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The Fortunate Ones: A Novel
The Fortunate Ones: A Novel

Ellen Umansky · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

One very special work of art - a Chaim Soutine painting - will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter...
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Hey Harry, Hey Matilda: A Novel
Hey Harry, Hey Matilda: A Novel

Rachel Hulin · Doubleday
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

Hey Harry, Hey Matilda is the story - told entirely in hilarious emails - of fraternal twins Harry and Matilda Goodman as they fumble into adulthood, telling lies and keeping secrets, and finally confronting their complicated twinship. Matilda Goodman is an underemployed wedding photographer...
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Norse Mythology
Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 293
Format: Print book

Introducing an instant classic -- master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura...
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The Bertie Project
The Bertie Project

Alexander Mccall Smith · Anchor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

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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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My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel
My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel

Sophie Kinsella · The Dial Press
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Part love story, part workplace drama, this sharply observed novel is a witty critique of the false judgments we make in a social-media-obsessed world. New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella has written her most timely novel yet. Everywhere Katie...
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Running: A Novel
Running: A Novel

Cara Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a dark and breathtaking novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that Garth Greenwall calls "a ferocious, brilliant book."Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders...
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Kathleen Rooney · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

"Transporting ... witty, poignant and sparkling." -- People (People Picks Book of the Week) "Prescient and quick....A perfect fusing of subject and writer, idea and ideal." -- Chicago Tribune"Extraordinary ... hilarious ... Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious...
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Lovers and Newcomers: A Novel
Lovers and Newcomers: A Novel

Rosie Thomas · Overlook Press
Pages: 439
Format: Print book

By the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl, the mesmerizing novel of old friends reunited...and torn apart once againRosie Thomas, beloved by readers for her brilliantly realized characters and twisting, page-turning plots, turns her "sharp nib" (Washington Post Book World)...
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The Strays: A Novel
The Strays: A Novel

Emily Bitto · Twelve
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

WINNER OF AUSTRALIA'S 2015 STELLA PRIZEFor readers of Atonement, a powerful and haunting story of three sisters and their friend who grow up on the outskirts of their parents' glamorous bohemian lifestyle. On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous...
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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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The Girl in Green
The Girl in Green

Derek B Miller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

From the author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before 1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from...
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The Mayakovsky Tapes: A Novel
The Mayakovsky Tapes: A Novel

Robert Littell · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure.The ladies, each of whom could...
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Enigma Variations: A Novel
Enigma Variations: A Novel

Andre? Aciman · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A passionate portrait of love's contradictory power, in five illuminating storiesAndre Aciman, who has been called "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York Magazine) , has written a novel that charts the life of Paul whose loves remain as consuming...
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Difficult Women
Difficult Women

Roxane Gay · Grove
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial) . Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives,...
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Small Admissions: A Novel
Small Admissions: A Novel

Amy Poeppel · Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

People's Book of the Week "The Devil Wears Prada meets Primates of Park Avenue." - The New York Times "Perfect for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep." - BOOKLIST Top 6 Books You Need to Read - BuzzFeed Best Books to Give Every Book Lover on Your List - Town and Country...
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Everything Belongs to Us: A Novel
Everything Belongs to Us: A Novel

Yoojin Grace Wuertz · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea's "economic miracle" in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. Seoul, 1978. At South Korea's top university,...
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Miss Jane: A Novel
Miss Jane: A Novel

BRAD WATSON · W W NORTON
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral.Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary...
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Selection Day: A Novel
Selection Day: A Novel

Aravind Adiga · Scribner
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize­-winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming-of-age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves.Manjunath...
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The Japanese Lover: A Novel
The Japanese Lover: A Novel

Isabel Allende · Atria Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

Named one of the most anticipated novels of the year by New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Publishers Weekly, The Huffington Post, and more. From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely...
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The Clairvoyants: A Novel
The Clairvoyants: A Novel

Karen Brown · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical giftOn the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those...
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In the Name of the Family: A Novel
In the Name of the Family: A Novel

Sarah Dunant · Random House
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The author of Blood and Beauty returns with another captivating novel about Renaissance Italy and one of history's most notorious families. Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there was the Borgias. Bestselling novelist Sarah Dunant has long been drawn to the high drama of Renaissance...
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The Winter in Anna: A Novel
The Winter in Anna: A Novel

Reed Karaim · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The story of an unlikely and transformative connection forged between a young journalist and a woman whose past holds a terrible secret.A young man, Eric, drops out of college and lucks into a job with a small-town newspaper where he meets Anna -- a woman whose story will both haunt and inspire...
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The Midnight Cool: A Novel
The Midnight Cool: A Novel

Lydia Peelle · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The Whiting Award - winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops...
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The Seventh Plague: A Sigma Force Novel
The Seventh Plague: A Sigma Force Novel

James Rollins · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

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No Man's Land: A Novel
No Man's Land: A Novel

Simon Tolkien · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme....
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