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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel

Linda Holmes · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast comes a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who's lost her husband and a major league pitcher who's lost his game."Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company."...
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The Travelers: A Novel

Regina Porter · Hogarth
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama's first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible." - Entertainment...
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Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel

Taffy Brodesser-Akner · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Just the sort of thing that Philip Roth or John Updike might have produced in their prime (except, of course, that the author understands women) ." - Elizabeth Gilbert "This is a remarkable debut from one of the most distinctive writers around." - Tom Perrotta A finely...
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Wherever She Goes

Kelley Armstrong · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a brand new psychological thriller about the lengths one woman will go to in order to save a child. "Few crimes are reported as quickly as a snatched kid." That's what the officer tells single mother Aubrey Finch after...
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Big Sky

Kate Atkinson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia....
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The Safe House

Kiki Swinson · Dafina
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Packed with "high suspense" and "memorable choices and consequences" (BOOKLIST ) Kiki Swinson's novels sizzle with brutally unpredictable characters, breakneck plotting - and a uniquely gritty portrait of Southern life. Now she breaks all the rules as a young woman...
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Conviction

Denise Mina · Mulholland Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies on her trail.Anna McLean loves to revel...
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The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Once again, Megan Miranda has crafted the perfect summer thriller. The Last House Guest is twisty and tense, with a pace that made my heart race. An edge-of-your-seat, up-all-night read." - Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Time I Lied "No one can be trusted...
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Murder Lo Mein

Vivien Chien · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The third in a tasty series, Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is a delight!Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious -- unless it happens to be deadly. Lana Lee's stake in her family's Chinese restaurant is higher than ever now that she's been made manager. So when...
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The Porpoise: A Novel

Mark Haddon · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the presentMark Haddon's...
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The Rumor: A Novel

Lesley Kara · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"Keeps you guessing until the final page." - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train"A rollercoaster ride to the very last sentence." - Fiona Barton, author of The Widow "Everyone will be talking about The Rumor." - Shari Lapena, author of The Couple...
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The Orphan's Song

Lauren Kate · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan's Song is a sweeping love story about family and music--and the secrets each hold--that follows the intertwined fates of two Venetian orphans.Venice, 1736. Violetta has a secret: When she climbs...
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FKA USA: A Novel

Reed King · Flatiron Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Reed King's amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams's A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.In Reed King's wildly imaginative and possibly prescient debut, the United...
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The Long Flight Home

Alan Hlad · A John Scognamiglio Book
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours - a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940 - a year into the war - and as German bombs fall...
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The Body in Question: A Novel

Jill Ciment · Pantheon
Pages: 192
Format: Book

From the author of Heroic Measures ("Brave, generous, nearly perfect"--L.A. Times) , Act of God, and (with Amy Hempel) , The Hand That Feeds You ("An unnerving, elegant page-turner"--Vanity Fair) , a spare, masterful novel about a shocking murder trial, a sequestered...
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The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel

Claire Lombardo · Doubleday
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

"A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory."--Madeline MillerA dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret...
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The Lemon Sisters: A Novel

Jill Shalvis · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California, where two completely opposite sisters - who are still nursing wounds from the past - realize they need each other more than they think.When Brooke's older sister, Mindy,...
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Soulkeeper

David Dalglish · Orbit
Pages: 720
Format: Paperback

When magic returns to the world, one man must lay aside his words of peace and take up the sword to defend humanity in the first book of this bold new trilogy by USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish. Devin Eveson is a Soulkeeper, traveling through remote villages as a preacher and healer....
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Smitten by the Brit

Melonie Johnson · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

DEFINITELY, MAYBE...OR LOVE, ACTUALLY? English professor Bonnie Blythe expects her life to play out like her favorite novels, especially now that her long-term boyfriend has finally proposed. So when a shocking discovery leads Bonnie to end her engagement, she decides to close the book...
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The Quintland Sisters: A Novel

Shelley Wood · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

In Shelley Wood's fiction debut, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne...
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Maybe This Time

Jill Mansell · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

International bestseller Jill Mansell is back with a new book about star-crossed lovers, family, and, importance of community.Is there ever a perfect time for love?When Mimi Huish first visits her dad's new home in the Cotswolds, she falls in love with Goosebrook and the people who live...
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Murder at Morrington Hall

Clara McKenna · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match - and a murderer . . . Spring, 1905: Free-spirited like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella...
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The Grand Dark

Richard Kadrey · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Book

From the bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison - a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony...
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Emily Eternal

M. G. Wheaton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Meet Emily, "the best AI character since HAL 9000" (Blake Crouch) . She can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets, but unfortunately, even she can't restart the sun. Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process...
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The Southern Side of Paradise

Kristy Woodson Harvey · Gallery Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

From internationally bestselling author and "rising star of Southern fiction" (Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author) Kristy Woodson Harvey comes the third novel in her Peachtree Bluff series, in which a secret threatens the tight-knit bond between a trio of sisters...
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The Gone Dead: A Novel

Chanelle Benz · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day - and she hasn't...
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Summer Hours: A Novel

Amy Mason Doan · Graydon House
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Commencement meets The Graduate in this sparkling novel about a secret affair, the summer it all unravels, and the reunion a decade later that will be one woman's happy ending or her biggest mistake.Becc was the good girl. A dedicated student. Aspiring reporter. Always where she was supposed...
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State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts

Nick Hornby · Riverhead Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.Soon to be a SundanceTV series starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O'Dowd!Tom and Louise meet in a pub before...
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The Last Resort

Marissa Stapley · Graydon House
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"Marissa Stapley's writing is a gift." - Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleThe Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the "last resort" offers a chance for partners...
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