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The Distance

by Helen Giltrow

Published: 2015-07-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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Charlotte Alton is an elegant London socialite. But behind the locked doors of her sleek, fortified apartment, she becomes Karla, a fixer who specializes in creating and erasing identities, and can cover any criminal’s tracks. Only a few people in the world know her secret.   One of the...

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Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

by A. E. Hotchner

Published: 2015-10-20

Hardcover: 192 pages

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In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited a close friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke - three weeks later, Ernest Hemingway returned home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a saga tha...

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The Wolves (A John Wells Novel)

by Alex Berenson

Published: 2016-02-09

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The latest thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Twelve Days, Alex Berenson.   John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security. ...

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Man Tiger: A Novel

by Eka Kurniawan

Published: 2015-09-15

Paperback: 192 pages

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A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betraya...

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Bonita Avenue: A Novel

by Peter Buwalda

Published: 2015-01-13

Hardcover: 544 pages

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"Dazzling...Critics hailed Buwalda as 'The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen', but his brilliance is entirely unique."--The Times (UK)  Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family—including a loving wife, two gorgeous, in...

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The Empty Mirror: A Viennese Mystery

by J. Sydney Jones

Published: 2008-01-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The summer of 1898 finds Austria terrorized by a killer who the press calls “Vienna’s Jack the Ripper.” Four bodies have already been found, but when the painter Gustav Klimt’s female model becomes the fifth victim, the police finger him as the culprit. The artist has already scand...

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212: A Novel (Ellie Hatcher)

by Alafair Burke

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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“The plot of an Alafair Burke thriller doesn’t just rip from the headlines. She’s one step ahead of them. 212 scares you and keeps you turning the pages into the wee hours.” —Harlan Coben “Burke has created a strong female protagonist in the tradition of Sara Paretsky’s V.I. ...

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Blonde Roots

by Bernardine Evaristo

Published: 2010-01-05

Paperback: 269 pages

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The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle). What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people j...

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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

by Dan Lyons

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Disrupted by Dan Lyons is the best book about Silicon Valley today."---Los Angeles Times"Wildly entertaining."---Ashlee Vance, New York Times-bestselling author of Elon MuskFor twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession...

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The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston (Story River Books)

by Michele Moore

Published: 2016-02-09

Hardcover: 280 pages

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“The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront,” begins Michele Moore’s entrancing debut novel, harkening back to an era when the legendary fishermen of Charleston’s Mosquito Fleet rowed miles offshore for their daily catch. With evocative dialect and remarkable prose, T...