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Beartown: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN · Atria Books
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream - and the price required to make it come true. "You'll love this engrossing novel." - People "Backman is a masterful...
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The Leavers: A Novel

Lisa Ko · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving, and all of that is true, but it's more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading." - Ann Patchett,  author...
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Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone

Phaedra Patrick · Park Row Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Phaedra Patrick's debut novel, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, was hailed as "poignant" and "utterly endearing." Now she returns with Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone, a gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and one man's second chance at happiness. Moonstone for empathy....
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Same Beach, Next Year

DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
Format: Print book

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A Dog's Way Home

W BRUCE CAMERON · Forge Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture!Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother,...
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The Original Ginny Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Ludwig · Park Row Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Ginny Moon is a brilliant debut... I was unable to put the book down ... . This novel has all the elements for critical and popular success!" - Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectSee the world differently.Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your...
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The Best of Adam Sharp

GRAEME SIMSION · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover

"This dazzling story about a former pianist who has a second chance in midlife with his former actress flame will do some major heart-warming this Spring -- and readers will never foresee the incredible ending." -- POPSUGAR"It's a fun sweet ride." -- The Washington...
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Woman No. 17: A Novel

EDAN LEPUCKI · Hogarth
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki's Woman No. 17 "reads like a Hollywood HIlls film noir." - Seattle Times High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she's going to need a hand taking...
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Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Crystal King · Touchstone
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign,...
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Mr. Rochester

SARAH SHOEMAKER · GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A gorgeous, deft literary retelling of Charlotte Bronte's beloved Jane Eyre--through the eyes of the dashing, mysterious Mr. Rochester himself.
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The Stars Are Fire: A novel

Anita Shreve · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based...
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti · The Dial Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most."A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget." - Richard Russo Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living...
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Becoming Bonnie

JENNI WALSH · FORGE
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From debut historical novelist Jenni L. Walsh, Becoming Bonnie is the untold story of how wholesome Bonnelyn Parker became half of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde duo!The summer of 1927 might be the height of the Roaring Twenties, but Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn...
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The Fall of Lisa Bellow

Susan Perabo · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do - when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in an unforgettable...
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Sunshine Girls

JANE GREEN · BERKLEY PUB GROUP
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life. Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver...
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The Forever Summer

JAMIE BRENNER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The discovery of long-buried secrets brings three generations of women together to Cape Cod for the summer homecoming of a lifetime. Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: on the cusp of thirty she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career,...
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Saints for All Occasions: A novel

J Courtney Sullivan · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey...
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The Boy on the Bridge

M. R. Carey · Orbit
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. In The Boy on the Bridge, M. R. Carey returns to the world of his phenomenal...
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Dragon Teeth

MICHAEL CRICHTON · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate...
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The Lucky Ones: A Novel

Julianne Pachico · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A tense and haunting literary jigsaw puzzle in the vein of Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, Julianne Pachico's debut novel, set during the ongoing civil war in Colombia, is a prismatic tale about a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways.
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Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel

Maile Meloy · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing.When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities...
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The Lost Book of the Grail: A Novel

Charlie Lovett · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded...
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The Shark Club

Ann Kidd Taylor · Viking
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

"A delicious summer read." -Redbook A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances - in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then,...
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Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami · Knopf
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation...
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The Garden of Small Beginnings

Abbi Waxman · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance . . . Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years - ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental...
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The Hideaway

Lauren K. Denton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When her grandmother's will wrenches Sara back home from New Orleans, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever did in life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle...
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All the Best People

Sonja Ingrid Yoerg · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

An intricately crafted story of madness, magic and misfortune across three generations from the author of The Middle of Somewhere and House Broken... Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family's auto shop...
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Every Wild Heart: A Novel

Meg Donohue · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 12
Format: Paperback

From USA Today bestselling author Meg Donohue comes a mystery, a love story, and a mother-daughter tale about two women on a precarious journey to uncover their true selves.Passionate and funny, radio personality Gail Gideon is a true original. Nine years ago when Gail's husband announced...
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A Lady in Disguise: A Novel

Sandra Byrd · Howard Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In this intriguing novel of romance, mystery, and clever disguise set in Victorian England, a young woman investigates the murder of her own father.After the mysterious death of her father, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the principal costume designer at the renowned Theatre Royal,...
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Three Sisters, Three Queens

Philippa Gregory · Touchstone
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, the little-known story of three Tudor women who are united in sisterhood and yet compelled to be rivals when they fulfill their destinies as queens.As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other's...
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Treasured Grace

Tracie Peterson · Bethany House
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Tracie Peterson Begins Compelling New Series Set on the 1840s FrontierGrace Martindale has known more than her share of hardship. After her parents died, raising her two younger sisters became her responsibility. A hasty marriage to a minister who is heading to the untamed West seemed like...
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Slightly South of Simple: A Novel

Kristy Woodson Harvey · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the next "major voice in Southern fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes the first in an all-new series chronicling the journeys of three sisters and their mother - and a secret from their past that has the potential to tear them apart and reshape...
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The One True Love of Alice-Ann

Eva Marie Everson · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Living in rural Georgia in 1941, sixteen-year-old Alice-Ann has her heart set on her brother's friend Mack; despite their five-year age gap, Alice-Ann knows she can make Mack see her for the woman she'll become. But when they receive news of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Mack decides...
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The Jane Austen Project: A Novel

Kathleen Flynn · Harper Perennial
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London, 1815: Two travelers...
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