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  • Not the End of the World

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    Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son’s development. Then an enigmatic young nanny named Miss… [more below]

    • Author: Atkinson, Kate
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 27 2004
    • ISBN10: 0316159379
    • Language: English
  • Brownsville

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    “Terrific stories…Just about perfect” (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest.
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    • Author: Casares, Oscar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 21 2003
    • ISBN10: 0316146803
    • Language: English
  • So Cold the River

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    Now a major motion picture: So Cold the River is a chilling, supernatural tale “guaranteed to put the cold finger down your spine” (Michael Connelly).

    It started with a beautiful woman and a challeng

    • Author: Koryta, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: January 06, 2011
    • ISBN10: 0316053643
    • Language: English
  • Fuccboi

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    “Terse and intense and new…I loved it.” –Tommy Orange, author of There There

    Fuccboi is its generation’s coming of age novel…Utterly of its moment, of this moment.”–Jay McInereny, Wall Street J

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    • Author: Conroe, Sean Thor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: January 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316394912
    • Language: English
  • The Fishermen

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    In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family

    Told by nine-year-ol

    • Author: Obioma, Chigozie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 05, 2016
    • ISBN10: 0316338354
    • Language: English
  • If She Wakes

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    Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and “master” of thriller writing (Stephen King).
    Tara Beckley is a senior… [more below]

    • Author: Koryta, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: March 24 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316293970
    • Language: English
  • The Pink Suit

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    “Inspired by the true story behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic outfit, Kelby has stitched a compelling tale of politics, fashion and history.” — People

    On November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy accompani

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    • Author: Kelby, Nicole Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 28 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316235679
    • Language: English
  • Dare Me

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    From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as “Lord of the Flies se[more below]

    • Author: Abbott, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 27 2013
    • ISBN10: 0316097780
    • Language: English
  • Light on Snow

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    What makes a family? That’s what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through… [more below]

    • Author: Shreve, Anita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0316010677
    • Language: English
  • An Orchestra of Minorities

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    A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.

    “It is more than a supe

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    • Author: Obioma, Chigozie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 0316412406
    • Language: English
  • Paint It Black

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    Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA’s rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from th… [more below]

    • Author: Fitch, Janet
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: October 03 2007
    • ISBN10: 0316067148
    • Language: English
  • Desperation Road

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    Now a major motion picture starring Mel Gibson: a Mississippi-set southern noir where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.

    For eleven years the clock has been ticking

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    • Author: Smith, Michael Farris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: January 30 2018
    • ISBN10: 0316353043
    • Language: English
  • Scoop

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    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a “thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny” satire of the journalism business (New York Times).

    Lord Copper, new

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    • Author: Waugh, Evelyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: December 11 2012
    • ISBN10: 0316216372
    • Language: English
  • Still Midnight

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    The first book in the acclaimed Alex Morrow series of crime novels set in Glasgow, Scotland, from the author of national bestseller Conviction.

    Alex Morrow is not new to the police force — or to cr

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    • Series: Alex Morrow #1
    • Author: Mina, Denise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: September 14 2011
    • ISBN10: 0316015644
    • Language: English
  • A Song for the Dark Times: An Inspector Rebus Novel

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    “He’s gone…”

    When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days.

    Rebus fears the worst – and knows from his lifetim

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    • Series: Rebus Novel #23
    • Author: Rankin, Ian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 05 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316479241
    • Language: English
  • For Twice in My Life

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    A second try at love becomes more than one woman bargained for in this “timeless, enchanting” rom-com from the author of The Rehearsals (Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author).

    Can on

    • Author: Christie, Annette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 10, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316451134
    • Language: English
  • The Ice Storm

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    The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, dru[more below]

    • Series: Back Bay Books (Series)
    • Author: Moody, Rick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 10 2002
    • ISBN10: 0316706000
    • Language: English
  • The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 – 1967

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    A classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright — edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes.

    Originally published in 19

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    • Author: Hughes, Langston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: July 31 2012
    • ISBN10: 0316380318
    • Language: English
  • Both Flesh and Not: Essays

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    Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by “one of America’s most daring and talented writers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review): Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace’s [more below]

    • Author: Wallace, David Foster
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: November 19 2013
    • ISBN10: 0316182389
    • Language: English
  • The Blood of Flowers

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    A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia.

    In 17th-century Iran

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    • Author: Amirrezvani, Anita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 02 2008
    • ISBN10: 0316065773
    • Language: English
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