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Bury the Lead
by David Rosenfelt
Asked to help safeguard the innocence of a reporter who has been selected as the mouthpiece for a serial killer, defense attorney Andy Carpenter finds his job proving more difficult than anticipated when the reporter is arrested for the murders. By the author of Open and Shut and First
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The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him throughout his marriage and parenthood. By the award-winning author of The
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
by Andrew Sean Greer
Max is born old: he looks like a little old man. As he grows up, he gets younger and younger. His life is complicated not only by this quirk but by his love for Alice, who grows older as he grows younger. The action of the novel begins in 1871, in San Francisco, and ends in the 1930s.
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The Photograph
by Penelope Lively
Receiving a mysterious photograph of his late wife, Kath, holding hands with another man, self-centered professor Glyn begins a search that proves shocking to Kath's family and friends, who include in their number a remorseless sister, a doyenne garden designer, and a feckless ne'er-do-well.
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The Sleeping Father (Today Show Book Club...
by Matthew Sharpe
When his father mixes medications and goes into a coma, teenaged Chris Schwartz takes on the role of caretaker, combining loving care with an irreverent attitude that may, in fact, hasten his father's recovery. Meanwhile, his sister Cathy takes a more serious approach, and the various
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The Breathtaker
by Alice Blanchard
In the aftermath of a deadly twister, police chief Charlie Grover begins to suspect that the members of the Pepper family died at the hands of a killer rather than the storm, launching an investigation with the assistance of weather expert Willa Bellman, who predicts that another dangerous
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The Way the Crow Flies
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Twenty years after her military officer father is forced to choose between loyalties in the wake of a local murder in the early 1960s, Madeleine begins to understand the case's implication and launches a search for the killer. By the author of Fall On Your Knees. Reader's Guide available.
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
[A]n impressively researched, challenging novel debut....The particulars and consequences of the 'right' of humans to own other humans are dramatized with unprecedented ingenuity and intensity, in a harrowing tale that scarcely ever raises its voice....This will mean a great deal to a great
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The Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
Soon after the end of World War II, a disillusioned veteran and U.S. Army major named Aldred Leith travels to a Japanese island, hoping to understand the impact of the war on the place. Meanwhile, his friend Peter Exley is investigating war crimes. And two young children, the daughter and
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