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Cave Dwellers: A novel

Richard Grant · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home...
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Trajectory: Stories

Richard Russo · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar...
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Fake Plastic Love

Kimberley Tait · Flatiron Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." -- Stewart O'Nan, author of West of SunsetFour millennial bright young things charge into the real...
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If We Were Villains: A Novel

M L Rio · Flatiron Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." -- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author...
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Music of the Ghosts

Vaddey Ratner · Touchstone
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner.Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician"...
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The Widow of Wall Street: A Novel

Randy Susan Meyers · Keywords Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall.Phoebe sees the fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment...
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Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Crystal King · Touchstone
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign,...
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I Found You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Jewell is a wonderful storyteller. Her characters are believable, her writing is strong and poetic, and her narrative is infused with just enough intrigue to keep the pages turning. Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love." - Library Journal (starred...
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Slightly South of Simple: A Novel

Kristy Woodson Harvey · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From the next "major voice in Southern fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes the first in an all-new series chronicling the journeys of three sisters and their mother - and a secret from their past that has the potential to tear them apart and reshape...
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