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I'm Fine and Neither Are You

Camille Pagan · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.Honesty is the best policy ... except maybe when it comes to marriage in this brilliant novel about the high price of perfection from bestselling author Camille Pagán.Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all - and barely...
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Among the Lesser Gods: A Novel

Margo Catts · Arcade
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

For fans of authors like Barbara Kingsolver and Leif Enger, a stunning new voice in contemporary literary fiction."Tragedy and blessing. Leave them alone long enough, and it gets real hard to tell them apart." Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally...
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The Last Resort

Marissa Stapley · Graydon House
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"Marissa Stapley's writing is a gift." - Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleThe Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the "last resort" offers a chance for partners...
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt: A Novel

Andrea Bobotis · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere far away.Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer--the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder no one talks about. She knows it's high time to make an inventory of her household...
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The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel

Sejal Badani · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage...
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The Flight Portfolio: A novel

Julie Orringer · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

"Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be" ( - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less) , a new book inspired by the World War II story you've never heard - the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era...
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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls: A Novel

Julie Kibler · Crown
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events. In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestEdith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside...
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If You Want to Make God Laugh

Bianca Marais · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries.In a squatter...
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