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The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEMargaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic - and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic...
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The Nobodies: A Novel

Liza Palmer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author." -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the SixCharmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies is a novel about failing but never losing the core of yourself,...
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Waxman, Abbi · Berkley
Pages: 352
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 Hill as she does...
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The Book of Flora

Elison, Meg · 47North
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback

In this Philip K. Dick Award-winning series, one woman's unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered...
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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

Clare, Alys · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

London, 1880. "I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife ... " When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm...
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Cantoras: A novel

Carolina De Robertis · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution - and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again - either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." - Jacqueline Woodson,...
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The Devil's Slave: A Novel

Tracy Borman · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

At the end of The King's Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman's Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil's Slave, Frances is compelled...
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Doxology: A Novel

Nell Zink · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A Recommended Book of 2019 from Vulture and EsquireTwo generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving and original novel from the "intellectually restless, uniquely funny" (New York Times Book Review) mind of Nell ZinkPam, Daniel,...
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The Girl behind the Red Rope

Ted Dekker · Revell
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"In this mind-bending thriller, father-daughter writing team Ted Dekker and Rachelle Dekker triumph in their faultlessly structured and deconstructed world of religious extremism. . . . the book's suspenseful plot drives the story forward at a racing pace, making this a riveting...
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The Grammarians: A Novel

Schine, Cathleen · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.From the author compared to Norah Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new novel celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language. The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne...
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