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Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi
Saara El-Arifi
When We Were Brilliant by Lynn Cullen
Lynn Cullen


Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.

They were an unlikely pair — a blond bombshell and a photographer determined to be taken seriously — but Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold would make a deal that would change their lives in this dazzling new novel from the national bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and The Woman with the Cure.

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I, Medusa
Ayana Gray
As Good as Dead
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Everybody Has a Gun
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
The Listeners
Maggie Stiefvater
Cold Dead Cash
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
I’m Here to Kill You
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Hard Men to Kill
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Dead Broke, Colorado
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Shot in the Back
J.A. Johnstone and William W. Johnstone
Purgatory Crossing
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis
Preacher’s Strike
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Blood Bounty of the Mountain Man
J.A. Johnstone and William W. Johnstone
The Hanging Party
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
The Edge of Nowhere
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult
Fort Buzzard
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Some Die Young
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
Lady Macbeth
Ava Reid
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New Releases

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This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Jackal’s Mistress
Chris Bohjalian
The Last of Earth
Deepa Anappara
I’ll Come to You
Rebecca Kauffman
The Architect of New York
Javier Moro
Letters from Yellowstone
Diane Smith
Between Good and Evil
Rochelle Alers
Crossing the Line
James D. Shipman
Before Ever After
Samantha Sotto
Isola: Reese’s Book Club
Allegra Goodman
To Save the Man
John Sayles
Huguette
Cara Black
The Lord
Soraya Antonius
The Dream of the Jaguar
Miguel Bonnefoy
Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 6
Tang Jiu Qing
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
One Good Thing
Georgia Hunter
Thunder of the Mountain Man
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
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New Releases

Coming Soon

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When We Were Brilliant
Lynn Cullen
The Sea Child
Linda Wilgus
Steppe
Oksana Vasyakina
Twin Jades of Jiangdong (Novel) Vol. 1
Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Crucible
John Sayles
Joyful Reunion (Novel) Vol. 3
Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Old Soul
Susan Barker
A Slash of Emerald
Patrice McDonough
Humboldt Cut
Allison Mick
This House Will Feed
Maria Tureaud
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Donna Everhart
Burn Down Master’s House
Clay Cane
The Three
Kelsey O'Brien
Muse of Fire
Howard Linskey
Harlem Rhapsody
Victoria Christopher Murray
Junie: A GMA Book Club Pick
Erin Crosby Eckstine
An Astronomer in Love
Antoine Laurain
A Sultan in Palermo
Tariq Ali
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Coming Soon

Award Winners

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Hamnet (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Maggie O'Farrell
Waiting
Ha Jin
James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Percival Everett
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)
Marlon James
Possession
A. S. Byatt
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)
Michael Chabon
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
All Clear
Connie Willis
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James
Blackout
Connie Willis
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Award Winners

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