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The Woman in the Photo: A Novel

Mary Hogan · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of two young women - one in America's Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day California - whose lives are linked by a single tragic afternoon in history.1888: Elizabeth...
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We Could Be Beautiful: A Novel

Swan Huntley · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything - and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects...
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Untethered

Julie Lawson Timmer · Putnam
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When Char Hawthorn's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly...
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A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Bob Proehl · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." - Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand SaintsValerie Torrey took her son Alex and fled Los Angeles six years ago - leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar...
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Dating Tips for the Unemployed

Iris Smyles · Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In twenty-four absurd, lyrical, and louche episodes, "Iris Smyles" weaves a modern odyssey of trying to find one's home in the world amid the pitfalls and insidious traps of adult life. A wickedly funny picaresque touching on quantum physics, the Donner Party, arctic exploration,...
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Barkskins: A Novel

Annie Proulx · Scribner
Pages: 717
Format: Print book

From Annie Proulx - the Pulitzer Prize-­ and National Book Award-­winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests.In the late seventeenth...
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Bourbon Thief

Tiffany Reisz · Mira Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150yearold mysteryWhen Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolena million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims...
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The Book of Esther: A Novel

Emily Barton · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed in the Middle Ages had never fallen - and was the only thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia? Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus...
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Monsters: A Love Story

Liz Kay · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A cracklingly funny and poignant debut novel about the ways we love, even when we're not at our best. Stacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one. Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey's been a certified mess - a poet who can't write anymore, a good mother who feels...
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The Dead Don't Bleed: A Novel

David F Krugler · Pegasus Crime
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes...
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