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Pieces of Happiness

Anne Ostby · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A novel of five lifelong friends who, in their sixties, decide to live together on a cocoa farm in Fiji, where they not only start a chocolate business but strengthen their friendships and rediscover themselves. "I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until...
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The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away ... The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering...
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When the English Fall: A Novel

David Williams · Algonquin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and non- violent community can survive when civilization falls apart.Again, all are asleep, but I am not. I need sleep, but though I read and I pray, I feel too awake. My mind paces the floor. There are shots now and again,...
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Mrs. Fletcher: A Novel

Tom Perrotta · Scribner
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children comes a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars.Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee...
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You Were Here

Gian Sardar · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Readers of Kate Atkinson will delight in this suspenseful debut novel about a woman haunted by nightmares and her grandmother's role in a doomed love triangle almost seventy years before. What if the past is never buried? Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation....
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Hadriana in All My Dreams

REN DEPESTRE · Akashic Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

"One-of-a-kind...[A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover...An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib-ticking, warmhearted mélange of ghost story, cultural inquiry, folk art, and véritable...
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She Rides Shotgun: A Novel

JORDAN HARPER · Ecco
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive, gritty novel about a girl marked for death who must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows - her father.Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited...
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Evensong: A Novel

Kate Southwood · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A penetrating and powerful novel about the deep undercurrents of love and regret in one Midwestern family.Margaret Maguire - a widow and grandmother, home from the hospital in time for Christmas - is no longer able to ignore the consequences of having married an imperious and arrogant man....
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Where Dead Men Meet

MARK MILLS · Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A return to the period adventure thriller in Where Dead Men Meet reestablishes Mark Mills as a master storyteller for fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming, or Robert Harris Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton -- a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy -- finds himself the target...
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Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Crystal King · Touchstone
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign,...
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Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone

Phaedra Patrick · Park Row Books
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover

Phaedra Patrick's debut novel, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, was hailed as "poignant" and "utterly endearing." Now she returns with Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone, a gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and one man's second chance at happiness. Moonstone for empathy....
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After the Bloom

Leslie Shimotakahara · Dundurn
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

A daughter's search for her mother reveals her family's past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, a high-school art teacher, knows her mother...
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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Sally Hepworth novels are "sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs will be lining up." -- Library Journal (starred review) All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter, Zoe, have been a family of two, living quietly in Northern California....
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The Garden of Small Beginnings

Abbi Waxman · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance . . . Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years - ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental...
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The Summer House: A Novel

HANNAH MCKINNON · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

When Flossy Merrill summons her children to the beloved family beach house to celebrate their father's eightieth birthday, both cherished memories and long-kept secrets come to light in this charming and lyrical novel from the author of The Lake Season and Mystic Summer. Flossy Merrill...
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The Baker's Secret: A Novel

STEPHEN P KIERNAN · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II - a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.On...
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The White Road

Sarah Lotz · Mulholland Books
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

A cutting-edge thriller about one man's quest to discover horror lurking at the top of the world. Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, 'Journey to the Dark Side', ex-adrenalin junkie and slacker Simon Newman hires someone to guide him through the notorious Cwm Pot caves,...
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Goodnight from London: A Novel

Jennifer Robson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson - author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France - comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start...
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Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay

Jill Mansell · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

International bestseller Jill Mansell weaves a heartwarming tale of love, family and friendship in her latest novel1. A brief encounter that could have become so much more...if only everything were different2. Step-sisters, bitter rivals in every area except one -- by unbreakable pact neither...
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Based on a True Story

Delphine de Vigan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The international hit that sold half a million copies in France: a chilling work of fiction--but based on a true story--about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the nature of reality.Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015 Overwhelmed by the huge...
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The Red Line

Walt Gragg · Berkley Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm Rising and The Third World War."Delta-Two, I've got tanks through the wire! They're everywhere!" World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored...
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House of Names: A Novel

Colm Toibin · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - a spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling queen of Greek mythology - and her children."I have been acquainted with the smell...
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That Crazy Perfect Someday

Michael Mazza · Turtle Point Press
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback

The year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world's wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky, cars drive themselves, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long, UCSD marine biology grad, champion surfer, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave, still has something...
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Cities of Men: A Novel

William Jensen · Turner
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

In 1987, twelve-year-old Cooper Balsam's mother, Arden, disappears without a trace. Cooper's father, Percy, a Vietnam veteran struggling with PTSD, doesn't seem too concerned. "This isn't the first time. She's done it before." As days pass, Cooper begins to act out and withdraw...
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Saints for All Occasions: A novel

J Courtney Sullivan · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This year's best book about family." - Ron Charles, The Washington PostA sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.Nora...
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