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Days Without End
Sebastian Barry - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE"A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making." - Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains... |
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The Best Bad Things: A Novel
Katrina Marie Carrasco - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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"A brazen, brawny, sexy standout of a historical thrill ride, The Best Bad Things is full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco's debut will leave you thirsty for more." -- Lyndsay... |
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The Gods of Tango: A novel
Carolina De Robertis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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February 1913. Seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been... |
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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOMIn an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city... |
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Hild: A Novel
Nicola Griffith - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: HildIn seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king's... |
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The Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Every once in a while, a modern day parable, perfectly told, reflects all that could happen in a world gone mad."-Adriana Trigiani Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm.... |
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The Animals at Lockwood Manor
Jane Healey - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.In August 1939,... |
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As Meat Loves Salt
Maria McCann - Harvest Books
Format: Paperback
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In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror. Jacob Cullen and his fellow soldiers dream of rebuilding their lives when the fighting is over. But the shattering events... |
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Dancer: A Novel
Colum McCann - Metropolitan Books; 1st edition
Format: Book
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From the acclaimed author of This Side of Brightness, the epic life and times of Rudolf Nureyev, reimagined in a dazzlingly inventive masterpiece-published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Nureyev's deathA Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile... |
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The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Madeline Miller - Ecco; 37696th edition
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Bestseller"At once a scholars homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art ... .A book I could not put down." - Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseA thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan... |
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Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria.... |
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Riveting, heart-wrenching, and full of Old Hollywood glamour, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of the most captivating reads of 2017." - BuzzFeed "The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmerized.... |
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Fire from heaven
Mary Renault - Open Road Integrated Media
Format: eBook
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"Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity,... |
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Confessions of the Fox: A Novel
Jordy Rosenberg - One World
Format: Hardcover
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Set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures, this daring and genre-bending debut tells a profound story of love, desire, and liberation. Jack Sheppard and his partner in crime Bess captured the imagination of eighteenth-century London with their exploits... |
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The Night Watch
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A wonderful novelWaters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of characterChicago Tribune Moving back through the s through air raids blacked-out streets illicit partying and sexual adventure to end with its beginning in The Night Watch tells the story of four... |
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The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless" (The Economist) , "seductive" (Vanity... |
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