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River Under the Road

SCOTT SPENCER · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love, a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity-and the double-edged sword of successThirteen parties over the course of two decades-an opium infused barbeque, a reception for a doomed presidential...
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The Cafe by the Sea: A Novel

JENNY COLGAN · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

The beloved author of The Bookshop on the Corner returns with a sparkling, sunny, soulful new novel perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand. Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up -- and she hasn't looked back. What would have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone...
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Modern Gods: A Novel

NICK LAIRD · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning author who writes with "a wonderfully original and limber voice" (The New York Times) - a powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended"Encompasses deep - the deepest, thorniest...
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The Confusion of Languages

Siobhan Fallon · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring."A gripping,...
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Small Hours

JENNIFER KITSES · GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In the vein of Richard Russo and Tom Perrotta, a gripping, suspenseful, and gorgeous debut novel--told hour-by-hour over the course of a single day--in which a husband and wife try to outrun long-buried secrets, sending their lives spiraling into chaos.
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Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel

Maile Meloy · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing.When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities...
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Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel

Alexandra Fuller · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared...
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A House Among the Trees: A Novel

Julia Glass · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant - a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power...
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An Unrestored Woman

Sharon Guskin · Flatiron Books
Pages: 357
Format: Print book

"What an astonishing collection! Provoking, ferocious, moving, splendid, generous and essential. I seemed to finish the book in a different world than the one in which I began it." -- Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble and Stranger Things HappenIn her mesmerizing debut, Shobha...
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The Lost History of Stars: A Novel

Dave Boling · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a forgotten moment in history comes an inspiring novel about finding strength and courage in the most unimaginable places. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, fourteen-year-old Lettie, her younger brother, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their...
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The Standard Grand

Jay Baron Nicorvo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover

"Nicorvo is a bracingly original writer and a joy to read." -- Dennis Lehane"A desperate masterpiece of a debut" that tells a huge-hearted American saga -- of love, violence, war, conspiracy and the aftermath of them all." -- Bonnie Jo Campbell"Nicorvo's...
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The Absence of Evelyn: A Novel

Jackie Townsend · SparkPress
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

Newly divorced Rhonda, haunted by her sister Evelyn's ghost, travels to an old palazzo in Rome to confront Marco, the man who stole her sister's heart -- only to find out he's vanished in the wake of Evelyn's death. Meanwhile, Rhonda's nineteen-year-old daughter Olivia,...
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White Sand, Blue Sea: A St. Barts Love Story

Anita Hughes · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Olivia Miller is standing on the porch of her mother and stepfather's plantation style villa in St. Barts. They have been coming here every April for years but she is always thrilled to see the horseshoe shaped bay of Gustavia and white sand of Gouverneur's Beach. This trip should...
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The Mercy of the Tide

KEITH ROSSON · MEERKAT PR
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening -- a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's...
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Shot-Blue

Jesse Ruddock · Coach House Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

'Shot-Blue is that rarest species, a genuinely wise novel.' - Rivka GalchenRachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake that borders the unchannelled north - remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly,...
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The Forever Summer

JAMIE BRENNER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The discovery of long-buried secrets brings three generations of women together to Cape Cod for the summer homecoming of a lifetime. Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: on the cusp of thirty she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career,...
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The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep

Steven Heighton · Hamish Hamilton
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

From internationally acclaimed and Governor General's Award-winning author Steven Heighton comes a passionate novel of buried secrets, the repercussions of war and finding love among the ruinsElias Trifannis is desperate to belong somewhere. To make his dying ex-cop father happy, he joins...
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Castle of Water: A Novel

Dane Huckelbridge · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Two very different people, one very small island.For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. The proud owner of a thriving Parisian architecture firm, co-founded with her brilliant new husband, Sophie had much to look forward to -- including...
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What To Do About The Solomons

Bethany Ball · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From a remarkable new voice in fiction, Bethany Ball, comes a transporting debut; a hilarious multigenerational family saga set in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles that explores the secrets and gossip-filled lives of a kibbutz community near JerusalemMeet Marc Solomon, an Israeli ex-Navy...
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The Fire Child

S K TREMAYNE · GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

THE PERFECT HUSBAND. THE PERFECT STEPSON. THE PERFECT LIE? "Tremayne... does a terrific job of building suspense until events reach their climax in the midst of a violent storm. " - Library Journal When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place....
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The Revolution of the Moon

Andrea Camilleri · Europa Editions
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup after only 27 days. Sicily, April...
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My Last Lament

James William Brown · Berkley Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman's story of her own - and her nation's - epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is part of an evolving Greece, one moving steadily...
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Under a Sardinian Sky

Sara Alexander · Kensington
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

"A beautifully told story about one woman's determination to exorcise the sorrows of her family's past. It brought tears to my eyes more than once - always a good sign. I look forward to reading more novels by Sara Alexander." - Holly Chamberlin, author of Home for the SummerSet...
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Before the War

Fay Weldon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

London, 1922. It's a cold November morning, the station is windswept and rural, the sky is threatening snow, and the train is late. Vivien Ripple, 20 years old and an ungainly five foot eleven, waits on the platform at Dilberne Halt. She is wealthy and well-bred -- only daughter to the founder...
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The Last Night at Tremore Beach: A Novel

Mikel Santiago · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What starts out as an idyllic summer holiday on the Irish coast soon becomes a living nightmare with unpredictable consequences for a world-renowned composer and his family in this chilling psychological thriller.Recently divorced and in the middle of a creative crisis, Peter Harper decides...
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