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The Color of Our Sky: A Novel

Amita Trasi · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice - a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old...
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Foxlowe: A Novel

Eleanor Wasserberg · Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An astonishing literary debut about a young girl's coming of age in the haunting, enchanting world of an English commune - a modern gothic novel with echoes of Room and Never Let Me Go

Foxlowe is a crumbling old house in the moors - a wild, secluded, and magical...
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The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama

Roland Merullo · Doubleday
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable.

What...
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Burntown: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon · Doubleday Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People and Promise Not to Tell returns with a riveting psychological thriller in which an unresolved murder haunts a family for generations, forcing one daughter into a life of hiding and concealed identity to escape...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Sarat Chestnut, born...
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My Italian Bulldozer: A Novel

Alexander Mccall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside.


When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.

Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling....
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

ARUN GANDHI · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,...
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Beartown: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN · ATRIA Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just...
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

Matthew Dennison · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life.

Inspired by the twenty-three...
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