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Kim is a book, food, and cat lover whose favorite genres are mystery/thrillers, literary fiction, cookbooks, food writing, and memoirs.

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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Cover Image

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780385348713
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown - February 25th, 2020
Apeirogon: A Novel Cover Image

Apeirogon: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Colum McCann
$28.00
ISBN: 9781400069606
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House - February 25th, 2020
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird Cover Image

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird (Hardcover)

By Joshua Hammer
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501191886
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster - February 11th, 2020
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Weather: A novel Cover Image

Weather: A novel (Hardcover)

By Jenny Offill
$23.95
ISBN: 9780385351102
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Knopf - February 11th, 2020
A Burning: A novel Cover Image

A Burning: A novel (Hardcover)

By Megha Majumdar
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525658696
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Published: Knopf - June 2nd, 2020
We Begin at the End Cover Image

We Begin at the End (Hardcover)

By Chris Whitaker
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250759665
Availability: Not Yet Published
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - March 9th, 2021
The Night Tiger: A Novel Cover Image

The Night Tiger: A Novel (Paperback)

By Yangsze Choo
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250175465
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Flatiron Books - January 7th, 2020
Pretty as a Picture: A Novel Cover Image

Pretty as a Picture: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Little
$27.00
ISBN: 9780670016396
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Viking - February 25th, 2020
Firewatching (A Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler Novel #1) Cover Image

Firewatching (A Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler Novel #1) (Hardcover)

By Russ Thomas
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525542025
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - February 25th, 2020
Long Bright River: A Novel Cover Image

Long Bright River: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Liz Moore
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525540670
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - January 7th, 2020
Your House Will Pay: A Novel Cover Image

Your House Will Pay: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Steph Cha
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062868855
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ecco - October 15th, 2019
A Dangerous Man (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel #18) Cover Image

A Dangerous Man (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel #18) (Paperback)

By Robert Crais
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525535690
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - February 4th, 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey Cover Image

Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Hardcover)

By Robert Macfarlane
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393242140
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 4th, 2019
The World That We Knew: A Novel Cover Image

The World That We Knew: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Alice Hoffman
$27.99
ISBN: 9781501137570
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster - September 24th, 2019
The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel Cover Image

The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel (Hardcover)

By J. Ryan Stradal
$26.00
ISBN: 9780399563058
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - July 23rd, 2019
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Conviction (Paperback)

By Denise Mina
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316528498
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mulholland Books - April 14th, 2020
Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) Cover Image

Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

By Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest Williams (Introduction by), T.H. Watkins (Afterword by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780375759314
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Published: Modern Library - April 9th, 2002
The Swallows: A Novel Cover Image

The Swallows: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lisa Lutz
$27.00
ISBN: 9781984818232
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ballantine Books - August 13th, 2019
Heaven, My Home (A Highway 59 Mystery #2) Cover Image

Heaven, My Home (A Highway 59 Mystery #2) (Hardcover)

By Attica Locke
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316363402
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Published: Mulholland Books - September 17th, 2019
Thirteen: The Serial Killer Isn't on Trial. He's on the Jury. (Eddie Flynn #3) Cover Image

Thirteen: The Serial Killer Isn't on Trial. He's on the Jury. (Eddie Flynn #3) (Mass Market)

By Steve Cavanagh
$9.99
ISBN: 9781250297624
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Flatiron Books - April 28th, 2020
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel Cover Image

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel (Hardcover)

By Colson Whitehead
$24.95
ISBN: 9780385537070
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Published: Doubleday - July 16th, 2019
The Black Jersey: A Novel Cover Image

The Black Jersey: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Achy Obejas (Translated by)
$27.00
ISBN: 9781984801067
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Published: Random House - June 25th, 2019
Joe Country (Slough House #6) Cover Image

Joe Country (Slough House #6) (Hardcover)

By Mick Herron
$26.95
ISBN: 9781641290555
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Published: Soho Crime - June 11th, 2019
City of Girls: A Novel Cover Image

City of Girls: A Novel (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Gilbert
$17.00
ISBN: 9781594634741
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - April 7th, 2020
The Recipe: Classic dishes for the home cook from the world's best chefs Cover Image

The Recipe: Classic dishes for the home cook from the world's best chefs (Hardcover)

By Josh Emett, Kieran E. Scott (Photographs by)
$40.00
ISBN: 9780847863464
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Published: Rizzoli - May 28th, 2019
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook Cover Image

Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Jose Andres, Matt Goulding
$39.99
ISBN: 9780062668387
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anthony Bourdain/Ecco - May 21st, 2019
If She Wakes Cover Image

If She Wakes (Paperback)

By Michael Koryta
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316293976
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Back Bay Books - March 24th, 2020
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir Cover Image

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Paperback)

By Ruth Reichl
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812982381
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 5th, 2020
The Other Americans: A Novel Cover Image

The Other Americans: A Novel (Paperback)

By Laila Lalami
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525436034
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Published: Vintage - March 17th, 2020
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My Lovely Wife (Paperback)

By Samantha Downing
$16.00
ISBN: 9780451491732
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Published: Berkley - March 3rd, 2020
Gingerbread: A Novel Cover Image

Gingerbread: A Novel (Paperback)

By Helen Oyeyemi
$17.00
ISBN: 9781594634666
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 3rd, 2020
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon Cover Image

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon (Paperback)

By Joshua D. Mezrich
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062656216
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Published: Harper Perennial - January 7th, 2020
The Far Field Cover Image

The Far Field (Paperback)

By Madhuri Vijay
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802147967
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Published: Grove Press - October 15th, 2019
The Sandman: A novel (Joona Linna #4) Cover Image

The Sandman: A novel (Joona Linna #4) (Paperback)

By Lars Kepler
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525433057
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - January 8th, 2019
Once Upon a River: A Novel Cover Image

Once Upon a River: A Novel (Paperback)

By Diane Setterfield
$17.00
ISBN: 9780743298087
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Atria/Emily Bestler Books - July 2nd, 2019
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hardcover)

By Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translated by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780451491336
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Published: Berkley - October 23rd, 2018
Days Without End: A Novel Cover Image

Days Without End: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sebastian Barry
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143111405
Availability: Backordered
Published: Penguin Books - September 12th, 2017
H Is for Hawk Cover Image

H Is for Hawk (Paperback)

By Helen MacDonald
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802124739
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grove Press - March 8th, 2016