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The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel

Christy Lefteri - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. "Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's...
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Abbi Waxman - Berkley
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinThe author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina...
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel

Collins, Sara

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London - a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Rai
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Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. "Beautifully layered and complex . . . I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy...
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Dominicana: A Novel

Angie Cruz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story." -- Sandra Cisneros"An essential read for our times." -- Cristina GarciaFifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes...
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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel

Linda Holmes - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best seller Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today "Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty, relatable, and a little complicated." (People) A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman whos lost her husband and a Major...
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Here and Now and Then

Mike Chen - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere - and any-when ... Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career ... as a time-traveling...
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Hollow Kingdom

Kira Jane Buxton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots) , and enjoying...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestEdith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside...
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Lot

Bryan Washington - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Phenomenal" --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals"Brilliant" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the SunNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Nylon, Huffington Post, AV Club, The MillionsIn the city...
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My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel

Oyinkan Braithwaite - Anchor
Format: Paperback

NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERFINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZEKorede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced...
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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League eliteGalaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school...
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths...
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The Paragon Hotel

LYNDSAY FAYE - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The new and exciting historical thriller by Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and Gods of Gotham, which follows Alice "Nobody" from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's the Paragon Hotel.The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country...
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The Secrets We Kept: A novel

Lara Prescott - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda,...
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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback

Alicia Berensons life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of Londons most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia...
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The Weight of a Piano: A novel

Chris Cander - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin's The OrchardistA tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.In 1962, in the Soviet...
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The Whisper Man: A Novel

Alex North

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**"WORKS BEAUTIFULLY... If you like being terrified, The Whisper Man has your name on it." -- The New York Times, Editor's Pick"SUPERB" -- Publisher's Weekly, Starred Re
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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Sujata Massey - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric...
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