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The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples: A Novel

Roberto Saviano · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Gomorrah, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. In The Piranhas, the international bestselling author...
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Crudo: A Novel

OLIVIA LAING · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, funny, and emphatically raw novel of love on the brink of the apocalypse, from the acclaimed author of The Lonely City."She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue."Kathy...
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Katerina

JAMES FREY · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey's highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles.A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs...
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Cherry: A novel

Nico Walker · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily...
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Orchid and the Wasp: A Novel

CAOILINN HUGHES · Hogarth
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Dazzling and daringly original, this debut novel tells the story of an unforgettable young woman's coming of age across Dublin, London, and New YorkOrchid & the Wasp brings to life the spiky and passionate voice of Gael Foess as she struggles to become her own person in the face...
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The New Inheritors

Kent Wascom · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast of the United States, Wascom began with his much-lauded debut, The Blood of Heaven, published...
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Remind Me Again What Happened

Joanna Luloff · Algonquin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"There is a smudge where my memory is supposed to be." Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie,...
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Hits and Misses: Stories

SIMON RICH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A sharp new collection from "one of the funniest writers in America" -- The Daily BeastSimon Rich is the "hilarious" (Washington Post) humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) , James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian)...
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Kismet

LUKE TREDGET · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Black Mirror meets Bridget Jones in this whip-smart debut set in a world where the ultimate matchmaking app has redefined romance. Twenty-nine-year-old Anna is smart, vivacious, and in the midst of a complete existential meltdown. Sure, from the outside everything in her life seems to be going...
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Horse: A novel

Talley English · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The haunting debut of a plainspoken, utterly original new voice: a novel about a girl on the cusp of her teenage years, who is growing up faster than she ever hoped she would.When Teagan's father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage...
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