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Love and Ruin: A Novel

PAULA MCLAIN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn - a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937,...
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The Tuscan Child

Rhys Bowen · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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Promise: A Novel

MINROSE GWIN · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful...
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Warlight: A novel

Michael Ondaatje · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their...
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Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

Sara Ackerman · MIRA
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

When her husband mysteriously disappears and rumors swirl about his loyalties, a mother must rely on the remarkable power of friendship in war-torn HawaiiIt's 1944, combat in the Pacific is intensifying, and Violet Iverson and her daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives back together one year...
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A Time of Love and Tartan

Alexander McCall Smith · Anchor
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series.When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow....
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Elmet

Fiona Mozley · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "Elmet is a quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable." - The Economist"Mozley is the breakout star of this year's Man Booker Prize longlist. And with good reason: Elmet, with its rugged landscape, violence and high...
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Other People's Houses

Abbi Waxman · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinAnd now the author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes...
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The Book of Polly: A Novel

Kathy Hepinstall · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"Delightful. . . funny and poignant." --PeopleWith a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother"If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher...
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The First Family

DANIEL PALMER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352

A riveting new medical thriller from the critically acclaimed novelists. Cam Hilliard is, in addition to being the President's sixteen-year-old son, a chess prodigy. A year into President Hilliard's second term Cam inexplicably stops playing the game he loved and becomes withdrawn. The First...
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That Kind of Mother: A Novel

RUMAAN ALAM · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance...
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Send Down the Rain: New from the author of The Mountain Between Us and the New York Times bestseller Where the River Ends

Charles Martin · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes a new, spellbinding story of buried secrets, lost love, and the promise of second chances.Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast when she loses...
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