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Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel

Xochitl Gonzalez - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Who gets to leave a legacy?. 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world,...
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Bad Animals: A Novel

Sarah Braunstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian.Now that her brilliant daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at her quiet Maine public library more than anything....
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Becoming Madam Secretary

Stephanie Dray - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and richly dramatic novel about American heroine Frances Perkins, who pulled the nation out of the Great Depression.. Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn...
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The Berlin Letters: A Cold War Novel

Katherine Reay - Harper Muse
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical,...
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The Best Way to Bury Your Husband: A Novel

Alexia Casale - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done--and hide their bodies once they've killed them. When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just...
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Bye, Baby: A Novel

Carola Lovering - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful, relatable and crazily addictive, Bye, Baby takes an unflinching look at the battling forces of toxicity and love which define so many female friendships. I couldn't put it down." --Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted and The Love of My Life....
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Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Eliza Knight - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe. One woman was recognized as the premiere...
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Daughters of Warsaw: an emotional and heartbreaking WW2 historical fiction novel inspired by a real life hero for 2024

Maria Frances - Avon
Format: Hardcover

Pre-order now! An emotional World War Two time-slip of one woman's inspiring, dangerous and courageous undertaking in the Warsaw ghetto. In a world torn apart by war, she'll risk her life to save them. 1942, Warsaw Young Zofia finds herself leading a double life when she is enlisted...
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Day One: A Novel

Abigail Dean - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A stunning and masterful mystery. A beautifully observed portrait of unthinkable tragedy and the love, hope and despair that remain. Abigail Dean is a rare and very special storyteller." - Chris Whitaker, author of the New York Times bestseller We Begin at the End. A village...
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The Divorcees

Rowan Beaird - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry, a novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future . "A delicious literary page-turner from a fierce new voice." - Rebecca Makkai. "The...
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Ellipses: A Novel

Vanessa Lawrence - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Set in the glossy world of New York City media, this sharp and witty debut novel follows a young woman caught in a toxic mentorship with an older, powerful executive as she grapples with career, belonging, and the complexity of modern relationships in the digital age. When cosmetics mogul...
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Expiration Dates: A Novel

Rebecca Serle
Format: Book

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night....

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Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel

Allison Pataki - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller - America's forgotten leading lady and the central figure of a movement that defined a nation - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post. Massachusetts, 1836. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically...
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Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice: A Novel (The Finlay Donovan Series Book 4)

Elle Cosimano - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice - the fiercely anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series.. "Finlay Donovan is irresistible!" - Janet EvanovichFinlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore...
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Fruit of the Dead: A Novel

Rachel Lyon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid...
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The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County: A Novel

Claire Swinarski - Avon
Format: Paperback

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together in this uplifting novel for readers of The Chicken Sisters.Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy...
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The Girls We Sent Away: A Novel

Meagan Church - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

A searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of 1960s and the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history.It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white...
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Good Half Gone: A Thriller

Tarryn Fisher - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

"The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!" - Colleen Hoover. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never. Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped - so why does no one believe her?Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.. After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband...
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A Grave Robbery (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery Book 9)

Deanna Raybourn - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman...
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A Home for Friendless Women: A Novel

Kelly E. Hill - Vintage
Format: Paperback

In Victorian-era Louisville, the Home for Friendless Women is run by benevolent benefactors with one mission: to reform the fallen women who live there into pious mothers and wives through religious lessons and hard work. . For Ruth, a college student who's expelled after a campus sexual...
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The House on Rye Lane

Susan Allott - The Borough Press
Format: Audiobook

They thought they'd found their dream home. They were wrong.2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain - a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work but Max couldn't resist it. Now they are in, though, nothing seems to be going...
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If the Tide Turns

Rachel Rueckert - Kensington
Format: Paperback

Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combining high seas adventure, star-crossed longing, surprisingly timely questions about social...
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In a Not So Perfect World: A Novel

Neely Tubati-Alexander - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

"Tubati Alexander is a writer to watch!" - Emily GiffinThe author of Love Buzz follows her acclaimed first novel with a delightful Caribbean-set romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when...
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In the Shadow of the Greenbrier

