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A Lady's Guide to Selling Out: A Novel

Sally Franson · The Dial Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising - and the equally slippery question of who she wants to be. Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada in this sharply observed and savagely wise debut novel. Casey Pendergast is getting hers. Once a book-loving English major,...
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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional...
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First Person: A novel

Richard Flanagan · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined.Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung...
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We Own the Sky: A Novel

Luke Allnutt · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A triumphant story about love, loss and finding hope - against all odds"We looked down at the cliff jutting into the sea, a rubber boat full of kids going under the arch, and then you started running and jumping through the grass, dodging the rabbit holes, shouting at the top of your...
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Paris by the Book: A Novel

Liam Callanan · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband....
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Whispers of the Dead

Spencer Kope · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A series of bizarre murders -- the victims nearly unidentifiable -- forces FBI tracker "Steps" Craig to match wits with the most cold-blooded killer he's ever encountered.A pair of severed feet, stored in a portable a cooler, is found in the house of a Federal judge in El Paso....
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Raising the dad : a novel

Tom Matthews · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Tom Matthews comes a high-concept and surprisingly funny novel about a man who must cope with his troubled family after learning a devastating secret. In Raising the Dad, John Husted's life is complicated, although not in any remarkable way....
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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present...
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Dead Girl Running

Christina Dodd · HQN
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

I have three confessions to make:1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.2. I don't remember an entire year of my life.3. My name is Kellen Adams...and that's half a lie.Girl running...from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear....
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The Runaways: A Novel

Sonya Terjanian · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"A story for anyone who has ever felt lost, isolated, or fantasized about reinventing herself -- and isn't that all of us?" -- Jenny Rosenstrach, New York Times Bestselling author of Dinner: A Love StoryIvy is on the run. She is finally ready to trade in a dead-end future...
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