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A Perfect Explanation

Eleanor Anstruther · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA "superb debut"* novel - based on the story of the author's grandmother - following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian) Enid Campbell, granddaughter...
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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto · W W NORTON & CO

Hailed as "outrageously funny" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and "deeply moving" (Los Angeles Review of Books) , Sounds Like Titanic tells the story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Raised in rural Appalachia and struggling to pay college...
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The Scent Keeper: A Novel

Erica Bauermeister · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.Emmeline lives on a remote...
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The Freedom Artist

Okri, Ben · Akashic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"In Okri's dystopian version of our reality, the world is a totalitarian state, ruled by an anonymous but powerful authority known as the Hierarchy. When a woman goes missing after painting a simple question--'Who is the prisoner?'--on a public wall, her lover sets out to find (and...

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