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Autumn: A Novel
Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet - four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are) - and it casts...
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Home Sweet Home: A novel
Home Sweet Home: A novel

April Smith · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial, and,...
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Be My Wolff: A novel
Be My Wolff: A novel

Emma Richler · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

A nimble, extraordinarily moving novel about a sister and adopted brother with a one-of-a-kind connection Zachariah and Rachel Wolff are brother and sister. Well, not exactly. They are star-crossed lovers. Well, not exactly. Rachel is the cherished daughter born to a Russian family living...
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All That's Left to Tell
All That's Left to Tell

Daniel Lowe · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, All That's Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need for it in even the most dire situations. Alternately gripping and dreamy, Daniel Lowe's debut imagines what the stories we tell...
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This Is How It Always Is: A Novel
This Is How It Always Is: A Novel

Laurie Frankel · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated.This is how children change ... and then change the world.When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest...
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The Woman Next Door: A Novel
The Woman Next Door: A Novel

Yewande Omotoso · Picador
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction * A Finalist for the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize * One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch * One of The Millions' and Refinery 29's Most Anticipated Books of the Year * One of the Best Black Heritage Reads (Essence Magazine) Loving...
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The Fall of Lisa Bellow
The Fall of Lisa Bellow

Susan Perabo · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do - when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in an unforgettable...
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The Cutaway: A Novel
The Cutaway: A Novel

Christina Kovac · 37 INK
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The Cutaway draws you into the tangled world of corruption and cover-up as a young television producer investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer in this stunning psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn.When brilliant TV news producer...
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The Last Chance Matinee
The Last Chance Matinee

Mariah Stewart · Gallery Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only...
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One of the Boys: A Novel
One of the Boys: A Novel

Daniel Magariel · Scribner
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A riveting and emotionally harrowing debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father - One of the Boys is 176 perfect, stunning pages by a major new talent.The three of them - a twelve-year-old boy, his older brother, their father - have won the war:...
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