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Girls Burn Brighter

SHOBHA RAO · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America about the EXTRAORDINARY BOND BETWEEN TWO GIRLS driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another.Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls.When...
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The Eight Mountains: A Novel

Paolo Cognetti · Atria Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Elena Ferrante, Fredrik Backman, and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives.Pietro is a lonely...
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel

JAMIE FORD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair."An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating,...
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Census

JESSE BALL · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of townsWhen a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn't have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will...
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Border Districts: A Fiction

Gerald Murnane · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master"The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . ."Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating "report"...
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Happiness

Aminatta Forna · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to all but its participants . . . Gorgeous." -- John Freeman, Boston Globe on The Hired Man London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes...
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In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees

Jeff Talarigo · Etruscan Press
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback

"As much a book of poetry as a novel, as much a symphony as a memoir, this is an extraordinary book from a writer at the top of his powers. Reminiscent of Berger and Calvino, Jeff Talarigo manages to capture the breadth and circumference of story-telling, while also giving us a privileged...
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The Female Persuasion: A Novel

Meg Wolitzer · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romantic ideals we all follow deep into adulthood, not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be.To be admired by someone...
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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...
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Country Dark

CHRIS OFFUTT · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction...
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A House Without Windows: A Novel

Nadia Hashimi · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood - an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture - from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.For two decades, Zeba...
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Disoriental

NGAR DJAVADI · Europa Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

WINNER: Le Prix du Roman News, Style Prize, Lire Best Debut Novel 2016, la Porte Dorée PrizeKimi Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect...
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Every Note Played

LISA GENOVA · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful and heartbreaking exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom, and what it means to be alive.An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences all over the world in awe of his rare...
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