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Us Against You: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times) , a heart-wrenching story...
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Unti Frank #13

DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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The Queen of Hearts

Kimmery Martin · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel set against a background of hospital rounds and life-or-death decisions that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness...Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious...
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All the Beautiful Girls: A Novel

ELIZABETH J CHURCH · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas - and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. It was unimaginable. When she was eight years old, Lily Decker somehow survived the auto accident that killed her parents and sister,...
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The Boat People: A Novel

Sharon Bala · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorismWhen a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow...
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When Life Gives You Lululemons

Lauren Weisberger · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada - Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who's just landed the client of a lifetime.Welcome...
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The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely...
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The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar · Touchstone
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart - a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker - places today's headlines in the sweep...
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How to Walk Away: A Novel

Katherine Center · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner....
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The Abbot's Tale: A Novel

CONN IGGULDEN · Pegasus Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling Conn Iggulden comes a new novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne. In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream...
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Adjustment Day: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.Adjustment Day, the author's...
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Before and Again

Barbara Delinsky · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, a brand-new novel about a woman in hiding finding the courage to face the world again.Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road for just a moment but the resulting collision was enough to rob her not only of her beloved...
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Little Big Love

Katy Regan · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

About a Boy meets Parenthood in this smart, big-hearted love story about a family for whom everything changed one night, a decade ago, and the young boy who unites them all.Ten-year-old Zac Hutchinson collects facts: octopuses have three hearts, Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth. But no one will...
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A Place for Us: A Novel

FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA · SJP for Hogarth
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belongingA Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate...
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The Perfect Couple

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. It's wedding season on Nantucket. The beautiful island is overrun with summer people--an annual source of aggravation for year-round...
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Where the Yellow Violets Grow: : A WWII Sweet Romance

D L Gardner · Dianne Lynn Gardner
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback

Petworth, England 1944. First Lieutenant Janet Castner is assigned to a small hospital unit when Operation Overload begins. Amid the turbulence of nursing the critically wounded GIs arriving from Normandy, her arrogant commanding officer takes her aside and asserts his love for her. Passions...
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How Hard Can It Be?

ALLISON PEARSON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Washington Post) and "a hysterical look -- in both the laughing...
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The High Season: A Novel

Judy Blundell · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In a beach town overrun with vacationers and newly colonized by socialites, one woman goes to extreme lengths when the life she loves is upended. The ultimate summer read, this novel of money, class, and family is perfect for fans of Meg Wolitzer, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Cynthia D'Aprix...
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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional...
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Little Disasters

Randall Klein · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A gripping novel about two young married couples--expectant parents and new friends--whose lives collide in a pile-up of deceits and indiscretionsIt was the exhilaration of new parenthood that first united Michael and Paul, outside the Brooklyn hospital where their wives, Rebecca and Jenny,...
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The Summer I Met Jack: A Novel

Michelle Gable · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark - and the child they may have had.Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families...
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There There: A novel

Tommy Orange · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start...
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Visible Empire

Hannah Pittard · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel - based on true events - of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post) It's a humid summer...
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A Nantucket Wedding: A Novel

NANCY THAYER · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new romances are blooming--for better or for worse--in a standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer.It's summer on Nantucket and Alison is finally engaged to the love of her life....
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You Me Everything

Catherine Isaac · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Set in the French countryside on an idyllic summer vacation, a delicious, tender novel about finding every bit of joy in life no matter what's thrown at usSick of his lies, cheating ways, and complete lack of interest in fatherhood, Jessica left her boyfriend, Adam, only months after she gave...
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The Book of Essie: A novel

Meghan MacLean Weir · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.Esther...
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Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata · Grove Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable...
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Forty Rooms

Olga Grushin · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating....
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High Tide Club

MARY KAY ANDREWS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Weekenders comes a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations.When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000...
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The Scribe of Siena

Melodie Winawer · Touchstone Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Will remind historical fiction readers of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring... Lovers of meticulously researched historical fiction and time-travel narratives will be swept away by the spell of medieval Siena" (Library Journal, starred...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) , comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary...
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The Female Persuasion: A Novel

Meg Wolitzer · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romantic ideals we all follow deep into adulthood, not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be.To be admired by someone...
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You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection...
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My Oxford Year: A Novel

JULIA WHELAN · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Major Motion Picture Already in Development with Temple Hill EntertainmentSet amidst the breathtaking beauty of Oxford, this sparkling debut novel tells the unforgettable story about a determined young woman eager to make her mark in the world and the handsome man who introduces her to an incredible...
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The Ensemble: A Novel

Aja Gabel · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn't needed each other....
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No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel

Stephanie Powell Watts · Ecco
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

*THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR BOOK CLUB CENTRAL*CHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BYThe Wall Street Journal * The Washington Post * The Seattle TimesNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 BY Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle * Redbook * W Magazine * The Chicago...
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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel

EMILY GIFFIN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Two very different families collide in the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, The One & Only, and First Comes Love. When scandal threatens your loved ones, how far would you go to protect them?Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying...
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Two Steps Forward

GRAEME SIMSION · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A story of mid-life and second chances from Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, and his wife Anne BuistSoon to be a film produced by Ellen DeGeneresTwo misfits walk 2,000 kilometres along the Camino de Santiago to find themselves and, perhaps, each other along the way.Zoe, a sometime...
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