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The Dependents

KATHARINE DION · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage."The Dependents is a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations...Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence." --Kate...
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You Were Made for This

MICHELLE SACKS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship.Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place....
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The Melody: A Novel

Jim Crace · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest, Quarantine, and Being Dead, a tender new novel about music, celebrity, local intrigue, and lost love--all set by the Mediterranean SeaAside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town...
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Providence: A Novel

Caroline Kepnes · Lenny
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive novel that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller - from the acclaimed author of You whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original" Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond so intense...
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Clock Dance: A novel

Anne Tyler · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER | A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden...
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The Great Believers

REBECCA MAKKAI · Viking
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca MakkaiIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing...
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The Anomaly

Michael Rutger · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Not all secrets are meant to be found.If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at least a passing resemblance to Nolan Moore -- a rogue archaeologist hosting a documentary series derisively dismissed by the "real" experts, but beloved of conspiracy theorists.Nolan...
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A Natural: A Novel

ROSS RAISIN · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An exquisitely crafted coming-of-age novel set in the high-stakes world of English soccer - for readers of Nick Hornby and The Art of Fielding. After his unceremonious release from a Premier League academy at nineteen, Tom feels his bright future slipping away. The only contract offer he receives...
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Operator Down: A Pike Logan Thriller

Tommaso Piazza · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Former Delta Force Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller where Pike Logan's search for a Mossad agent and ally puts him on a collision course with a ruthless military coup in Africa - and tests his loyalties to the Taskforce.It was to be a simple...
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The House of Broken Angels

Luis Alberto Urrea · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, at once intimate and epic, from an acclaimed storyteller. In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party...
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Grist Mill Road: A Novel

Christopher J Yates · Picador
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel from the author whose debut was called "The smart summer thriller you've been waiting for...The novel you should be reading tonight" (NPR's All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and an Entertainment Weekly Must-List...
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Red Clocks: A Novel

LENI ZUMAS · Lee Boudreaux Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five...
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Winter of the Gods

Jordanna Max Brodsky · Orbit
Pages: 461
Format: Print book

"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 Witches Manhattan has many...
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America Is Not the Heart: A Novel

ELAINE CASTILLO · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in AmericaHow many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's...
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All the Beautiful Girls: A Novel

ELIZABETH J CHURCH · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas - and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. It was unimaginable. When she was eight years old, Lily Decker somehow survived the auto accident that killed her parents and sister,...
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The Storm King: A Novel

BRENDAN DUFFY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, atmospheric novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben. Burying the past only gives it strength - and fury. Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most...
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Birdcage Walk

Helen Dunmore · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's...
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Into the Drowning Deep

MIRA GRANT · Orbit
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary"...
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Graffiti Palace: A Novel

A G Lombardo · MCD
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, exhilarating debut novel that retells The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots -- like nothing you've ever read beforeIt's August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift...
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High Tide Club

MARY KAY ANDREWS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Weekenders comes a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations.When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) , comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary...
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Warlight: A novel

Michael Ondaatje · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their...
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The Removes: A Novel

TATJANA SOLI · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The Removes, a historical novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Tatjana...
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Where the Lost Girls Go: A Laura Mori Mystery

R J Noonan · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Rookie cop Laura Mori catches her first investigation when the fiery crash of a sports car lights up the night sky. The fire burns the body beyond recognition, but the police are able to identify the car as that of Kent Jameson, celebrity author and benefactor of Sunrise Lake. And Jameson...
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Savage Liberty: A Mystery of Revolutionary America

Eliot Pattison · Counterpoint
Format: Print book

The fifth in Eliot Pattison's Bone Rattler series, Savage Liberty--a fast-paced mystery built around historical figures and set against the haunting backdrop of dying woodland tribes--follows exiled Scotsman Duncan McCallum on a thrilling journey down the road to revolution When a ship...
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Upstate: A Novel

James Wood · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit....
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Unti Frank #13

DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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Cast Iron

Peter May · Quercus Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the west of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains--bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now,...
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