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Fight No More: Stories

Lydia Millet · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit. In her first collection since the Pulitzer Prize finalist Love in Infant Monkeys, Lydia Millet presents a web of stories that explore what it means to be home. A real estate broker is the first...
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The Favorite Sister

Jessica Knoll · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From Jessica Knoll - author of Luckiest Girl Alive, the instant New York Times bestseller and the bestselling debut novel of 2015 - comes a blisteringly paced thriller starring competitive sisters whose dark secrets and lies result in murder when they sign onto a reality TV show.When five...
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The Family Tabor: A Novel

CHERISE WOLAS · Flatiron Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Cherise Wolas, the acclaimed author of The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, comes The Family Tabor, a new novel set over the course of a single weekend, as five members of a family confront the lies upon which their lives are built...
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Eagle & Crane

Suzanne Rindell · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch.Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada -- Eagle and Crane -- are the star attractions...
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The Distance Home: A Novel

Paula Saunders · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A "riveting family saga" (Mary Karr) , set in the American West, about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl's struggle with freedom and artistic desire In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions...
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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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The Disappearing: A Novel

LORI ROY · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Two time Edgar Award winning-author Lori Roy returns with her latest suspense, a dark tale about a small present-day Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.When Lane Fielding fled north Florida after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she never thought she'd...
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Days of Awe: Stories

AM HOMES · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp story collection from a writer who is always "furiously good" (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time) .With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - exploring our attachments to each...
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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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The Court Dancer: A Novel

KYUNG-SOOK SHIN · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After...
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