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The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel

Mikki Brammer - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library.. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful...
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The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

Courtney Walsh - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

She's out to prove that there's no such thing as choosing happiness.Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Bentley likes things just so. Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn't exist in her life - and never will.As a university researcher,...
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No Two Persons: A Novel

Erica Bauermeister - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is "a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives."*. That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't...
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The Sweet Spot: A Novel

Amy Poeppel - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

Amy Poeppel brings her signature "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between.In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby...
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Tom Lake: A Novel

Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers."Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." - The GuardianIn the spring of 2020, Lara's three...
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The Wishing Game: A Novel

Meg Shaffer - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner's life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.. "Meg...
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Romance

Hello Stranger: A Novel

Katherine Center - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Love isn't blind, it's just little blurry.. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she's celebrating the biggest achievement of her life - placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition - the next she's lying in a hospital...
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Love, Holly: A Novel

Emily Stone - Dell
Format: Paperback

A young woman tries to heal a rift in her elderly pen pal's family in time for Christmas, all while falling in love - and maybe even reuniting with her own family - in this dazzling romance from the author of Always, in December and One Last Gift. Sometimes it takes a stranger to bring...
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Practice Makes Perfect: A Novel

Sarah Adams - Dell
Format: Paperback

When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends to lovers romance begins to bloom - from the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet.Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match-someone who nicely...
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Romantic Comedy: A Novel

Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on all her assumptions - a hilarious, observant and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep. Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night...
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Romantasy

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)

Rebecca Yarros - Entangled: Red Tower Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon...

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The Hanging City

Charlie N. Holmberg - 47North
Format: Hardcover

For a young woman who wields the power of fear, humanity's greatest enemy is her only hope in a new romantic, adventure-filled fantasy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.Seven years on the run from her abusive father, and with no hope of sanctuary...
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Fantasy

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A Novel

Shannon Chakraborty - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory - and write her own legend.Amina...
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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend...
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Tress of the Emerald Sea

Brandon Sanderson - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe with a rollicking, riveting tale that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride.. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple...
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The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel

Adrienne Young - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A woman risks everything to end her family's centuries-old curse, solve her mother's disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting.. In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting...
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Mystery/Thriller

Bright Young Women: A Novel

Jessica Knoll - S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and #1 Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive comes an extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree.. January 1978. A serial killer has terrorized women...
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Happiness Falls: A Novel

Angie Kim - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another - both a riveting page-turner and a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek.. "Brilliant, immersive,...
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Homecoming: A Novel

Kate Morton - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping saga with a thrilling mystery at its heart tracing a shocking crime whose effects echo across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching...
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I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel

Rebecca Makkai - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great BelieversA successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past - the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire...
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The River We Remember: A Novel

William Kent Krueger - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "expansive, atmospheric American saga" (Entertainment Weekly) This Tender...
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady - ah, lady of a certain age - who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle...
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Historical Fiction

Banyan Moon: A Novel

Thao Thai - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother,...
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Go as a River: A Novel

Shelley Read - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A riveting and deeply moving debut - a love story in the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing - that is both a stunning exploration of the natural world and an unforgettable coming-of-age novel.Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family's peach...
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The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation.. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette...
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea: A Novel

Patti Callahan Henry - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this "transporting, heartfelt, and atmospheric" (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York...
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7

Beth Brower - Rhysdon Press
Format: Paperback

"The image of Pandora's Box being opened by my own hand flashed across my mind. A sobering and somewhat disappointing realisation when one understands they are their own worst enemy. ". The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden...
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Weyward: A Novel

Emilia Hart - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"A spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft."--Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost ApothecaryI am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle...
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