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The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery By Richard Osman Cover Image

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries (Miss Marple Mysteries) By Agatha Christie, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware Cover Image

Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery By Craig Johnson Cover Image

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Killers of a Certain Age By Deanna Raybourn Cover Image

The Marriage Portrait: A novel By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image

Lucy by the Sea: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout Cover Image

Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books #2) By Andrew Sean Greer Cover Image

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization By Neil deGrasse Tyson Cover Image

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure By Rinker Buck Cover Image

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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution By R. F. Kuang Cover Image

The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance #3) By Naomi Novik Cover Image

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Rust in the Root By Justina Ireland Cover Image

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Bone Weaver By Aden Polydoros Cover Image

Spells for Forgetting: A Novel By Adrienne Young Cover Image

Buzz-Worthy Books

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Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel By Anthony Marra Cover Image

The Fortunes of Jaded Women: A Novel By Carolyn Huynh Cover Image

On the Rooftop: A Novel By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Cover Image

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel By Jamie Ford Cover Image

Romances We Are Loving

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Mr. Perfect on Paper By Jean Meltzer Cover Image

Delilah Green Doesn't Care By Ashley Herring Blake Cover Image

Husband Material (London Calling) By Alexis Hall Cover Image

Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image

A Pho Love Story By Loan Le Cover Image

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All of Us Villains By Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman Cover Image

Seoulmates By Susan Lee Cover Image

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Rick Riordan Presents Ballad & Dagger (An Outlaw Saints Novel) By Daniel José Older Cover Image

The Prison Healer By Lynette Noni Cover Image

The Getaway By Lamar Giles Cover Image

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 5) (Illustrated edition) By J. K. Rowling, Mr. Jim Kay (Illustrator), Neil Packer (Illustrator) Cover Image

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Meredith, Alone By Claire Alexander Cover Image

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Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle #2) By Tracy Deonn Cover Image

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Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities #9) By Shannon Messenger Cover Image

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The Ever Storms (Wilderlore #3) By Amanda Foody Cover Image