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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
The Grin of the Dark
Ramsey Campbell
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
Bone Cage
Catherine Banks
The Origin of Species
Nino Ricci
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Christie Blatchford
More to Keep Us Warm
Jacob Scheier
Nikolski
Lazer Lederhendler
The Owl and the Pussycat
Stéphane Jorisch
The Landing
John Ibbitson
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
Michael Holroyd
The Secret Scripture: A Novel
Sebastian Barry
In War Times
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Making Money
Terry Pratchett
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Paula J. Giddings
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman
Home: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
Finding Nouf: A Novel
Zoë Ferraris
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower
Envy the Night
Michael Koryta
Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
Frank Bidart
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Patrick French
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Seth Lerer
The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
Half the World in Light
Juan Felipe Herrera
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon
Nova Swing
M. John Harrison
Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
John Matteson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
Saul Friedlander
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848
Daniel Walker Howe
Generation Loss
Elizabeth Hand
America’s Sproutings
Pat Mora
The Crossroads
Chris Grabenstein
Death of a Cozy Writer
G.M. Malliet
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries
Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Cruelest Month
Louise Penny
What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman
A Thousand Bones
P.J. Parrish
Hardly Knew Her
Laura Lippman
Move Over, Rover!
Karen Beaumont
Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Yuri Rasovsky
Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Yuri Rasovsky
The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Collection 11
Various Authors
The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller
Lee Child, David Corbett, Joseph Finder, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, James Grady, David Hewson, P. J. Parrish, and Jeffery Deaver
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear
Dr. Frank Luntz
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy
L.A. Meyer
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker
More About Paddington
Michael Bond
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert
River Rising
Athol Dickson
Inspired by…The Bible Experience: (Old Testament)
Media Group
Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Denis Johnson
Inspired by…The Bible Experience: (Old Testament)
Media Group
The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
James Lee Burke
Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Yuri Rasovsky
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Fit to Live: The 5-Point Plan to Be Lean, Strong, and Fearless for Life
Pamela Peeke M.D.
Natural Born Charmer
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Malinche: Una Novela
Laura Esquivel
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
The Road Home
Rose Tremain
The People of Paper
Salvador Plascencia
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
What if you Met a Pirate?
Jan Adkins
Once I Ate a Pie
Patricia MacLachlan
New England White
Stephen L. Carter
No Talking
Andrew Clements
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You
Ally Carter
Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Scaredy Squirrel
Melanie Watt
On the Road
Lucy A. Nolan
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Peter Sís
Five Strokes to Midnight
Gary Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway
Gary Braunbeck
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre
Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
Bad Dog, Marley!
John Grogan
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug
Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
Thank You, Bear
Greg Foley
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis
Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
Ashley Bryan
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
Just Henry
Michelle Magorian
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
The Night Tourist
Katherine Marsh
There Is a Bird on Your Head!
Mo Willems
Champ
Marcia Thornton Jones
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!
Mo Willems
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!
Karen Beaumont
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears
Emily Gravett
Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Finding Nouf
Zoë Ferraris
Envy the Night
Michael Koryta
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
Elise Broach
What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman
The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians edited
Roger Sobin
Mistress of the Art of Death
Ariana Franklin
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Laura Amy Schlitz
The Great Man
Kate Christensen
Grave Illusions
Lina Gardiner
Mona Lisa Blossoming
Sunny
The Eternal Rose
Gail Dayton
My Favorite Earthling
Susan Grant
Dead Girls Are Easy
Terri Garey
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis
Empty Ever After
Reed Farrel Coleman
Joe Hill
Heart-Shaped Box
The Midnight Road
Tom Piccirilli