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Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller"This book is my song of the summer." -- Parul Sehgal, The New York Times A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Esquire, The Week, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Bustle, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, and more.One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy...
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Written in the Stars: A Novel

Alexandria Bellefleur - Avon
Format: Paperback

In her debut with nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, Alexandria Bellefleur delivers a charming #ownvoices queer rom-com about a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary until New Year's Eve - with results not even the stars...
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A Beautiful Crime: A Novel

Christopher Bollen - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Destroyers comes another "delicious literary thriller" (People) - a twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con.When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory...
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In At The Deep End

Kate Davies - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love - and pleasure - in all the wrong places (i.e. from men) .. Julia has had enough. Enough of the sex noises her roommate makes. Enough of her dead-end government...
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Fiebre Tropical: A Novel

Juliana Delgado Lopera - Amethyst Editions
Format: Paperback

"Inventive and heady mixture of Spanish and English." - The White Review Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogot, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother...
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Exciting Times: A Novel

Naoise Dolan - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living - and guaranteed to please." - Vogue An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial...
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The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel

Akwaeke Emezi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew?One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family's...
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This Is How It Always Is: A Novel

Laurie Frankel - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." -- Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesThis is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives...
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Less: A Novel

ANDREW SEAN GREER - Lee Boudreaux Books
Format: Hardcover

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review) .WINNER OF THE PULITZER...
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Boyfriend Material

Alexis Hall - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Paperback

Wanted:One (fake) boyfriendPractically perfect in every wayLuc O'Donnell is tangentially -- and reluctantly -- famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's...
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Under the Rainbow: A Novel

Celia Laskey - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions...
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When Katie Met Cassidy

Camille Perri - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women taking the reins--this time, when it comes to love, sex, and self-acceptance.When it comes to Cassidy, Katie can't think straight.Katie Daniels, a twenty-eight-year-old Kentucky...
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Detransition, Baby: A Novel

Torrey Peters - One World
Format: Hardcover

.Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then...
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Honey Girl: A Novel

Morgan Rogers
Format: Paperback(Original)

A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife.With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer...
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies

S J SINDU - SOHO
Format: Print book

Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice...
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Real Life: A Novel

Brandon Taylor - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted...
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