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Goodnight from London: A Novel

Jennifer Robson · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson - author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France - comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start...
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Price of Duty: A Novel

DALE BROWN · William Morrow
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

The U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyber warfare attack in this action-packed military techno-thriller from New York Times bestselling master Dale Brown.In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation's...
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Miss You

Kate Eberlen · Harper
Pages: 433
Format: Hardcover

-If ever a couple was 'meant to be, ' it's Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives crisscrossing over the years, with near miss after near miss. . . . I couldn't put it down. ---Sophie Kinsella A wryly romantic debut novel with echoes of One Day that...
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Dragon Teeth

MICHAEL CRICHTON · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate...
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The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War

JEFF SHAARA · Ballantine Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also...
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Rich People Problems: A Novel

KEVIN KWAN · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes...
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The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last? "Extraordinary . . . An emotional roller coaster." - Delia Ephron Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story...
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Long Black Veil: A Novel

Jennifer Finney Boylan · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not ThereOn a warm August night in 1980, six college students sneak into the dilapidated ruins of Philadelphia's...
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The Book of Polly: A Novel

Kathy Hepinstall · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother"If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher conference, Polly is the gal for you. Delicious."...
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The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff · Mira Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being...
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The Idiot

Elif Batuman · Penguin Press
Pages: 423
Format: Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends...
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Some Rise by Sin: A Novel

Philip Caputo · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Philip Caputo tells the story of a Franciscan priest struggling to walk a moral path through the shifting and fatal realities of an isolated Mexican villageThe Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality....
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Miss Burma

CHARMAINE CRAIG · GROVE
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin,...
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The One-Eyed Man

Ron Currie · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the "startlingly talented" (New York Times) author of Everything Matters! - the compelling story of a man who takes everything far too literally, and his adventures as the star of a reality TV showRon Currie's three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics...
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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 fired-up,...
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The Gustav Sonata: A Novel

Rose Tremain · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A breathtakingly radiant story of an unlikely childhood friendship that survives the test of time.Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats...
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The Last Days of Café Leila: A Novel

Donia Bijan · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan." - Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living...
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Celestial Mechanics: a tale for a mid-winter night

WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON · Three Rooms Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

"In this novel of haunted love, Silas Fortunato, an amateur astronomer, finds his marriage descending toward darkness until the arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not exist. Enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three...
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All Joe Knight: A Novel

Kevin Morris · Grove Press
Pages: 353
Format: Print book

A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory." Now Morris...
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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

George Saunders · Random House
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and inventedFebruary 1862. The Civil War is less than...
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The Abominable Mr. Seabrook

Joe Ollmann · Drawn & Quarterly
Pages: 316
Format: Print book

The daring and destructive life of the man who popularized the word "zombie"In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William...
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A Perfect Life: A Novel

Eileen Pollack · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply...
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