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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry comes a gripping mystery featuring intrepid spy and code breaker Maggie Hope This time, the fallout of a deadly plot comes straight to her own front door World War II rages on across Europe, but Maggie Hope has finally found a moment of rest on the pastoral coast of western Scotland Home from an undercover mission in Berlin, she settles down to teach at her old spy training camp, and to heal from scars on both her body and heart Yet instead of enjoying the quieter pace of life, Maggie is quickly drawn into another web of danger and intrigue When three ballerinas fall strangely ill in Glasgow including one of Maggie s dearest friends Maggie partners with MI-5 to uncover the truth behind their unusual symptoms What she finds points to a series of poisonings that may expose shocking government secrets and put countless British lives at stake But it s the fight brewing in the Pacific that will forever change the course of the war and indelibly shape Maggie s fate Praise for The Prime Minister s Secret Agent [A] stellar series [Susan Elia] MacNeal has written an impeccably researched, wonderfully engaging story Minneapolis Star Tribune A treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike Booklist [MacNeal] seamlessly mixes fact and fiction Publishers Weekly Splendid riveting The research is complete and fascinating The scenes are so detailed that readers will feel as if they are next to the characters and listening to them speaking RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) Fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd will feast on this riveting series chronicling Britain s own Greatest Generation MacNeal s research and gift for dialogue shine through on every page, transporting the reader to Churchill s inner circle The Prime Minister s Secret Agent is both top-drawer historical fiction and mystery in its finest hour Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of Through the Evil Days Praise for Susan Elia MacNeal s Maggie Hope mysteries You ll be [Maggie Hope s] loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes O: The Oprah Magazine A heart-pounding novel peopled with fully drawn real and fictional characters provides the thrills that readers have come to expect from MacNeal Richmond Times-Dispatch, on His Majesty s Hope With false starts, double agents, and red herrings MacNeal provides a vivid view of life both above and below stairs at Windsor Castle Publishers Weekly, on Princess Elizabeth s Spy
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable That is, until she plays her first game of chess Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control By the age of sixteen, she s competing for the U S Open championship But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting 
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE &#8226 Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium a way of feeling and a way of telling Love and language Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where Anything-Can-Happen Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie s work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction Praise for QuichotteBrilliant a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement Financial TimesQuichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders This novel can fly, it can float, it s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot The Sunday Times Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes s story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind The Times (UK)
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago &#8226 A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKAt the height of the Cold War, Irina, a young Russian-American secretary, is plucked from the CIA typing pool and given the assignment of a lifetime Her mission: to help smuggle Doctor Zhivago into the USSR, where it is banned, and enable Boris Pasternak s magnum opus to make its way into print around the world Mentoring Irina is the glamorous Sally Forrester: a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit, using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men Under Sally s tutelage, Irina learns how to invisibly ferry classified documents and discovers deeply buried truths about herself The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who inspired Zhivago s heroine, Lara with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk Told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail, this is an unforgettable debut: a celebration of the powerful belief that a work of art can change the world 
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 A deliciously dark tale of America s dysfunctional coming years and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times &#8226 The Washington Post &#8226 The Boston Globe &#8226 San Francisco Chronicle &#8226 The Seattle Times &#8226 O: The Oprah Magazine &#8226 Maureen Corrigan, NPR &#8226 Salon &#8226 Slate &#8226 Minneapolis Star Tribune &#8226 St Louis Post-Dispatch &#8226 The Kansas City Star &#8226 Charlotte Observer &#8226 The Globe and Mail &#8226 Vancouver Sun &#8226 Montreal Gazette &#8226 Kirkus ReviewsIn the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of printed, bound media artifacts (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade The New York Times Book ReviewYou don t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving exploring the very nature of what it means to be human ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The MaidenThe mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion currently in development as a motion picture at Steven Spielberg's Amblin PartnersYou are the next step in human evolution At first, Logan Ramsay isn t sure if anything s different He just feels a little sharper Better able to concentrate Better at multitasking Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep But before long, he can t deny it: Something s happening to his brain To his body He s starting to see the world, and those around him even those he loves most in whole new ways The truth is, Logan s genome has been hacked And there s a reason he s been targeted for this upgrade A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy Worse still, what s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large at a terrifying cost Because of his new abilities, Logan s the one person in the world capable of stopping what s been set in motion But to have a chance at winning this war, he ll have to become something other than himself Maybe even something other than human And even as he s fighting, he can t help wondering: what if humanity s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity and our boundless potential 
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &#8226 A quite extraordinary novel Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD &#8226 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE &#8226 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD &#8226 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent &#8226 The New York Public Library &#8226 Library JournalFrom the National Book Award winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers Bassam Aramin is Palestinian Rami Elhanan is Israeli They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate But their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers a decade later, Bassam s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another And yet, when they learn of each other s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace and with their one small act, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4 McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another, perhaps others could too With their blessing, and unprecedented access to their families, lives, and personal recollections, McCann began to craft Apeirogon, which uses their real-life stories to begin another one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers moving story at its heart 
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens The Empire is dead Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine s forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol The disturbance in the Force is undeniable and Luke s worst fears are confirmed when his old friend Lando Calrissian comes to him with reports of a new Sith menace After Lando s daughter was stolen from his arms, he searched the stars for any trace of his lost child But every new rumor leads only to dead ends and fading hopes until he crosses paths with Ochi of Bestoon, a Sith assassin tasked with kidnapping a young girl Ochi s true motives remain shrouded to Luke and Lando For on a junkyard moon, a mysterious envoy of the Sith Eternal has bequeathed a sacred blade to the assassin, promising that it will answer the questions that have haunted him since the Empire fell In exchange, he must complete a final mission: Return to Exegol with the key to the Sith s glorious rebirth Rey, the granddaughter of Darth Sidious himself As Ochi hunts Rey and her parents to the edge of the galaxy, Luke and Lando race into the mystery of the Sith s lingering shadow and aid a young family running for their lives 
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this laugh-out-loud funny guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo s hit reality show Vanderpump Rules, perfect for fans of the relatable and entertaining books by The Betches and Andi Dorfman Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder as a major defender of Basic Bitch rights There s nothing more boring than people who take themselves too seriously or think that you have to be pretentious to be cool Stassi champions the things that many of us are afraid to love publicly for fear of being labeled basic: lattes, pugs, bubbly cocktails, millennial pink, #OOTD (outfit of the day, obvs), astrology, hot dogs, the perfect pair of Louboutins, romantic comedies the list goes on and on This book is for people tired of pretending they would rather see a Daniel Day-Lewis movie about sewing or read War and Peace than watch a Saw marathon or read well, this book! In Next Level Basic, the reality star, podcast queen, and ranch dressing expert gives you hilarious and pointed lessons on how to have fun and celebrate yourself, with exclusive stories from her own life and on the set of Vanderpump Rules From her very public breakups to her most intimate details about her plastic surgery, Stassi shares her own personal experiences with her trademark honesty all with the hope you can learn something from them 
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New York Times Best SellerWho s really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear An ID Book Club Selection It s Dynasty meets Patricia Highsmith (The Washington Post)Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in LA alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer - traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales But behind the covetable fa&#231 ade is a life marked by tragedy After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family s sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa s past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina Nina s, Vanessa s, and Lachlan s paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge This dazzling, twisty, mesmerizing novel showcases acclaimed author Janelle Brown at her best, as two brilliant, damaged women try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play 
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