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  • The Most
    Jessica Anthony
    Paperback: 07/30/2024
     
    From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, ...
  • Big Time
    Big Time: A Novel
    Ben H. Winters
    Hardcover: 03/05/2024
     
    In this "wild and wonderful" (Lou Berney) corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "time is money" ...
  • The Favor
    The Favor: A Novel
    Nora Murphy
    Paperback: 05/02/2023
     
    A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth...
  • Booth
    Karen Joy Fowler
    Paperback: 02/07/2023
     
    From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic ...
  • Clock Dance
    Clock Dance: A Novel
    Anne Tyler
    Paperback: 04/30/2019
     
    A delightful novel of one woman's transformative journey, from the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
  • White Houses
    Amy Bloom
    Paperback: 10/30/2018
     
    The unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of ...
  • Sunburn
    Laura Lippman
    Paperback: 07/31/2018
     
    Inspired by James M. Cain's masterpieces The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce,...

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