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Maplewood is the kind of town where mornings begin with fresh coffee, familiar faces, and predictable routines.For Clara Bennett, reopening Maplewood Café was supposed to be a fresh start — a return to comfort, community, and quiet small-town life. But when a stranger collapses in her café’s back room, Maplewood’s peaceful rhythm is suddenly broken.As rumors spread and old disagreements resurface, Clara finds herself at the center of a mystery woven through everyday convers...

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Kevin Barry

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two fading Irish gangsters,...

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Kevin Barry

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian • The Economist • Minnesota Star Tribune • The Observer • The Times • and moreA savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana, from award-winning writer Kevin Barry.**October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. ...

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Max Barry

**"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King“Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of WoolStick and stones break bones. Words kill.**...

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Barry Schwartz

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, decision fatigue and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new preface from the author.Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly compl...

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Neesa Bally

A sudden blackout turns into a neighborhood-wide sleepover in this lovely, lyrical picture book about family, community, and how much fun it can be to unplug from technologyFilled with joy and community bonding, Neesa Bally’s lyrical text and Geeta Ladi’s warm and striking art style, this book paints a vivid picture of Trinidadian life while showing that when the lights go out, that’s when the most fun can be had.It happens suddenly—Darkness desc...

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Quan Barry

In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers.Against a background of irresistible 1980s iconography, Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season.Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (...

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Jessica Barry

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019:Entertainment Weekly | USA Today | Parade | Cosmopolitan | New York Post | PopSugar | Goodreads“Jessica Barry’s Freefall is not only an enthralling, impossible-to-put down mystery that keeps the pa...

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Sebastian Barry

**COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE"A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried GiantFrom the five-time Booker Prize nominee Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), comes a powerful new novel o...

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Barry Broadfoot

Hundreds of ordinary Canadians tell their own stories in this book. They tell them in their own words, and the impact is astonishing. As page after page of unforgettable stories rolls by, it is easy to see why this book sold 300,000 copies and why a successful stage play that ran for years was based on them.The stories, and the 52 accompanying photographs, tell of an extraordinary time. One tells how a greedy Maritime landlord ho tried to raise a widow's rent was tarred and gravell...

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Sebastian Barry

**FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“[Barry writes] in language of surpassing beauty. . . . It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish language, a song sung liltingly and plaintively from the top of Ben Bulben into the airy night.” —The New York TimesAn epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the acclaimed author of Old God's Time and The Newer World**Sebastian Barry's novels have been hugely admired by readers and crit...

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Brunonia Barry

**Could a witch hunt happen again in Salem?New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry returns to Salem with this spellbinding new thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction and murder.**When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, wonders if there is a connection between his death and Salem’s most notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed "The Goddess Murders," in which t...