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Look for Her: A Novel

Emily Winslow · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Everyone loves a beautiful missing girl ... "Look For Her ratchets up the tension while also offering moments of sheer grace."-Riley Sager, bestselling author of Final Girls"Beautifully written with an expertly twisty, surprising story, this is a must-read!" - Chevy...
 
 
The Atomic City Girls: A Novel

Janet Beard · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II."What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."In November 1944, eighteen-year-old...
 
 
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Kim Fu · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp - and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp...
 
 
The Lost Castle: A Split-Time Romance

Kristy Cambron · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Broken-down walls and crumbled stones seemed to possess a secret language all their own. What stories would they tell, if she finally listened?Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother's bedside expecting to find her silently slipping away. Instead, the beloved old woman begins speaking....
 
 
She Regrets Nothing: A Novel

Andrea Dunlop · Washington Square Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of The Emperor's Children and The House of Mirth, the forgotten granddaughter of one of New York's wealthiest men is reunited with her family just as she comes of age - and once she's had a glimpse of their glittering world, she refuses to let it go without...
 
 
Asymmetry: A Novel

Lisa Halliday · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most...
 
 
Self-Portrait with Boy: A Novel

Rachel Lyon · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A compulsively readable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death - an image that could jumpstart her career, but would also devastate her most intimate friendship.Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer...
 
 
By the Book

Julia Sonneborn · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiancé has just become the president of her college - and her new boss - in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Persuasion.Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she's...
 
 
Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood

MOLLY CARO MAY · Counterpoint
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"What a beautiful, heart-filled, and honest account of motherhood and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro May's." -- Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, creators of The Business of Being Born and authors of Your Best Birth "Radiant. Bursting with wisdom...
 
 
Neon in Daylight

Hermione Hoby · Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype...