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Shining City: A Novel

Tom Rosenstiel · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A polished and gripping political debut that Michael Connelly calls "an edge of your seat thriller," Shining City is set in DC amid a harrowing Supreme Court nomination fight.

"Amazing. . . . Pulses with momentum. . . . A debut that will be remembered for years."...

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The Wanderers

Meg Howrey · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families...
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All Grown Up

Jami Attenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.

Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea...
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti · The Dial Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.

"A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget." - Richard Russo


Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner...
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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...
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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...
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The Woman on the Stairs: A Novel

Bernhard Schlink · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover. Here, the internationally acclaimed author delivers what his fans have been waiting for since The Reader - a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love.

A brilliant and naïve young...
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The Devil and Webster

Jean Hanff Korelitz · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president and a student protest that mirrors today's campus unrest.

Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing...
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Lisa See · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple.

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine,...
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The Lost Woman

Sara Blædel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Following the incredible success of Sara Blaedel's #1 international bestsellers The Forgotten Girls and The Killing Forest, Louise Rick-head of the police department's elite Special Search Agency charged with missing persons cases-returns in Sara's latest twist-filled suspense...
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The Spy: A novel

Paulo Coelho · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author ofThe AlchemistandAdultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First World...
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The Bertie Project

Alexander McCall Smith · Anchor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Our beloved cast of characters are back, as are the joys and trials of life at 44 Scotland Street in this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully charming series. Bertie's mother, Irene, returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence, her son has been...
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Christodora: A Novel

Tim Murphy · Grove Press
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector,...
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FantasticLand: A Novel

Mike Bockoven · W W Norton
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

When a hurricane of unprecedented size and power broadsides the Florida coast, FantasticLand, a theme park 100 miles from the nearest beach, was waterlogged and cut off from the rest of the world. Through a series of interviews with historians, employees, and those who survived the two-month...
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin · Flatiron Books
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.

In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon,...

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Shoes for Anthony: A Novel

Emma Kennedy · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds...
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My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel

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

When Katie Brenner is fired from her dream job in advertising in London, she's desperate to get away from her mad boss Demeter, and her crush, Alex, who she thought shared her feelings of adoration but didn't. Seeking refuge, she goes home to her father's farm in Somerset to help make her stepmother's...
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On Turpentine Lane

Elinor Lipman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

An endearing romantic comedy from the beloved best-selling author of The Family Man and The View from Penthouse B

At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater....
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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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Always Happy Hour: Stories

Mary Miller · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Brazen and biting stories show Mary Miller reaching new heights following her "beautiful and large-hearted debut" (NPR on The Last Days of California) . Combining hard-edged prose and savage Southern charm, Mary Miller showcases transcendent contemporary talent at its best. With...
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Paris for One and Other Stories

Jojo Moyes · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart.

"A vicarious jolt of Parisian romance. . . Delightful."...
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Minds of Winter

Ed O'Loughlin · Anansi
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers...
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

Heather O'Neill · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington Post

A spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose...
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Freebird: A Novel

Jon Raymond · Graywolf
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A page-turning new novel from the author of Livability, winner of the Oregon Book AwardThe Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal...
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Winter Sky

Chris Stewart · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Lucas is a fighter in the Polish Resistance Movement during World War II. But when he wakes up in the trenches after a long night of being shelled, he finds his ears bloody and his memory gone. All he has left is a torn photograph of a man and woman and a young boy. Could the child be him?...
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