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Love and Ruin: A Novel

PAULA MCLAIN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn - a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937,...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) , comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary...
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Mr. Flood's Last Resort: A Novel

JESS KIDD · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the "supernaturally skillful debut" (Vanity Fair) Himself, a spellbinding romp about a caretaker and a cranky hoarder with a secret - complete with skulking saints, unresolved disappearances, greedy heirs, and a firecracker neighbor determined...
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Welcome to Lagos: A Novel

Chibundu Onuzo · Catapult
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A provocative portrait of a rapidly-changing Nigeria by a "tremendous" young novelist who is "energizing the form." (William Boyd, The Guardian) When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels...
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The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar · Touchstone
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart - a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker - places today's headlines...
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The Elizas: A Novel

Sara Shepard · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard makes her mark on adult fiction with this Hitchcockian double narrative composed of lies, false memories, and a protagonist who must uncover the truth for survival.When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom...
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Country Dark

CHRIS OFFUTT · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction...
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Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s: An American Dream / Why Are We in Vietnam? / The Armies of the Night / Miami and the Siege of Chicago

NORMAN MAILER · Library of America
Pages: 950
Format: Hardcover

Four Mailer classics in one volume for the first time, books that crackle with the creative energy and raw passions of America's most turbulent decadeNo writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary...
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Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

LIONEL SHRIVER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About...
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You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection...
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