just when we need some magic in our lives, bestselling author James Patterson brings us a stirring tale of life, love, and the power of Christmas miracles.
    Travis McKinley’s life has drifted sideways…. [more below]

    • Author: Patterson, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 15 2012
    • ISBN10: 031620711X
    • Language: English
  • Akin

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    This “soul stirring” novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Room (O Magazine) is one of the New York Post‘s best books of the year.
    Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widowe… [more below]

    • Author: Donoghue, Emma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: July 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316491969
    • Language: English
  • The Hope

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    Like no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In The Hope, which opens in 1948 and culminates in the m… [more below]

    • Author: Wouk, Herman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: September 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316954411
    • Language: English
  • Imagine Me Gone

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    From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?

    When Margaret’s

    • Author: Haslett, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: February 21, 2017
    • ISBN10: 0316261335
    • Language: English
  • The Water Museum: Stories

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    This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of America’s preeminent literary voices “reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader’s understanding[more below]

    • Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 0316334391
    • Language: English
  • Snow in August

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    Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time — and another triumph for Pete Hamill.

    Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have

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    • Author: Hamill, Pete
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: June 11 2013
    • ISBN10: 0316242829
    • Language: English
  • How It Happened

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    An FBI investigator must uncover the secrets of his hometown to solve a double murder in this twisty “page turner” that’s “perfect summer reading” (Stephen King).

    “And that is how it happened. Can we

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    • Author: Koryta, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: January 29 2019
    • ISBN10: 031629389X
    • Language: English
  • A Handful of Dust

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    Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this “absolutely delightful” novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disin[more below]

    • Author: Waugh, Evelyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: December 11 2012
    • ISBN10: 0316216267
    • Language: English
  • The Directive

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    A pulse-pounding thriller about two brothers, billions of dollars, and the heist of a lifetime by the author of the national bestseller The 500.

    After escaping the corrupt back rooms of Washington, D

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    • Series: Mike Ford #2
    • Author: Quirk, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 10 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316198633
    • Language: English
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