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All Grown Up
All Grown Up

Jami Attenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say:...
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The Hearts of Men: A Novel
The Hearts of Men: A Novel

Nickolas Butler · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

An epic novel of intertwining friendships and families set in the Northwoods of Wisconsin at a beloved Boy Scout summer camp - from the bestselling author of Shotgun LovesongsCamp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille...
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Ill Will: A Novel
Ill Will: A Novel

Dan Chaon · Ballantine Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

Two sensational unsolved crimes - one in the past, another in the present - are linked by one man's memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. "We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves,"...
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The Confessions of Young Nero
The Confessions of Young Nero

Margaret George · Berkley Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Margaret George has brought history to vivid life with her chronicles of queens and kings. Now, she turns her gaze to an Emperor... Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks...
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Exit West: A Novel
Exit West: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From the internationally bestselling author of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, " a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In an unnamed city teetering on the brink of civil war, a young...
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Rabbit Cake
Rabbit Cake

Annie Hartnett · Tin House Books
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, Rabbit Cake, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother. An American...
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Celine: A novel
Celine: A novel

Peter Heller · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. Working out of her jewel box of an apartment...
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Edgar and Lucy: A Novel
Edgar and Lucy: A Novel

Victor Lodato · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Eight-year-old Edgar Fini's loyalty is torn between the two women in his life.There's his mother, Lucy, who, though she has moments where she loves him, mostly disappears at night with her various "suitors." And then there's his grandmother, Florence, who dotes on him to the point...
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Close Enough to Touch: A Novel
Close Enough to Touch: A Novel

Colleen Oakley · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the author of Before I Go comes an unconventional but beautiful love story perfect for fans of the emotional novels of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes.One time a boy kissed me and I almost died... And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins, a young woman with a rare and debilitating...
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Say Nothing: A Novel
Say Nothing: A Novel

Brad Parks · Dutton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Terrific book. Truly terrific. Tension throughout and tears at the end. What could be better than that?" - Sue Grafton "Outstanding - starts with a bang and gets tenser and tenser. Say Nothing shows Parks is a quality writer at the top of his form." - Lee Child Judge...
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Next Year, for Sure: A Novel
Next Year, for Sure: A Novel

Zoey Leigh Peterson · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love.After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy....
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The Song Rising
The Song Rising

Samantha Shannon · Bloomsbury
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population. But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilizing the fractured...
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Two Good Dogs
Two Good Dogs

Susan Wilson · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

When Cody, a troubled fourteen-year-old, witnesses a murder, she tells no one. But it begins a spiral for her from which she cannot escape. Her worried mother Skye thinks a change of scene is just what her introverted, withdrawn daughter needs and since her dream has always been to own an inn,...
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The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
The Price of Illusion: A Memoir

Joan Juliet Buck · Atria Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold,...
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Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII
Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII

Scott Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

This is the secret and suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of Germans conspiring to assassinate Hitler and negotiate surrender to bring about the end of World War II before the Soviet's advance.Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent...
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Madame President
Madame President

Helene Cooper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished...
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South and West: From a Notebook
South and West: From a Notebook

JOAN DIDION · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard...
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Michael Finkel · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old...
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Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog
Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog

Lauren Watt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The playful, epic adventure of a 160-pound English Mastiff and the twentysomething girl who grew up alongside her - Marley & Me for a whole new generation.Lauren Watt took her 160-pound English Mastiff to college - so of course after graduation, Gizelle followed Lauren to her first,...
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Lies We Believe About God
Lies We Believe About God

Wm Paul Young · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the author of the twenty million plus copy bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of the wrong-headed ideas we sometimes have and share about God.Wm. Paul Young has been called a heretic for the ways...
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere

Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Imagine a sisterhood - across all creeds and cultures. An unspoken agreement that we, as women, will support and encourage one another. That we will remember we don't know what struggles each of us may be facing elsewhere in our lives and so we will assume that each of us is doing our best...
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