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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional...
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First Person: A novel

Richard Flanagan · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined.Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung...
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We Own the Sky: A Novel

Luke Allnutt · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A triumphant story about love, loss and finding hope - against all odds"We looked down at the cliff jutting into the sea, a rubber boat full of kids going under the arch, and then you started running and jumping through the grass, dodging the rabbit holes, shouting at the top of your...
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Paris by the Book: A Novel

Liam Callanan · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband....
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Whispers of the Dead

Spencer Kope · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A series of bizarre murders -- the victims nearly unidentifiable -- forces FBI tracker "Steps" Craig to match wits with the most cold-blooded killer he's ever encountered.A pair of severed feet, stored in a portable a cooler, is found in the house of a Federal judge in El Paso....
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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present...
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Dead Girl Running

Christina Dodd · HQN
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

I have three confessions to make:1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.2. I don't remember an entire year of my life.3. My name is Kellen Adams...and that's half a lie.Girl running...from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear....
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The Brightest Sun

Adrienne Benson · Park Row
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating debut following three women in their search for home and family in 1990s sub-Saharan AfricaLeona, an isolated American anthropologist, births a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely...
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Time's Betrayal

DAVID ADAMS CLEVELAND · Fomite Press
Pages: 1170
Format: Hardcover

Time s Betrayal is an epic multigenerational family saga covering the years from the battle of Antietam to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Touching on elements in John le Carré's A Perfect Spy and John Knowles's A Separate Peace, the novel chronicles a son s search for a larger-than-life...
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The Revolution of Marina M.

JANET FITCH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 805
Format: Hardcover

From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young womanOne of Entertainment Weekly's Most Buzzworthy Books of Fall 2017St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young...
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A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812

James L Haley · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution - the War of 1812.At the opening of the War of 1812,...
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Stray city : a novel

Chelsey Johnson · Custom House
Format: Print book

A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging--to a city, a culture, and a family--when none of them can quite contain who you really are. All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . . Twenty-four-year-old...
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Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel

Taylor Brown · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A fresh, authentic, and eloquent new voice in American fiction." - Robert Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of Gap CreekIn Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country...
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The Balcony

Jane Delury · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Jane Delury arrives on the scene of her debut with a sensibility fully formed and a breathtaking array of writerly gifts at her command." -- Jennifer Egan A century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village, revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing...
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The Hunger

Alma Katsu · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist.Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner...
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I Was Anastasia: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's...
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The Italian Teacher

TOM RACHMAN · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"The Italian Teacher is a marvel--an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer--this book is alive, from the first page to the last." Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Mrs. FletcherA masterful...
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The Perfume Burned His Eyes

MICHAEL IMPERIOLI · Akashic Books
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover

"Screenwriter and Emmy-winning actor Imperioli's first novel is the atmospheric coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Matthew, whose mother moves them from Queens to a posh apartment in Manhattan in 1976...Matt is a not an atypical teenager--think Holden Caulfield without the cynicism--but,...
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The Elizas: A Novel

Sara Shepard · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard makes her mark on adult fiction with this Hitchcockian double narrative composed of lies, false memories, and a protagonist who must uncover the truth for survival.When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom...
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