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The Editor

Steven Rowley · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny, poignant, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever--both as a writer and a son.After years of struggling as a writer in 1990s New York City, James...
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The Last Romantics: A Novel

TARA CONKLIN · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Tara Conklin is a generous writer who deftly brings us into the world of this fictional family, an engrossing and vivid place where I was happy to stay. The Last Romantics is a richly observed novel, both ambitious and welcoming." -- Meg WolitzerThe New York Times bestselling...
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When We Left Cuba

Chanel Cleeton · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life--and heart--to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress...
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Lost Roses: A Novel

MARTHA HALL KELLY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow...
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Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking." - Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Beautifully written. . . . Full of insight into the nature of tragedy, love, and redemption." --Garth SteinA gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant...
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Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida...
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