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New Titles - Literature & Fiction
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The Great Believers
REBECCA MAKKAI · Viking
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca MakkaiIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing... |
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · Grove Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable... |
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Ayiti
ROXANE GAY · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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From New York Times -bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. Originally published by a small press, this Grove Press paperback will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories.... |
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The Book of Essie: A novel
Meghan MacLean Weir · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A debut novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.Esther... |
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Bearskin: A Novel
James A McLaughlin · Ecco
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling - filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin's... |
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A Place for Us: A Novel
FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA · SJP for Hogarth
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belongingA Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate... |
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The Verdun Affair: A Novel
NICK DYBEK · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart.In 1921, two young Americans... |
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Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates · Mysterious Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those... |
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Lying in Wait: A Novel
Liz Nugent · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the international bestselling author of Unraveling Oliver, an "unputdownable psychological thriller with an ending that lingers long after turning the final page" (The Irish Times) about a Dublin family whose dark secrets and twisted relationships are suddenly revealed.My... |
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
Amy Meyerson · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just... |
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