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Sweet Lamb of Heaven: A Novel

Lydia Millet · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched...
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The Muse: A Novel

Jessie Burton · Ecco
Pages: 393
Format: Print book

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women - a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain - and the powerful mystery that ties them together.England, 1967. Odelle Bastien...
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Dancing with the Tiger

Lili Wright · Putnam
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

When 30-year-old Anna Ramsey learns that a meth-addicted looter has dug up what might be the funerary mask of Montezuma, she books the next flight to Oaxaca. Determined to redeem her father, a discredited art collector, and to one-up her unfaithful fiancé, a museum curator, Anna hurls...
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We're All Damaged

Matthew Norman · Little a
Format: Hardcover

Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street.We're All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend's wedding, and moved...
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Listen to Me

Hannah Pittard · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress,...
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The Seed Collectors: A Novel

Scarlett Thomas · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 396
Format: Print book

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House,...
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The Adventurist: A Novel

J Bradford Hipps · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the anonymous office park of a modern software company, whip-smart software engineer Henry Hurt is a man in the middle: of life, of career, of self-assessment. Mired in his corporate responsibilities, Henry's deathless office existence is torpedoed by losing his mother. Overcome...
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People Who Knew Me: A Novel

Kim Hooper · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion...
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Girls on Fire: A Novel

Robin Wasserman · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand - a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved...
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The Veins of the Ocean: A Novel

Patricia Engel · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She writes exquisite moments." - Roxane Gay, The NationReina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community,...
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Happy Family

Tracy Barone · Little
Pages: 389
Format: Print book

In Tracy Barone's mordantly funny debut, a fiercely independent woman is forced to come to terms with the family who raised her, the one who gave her away and the one she desperately wants.Trenton, New Jersey, 1962: A pregnant girl staggers into a health clinic, gives birth, and flees....
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Smoke: A Novel

Dan Vyleta · Doubleday
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta's thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders - and dangerous secrets. "Dan...
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The Dig

John Preston · Other Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty,...
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A Perfect Life: A Novel

Eileen Pollack · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply...
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A House for Happy Mothers: A Novel

Amulya Malladi · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 301
Format: Print book

A stunning new novel - full of wit and warmth - from the bestselling author of The Mango Season.In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs - a loving husband, a career, and a home - but the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village,...
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Relativity

Antonia Hayes · Gallery Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Original, compassionate, cleverly plotted, and genuinely difficult to put down." -Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectA "beautifully written, heartbreaking" (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about...
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And After the Fire: A Novel

Lauren Belfer · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel - inspired by historical events - about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both...
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Not Working: A Novel

Lisa Owens · Dial Press Delacorte, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It comes a wise and laugh-out-loud debut novel that captures a young generation trying not to have it all, but to figure out what it all means. Claire has just resigned from her job without...
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The Versions of Us

Laura Barnett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

In one moment, two lives will be changed forever . . . and forever . . . and forever. The one thing that s certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next . . . They fell wildly in love, or went their separate...
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The 100 Year Miracle: A Novel

Ashley Ream · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"Ashley Ream has an absolutely astounding voice -- she is one of the most compelling, sharpest writers working today. The 100 Year Miracle is already one of my favorite novels of 2016." -- Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlOnce a century, for only...
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