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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes - as everyone...
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The Wildling Sisters

Eve Chase · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery." - Kate MortonAn evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart...
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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

ALICE MCDERMOTT · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent new novel from one of America's finest writers -- a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps...
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Go, Went, Gone

Jenny Erpenbeck · New Directions
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists...
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The Trick: A Novel

Emanuel Bergmann · Atria Books
Pages: 375
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing.In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When...
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The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs: A Novel

JANET PEERY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and clear-eyed gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with her second novel, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.On a summer evening in the blue-collar...
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Never Coming Back

Alison McGhee · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondacks town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a loving but fiercely independent woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, and so Clara built a new life for herself, far from her roots and the world she had always...
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Beautiful Animals: A Novel

Lawrence Osborne · Hogarth Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Let's not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking. " - Lionel Shriver, Washington Post "Startlingly good... Osborne has been described as an heir to Graham Greene, and he shares with...
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The Velveteen Daughter: A Novel

Laurel Davis Huber · She Writes Press
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time -- The Velveteen Rabbit -- and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time...
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The Lightkeeper's Daughters: A Novel

JEAN E PENDZIWOL · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Jean Pendziwol's beautifully written novel captured me from the very first page. Its descriptions of the windswept lightkeeper's station of Elizabeth's and Emily's youth are so crisply rendered I felt I was standing on its shores watching the great ships cross the stormy waters of Lake...
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The Weight of Ink

Rachel Kadish · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester...
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Fierce Kingdom

Gin Phillips · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Warning: you'll finish this in one sitting." - TheSkimm "Expertly made thriller . . . clever and irresistible." - The New York TimesAn electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she'll go to protect him....
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The Refrigerator Monologues

Catherynne M Valente · Saga Press
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comicsFrom the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female...
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Hold Back the Stars: A Novel

Katie Khan · Gallery Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A startling and evocative novel, harkening to both One Day and Gravity, a man and a woman revisit memories of their love affair on a utopian Earth while they are trapped in the vast void of space with only ninety minutes of oxygen left.After the catastrophic destruction of the Middle East...
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What She Saw: A Novel

Gerard Stembridge · HarperPerennial
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A taut, stylish thriller set over the course of twenty-four hours in Paris - perfect for fans of Chris Pavone's The Expats and Olen Steinhauer's The Tourist.The storied Hotel Chevalier on Paris' ritzy Right Bank hosts celebrities, dignitaries, and - for one night - Lana Gibson,...
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Carnivalesque

Neil Jordan · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

Magical storyteller Neil Jordan steps into the realm of fantasy--for fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't. The boy saw it from the car window, the tops of the large trailer rides over...
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The Nakano Thrift Shop

HIROMI KAWAKAMI · EUROPA EDITIONS
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Featuring a delightfully offbeat cast of characters, The Nakano Thrift Shop is a generous-hearted portrayal of human relationships by one of Japan's most beloved authors.Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like...
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Good Karma: A Novel

Christina Kelly · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A charming, heartfelt tale of love lost and regained in a gated community in Savannah, Georgia.After almost forty years in New Jersey, Catherine, Ralph, and their beloved Boston Terrier Karma are hitting the road, relocating to a gorgeous, serene island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia,...
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The Whole Way Home: A Novel

Sarah Creech · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A radiant talent on the brink of making it big in Nashville must confront her small-town past and an old love she's never forgotten in this engaging novel - a soulful ballad filled with romance, heartbreak, secrets, and scandal from the author of Season of the Dragonflies.Playing to packed...
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Black Moses: A Novel

Alain Mabanckou · The New Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which...
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Spoonbenders: A novel

Daryl Gregory · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus...
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A Fortune Foretold: A Novel

AGNETA PLEIJEL · Other Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Agneta Pleijel writes a painful yet humorous autobiographical novel about childhood in the aftermath of World War II. A prophecy is received by a beloved aunt, a prophecy that her young niece eagerly waits to see fulfilled. The story takes place in the 1950s in the suburbs of Stockholm,...
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Undertow: A Novel

Elizabeth Heathcote · Park Row Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

An exhilarating debut novel that follows one woman's hunt for the truth when she realizes she might have married a killer They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them ... until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she'll always live in the shadow of another...
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Archie of Outlandish

Lynnette Kraft · New Wrinkle Publishing
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback

Imagine living your entire life underneath umbrellas... Archibald Plumby lives happily in the picturesque coastal town of Outlandish. He has loving parents, eats fine food at his mother's cliffside restaurant, and spends his days on the beach and in the town's quaint streets, in search...
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The Lost Letter: A Novel

Jillian Cantor · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. A heart-breaking, heart-warming read for fans of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and Sarah's Key. Austria,...
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