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The Lemon Sisters: A Novel

Jill Shalvis · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California, where two completely opposite sisters - who are still nursing wounds from the past - realize they need each other more than they think.When Brooke's older sister,...
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The Bookshop on the Shore: A Novel

Jenny Colgan · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life...
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The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake · Flatiron Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used...
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If You Cross the River: A Novel

Geneviève Damas · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family...
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In West Mills

De'Shawn Charles Winslow · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her.Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills...
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Where the Dead Sit Talking

Brandon Hobson · Soho Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt...
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Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett · Tin House Books
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover

"One of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I've ever read. A love letter to Florida and to family, to half-lit swamps and the 7/11, and to the beasts that only pretend to hold their poses inside us." -- Karen Russell A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Esquire,...
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The Tubman Command: A Novel

Elizabeth Cobbs · Arcade
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, a novel based on a thrilling chapter of Civil War history and African American history, how Harriet Tubman lead a Union raid to free 750 slaves. It's May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with...
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