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Rules for Visiting: A Novel

Jessica Francis Kane · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure...
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Disappearing Earth: A novel

Julia Phillips · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion a propulsive, evocative, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.One August afternoon,...
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Robert B. Parker's Buckskin

Robert Knott · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch pursue a vicious killer in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times-bestselling series.After marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch lay Appaloosa's sheriff to rest, an emerging handful of men eagerly vie for the deceased sheriff's...
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What We Were Promised

Lucy Tan · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into...
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Swimming for Sunlight

Allie Larkin · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie's grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother's troupe of underwater performers - finding hope and renewal in unexpected places, in this sweet novel perfect for fans...
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Supermarket

Bobby Hall · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A stunning debut novel from one of the most creative voices of our generation, Bobby Hall - a.k.a. Logic.Flynn is stuck - depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work...
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The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake · Flatiron Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used...
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The Flight Portfolio: A novel

Julie Orringer · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the HolocaustIn...
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The Daughter's Tale: A Novel

Armando Lucas Correa · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The German Girl delivers an unforgettable family saga of love and redemption during World War II, based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944.New York City, 2015: Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call...
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel

Sonali Dev · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco...It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered...
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