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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE: A wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)–the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time. Connell Waldron is one of the most popular…

Librarian Lucy Richardson unearths a mysterious map dating back to the Civil War. But if she can’t crack its code, she may end up read and buried. The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to…

Cape Cod bicycle shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series! A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author…

When a nurse is murdered and another disappears during a hospital blackout, Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit struggles with a report by the crime’s only witness, who claims she saw a nurse who died sixty years earlier.

The O’Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are thrilled to be catering the matrimonial affairs of a celebrity couple–until a cunning killer turns an Irish wedding into an Irish wake. Any wedding is a big deal in the small village of Kilbane–even more so when the bride is a famous fashion model. It’s also good…

The O’Sullivan clan couldn’t be prouder of Siobhan, but there’s no time to celebrate as she’s already on a case, summoned by the local priest to examine the appearance of a dead man in the church graveyard-aboveground. He’s a stranger, but the priest has heard talk of an American tourist in town, searching for his…

A gripping novel in which synthetic humans have become reality and quickly complicate matters of identity, life, and love: Machines Like Me is pure page-turning, thought-provoking Ian McEwan. Set in an alternative 1982 London–where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial…

The gripping chronicle of the rise of Saudi Arabia’s secretive and mercurial new ruler “A rare and penetrating look behind the curtain of the world’s most important family and its dangerous new leader.”–Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling…

An engaging survey of 12 maps from Ancient Greece to Google Earth examines how they have had a profound influence on how the world is seen, revealing how historical geographical depictions were subject to deliberate manipulations to promote a range of special interests. 30,000 first printing.

Zoltan is dying. His devoted but long-suffering sons, Ben and Frank, are trying to prepare themselves and their families for his eventual departure… but they can’t quite bring themselves to believe that the end is really at hand, and neither can Zoltan himself. But as he faces the end of his life, he discovers a…