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Dragon Springs Road: A Novel
Dragon Springs Road: A Novel

Janie Chang · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century Shanghai - a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan's search for her long-lost mother.That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon...
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The Wicked City: A Novel
The Wicked City: A Novel

Beatriz Williams · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams recreates the New York City of A Certain Age in this deliciously spicy adventure that mixes past and present and centers on a Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper, and a debonair Princetonian...
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The Patriots: A Novel
The Patriots: A Novel

Sana Krasikov · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

A sweeping multigenerational debut novel about idealism, betrayal, and family secrets that takes us from Brooklyn in the 1930s to Soviet Russia to post-Cold War America When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow - and the promise...
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Huck Out West: A Novel
Huck Out West: A Novel

Robert Coover · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

Our leading postmodernist novelist turns his iconoclastic eye to a great American classic in this sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light...
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Leopard at the Door
Leopard at the Door

Jennifer Mcveigh · Putnam
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Set in Kenya against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love. After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed....
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Burning Bright
Burning Bright

Nicholas Petrie · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

"LOTS OF CHARACTERS GET COMPARED TO MY OWN JACK REACHER, BUT PETRIE'S PETER ASH IS THE REAL DEAL." - Lee Child*An Entertainment Weekly Must List PickIn the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, "an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne" (Lincoln...
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Everything You Want Me to Be: A Novel
Everything You Want Me to Be: A Novel

Mindy Mejia · Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront...and she inches closer and closer to her death.High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent...
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The Girl in the Castle: A Novel
The Girl in the Castle: A Novel

Santa Montefiore · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

International sensation Santa Montefiore presents the first book in a trilogy that follows three Irish women through the decades of the twentieth century - perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Hazel Gaynor.Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill is special...
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The Seed Collectors: A Novel
The Seed Collectors: A Novel

Scarlett Thomas · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 396
Format: Print book

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House,...
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Still Here: A Novel
Still Here: A Novel

Lara Vapnyar · Hogarth
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul" In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult,...
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A Perfect Heritage: A Novel
A Perfect Heritage: A Novel

Penny Vincenzi · Overlook Books
Pages: 770
Format: Hardcover

"Vincenzi is poised to fill the gap in the American realm of Cinderella fiction." -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times "The doyenne of the modern blockbuster" (Glamour) returns with her signature writing style and eye for strong characters in A Perfect Heritage. The House...
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Love in a Short White Dress
Love in a Short White Dress

Lauren Weisberger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

"The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always...
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Little Deaths: A Novel
Little Deaths: A Novel

Emma Flint · Hachette Books
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017"Gripping."---Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post"Mesmerizing."---Associated Press It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours...
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Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father
Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father

Sally Gunning · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large print book

From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter--Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph.After the death of her beloved...
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Human Acts: A Novel
Human Acts: A Novel

Han Kang · Hogarth Pr
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From the internationally bestselling author of THE VEGETARIAN, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed....
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Things We Have in Common
Things We Have in Common

Tasha Kavanagh · MIRA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Reader beware: You'll think you know what's happening, and you'll think you see what's coming next ... But you'll be very, very wrong. Fifteen-year-old Yasmin Doner is a social misfit - obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers at school. With her father dead and her mother in a new relationship,...
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Ghosts of Havana
Ghosts of Havana

Todd Moss · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

A timely international thriller by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and bestselling author. When four American sport fishermen stray into Cuban waters and are promptly arrested by Castro's navy, State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker finds himself called in to negotiate...
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The Secrets of Wishtide
The Secrets of Wishtide

Kate Saunders · Bloomsbury
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister...
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All Is Not Forgotten
All Is Not Forgotten

Wendy Walker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama... it is, in a word, unforgettable. " --William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOBIt begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when...
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As Good as Gone: A Novel
As Good as Gone: A Novel

Larry Watson · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth. Calvin Sidey, steely, hardened, with his own personal code, is one of the last cowboys. It's the 1960s,...
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