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Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith · Anchor
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

***MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST******Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize***Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends - Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984 - look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation...
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The Wife Between Us: A Novel

GREER HENDRICKS · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

The instant New York Times Bestseller! "A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller" -- New York Times Book Review"Buckle up, because you won't be able to put this one down." -- Glamour "Jaw dropping. Unforgettable. Shocking." -- Publishers Weekly (starred...
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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom

Ariel Burger · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master...
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The Kinship of Secrets

Eugenia Kim · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous achievement." - Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them...
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Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton'

Chris Jones · Methuen Drama
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled...
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Grand Theft Horse

G NERI · Lee & Low Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Gail Ruffu was a rookie trainer known for her unconventional methods and ability to handle dangerous horses. When she became part owner of an untamed thoroughbred named Urgent Envoy, everything changed. After Urgent Envoy showed real promise, her co-owners forced Gail to speed up training...
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No Good Asking: A Novel

Fran Kimmel · ECW Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another. Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric's childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there's no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows,...
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The Lake on Fire

Rosellen Brown · Sarabande Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stow away to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty...
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The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland

Nicolai Houm · Tin House Books
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback

Even those who have lost everything, still have something to lose.An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She has no map, no compass, and no food. How she ended up there, and the tragic details...
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