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If We Were Villains: A Novel
If We Were Villains: A Novel

M L Rio · Flatiron Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." -- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author...
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

Dani Shapiro · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry...
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Long Black Veil: A Novel
Long Black Veil: A Novel

Jennifer Finney Boylan · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There, a new novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past.
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Music of the Ghosts
Music of the Ghosts

Vaddey Ratner · Touchstone
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of In the Shadow of the Banyan comes a novel about a young woman who returns to her homeland after receiving a letter from a mysterious man who claims to have known her father before he disappeared in the Cambodian holocaust.Teera,...
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Often I Am Happy: A Novel
Often I Am Happy: A Novel

Jens Christian Grøndahl · Twelve
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

This elegant and nuanced literary gem explores the intricacies of friendship, secrets, and two marriages, for fans of The Dinner and Dept. of Speculation. "Often I am happy and yet I want to cry; / For no heart fully shares my joy." -B.S. IngemannEllinor is seventy. Her husband...
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One Perfect Lie
One Perfect Lie

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Scottoline keeps the pace relentless as she drops a looming threat into the heart of an idyllic suburban community, causing readers to hold their breath in anticipation." -BOOKLIST "Readers can be assured that the author nails the high school milieu, from athletic rivalries...
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached...
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Alex and Eliza: A Love Story
Alex and Eliza: A Love Story

Melissa de la Cruz · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and The Descendants comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing...
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The Shadow Land: A Novel
The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova · Ballantine Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present - and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad...
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