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The Past: A Novel

Tessa Hadley · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In her most accessible, commercial novel yet, the "supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer...

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The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing

Rod Nordland · Ecco, 2015.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner - an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world.

Zakia and Ali were from different...

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The Evening Spider: A Novel

Emily Arsenault · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A gripping blend of psychological suspense and historical true crime, this riveting novel - inspired by a sensational real-life murder from the 1800s - by critically acclaimed author Emily Arsenault delivers a heart-stopping mystery linking two young mothers from different centuries.

Frances...

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That Other Me: A Novel

Maha Gargash · Harper Perennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish, Maha Gargash's second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members - an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and a vulnerable niece...
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Thomas Murphy: A Novel

Roger Rosenblatt · Ecco, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy - a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life.

Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist...

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The Man Without a Shadow

Joyce Carol Oates · Ecco, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human...

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The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 537
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Lady Mary Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England, who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the Tudor succession after the death of Elizabeth...
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The Guest Room: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.

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My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 193
Format: Print book

A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple...
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The Sleep Garden

James Krusoe · Tin House Books, 2016.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

The Sleep Garden explores and pushes the boundaries between fact and imagination, real and surreal, and life and the afterlife. In an underground apartment building called "the Burrow"--essentially purgatory -- "twilight souls" inhabit the space between life and death....
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