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The Odds of You and Me: A Novel

Cecilia Galante · Harpercollins
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

In the vein of Meg Donohue and Sarah Jio, Cecilia Galante's second novel delivers the powerful story of one young woman who's faced with an impossible choice - one that could have her making the biggest mistake of her life. Thirteen days. That's all Bernadette, "Bird,"...
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The Dressmaker's Dowry: A Novel

Meredith Jaeger · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

For readers of Lucinda Riley, Sarah Jio, or Susan Meissner, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco's gritty streets in 1876, and the other, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secrets...
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The Forbidden Garden: A Novel

Ellen Herrick · Harpercollins
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life. Every garden is a story, waiting to be told ... At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England...
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The Day I Died: A Novel

Lori Rader-Day · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance - at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy...
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The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel

Ann Claycomb · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations...
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly personalaccount...
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Lover: A Novel

Anna Raverat · Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

You can learn a lot about a husband by reading his e-mail -- sometimes, too muchKate -- a wife, a mother of two, and a senior executive at a multinational hotel company -- has made caring for others her life's work, and she's good at it. But when she opens her husband's computer...
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The Golden Legend: A novel

Nadeem Aslam · Knopf
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover

A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road,...
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The Original Ginny Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Ludwig · Park Row Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Ginny Moon is a brilliant debut... I was unable to put the book down ... . This novel has all the elements for critical and popular success!" - Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectSee the world differently.Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your...
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

CLAIRE DEDERER · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages...
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