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Sunset Beach

Mary Kay Andrews · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next summer blockbuster.Drue Campbell's life and career have recently been derailed. The only thing she has left is the house her mother left her: a ramshackle beach bungalow with a missing roof in the once-sleepy...
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The Flight Portfolio: A novel

Julie Orringer · Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the HolocaustIn 1940,...
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The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake · Flatiron Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used...
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The Farm: A Novel

Joanne Ramos · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules. "[Joanne] Ramos's debut novel couldn't be more relevant or timely." - O: The Oprah Magazine (25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2019) Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity:...
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Tiny Americans: A Novel

Devin Murphy · Harper Perennial
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world - perfect for fans of the film Boyhood.Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving,...
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The Bride Test

Helen Hoang · Berkley
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny,...
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The Paris Diversion: A Novel

Chris Pavone · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Kate Moore is back in a pulse-pounding thriller to discover that a massive terror attack across Paris is not what it seems - and that it involves her familyAmerican expat Kate Moore drops her kids at the international school, makes her shopping rounds, and meets her husband Dexter at their...
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Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida...
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The Body in the Wake: A Novel

Katherine Hall Page · William Morrow
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Amateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild is at her Penobscot Bay, Maine cottage preparing for a summer wedding, when she stumbles across . . . another body in this 25th entry in the beloved mystery series.For the first time in years, Faith Fairchild has time for herself. Her husband...
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Thunderbolt: A Novel

Dale Brown · William Morrow
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this exciting, visionary, and all-too-plausible next chapter in the legendary Dale Brown's New York Times bestselling techno-warfare series, Brad McLanahan and the Iron Wolf Squadron must fight the Russians on a dangerous, untested battlefield: outer space.The previous administration's...
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Storm Cursed

PATRICIA BRIGGS · Ace
Pages: 384
Format: Book

In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves ... My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic. And a coyote shapeshifter. And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf...
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No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell

Delilah S. Dawson · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Go big or go gnome. The New York Times bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy return to the world of Pell, the irreverent fantasy universe that recalls Monty Python and Terry Pratchett. War is coming, and it's gonna be Pell. On one side stand the gnomes: smol, cheerful, possessing tidy...
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The House on Foster Hill

JAIME JO WRIGHT · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Outstanding Debut Novel from an Author to WatchKaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's...
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The Woman in the Dark

Vanessa Savage · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of The Couple Next Door, a debut psychological thriller about a woman who moves with her family to the gothic seaside house where her husband grew up -- and where 15 years ago another family was brutally slaughtered.Sarah and Patrick are happy. But after her mother's death,...
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A Welcome at Our Door

Amy Clipston · Zondervan
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In the final installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Homestead series, Cindy Riehl finds herself searching outside of her community for fulfillment and, with the help of a special friend, realizes what she was looking for was right in front of her all along.Over the last few years, Cindy Riehl...
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel

Juliet Grames · Ecco
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter...
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The New Me

Halle Butler · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

"A dark comedy of female rage" (Catherine Lacey) and a biting satire of life in the American workforce from a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American Novelist "Masterfully cringe-inducing. . . [makes] the reader squirm...
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The Luminous Dead: A Novel

Caitlin Starling · Harper Voyager
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition,...
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Unti Constantine #2: A Novel

Liv Constantine · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous husband...
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Little Lovely Things: A Novel

Maureen Joyce Connolly · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

"A shattering adventure." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, bestselling author of The Deep End of the OceanIf only things had been differentIt is the wrong time to get sick. Speeding down the highway on the way to work, her two little girls sleeping in the back seat, medical resident Claire...
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Becoming Us: A Novel

Robin Jones Gunn · Multnomah
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the author of the best-selling Christy Miller and SisterChicks series comes a new book of community, friendship, and tackling the hard things of life with God and loved ones around a table.Five young moms, including beloved Gunn character Christy Miller, gather to share meals and soon...
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Sorcerer Royal

ZEN CHO · Ace
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In the follow-up to the "delightful" Regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae.When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach...
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The Poison Bed: A Novel

Elizabeth Fremantle · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding thriller set in the Jacobean Court of 1615 surrounding a famed couple imprisoned on suspicion of murder -- but was it Lord Robert or Lady Frances who committed the crime? A marriage. A murder. One of them did it. Which of them will die for it? In the autumn of 1615, scandal...
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