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Starling Days.
ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN is an American and British novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first novel Harmless Like You was a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. In the UK it won the Author's Club First Novel Award, a Betty Trask award, and was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. Her work has appeared in Granta,...
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Amory Ames mysteries volume 1
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"Amory Ames is a wealthy young woman who questions her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo. Looking for a change, she accepts a request for help from her former fiance, Gil Trent, not knowing that she'll soon become embroiled in a murder investigation that will test not only her friendship with Gil, but will upset the status quo with her husband"--Provided by publisher.
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A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB SELECTION
From the USA Today–bestselling author of The Widower’s Wife comes an electrifying psychological thriller of love and deceit, where the truth can be darker than fiction
Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list. Meanwhile, she’s...
From the USA Today–bestselling author of The Widower’s Wife comes an electrifying psychological thriller of love and deceit, where the truth can be darker than fiction
Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list. Meanwhile, she’s...
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When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together, navigating a sometimes turbulent marriage and scraping through the process of raising a family. When he first enters the bakery where she works, she is a new arrival from the tiny island nation of Malta, fond of rabbit stew and Hollywood cinema. He is a thoughtful printer's assistant recently released from juvenile detention after stealing and swiftly totalling...
5) My Ántonia
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Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Solomon Northup in Twelve Years a Slave, this new series is a comprehensive collection...
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When an upstanding Duke and a desperate young widow are caught in a con, they both wind up losing their hearts in this "elegantly written" Regency romance (Booklist).
Marcus Reese, Duke of Exeter, has spent most of his life pulling his twin brother out of trouble—without even so much as a thank you. Instead, his resentful sibling forges his name to a marriage license and presents Marcus with an unwanted wife. A vicar's
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Eternity Springs novels volume 5
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Dark, brooding Jack Davenport hides his secrets well, never telling his wife about the dangers of his job, never sharing his thoughts or worries . . . never sharing himself. After tragedy strikes, their marriage shatters. Now a threat to Catherine Blackburn's life brings her back into his-and gives them a second chance. A reporter whose most recent investigation has ignited a national controversy and put her in harm's way, Cat thinks she can handle...
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That's what he wants you to think...
A good mother doesn't forget things.
A good mother isn't a danger to herself.
A good mother isn't a danger to her baby.
You want to be the good mother you dreamed you could be.
But you're not. You're the bad mother you were destined to become.
At least, that what he wants you to believe...
10) One house over
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Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 1
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the 1930s era of her acclaimed novel The Upper Room with a dazzling portrait of two very different couples whose friendship and fast times are no match for shattering betrayal. A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community-Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family...
11) The harpy
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"Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy has set her career aside in order to devote her life to the children and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy's husband, Jake. The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together, but make an arrangement...
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Hannah was tall and graceful, naturally pretty, spirited and impulsive, the upper-class young woman who picked, of all men, Lovell---the introverted climate scientist who thought he could change the world if he could just get everyone to listen to reason. After a magical honeymoon, they settled in the suburbs to raise their two children.
But over the years, Lovell and Hannah's conversations have become charged with resentments and unspoken desires....
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Welcome to Bell Cove, North Carolina.
The famous bells in this small Outer Banks town are ringing a hero’s welcome when a former army captain returns home...
After being held prisoner for three years in an Afghan prison, Jake Dawson is finally going home--except everyone, including his wife and young sons, believed he was dead. Jake has changed since he left for war, and now he isn’t sure where he belongs.
Sally has changed, too. Her marriage...
14) The forever girl
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Amanda and her husband, David, are raising their son and daughter in the close-knit community of ex-pats on Grand Cayman Island. Their firstborn, Sally, has always listened to her heart, deciding at age four that she would rather be called Clover and then, a few years later, falling in love with her best friend, James. At the same time that Clover falls in love with James, Amanda realizes that she has fallen out of love with David, and that...
15) A good name
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Essential prose volume 189
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Eighteen-year-old Zina escapes an arranged marriage to a much older man by marrying Eziafa and moving from Nigeria to Houston where she trains as a nurse.
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"After almost twenty years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind. But when she falls into a coma on the eve of his departure, he has to make a choice between stardom and his wife-and...
17) The quiet people
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Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime, like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So, when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time...
Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?...
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USA Today Bestseller
One of Bustle’s “New Books Set At the Beach To Read When You Can’t Be There Yourself”
One of Bustle’s “12 Books Like Knives Out For Fans Of Family Sagas, Murder, & Knitwear”
One of CrimeReads’ “Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer”
Part locked-room mystery,...
One of Bustle’s “New Books Set At the Beach To Read When You Can’t Be There Yourself”
One of Bustle’s “12 Books Like Knives Out For Fans Of Family Sagas, Murder, & Knitwear”
One of CrimeReads’ “Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer”
Part locked-room mystery,...
19) An open marriage
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When you abandon the rules, can you ever go back? Mia Allen has never adjusted to living in England. She misses the States , but her husband Kit loves the sense of community. Like Mia, Kit's boss Charlie is looking for more excitement in her life. So when she and her husband are invited to dinner, she jumps at the chance to make new friends. The increasing attraction between all of them is intense. Can any of their relationships survive this unconventional...
20) The homecoming
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Niceville trilogy volume 2
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Niceville detective Nick Kavanaugh and his lawyer wife, Kate, investigate strange disappearances in their seemingly peaceful town and discover that there is a long bloodstained history to the town.
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