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Girl on the Leeside: A Novel

KATHLEEN ANNE KENNEY · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub The Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective...
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In the Unlikely Event

JUDY BLUME · Vintage
Pages: 512
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In this brilliant new novel - her first for adults since Summer Sisters - Judy Blume takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she herself grew up. Here she imagines and weaves together a vivid portrait of three generations of families, friends,...
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How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Heather Havrilesky · Anchor
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback

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It Happens All the Time: A Novel

Amy Hatvany · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From master storyteller Amy Hatvany - whose writing has been hailed as "gripping and emotionally honest" (Stephanie Evanovich, New York Times betselling author) - comes a provocative and compelling novel about two friends whose lives are changed by a drunken kiss.I want to rewind...
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The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover

In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls - "think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl" (TheSkimm) - a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all.Confronted by a restraining...
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The White Princess

PHILIPPA GREGORY · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

From queen of royal fiction (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor. When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth...
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Spoonbenders: A novel

Daryl Gregory · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus...
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