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War Cry: A Courtney Family Novel

Wilbur Smith · William Morrow
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The saga of the legendary Courtney family continues in this fourteenth installment in Wilbur Smith's bestselling series - the sequel to 2009's Assegai - a thrilling tale of espionage, adventure, and danger, set in Africa and spanning from the Great War's end to the dark days of World War II.As...
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The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova · Ballantine Books
Pages: 478
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present - and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve...
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One Good Thing

Wendy Wax · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of Sunshine Beach, a story of four women trying to rebuild more than their lives... Before you can fix it up, you might have to tear it down... Embroiled in a battle to regain control of their renovation-turned-reality TV show, Do Over, Maddie,...
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Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout comes a brilliant latticework of fiction that recalls Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity. Written in tandem with My Name Is Lucy Barton and drawing on the small-town characters...
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The Underworld: A Novel

Kevin Canty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Russell Banks and Richard Ford, a novel about loss, love, and redemption following a catastrophe in a small mining town. In The Underworld, Kevin Canty tells a story inspired by the facts of a disastrous fire that took place in an isolated silver mining town in Idaho in the 1970s,...
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The Confessions of Young Nero

Margaret George · Berkley
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history. Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next...
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Exit West: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future ... At once terrifying and ... oddly hopeful." -Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review"A breathtaking novel ... [that] arrives at an urgent time."...
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The Gun Room

Georgina Harding · Bloomsbury
Pages: 211
Format: Print book

Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that...
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A Piece of the World: A Novel

Christina Baker Kline · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World. "Later he told me that he'd been afraid to show me the painting....
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Blossom: Book One of The Blossom Trilogy

Christopher Lentz · Christopher Lentz
Format: Print book

1906, San Francisco: On the brink of one of Mother Nature's cruelest and most destructive tricks, lovers unite as the earth rips apart ... Combine an epic disaster with a scandalous love triangle, and the romantic result is Blossom. Chinatown fortune-cookie maker Blossom Sun is far from...
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Tell Me How This Ends Well: A Novel

David Samuel Levinson · Hogarth Pr
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

An ambitious, gripping, darkly funny family drama about the reckoning of three adult siblings with their profoundly flawed parents, set during Passover in a near-future America rife with anti-Semitism and terror, from an award-winning short-story writer
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The Barrowfields: A Novel

Phillip Lewis · Hogarth Pr
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fictionJust before Henry Aster's birth, his father - outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow - reluctantly returns...
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Stolen Beauty: A Novel

Laurie Lico Albanese · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings.In...
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High Stakes

FERN MICHAELS · KENSINGTON PUB CORP
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world... Investigative reporter...
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The Assistants

Camille Perri · G. P. Putnams's Sons
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

The debut novel that J. Courtney Sullivan calls "addictive, hilarious, and smart. It's "9 to 5 for the student loan generation" and Publishers Weekly describes as "if the characters from HBO's Girls were capable of larceny and blackmail." Rule #1: All important...
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As close to us as breathing

Elizabeth Poliner · Lee Boudreaux Books
Pages: 358
Format: Print book

A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones) .In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long...
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Music of the Ghosts

Vaddey Ratner · Touchstone
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of In the Shadow of the Banyan comes a novel about a young woman who returns to her homeland after receiving a letter from a mysterious man who claims to have known her father before he disappeared in the Cambodian holocaust.Teera,...
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti · Random House Large Print
Pages: 768
Format: Large print book

A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past - and the truth about her mother's death - in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts....
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The General's Women: A Novel

Susan Wittig Albert · Levine Greenberg Literary Agency, Inc.
Pages: 412
Format: Hardcover

Set during the chaotic years of World War II, The General's Women tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war....
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A Line Made by Walking

Sara Baume · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland.Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family's...
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Marlena: A Novel

Julie Buntin · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

The story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decadesEverything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn...
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An Almond for a Parrot

Wray Delaney · Mira Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble - an innocent victim led astray. But alas, sir, I would be lying ... In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets...
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The Arrangement: A Novel

Sarah Dunn · Little
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong? Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley...
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Our Short History: A Novel

Lauren Grodstein · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it's bigger - and stronger - than before." - Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You How can a woman learn to let go of the people she loves the most? Karen Neulander, a successful...
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The Railwayman's Wife: A Novel

Ashley Hay · Atria Books
Pages: 269
Format: Print book

For fans of The Light Between Oceans, this "exquisitely written, true book of wonders" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) explores the aftermath of World War II in an Australian seaside town, and the mysterious poem that changes the lives of those who encounter...
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Barkskins: A Novel

Annie Proulx · Scribner, 2016.
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing - an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness and destroying the forest, set over...
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No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel

Stephanie Powell Watts · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American DreamJJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high school sweetheart,...
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