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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

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Bel Canto Annotated Edition, November 2024
Hardcover
Tom Lake, August 2023
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The Dutch House, October 2019
Hardcover
This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
State of Wonder, June 2011
Hardcover
Binocular Vision, January 2011
Paperback
Run, October 2007
Hardcover
The Best American Series 2006 - Silver Gift Box, November 2006
Trade Size
Bel Canto, August 2005
Paperback

BEL CANTO
By: Ann Patchett

Harper Perennial
August 2005
On Sale: August 1, 2005
352 pages
ISBN: 0060838728
EAN: 9780060838720
Paperback
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Literature and Fiction Literary

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

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