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Cocoa Beach: A Novel

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS · WILLIAM MORROW
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

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The Essex Serpent: A Novel

SARAH PERRY · Custom House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

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The Wildling Sisters

Eve Chase · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote Manor. Four sisters. One summer. A lifetime of secrets. When fifteen-year-old...
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Who Is Rich?: A Novel

Matthew Klam · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A provocative and hilarious satire of love, sex, money, and politics in our new gilded age - the long-awaited first novel from the the acclaimed author of Sam the CatEvery summer, a once-sort-of-famous forty-two-year-old cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind...
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The Gypsy Moth Summer

JULIA FIERRO · ST MARTIN'S PRESS
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017!The Huffington Post: 2017 Book Preview: 33 Titles To Add To Your ShelfThe Week: 28 books to read in 2017The Millions: The Great 2017 Book PreviewNylon Magazine: 50 Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017Read It Forward: 17 Books We're Excited...
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Swimming with Bridgeport Girls: A Novel

ANTHONY TAMBAKIS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

If a Richard Russo protagonist went on a bender in Vegas, the result would be something like Swimming with Bridgeport Girls: an uproarious romantic comedy about a charismatic gambler who loses everything and sets off on a misguided quest (based on a misremembering of how The Great Gatsby...
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The Necklace: A Novel

Claire McMillan · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Two generations of Quincy women - a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and a young lawyer - bound by a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace.Always the black sheep of the tight-knit Quincy clan, Nell is cautious when she's summoned to the elegantly shabby family manor after her great aunt...
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The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo

Ian Stansel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband's killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother's murder, he is soon followed by both the police...
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The Shark Club

Ann Kidd Taylor · Viking
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

"A delicious summer read." -Redbook A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances - in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then,...
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Live from Cairo: A Novel

IAN BASSINGTHWAIGHTE · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From a hugely talented, award-winning young author, a brilliant, lively debut novel about an impulsive American attorney, a methodical Egyptian translator, and a disillusioned Iraqi-American resettlement officer trying to protect a refugee who finds herself trapped in Cairo during the turbulent...
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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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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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Abigale Hall: A Novel

Lauren A Forry · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover

Amid the terror of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her troubled little sister Rebecca have had their share of tragedy, having lost their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide. Forced to leave London to work for the mysterious Mr. Brownwell at Abigale Hall, they...
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The Drowning King

Emily Holleman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 421
Format: Hardcover

Ancient Egypt, 51 B.C. Sisters Arsinoe and Cleopatra face a devastating choice: to allow Rome's army to siphon power from their ailing father, or to take matters-and the dynasty-into their own handsIt's the dawn of a new era for Egypt as Cleopatra and her brother, Ptolemy, are welcomed...
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Castle of Water: A Novel

Dane Huckelbridge · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Two very different people, one very small island.For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. The proud owner of a thriving Parisian architecture firm, co-founded with her brilliant new husband, Sophie had much to look forward to -- including...
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My Italian Bulldozer

Alexander Mccall Smith · Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With...
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Break in Case of Emergency: A novel

Jessica Winter · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A smart, irreverent, blistering workplace satire set in the world of a nonprofit feminist startup, for fans of Then We Came to the End and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. When Jen takes a poorly defined job at a start-up chaired by Leora Infinitis--a wealthy sit-com actress and celebrity...
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

HENDRIK GROEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!For fans of A Man Called Ove comes a funny, big-hearted tale about an old man who is young at heart."Tears were streaming down my face - from laughing so hard. I couldn't stop grinning for three days." - Ouderenjournaal (Holland) Hendrik Groen may be old,...
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Refuge: A Novel

Dina Nayeri · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Finally, a moving immigrant story that looks at the larger contemporary refugee experience. An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant,...
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Fitness Junkie: A Novel

Lucy Sykes · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Good Morning America Summer Must-Read! From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt - through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes - to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds....
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The Breakdown: A Novel

B A PARIS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle!THE NEW CHILLING, PROPULSIVE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods,...
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