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Queen Bee: A Novel

Dorothea Benton Frank · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's...
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Lights All Night Long: A Novel

Lydia Fitzpatrick · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer"Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. . . . One of the most propulsive, un-put-downable literary novels I've...
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Pickle's Progress: A Novel

Marcia Butler · Central Avenue Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Marcia Butler's debut novel, Pickle's Progress, is a fierce, mordant New York story about the twisted path to love. Over the course of five weeks, identical twin brothers, one wife, a dog, and a bereaved young woman collide with each other to comical and sometimes horrifying effect....
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The Risk of Us

Rachel Howard · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, dazzling debut novel about a woman who longs to be a mother and the captivating yet troubled child she and her husband take in. What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens...
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A Bend in the Stars

Rachel Barenbaum · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest...
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The Key to Happily Ever After

Tif Marcelo · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A charming romantic comedy about three sisters who are struggling to keep the family wedding planning business afloat - all the while trying to write their own happily-ever-afters in the process. All's fair in love and business. The de la Rosa family and their wedding planning business...
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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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The Mathematical Bridge

Jim Kelly · Allison and Busby
Format: Hardcover

Cambridge, 1940. It is the first winter of the war, and snow is falling. When an evacuee drowns in the river, his body swept away, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke sets out to investigate what seems to be a deliberate attack. The following night, a local electronics factory is attacked,...
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The Song of the Jade Lily: A Novel

Kirsty Manning · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"Kristy Manning weaves together little-known threads of World War II history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turning, beautiful novel." - Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzA gripping historical novel that tells...
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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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