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The Last Romantics: A Novel

TARA CONKLIN · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Tara Conklin is a generous writer who deftly brings us into the world of this fictional family, an engrossing and vivid place where I was happy to stay. The Last Romantics is a richly observed novel, both ambitious and welcoming." -- Meg WolitzerThe New York Times bestselling...
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The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel

Lindsay Stern · Viking
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"An exuberant, wise, and darkly funny novel from an essential new voice in fiction." --Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest This astonishing first novel tells the story of a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate...
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The Wish Child: A Novel

CATHERINE CHIDGEY · Counterpoint
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

" A tour de force, a work of art, an insightful commentary on the horrors and pointlessness of war and violence, a love story . . . so beautifully written that it hurts . . . Gripping from start to finish . . . One of the best novels I have read this year. Actually, maybe one of the best...
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

Anissa Gray · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you.The Butler family has had their share of trials - as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian...
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The Familiars

Stacey Halls · MIRA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies have borne fruit, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an heir. Then Fleetwood discovers a hidden doctor's letter that carries a dire prediction: she will not survive another birth....
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Deep Harbor

FERN MICHAELS · Kensington
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this stirring new novel, acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delves into the remarkable ways in which moments of crises can lead to our greatest acts of courage . . . When Carol Ann "CJ" Jansen lost her beloved older brother, Kick, in a boating accident,...
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Three Daughters of Eve

ELIF SHAFAK · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag....
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Insurrecto

Gina Apostol · Soho Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter.Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's...
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The Moroccan Girl: A Novel

Charles Cumming · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Another Cumming triumph." -- Jason Matthews, bestselling author of The Kremlin's CandidateTHE MOROCCAN GIRL is a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming, "the heir to John le Carré" (NPR) .Kit Carradine is the successful author of several best-selling novels....
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When You Read This: A Novel

Mary Adkins · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.Iris Massey is gone. But she's left something behind. For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping...
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Death Is Hard Work: A Novel

Khaled Khalifa · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil warKhaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more...
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Drinks With Dead Poets: A Season of Poe, Whitman, Byron, and the Brontes

GLYN MAXWELL · Pegasus Books
Pages: 345
Format: Hardcover

A spirited homage to the departed literary greats -- set in an entrancing English village -- this novel tells the tale of a profound autumn term with Poe, Yeats, Whitman, Dickinson, and the Brontes. "I am walking along a country lane with no earthly idea why . . ." Poet Glyn Maxwell...
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Daughter of Moloka'i

Alan Brennert · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert's acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, Moloka'iAlan Brennert's beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama -- quarantined...
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Elsey Come Home: A novel

SUSAN CONLEY · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the widely praised author of Paris Was the Place--a shattering new novel that bravely delves into the darkest corners of addiction, marriage, and motherhoodWhen Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, she knows he is really giving her an ultimatum:...
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The Eulogist: A Novel

Terry Gamble · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American...
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The Burning Girl: A Novel

CLAIRE MESSUD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children.Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape...
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