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GOOD NIGHT, MR. WODEHOUSE

One of our recommended books is Good Night Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan

Top Ten Book of 2015 in the Wall Street Journal, and Winner of the Midwest Book Awards and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Cape Ann, comes a novel of friendship, survival, and the sustaining bonds between a reader and her most beloved author.

In Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse, Faith Sullivan returns to Harvester, Minnesota—the setting of her bestseller The Cape Ann—to tell the story of Nell Stillman, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary life.

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BLACK RIVER

Long-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

February 2015 Indie Next Title

An ABA's Winter/Spring 2015 Indies Introduce title

One of the Seattle Times's “Best Books of 2015”

Wes Carver returns to his hometown—Black River, Montana—with two things: his wife’s ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release. For years, Wes earned his living as a corrections officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the riot shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music;

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THE JAGUAR’S CHILDREN

From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing.

Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait.

Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar’s phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message Cesar has come so far to deliver.

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DESCENT

A New York Times Bestseller

“A riveting literary thriller of the can’t-stop-turning-the-page, stay-up-all-night variety.” —Alice LaPlante, author of A Circle of Wives

“Outstanding . . . The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone.” —Esquire

“Tim Johnston’s high-wire literary thriller . . . will leave you gasping.” —Vanity Fair

The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college.

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ORHAN’S INHERITANCE

A #1 Indie Next Pick

A Library Journal Editor’s Pick

A B&N Discover Great New Writers Selection

When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather,

who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is

found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan

inherits the decades-old business. But his

grandfather has left the family estate to a stranger

thousands of miles away, Seda, an aging woman in a retirement home in

Los Angeles.

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AFTER I’M GONE

Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I’d Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and daughters he left behind.

When Felix Brewer meets Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July,

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