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The Honey Farm: A Novel

HARRIET ALIDA LYE · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Lily King meets Patricia Highsmith in this slyly seductive debut set on an eerily beautiful farm teeming with secrets.The drought has discontented the bees. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But Cynthia knows how to breathe life back into her farm: offer it as an artists'...
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The Dead House: A Novel

Billy O'Callaghan · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the past endures - and sometimes it never lets go.This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital...
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Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel

Blanche M Boyd · Counterpoint
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Revolution of Little Girls and Terminal Velocity concludes her grand survey of political activism twenty years later with her provocative new novel Blanche McCrary Boyd's first novel in twenty years continues the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns....
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Untitled Book 4

RUTH WARE · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel.On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes...
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The High Season: A Novel

Judy Blundell · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a beach town overrun with vacationers and newly colonized by socialites, one woman goes to extreme lengths when the life she loves is upended. The ultimate summer read, this novel of money, class, and family is perfect for fans of Meg Wolitzer, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Cynthia D'Aprix...
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The Glitch: A Novel

ELISABETH COHEN · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled,...
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Tin Man: A Novel

SARAH WINMAN · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"This is an astoundingly beautiful book. It drips with tenderness. It breaks your heart and warms it all at once." --Matt Haig, author of How to Stop TimeFrom the internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all of its forms...
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Go Ask Fannie

Elisabeth Hyde · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A brightly fun and incredibly moving novel about three bickering adult siblings rebuilding their family in the wake of tragedy for readers of The Nest.When their father invites the three Blair siblings home to his New Hampshire farm for a long weekend, Ruth, George, and Lizzie agree to keep...
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A View of the Empire at Sunset: A Novel

Caryl Phillips · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman...
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In the Distance

Herna?n Di?az · Coffee House Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians,...
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