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Norma: A novel

SOFI OKSANEN · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming...
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The Red-Haired Woman: A novel

Orhan Pamuk · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain....
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The Barrowfields: A Novel

Phillip Lewis · Hogarth Pr
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fictionJust before Henry Aster's birth, his father - outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow - reluctantly returns...
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The Tragedy of Brady Sims

Ernest J Gaines · Vintage
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady...
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Love Warrior: A Memoir

GLENNON DOYLE MELTON · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 Selection"Riveting ... a worthy investment ... this book has real wisdom." -- New York Times Book Review"A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry...
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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby: A Novel

Cherise Wolas · Flatiron Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

"A stunning debut...Reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion." -- A.M. HomesI viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do -- work is paramount,...
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All Is Not Forgotten: A Novel

WENDY WALKER · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama...it is, in a word, unforgettable." --William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOBIt begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young...
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The signal flame : a novel

Andrew Krivak · Scribner
Format: Paperback

"The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak--a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. In a small town in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss...
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Hame: A novel

ANNALENA MCAFEE · Knopf
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

A rich, sultry, ambitious novel about a young American writer/curator, fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine-year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland, birthplace of her grandfather. Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write...
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I Am Watching You

Teresa Driscoll · Thomas & Mercer
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts bestseller.What would it take to make you intervene? When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert....
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