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The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain
Mark Z Danielewski · Pantheon, 2016. Pages: 880 Format: Print book |
Released for the summer from the perils of school, Xanther and her nameless cat are settling into a comfortable routine at home. However, the rest of the Ibrahim family is growing more and more unsettled. Astair fears their stretched finances are already at a breaking point. Not even a visit... |
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Enchanted Islands: A Novel
Allison Amend · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Pages: 306 Format: Print book |
Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink... |
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Wintering: A novel
Peter Geye · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 299 Format: Print book |
A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in "Wintering "are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed... |
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Mata Hari's Last Dance: A Novel
Michelle Moran · Touchstone Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy.Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom ... or death. Alone... |
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The Perfect Neighbors: A Novel
Sarah Pekkanen · Washington Square Press Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
One of "Glamour" s Best Reads of Summer A compelling, suspenseful tale. "Kirkus Reviews" The perfect summer read. "BOOKLIST " How well do you ever really know the family next door? Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights... |
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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep: A Novel
Joanna Cannon · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong.England, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is missing and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbors... |
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Amour Provence : a novel
Constance Leisure · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
A lush, evocative, debut novel set in Provence about the people who grow up and live and remain in two tiny neighboring villages from the Nazi occupation to the present day in particular, one man and one woman who have yet to find love. In the south of France farm life unfolds with the rhythm... |
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Stranger, Father, Beloved
Taylor Larsen · Gallery Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover |
In the tradition of Tom Perrotta's Little Children, a "mesmerizing, unsparing" (Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!) debut novel about a wealthy man who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial, sending him - and his family - into a slow spiral... |
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware · Scout Press Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware - this time, set at sea.In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha... |
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