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The Queen of Hearts

Kimmery Martin · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel set against a background of hospital rounds and life-or-death decisions that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness...Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious...
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The French Girl

Lexie Elliott · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Widow and The Woman in Cabin 10: One woman becomes trapped in the tangled bonds of friendship in an exhilarating debut novel of psychological suspense.We all have our secrets...They were six university students from Oxford--friends and sometimes more than friends--spending...
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How to Stop Time

MATT HAIG · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"The first rule is that you don't fall in love,' he said ... 'There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.'"A love story across the ages - and for the ages...
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Rosie Colored Glasses: A Novel

Brianna Wolfson · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

SHE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH ROSIE COLORED GLASSES ... Rosie Collins makes everything dazzle. She's magnetic. Rex Thorpe is serious and unsentimental. Yet when the two meet, Rex is swept up in Rosie's manic tornado of love. But just as opposites attract, they also cause friction. Rosie is illuminating,...
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House Witness

Mike Lawson · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The new novel in Mike Lawson's acclaimed series takes political fixer Joe DeMarco to New York for behind-the-scenes work on a high-stakes murder case, as the five witnesses, one by one, start to withdraw
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The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel

TOM MILLER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America where magic and science have blended into a single extraordinary art. "Like his characters, Tom Miller casts a spell." (Matthew...
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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could...
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As Bright as Heaven

Susan Meissner · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even...
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Augustown: A Novel

Kei Miller · Pantheon
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown - set in the backlands of Jamaica - is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth....
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Red Earth

Tony Park · Pan Macmillan
Pages: 437
Format: Paperback

On the outskirts of Durban, Suzanne Fessey fights back during a vicious carjacking. She kills one thief but the other, wounded, escapes with her baby strapped into the back seat. Called in to pursue the missing vehicle are helicopter pilot Nia Carras from the air, and nearby wildlife researcher...
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The Awkward Age: A Novel

FRANCESCA SEGAL · Riverhead Books
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

"A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." - Nick Hornby "A spry and accomplished comedy of manners." - The New York...
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Fall from Grace: A Novel

DANIELLE STEEL · Delacorte Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything - her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident....
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The House of Impossible Beauties

Joseph Cassara · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"Exceptional...The writing is erotically luscious, lyrically intense, forthrightly in your face, and pitch-perfect in the dialog." -- Library Journal, STARRED REVIEWA gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene...
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Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

Robert Coover · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A collection of the best short fictions from the grandmaster of postmodernism.Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while...
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The Great Alone

NOT AVAILABLE. · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Alaska, 1974.Untamed.Unpredictable.And for a family in crisis, the ultimate test of the human spirit. From the author who brought you the phenomenon of The Nightingale.
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A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B.

Ismail Kadare · Counterpoint
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

"A chilling, humane and strangely beautiful work." -- The Independent A Girl in Exile, first published in Albanian in 2009, is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship. While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production,...
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Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

Sara Ackerman · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 528
Format: Library Binding

Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested.Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband....
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Olympus Bound

Jordanna Max Brodsky · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The Immortals is a lively re-imagining of classical mythology with an engaging premise, a page-turning plot, and an eye for the arresting and uncanny in contemporary urban life." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of WitchesManhattan has many secrets....
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The Prague Sonata

Bradford Morrow · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 682
Format: Library Binding

From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript Music and war, war and music--these are the twin...
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Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel

Anne Raeff · Counterpoint
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin, America, and Morocco, about men and women, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift, as past and present converge, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel." -- Margot Livesey, author...
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On Starlit Seas

Sara Sheridan · Black & White Publishing
Pages: 439
Format: Paperback

Chocolate. Smuggling. Secrets and Lies. Brazil and London, 1824: charged with a mission by the Empress of Brazil, celebrated writer and the toast of Georgian London Maria Graham sets off for England with the Brazilian civil war at its height. Newly widowed and a woman traveling alone, the stakes...
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Munich: A novel

ROBERT HARRIS · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938.Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service,...
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