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Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding

Hazel Gaynor · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS. Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind...
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestEdith Magnusson's rhubarb pies are famous in the Twin Cities--they were named the third-best in the state of Minnesota and St. Anthony-Waterside...
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Red Metal

Mark Greaney · Berkley
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth...
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Abbi Waxman · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." - #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinThe author of Other People's Houses and The Garden of Small Beginnings delivers a quirky and charming novel chronicling the life of confirmed introvert Nina Hill as she does her best...
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The Gifted School: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively...
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The Other Mrs. Miller

Allison Dickson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this unputdownable domestic suspense debut, a lonely suburban housewife finds her life entangled with the family that moves in across the street at the same time that she becomes convinced someone is watching her--perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and The Last Mrs. Parrish.Once...
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Gods of Jade and Shadow: A Novel

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Del Rey
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.Here we shall begin to tell a story: a tale of a throne lost, of monsters and magic. A tale of gods and of the shadow realm. But this, our story, it begins...
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Big Sky

Kate Atkinson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia....
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Ask Again, Yes: A Novel

Mary Beth Keane · Scribner
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness.Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973....
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After the End

Clare Mackintosh · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The breathtaking, emotional new novel from Clare Mackintosh. A story about impossible choices. A story about the strength and fragility of love.
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Early Work: A Novel

Andrew Martin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Andrew Martin's serio-comic debut novel, Early Work, follows an aspirational author desperately seeking his muse in all the wrong places -- only to find it in an adventurous woman with a unique perspective on life and love.For young writers of a certain temperament -- if they haven't...
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The Air You Breathe: A Novel

Frances de Pontes Peebles · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation...
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The Electric Hotel

Dominic Smith · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith, a radiant novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his museDominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey -- America's first movie town -- and on the battlefields...
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Mrs. Everything: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner · Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places - and be true to themselves - in a rapidly evolving...
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The Jackals

William W. Johnstone · Pinnacle
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Johnstone. Keeping the west wild. FATE BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. IT MAY ALSO SEND THEM STRAIGHT TO HELL. Alone, these justice fighters are dangerous enough. Together they're a wild bunch known as the Jackals. Now, national bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone are turning...
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The Lily of the West

Kathleen Morris · Five Star Publishing
Pages: 341
Format: Library Binding

The Lily of the West is the story of Mary Katherine Haroney, known as the notorious "Big Nose Kate." In the American West of the 1800s, women had few choices, but Kate made her own way. A Hungarian immigrant, Kate forged her way across the American frontier, an orphaned stowaway...
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The Late Bloomers' Club: A Novel

Louise Miller · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A delightful novel about two headstrong sisters, a small town's efforts to do right by the community, and the power of a lost dog to conjure up true loveNora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em to her regulars,...
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The Kinship of Secrets

Eugenia Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous achievement." - Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them...
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The Book of Dreams: A Novel

Nina George · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The next novel from Nina George, author of the blockbuster bestsellers The Little Paris Bookshop and The Little French Bistro, about the spaces between lives and realities and loves both lost and coming homeWhen Henri ends up in a coma after rescuing a young girl from the Thames, his ex-girlfriend,...
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