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The Boy at the Keyhole: A Novel

Stephen Giles · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping...
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Brother

DAVID CHARIANDY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991.WINNER OF THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMichael and Francis are coming...
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Flight or Fright

Stephen King · Cemetery Dance Pubns
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King hates to fly.Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed...
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Listen to the Marriage: A Novel

John Jay Osborn · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A riveting drama of marital therapyGretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely...
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His Favorites

KATE WALBERT · Scribner
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women, a timely and propulsive novel about a teenaged girl, a beloved English teacher, and his dark, open secret.It seemed harmless enough. They were having fun, three teenaged girls speeding...
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How Are You Going to Save Yourself

JM HOLMES · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"JM Holmes is not just a new voice but a new force: honest, urgent, compelling, often hilarious, and more often gut-wrenching. Comparisons to Junot Díaz and Denis Johnson are perhaps inevitable, but I imagine they'll prove short-lived; in a few years we'll be comparing writers...
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Gateway to the Moon: A Novel

Mary Morris · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies...
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Bitter Orange

CLAIRE FULLER · Tin House Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico...
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Putney: A Novel

SOFKA ZINOVIEFF · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A provocative and absorbing novel about a teenage girl's intoxicating romance with a powerful older man and her discovery, decades later, that her happy memories are hiding a painful truth. A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached...
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November Road: A Novel

LOU BERNEY · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America - a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway...
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