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Social Creature: A Novel

Tara Isabella Burton · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City.If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Louise Wilson is an expert at just barely...
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

Nicholas Pyenson · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of scienceWhales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like...
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Harry's Trees

Jon Cohen · Harlequin Audio and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies in a freak accident, devastated, he makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, intent on losing himself....
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Ayiti

ROXANE GAY · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From New York Times -bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. Originally published by a small press, this Grove Press paperback will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories....
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How Hard Can It Be?

ALLISON PEARSON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Washington Post) and "a hysterical look -- in both the laughing...
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The Lost for Words Bookshop: A Novel

Stephanie Butland · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending audiobook from author Stephanie ButlandLoveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things...
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The Summer List: A Novel

Amy Mason Doan · Graydon House
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later - until the clues expose a breathtaking secret that just might shatter them once and for all.Laura and Casey were once inseparable: as they floated...
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Remind Me Again What Happened

Joanna Luloff · Algonquin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"There is a smudge where my memory is supposed to be." Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie,...
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The Bedlam Stacks

Natasha Pulley · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 337
Format: Paperback

An Indie Next PickNow in paperback, Natasha Pulley's "witty, entrancing novel . . . burnishes her reputation as a gifted storyteller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) .In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury...
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Alternative Remedies for Loss

Joanna Cantor · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A slyly funny coming-of-age novel about a young woman fumbling her way into the mysteries of loss and the travails of adulthood as she tries to make sense of a vanished mother's legacy. When 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving...
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