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The Favorites: A Novel

Rosemary Hennigan · Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

An edgy, feminist campus novel about justice, gender, and power, following a woman who enrolls in law school and competes her way into an elite "Law and Literature" cohort to get revenge on the charismatic professor who wronged her sister. Most students would kill to be accepted...
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Day: A Novel

Michael Cunningham · Random House
Format: Hardcover

A searing, exquisitely crafted exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life - and how we all must learn to live together and apart - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic...
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Good Taste: A Novel in Search of Great Food

Caroline Scott · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.You can tell a lot about a person...
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The Other Half

Charlotte Vassell · Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover

The night beforeRupert's 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's - catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot.The morning afterHis girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally.This investigation is going to be about...
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Take the Long Way Home

Rochelle Alers · Dafina
Format: Paperback

From a cloistered 1950s Mississippi town founded by freed slaves to the striking diversity of Paris and Rome in the 1960s and 70s, through Wall Street's glittering Roaring 80s to the present day, this sweeping, unforgettably moving novel from the national bestselling author chronicles...
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The Madstone: A Novel

Elizabeth Crook · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.. Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin...
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Baumgartner

Auster Paul · Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and "one of the great American prose stylists of our time" - New York Times Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner...
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Uhtred's Feast: Inside the World of The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell · HarperAudio
Format: Book

In this engaging social history New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, “the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today” (Wall Street Journal), completes his epic Last Kingdom series with this companion book featuring three exclusive...

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The Goodbye Cat

Hiro Arikawa · Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling...
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Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, M.R. James and many more

Various · ‎Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback

As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cozy fire, it's the perfect time for a dash of fear...spine-chillers from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and many more. Do you believe in ghosts? Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual...
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The Lost Cause

Cory Doctorow · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go?. For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life....
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Before We Say Goodbye: A Novel (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, 4)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo café. The regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past...
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The General and Julia: A Novel

Jon Clinch · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate novel from the author of the "masterly" (The New York Times Book Review)...
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The President's Wife: A Novel

Tracey Enerson Wood · Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

The incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidencySocialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins...
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The Mysteries

Bill Watterson · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America's most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. . In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist...
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Guy's Girl

Emma Noyes · Berkley
Format: Paperback

The boy who couldn't love and the girl who wouldn't. Ginny Murphy is a total guy's girl. She's always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free - as long as they don't fall for her, and she doesn't fall for them. She and her best guy friends...
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The Letter Tree

Rachel Fordham · Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Mere words can't end their families' feud, but the Campbell heir and the Bradshaw heiress plan to write a future together.Buffalo, NY, 1924Laura Bradshaw adores stories with happily ever afters. But since her mother died seven years ago, the Bradshaw Shoe Company heiress has been...
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The Dance of the Dolls

Lucy Ashe · Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover

A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers - identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara Marionetta - with a terrifying climax set in the world of ballet in pre-war London.The Dance of the Dolls tells the story of identical twin ballerinas rehearsing for Coppélia at the recently...
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Hazardous Spirits

Anbara Salam · Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

Hazardous Spirits brilliantly captures a young woman's world unsettled by mediums and spirits, revealing the devastating secrets that ghosts from the past can tell when given the voice to do so. "Equal parts lush Gothic mystery and delicately wrought 1920s domestic drama, Hazardous...
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Housemoms: A Novel

Jen Lancaster · Little A
Format: Hardcover

Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel about fresh starts, whether you want them or not, by New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster.How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay's unimpeachable society life come tumbling...
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A Very Inconvenient Scandal: A novel

Jacquelyn Mitchard · MIRA
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealously. . Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world...
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Above the Salt: A Novel

Katherine Vaz · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America."Vaz's work is gorgeous at every level -- singing sentences and pull-you-in plot. She is the real thing, an American...
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