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French Exit: A Novel

Patrick deWitt · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire...
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Becoming Belle

Nuala O'Connor · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A witty and inherently feminist novel about passion and marriage, based on a true story of an unstoppable woman ahead of her time in Victorian London.In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess...
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Meet Me at the Museum: A Novel

ANNE YOUNGSON · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." -- Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"This is a work of art, dear readers. Revel in its beauty."...
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The Washington Decree: A Novel

Jussi Adler-Olsen · Dutton
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos."The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about."...
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So Much Life Left Over: A Novel

LOUIS DE BERNIERES · Pantheon
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two world wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I.They...
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The Other Sister

SARAH ZETTEL · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters. One murder plan.Everyone thought reckless, troubled Geraldine Monroe was the bad sister - especially when she fled town after her mother's death twenty-five years ago. But people don't know the truth. Marie Monroe knows. She was there for their father's cruel punishments,...
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The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom: A Novel

A E Hotchner · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A heartwarming amateur detective story set in Depression-era St. Louis from beloved author A. E. Hotchner.Street-savvy, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom is guarding his father's car when he witnesses a robbery gone wrong in a jewlery store across the street. To Aaron's shock, his father,...
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Half Moon Bay: A Novel

ALICE LAPLANTE · Scribner
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A smart, haunting tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind.Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Jane is devastated, but sometime later, she makes one tiny stab at a new life: she moves...
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The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel

MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS

In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling hi
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When We Found Home

Susan Mallery · HQN
Pages: 419
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery masterfully explores the definition of a modern family - blended by surprise, not by choice - and how those complicated relationships can add unexpected richness to life."Heartwarming ... this book is sweet and will appeal to readers...
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Raising the dad : a novel

Tom Matthews · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Tom Matthews comes a high-concept and surprisingly funny novel about a man who must cope with his troubled family after learning a devastating secret. In Raising the Dad, John Husted's life is complicated, although not in any remarkable way. His marriage...
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The virginity of famous men : stories

Christine Sneed · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"The Virginity of Famous Men, "award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the paths they have taken thus far. In The Prettiest Girls, a location scout for a Hollywood...
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Dubiosity

Christy Barritt · Waterfall Press
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

Savannah Harris vowed to leave behind her old life as an intrepid investigative reporter. But when a friend raises suspicions about two migrant workers who've gone missing from the sleepy coastal town Savannah calls home, her curiosity spikes.As ever more eerie incidents begin afflicting...
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Slasher

Charles Forsman · Floating World Comics
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

From the Ignatz Award-winning creator of The End of the F*cking World and Revenger comes a new psychosexual thriller. Meet Christine, a data entry specialist discovering her sexuality and her penchant for blood. Seemingly timid and plain to her coworkers, she harbors dangerous urges. A lion...
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The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head

DAVID GAFFNEY · Top Shelf Productions
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback

British comedy blended with universal regret, this darkly funny graphic novel, using surreal yet beautiful visions, explores the ways we remain haunted by our ex-lovers.Valerie has a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead...
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The Dying of the Light: A Novel

ROBERT GOOLRICK · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous Southern debutante who marries for money and ultimately suffers for love - the literary love-child of William Faulkner and Dominick Dunne.It begins with a house and ends in ashes . . .Diana...
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