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The Bucket List: A Novel

Georgia Clark · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the critically acclaimed "lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations" (Harper's Bazaar) The Regulars­ comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable...
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Waiting for Eden: A novel

Elliot Ackerman · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives.Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room....
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Crudo: A Novel

OLIVIA LAING · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City."She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue."Kathy...
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French Exit: A Novel

Patrick deWitt · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire...
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Horse: A novel

Talley English · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The haunting debut of a plainspoken, utterly original new voice: a novel about a girl on the cusp of her teenage years, who is growing up faster than she ever hoped she would.When Teagan's father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage...
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Our Homesick Songs

Emma Hooper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love...
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Boomer1: A Novel

Daniel Torday · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Torday is a singular American writer with a big heart and a real love for the world. He has the rare gift for writing dynamic action scenes while being genuinely funny." -- George SaundersBluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld...
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A Lucky Man: Stories

JAMEL BRINKLEY · Graywolf Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

"This is the rare debut that introduces not a promising talent but a major writer, fully formed." -- Garth GreenwellIn the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes...
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Let Me Be Like Water

SK PERRY · Melville House
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

'Intimate, ruthless, tender: this book is like medicine for the soul.' Nina George, author of The Little Paris BookshopA beautifully poignant and poetic debut about love, loss, friendship, and ultimately, starting over.Twenty-something Holly has moved to Brighton to escape. But now that...
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The Wildlands: A Novel

Abby Geni · Counterpoint
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Geni writes with the clear, calm confidence of a master storyteller." -- Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) for The Lightkeepers When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were...
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