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Trinity

LOUISA HALL · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer - father of the atomic bomb - as told by seven fictional charactersJ. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally...
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Not Our Kind: A Novel

KITTY ZELDIS · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: eBook

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women - one Jewish, one a WASP - and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting.One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor...
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Wolves of Eden: A Novel

KEVIN MCCARTHY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West.Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat...
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Listen to the Marriage: A Novel

John Jay Osborn · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A riveting drama of marital therapyGretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely...
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The Feral Detective: A Novel

JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing...
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Paris Echo: A Novel

Sebastian Faulks · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks.American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where...
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Pulse: A Novel

Michael T Harvey · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The story of a Boston murder that defies all expectations - optioned for film by 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things and ArrivalBoston, 1976. In a small apartment above Kenmore Square, sixteen-year-old Daniel Fitzsimmons is listening to his landlord describe a seemingly insane theory...
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Bitter Orange

CLAIRE FULLER · Tin House Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico...
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Aunt Sookie & Me: the sordid tale of a scandalous southern belle

Michael Scott Garvin · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

*****Publishers Weekly - Booklife Finalist*****Indie Brag Award Winner*****Pinnacle Book Award Winner*****Shelf Unbound Notable 100 Books*****BIBA Star Award*****Book Excellence Award Winner*****Golden Crown Winner*****Winner of The Beverly Hills Book Awards*****Winner of The Royal Dragonfly...
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Car Trouble: A Novel

ROBERT RORKE · Harper Perennial
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

From a bright new talent, a witty, moving, and inspirational coming-of-age debut novel set in 1970s Brooklyn about a teenager and his abusive father whose obsession with broken down vintage cars careens wildly out of control."Such a pleasure to read.... This is a coming of age story,...
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