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River Under the Road

SCOTT SPENCER · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love, a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity-and the double-edged sword of successThirteen parties over the course of two decades-an opium infused barbeque, a reception for a doomed presidential...
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The Cafe by the Sea: A Novel

JENNY COLGAN · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

The beloved author of The Bookshop on the Corner returns with a sparkling, sunny, soulful new novel perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand. Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up -- and she hasn't looked back. What would have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone...
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The Confusion of Languages

Siobhan Fallon · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring."A gripping,...
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Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel

Maile Meloy · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing.When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities...
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Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel

Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared...
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A House Among the Trees: A Novel

Julia Glass · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant - a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power...
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The Lost History of Stars: A Novel

Dave Boling · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a forgotten moment in history comes an inspiring novel about finding strength and courage in the most unimaginable places. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their...
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DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Mysterious Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Including "The Crawl Space," winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction and a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Short StoryJoyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most...
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Living in the Weather of the World: Stories

Richard Bausch · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In these thirteen indelible stories, Richard Bausch once again proves himself a modern master.From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story" --The New York Times Book Review) , thirteen unforgettable...
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The Sunshine Sisters

Jane Green · Thorndike Press Large Print

"All women will recognize something of themselves in one of the Sunshine sisters. Jane Green's best yet. I raced through this." - Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and Paris for One and Other StoriesThe New York Times bestselling author of Falling...
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The Identicals: A Novel

ELIN HILDERBRAND · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike...or live more differently.Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown house...
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Our Little Racket: A Novel

ANGELICA BAKER · Ecco
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

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The City Always Wins: A Novel

OMAR HAMILTON · MCD
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report couldThe City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo's surging streets and roiling political...
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Good time coming

C S Harris · Severn House
Pages: 309

A story of coming-of-age in Civil War-torn Louisiana. This is a heart-wrenching story of loss and survival; of the bonds that form amongst women and children left alone to face the hardships, depravations, and dangers of war; and of one unforgettable girl's slow and painful recognition...
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The Samurai of Seville: A Novel

John J Healey · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A sumptuous novel inspired by one of history's most intriguing forgotten chapters - the arrival of Japanese Samurai on the shores of Europe. In 1614, twenty-two Samurai warriors and a group of tradesmen from Japan sailed to Spain, where they initiated one of the most intriguing cultural...
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The Duchess: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

An enthralling novel set in early 19th-century England, Paris, and New York, featuring an indomitable young heroine who rises from ruin to become the toast of Paris, by way of the chic bordello she establishes for the most powerful men in France.Turned out of her ancestral home by her vicious...
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Mother Land

Paul Theroux · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels...
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Falling into the Mob

Steve Zousmer · The Permanent Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

At fifty-nine, facing a dull and lonely future, Phillip Vail yearns for a way to put vigor and purpose into his remaining years. Then he finds the Mafia.While riding a commuter train, enjoying a chat with a younger woman sitting next to him, he encounters three violent drunks. Phil is powerless...
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