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Elin Hilderbrand · Little
Pages: 410
Format: Print book

Three romantic rivals. One crowded house. Plenty of room for jealousy. Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe--a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for life--and a passionate dislike of one another....
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City on fire

Garth Risk Hallberg · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 903
Format: Print book

National Best Seller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Vogue, The Atlantic, Newsday"A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power - a novel that attests to its young author's boundless and unflagging talents."...
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Everybody's Fool: A novel

Richard Russo · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 477
Format: Print book

Click Here For the Autographed Copy Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made "Nobody s Fool "(1993) " "a confident, assured novel that] sweeps the reader up, according to the" San Francisco...
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LaRose: A Novel

Louise Erdrich · Harper
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice,...
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Heat and Light: A Novel

Jennifer Haigh · Ecco
Pages: 430
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton...
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Homegoing: A novel

Yaa Gyasi · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

"Homegoing is an inspiration." - Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring...
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The Island House: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

"Soak up the sun with this delightful novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer! Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Courtney has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established university professor, she finds herself...
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June: A Novel

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore · Crown
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

"Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her--her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation... Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary...
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The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel

Karan Mahajan · Viking
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

A "Time" magazine Best Book of 2016 So FarA"New York Times"Editors Choice Wonderful. . . . Smart, devastating, unpredictable, and enviably adept in its handling of tragedy and its fallout. If you enjoy novels that happily disrupt traditional narratives about grief, death,...
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Modern Lovers

Emma Straub · Riverhead Books
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

From the New York Times‒bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college - and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have...
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Zero K

Don DeLillo · Scribner
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time - an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties,...
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The One-in-a-Million Boy

Monica Wood · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen and learn.
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The Veins of the Ocean: A Novel

Patricia Engel · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She writes exquisite moments." - Roxane Gay, The NationReina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community,...
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Last Ride to Graceland

Kim Wright · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Lauded for her "astute and engrossing" (People) writing style imbued with "originality galore" (RT Book Reviews) , Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland...
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History of the Rain: A Novel

Niall Williams · Bloomsbury
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeWe are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told.So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home...
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The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami · Vintage Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST****NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE****WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD**A New York Times Notable BookA Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the YearAn NPR Great Read of 2014A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined...
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We, the drowned

Carsten Jensen; Charlotte Barslund; Emma Ryder · Mariner Books
Pages: 678
Format: Book

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA THRILLING EPIC TALE OF THE SEA "We, the Drowned" sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war s confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alike . . . A gorgeous, unsparing novel....
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The Secrets of Flight: A Novel

Maggie Leffler · William Morrow
Pages: 9
Format: Print book

This captivating, breakout novel - told in alternating viewpoints - brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last.Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life...
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The Fifth Avenue Artists Society: A Novel

Joy Callaway · Harper
Pages: 14
Format: Print book

The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love. When Charlie proposes instead to a woman...
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First Comes Love: A Novel

Emily Giffin · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A pair of sisters find themselves at a crossroads in this dazzling new novel from the author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only. First Comes Love is a story about family, friendship, and the courage to follow your own heart - wherever...
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Vinegar Girl: A Novel

Anne Tyler · Hogarth Shakespeare
Pages: 237
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty...
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The After Party: A Novel

Anton DiSclafani · Riverhead Books
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

"DiSclafani's story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail." - PeopleFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites...
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Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another - a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both...
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The Knockoff: A Novel

Lucy Sykes · Anchor Books
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

As editor in chief of Glossy magazine, Imogen Tate is queen of the fashion world ... until Eve, her conniving twenty-something former assistant, returns from business school with plans to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and re-launch Glossy as an app.Suddenly, the Louboutin...
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Tiny Little Thing

Beatriz Williams · Berkley Books
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Violet Grant returns with the story of another Schuyler sister, a young woman embroiled in politics, passion, and dangerous secrets.... In the summer of 1966, Christina "Tiny" Hardcastle stands on the brink of a breathtaking...
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