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Updated February 10, 2025
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The Briar Club : a novel
Quinn, Kate
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., 1950 Everyone keeps to themselves at...
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Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)
Schweblin, Samanta
Paper Book
* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 * A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American...
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Madwoman
Bieker, Chelsea
Paper Book
'Chelsea Bieker breathes thrilling, risky energy into the familiar trope of the madwoman... A well-paced and absorbing page-turner.' New York Times<...
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By any other name : a novel
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
The Number 1 New York Times bestseller from the author of My Sister's Keeper and Mad Honey 'Her best one yet' JOJO MOYES 'A timeless classic' CHRIS WHITAKER -- Student playwright Melina Green finds that even in New...
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The blue hour : a novel
Hawkins, Paula
Paper Book
Get ready to be gripped by the dark, atmospheric and tense new thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
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The city and its uncertain walls
Murakami, Haruki
Paper Book
A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times. STEP INTO THE CITY. . . When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on...
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Only Here, Only Now
Newlands, Tom
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025 'Absolutely loved this. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure' DOUGLAS STUART, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain 'Glorious . . . so unusual, so moving, so memorable' ...
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The Rainfall Market
Yu, Yŏng-gwang
Paper Book
DISCOVER THE KOREAN BESTSELLER AND STEP INTO A MAGICAL WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE An uplifting and healing gift of a book that asks would you trade your life for another one? 'A warm and wondrous story [...] Gentle, affirming, and utterly transportive' Julie...
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The grey wolf
Penny, Louise
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'SUPERB' WILL DEAN 'Highly entertaining' THE TIMES 'Subtle, compelling storytelling at its elegant best' DAILY MAIL Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in the small village of Three Pines in Quebec....
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The lost story : a novel
Shaffer, Meg
Paper Book
'This wildly imaginative book speaks to every reader who yearns for a more magical world' - THAO THAI, author of Banyan Moon 'If you'd like to dream instead of a parallel world where love and loyalty and friendship are the magic that transforms the least of us into...
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Promise
Griffiths, Rachel Eliza.
Paper Book
'Powerful' New Statesman | 'Enchanting' Sunday Times | 'Haunting' Mail on Sunday 'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon James The people of...
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Whale fall
O'Connor, Elizabeth
Paper Book
'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm TóibínAn Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to...
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The glass girl
Glasgow, Kathleen
'Nothing short of a modern masterpiece.' Amber Smith, bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be "A must-read." Laura Nowlin, bestselling author of If He Had Been with Me The story of a teenage girl on the brink, and the bumpy road back...
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Private rites : a novel
Armfield, Julia
Paper Book
'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK 'Hauntingly good' iNEWS 'A must read' GLAMOUR 'Brilliant, original' KALIANE BRADLEY 'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEER 'Elegant, evocative' CLAIRE FULLER<...
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Heist royale
Lewis, Kayvion
Paper Book
Love is an impossible mission . . . the enemy is everywhere in the pulse-pounding follow-up to international heist sensation, Thieves' Gambit, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers 2024. For fans of Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Suzanne Collins. *Pre...
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Tell me everything : a novel
Strout, Elizabeth
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' Guardian It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become...
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The queen : a novel
Cutter, Nick
Nick Cutter, author of #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop, returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth. On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on...
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Water moon : a novel
Sotto, Samantha
Paper Book
The instant Sunday Times bestseller! 'Full of adventure and marvellous creativity, Water Moon surprises and delights with every turn of the page' -- Megan Bannen, bestselling author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy Would you rewrite...
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