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What We Lose: A Novel

ZINZI CLEMMONS · VIKING
Pages: 192
Format: Book

From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age - a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country.

Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg...

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Refuge: A Novel

Dina Nayeri · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Book

An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over...

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Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

Bill Nye · Rodale Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Bill Nye has been the public face of science for more than 20 years. In Everything All At Once, the New York Times bestselling author issues a call to arms meant to rouse everyone to become the change they want to see in the world. Whether addressing global warming, social...

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Down a Dark Road

Linda Castillo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Eight years ago Joseph King was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life in prison. He was a "fallen" Amish man and, according to local law enforcement, a known drug user with a violent temper. Now King has escaped, and he's headed for Painters Mill.

News...

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Watch Me Disappear: A Novel

JANELLE BROWN · RANDOM House
Pages: 368
Format: Book

A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple - from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.

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Final Girls: A Novel

Riley Sager · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Book

Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to - a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final...

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Hello, Sunshine

Laura Dave · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From Laura Dave - the author of the "addictive" (Us Weekly) , "winning" (Publishers Weekly) and critically acclaimed bestseller Eight Hundred Grapes - comes a new novel about the secrets we keep ... even from ourselves.

Sunshine Mackenzie...
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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

LISA SCOTTOLINE · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This seven book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.
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Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

Rachel Khong · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

"Khong is a magician, and we are lucky to fall under her spell at the very beginning of her brilliant writing life." -- Lauren Groff

"This novel sneaks up on you -- just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love." -- Miranda July

"Tonight...

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Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

NAOKI HIGASHIDA · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of life as a young adult with autism

Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese...
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The Secrets She Keeps

MICHAEL ROBOTHAM · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The Girl on the Train and In a Dark, Dark Wood, from the internationally bestselling author whom Stephen King called "an absolute master" of the psychological thriller, comes a riveting suspense novel about the unlikely friendship...
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

Jen Waite · Plume
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When "it could never happen to me" does happen to you? These are the questions facing Jen Waite when she begins to realize that her loving husband - the father of her infant...
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Hum If You Don't Know the Words

Bianca Marais · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.

Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old...
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Conversations with Friends: A Novel

SALLY ROONEY · Hogarth
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century

Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms...
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The Nearness of You

Dorothy Garlock · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away . . . especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city.

New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams...
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Fitness Junkie: A Novel

Lucy Sykes · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt - through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes - to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds.

When Janey Sweet,...
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Tornado Weather

Deborah Elaine Kennedy · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful ... Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O'Connor." -- Benjamin Percy

Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today,...

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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta

Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural...
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography

LUCY WORSLEY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender,...

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