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The Fortunate Ones: A Novel
The Fortunate Ones: A Novel

Ellen Umansky · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

One very special work of art - a Chaim Soutine painting - will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.It is 1939 in Vienna, and as the specter...
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The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories

Chanelle Benz · Ecco
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A stunningly original debut collection about lives across history marked by violence and longing.A brother and sister turn outlaw in a wild and brutal landscape. The daughter of a diplomat disappears and resurfaces across the world as a deadly woman of many names. A young Philadelphia boy struggles...
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Hey Harry, Hey Matilda: A Novel
Hey Harry, Hey Matilda: A Novel

Rachel Hulin · Doubleday
Pages: 276
Format: Print book

Hey Harry, Hey Matilda is the story - told entirely in hilarious emails - of fraternal twins Harry and Matilda Goodman as they fumble into adulthood, telling lies and keeping secrets, and finally confronting their complicated twinship. Matilda Goodman is an underemployed wedding photographer...
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Norse Mythology
Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 293
Format: Print book

Introducing an instant classic -- master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura...
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Homesick for Another World: Stories
Homesick for Another World: Stories

Ottessa Moshfegh · Penguin Press
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "What distinguishes Ottessa Moshfegh's writing is that unnamable quality that makes a new writer's voice, against all odds and the deadening surround of lyrical postures, sound unique."...
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A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel
A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel

David Grossman · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

The acclaimed author of To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a standup comic as revealed in the course of one evening's performance--comedy that will lean inexorably toward tragedy. In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian...
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The Bertie Project
The Bertie Project

Alexander Mccall Smith · Anchor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

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Things We Have in Common
Things We Have in Common

Tasha Kavanagh · MIRA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Reader beware: You'll think you know what's happening, and you'll think you see what's coming next ... But you'll be very, very wrong. Fifteen-year-old Yasmin Doner is a social misfit - obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her peers at school. With her father dead and her mother in a new relationship,...
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My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel
My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel

Sophie Kinsella · Dial Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Part love story, part workplace dramedy, part witty critique of the false judgments we make in a social-media-obsessed world, this is New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella's most timely and sharply observed novel yet. Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living...
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Running: A Novel
Running: A Novel

Cara Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a dark and breathtaking novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that Garth Greenwall calls "a ferocious, brilliant book."Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders...
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