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The Quintland Sisters: A Novel

Shelley Wood · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

In Shelley Wood's fiction debut, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne...
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White Elephant: A Novel

· Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novelThe White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing...
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American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

Karen Harper · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess.Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her "The Wedding of the Century" to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind "the glitter and the gold."On...
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When All Is Said: A Novel

Anne Griffin · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." -- New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"I'm here to remember-all that I have been and all that I will never be again."If you had to pick five people...
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If Cats Disappeared from the World: A Novel

Genki Kawamura · Flatiron Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

The international phenomenon that has sold over a million copies in Japan, If Cats Disappeared from the World is a funny, heartwarming, and profound meditation on the meaning of life.The postman's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage to keep...
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Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna

MARIO GIORDANO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Auntie Poldi finds a body in a vineyard, she sets out to solve another murder - with the Mafia nipping at her heels - in the next adventure from this national bestselling "smash series." (People Magazine) "There's a new star in the mystery firmament, and her name...
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The Silk Road: A Novel

Kathryn Davis · Graywolf Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literatureThe Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to rise...
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

Darnell L Moore · Bold Type Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured...
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On the Run in Nazi Berlin: A Memoir

Bert Lewyn · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

BERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes...
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Zuleikha

Guzel Yakhina
Format: Hardcover

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