Emily Matchar - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

Four generations. One remarkable hotel. Countless secrets.. Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations...
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The Inheritance: A Novel

Joanna Goodman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's...
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It Must Be True Then: A Novel

Luci Adams - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

A funny and timeless novel from Luci Adams in the vein of Sophie Cousens and Kelly Harms featuring:*One horrible, "bury your head under the covers" kind of day. *Two adorable children to nanny; and. *Their very hot, very single father. Daisy has realized you really can hit rock...
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Jaded: A Novel

Ela Lee - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened - and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder. Jade isn't even my real name. Jade...
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The Last Verse: A Novel

Caroline Frost - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes The Last Verse, a gripping novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime. When aspiring...
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The Lost Book of Bonn: A Novel

Brianna Labuskes - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books.Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany...
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The Memory of Lavender and Sage

Aimie K. Runyan - Harper Muse
Format: Paperback

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money...
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Memory Piece: A Novel

Lisa Ko - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire...
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Murder in the Tea Leaves (A Tea Shop Mystery Book 27)

Laura Childs - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

It's Lights, Action, Murder as tea maven Theodosia Browning scrambles for clues in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.. When Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie, Dark Fortunes, things go from spooky to worse. Lights are dimmed,...
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

Damilare Kuku - SWIFT PRESS
Format: Hardcover

One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care.. Nearly All the Men in Lagos...
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Never Been Better

Leanne Toshiko Simpson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman's messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat. Is she falling in love, or falling apart? Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge,...
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Never Too Late: A Novel

Danielle Steel - Dell
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life.. Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined...
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The Other Side of Disappearing

Kate Clayborn - Kensington Books
Format: Paperback

A novel filled with depth, wit, heart, and a bit of intrigue, from the author who has captivated readers and reviewers alike with her "modern yet timeless" (Kirkus Reviews) storytelling, complex characters, relatable friendships, and emotionally rich romance.. Hairstylist Jess...
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Sisters with a Side of Greens

Michelle Stimpson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

Two strong-willed sisters fight their way to forgiveness in this feel-good Southern fiction, for fans of Terry McMillan and KJ Dell'Antonia's The Chicken Sisters.Sisters Rose Tillman and Marvina Nash haven't spoken in decades - not since Rose sent Marvina $40 to register their...
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Speculations in Sin (A Below Stairs Mystery)

Jennifer Ashley - Berkley
Format: Paperback

To save an innocent man's life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane. Kat Holloway is distressed to learn that Samuel...
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Studies at the School by the Sea: The Fourth School by the Sea Novel

Jenny Colgan - Avon
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited and never-before published finale in New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan's delightful School by the Sea series.After all those lessons, it's time to graduate....Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding...
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Such a Lovely Family

Aggie Blum Thompson - Forge Books
Format: Paperback

The cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Washington, D.C., and the Calhouns are in the midst of hosting their annual party to celebrate the best of the spring season. With a house full of friends, neighbors, and their beloved three adult children, the Calhouns are expecting another picture-perfect...
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Sylvia's Second Act: A Novel

Hillary Yablon - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams - with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand...
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The Tower: A Novel

Flora Carr - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom. Scotland, 1567. A pregnant Mary, Queen of Scots...
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The Trail of Lost Hearts

Tracey Garvis Graves - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send youexactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-alteringblows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behindher....
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The Underground Library: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this heartwarming novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown,...
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Until August: A novel

Gabriel García Márquez - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married...
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The Woman in the Sable Coat

Elizabeth Brooks - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Orphan of Salt Winds, The Whispering House, and The House in the Orchard comes a passionate and fateful story of love, betrayal, and the rewards - and costs - of following your heart. At the height of the Second World War in England, twenty-two year old Nina...
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The Woman with No Name: A Novel

Audrey Blake - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

She'll light the fire of resistance -- but she may get burned ... 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne -- older, diminutive, overlooked -- has lost...
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Women of Good Fortune: A Novel

Sophie Wan - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling debut about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who launch a heist to steal all the gift money on the big day. Lulu has always been...
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