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Under Occupation: A Novel

Alan Furst · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From "America's preeminent spy novelist" (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler.

Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo...
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The Siberian Dilemma

Martin Cruz Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko - "one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY) - who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist...
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The Man Who Saw Everything

Deborah Levy · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist.It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay...
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Noel Street

Richard Paul Evans · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this new offering from "the king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) , #1 bestselling author Richard Paul Evans shares a story of heart, loyalty, and hope as he explores the deeper meaning of the holiday season and asks what it truly means to love and forgive....
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The Fifth Column

Andrew Gross · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war.

February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two...

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Child's Play: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The lessons our children teach us are the hardest ones. What do we do when our children don't pursue our hopes for them? In this riveting new novel, Danielle Steel explores how families can evolve and grow in unexpected ways.

A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm,...
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A Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel

Sean Michael Wilson · Classical Comics; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

One Christmas Eve, after being particularly cruel to his employee, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him that he will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future. Each ghost shows him things that rekindle...
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Unmasked by the Marquess: The Regency Impostors

CAT SEBASTIAN · Avon Impulse
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The one you love ... Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: the Selbys have no connections or money and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She's enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years,...
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Rage for Vengeance

Dusty Richards · Pinnacle
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A blazing new chapter in the epic Byrnes family saga from Western Heritage and Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards . . . Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona...
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Sea Monsters: A Novel

Chloe Aridjis · Catapult
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Sea Monsters is a mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness that is never facile but serves as a profound and poetic tool for navigating our shared world. Chloe Aridjis is the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book; she is, for my money, one of the most...
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Leading Men: A Novel

Christopher Castellani · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy

In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet...
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel

Juliet Grames · Ecco
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter...

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The Parisian

Isabella Hammad · Grove Press
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle...
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The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel

Claire Lombardo · Doubleday
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

"A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory."
--Madeline Miller

A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried...
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Lost Children Archive: A novel

Valeria Luiselli · Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today.

A mother and father set out with...
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Nottingham

Nathan Makaryk · Forge Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Nathan Makaryk's epic and daring debut rewrites the Robin Hood legend, giving voice to those history never mentioned and challenging who's really a hero and a villain. No king. No rules.England, 1191. King Richard is half a world away, fighting for God and his own ambition. Back...
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Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties: A Novel

Camille Pagán · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she's also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears:...
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A Dog Called Jack

Ivy Pembroke · A John Scognamiglio Book
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Every street should have a dog like Jack. And every abandoned dog should find a new family like the residents of Christmas Street - a group of people who just might need Jack as much as he needs them . . . All day, he trots happily between the terraced houses, receiving treats and toys,...
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The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan · Crown
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody - the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite - who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter

Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village,...
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The Flight Girls

Noelle Salazar · MIRA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut novel about friendship and its power to make us soarAudrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It is why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It is why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began....
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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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Paris, 7 A.M.

· Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed, award-winning author of A Watch of Nightingales imagines in a sweeping and stunning novel what happened to the poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II.

June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop,...
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Resistance Women: A Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini · William Morrow
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American - Mildred Fish Harnack - and her circle of women friends who waged...

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Sisters of Summer's End

Lori Foster · HQN
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

As the summer ends, friendship begins ...

When single mom Joy Lee abandoned her old life to take a job at a lakeside resort, she found something that her family's wealth and influence could never buy: peace of mind. Not easy to come by for the once-burned divorcée who keeps everyone...
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Donna Has Left the Building

Susan Jane Gilman · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved, New York Times-bestselling author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress comes a hilarious, timely, and big-hearted new novel about rebuilding life in the face of disaster.
Forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski is an ex-punk rocker, a recovering alcoholic,...
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Summer of '69

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel

Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth...
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This Tender Land

William Kent Krueger · Atria Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you'll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come." - Parade

A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great...
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The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys...
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Inland: A Novel

Téa Obreht · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with "a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West" (Entertainment Weekly) .

In the lawless, drought-ridden lands...
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The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave: A Western Mystery

Bill Pronzini · Forge Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Bill Pronzini's riveting western mystery, The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave, takes on the modern world with old-fashioned violence--and his Peaceful Valley is anything but ...

Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana. And that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk...

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