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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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The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel

Julie Schumacher · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach...Now...
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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 were...
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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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Stagecoach to Purgatory

PETER BRANDVOLD · Pinnacle
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to gun-blazing, bone-crushing action, no one tells a tale like acclaimed Western writer Peter Brandvold. These are the violent days (and reckless nights) of Lou Prophet, as told to his ink-stained confessor. Most of these recollections are brutal. Others are bloody. Some...
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Where the Bullets Fly

TERRENCE MCCAULEY · Pinnacle
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Surrounded by ranches, farms, and precious metal mines, the town of Dover Station, Montana is ripe for the plucking. It's up to Sheriff Aaron Mackey to keep the peace - and keep the dregs of humanity from trying to make a killing . . . WHERE THE BULLETS FLY, VENGEANCE REIGNS If anyone...
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The Hollywood Daughter: A Novel

Kate Alcott · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman - already...
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Act of Revenge

DALE BROWN · William Morrow
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

When terrorists attack Boston, Louis Massina races against time to save the city with a high-tech counteroffensive . . . On Easter Sunday morning, the city of Boston is struck by a widespread and coordinated series of terrorist attacks: an explosion in the T, a suicide bomber at Back Bay Police...
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Southernmost

Silas House · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"In Silas House's moving new novel, a pastor wrestles with a crisis not just of faith but of all the apparent certainties of his life: a crisis of marriage, of community, of fatherhood. This is a novel of painful, finally revelatory awakening, of fierce love and necessary disaster,...
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Come West and See: Stories

Maxim Loskutoff · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

This searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement.Come West and See is a work both timely and timeless. Set in the Redoubt, an isolated triangle of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge...
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Moon Brow

Shahriar Mandanipour · Restless Books
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

From "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who's searching for the mysterious woman haunting...
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New Nicholas Sparks 2018 Novel

NICHOLAS SPARKS · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals -- transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings...
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Carnegie's Maid: A Novel

Marie Benedict · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's...
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25: Untitled: A Novel

JOHN GRISHAM · Doubleday
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi, to tell the story of an unthinkable murder and the bizarre trial that follows it, in this powerful new legal thriller. Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent...
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Beautiful Exiles

Meg Waite Clayton · Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton comes a riveting novel based on one of the most volatile and intoxicating real-life love affairs of the twentieth century.Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with...
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Deviation: A Novel

Luce D'Eramo · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A devoted fascist changes her mind and her life after witnessing the horrors of the HolocaustFirst published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into...
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Bound for Gold

WILLIAM MARTIN · Forge
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Rare-book dealer Peter Fallon returns in a thrilling historical novel about the California Gold Rush, by New York Times bestselling author William MartinBound for Gold continues New York Times bestselling author William Martin's epic of American history with the further adventures of Boston...
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Not Perfect

Elizabeth LaBan · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From Elizabeth LaBan, the acclaimed author of The Restaurant Critic's Wife, comes a captivating and very funny novel about a wife and mother's fall from grace, and why keeping up appearances is not her biggest secret.Tabitha Brewer wakes up one morning to find her husband gone, leaving...
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Tell Me Lies: A Novel

Carola Lovering · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling, sexy coming-of-age story exploring toxic love, ruthless ambition, and shocking betrayal, Tell Me Lies is about that one person who still haunts you - the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn't let go of. The one you'll never forget.Lucy Albright is far from her Long...
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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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That Kind of Mother: A Novel

RUMAAN ALAM · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance...
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The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder: A Novel

Sarah J Harris · Touchstone
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia - a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds - who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible.Thirteen-year-old...
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Hangman: A Novel

DANIEL COLE · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A detective with no one to trustA killer with nothing to loseDetective Emily Baxter is still reeling from the Ragdoll case, and from the disappearance of her friend William "Wolf" Fawkes. Despite her reluctance to jump into another gruesome case, she's summoned to a meeting of a new FBI/CIA/UK...
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

Denis Johnson · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-five years after his seminal Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on aging, mortality, and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "A true American artist . . . a revelator for this still new century."...
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The Afterlives: A Novel

Thomas Pierce · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Ridiculously good" (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out) .Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty....
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Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

Anne Rice · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga--part adventure, part suspense--of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead,...
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A lush debut; Owens delivers her mystery wrapped in gorgeous, lyrical prose." --Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightHow long can you protect your heart?For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North...
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We All Love the Beautiful Girls

Joanne Proulx · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Who do the lucky become when their luck sours? One frigid winter night, the happily prosperous Mia and Michael Slate discover that a close friend and business partner has cheated them out of their life savings. On the same night, their son, Finn, passes out in the snow at a party - a mistake...
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We Begin Our Ascent

Joe Mungo Reed · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzling debut by an exciting and essential new talent: fast, harrowing, compelling, masterfully structured, genuinely moving. Reed is a true stylist." - George Saunders "Joe Mungo Reed's unforgettable debut novel introduces us to a powerful new literary voice, as riveting...
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The Third Hotel: A Novel

Laura Van den Berg · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

One of HuffPost's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death -- and the truth about their marriage -- in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.Shortly after...
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Watch the Girls

Jennifer Wolfe · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

I've been watched all my life. I'm used to being stared at. Observed. Followed.Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense.SOMEONE IS WATCHINGWashed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably...
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