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The Golden Hour: A Novel

Beatriz Williams · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau - a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu"...
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era...
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Death and Other Happy Endings: A Novel

Melanie Cantor · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

There's nothing like being told that in three months you'll be dead to make you think about what you really want in lifeJennifer Cole has just been told that she has a terminal blood disorder and has just three months to live--ninety days to say goodbye to friends and family, and to put her affairs...
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The Welcoming

Nora Roberts · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Visitors come to Charity's friendly little inn to escape their ordinary lives. But FBI Agent Roman DeWinter knows something ugly is going on beneath the cozy surface. His mission is to expose the dangerous criminal gang operating out of the inn. Going undercover, Roman begins his investigation...
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Chances Are . . .: A novel

Richard Russo · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
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Almost Midnight

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron's bestselling series, the death of Maine's last wild wolf leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy.Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch already has a troubling mystery on his hands: finding the archer...
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Richard Zoglin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal...
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Labyrinth

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which Agent Sherlock risks losing her career - and her sanity - over a case that is more complicated and twisted than any she's ever encountered. On a dark night, Agent Sherlock is driving along...
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Surfside Sisters: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren't always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she's...
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The Lightest Object in the Universe: A Novel

Kimi Eisele · Algonquin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"This is a novel with that exact balance of heart and momentum. Dazzling." --Christian Kiefer, author of The Animals What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel....
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