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BEAUTIFUL RUINS
by Jess Walter
Ruins both emotional and architectural, in Italy, Hollywood and elsewhere, figure in this sweeping novel. 
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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
by E L James
An inexperienced college student falls in love with a tortured man who has particular sexual tastes; the first book in a trilogy.
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WORLD WAR Z
by Max Brooks
An “oral history” of an imagined Zombie War that nearly destroys civilization.
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BRING UP THE BODIES
by Hilary Mantel
In this sequel to “Wolf Hall,” Thomas Cromwell conspires against Anne Boleyn, who has failed to give Henry VIII a son; winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
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THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
by M L Stedman
An Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife decide to keep a baby who has washed ashore. 
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WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
by Maria Semple
A teenage daughter compiles e-mails, official documents and secret correspondence in an effort to find her eccentric mother. 
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LIFE OF PI
by Yann Martel
An allegory on the high seas, in which a teenage boy and a 450-pound tiger are thrown together in a lifeboat after a shipwreck.
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FIFTY SHADES DARKER
by E L James
Daunted by Christian’s dark secrets, Anastasia ends their relationship — but desire still dominates her every thought; the second book in a trilogy.
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FIFTY SHADES FREED
by E L James
Reunited, Anastasia and Christian face a world of possibilities, and unexpected challenges; the final volume in a trilogy.
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THE BLACK BOX
by Michael Connelly
In a case that spans 20 years, the Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch links a recent crime to the killing of a photographer amid the 1992 race riots.
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THE ALCHEMIST
by Paulo Coelho
In this fable, a Spanish shepherd boy ventures to Egypt in search of treasure and his destiny.
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THE WITNESS
by Nora Roberts
A woman hides from the Russian mob in the Ozarks, but her sharp mind and secretive nature attract the attention of the local police chief. 
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DARK PLACES
by Gillian Flynn
A woman who, as a child, was spared when her mother and sisters were murdered begins to reinvestigate the case against her imprisoned brother. The results are surprising.
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THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON
by Adam Johnson
In a series of picaresque adventures, a young North Korean navigates the country’s repressive hierarchy; a 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner.
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A GAME OF THRONES
by George R R Martin
In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering; Book 1 of “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
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THE PARIS WIFE
by Paula McLain
Hadley Richardson comes into her own as Ernest Hemingway’s long-suffering first wife in this novel, which chronicles their five-year marriage, much of it spent among aspiring writers in Paris.
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THE FORGOTTEN
by David Baldacci
A special agent with the United States Army investigates his aunt’s mysterious death in a picture-perfect town on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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THE HARBINGER
by Jonathan Cahn
A man tells of his encounters with a mysterious figure who has given him a series of messages that hold the secret of America’s future.
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THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
by Matthew Quick
After spending time in a mental institution, Pat Peoples has two obsessions — his ex-wife and the Philadelphia Eagles.
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SHARP OBJECTS
by Gillian Flynn
Fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital, a newspaper reporter returns (reluctantly) to her hometown to cover the murders of two girls.
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