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Perfect Little World: A Novel
Perfect Little World: A Novel

Kevin Wilson · Ecco
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Kevin Wilson's anticipated follow-up to The Family Fang, Perfect Little World is a warm-hearted and emotional story about a young woman charting her own course."[A] moving novel about love, parenting, and the families we create for ourselves." - Library Journal When Isabelle...
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!" As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town...
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Swimming Lessons
Swimming Lessons

Ruth Gilligan · Tin House Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book

"Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband Gil about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind...
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Imagine Me Gone
Imagine Me Gone

Adam Haslett · Little
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Haslett is one of the country's most talented writers, equipped with a sixth sense for characterization."--Wall Street Journal"Ambitious and stirring . . . With Imagine Me Gone, Haslett has reached another level." --New York...
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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth: A Novel
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth: A Novel

Lindsey Lee Johnson · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this captivating debut novel.The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local...
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Pachinko
Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose...
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A Piece of the World: A Novel
A Piece of the World: A Novel

Christina Baker Kline · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World. "Later he told me that he'd been afraid to show me the painting....
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Setting Free the Kites
Setting Free the Kites

Alex George · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976,...
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The Dinner
The Dinner

Herman Koch · Hogarth; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A European Gone Girl. —The Wall Street JournalAn internationally bestselling phenomenon the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal.Its a summers evening in Amsterdam, and two couples...
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