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I'm Fine and Neither Are You

Camille Pagan · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.Honesty is the best policy ... except maybe when it comes to marriage in this brilliant novel about the high price of perfection from bestselling author Camille Pagán.Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all - and barely...
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Among the Lesser Gods: A Novel

Margo Catts · Arcade
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

For fans of authors like Barbara Kingsolver and Leif Enger, a stunning new voice in contemporary literary fiction."Tragedy and blessing. Leave them alone long enough, and it gets real hard to tell them apart." Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally...
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The Last Resort

Marissa Stapley · Graydon House
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"Marissa Stapley's writing is a gift." - Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleThe Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the "last resort" offers a chance for partners...
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt: A Novel

Andrea Bobotis · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere far away.Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer--the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder no one talks about. She knows it's high time to make an inventory of her household...
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The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel

Sejal Badani · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage...
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The Enlightenment of Bees

Rachel Linden
Format: Paperback

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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Abbi Waxman · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinThe author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best...
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The Cactus: A Novel

Sarah Haywood · Park Row
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKInternational Bestseller"Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will love The Cactus." - Red magazineIn this charming and poignant debut, one woman's unconventional journey to finding love means learning to embrace the unexpected.For...
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The Bookshop on the Shore: A Novel

Jenny Colgan · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life...
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We Came Here to Forget: A Novel

Andrea Dunlop · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of She Regrets Nothing, which BuzzFeed called a "sharp, glittering story of wealth, family, and fate," comes a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses everything and escapes to Buenos Aires, where she reinvents herself, meets a colorful group of ex-pats,...
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The Darwin Affair: A Novel

Tim Mason · Algonquin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019 - an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication of On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakable crimes."Keep clear of his blade!" he cried. "Once cut, always...
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The Flatshare: A Novel

Beth O'Leary · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met.After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art.Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers...
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Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Deb Spera · Park Row
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great DepressionIt's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother...
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The Flight Portfolio: A novel

Julie Orringer · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

"Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be" ( - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less) , a new book inspired by the World War II story you've never heard - the real-life quest of an unlikely hero to save the lives and work...
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Montauk: A Novel

Nicola Harrison · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An epic and cinematic novel by debut author Nicola Harrison, Montauk captures the glamour and extravagance of a summer by the sea with the story of a woman torn between the life she chose and the life she desires.Montauk, Long Island, 1938. For three months, this humble fishing village...
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Paris, 7 A.M.

· Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed, award-winning author of A Watch of Nightingales imagines in a sweeping and stunning novel what happened to the poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II.June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young...
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The Gifted School: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively...
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The Glitch: A Novel

ELISABETH COHEN · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled,...
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The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan · Crown
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody - the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite - who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself...
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Honestly, We Meant Well

Grant Ginder · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in." -- Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers...
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The Scent Keeper

Erica Bauermeister · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. Emmeline lives...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era...
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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls: A Novel

Julie Kibler · Crown
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for "fallen girls," and inspired by historical events. In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestEdith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside...
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If You Want to Make God Laugh

Bianca Marais · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries.In a squatter...
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