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Nine Perfect Strangers

LIANE MORIARTY · Flatiron Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesCould ten days at a health resort really change you forever? In Liane Moriarty's latest page-turner, nine perfect strangers are about to find out...Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight,...
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The Noel Stranger

RICHARD PAUL EVANS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From "The King of Christmas," Richard Paul Evans, the next exciting holiday-themed novel in his New York Times bestselling The Noel Collection.Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy, and her subsequent...
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Pieces of Happiness

Anne Ostby · Anchor
Pages: 299
Format: Paperback

When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail with the same proposal, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat - Kat the adventurer, Kat who ran away to travel the world as soon as they graduated - has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live...
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

HAZEL GAYNOR · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years."They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary...
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Night of Miracles: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A delightful novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life, from the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend...
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Everything She Didn't Say

JANE KIRKPATRICK · Revell
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDRE III DUBUS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel she cannot...
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Killing Commendatore: A novel

HARUKI MURAKAMI · Knopf
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - and a stunning...
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The Kinship of Secrets

Eugenia Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous achievement." - Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them...
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Little: A Novel

Edward Carey · Riverhead Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents,...
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Welcome to Paradise

ELIN HILDERBRAND · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Spend the coldest days of winter on a Caribbean beach with New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Join New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand on the stunning beaches of St. John for the beginning of her thrilling new winter series-The Paradise. Welcome to Paradise,...
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A Mother's Goodbye: A gripping emotional page turner about adoption and a mother's love

Kate Hewitt · Bookouture
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

'My arms ache with the need to reach and hold my precious child, and then to never let go. But I can't. I know I can't.' Heather is devastated. There's no way she can keep her baby. She can barely pay the bills as it is. But when she meets Grace, a wealthy, single career...
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Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India

Anne George · Anne George Books, LLC
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback

The year is 1857. The British, having colonized India, have ruled her for a hundred years. The East India Company manages the business of governance, but not necessarily with a view to protecting the best interests of the people of India. The British who were born and reared in India see themselves...
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Fire and Steel, Volume 5: Out of the Smoke

Gerald N. Lund · Deseret Book
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In Volume 5 of the Fire and Steel saga, the Eckhardt and the Westland families move into one of the most turbulent times in history. Facing tectonic shifts like few generations have ever seen, they are caught up in a whirlwind that will permanently and profoundly alter their lives.Mired...
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The Adults

Caroline Hulse · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A couple, now separated. Their daughter. Their new partners. One epic Christmas vacation. What could go wrong? This razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The Holiday.Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide that...
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Tony's Wife: A Novel

ADRIANA TRIGIANI · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities...
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