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Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir

by Robert Timberg

Published: 2014-07-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Acclaimed journalist Robert Timberg’s extraordinary, long-awaited memoir of his struggle to reclaim his life and find his calling after being severely burned as a young Marine lieutenant in Vietnam In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until h...

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* * * * Confusing,
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The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

by Louise Penny

Published: 2014-08-26

Hardcover: 373 pages

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Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is ...

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* * Slow,
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Painted Horses

by Malcolm Brooks

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient, o...

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The Flip

by Michael Phillip Cash

Published: 2014-05-04

Paperback: 200 pages

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Julie and Brad Evans are house flippers. They buy low, clean out the old occupants junk, and try to make a profit. Enter Hemmings House on Bedlam Street in scenic Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. Too good a deal to pass up, but with an ominous secret. The old Victorian Mansion has dwellers that do...

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The Hope: A Novel

by Herman Wouk

Published: 2002-06-03

Paperback: 704 pages

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Like no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In The Hope, which opens in 1948 and culminates in the miraculous triumph of 1967s Six-Day War, Wouk plunges the reader into the story of a nation struggling...

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* * * * * Epic,
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Lock In

by John Scalzi

Published: 2014-08-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent...

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The Kills: Sutler, The Massive, The Kill, and The Hit

by Richard House

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 1024 pages

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A MASTERWORK OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE SET IN THE ASHES OF WAR-TORN IRAQ, ITALY, AND AREAS IN BETWEEN.The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books. It begins with a man on the run and ends with a burned body. Moving across continents, characters, and genres, there ...

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One Kick: A Novel (A Kick Lannigan Novel)

by Chelsea Cain

Published: 2014-08-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Meet Kick Lannigan. She’s twenty-one. She can pick any lock. She knows five ways to kill you with a jacket. Get ready to fall in love.From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series fe...

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* * * Dramatic,
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The Home Place: A Novel

by Carrie La Seur

Published: 2014-07-29

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana i...

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A Colder War

by Charles Cumming

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Internationally acclaimed as “a premier writer of espionage thrillers” (USA Today), Charles Cumming is “among the most skillful spy novelists” (Washington Post) and “a worthy successor to the masters…like John le Carré and Len Deighton” (Chicago Sun-Times). Now, with A COLDE...