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Lost Roses: A Novel

MARTHA HALL KELLY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow...
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Grace After Henry

Eithne Shortall · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A quirky love story set in Dublin that's perfect for fans of PS, I Love You and Jojo Moyes, Grace After Henry is a funny, heartfelt debut novel about one woman learning what it means to move on and to let goWhen her fiancé, Henry Walsh, is killed in a freak biking accident, Grace feels...
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The Peacock Emporium: A Novel

Jojo Moyes · Penguin Books
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Now published in the US for the first time, an early novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters: A Novel

Balli Kaur Jaswal · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama - an Indian This Is Where I Leave You - about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their...
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The Binding: A Novel

Bridget Collins · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Sarah Waters, Helene Wecker, and Jessie Burton, an atmospheric and mystery-laden historical novel set within a magical world where books are not stories but the repository of individual lives.Imagine you could erase grief.Imagine you could remove pain.Imagine you could...
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Beautifully written. . . . Full of insight into the nature of tragedy, love, and redemption." --Garth SteinA gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant...
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The Break Line

James Brabazon · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max McLean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent. When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin,...
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The Tale Teller: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

ANNE HILLERMAN · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.Joe Leaphorn may have retired from...
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The Gulf: A Novel

Belle Boggs · Graywolf Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelieversMarianne is in a slump: barely able to support herself by teaching, not making progress on her poetry, about to lose her Brooklyn apartment. When her novelist ex-fiancé, Eric,...
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On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 Years Old

HENDRIK GROEN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Book

In the acclaimed follow-up to the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back and as funny and charming as ever with the newest adventures of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club--for fans of Frederik Backman and Graeme Simsion. Everyone's...
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Fumbled

Alexa Martin · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A second chance doesn't guarantee a touchdown in this new contemporary romance from the author of Intercepted.Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include...
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Stay Up with Hugo Best: A Novel

Erin Somers · Scribner
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An incredibly timely, terrifically witty and moving debut about a young writers' assistant on a late night comedy show and what transpires when she accepts an invitation from its enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his mansion in Connecticut.June Bloom is a broke, cynical twenty-nine-year-old...
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The Book of Dreams: A Novel

Nina George · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The next novel from Nina George, author of the blockbuster bestsellers The Little Paris Bookshop and The Little French Bistro, about the spaces between lives and realities and loves both lost and coming homeWhen Henri ends up in a coma after rescuing a young girl from the Thames, his ex-girlfriend,...
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Another Kingdom

Andrew Klavan · Turner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"What was this place? Was I crazy? Or was I crazy before, back in L.A.? Was my real life some sort of dream? Was this hell reality?" Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter whose life is suddenly changed forever when he opens a door and is unwittingly transported...
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Bones Behind the Wheel: A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery

E J COPPERMAN · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Barry Award-winning author E. J. Copperman is back with the tenth hilarious installment in his national bestselling Haunted Guesthouse mysteries.Haunted Guesthouse proprietress Alison Kerby and her ghostly guest detective, Paul, "auto" know better than to dig into the case of a long-buried...
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The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green

Erica Boyce · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Sometimes wonder is found not beyond the stars, but a few feet from your own front door...Daniel Green makes crop circles. As a member of a secret organization, he travels across the country creating strange works of art that leave communities mystified. He's always been alone; in fact,...
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The Altruists: A Novel

Andrew Ridker · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Super brilliant, super funny."--Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Lake Success"A truly remarkable debut."--Nathan Hill, author of The NixA vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritanceArthur Alter is in trouble....
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Murder with Collard Greens and Hot Sauce

A.L. Herbert · Kensington
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Mahalia's Sweet Tea boasts the most flavorful soul food in all of Prince George's County, Maryland. But as events at the beauty industry's leading trade show turn ugly, owner Halia Watkins needs to bite into an unsavory new item on the menu - murder! When the chicest hair convention...
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The Elephant of Surprise

Joe R. Lansdale · Mulholland Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard--a tough-as-nails Black, gay, Vietnam vet and Republican--but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. After years of crime-solving companionship, something's changed: Hap, recently...
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Tomorrow There Will Be Sun: A Novel

Dana Reinhardt · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to this smart, absorbing story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong, wrong, wrongTwo families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. Jenna has organized the trip to celebrate her husband's fiftieth...
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A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself: A Novel

William Boyle · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Goodfellas meets Thelma and Louise when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures from their pasts. After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray when he makes...
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