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One Station Away: A Novel

OLAF OLAFSSON · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his lifeAn overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate...
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Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

Jennifer Chiaverini · Dutton
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long unsung....
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The Changeling

Victor D LaValle · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle." - Anthony DoerrThe wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed...
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The Vengeance of Mothers

JIM FERGUS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover

The stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women: A Novel."Clever and satisfying...Fergus is a superb writer [and] the characters are as real as any pioneer women who braved the rigors of westering." -- The Denver Post"A gripping tale, a history lesson...
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Kings of Broken Things

THEODORE WHEELER · Little A
Format: Hardcover

With characters depicted in precise detail and wide panorama - a kept-woman's parlor, a contentious interracial baseball game on the Fourth of July, and the tragic true events of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919 - Kings of Broken Things reveals the folly of human nature in an era of astonishing...
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The World of Tomorrow

BRENDAN MATHEWS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Three brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal culminating in an assassination plot, set in prewar New YorkJune 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York...
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All That Makes Life Bright: The Life and Love of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Josi S Kilpack · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine,...
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The Slip

Mark Sampson · Dundurn
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

In this wickedly funny novel, one bad afternoon and two regrettable comments make the inimitable Philip Sharpe go viral for all the worst reasons. Dr. Philip Sharpe, absent-minded professor extraordinaire, teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto and is one of Canada's most...
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Gather the Daughters: A Novel

JENNIE MELAMED · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real Simple best book of the monthPeople Magazine's Book of the WeekYears ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland,...
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The Tobacconist

Robert Seethaler · Anansi International
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There...
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The History of Bees: A Novel

Maja Lunde · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees - and to their children and one another - against the backdrop...
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The People at Number 9

Felicity Everett · HQ
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback

Envy. Longing. Betrayal.Have you met the new neighbors?Sara and Neil have new neighbors in their street. Glamorous and chaotic, Gavin and Louise make Sara's life seem dull. As the two couples become friends, sharing suppers, red wine and childcare, it seems a perfect couples-match....
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The Body in the Clouds: A Novel

Ashley Hay · Washington Square Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the acclaimed author of the "exquisitely written and deeply felt" (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwayman's Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred years.Imagine...
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How to Behave in a Crowd: A Novel

Camille Bordas · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover

A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent.Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track...
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The Dress in the Window: A Novel

SOFIA GRANT · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

A perfect debut novel is like a perfect dress - it's a "must have" and when you "try it on" it fits perfectly. In this richly patterned story of sisterhood, ambition, and reinvention Sofia Grant has created a story just right for fans of Vintage and The Dress Shop...
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The Substitute

NICOLE LUNDRIGAN · Spiderline
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback

Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, flees the scene.As the small...
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Bed-Stuy Is Burning: A Novel

Brian Platzer · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Do the Right Thing meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, in this "thrilling debut novel about marriage, gentrification, parenthood, race, and the dangerous bargains we make with ourselves" (Ann Packer, New York Times bestselling author) set over the course of one cataclysmic day when...
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The Paris Secret: A Novel

Karen Swan · HarperLuxe
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one woman's journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and a family whose mysteries may be better left undiscovered.When high-powered fine art agent...
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The Solace of Trees: A Novel

ROBERT MADRYGIN · New Europe Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A Bosnian War orphan of Muslim heritage escapes his homeland, finds a new family in New England, and learns to deal with his trauma--and years later falls into the depths of post-9/11 America's extraordinary rendition program. A piercing and resonant debut novel about war and the endurance...
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Conversations with Friends: A Novel

SALLY ROONEY · Hogarth
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful...
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Unraveling Oliver: A Novel

Liz Nugent · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this "compelling, clever, and dark" (Heat magazine) thriller, a man's shocking act of savagery stuns a local community - and the revelations that follow will keep you gripped until the very last page. This work of psychological suspense, a #1 bestseller in Ireland, is perfect...
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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives"I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting."...
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Winter: A Novel

ALI SMITH · Pantheon
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker-short-listed and Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both, the highly anticipated second novel in the acclaimed Seasonal series, which both continues the arc of the series and is also an extraordinary stand-alone read.In Winter, life force matches up to the toughest...
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The Bedlam Stacks

NATASHA PULLEY · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated new novel from the author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET--a treacherous quest in the magical landscape of nineteenth-century Peru.In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost...
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Something Like Family

Heather Burch · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

Abandoned by his mother when he was young, twenty-two-year-old Rave Wayne knows all about loss. That doesn't mean he's used to it. After he's dumped by the girlfriend he assumed he'd spend his life with, Rave is longing more than ever to connect.Then, as if by miracle, he receives...
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